News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-06-11

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second one to Queen Victoria.
President Cleveland has arranged
with Gov. Hill to visit the camp of the
New York State militia at Peekskill
this summer.
81. G. Fisher, postmaster at Fisher
town, Indian Territory, has resigned
his office and asked to be relieved
from duty at the end of the present
quarter. Mr.. Fisher explains that he
tenders his resignation because the
''Attorney General has decided that
Indians are ineligible to the position
of postmaster, and I happen to be
one Of those individuals that have the
blood Of the aborigine and of Amer
lean coursing through my veins" He
concludes his letter as follows: 81
am afraid that this decision will great
ly injure the service in this country,
since it is quite difficult to find any
white person competent to perform
the duties in satisfactory manner.
A quartette choir has been estab-
lished in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
after many years Of chorus singing.
Color blindness is said to be ten
times as common in the male sex as
in the female.
The maiden law fee of young at
torney Of Sylvania, Ga, earned few
days since, consisted of So in money,
stack of fodder, silver watch, an
old SOW and yearling steer. He
drove hislive stock into tow n himself.
Bowdon, Ca, boasts a man who
has lived in the same house for fifty
six years, has been married three
times, raised twenty-five children, has
never had the measles, never wore a
pair OF boots, has served thirty years
as Justice Of the Peace, and never
had judgment reversed or sent back
for new trial.
4 French painter invented an in
genius plan for attracting attention
to his painting at an exhibition. He
placed some resinous substance,
which would grow soft with warmth,
in front of his own picture. The Wis
itor who happened to stop for few
minutes would find himself fixed to
the spot for some time.
The owners of cocoanut planta-
tons in the FIJI Islands want some
one to invent machine which will IA
cilitate the cutting out of the kernel
of the nut and the manufacture of
cobera, or dried ooeoanut, their prin-
cipal article of export. At present
the cutting out is done entirely by
hand with knife.
The statue of Gen. Custer, erected
some years ago at West Point with
much eclat, has been quietly taken
down, stored out of sight in wood
shed and the place where it stood sod
ded over so as to obliterate all remem-
brance of it. The statue was so bad
that the Generals widow, after seeing
it once, could never by any persuasion
be induced to go there again.
Dispatches from London of June
announce that the earthquakes in
the Vale of Cashmere continue at in
tervals averaging three hours in
length. Whole villages have been
engu!fed, and terrible subterranean
noises are heard, driving the people
frantic with tear. The horrors of ap-
preaching famine are added to the
other results of the disaster, as many
thousand bushels of grain in store
have been swallowed up in the chasms
which are constantly opening.
Juvet Miguel and Jules Monda.
half-brothers, living at Matamoras,
Tex, quarreled about the possession
of a sabre belonging to their father.
The younger brother, aged sixteen,
who was the larger of the two, becom-
ing frantic, suddenly seized the weap-
on, and whirling it in the air, brought
it down with such force on his broth
er's neck that it almost severed the
head from the body, the young man
instantly dying. Quickly realizing
the import of the awful deed he turned
the blade against himself, thrust it
into his own heart and fell dead.
Their parents are wealthy Mexicans.
Some people are unwilling to have
their age known, and they carefully
conceal it from their intimate friends.
1t is foolish infrmity, sometimes of
otherwise great men. The Duke of
Gloucester asked the Duke of Graf
ton his age, before large company
where they were both visiting. He
was answered, but not very gracious
ly. Not long afterwards they met
again in company and Glouchester re-
peated the inquiry, and the Duke of
Grafton replied, "Sir, l am exactly
three weeks and two days older than
l was when your Royal Highness last
asked me that disagreeable question"
The Republicans will have a major
ity in the United States senate till
March 4, 1887. Even the election of
a Democrat in Illinois to succeed Lo-
gan would not have prevented that,
though it would have been an impor-
tant aid in overcoming the Republi
can ascendency little less than two
years hence. Logan will be sworn in
gu WV NAV hOSOiA9 VI NOllStcSS, anu
the Senate will then stand forty-two
Republicans to thirty-four Democrats.
One-third of the Senate, as near as
may be, changes every two years.
The hustle of summer preparation
sounds again in the winter stiffness of
the White Mountain region, and the
expectation of large business makes
everybody cheerful. improvements
are to be made in the old hotels. The
Glen House will not be rebuilt this
year, but two smaller houses will be
added to the accommodation at Jack
son. A branch carriage road to Mt.
Washington is begun, leading from
the Glen road at Crystal Cascade
Brook to the present carriage road
from the Glen to the summit. There
will be improvements in railroad lines.
The June DOrcGs opens with an excel
lent article on Women's Work, contain
ing some very pertinent suggestions and
Hi. l.