News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03


OUT in the waste of gullies in Geor-
gia, where the late flood left its marks of
disaster and death. stands little scrag-
gy-topped tree, where two of the ne
groes caught in the flood spent their
lonely vigil. The tree is green now. 1t
was leafess then. Two men lost their
lives at that time. OF late the super
stitious claim to have discovered a pc
culiarity about that tree. They say that
about twilight they can see the outline
of queer figure, in white, perched
among the leaves, and an occasional
moan is waited on the breeZes which
steal up from the river. As the night
advances the means grow louder and
more frequent. The negroes, especi-
ally, are greatly agitated over what they
call the haunted tree.
HAVING failed in their various at
tempts to blow up or poison the Car,
the nihilists have tried to smoke him
out. The other evening, as the impe-
rial family at Livadia we're about to re-
tire for the night, the sky suddenly
Redeemed. AS darkness deepened the
strange light grew more and more IN
tense, and a number of terrified Off
cials rushed into the Livadia barracks
with a report that the nihilists had
fired the neighboring forests. Famed
by strong sea breeze the flames rapidly
spread, despite the feeble efforts of the
soldiers to check their progress, till the
sky for miles around was in a glow.
The fire burned for several days, but,
fortunately, without reaching the
of he
A RESIDENT of Minnesota, who has
seen several severe tornadoes, SAYS that
their most peculiar feature is the singular
sucking movement. Buildings are sucked
up into the clouds entire, and come
down soon in fragments. After the great
Rochester tornado farmer twelve miles
from the town found an uniniured
marble top table in his field. Another
found very large sheep that had come
from no one knew where, and had been
deposited in his yard unhurt. The Min
nesota man further said that he had seen
a board into which wheat straws had
been driven until they stuck through on
the other side Also he saw a plank
driven through big tree, and piece of
pine moulding driven through a small
butternut tree.
CORRESPONDENT IN Montana, tell
ing of the fortuitous discovery of silver
mines, relates this incident: A prospec-
tor in New Mexico with the honored
name of John Quincy Adams found his
haversack on fire, his prospector's glass
having focused the suns rays upon it.
As the haversack contained about a doz-
en- pounds of powder he dropped it and
got out of the way in hurry. 1t fell
into a crevice, and large mass of rock
was blown up. Adams returned mourn
fully to pick up what might be left of
its effects, and found an exceedingly
rich vein of ore which the explosion
had exposed to view. He sold a third
interest in his find for SIC, 900, and very
consistently named the mine 'The Nick
of Time"
ACCORDING to the calculations made
by scientific writer lately, it requires
prodigious amount of vegetable mat
ter to form LAYER of coal, the estimate
being that it would really take a mil
lion years to form a coal bed one hun
dred feet thick. The United States
has an area of between three hundred
thousand and four hundred thousand
square miles of coal fields, 100. 900, 900
tons of coal beng mined from these
he!ds IN one year, or enough to run
ring around the earth at equator FIVE and
One-half feet wide and five and one-half
feet thick; the quantity being sufficient
TO supply the whole world for period
of about two thousand years.
A RESIDENT of Santa Rosa, California
recently purchased a pile of wood esti-
mated to contain Is cords, which a Chi
naman had cut and corded up. Upon
examination afterward it was found that
the pile was shell, the interior being
filled with stumps, decayed logs,
branches, and such thrash.
WHILE a railroad train was rattling
through Dakota an Icclander girl
emigrant-jumped from q car, ran three
hundred Yards, gathered her apron full
of flowers, and returned smiling to the
train, which had been stopped where
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