News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-29
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4 government employee at Washing /.
ton, who is ambitious for promotion,
gave the following as the qualitica-
tions necessary for a citizen to be-
come President: "He must be a ma
tional born citizen, thirty-tive years
old and of clear mind"
An eruption of Mt. -Etna is re-
ported.
Great damage to crops in Australia
by rain, hail and wind, is reported.
A brakeman on the Connecticut
River railroad has recovered $4,000
for injuries received while coupling
cars.
The exchange of 3 II to 3 per
cent. bonds will be suspended from
March 81 to May /.
A. W. Craig, postal clerk of Pal
myra, New York, was, by means of a
decoy letter, caught in robbing the
mails.
At Sleepy Eye, MINI. Mrs. William
Howell left a lighted lamp too near
the bed, and her three children, aged
five, seven and nine, were fatally
burned.
The recent cold rains destroyed a
quarter Of a million dollars worth Of
sheep and lambs in Texas.
Two little children named Steelfax,
at Mt. Carmel, Pa, ate some arsenic
recently, and are in a dying condition.
The Postmaster at Statington, Pa,
is charged with mail robbing.
The escape of coal gas caused the
death of Mr.. and Mrs. Allen, and a
l. years old son, at Hamilton, Onta-
rio.
During February Il, 900 immigrants
apived in this country.
Samuel UIman has just been re-
leased from Michigan penitentiary,
where he has been confined p years =;
the man who swore away his liberty
confessing on his death bed that u
man was entirely innocent.
The Nebraska Legislature has just
passed a bill providing that one Of the
two assistant physicians Of the State
asylum for the insane shall be a
woman. They hold their term for six
years. This recognition Of the place
of woman to treat women is ahead Of
Massachusetts.
The Governor Of Tennessee has
signed the bill to pay the State debt at
| 50 cents on the dollar, and three per
cent. interest.
A bronze statue is to be erected in
New York, in memory Of William f.
Dodge, by merchants.
C. \. Carvalho, editor of the Turf
Field and Farm, died in New York
city, aged sc.
A will printed on a type writer has
been admitted to Probate Court at
New Haven, though a Connecticut
statute requires that such documents
be written, the Judge deciding that
such printing is writing, within the
meaning Of the law.
During the coming year the enor-
nous sum Of one hundred million dol
lars will be paid out in federal pen
sions. The total is sufficient to afford
an average pension Of one dollar per
day the year round to 275,00O men,
and is calculated to relieve a much
larger number when we take into ac-
count the comparatively small stipends
received by the majority of the sur
vivors Of the war. \ report issued
by the pension bureau a few days ago
shows that the number Of pensioners
actually on the rolls now is 29j, 900.
A depositor in long insoIvent bank
in Macoupin County, H., has just OBJ
tanned a verdict against the directors
personally. The Judge held that the
directors are personally responsible to
Il bank after it is insolvent. This
liability the Judge placed upon
common law principles, prospect
i've of statuary provisions. The bank
was ruined by the cashiers theft of the
contents, and the court declared that
ignorance was no excuse when their
official inspection, which they were
bound to make, would have disclosed
the true state of affairs.
About this season of the year many
people are asking what it is that de-
termines the day of Easter. The an
swer is that it is the moon of March,
which Tennyson calls 1.-THE roaring
moon of daffodils." The old rule is
that Easter shall fall on the Sunday
after the full moon which comes after
the vernal equinox. That brings
Easter this year on the 25th of March.
In 1918 it fell on the 22d of March, |
the earliest date possible. 1t will not
fall on that date again this or the fol- !
lowing century.-Er.
The conduct Of a Cincinnati physi- |
clan is under criticism. He found
himself in a case which ballled his
knowledge, and, when the patient
grew steadily and hOpelessly worse, he |
did not acknowledge his dilemma, nor
ask for a consultation. On being dis
missed he refused to place all the in
formation in his possession at the dis |
pOsal Of his successor, but left the |
sick chamber in Indignation, declaring
that he would rather see the man die |
than saved by another's skill.
Mayor Palmer has reused a great
deal of wrath and delight in Boston, /
by his refusal to audit the bills of the
Aldermen for refreshments They had |
become accustomed to elaborate sup
pers after every evening meeting, and
some Of them, not satisfied with what
they could consume at the table, car
ried home large quantities of wine
and cigars. An attempt was made
to compromise with the Mayor,
but he has refused to allow q dollar of
the claims to be paid. The accounts
at two leading hotels amount to over
s., 900 for the first two months Of this
year. The Boston Herald has taken
pains to get reports from the principal
cities Of the country on the subject,
and it appears that official junketing
has almost entirely gone out Of fash
ion.
The law has made an unmistakable
example Of Henry Fleming, the rich
man who broke his promise
Of marriage with Mary Alice Livings-
ton, and tried to escape the penalty
by blackening the WOman's character.
There were suspicious circumstances
enough to have perhaps seriously in
ured Miss LivingstOn's case, had it