News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-10

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ably right about it.
The Postmaster General has de-
cided to place labels, patterns, pho-
tographs, playing and visiting cards.
address tags, bill and letter heads
and some other articles on the fourth
class list, doubling the rate OF post
age heretofore paid on them.
NOTES.
A Western exchange says that per-
sons interested in the Butler boom are
attempting TO work up clubs among
the working men of Illinois. 1t adds
that thus far little success has attended
their efforts.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
saws that the Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton demand pay from the Democratic
partv for the services rendered in
October. They want the several L.
o. US issued by Gov. Hoadly and
others to be redeemed.
The New Orleans TimeS-Democrdt
is not pleased with the appearance OF
Attorney General Brewster in that
city to aid in the prosecution of the
NATIONAL bank that is mixed up with
the Louisiana lotteries.
1t seems little strange that the
man who leads the ultra Prohibition
party and who delivered to the Legisla-
ture a discourse on this topic should
eulogize the man whose election was
largely procured by the contribution
of $50 900 by the liquor dealers, and
who was voted for last year by hun
dreds of them for no other reason than
that be was their friend. This IS
strange world.
Two weeks ago ex-senator Dorsey
received the appointment of receiver
of the Palo cattle company. Misman-
agement being alleged, the suit was
tried Saturday, and the receivership
was dissolved The property and
business were returned to the company
and Dorsey was enjoined from further
interference with their affairs. The
amount involved is nearly $500, 200.
A collision occurred one day last
week on the Grand Trunk railway
near Toronto, by which p men were
killed and 16 wounded.
Mr.. T. Bailey Aldrich, who is on
visit to New York, has been inter-
viewed by Tribune reporter.
Among other things he says that if
he were a young man, obliged to live
by contributions to various publlca-
| tons, he would 60 to New York but
if he were literary man of long es-
tablished tastes and work, engag ed in
writing some long thought of book, ol
some important history, he would pre-.
fer Boston as place of residence.
Many a woman who does not know
the multiplication table can "fgure"
in society.
An eminent Spanish marshal was
asked on his death bed if he forgave
his enemies. An expression of sweet
lures as he murmured, 81 have shot
them all.
The town of Atlanta, on the Mex
lean coast, was entirely destroyed on
the 4th of November, by a terrific
hurricane.
The reduction of the public debt in
| December was nearly twelve million
dollars.
| Connecticut is not healthy place
for tramps. Five were recently sent
to the State Prison for from eight to
ten months each.
The Mormon question was treated
with much spirit at the Brooklyn, New
England society's dinner recently.
| Mr.. Beecher declared that as a pill
: grim, and not a Puritan, he did not
believe in restrictive laws, but in
moral reform. In great republic OF
mixed people you must wait until rea-
son and moral suasion have lifted men
up to higher plane. Rev. DIR. New
man, on the other hand, would have
! Congress legislate against polygamy
/ declare Delegate Cannon ineligible to
a seat in its body, and that's all. He
: did say that-"the Mormons dream OF
universal empire" and regard the au-
, thority Of the church superior to that
of the United States. The smar
things of the talk were, as usual, sale
by Mr.. Beecher, who desired to know
how they were going to get hold o
polygamy. "Did you ever" he asked
, ''see a cat try to eat wasp? Tina
f represents the government at Wash
ington trying to eat the Mormon ques
ton. She mumbles at it; she dart
at it, but on the whole she doesn'
chew it." Laughter.
s Arthur Stafford, who claimed to
e the son of an English earl, landed i
e New York November last, and met
e southerner named Schwartz. On the
: way TO Maine on a hunting and fishin
5 tour, at Bangor Stafford made the az
quaintance of Miss Grace of Ne
y York. They became engaged. o
the afternoon of December 31st, Sta
lie ford left the camp for a stroll.
IS severe snow storm set in, and Sta
Ill ford did not return. Schwartz and
ID guide early in the morning of Ne
4 Years day, about three miles fro
D, the camp, found Stafford in the fir
id embrace of a she bear, both frozt
ID stiff. A knife was sticking in Il
to left fore shoulder of the bear. A sho
t. distance away was half grown CT
he with knife wound in its heart. r
10 guide said Stafford had attacked Il
cub first and was then set upon by Il
she bear. Schwartz went to Bang
and told Safford's fate to Miss Grac
The poor girl lost her reason and h
Il been sent to the insane asylum.
The Michigan town of East Tawas h
curious temperance controversy
n hand. 1t votes prohibition and there
:" no liquor sold in the town, but it la
Il pened that a small vessel got fastened
ID the ice of the lake few hundred fe
~ from, tho ShOra and there il the tTOu