News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07
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There are 10000 British troops in
Ireland.
1t is claimed that extensive depos-
its of rich tin ore have been dscov-
cred by Robert Claywell, a miner
ologist, near Kings Mountain, :. in
Cleveland county, n. c.
There are 100 cases of smallpox
in the pest-honse at Louisville, KY,
and the disease is prevalent at Shreve-
port, La.
When party of Apaches from
| New Mexico were introduced to
President Arthur the other day, Au-
gustine, the biggest and most clearly
unwashed savage of the lot, rushed
up and seized the chief executive in
his arms, exclaimed, God is a great
man, but the Great Father is great
J" and he held and Rugged his vic
tim for a long half minute. The
President showed his disgust plainly,
but was helpless.
A New Orleans Grand Jury has
found 10 indictments against persons
concerned in the recent election riot
there, three for murder, four for as
sault and willful shooting, two for as
sau.t and battery and one for carry
ing concealed weapons. The names
of the indicted persons are withheld,
but it is said that John Brewster,
David Douglass and John Dominick
are the ones indicted for murder.
Prosecuting Attorney Hugh Daily,
of New Haven, has issued 81 warrants
Tor the arrest of liquor dealers for
violating provisions Of the license law,
and the arrests will probably be made
soon.
The grave of w. II. Tinsley, once a
prominent politician and Captain Of a
negro military company. is being
guarded by mIlitiamen at Richmond.
Va, to prevent it being plundered.
The managers of the New Orleans
worlds fair have rejected all bids for
the contract to build the main building
and will undertake the job themselves,
beginning the work at once.
John C. P. Collins, who robbed the
Moores Flat stage, September l,
1879, and killed w. F. Cummings, a
banker, while robbing him of two bars
of gold worth $1,000, was hanged at
Nevada City, CAL, Friday.
Sixty picked policemen surprised a
cooking main at Philadelphia Thurs
day might and arrested So men of all
walks of life, each of whom was fined
S11.50. Seventy-two of them paid
the fine and the rest were committed.
Trinity church, at Dorchester, Nd,
has one of Queen Anne's coronation
cushions, tattered, furnished and torn,
but still showing its gaudy character.
Episcopal churches in the American
wilderness were rare in Queen Anne's
day, and when this one was built she
sent the cushion and similar present
to St. James church in Annapolis,
built at nearly the same time.
''The Great American Protective
Brotherhood has been organized in a
pig raising corner of Pennsylvania,
and the members promise to abstain
from using French wines and other
products of that country until the
Gaul admits the American hog, and
also take dreadful oath ssnot to deal
with any merchant who knowingly
causes to be placed on sale in his
establishment, or otherwise aids in
the selling of articles of any descrip-
ton manufactured or produced with
in the French republic.
Bernard Short, a prominent citizen
of Lancaster county, Pa, was found
on the turnpike in Drumore, Pa,
with part of his head torn off and his
brains scattered around. He is be-
lleved TO have been murdered.
Thomas Collyer, of Laurel Hill, L.
l., was taken suddenly sick last week
wednesday, after eating soup made
OF beef bought of the village butcher,
and on Thursday Mrs. Collyer exhib-
tied the same symptoms and died Fri
day. The doctors say both were poi
soned with arsenic. Mr.. Collyer is
recovering. Mrs. Collyer was the
daughter of Dennis Cowbrey, who
was taken sick January Is and died
the 18th. His body will be exhumed
for the purpose of an autopsy. The
butcher says the arsenic could not have
been in the beef when sold, us several
people in the village had beef from
the same quarter.
John OBren, the gentle Boston
savage who pelted his wife with a /
Kerosene lamp recently and burned
her to death, was held in $4,000
on charge of assault.
Eight prominent citizens of Read t
ing, Pa, We're arrested Friday under
q statue Of 1894, for horse racing
on the public road.