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

1t is said that General Butler will
defend Parson Downs.
Fifty buildings were burned Thurs
day in Southampton, Ontario. Loss,
$50, 900.
An area Ct $50 square miles has
been burned over in Holland, ILL.,,
and many we'll filled barns are de-
stroyed.
Senator Sawyer's gift of 100000
to the town of Oshkosh, Wis, for the
founding Of a free library there, has
been accepted.
There is a disposition in New York
State to look upon Governor Hill as
having lost ground through the result
of the election.
Mexican newspapers are discussing
a proposed constitutional amendment,
extending the presidential term from
four to six years.
The President gives notice that he
wants no callers, except on public
business, between November 6, and
the day of the meeting of Congress.
A grandson of President Tyler has
beer appointed Waterman in the In
terror Department at Washington.
The Florida orange crop will not
be so large this year as usual, but the
fruit will be OF very high grade. The
crop will be nearly a month late in
ripening, owing to rainy weather dur
ing the summer.
The Mayor Of Atlanta, Ga, has
vetoed the ordinance recently passed
by the City Council allowing brewers
to deliver beer at houses. This act,
together with the expiration of the
last license in the city, completes the
triumph of the temperance party.
Atlanta is happy in having a man at
the head of its municipal affairs who
respects the wishes of the majority.
The vigilant action of the friends
of the Rev. George Haddock, muir
dered by saloon-keepers at Sioux
City, Ia, has resulted in the appre-
hension of several men implicated in
the deed. One man who was arrest
ed in San Francisco and brought back
to Sioux City, has made a confession,
charging the actual commission of the
crime upon brewer and saloon
keeper. Other liquor men were in
the plot to remove Haddock, and
instigated the murder.
An arrow point made of ivory was
lately extricted from the breast of
goose shot near Colusa, Cal. As
there are no savages nearer than the
Arctic regions with whom ivory is
plenty, the conclusion is that the
arrow was made from the tooth of a
walrus, or some other ivory jawed
monster, and shot into the breast of
the bird by an Esqaimaux, or perhaps
by an inhabitant Of those polar re-
gions which our world has been I'M
able to penetrate. The skin of the
goose had grown over the arrow.
A California ranchman who en-
ployed Mexican herder, owed him
$50, but being short Of cash, devised
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evening, while the two men were in
the kitchen, the American took down
the coffee mill and said: "This is the
most wonderful machine in the world.
1t was recently invented in tie United
States and is valued at 500. See
here Instead Of having to crush your
coffee with stone, you put it in this
way and grind it up. 1 never saw
anything like it. Old man Jones,
over here, wants it so bad he don't
know what to do. Offered me 500
for it, but l would not accept the
Offer" The Mexican listened atten-
lively, but assumed an air of indif-
ference. The American left the mill
on the shelf. When he got up the
next morning he found that the Mex
lean and the coffee mill had disap-
peared.