News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-01
ewS Items.

Senator Morrill,, who has been quite
i'll is somewhat better.
The French government contem-
plates the introduction of a bill for
the total determination of betting.
AS a result the ''English Importation"
of racing will probably become ex-
tinct.
The Sunday law will be observed in
some of the summer hotels this year.
At the Minnewaska and Mohawk, N.
Y, hotels patrons are not expected to
arrive or depart on Sunday, and the
guests will be guaranteed a desired
quiet.
George F. Davenport, who was ar
rested a few days ago in New York
and taken to Washington to answer
to an Indictment for forging the name
of Secretary Whitney to a check for
So, pleaded guilty. The court gave
him one year in the penitentiary at
Albany.
A Poughkeepsie man has sued a
wealthy woman for breach o fpromise,
placing the value of his rejected
affections at $4,000. He believes in
the old proverb about sauce, goose
and gander, and wishes to emulate his
female predecessors in this particular
line of law cases.
The senate passed last week an i'm
portant bill reported by Senator Ed
munds providing for an inspection of
meats for expectation, prohibiting the
importation of adulterated articles Of
food or drink, and authorizing the
President TO make proclamation in
certain cases.
Twenty-Five railway postal clerks
were dismissed June "a by Postmaster
General Villas for conspiracy. Mr..
Villas says that an organization to pre-
vent by the removal of any
clerk from service was being formed.
An executive committee was sell
ected to order a strike and stop the
postal service in case he desired to
make a change for the public good.
President Cleveland has accepted
the honorary presidency of the Ameri-
can Exhibition, to take place in Lon
don, in May, 1887. President Cleve-
land will open the exhibition from the
White House, and start the machinery
by the telegraph land lines and the
cable. At that time Queen Victoria
will celebrate the fftieth anniversary
of her reign.
The British Province of Nova SEQ
tia does not propose to be left behind
in the contest for Home Rule. In
the general elections held in the prov
ince recently the questions of seces-
sion from the Canadian Confedera-
ton, and reciprocity with the United
States, were voted upon, and secured
the approval of a large majority. 1t
remains to be seen whether the Do
mihion Government will allow this ex-
preston of popular opinion to be car
ried into practical effect.
The following bills, granting pen
sions to Vermonters have passed
Congress and are awaiting the approx
al or veto of the President Sarah
Ann Williams, of Mortified, and
Horace w. B%rownell, late Lieutenant
in the Sixth Vermont Regiment, orig
inal pensions, and an increase of pen
sion to Henry Brooks, late of Com
pany E, Fifth Vermont regiment, and
Thomas j. Slayton and Charles F.
Ward, of Worcester.
The committee on invalid pensions
in the House have reported with an
amendment in the nature of a substi-
tute bill, the bill that passed the Sen
ate recently granting pensions to all
soldiers who were in the service three
months, who are disabled and depen-
dent upon their own labor for sup
port. This will bring the bill before
the house, but unless the house re-
jects the proposed amendments of the
committee and pass the bill as it
came from the Senate, there is not
much hope of its becoming a law at
this session.
The President received for consid-
Grafton, on his return to Washington,
one hundred and thirty-four pension
bills that had been passed by Congress
while he was away on his honeymoon.
He will be likely to veto several of
them. These bills alone will keep
him engaged for the next ten days, if
he examines them all carefully, with
the view of yetoing such as he cannot
approve.
SHLoH's cough and consumption cure is sold