News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-07-17
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

| ~ AIM AAAND WILL IDs
IT is estimated that there is now in
this country $500 manufacturing estab-
lishments employing 100000 work
men and 81, 500, 900, 900 capital.
FoB sixteen years the grave OF man
who murdered little child in Columbia
County has been strewn with flowers by
some one on the anniversary of his exc
eution.
ONE of the celebrities at the Chicago
Convention was Judge Norton, of Texas,
who has kept a pledge made in 1914,
not to shave or cut his hair until Henry
Clay was placed in the Presidential
chair.
The Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald says
that Capt NJ. Hughes has discovered that
the use of q layer of Spanish moss in a
dixie or 6sm prevents the damaging
work of erayfsh in boring holes through
them.
Mrs. SINCLAIR, who was divorced
from Edwin Forrest years ago, is still
living on Staten Island, and is a hale,
hearty, handsome old lady, plentifully
provided with this worlds goods, iI-
Guiding some of the best.
A FEW days ago two policemen, of
Stockton, Cal, arrested an old man for
stealing an orange. One of the police
men ate the orange, and the old man
got twenty-five days in Jail. Thus was
the majesty of the law vindicated.
FIVE generations of one family are
residing under one roof in Rutland, VT
The great-great- grandmother is 95 years
old, the great-grandmother is Is years
old, the grandmother SO years old, the
mother 80 years old, and the child 6
years old.
WAGES are ten cents day in China,
and it is not surprising that the almond
eyed son of Confucius should desire to
come to this glorious land where he can
get s'a dollar a dozen" for washing the
soiled garments of the sons and daugh-
ters of freedom.
A CHINESE cook in San Francisco was
caught in the act of stewing a plump
rat in his employers kitchen. He de-
MED it was ''lat," and declared it was
"labbit" But the proof against him
was palpable, and Chinaman, rat and
saucepan were discharged into the
street.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Tucson (Ari
zona) Star, writing from San Carlos Res
ervation, says the Apaches who a yea
ago were on the war-path, "ready tt
sweep down upon our herds and ranch
men, rifle in hand" have now "blistere(
hands holding the plow and using thu
| hoe"
IT has been represented to the Healtl
officers of New York city that the acid
in beer corrode brass faucets and caus
the formation of verdigris, which i
turn poisons the beer. Brass faucet
shown to the Health officers to illustrat
this fact contained deposits of verdigr
along its entire interior.
ALEXANDER MITCHELL, the Scotc
banker, of Milwaukee, who is believe
to be worth anywhere from $25, 900, 90
to $50, 100000, is a thick-set, 200-poun
man OF sixty, very hospitable and famou
for his hot-house fruits and his fowe
gardens, claimed to be the finest in th
West.
TIE plan adopted last year in Londo
of sending poor and delicate childre
into the country for three weeks in mid
summer has proved very successful
They are boarded in cottagers' familie
at the rate Of about $1.25 per week
Manchester and other towns are maxim
an effort to the same end.
THERE is a negro graduate at Harvar
this year-Robert Hebberton Terrell,
Yirginian, and the son of slave parents
He went to college as a waiter. and 6
that time was illiterate but some
the students took a fancy to him an
helped him through a preparator
course, after which he supported hin
. self by teaching Boston class of negr
boys.
THOUGH ninety-fve years have passe
since the organization Of the Cover
ment, the method of selecting Pres
Dental candidates by national conve1
tons has been in vogue only some fift
wears. The first President who VIZ
dominated by a national convention wt
Martin Van Buren, who received tt
Democratic nomination for that Office
1885.
WOMEN in China are deeply intereste
in avoiding divorce, as the divorce
loses the honorable position of wifi
The Chinese lady, strongly develope
avoids both scandals and intrigue
The magistrate often composes quarre
instead of pronouncing a decree OF d
vorce, and the wife has an unfalllr
source of consolation in the upbringi1
of her children.
THE Indianapolis Journal protes
against the further circulation of the a
, cient item crediting seventeen .year-o
!, Miss Rossiter with being the head
the silk culturists in this country. 81
would have been seventeen years
ten years ago, when the item was fiji
- written, only for one trifing obstac
which we are almost ashamed to me
: tion-there never was such person.
b A Woman Frightens Panther.
S The Brookville Crescent tells IL