News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-06-25
NOTES..
James Russell Lowell arrived at
Boston SATURDAY. morning.

Five hundred builders and laborers
struck work at Toronto on Saturday,
in accordance with the order of the
union.
The village of Portville, five miles
from OIean, n. Y, was nearly de-
stroyed by fire Saturday night. The
loss is $4,000.
The prospectus of the new Canadi-
| an government loan was issued in
Lundon Saturday. The amount of
the loan is f4,O0O,OO0 sterling, and
the minimum price is placed at SO per
cent.
The ''Isere" bearing the statue of
Liberty Enlightening the World, ar
rived and anchored in New York har-
Dor Wednesday morning of last week.
Three members of a gang of des-
peradoes and horse and cattle thieves,
were hanged to tree by vigilance
committee last week near Healton,
l. T.
The Washington Territory Grand
Lodge of Masons has declared retail
liquor dealers ineligible to member
ship in the order.
There are now 225 miles Of railroad
in Japan, and the system is being
steadily extended, chiefly by the gov
eminent.
An exchange states that if a cas-
tor oil plant is kept growing in a
room, mosquitoes, flies and other
pests will not enter, or if they should
tthey are soon found dead benes+A-tha
leaves.
List, the great musician, is a be-
lever in the practice of early rising.
He arises at $50 in the morning,
drinks some cognac and writes until
7.30, when breakfast of tea, bread,
butter, and soft boiled eggs is served.
At s o'clock he lies down until $50
or 10 o'clock.
A speech Of a candidate for Lon
don vestry election can be commend
ed as q model of brevity. Here is
the speech: HGentlemen-If it is
your pleasure to elect me as you did
some years ago, it shall be my duty
to serve you in she future as have
done in the past.
San Francisco is proved by statis-
tics to be the unhealthiest city of the
State.
An enterprising young French Can
adam in Lewiston, Me-, amputates
dogs tails by biting them off through
silk handkerchief. In the case of
skye terriers, whose tails should re-
main unrestricted in their abbreviated
length, he pulls the cord so that it
will not, in healing, curl up the tail
after the manner which, though desir-
able in a pug, would be simply I'M
bearable in skye.
The police recently made raid on
pool rooms in Boston and three plac-
es were Quilted, nine men arrested and
o cart load Of material seized.
A crowd recently attended q MUIR
der trial at Theirs, France, and so
blocked a stairway that it broke down,
piling the persons upon it ten deep at
the bottom. Twenty people were
killed outright and eighty wounded.
Joseph Vulna, a Polish lumber
shower, about so years old, has for
some time been living unhappily with
his wife Kate, and separation was
agreed upon, the wife commencing a
suit for divorce, for which the drink
ing habits of Vulna gave ample rea-
son. Wednesday morning Vulna
called on his wife at her house, and,
without word of warning, shot her
through the left breast, and then fired
two shots at himself, of which he died
at once, while his wife fingered but a
few hours. The murdered woman
leaves Eve small children by former
husband in AFFECT poverty.
A singular case of deliberate re-
venge by a dog happened at Ellen
vile, n. Y, few days ago. Burr
Collard beat his dog severely for at
lacking fowl, and then worked all
day in q cornfeld, accompanied by
the dog. At night he started bare
foot and bare armed for home, and as
he was getting over fence the dog
seized him by the heel and terrific
struggle ensued. His daughter came
to his assistance and beat the dog
with stones, hut without causing him
to release his hold. Neighbors bur-
ried to the scene, and it was only
when the ferocious animal was beaten
and choaked to death that Mr.. Coll |
ard was released. His condition was
pitiable. His arms and foot were Bit
ten and mangled terribly, his right |
thumb bitten off and his clothing torn
to tatters.
A milkman who was arraigned in
Brooklyn court for watering his milk,
admitted that he had been in the hab-
it of adding three quarts of water to
each 40 quart can of milk as long as
he had been in business, which was
20 years. The milk commissioner
made a calculation on this basis,
which showed that in the two score of
years the dishonest milkman had real
lied S5426 from about eight quarts of
water a day judiciously used.
The recent Apache outrages are at
tributed to the illegal sale of liquor to
the Indians. Only another phase of
the sublime audacity of the rum-sell-
er. He furnishes the ignorant savage |
with liquid murder, and then calls on
the army to protect him from the
atrocity he has himself provoked.
A little lead pencil shaped steamer
on the Hudson made the remarkable |
speed of ten miles in % minutes one
day recently. 1t is built on a new
model; is 50 feet long and IL feet
wide and IL feet beam. 1t is shaped
like lead pencil sharpened at both
ends. The "Mary Powell has been
the fastest boat on the river, but was
easily beaten seven minutes in a race
from New York to Sing Sing, by this
new boat, the "Stiletto." 1t is said
larger boats of equal speed will be
built on the new model.
A number of cannon, some ten feet
in length, and others four feet, were
washed ashore at Point aux Anglais,
Quebec, last November, during
great storm. They are supposed to
be relics of the disaster to an English
fleet nearly 200 years ago, which gave
its name to the point. From time to