News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-24


recognized that other claim of Chicaf
90, which still preserves the name O.
ssthe Garden CITY," The name does
not refer to anything that is there
now, and must be a survival of some
lost tradition.
American lawyers are said to be IN
demand in London, and one would
think so when he hears that Abraham
Oakley Hall, Tweed's Mayor, and
sometime a newspaper man IN New
York, has gone to practising IN Lon
don, and Joined a firm of solicitors on
invitation. Mr.. Benjamin, on with
drawing from practice, recommended
as counsellor one VanWagner,
young friend of his in the Temple,
and that young mans fortune is made
Springfield and Boston having re-
ceived MIR. Gable with the natural oe-
LIGHT of cultivated intellectual COM
munites. New York critics as nat
urally find him insufficient. 1t takes
something rank and gross to appease
their gnawing appetites. Polonius
had a similar difficulty, according to
Hamlet.
Sunset Cox no longer has silver
lining; at least, he is sulking at his
treatment in the disposal of commit
tees, and will seek solace in a sub
,cription book about our history, la
| Blaine.
Minister Lowell has accepted his
election to the Presidency of the
Birmingham and Midland Institute,
| which will probably soon get from
| i'm a sound American address.
The famous English General, Sir
Garnet Wolsley,, recently delivered a
ecture on "Success in Life" in which
.e strongly recommended total absti-
renee. eff" he said, "two lads
,tarted together in life, all things
peing equal, with the exception OF
me drinking and the other being a
eetotaler, it was long odds on the
after" He added that on his Red
River campaign, one of the hardest
re was ever in, there was no strong
iouor, and there was likewise no sick
,ess and no need for prison disci-
| 1line. If drunkenness could b'
eliminated, crime in the English army
he commended, would be practically a
IN end.
There is one thing which all fac
I lions IN Dakota agree upon without
particle of trouble-the Sioux res
rvation must be. "opened." Th
ract includes nearly quarter of th
p Territory, the Indians don't need il
be railroads cannot complete the
ines through it because there can b
10 settling, the land is valuable-an
he whites want it.
The Rochester meteorologist, X. {
Maine, reports that the light, sine
is appearance on November %, ha
| 1uctuated in brightness with the al
:, 1earance and disappearance of storm
ID the sun. Between December
md 6 there was period of compar;
, live quiet on the sun and the red ligf
was not seen. 1t returned with sOls
, disturbance. On December s
;. reached great brilIiancy and fade
n away as the sun spots disappeared
On December 81 great sun spt
area came into view by solar rotatio
te and the light became very brillian
being most intense on the evenings
70 December "a and %. These sol;
OF storms passed out of sight on Jal
OF uary l, and there was an ordinal
ell sunset in the evening of the End. @
e. January 3 a great solar disturban'
OF was brought into view by the sun
10 rotation, and on that evening Il
ld light appeared again. The conclusic
ne is that the light is of electric origi
&c and is the result of prolonged sol;
disturbance which effects the upp
air.
at A man has been arrested in Ne
,le York for having more than one wifi
oh He stated that he advertised for wi
en- when he wanted one, and always 1
rs, ceived offers. 1t is the only kind
10 advertising that does not pay IN t
IL long run, which Mr.. Hanley now adm
so as he looks out from his prison bal
we The foolish wives are of the sar
,as opinion.
en- The fourth National Agricultu
on Convention, under the auspices of t
eer American Agricultural Associate
TX will be held at the Grand Central Il
The tel, New York, February 6 and Z. A
I've dresses will be delivered and pap
to read by leading thinkers and writ
ca. on topics of general interest, and
re- interested in agriculture and kind
-on pursuits are cordially invited to be p
led sent and participate in the proce
Or ings. These conventions, of VIII
in two have been held in New York /;
as one in Chicago, have become natl
ar al in their attendance and infuer
lck and features Of American agricultu
MS A number of Gentlemen met
c. New Orleans not long since for
20 purpose of organizing society to
~ vocate the adoption of the princiE
10y of cremation in dealing with the b
. ~ les of persons dying from infect
.l1 diseases, and, if possible, to estab
crematory in that city. Public
lo tention was recently called TO
III matter by the report of grand ju
ie" who recommended cremation.
io manner of burial in the southern
az tropolis, in vaults above ground,
en the large number of intra-mural C,
&c" eteries, situated In the center of
. 'He most populous portion of the C
lei n render it necessary that some preC
o JON tionary measures should be takeI
Aly cases of infectious diseases.
or An interesting point bearing on
the Sunday question has been decided
life the United States Court at Bost
al Theodore Quicker sued the Chesl
His road for damages received while Il
and cling Sunday. The Judge ruled Il
t of by State law, the plaintiff could
sew recover unless he showed that he
hill travelling on a mission of neces
20 or charity, and the Judge decided
the road.