News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-23
NJ ews Items,

News Items.
Mr.. Blaine will leave Washington
for his home at Augusta when the
warm weather sets in. He will give
up the lease of the house he occupies
at the Capital.
Postmaster-General Villas has ap-
pointed ex-Congressman Tom Hamil-
ton, a colored Democrat, postal route
agent from Beaufort to Jacksonboro,
S. C.
Chris Bradford, the famous life
saver, died recently at Pittsburg,
Pa, of paralysis. During the past
seven years he and his brothers, Ned
and Mike, have saved 253 lives at the
Atlantic City beach.
Beaudry's shanties on St. Urban
street at Montreal, P. O., have been
blessed by the clergy of Notre Dame
prior to being torn down to make way
for an orphan asylum. Beaudry left
over 100000 to the Roman Catholic
church. The shanties were in the
most disreputable part of the city.
A prisoner at Raleigh, N. c., who
had been acquitted in a trial for MUIR
der. hanged himself the other day af-
ter confessing that he was guilty and
that remorse led him to infict upon
himself the punishment he escaped in
court.
The will of Hon. Thomas Hedge,
of Franklin, Pa, provides that
"should any of the officials of the
Venango National bank become con-
science stricken and conclude to re-
turn to his executors the $50, 900 they
stole from him, he bequeathes the sum
to the cemetery"
An impatient Postmaster, who some
time ago rendered his resignation,
wrote to the department: 81 warn
you now that if you don't relieve me
by next Saturday night I'll pack up
this concern and ship it down to
Washington by express c. o. D."
A German named Humpf, residing
at Danube, N. Y, cut his wife's
throat willie she, with her four days
old baby, was in bed. He then satu-
rated the bed with kerosene and set
it on fire. Neighbors saw the flames
and extinguished them, rescuing the
wife in critical condition. Humpf
was found in the garnet with his
throat cut, but alive. He attacked
the party sayagely with an axe, but
before he could injure any of them he
fell dead. Humpf was insane.
At Decatur, Ill.,, William Ammen
and Effie Banter, who were engaged
to be married, quarreled while out
walking over the fact that Ammen
had tired of his love. Stepping back
the young woman drew a revolver and
fred, the ball inflictiug a scalp wound.
Ammen snatched the revolver and
shot the girl in the back. She will
probably die.
The United States Treasurer is
still in occasional receipt of pieced
legal tender notes and silver certifi-
Gates. 1t is evident that some par
ties are mutilating notes with the in
tent to defraud the public. The meth
cd pursued is to tear from a note so
much only as will not exceed two
fifths of the note (three-ffths being
redeemable under the rules at full
value) then to join the pieces detached
with other pieces obtained in the
same manner, and thus obtain one
full note composed of the several
pieces. The public are again eau
toned against taking any pieced notes
unless it is evident from the numbers
on the two ends, and other appear
ances, that the pieces are of the same
note.
A sensation was caused at the
Southern hotel, St. Louis, On Tues
day of last week by the discovery of
the horribly mutilated body of man
packed in a trunk, which was taken
out of room. The stencil from the
trunk caused the discovery. The ho-
tel register shows that on March 80 |
a gentleman registered as Walter H. |
Lennox Maxwell, NJ. D., from Lon
don, and was assigned to that room. |
On opening the trunk it was found
that the bead Of the man was severed
from his body, and written on paper
inside the trunk we're the words '!So1
perish all traitors to the great cause"
The trunk and its contents were taken
% the morgue.
George H. Mills, the Brooklyn, N.
T., wife murderer, was hanged on
Friday, the 10th, at 1890. A. NJ.
With the moose around his neck he
aid: II stand before you here to-
lay, and I solemhly say, as 1 stand
lere on the edge Of eternity, that
yhen | committed this crime, if [ did,
was out of my mind, as God knows.
know the cruel law of the land has
rot to be carried out, and commend
myself to God. l thank the sheriff
or his kindness. / also thank the
nder-sheriff. | thank Rev. Mr.. Bass,
ny spiritual adviser, more than l do
by legal adviser. thank my dear
'rother for his efforts, and he could
10 no more, ! want to say nothing /
urther. God bless you all, / hope |;
Tod will forgive me. 1 commend
oyself tn God ~