News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-15
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without a single manageable woman.
John Welsh, of Philadelphia, an
eminent lawyer, and our minister to
England before Lowell, died Saturday.
Patrick Eagan, President of the
Irish National League, now in Omaha,
expresses satisfaction with Gladstone's
bill, and says the Irish nationalists in
America will approve it.
The champion trapper and hunter
of Butler county, Ala, is Mrs. F. II.
Green. She frequently goes out gun
ming, and always returns laden with
squirrels, wild turkeys, etc.
A petition is in circulation favor
ing loan for the completion of the
Boston Parks. 1t is the only means
by which they can be perfected.
The trial of Burns, Hyndman,
Champion and Williams, the socalis-
tic leaders, on the charge of having
melted the Trafalgar Square and Hyde
Park riots, was concluded at London
Saturday afternoon. The jury rem
dered verdict of not guilty and the
defendants were all discharged.
1t is believed that if the present ag-
itation is kept up for year there
will not be Chinese merchant left in
San Francisco. They are closing up
their business as fast as they can, and
nearly every steamer takes some of
them away. The business of these
merchants is being ruined by the ex-
pulsion of the laborers from the inte-
rior.
Bradley B. Smalley, whose appoint
ment as collector of customs for the
District of Vermont is still pending
before the Senate, is in Washington
endeavoring to procure his confrma-
ton, but his progress is not encour-
aging. AS the sole survivor of the
Vermont Democracy, Smalley would
really seem to be worthy object of
Senatorial charity; but on the other
hand, if this appointment is rejected
it will proably be due to feeling that
if he is put into an Office where there
is work to do there will be nobody
left to sit up with the corpse.-Phia-
delphiG Press.
Washington Territory is to receive
a large accession of population from
Pennsylvania. Seven hundred Welsh
families in the coal regions some time
since sent an agent to exc mine into
the inducements of the North
and they have decided to settle in
eastern Washington Territory. The
colony will comprise three thousand
persons.
Fire broke out in the picker room
of the Pemberton mill at Lawrence,
Mass, Saturday morning at about 10
o'clock, and quickly got so under way
that the mill fire brigade was unable
to quench it. At 20 minutes of II
O'Clock general alarm was rung in,
summoning the whole department.
All the operatives were sent out.
The building is situated on the bank
of the river, In the rear of the main
mill, is three stories high and 400 feet
long. The main mill is seven stories
high. The looms and machinery at
the south end of the mill, next to the
river, were much damaged early. At
1890 O'Clock the walls of the rear
building gave way, burying 10 per-
sons, including four of the fire depart
ment, and all are probably killed.
Engines from North Andover, Ando-
yer and Methuen arrived and joined
the Lawrence department in the fight.
At l.30 o'clock the fire began to sue
cumb to the efforts of the united de-
At 2.30 o'clock the fire
was under control. The loss will
reach 100000 at least. The build
ng, machinery and contents were in
'ured for $50, 900.