News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-11

Which Died Firstf-A MischIevous Sow
The Great Navies-A Sharp Subscriber
Did Not Escape-The Inland Sens, Etc
POLICEMAN BURKE, of New London,
while pacing his beat very early on the
morning of the 4th, saw in the darkness
two slowly and dimly burning lights in
froat OF doorway. That these lights
were part of an internal machine, which
they only wanted time to set off, was al
once the profound conviction of Police
man Burke. But he was equal to the
emergency. Getting long pole, he
managed to lift the machine from the
doorway, carry it to the town watering
trough, and plunge it into the water
The lights went out with faint hiss,
and then, after the machine had well
soaked, the faithful officer carried it to
the police station and laid it on the ser
geant's desk. There it stood, with the
water dripping from the charred ends
OF two sticks of incense, which had been
stuck INTO large sweet potato, which
served the double purpose of incense
and bouquet holder, bunch of immor-
telles being stuck into the potato be-
tween the sticks. The internal machine
was but the offering of devout Chi
nese, who had periodically placed it on
his laundry stoop in honor of the New
Years Day of the Celestial Empire.
THE mysterious murder of James L.
Wilson and his wife Clarissa, at Win
netka, ILL.,, in February, 1884, was
brought before the public again by a
bill fled in the Superior Court, by Will
liam II. Talbot, of Boston, Mass, who
is Mrs. Wilson's nephew. The papers
ask for the partition, or sale of the per-
sonal estate of Mrs. Wilson, together
with certain town lots in Fremont,
Tazewell county, ILL.,, and all her real
estate in Dighton, Bristol county, Mass
Mrs. Wilson had devised her property
to her husband, but it is claimed that
there is no existing evidence proving
that James L. Wilson survived his wife,
so as to take under her will. For this
reason it is claimed that the requests
and legacy lapsed, and that the prop
erty devised and bequeathed to husband
descended to the heir law of the tes-
tatrix, just as if no will had been made
by her. James L. Wilson's will de-
vised his property to several members
made to ascertain whether Mr. Wilson
died at the same time or subsequent to
his wife's demise.
M. NAUDIN expresses the opinion con-
corning the proposed Algerian inland
sea, that to fill with water the shallow
basins of that region would be equiva-
lent to reproducing in Algeria all the
evil features of series of marshes-an
opinion held also by many eminent men
of science. The deepest would; it is
admitted, not exceed eighty feet in
depth, and the whole coast line would
be so shallow as to be but little else
than a marshy bank, which, under the
influence of a tropical sun for eight
months of the year, would, doubtless,
become a focus which would develop
and distribute all the evils of malaria.
An examination of the region between
Biskra and the Gulf of Gabes, by COM
petent engineers, shows that the pro-
ject, if carried out according to the
plan contemplated, would necessitate
the removal of 10000, 900 cubic metres
of sand.
LAST fall Peter A. Weast, of Streator,
ILL.,, shot and killed Thomas B. Parks,
wealthy merchant, because of the init
macy between Parks and Mrs Weast.
He was sentenced to three years con-
finement in the State prison. Last
week his little six-year- old girl died,
and Gov. Oglesby granted Weast per-
mission to attend her funeral. Accord
ing to the local newspaper fully 1900
persons assembled at the hotel to meet
II l.
over 600 people, among whom were the
Mayor, city officials, prominent mer-
chants and prominent ladies, visiting
him and shaking hands with him in his
room. The church where the funeral
was preached, one of the largest in the
city, was filled to overlooking, several
hundred waiting outside in the bitter
cold until the services were over, and
then following the remains to the GENE
terry.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the Pittsburgh
multi-millionaire, began his career as
messenger boy in the office of the late
Col. Thomas A. Scott, and afterward be-
came an operator in the telegraph de-
partment of the Pennsylvania railroad.
He was an expert sound reader, and one
day when on locomotive near the tele
graph Office at Altoona he heard the
news come that train had split in two
on sharp grade few miles away, and
that part of the train was coming along
like lightning. Carnegie told the en-
gineer of passenger train which was
waiting on the track which the fugitive
train would pass over. There was just
time enough to switch off the passenger
train before the runaway came rafting
on.
YOUR Connecticut man Is usually
sharp at bargain when he gives his
mind to it. A Waterbury weekly news
paper made an invariable rule to charge
81 cash down for years subscription,
and 81 % when the subscriber was in
arrears. One subscriber was three
weeks behind when he went to renew
his subscription the other day. He
offered his dollar, and was told that
s1.25 was the price. ''I'll stop my
paper" said the subscriber "Here are
twelve cents I owe you for the three pa
pers." After the editor had pocketed
the twelve cents the subscriber handed
out the same dollar and said he guessed
he'd subscribe for year. He saved
just thirteen cents by the operation. He
is rs years old.
ANOTHER story of feeling in an ampu-
tated limb comes from Byron, N. Y.
Four weeks ago Dr. Townsend ampu-
tated Mrs. William Goodliff's leg just
below the knee The leg was buried,
and the patient was getting well all
right, except that she constantly com
planned that corn on her departed foot
panied her excessively. After three
weeks of this kind of suffering, her hus-
band dug up the buried member, and
found that bandage remained bound
tightly around the toes, on one of which
was the corn. He removed the band
age, buried the member in an easy and
comfortable position, and since then
Mrs. Gocdliff has had no trouble with
that foot or corn.
Mr. PHILIP d. ARMOUR, the great
pork man, is very generous man. A
clergyman one day asked him for $50 to
relieve poor woman whose newborn
baby was lying naked in her one room
where there was neither fire nor food.
The money was at once handed to the
parson, who afterward returned it with
a note saying that he had discovered
that the woman was Of i'll repute and
the child was the result of SIM" Mr..
Armour at once sent word to Mrs Ar
mour, who gave the starving mother
and child ample assistance, while her
husband stamping with rage, shouted
TO his clerk 'sIf that scoundrel comes
in here again throw him out!'
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