News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-14
NOTES AND COMMENTS,

NOTES AND COMM ENTS.
A man named Lane recently muir
dered a companion named Rayburn on
the Washita River in the Indian Ter
ritorv, robbed him of several fine
horses and $1,000 and escaped.
Lord and Lady Lansdowne held an
informal reception at the Windsor ho-
tel in Montreal last Wednesday, after
which a grand sleighing parade, head
ed by the vice-regal party, started
from the ice palace and moved
through the principal streets OF the
city. The ice palace was Illuminated
in the evening. by electric lights of
10000 candle power. Fifteen hundred
members of the snow-shoe CLUBS,
armed with lighted torches and fire.
works stormed the palace, which was
defended by others. The capitulatlon
of the latter was followed by the as
cent of Mt. Royal by the snoW-shoe
clubs.
All the lower part of Allegheny,
Pa, is under water, and it is estimat-
ed that 1900 houses in Allegheny
City alone are inundated. The water
and gas supply on the north and
south sides has been cut off.
A dispatch from New York to the
Boston Journal gives the result of
interviews with wooden, iron, zinc and
pottery manufacturers on the tariff
question. They all express regrets
that the subject should be agitated,
and say that Morrlson's bill, if enact
ed, would work disaster to many of
the interests of this country. -
1t is believed that Morrison will ex-
perience some difficulty in securing a
favorable report on his tariff bill.
While Montreal is ablaze with its
winters festival, Toronto seems hard
Iy to have heard the news. The
great American daiIies give more
about the carnival than the principal
Toronto papers. One of the inciden-
tai attractions at present in Montreal
is the appearance of the American
strangers contending with the wealth
er. An ulster, a shawl, and tall silk
hat seem to amuse the Canadians i'm
mensely.
Three burglars tried to break into
Tobias Stauffer's cigar store at Salun-
ga, Pa, Tuesday night of last week
and were met by Mr.. Stauffer with a
gun. One of the burglars seized the
gun and in the scuffie was shot dead.
Fred f. White and William Went
worth robbed Mrs. n. S. Batchelder's
house at Concord, n. H., of a large
quantity of silver ware, on Tuesday
of last week, and were arrested at
Woodville, n. H., the next day with
their booty in their possession.
A car in which Joseph Smith,
Michael Mulroy, and William Stitzer1
were riding up the Ashland, Pa, tun-
mel colliery recently became detached
from the gear, and Smith and Mulroy
were precipitated to the bottom and
killed. Sitter escaped by jumping
from the car.
An individual applies to the cab
company for situation. "Do you
know how to driver" Eyes, sir"
''You know that you must be polite
with all your passengers?' "Ah !!
tAnd honest. For example, what
would you do if you should find IN
your cab a pocket-book containing
S10,00O?" Nothing at all. l should
live on my income"
A gentleman who observed Johnnie
carefully taking the census of CON-
pany assembled in the parlor awaiting
call to supper, inquired: "What is
the matter, Johnnie?" "Why," re-
piled the urchin, with troubled air,
,>nere,s nine of us, counting me, and
| mamma has gone and cut the two
pies into quarters, and that only
makes eight pieces"
An affair of a remarkably sad
character occurred in East St. Louis |
not long since. Mrs. Charles Joyce
left her house to 90 to the grocery,
leaving her two children, two |
years old and the other three months,
alone. The infant was nursing
from a bottle. The older child took |
the bottle, and when the mother en-
tered the room few minutes after
ward, she saw the two-years-old just |
IN the act of striking the infant |
blow over the head with it. The |
blow knocked the little one senseless, |
and it never regained consciousness,
dying half an hour later In it's moth
er's arms.
Alexander Harris, drummer, has
sued the Providence and Worcester
railroad company at Providence for
$4,000 for alleged false arrest and |
imprisonment, having been placed in
custody for refusing to pay his fare
from Pawtucket. He had a ticket for
the Boston train, but took the Worces-
ter train.
The Boston T'reUeller, naturally an
admirer of President Arthur, has
been polling the preferences of men,
bers Of the Massachusetts Legislature
as to the Republican Presidential can
didate. 1t finds 81 men for Edmunds.
Il for Arther, 4 for Gen. Sherman,
for Blaine, and l each for Senator
Sherman, and Gen. Logan. Sena-
tors Bruce, Andrew, Pillsburv, Liv-
ermore and Washburn rank Edmunds
Lirst, Senator Loring and Speaker
Marden are for Arthur, and Messrs.
Beard, Wolcott and Bracket are for
kdmunds. Several of these gentle
men speak of Judge" Edmunds,
which is mistake. Evidently Arthur
would not be unacceptable TO most of
the men interviewed.
The Illinois State Press Associa-
don are at Washington to help on the
the boom of Senator and Mrs. Logan.
1t is now said that Logan will go to
the country" in his speech against
Filz John Porter, although he expects
to be voted down in the Senate on
that question.
A profound newspaper man sug-
yests that President Arthur could cas-