News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-29
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


the asylum of Dixmout, Pa. Think of a
sane man confined in such place. sub
iect to the caprices Of such keepers, and
denied the privilege of writing to his
friends, or in any manner communicat-
ing with the outer world, and then let
the question be answered. Are not rig
OrOus reforms in the conduct of the asv-
lums for the insane and in the manner
OF contining persons supposed to be in
sane urgently necessary? Three pa
tients confined in one cell. one of them
"uncontrollabiy filthy" the ventilation
poor and the air uuhearable; q keeper
knocking patient down and kicking
him on the body until he went into a fit,
and then walking off and leaving him
lying on the floor. Such was some of
the testimony co@ceuing the doings in
the Dixmont LuHatie Asylum.
PECK, THE MILWAUKEE SIM MAN, has
an idea of his own about the tariff ques-
ton, and gives it to lis rs follows: The
people of Wisconsin, as well as the pa
pers, are pokiEg a good deal of fun at
Congressman Gueuthyr. of this State. on
account OF his effort, to have the duty
on green glass bottles reduced It seems
that Mr.. GUeuthcr Is one Of the owners of
a Waukesha spring, which uses green
glass bottles. Probably if any of us
were in Mr.. Guenther's place. and could
save a few thousand dollars a wear by
such bill, We would do it. We remem-
Der when print paper doubled in price,
we were on the anxious seat to have the
duty on paper, and pulp, and rags re-
duced. When your own OK is gored YOU
are anxious to have knobs on the horns
of the other OK.
The GREAT METEOR which was seen in
Connecticut and Rhode Island on the
night of the 27th of February seems to
be worth more than a passing notice,
especially since it is now learned that
another meteor, closely resembling it in
size and in the startling effects it pro-
duced, was seen in Mississippi and Ala
bama little over week before. 1t will
be remembered that two or three shocks. /
which were believed to be earthquake
shocks, closely followed the appearance
of the Connecticut meteor. Some per-
sons who We're awake and out of doors at
the time believed that the shocks result |
ed from the concUssion Of the air caused |
by the explosion OF the meteor. This |
opinion seems to be supported by the |
phenomena attending the meteor seen in |
Mississippi. That, too appeared to ex-
plOde, and, following the explosion,
houses were violently shaken. and a |
great noise was heard. The earth APP
pears to have been running of late
through a region abomding in large |
meteOrs, for half a dozen of these celestial |
bombs have been seen in this country |
since the beginning of the winter. to say
nothing of the ordinary shooting stars.
some of which may be seen on any clear
night
AT A CHURCH TEMPERANCE SOCIETY
IN New York City it was stated
that not one of the saloon keeping alder
men of the city kept even a first or sec
Ond class place, and not one paid over
SO for a license. The object of the So
ciety IS to reduce the number of saloons
n the city. The number is now over
10000, and one to every 500 or LOCO :
people is declared to be sufficient for all {
demands. It Is proposed to fix the q
icense at $500. In two years the arrests
n the city have amounted for intoyica- {
ion, to p. $50 males, and 13, 600 females: C
Or drunk and disorderIy conduct. TO TO- Il
IC males and .JGT faninles 1Ir. Cory e.
ays that OF the 5,27O children cared for o
" the Society for Prevention of Cruelty t
o Children from 1879 to 1882, two-thirds I
nave or had Incorporate parents.
A BosToN FIRE INSPECTOR says he has {
been looking after cases Of spontaneous (
for years and has never been
able to find one where Lnseed-oil was
not present. He says he heard Of one
case as coming from kerosene, but upon
investigation, found the statement to be
He further says:-A fire in a
printing office in Boston was explained
by the inseed-ol in the printers ink
smeared on the paper waste which was
found to be on fire I investigated years
ago fire in the waste used for cleaning
locomotives at Springfield, Mass, and
which was claimed to arise from lUbTica-
ting oils. [ found that little paint was
used in repairs on the cabs of the en-
gines, and the rags were thrown on the
floor, to be swept in with the waste used
for cleaning, and which was found
ignited.
Mr.. TURNER, formerly the colored
Minister to Liberia, has been asking
Secretary Teller to have the lands in the
Indian Territory called Ok
lahoma-set apart to the negroes who
were formerly owned as slaves there by
the semi-civiIized Indians. Mr.. Turner
claims that there are 10000 negroes in
the Territory, who are without schools,
courts. or votes. This Aumber Is incredi-
BILE; but even We're there 5000 such, it
would be a strange revelation, and an
of how little the Government
really knows about many portions Of the
population. The enfranchised slaves Of
white men seem to have been treated far
more literally than those of red men.
A bill sent to Congress by Secretary
Teller proposes to divide the Oklahoma
lands among these Indian Territory ne
groes.
PROFESSOR YOUNG, OF PRINCETON Col
LEGE, said in a recent lecture that he
did not think of going into the excursion
business himself, nevertheless, he had
been figuring on it to a limited extent.
He had found that if he laid railroad !
track from the earth to the sun and run !
a train over it forty miles an hour with
out stops, it would take about 2G5 years
and little over to make the journey.
He estimates the fare at a cent per mile
to be 1890, 900. There is no fear Of Jay
Gould or Vanderbilt gobbling up that
line just yet.
SENATOR SAWYER, of Wisconsin, will
dress up in a swallow tail coat and at
tend the opera in Washington, sitting
as prim and stiff as a Free VIII Baptist
church deacon and then 60 home and
say that he would as soon listen to the
squealling Of fat pig under a gate as
he would the singing Of a fashionable