News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
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age in parts of Arkansas. The de
struction of unprotected horses, mules
and cattle is very great. In the bot
tom lands of Desha, and ChicOt coun-
ties it is dangerous to even drive
stock Of any kind through them, as
the gnats are there by the million.
Tight trousers are out of fashion,
and now it will be necessary to put
on more street cars. There won't be
50 many young men anxious to stand.
A colored preacher in Orangeburg,
s. c., who is 65 years of
age, married a girl II years Old last
week.
Beware of the deadly sweet potato.
A Mississippi paper relates that a lady
in Natchez put sweet potato On the
stove to boil the other day, when it
''expIoded with terrific force, nearly
killing the lady"
Mr.. Stephens, the Democratic May
or elect of Cincinnati, served his term
as cabin boy on an Ohio steamer.
ScheIler, the bartender Of the New
hall House, charged with setting it on
fire. was acquitted at Milwaukee last
week Tuesday. Five ballots were tax
en- with only one for conviction. He
finally gave in because Judge Mallory
instructed him that if there was any
doubt in his mind he must give the
prisoner the benefit of the doubt. The
Jury was out two hours. The trial
lasted week and nearly 100 Witness
es were called.
The Russell license act, lately
passed by the Ohio Legislature, re-
Quires a license Of $500 from Spirit
ualist mediums, and the SpirituaIists
denOunce it as a tax on their spiritual
advisers and Priests, and a measure
of bigotry. They attribute it to the
Methodists. Judge Carter, Of Gin
cinnati, having declared that Mayor
Stephens is a SpirituaIist and his wife
a medium, the Mayor makes denial in
behalf Of his wife, but admits that he
had given some time to an inyestiga-
ton of Spiritualism. The legislation
is certainly Of doubtful propriety.
The Post-ollice department has hit
on an ingenious device for giving an
noyance. 1t Las issued an order al
lowing the rental Of Post-oflice boxes
for only three months at time, in
stead Of a year, as formerly; thus
quadrupling labor for the clerks, and
botheration for the public.
Indiana is building three new in
sane asylums, and will probably start
them under systems partly borrowed
from Europe.
At the suggestion of the Ohio Leg
islature Gov. Foster has designated
April p az ''Arbor Day" and urged
the planting Of trees throughout tbs
State.
Dick Liddel, member Of the old
Missouri gang of cut Threats, is re.
leased from the Alabama penitentiary
and will testify against Frank James
in the approaching trial.
indianapolis reported II cases Of
small poX within few days, in some
cases the disease was not recognized
until many persons were exposed to
it, and the city has something like 6
panic.
Two students of Brown University
have recently died from typhoid pneu,
mOnja.
1t is not impossible, of course, fol
Italian emigration to this country this
season to exceed that from Ireland, as
had been expected by those who pro-
TESS to be posted on the subject, foI
the Italian emigration to the United
States has of late years become very
large, and has furnished us with 4 val
liable resource for unskilled labor O.
all kinds, but nevertheless, the troubles
in Ireland threaten to increase very
largely the Irish exodus.
The Pol IIaU Gazette says there
are still agricultural villages in Eng,
land where the laborers do not taste
meat from one years end to another
At one such village i'll Essex some o
the meat from which beef tea haC
been made was given to a labOrer.
who exclaimed, as he devOurGd The
tasteless and rather indigestible mass
ooh, if l had some Of this every day
it would make new man of me-
The curate has made arrangements
for obtaining large cOnsignments o
this emasculated food from the Lon
don hospitals, and it is eagerly bough
by the villagers.
George w. Lee, of Halifax, has &C
cepted for himself Hamm and Conley'!
challenge to Hanlan and Lee, to row ,
double scull race.
A startling fashion has appeared il
Paris, which is nothing more nor les:
than wearing white wigs by ladies
who have past their first youth, and
are determined thus to take time by
the forelock. Instead Of waiting TO
their locks to be blanched to becom
ing grey, they simply anticipate na
ture, and add to the freshness of thei
skin and the bmlliancy Of their eye:
by an entire whitening. The haiI
dressers are jubilant at the change
and hope the wig may come into gen
eral fashion.
If prosperity is indicated by th'
amount of dry goods imported, til,
condition of the country must now b
highly prosperous. The importation
of dry goods during the nine month
from July to March, inclusive, has eX
ceeded 500, 100000 but four time
in the history Of the nation, namely
in 1866, 1871, 1872 and 1893. The
importation during the period ending
with March, 1866, was SI15, 6I4, 944
but prices were much higher then thai
now, so that the importation during
the nine months just ended, $105,
! 264, 2O4, is the largest purchase Q
foreign dry goods ever made by tn
United States in that length Of time
1t is possible that extravaganza ha
quite as much as prosperity,tO do wit
the vast importation of dry goods. l
is well for the people to reflect upo
the probable result Of = general faiIur
of one seasons crops.
The worst story Of grave desccr;
ton ever printed comes from Louis
vile. The undertaken who buriC
paupers there puts the bodies in roug
wooden boxes, digs a grave not MOI
than three feet deep, puts three coflir