News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-06-04

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itentiary for the seduction of Ida w.
Wheeler under promise of marriage.
The trial was had three weeks ago, but
motion for a new trial was overruled
and sentence at last passed. An en-
deavor will be made to carry the case to
the Supreme Court. The standing of
the parties In the suit, who live in
Kansas City, has made it one of note.
The woman seems determined to pursue
her betrayer to the utmost She has a
Judgment in the Circuit Court and a
lien on the estate of his father for
$40, 900, and besides has gotten him to
the door of the penitentiary. He offered
her large amount to marry him after
| the verdict was rendered, but she would
not accept. Wheeler is of prominent
family of Cass county, and besides the
dishonor of penitentiary sentence he
| once wealthy and q mercha Mt of Kansas
City-wil now lie poverty stricken.
THE term "Chicagoed," as applied to
a contest in which one or the other OF
base ball teams plays nine innings with
out making q run, came into existence
shortly after the famous tour of the
| Cincinnati Red Stockings, in 1869. AT
that time there was a great spirit Of
| rivalry between Cincinnati and Chicago,
and the Windy City was jealous of the
base ball laurels of the Queen City,
and determined, if possible, to rob it OF
them. They organized for the purpose
the strongest professional team that
they could rake and scrape together,
and announced that they had a world
beater, Almost the first team that the
Windy City crew tackled was the famous
Mutual Club of New York. The Goth
antics shut them out nine successive
innings, and, as it was the first time
| such a feat had been accomplished, it
was at once dubbed by all the papers IS
"Chicagoed," and by this term all such
contests have since been known.
EDMUND DoRR was an oddity who
| lived in the suburbs of Hallowell, Me-,
half century ago. On the 14th day of
February he logged into town on his
horse sled and was arrested for violating
q city ordinance requiring all sleighs
and sleds to have bells attached. Dorr
was arraigned before Justice of the
Peace and fined. He paid his fine, but
swore he would have revenge. And on
every 14th day of February for twelve
years Dorr made an annual visit to
Hallowell, seated In an ancient cutter
and driving ringboned mare, to whose
harness 200 jangIing bells of all sizes
and degrees of discord were fastened.
There were sleigh bells and cow bells
and dinner bells and all sorts of bells on
the rigging, as if he had been full
brass band. He repeated this perform
ance annually till he died, and took
a grim satisfaction in thus squaripg his
account with the city that had fined
him.
In recent interview Dan O'Leary
said: "Of all the trampers living the
only one that is wealthy is Rowell, and
he is probably worth $50, 1000. He han
dies it very carefully and never spec-
ulates. Six years ago had $150,000.
l began to dabble in stocks, and as re-
suit dropped my bundle, but I never
played a card for money in my life
or bucked the tiger. l have walked
since July IA, 1874, $4,000 miles in
matches and exhibitions in this country,
England, Ireland, and Australia. l have
crossed the Atlantic each way sixteen
times since '76, and intend to return to
Australia next December. There are no
people ON the face of the earth as good
athletes as the Australians. They pay
a good deal of attention to football,
boat racing, coursing, and cricketing,
and there are few people that can beat
| them"
| A PENSION which had been regularly
paid for SOP years has just come to an
end in Switzerland, and the Cantonal
| government of Soleure, the paymasters,
so much regret its extinction that they
are advertising for an heir. In 1882
Count Rudolph, of Kibourg, marched to
the assault of the town of Soleure,
against which his ancestors had long
entertained reasonable designs. But
one Hans Roth, a peasant living in a
neighboring village, was on the alert
and carried to the towns-people intel
ligence of what was brewing, and
SoIeure was saved. For this very sub
stantial service Hans was rewarded with
an annuity to himself and his heirs for
ever. The last iDheritor, the juge de
pair Roth, has lately died, and all the
Roths in Switzerland are now looking
up their pedigrees.
A YOUNG man by the name of Craw-
ford, living in Texas, took it into his
head that he would make good snake
charmer. He came across huge rattle
snake, about three feet long, and imme-
diately began his manipulations and
COMPUTATIONS with view of making him
a captive and reducing him to docility.
He got hold of the snake by some means
and says he was playing with and
caressing him, having him firmly
grasped around the body few inches
from the neck, when suddenly writhing
and twisting around the snake bit him
severely on the hand. By close and
skillful attention his physicians saved
his life, but his survival was almost
q marvel, as the doctors at one time
almost despaired of rallying him.
In the Clinical Record DR.. Holland
relates that one of his lady patients once
called on 'psychomotric healer" who
greatly impressed her by his prescience
in telling her that she suffered from &C.
casional headache and pain in the side
due to the fact that her liver was bound
back to her diaphragm. The lady
thought that only q man of diabolical
insight could have discovered her symp-
toms without an examination, and ehe
fastened nervously to her physician.
There she was informed that almost
every women patient a doctor has is
a sufferer from headache and sideache,
and that she would be in bad way in
| deed if her liver were not anchored in
the manner stated by the charlatan.
'PooR MANS GULoH, ION Battle Creek,
| IN California, got its name in this man
ner: A miner named Noah Helm toiled
season after season in the gulch, but
grew poorer every year, and his neigh
bors often advised him to pull up stakes
and leave. He had confidence in the
claim, however, and said he proposed to
starve there or make d strike. Ono day
Helm struck a bonanza in the claim,
moved down into the valley and pur-
chased a ranch, built an elegant man
sion, brought his family from the East,
and Is now one of the most prosperous
farmers In the country. Although the
spot finally turned out well, it has al
ways borne the title of "Poor Mans
Gulch, given by the miners.
A LIVELY air on a violin will some
times set a whole flock of geese wild
with delight. On one occasion at a
country wedding 1 was witness of
curious performance by one of these an
imals. After dinner lady entertained
her guests assembled on lawn with
music from an accordion. A flock of
geese were feeding in the road just be-
low the house and with outstretched
necks answered back with notes of sat
isfaction. Soon a white gander began
dancing a lively Jig, keeping good time
to the music. For several minutes he
kept up the performance to the great
delight of the company. The expert
ment was tried several times for week
or more and the tones of the accordion
never failed to set the old gander into
lively dance.