News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-11


among the factory girls at Burnley,
Eng, by notice which has been
posted in one of the mills. 1t is to
the effect that all young girls en-
ployed there must cease to wear bangs
and must part their hair down the
center. Failing to comply, they will
be dismissed.
A Republican in a neighboring State
has come to the conclusion that the
Democrat who can present the most
Republican Endorsements of his char
acter and ability, stands the best
chance with the President. This is
not because the President takes to
Republicans, but because he has come
to distrust the average Democratic
Endorsement.
Among the effects of the late Gen.
Toombs, of Georgia, is an interesting
relic of the olden times. 1t is solid
silver candlestick, exquisitely wrought
in the form of tree and its branches,
at the base of which is a fountain
from which a fox and some deer are
drinking. The article weighs "a lbs !,
and cost $500. 1t will be handed
down as an heirloom in the family.
A Tallahassee Floridian had forty
two alligators, ranging from one to
three feet in length, in shallow pool
back of his store. When the cold
wave came, the pool froze solid and
the alligators were imbedded in the
ice for four days. Every one who
saw the reptiles pronounced them
''deader than Hector" but when it
thawed they began to show signs of
life, and soon all but three crawled
out as gay as larks. The others may
come to life next summer.
While there appear to be good rea-
sons why voter who moves from one
town to another within the period now
required for residence as a prerequi-
site for voting should be permitted to
vote in the town where his residence
may be at the date of the election,
the scheme has worked badly where
it has been tried. AS the result of
an investigation in Connecticut, it
was discovered that extensive frauds
were perpetrated under the law which
authorized the practice in that State,
such certificates being used in several
towns at one election.
There are indications that the min
ing industry in Idaho will receive a
new impetus in the spring. A Boise
City paper says that it is now salts
factoriIy established that Idaho con-
tains several mineral belts where min
ing can be made permanent, and where
capital can find profitable invest
ment. Atlanta, the Wood river coun-
try, Salmon river and Saw-tooth coun-
tries, Banner, Silver City, and Ceur
d'Alele may all be considered perma-
nent camps, and where mining will be
pushed with energy next summer.
Idaho's output of the precious metals
last year was the third highest in the
list.
The resolution which Morrison has
brought up in the Ways and Means
Committee to devote the surplus in
the Treasury, when there is any above
a one hundred million reserve, to the
purpose ofpaying the public debt, has
very strong support in the committee,
and if it had been pressed to a vote
might have been favorably reported.
1t has been postponed for futher con-
sideration. The adoption of such a
resolution would settle great many
things as to legislation. 1t would fix
legal reserve of one hundred mil
lion for which it is claimed that there
is DOW no definite law. 1t would be
an effectual veto upon the network of
raids upon the Treasury, which threat
ems to consume all of the surplus
without making any provision for
reserve.