News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-24
ODDS AND ENDS.

THERE are 22S submarine telegraph
cables, all told.
L1NooLN's tomb, at Springfield, H.,
is going to ruin.
THE Iowa prohibitory liquor law is to
be tested in court.
WYOMING TERRITORY has but eight Or
ganized counties.
The grave of the celebrated Kit Car
son Is at Taos, n. M.
THE cattle now owned in Colorado are
valued at $40, 000,0
The value of the Canadian fisheries
for 1888 was 81, 251, 675.
The Roman Catholic clergy no longer
oppose cremation in Italy.
The dividends payable in Boston in
April aggregate 81, $40, S62.
A CARLOAD of Mormon converts left
Knoxville, Tenn, for Utah.
AN ocean pier, to cost $50, 200 is to be
built at Cape May this spring.
THERE are about $4,000 Northern
tourists in Florida at this time.
CHICAGO butchers killed /, 49,, 905 cat
tie and 3,911, 1872 hogs last year.
A NEwBERN, N c., firm shipped in
one order as, 900 cans of oysters.
IT is probable that women will soon be
granted the franchise in Canada.
THERE are twice as many sheep in the
United States as in Great Britain.
BY law in Arkansas no saloon can be
built whiting GAO rods of church.
AN industrial exposition will be held
at Raleigh, N. c., next September.
ATLANTA, Ga, cotton mills will re-
quire 10000 bales of cotton this year.
For the year 1888 the South spent
IS, 600, 600 for new railroad locomotives.
Mrs. QUINcY SHAW, of Boston, is
said to spend $3.50, 900 year in charity.
EIGHTEEN colored teachers are en-
ployed in the Nashville, Tenn, schools.
A CHICAGO widow ordered her funeral
outfit before death, paying S., 900 for it.
THERE are 315 cotton mills in the
Southern States, against $50 four years
ago.
NEARLY five million boxes of 'sar-
dimes" were packed in Lubec, Me-, last
year.
THE bill before Congress to legalize
Trade Unions has been reported favor
ably.
A MEDICAL journal states that the
average Chinese baby weighs but five
pounds.
SIXTY million pounds of copper were
produced by the Lake Superior mines
last year.
DURISG last year 160 manufacturing
and mining corporations were formed in
Tennessee.
The Brooklyn aldermen appropriated
S., 600 for the reception of the Army of
the Potomac.
TRAYNoR, who once crossed the Allan
tic IN dory, now proposes to make the
trip in a rowboat.
THERE are fifty illicit distilleries and
only three licensed ones in one district
in North Carolina.
FIVE men in the Southern States now
read the newspapers where one man read
them ten years ago.
CONTINENTAL papers refer to the in
creasing number of husbands and fathers
who disappear, and are found to have
''gone to America"
OF the 10000 Indian children in this
country, over 10000 are being educated
in government schools.
DAVID BLAIR, a Scotchman, has
| joined the Benedictine monks, and gives
| them an income of 96, 900.
The Toronto Globe thinks the tenn
perance cyclone is going to make clean
sweep over the whole world.
The planets Jupiter, Saturn and Nep-
tune will soon be in perihelion for the
third time since the Christian era.
THE wife of President Gonzales, Of
Mexico, and mother of ten children, is
now living obscurely in Houston, Texas
THE proposition to celebrate, in 1892
the 400th anniversary of the discovery
of America by Columbus excites APP
proval.
The London Medical Times saws
that hundred deaths have been caused
by carelessness as to dairy drainage fol
one that is traceable to adulteration.