News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
ODDS AND ENDS,

BosToN is importing wool direct from
Australia.
- An Australian, exhibited as curiosity,
died IN Cleveland.
LINcoLN's tomb at Springfield, Ill, is
going to ruin.
TN has been discovered in North
Carolina.
CONNECTICUT fishermen predict plenty
OF shad this year.
A TRAMP cut off an Ohio girls long hair
and fled with it.
On sea and lake there are 755 United
States light houses.
GEoRGIA's penitentiary now contains
1922 prisoners.
New YORK Cry has one church to
every 5000 inhabitants.
TRERE are 10000 depcsitors in New
York savings banks.
A YOUNG woman of Moundsville, W.
Va, eloped with tramp.
RUSSIA produces annually about
"a, OOO, 900 worth of honey.
GEN. JOHN PORE will take up his resi-
dence at Milwaukee.
SAVANNAH has the Oldest opera house
IN the United States.
CANADA's net debt is S15S, 466, ia
about $50 per capita.
A TARRYTowN, n. Y, editor has been
left a fortune of 5000, 900.
CALIFORNIA now produces over 100,
UOO boxes of raisins per year.
An international mining exhibition
VIII be held in London in 1885.
ST. LOUIS manufactured %, 900, 900
pounds of tobacco last year.
SANDY HOOK, it is said, is fast being
washed away by the waves.
MANY of the striking Fall River
weavers returned to work.
CINCINNATI had $50 miles of street
under water during the flood.
A COW raised by Dr. Hazen of Had
dam, Conn, was sold for So, 500.
MENNoNIrEs in Nebraska occupy three
counties and are good farmers.
HE first State election of the year
VIII be that of Oregon, June 2.
THERE are eighty American students
at the University of Berlin.
GREAT numbers of colored people are |
said to be leaving South Carolina.
A DIAMOND field is reported to have |
been discovered at Eagle, Wis.
A FARGO Grand Jury indicts one of its
members for pilfering fire wood.
THE Baden Chamber voted SIS, 900 for
preserving Heidelberg Castle.
THIRTY thousand women live in Paris
by manufacturing artificial flowers.
THE starving Indians of fort Buford |
have eaten 5000 dogs this winter.
INDEPENDENT oil refners in Baltimore
are trying to restore their old trade.
CoLoRED mems civil rights leagues
are being organized widely in Ohio.
A New YORK boy, Il years old, was
charged with habitual drunkenness.
A RAILROAD bridge at Louisville, I'M
dermined by the flood, collapsed.
The daughter of Ole Bull inherits her
fathers genius for playing the violin.
A CHICAGO man has been made insane
by the inordinate chewing of tobacco.
A VICTORIA Chinaman worth 5000 900.
Is to marry a respectable white girl.
A STEAMER passed thirty icebergs
about $50 miles north of New York. !
Towns in this country called Bismarck :
want to change their names to Lasker.
PERSONS have cut the levee in Madi-
son, La, to let lumber RATS through.
New ORLEANS has had a baby show. Z
with ninety-nine infants on exhibition. {
THERE is bill before Congress to pre-. g
vent the importation of adulterated teas. s
The English press condemn Bis
marck's letter on the Lasker resolution. 8
The Rhode Island House appropriated
$40, 600 for State Reform School build
ing.
A MAN who buys wood in Maine, says
that wood is growing faster than it is
cut.
THE business of the country was never
so far behindhand in the q. s. House as
now.
SAMUEL MACKEY is the owner of
farm of 100000 acres in New South
Wales.
THE population of Albany, N. Y, is
reported by the Board of Health at
1884.
THE electric lights of Los Angeles,
CAL, can be distinctly seen eighty miles
distant
Mrs. A. T. STEWART has, for 81, 100,-
600, conveyed the reconstructed Stewart
building, in New York, to ex-Judge
Henry Hilton.
THE new Constitution of Montana for
bids any State official receiving a rail
road pass.
KANSAS city is the headquarters of
ranchmen who have S21, $3.50, 900 in cattle
and land.
TWENTY-FIVE young lawyers were ad-
mitted to the Massachusetts bar last
week.
THE New York State assessors advise
q tax on all incomes exceeding $4,000 a
year.
THE talk of dividing California into two
States is again revived in the southern
section.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR denies being in
poor health. "Never better in my life"
he says.
THE City of Mexico supports eighty
four newspapers, of which four are
Protestant
The dress of Connecticut convicts has
been changed from half black and half
gray to plain gray.
THE Governor of Michigan gives petit
tons for pardons full publicity before he
approves them.
Mrs. STRONG was the first cotton |
raiser in California. Last year she |
raised 100 bales.
RHODE ISLAND savings banks have |
$50, 460, 2G5 entrusted to their care by |
100, 482 depositors.
The French threw 200 shells into a /
Madagascar town, killing one pig and |
wounding another.
The next German Arctic expedition
will employ specially built ship, cost.
ing 81, 900, O09.
THg old mission at Monterey, Cali
fornia, is to be repaired to prevent its
entire destruction.
THERE are about 66, 600 locomotive
engines in the world, 100, 600 passenger
and 100000 freight cars.
A MAN in Indiana committed suicide
because he was subpBnaed to appear as
a witness in murder case.
THERE are 200, 600 miles of railroad
track in the world and the capital in
vested is 500, 900, 900, 900.
THE average amount of railway travel
ing done by every man, woman and
child is Ia miles each year.
EXCELLENT industrial and business
prosperity has prevailed in South Caro-
lima during the last year.
THERE are still missing from the |
wreck of the steamer City of Columbus |
seventy-seven bodies.
OSCAR WILDE told Dublin audience |