News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-13
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and on which his nomination Is hung
! up in the Senate.
Mr.. R. NJ. T. Hunter, ex-member
of ex-Jefferson Davis eX-cablnet, Is
very old, and said to be very poor,
and his southern friends propose a
subscription to supplement the little
500 office which President Cleveland
gave him.
Ex-President Arthur is already talk
ing of the pleasure that he expects
this season when he can again handle
the rod in his favorite fishing ground,
and land the largest fish of the sea-
son, as he has so often done before.
The strike in the bituminous coal
regions is beginning to be felt, as
several manufacturing concerns have
been unable to obtain their usual sup
ply of soft coal from their accustomed
places, the stereotyped reply to orders
sent out for it having been that no
coal of this description was to be had
at any price.
Every bride is beautiful, and it is a
mystery where all the plain married
women come from.
At an Irish home rule meeting in
the New York Academy of music last
Friday night resolutions were unani-
mously adopted, asserting that the
British Parliament had recognized Ire
lands long delayed claims.
1t is said that Wellesley college has
received a legacy of $4,000 as the
foundation of an endowment for the
art school building. The donor wish
es to remain unknown.
There was a water-spout in Kansas
Friday. A farmer named Jacobs saw
it coming and put his wife, his brother
and two children in a wagon to drive
out of danger; but the whirliDg col
umn overlook them, broke, and
swept them into the river. Jacobs
and his brother escaped with one
child; the other child and the mother
were drowned.
Two oil wells were struck on the
north side of the Ohio River, near
Economy, Pa, Friday, but were acct
dentalIy set on fire by a workman's
torch, and have not yet been eXtin-
guished.
The powers have decided to block
ade the ports of Greece, i'll order to
prevent that country from sending its
ships of war against Turkey. Mean
while, the war fever lages higher and
higher.
Emily D. Burton, who plead guilty
few days since to an indictment as
accessory to the murder of her father,
Benjamin J. Burton, of Newport, R..
l., was sentenced on Friday to i'm
prisonment for life at hard labor. She
received the sentence coolly, with lit
tie show Of emotion, having repeated
ly asked for it since her confession.
Jay Gould has developed taste and
talent for photography. On his re-
cent yachting trip he carried cam
era and all the rest of the needful APP
paratus along, and visitors to his
down town office are treated to az ex-
hibition of pictures whose duplicates
are not to be found out of Mr.. Gould's
possession. They are all Of subjects
aptly chosen, and the workmanship
shown in the print is worthy of man
equipped to earn a living at the bust =
ness.
The Mormons are moving toward
Inn linO
have already arrived in the Mexican
State of Chihuahua, and more are on
the way.-It-is-s aiel-that- these emf
grants are from towns and villages in
New Mexico and Arizona, and that
they do not disguise the fact that they
are fleeing to Mexico to avoid impsis-
onment under recent laws, which they
are satisfied will shortly be enforced
in other Territories than Utah.
Siamese women may not find their
matrimonial lives altogether pleasant,
but they at least possess one adyan-
tage that their sisters in more civilized
countries are not ever likely to find
among their rights. The native gen.
tlemen, it appears, are allowed by
law TO sell themselves in payment of
gambling debts, and man who has
thus disposed of himself can compel
his wife, if she be able to redeem him,
but when she has done so, he at once
becomes her sole property, and she
can henceforth regard him as part of
her goods and chattels, to be sold or
retained as it may seem convenient to
her.
On Wednesday afternoon of last
week two base ball mines we're play
ing on the western promenade in Port
land, Me-, the players being from II |
to IA years of age, and the boy who
acted as umpire, Charlie F. Furlong,
was still younger. His decisions were
by one Of the mines as being
very bad and one sided, and quar-
rel followed between him and one of
the players, boy of ID, named Will
lie Costello, who gave the Furlong boy
a bad beating. While the row was
going on an older brother of the Fur
long boy came up and went TO the as
sistance of his brother, striking Cos
tello over the head with a bat. From
the time of receiving the blow Costello
was unconscious, and physicians de-
cided that even if be lived he would
be mental wreck. He died Friday
night. Sylvester Furlong, the boy
who struck him, has not been arrested.
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Stabbing ARRAY at Montpelier.