News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-18
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Three Andrews DrOtnerS, Helu at
Shoals, Indiana, for murd 7, were
lynched by a mob recently.
George Curtin, of Brooklyn, N. T.,
surrendered to the police last week
Wednesday and confessed to having
murdered Thomas Malloy in a Spring
street saloon. There had been abso-
lutely no clue to the murderer.
Arthur Dunbar, aged Is, of Elkton,
OAK, was prepared for burial Satur-
day, when he was found to be alive.
He is still in a comatose condition.
The Law and Order League, of
Cincinnati, is preparing for a vigo-
rous attack on the theatre managers
of the city for having performances
on Sunday.
knights of Labor in Illinois have
organized a new political party, to be
called 1.-The United Labor Party of
America"
Two Cinnamon have arrived at
Augusta, Ca, from the west and
twenty more are expected. They
will probably be driven out of the
city.
A tax of fifty roubles has been Or
dered on every foreigner residing in
Poland. This is supposed to be the
prelude to a wholesale expulsion of
German and Austrian workmen.
The Ministers Association of Min
neapolis, Mimi, composed of repre-
sentatives of each church in that city,
have passed resolutions to withdraw
their patronage from all Sunday pa
pers published in or out of the city.
The Pacific Mail Company has en-
tered the railroad war by cutting first
class tickets from San Francisco to
New York from $3.50 to SIS.
The Union Pacific has made a rate
of 80 cents per hundred pounds on
all classes of freight from Chicago to
the Pacific coast.
The United States Marshall has ar
rested four men charged with raiding
Chinese camps near Portland, Or.
This makes 10 arrests on similar
charges within two weeks.
There is a gun owned by a gentle
man in Athens, Ca, that was cap
tured by Sergeant Jasper from the
British in a fight in South Carolina.
The gun has 1875 marked in the stock.
The Atlanta Constitution notes this
contrast: Under the criticism of a
few newspapers General Sherman flies
all to pieces. Gen. Grant was SINH
larly annoyed many times during his
life, but he displayed no signs of irri-
Mrs. Hancock writes to the Norris
town, Penn, authorities that of all
the tributes paid to the memory of her
dead husband hone has gratifed her
more than the kind words of sympa-
thy and praise from the people of his
native town.
Ar interesting relic of the duke of
Marlborough has just been sold in
Paris-the Bohemian glass goblet out
of which the General drank on the
night of the battle of Malplaquet.
He spent the night in the chateau of
Blairon, near Malplaquet.
Greece has expended So, 900, 900 in
preparations for fighting Turkey, and
is not to have the privilege after all,
the big powers have ordered her to
her beligerent purposes.
johnson county, Ca, claims to have
pine tree that grows acorns. 1t
has an abundant crop of the alb
normal production. A Washington
paper declares that the tree a be
out to the curious or skeptical.
The recent storm is reported to
beds in the bays o. Long anu
Staten Islands, New York. Some of
the inshore beds have been covered by
two feet of sand, and the bivalves
smothered.
Kind hearted farmers in Florida
keep a fire in their yards near the
to give comfort to their horses.
The cattle continually walk around
the fire and seem to enjoy warming
first one side and then another.
A society taking it's name after the
great naturalist, j. j. Audubon, has
been established for the purpose of
fostering an interest for the protection
Of wild birds from destruction for
millinery and other commercial pur-
poses. The headquarters of the So
ciety are at 40 Park Row, New York.
It invites the cooperation of persons
every part of the country.
Gas is now successfully used for
and heating purposes. A
process for heating a room entirely by
gas, at a moderate expense, has been
by a New York inventor.
A brazier is filled with chunks of COL
pred glass, and gas jets are set burn
ng beneath it. When the glass be-
heated it radiates warmth
to heat the apartment. 1t is
mentioned as a point in favor of this
that it does away with
he necessity for chimneys, since there
s no smoke; ventilation may be had
It the window ; and the heat may be
'aised or lowered by simply regulat-
NC the flow of gas. 1t will be some
lime after this, however, before gas
the place of rock maple or
anthracite for heating purposes in
Vermont.