News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22
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The prospects are that North Caro-
lima will soon become a prohibition
State.
Col. Corkhill, the legal prosecutor
of Guiteau, Garfeld's assassin, is
dead.
California's wheat crop is the larg-
est ever harvested, and the amount
for export will be close upon sixty
million bushels.
An old lady being late at church,
entered just as the congregation were
rising from prayer. Clap said she,
courtesying, ''don't get up on my &C
count"
A visitor to life-saving station
was shown the ropes in a box which
are thrown to a vessel in distress.
ssDo you send the box out, too? ?" he
innocently asked.
George Schilling, who became prom
inent as leader in the eight hour
movement in Chicago, has fled the
city, owing to the discovery that he
was engaged in the Anarchist con-
spiracy.
A correspondent wishes to know
whether he shall be more astonished
at newspaper man having $4,000 to
loan a lawyer, or that he expected
to get five per cent month on the
money advanced. Give it up.
A young lady in Ithica, N. Y, has
nearly thousand silk worms sus-
pended in paper cones upon the wall,
all busy spinning cocoons and emit
ting a peculiar rustling noise like the
sound Of rain upon autumn dried
leaves.
The most foolish thing a woman
can do is to marry man of bad hab-
its with the hope of reforming him.
If she cannot reform him before mar
rage, she will never have the ghost of
show after the ceremony.
The talk about having ex-senator
Thurman take the place of Mr.. Gar
land, is premature. The Senator's son
says that his father would not accept
place in the Cabinet.
The Lynn Bee, rather Democratic,
demands the resignation of Secretary
Bayard because of his non-action and
his sympathies with the British plan
of settling the fishery question.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution
(Dem. say that cit is too late for the
Attorney General to resign, so that
both he and the Democratic party
will have to accept the consequences
of his connection with the Pan-Electric
fraud"
"Oh, yes" wrote Bostonian, who
believes that his home is the coolest
spot on earth in midsummer, ''it is
all very we'll for you to ask me to
come down to your famous hotel for
rest and change. I tried it once /;
the porter took all the change and the
landlord took the rest"
A couple of Connecticut farmers,
named Casey and Hunt, got hold of
the wrong jug by mistake in dark
cellar the other day, and drank a
quantity Of I've in mistake for beer.
They will probably recover, but with
the taste of that I've constantly in
their mouths it is with the utmost diff
ficulty that they can speak the truth.
Senator Brown, Of Georgia, says
that his State is glad to welcome re-
spectacle Northerners who wish to
immigrate there, and that there has
been considerable immigration from
the North to G.. since the war. "The
Northern man," says he, "has all the
rights in the South that he could have
in the North. He can vote as he
pleases and talk as he pleases, and
the statements that he will not be per-
mitted to do this are not true. p
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who
is Is years old, has permanently re-
tired from literary work. Her health
has been impaired by constant at
tendance upon her husband, who has
been i'll for a year and a half. She
sits by his bedside and reads and
sings to him day and night while wait
ing for the end that is not far away.
Forepaugh's first circus train was
thrown from the track at Vassalboro
at a. m. July 16, and sustained a
great loss, 27 draught and parade
horses being killed, nine badly hurt
and many more injured. Two men
were injured, one seriously; two cars
we're thrown into the Kennebec, 25
feet below the track, and four cars
were completely demolished. The
loss is estimated at 100000, caused
by broken axle or spreading rails.
A remarkable trial has just taken
place in London. A man of humble
station in life conceived violent pas
sion for lady member of the aris-
tocracy, forced his way into her COM
pany, and repeatedly addressed her.
He was repulsed on all occasions and
his attentions became so troublesome
that he was taken into court, where
he was sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment. Released from prison,
he renewed his suit, and finally sent a
paragraph to paper announcing that
marriage had been arranged between
himself and the lady. A prosecution
for libel followed and he was sentenced
to eighteen months, imprisonment.
A builder at Pittsburg, Pa, who
makes a specially of moderate priced
houses for rent, uses matched flooring
instead of laths and plaster for the
sides and ceiling of rooms. On this
cotton cloth is glued, and upon that
wall paper is pasted. He says it is
better and cheaper than plaster, and
cold weather does not hinder work.
A citizen of Bruce township, Ont,
who owns 800 swarms of bees, had
warm experience short time since.
Sixteen swarms came off at the same
time, all lighting on one branch of
tree, and formed one huge roll. sew
eral feet in circumference and about
five feet long. He separated them,
finding out each of the sixteen queen
bees, which he put into hive and
gathered enough bees to make
swarm, until he had the whole sixteen
quietly settled in new hives.
One of the worst results of several
years of industrial depression is the
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