News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-10
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The General Hancock fund no

The General Hancock fund now
amounts to $43,437.
Miss Rose Cleveland is writing a
new book, it is thought, entitled "Ihe
Private Secretary, or Dan and L.
The missionary barque 'Morning
STAR" returned from the MIcronesian
Islands to Honolulu after I'VE
months cruise among the islands.
Home Rule received defeat in the
House of Commons Monday, the vote
being 81 for the measure to 34l
against.
The woodwork of. the bedroom IN
which Robert Burns breathed his last
has had to be removed on account of
repairs and will be used for binding
fac-similes of the first edition OF
Burns Poems.
A Frankfort Kentuckian who has
received yearly appropriation as a
pauper for fifteen years, has applied
to have it continued for the next year,
as he has bought more land and needs
the money to pay for it.
A Chinaman at Spokane, w. T.,
removed the figures so from a revenue
stamp and placed them on a one
dollar greenback in such manner
as to make it appear $50 note. He
did it SO skillfully that he got fifty
dollars for it but the trick was discoV-
cred and he was arrested.
A pickerel was caught in corn
field in the Rock River, ILL.,, bottoms
while engaged in "husking corn" The
water of the river has covered the
bottom for eight months, and much of
last years corn remains ungathered.
The fish swim into The fields and nib
BILE the grains of corn out Of the
husks.
A Chicago citizen talks of trans
planting one of the big California
trees to his summer residence near
that city. The one he has selected is
800 feet high and SO feet in circum-
ference. 1t is estimated that the
transportation will cost him SIS, 900.
The weight of the leviathan is about
40, 900 pounds
Little Willie prayed long but inef-
fectually for little brother. At last
he gave it up as "no USE" Soon
after his mother had the pleasure of
showing him twin babies. He looked
at them a moment and then ex-
claimed: "How lucky it was that
stopped praying! There might have
been three p
Seven cars of freight train No. 40,
Plymouth for Boston were thrown
from the track down bank Thursday
afternoon near Plymouth Station. The
cars were demolished and their freight
broken and scattered. No one was
injured. Several cars were broken up
upon the track, causing several hours
delay to trains to and from that town.
passengers and baggage having to be
shifted from one train to another.
A Chicago dealer advertised a fold
ing bed by placing it in a show win
dow, and employed a colored boy
opening and closing it-apparently.
| The local humane society interfered,
because the work was thought TO be
too severe for the lad, but the COM
mittee felt very cheap when the furni-
ture man took them down into the
cellar and showed them stout Irish
man, who furnished the real power fol
opening and shutting the bed, by
means of rope and system of pull
eys.
1t is said that natural fountain oil
pure oil has been discovered in Gros
Centre Valley, Oak. It is in cave
in the mountains. In the centre is 6
bubbling oil fountain, the oil being
perfectly pure, and as clear as if fresh
from the best OFT refinery In fact il
is the product of a natural refinery,
and the most potent forces are en-
gagged in its manufacture. From deep
down in the bowels of the earth comes
a sound as of steady churning, and
the oil mass heaves and shakes at in
tervals as the continued product OF
the natural refining process is poured
into it.
The story comes from Newfound-
land that about thirty-fve years ago
a fisherman named Joseph Mills emf
grated from that country and settled
on one of the Fiji Islands, where he
obtained employment from the owner
of a large estate. He gained the
favor of his employer, ard in time
became manager. The proprietor
died, and being unmarried, bequeathed
the estate to Mills. About eighteen
months ago Mills died, unmarried
and intestate, and his relatives in
Newfoundland are the legal inheritors
of his property, which is valued at
more than million dollars. Hither-
to many of the Mills family have been
in the poorest circumstances.
A special from Aspen, COL, the Sd
inst, says: Last evening party OF
young ladies climbed to the top of
the fre-bell tower, 60 feet high, to
obtain a good view of the city. Eppa
Stewart stepped to the edge of the
tower, and was leaning against a
corner post looking over the country,
when the janitor, not knowing of the
presence Of the ladies, seized the hell
rope to call a meeting of the fire COM
pany. The sudden clang of the bell
startled Miss Stewart, and she fell
from the dizzy height to the pavement.
Both legs were badly crushed, her left
arm broken into splinters and five
ribs on the right side were broken and
torn loose from the spine. She was
alive when picked up, but there was
no hope of her recovery.
Probate Court-LamoiIIe District.