News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
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bound by the contract of enlistment,
although he swore falsely that he was
of age.
The disagreement Of the jury in
the case of Gray, the defaulting Sec
rotary of the San Francisco harbOr
commission, greatly scandalizes the
public there, The troublesome lone
iuryman" held out to the last. The
J evidence showed that Gray had stol-
en- from the very first, and his escape
to Guaymas was proof enough OF
what he himself thought of his acts.
There are % charges of embezzle-
ment left, but he is likely to worry
out the State and escape scott free.
A general conference of the Free
Will Baptists of the United States
was begun at Minneapolis last week.
If O'Donnelrs friends on this side
of the Atlantic wish to secure his ac-
quittal, they take singular means of
showing it by dIspatching Gen. Pryor
to his relief. Gen. Pryor is not a
member Of the English bar, and not
a first rate lawyer in America, while
Ireland has never lacked for barris-
tiers of unrivaIed power with British
juries.
Frank Hatton announces that he
shall not resign his assistant Postmas-
ter-Generalship "by a id sight.
But man supposed to know the in
nermost workings of his administra-
tive heart is sure that Frank must go.
Mary Anderson and Mr.. Gilbert
have met and become friends, and she
is presently to appear in ''Pygmalion
and Galatea,' to the great satisfac-
ton of London.
A story is published in the London
Times of the murder Of Lieutenant
Greeley, of the American expedition
TO Lady Franklin Bay, by mutinous
crew. This seems to be another YER
sion of the report before published
from Nordenskiold's expedition, that
the commander and another member
of the American party were dead.
The truth is impossible to be reached
from these bits of Esquimau gossip.
The New York Sun re-appears as
a single sheet and announces that
''Our edition will consist of just as
many sheets as may be necessary for
the purposes of the day" 1t is APP
parently not pleased with its double
sheet.
The seed Of a manufacturing city
has just been planted in Habersham
county, Ca, seven miles from Car
tersville. a wooden mill to cost |
$780, 900 is in course of erection, and |
a curious circumstance is that the |
mill will be run without q dam. The |
water comes tumbling down in 4 cat
aract and furnishes the power without
a dollars artificial aid. 1t is said |
the stream, without artificial aid, will !
turn 81 100000 worth of machinery. |
The mill now going up will feed 800 |
people, and soon q new town will be
formed there.
A master boot and shoe manufac-
turer of London, who made himself
conspicuous by his opposition to vac
cinatiOn, hung himself through re-
morse short time ago, having re-
Gently lost his wife and three children
by smallpox, and it was alleged at
the time that hot only was this terri
BILE loss due to his characterization
principles, but that by his careless
behavior several persons caught the
infection and one young man died.
Ex-Postmaster-Gen James is
back from Europe, and believes that |
our postal system as a whole is the
| best in the world, although the service
! in London is better than we or any
body else have. Outside the city, |
however, he reckons the British man
agement miserable, and Paris is be-
hind New York.
The Chicago Citizen. Congr ess-
man Finnerty's paper, has received |
$500 from Iushmen in Hin ois and |
Wisconsin, to be used in the defense
of O'DOnnell.
The smuggling of Chinese across
the border from British Columbia has
become thriving business, it is said,
and Victoria has become 4 rendezvous |
for Chinese seeking to enter the Unit
ed States.
An clipping couple from Dutch
Kills, n. y. thought they had given
the girls parents the slip so COM
pletely that their hiding place was a
secret. They were greatly surprised,
therefore, when one day, about q week |
after their marriage, the old gentle
man walked into their new abode and |
made them a present of $4,000 with
which to begin life.
Two heavy failures are reported |
from New York. f. Mayer 4 Co.,
wooden merchants, have assigned, |
with liabilities of from 1,750, 900 to
| S2,00O,000, and assets nominally |
placed at 2,150,OOO, though their ac-
tual value cannot be ascertained at
present. The other failure is that of
Levi Brothers & Co., clothing, with |
81, 800, 900 liabilities and nominal as
sets about 50, 900, 900. In each case,
| it will be seen, the assets nOminally |
exceed the liabilities, and if realized |
on at figures approXimating the esti-
mate will make good all losses. While. |
| IucISlOIC, IuC lOIdiS III ldiSCs IIc |
failures are not regarded rs disas-
| trOus.
Gen. Wright, chief of engineers at
Richmond, Va, has issued proposals
for widening and deepening Gen. But
ler's Dutch Gap canal on the James
river.
The production of cotton cloth
in Canada, which has led the manufac-
turers to run the mills but four days
week, gives the free trade OppOsi-
ton pew heart, and the old arguments
are being revived in the pending local
elections in Quebec, Ontario and
Manitoba. There are an unusual
number of Independent candidates
running in liberal districts, and, Gu
riOusly enough, the Montreal Star
thinks the reason is that Canadian
liberalism is at low tide on account of
its advocacy of free trade which ''the
awkward and obstinate logic of facts
has rendered UNPOPULAR" If by an
other year the workmen are compelled
to be idle still another day each week
the "Obstinate logic of facts" may
again bring the free traders to the
front.
One man who was said to have ,