News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-21
ined, cannot have something like rea-

ned, cannot have something like rea-
sonably prompt service.
The cholera scare is subsiding a
little. There Is every reason to be-
lieve that if the vigorous measures
adopted by the government TO keep
the plague from gaining foothold in
America are kept up we will not be
at all affected by the terrible disease,
either this year or the next, though
heretofore governments have seemed
entirely powerless to obstruct it in its
march from east to west around the
world. There is some fear in Wash
ington of a diphtheria epidemic this
winter. There are a number of cas-
es now in the city, which is quite I'M
usual for this season. But as 'an
ounce of prevention is better than a
pound of cure" is now universally
recognized as truth, and as the peo-
pie of the National Capital are earn
estly trying the former rather than
preparing for the latter, it is likely
that Washington will preserve its
high reputation for healthfulness.
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, the
Commissioner of Patents, has been
nominated for Congress from the first
| (Cincinnati) district of Ohio, and as
he will in all probability be elected, the
Patent office Will soon be looking for
a new head. Gen. Butterworth is an
excellent Patent Commissioner, and
it is to be regretted that he cannot
be kept in his present official boots,
though he was, and will be again, a
giant as Congressman.
The office of the Worlds Exposi-
ton has been transferred from News
paper row, on Fourteenth street, to
'Stewart's down town store" in New
York, while here much work was
done to further what bids fair to be
the greatest exposition of the age.
Commissioner General Moorhead has
found since he reached New York
that numerous merchants and manu-
facturers had been waiting for some
one to bring them information. A
gentleman who was there yesterday re-
ports that there is steady run o.
people there during office hours
most Of whom are applicants fol
space, and that if it continues in the
same ration for three months that il
has for a week, New York and its
suburban manufacturing towns will
want all the room in the mammoth
main building. The government
board in this city is making great dis
patch with its preparation, and The
several departments will show to a:
good advantage as possible at boil
Cincinnati and Louisville. What they
take to those cities will be but frac
ton of their exhibits at New Orleans
but it will be of magnitude sufficien
to convince all who see it of the ser
vices these several departments rem
der to the trade and industry Of tn
nation.
A week ago the United States IIo
tel, one Of the Oldest structures OIL
PENNSYLVANIA Avenue, in Washing
ton, tumbled down and killed severa
persons, seriously injured several 9th
ers, ard frightened everybody in tn
Capital. Since that time the build
ing inspector has been over-energet
ic nosing around TO see what othe
buildings needed bracing up, and tn
number of unsafe edifces he ha
found, or thinks he has found, is SUI
prising. A little while ago terribl
railroad accident occurred almos
within a stones throw of the Capital
and straightway the officials, who's
duty it is to see to and regulate tn
running of trains through the city
found innumerable places of danger
and suggested two or three score
changes for safety's sake. The law
and-order officers of Washington al
like those Of most other places, the
: always exhibit surprising amount
2 virtue after some startling catastr(
phe-they lock the door after th
horse is stolen. c. L.