News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Two-FIFTHs OF ALL THE newspaper
and periodicals sent through the maiJ
by publishers at pound rates are mailed
at New York city.
AFGHAN SOLDIERS IN THE British army
have been known to ask for furloughs tC
go home and kill somebody who haG
slain a relative, as solemn family duty.
THE VALUE OF THE neat cattle sub.
sisting on the natural grasses along the
slope of the Rocky Mountains from the
British possessions to Mexico is placed
at 5000, 100000.
Mr.. JAMES G. BLAINE RECEIVES EIGHTY
cents volume royalty for his book. 1t
is said that about 100000 volumes have
been ordered alreassy, so that the writer
is sure of $50. .0Gs ezsr rs years work.
The INDIANS OF l1AsKA are said to
have used in making salmon nets the
bulk of 900 miles of telegraph wire,
which'was laid by the Overland Telegraph
Company many years ago at cost Of
$3,OOO,OOO
In THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED June 80.
! the United States governments dis
bursements for pensions reached sum
which exceeds by six millions of dollars
the disbursements for all purposes in
| the year 1860.
A MAN IN PHILADELPHIA was paid by
mistake at the Remington National
Bank 81, 168 on check of $468 and kept
the money. He was arrested and locked
up over night, but returning the $700
overdrawn he was liberated.
The FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS
adopted by the miners of Alene, Dakota,
and posted up all over the place.
'Not Chinaman shall ever enter the
diggings unless he climbs tree, with
one end of lariat over limb"
HERE is THE WAY Philadelphia paper
raps New York over the knuckles =
Vanderbilt is worth $2OO,OOO,O0O, Jay
Gould 800, 100000 and Cyrus W. Field
is worth $5O,OO0OOO. The Bartholdi
pedestal can be put up for 100000.
JAY GOULD Is SAID to be a much hap
pier man than Mr.. Vanderbilt AS the
latter is worth 5000, 100000 and the
former only $1OO,000,000, it can be
easily seen, says the Evening Call, that
wealth alone does not constitute happi-
ness.
A DITCH TO BE CUT in the Arkansas
Valley in Colorado will take so much
water out of the Arkansas River that the
stream will not cause much trouble here
after in the way of floods. 1t is to be
sixty-fve feet wide at the bottom and
sixty-fye miles long.
The DENVER Republican, finds, on
summing up the list, that over one hun
dred lives have been lost there this year
by means of snOwslides alone, without
counting disasters of this nature that
were either too slight or too remote to
command prompt aud extensiye- notice
CHARLES L. kUsG, EDITOR OF THE
Gri7sgo and GreGSeT, at Manzano, New
Mexico, who was assassinated by unknown
men who shot him through " window,
was harum scarum sort of fellow,
always in trouble. While resident of
of Leadville he made over 500, 900, |
which he soon lost.
TWENTY YEARS AGO A newspaper cor
respondent attended country school |
in Wisconsin, where the teacher, a |
minister's wife, punished gum chewers
by forcing them to spit out the gum and |
chew ashes, while whispering and other
delinquencies entailed the swallowing of
liberal doses of castor oil.
DURING THE PAST TEN years Uncle |
Sam expended nearly $70,OOO,O0O in
caring for the Indians The total num-
Der of Indians attached to agencies is
only 246, 900, and of these 60, 900 in
Indian Territory, 7,700 in Wisconsin,
and 5000 in New York are supposed to
be at least partially self-supporting.
The BLUE RIDGE OF West Virginia is
believed by the State Geologist to con-
tain slumbering volcano. There is one
place of about an acre in extent where
the ground never freezes and the snow
always melts. Vegetation Is always a
month in advance of the season. The
volcano is believed to be below this spot. |
The Agricultural ReUiea0 ESTIMATES
THE corn crop of the United States for
1888 at 1851 ,O66,S bushels-acres
planted, 6s, ,3O1, ,S99; wheat crop, 420,-
154, 500 bushels acres planted, $685. |
316; oat crop, 1928, 400 bushels
acres planted, 20, ,322, ,622; cotton crop,
6,O14 900 bales-acresp planted, 16, TT, ,993.
A LITTLE BOY WAS BURIED in n. ridian,
Miss, the other day, and behind the
hearse in the funeral procession walked
his pony with its saddle draped with
Grape. Strangers even looked with
moistened eyes upon the little fellows
pet, upon which he had been often seen
to ride through the streets but little
while ago.