News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-24

and down upon the helpless flock. The
sight of a ghostlike creature with a
pitchfork was too much for him how
ever.
REPORTS received from the marine
station of the United States Fish Com
mission at Woods Hole, Mass, an
nounce the complete success of the at
tempts recently begun to propagate lob
sters artiicia3ly on a practical scale, and
many thousands of young Holsters are
now beng cared for and fed in the
large tanks contained in the hatchery
building. The Matching has proceeded
much more rapidly than was expected,
and the means provided for the accom-
mediation of the fry are proving entirely
insufficient, rendering it necessary to
prepare one of the open fish basins in
front of the station as storage park.
Experiments are in progress to ascertain
how long the young can be kept in con
finement, and it is thought desirable
that they should be two or three weeks
old before planting. Shipments of
young Holsters will soon be made by the
Fish Commission to those localities on
the Atlantic coast that have suffered
most from the improvident methods of
the lobster fishermen.
The Lewiston Me.) Journal says: A
! question of interest to lobster dealers is
whether the lobster shrinks in boiling
so that an innocent fishermen who catch
es only those of the required length may
find himself with supply of short lob
sters when he takes them from the pot.
A jury, who have been investigating the
matter in the Cumberland Superior
Court, have not yet been able to set lie
the matter, although several live lob
sters were brought in, measured, and
marked by the jury, then cooked under
the direction and charge of the sheriff
and measured by the jury to see what if
any shrinkage there had been by the
cooking. The fault was in the Holsters.
Four of them shrank from ne-siXteenth
to three of an inch, and the
other obstinateiy refused to agree with
the ma ority and measured the same as
when alive. Under these circumstan-
ces there was nothing left for the jury
but to follow suit and disagree.
A FEW years ago P Wickham, re-
puted to be the only son of an English |
lord, arrived in St. Paul with a party of
tourists. They spent several weeks hunt |
ing and fishing, during which time |
Wickham became enamored of beauti- |
full girl, daughter of a wealthy farmer |
named Sencerbox. They were married |
and Wickham built magnificent resi- |
dence, but paid for it in promises. After |
year or so his creditors pressed him |
so hard he deserted his family and re- |
turned to Europe. A year ago he re
turned and by some means obtained |
! secret divorce. Nothing was seen OF |
heard of him again until few nights
| ago,-when he suddenly reappeared, and
| during Mrs. Wickham's absence entered
her house and stole her child, beauti-
full boy. 1t is believed they are en- route
for Europe.
II is worthy of note as q sad coinci-
dence In the history of the family of
George w. Pend!cton that the brother
in-law of that gentleman lost his life
more than twenty years ago in a manner
almost similar to that IN which his wife
died a few days ago-a runaway acct
dent. Mr. Pendleton's sister was mar
ried to very wealthy gentleman named
Bowler, who lived in one of the finest
suburban residences in Cincinnati. On
the 4th of July, 1864 or 1868, Mr.. Bow
Ter was driving to the city in his buggy,
when a team of omnibus horses which
had been frightened by some fre-crack-
ers ran away and collided with his vehi-
Gle, the pole of the omnibus striking
him in the head and killing him instant
ly. At the time of his death Mr.. Bowler
was President of the Kentucky Central
Railroad
A SINGULAR marriage is reported by
the Fredericton IN. b. Cleaner. A
DIR. Barker claimed to have performed a
remarkable faith cure upon daughter
OF MIR. James Young of Nashwaak. The |
young lady was unable to walk for sew
eral years except on crutches, and was
bed-ridden great part of the time. |
Hearing of her condition and that all |
medical remedies had failed, the Doe |
tor visited her, and by some remarkable |
means succeeded in raising her from her |
sick bed. She gained in strength and |
was soon able to walk without crutches. |
Having accomplished this, the doctor |
offered his hand in marriage, and the |
two were welded few days ago.
A MINNEsoNIAN who has seen several
severe tornadoes says their most peculiar
feature is the singular sucking move
ment. Buildings are sucked up into the
fragments. After the great Rochester
tornado a farmer twelve miles from
the town found an uninjured
marble top table in his field Another
found a very large sheep that had come
from no one knew where, and had been
deposited in his yard unhurt. The
Minnesota man further says that he saw
plank driven through big tree, and
piece of pine moulding driven through
small butternut tree.
A DISPATCH from the United S ates
Minister to Persia. F. Fl. Winston. to
Secretary Bayard, dated May "a, an
nounces that Thomas Stevens, the special
correspondent of the OatiaG, who is
making the tour of the world on a BIZ
cycle, was turned back on the frontiers
of Afghanistan and has been forced 20
retrace his stepsto Constantinople. From
here he will seek to work his way
through India. THIS will make very
much longer journey for him, but from
the spirit which he has shown there is
little reason to doubt of the success of
his trip, provided he is not made the
victim of mob.
FERDINAND WARD, who had been
keeping books at Sing Sing, has been
found incompetent as bookkeeper, and
put at the work of printing. Some fif-
teen years ago Ward had a printing
press, one of the amateur kind. Young
Ward was for a time an apprentice in
newspaper office, but the business was
not cOngenial to his tastes. He took his
leave of the office one day when request
ed to wash the rollers of the press lie
looked at the inky glue and then at his
own white hands, and told the proprietor
he did not believe he was ever created
for trade of that kind.