News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-21
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others have partial prohibition. lhere
are onl " seventeen counties in Georgia
where whisky has full swing.
An English oculist, who examined
the eyes of 100 persons who work
by the incandescent electric light,
failed to discover any injurious effects.
The arc light may cause trouble If in
too close proximity.
Three hundred homing pigeons flew
from London to Brussels in five hours
and forty-one minutes. although they
encountered storm on the way.
This is rate Of more than a mile In
two minutes, kept up for $50 miles.
The production of raisins in Cali
tornla is increasing enormously. The
crop this year will amount to 100000
boxes. against 1880 last year and
$4,000 in 1884. A steady improve
ment in quality and appearance is also
noted.
Trade in Charleston is improving.
The workingmen are making double
the amount of money they used to,
and spend proportionally. Some of
the small traders are thinking that if
the earthquake is over it will not
prove so bad visitation after all.
An unprecedented epidemic of dem
que fever now prevails at Vicksburg.
1t is estimated that there are now
over 1000 cases under treatment. The
disease, while of painful and pros
trating character, is by no means ma
lignant or dangeross, there having
been over 1900 cases without one of
them terminating fatally.
Carpenters at work on an old Mex
lean schooner in Delaware ship-yard,
have discovered large amount of
gold and silver coin slowed away in a
secret closet. The money is of an
Gent date, and may, for aught we
know, have been the booty of some
forgotten pirate, who years ago sailed
the Spanish Main.
Mrs. Sarah E. Howe's notorious
woman's bank at Boston is said TO
be again in operation. Mrs. Howe's
three years sentence for her swindling
6 bank" operations FIVE or six years
ago expired last year, and now she is
at it in the same old way. Her for
mer alleged interest rate per month
was 8, while now she pretends to allow
per cent. per month.
The weather in Alaska is described
by a United States cutter officer as
having been "simply beastly" this
year. In a cruising voyage from last
February until the middle of Septem-
Der, it rained steadily every day ex-
cept for short period of fourteen
days. The salmon crop was reported
Of excellent quality and quantity,
and this might have compensated for
the weather in part.
The Ioaoa State Register has an elo-
quent and poetical editorial on the
loneliness of the weather in its region,
which closes with this true and noble
sentence, viz: " AS the joys, the
loves. the hopes, the ambitions of the
ripe years of manhood are stronger,
better and more exquisite than those
of eager youth or feeble age, so the
full splendor of perfect autumn day
thrills with rapture unknown to ten
der spring or forid Summer"
The extent of irrigation in Colora-
do is immense. There are 800 miles
Of first class irrigating canals, $500
miles Of secondary canals and 10000
miles of smaller bitches, which have
cost in the aggregate about 81 ,0O0,-
600, and will irrigate 1920, 900 acres.
The operation of this great water sys-
tenn has developed conflicting claims
of various ditch companies and set
tiers, regarding the right to use the
water, which the dry weather of the
present season has rendered very diff
ticult of settlement. In one case the
Governor was obliged to interfere.
A story of early life at California
hotels shows that landlords of that
day must have been exceptional char
acters. 1t was customary for board
ers to settle their accounts yearly. At
one hotel the landlord once became in
need of funds, and one of his guests
offered to give him something on &C
count. ''No," said the host, s.your
bill is not due till the end of the year,
of which seven months have passed"
At last the matter was compromised
by the debtor loaning the money, for
which the conscientious host gave his
note.
Something funny occurred at one
of the largest of the Catskill hotels
during the month of July. A guest
arrived who was not considered desir-
able, and in the hope of making his
stay as short as possible he was given
a room over the boiler. That very
night the thermometer began to fall,
and for week the weather was cold
er than ever before known in midsum-
mer. Everybody but the man in the
boiler room was shivering and beg
ging for blankets, but he kept in his
room most of the time and was as
warm as toast and as happy as
clam.
Capt. W. D. Duncan, of Boston,
who has been exploring the wreck of
the ''Royal Savage" off the Valcour
Island in Lake Champlain, with a
gang of divers, says that the wreck
lies at the southwest extremity of the
island, about 120 feet from dry shore,
the end nearer the shore being in II
feet of water and the other end in
about 80 feet. There is nothing left
of the craft except the part of the
floor covered by the ballast, about 40
feet in length. The water was clear
so he could make a thorough search,
and he is sure no valaables are in the
wreck.
Among the stories to which the
Charleston earthquake has given rise
is the following: A gentleman on the
night of the earthquake was visiting
the object of his affections, who re-
sided in one Of the houses on the bat
terry. A mysterious rumbling noise
was heard, and Immediately the first