News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-13
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DIR. W. Chalfant, the murderer of
DR.. Bacon, who escaped from the San
Quentin. Cal, prison recently, was
captured last week at Winncmucca,
Nevada.
The boy in charge of the Grand
Pacific hotel elevator at Chicago lost
control of the machine the other day
! as it was ascending and advised two
passengers to jump off at the next
landing. In attempting to do SO,
Christian Jacobson, painter en-
/ ployed in the hotel, was killed. Had
he remained he would have been safe,
as an automatic appliance stopped
the elevator on reaching the upper
story.
A Pacific mail steamship took out
from San Francisco for China recent
~ 100 cases Of firearms, 100000
cartridges, and 500 bales of heavy
sheeting for tents.
Frank Blount, an agent of the Cen
trail Vermont railway at Magog, P.
O., was recently attacked while going
home from his Office, by three high !
waymen, dangerously beaten, and
robbed of $400.
The New York railroad commits
sioners have awarded $4,000 dam
ages to the Weed Iron and Mining
Company, Of Columbia county,
against the Hartford and Connecticut
Western railroad company for pass
ing through the lands Of the former.
Six thousand car loads Of water
melons have be.-% shippe.i north
from Georgia this season.
Fears are entertained at Washing
ton for the safety Of the Greely Polar
expedition, which has not been heard
from for two years.
Reports from the peach growing
districts of New Jersey state that the
crop will be very plentiful, but it will
soon exhaust itself.
Eighty thousand books, each con-
tanning five hundred of the new pos
tai notes, have been sent to the money
order offices throughout the country.
Now there are 8,O49 post-onfces
in the United States, of which 2,176 |
are presidential and 6 g 70 money order
offices. Since 1876 the number of
post-ollices has increased forty per
cent
The quality of hops this year Is
very inferior. The weather in central
New York has been unfavorable to
the growing crops, and great injury |
has been done by vermin. Unless |
changes soon appear, many acres of |
hops will not be worth the picking.
Paul Boynton, who once thought of
going through the Niagara rapids in
his rubber suit, took the precaution
first to number some railway ties and
send them through. When the bat
tered and splintered fragments were
recovered he changed his mind.
The Western Union telegraph com
pany issued an order taking effect
Sunday of last week, making the
hours for night work s, instead of
-, and allowing extra pay for Sun
day work. The extra service will be
based on the number of week days in
the month. This is considerable in
crease in the salaries Of operators.
The arrogant rudeness Of which the
public's servants are too likely to be
guilty has received a costly rcbuke at
the hands Of 4 New York city court.
A brutal deck hand on a Fulton ferry
boat took it for granted that a crippled
| boot black had evaded his fare, and
SO seized him by the collar and jammcd
7 rfS !gr'Terfffs FtsSsT- E10cking the
! boy down ana breaking his knee pan.
! The boy had paid his fare, and a Jury
gave him a verdict of 5,3G4, which
the company has decided it is best to
pay without further parley.
Frank James, the Missouri outlaw.
has been acquitted, so says report
from Gallatin sent in advance of the
formal verdict. No one was surprised
that the defence made out a good case.
nor will any one he surprised that he
has escaped this, the first of the three
indictments against him. For years
Missouri has put a price on James's
head, and now she does not hold him.
Shakespeare's bones will not he
disturbed, after all. The town conn
Gil Of Standardization have said if.
and if the too willing rector does not
care for their orders he may have TO
yield to the bishop, who has also
spoken against the useless eybuma-
ton.
A defalcatiOn in the office Of the
Philadelphia Gas Works, amounting
to $50, 200 is reported.
President Baldwin, of the Young
Mems Christian Union has received |
S1526 for the relief of the sufferers
by the Vineyard Haven fire, making
in all S14,724 which has been contrib
uted. About $500 is still needed to
place the sufferers in a comfortable
condition.
The Signal Service reports warn
vessels on the Atlantic coast not to
sail for southern ports until further
reports are received of the hurricane |
now reported in the West Indies.
The gift of 100000 to Bates Col
lege by the late Benjamin f. Bates
has been declared void.
it is believed in Europe that France
is steadily drifting into the war with
China.
According to reports flom various
hop yalds. published in the last issue
of the Malone Z 5s5ladi,tn, the hop
crop of Northern New York falls con-
siderably below expectations. One
yard that yielded 40 boxes last year
turns out 100 this season; some grow
ers report % per cent. less of a crop
than last year; some got about two
thirds as much Of a crop. Some TWEEN
ty-two growers have been interviewed,
and all tell the same story of short
crop.
In seventy-four counties in Iowa
man has to be temperance man to
stand any show for Il nomination or
an election to any office. In twenty
five counties in Iowa man has to be
a whisky man to stand any good show
Of nomination or election to any
office. This rule applies to both par
ties. Is there any other State in the