News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
STRANGE. CURIOUS AND STARTLING
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT Us,
The Romance of n Wedding-Had no Dress
Coat-A Woman on Trial-Hog Cholera,
ETC., Etc.

The Romance of n Wedding-Had no Dress
Coat-A Woman on Trial-Hog Cholera
Etc, Etc.
A CALIFORNIA letter says; Judg
David S. Terry, senior counsel in tn
divorce suit of Sarah Althea Hill agains
Sharon, and to whom she was lateE
married, became associated with Sarah
original counsel at time when SOLE
backing for that side of the case wa
greatly needed. EARLY in his connec
ton with the Case 1t was generally re
marked that Terry took more than al
attorneys interest in the fair plaintiff
As the case progressed Sarah and JudgV
Terry entered and LETT the courtroom
together. They were seen at the theatre
together, and otherwise comporteC
themselves rather as lovers than counse
and client. These relations caused TN
pleasant remarks, the source of which
was traced to SharOn's attorney anC
caused Judge Terry to endeavor to pro
woke a quarrel and duel with Sharon
principal attorney, Gen, Barnes. Sine,
the end of the trial in the Superio
Court Terry's wife has died. Then hi
attentions to Miss Hill became mer1
marked than ever. Lately Sarah Althei
removed to Stockton, where Terry re
sides. 1t was only few days ago tina
rumors of a marriage reached Sar
Francisco, The romance of the mar
riage is this: In 1856 Judge Terry, ther
Justice of the Supreme Court of Cali.
fornia, was imprisoned by a vigilan c;
committee for wounding an officer oil
the committee who was trying to arrest
Judge Terry's friepd The Judge APP.
pealed to Wm, Sharon to secure his re.
lease from the vigilance committee
prison. Sharon refused. Judge Terry
vowed vengeance on Sharon, and tht
first opportunity he had of wrea&ing i
occurred when Sarah sued FOR q divorce
from Sharon. Judge Terry entered tn,
suit to get even with Sharon, but wa
captured by his clients charms and nov
marries his old enemy's alleged widow
with chance of recovering So, 500 {
month back alimony and s., 900, 900 ei
Sc, 900, 900 in money from SAsrea's es
tate.
AT meeting OF the Pathological So
ciety of Philadelphia, Dr. Formal pre-
sented an analysis of $50 antopsies on
drunkards. He found that the most
prominent troubles caused by chronic
alcoholism were cyanCtie induration of
the kidneys, fatty infltration of the
liver, and msmmillated stomach. He
thought that the exposure, Irregularities
of diet, etc., incident to drunkenness
have as much to do with the maladies
as alcohol itself. The prevalent idea
that drunkards are apt to have ''hob-
naiF' livers was not confirmed; in the
whole number of cases he found only
six of cirrhesis with contraction. In
220 cases the liver was enlarged owing
to fatty infiltration. The Doctor said
he had once testified IN court that a
certain person was not likely to have
been hard drinker, because at the au-
topsy no cirrhosis was found" But
this was before he had made the recent
220 autopsies. DR.. Musser thought that
cirrhosis was caused not so much by
heavy drinking as by persistent drink
ing OF spirits on an empty stomach.
A WOMAN was recently put on her
trial in France for strangling her baby,
and at the preliminary examination she
confessed her crime. At the trial
medical evidence was heard, and the
doctor told the Judge that he did not
believe the woman was the culprit. The
finger marks were fresh on the victim s
throat when he made the examination,
and the marks were singular. He ex-
amined the woman's hands, and found
her fingers long, slender and we'll
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fingered hand, stumpy and misshapen,
and one of the fingers, the first, was alb
normally short. On this the prisoner
burst into tears, said she was fond of the
child, and had not destroyed it, and
mentioned in her excitement the real
Culprit- He was a man of a better class
of life, with whom she had lived as a
domestic servant. His arrest followed,
and the doctor pointed out that the
prisoners hands were formed as he had
described, and, moreover, that the first
finger was without a nail and almost de-
ticient of joint. The jury convicted.
In New York six black hoses drag
ging a snow-melting machiI started
toward Broadway, and aroused great
enthusiasm on their way through the
Seventh and Fourth wards. After Try
ing three or four hydrants, the machine
filed up with wafer at a hydrant that
was not frozen. Then it knocked off Its
smoke funnel against a couple of electric
light wires, which stretched across
Broadway between Cortlandt and Dey
streets. The funnel was hitched on
again and steam was got up in the big
tubular boiler. Then snow was shovelled
into the hot water and melted. One
machine, it is said, will melt snow as
fast as fifteen men can shovel snow in.
The President of the Snow Melting
Company says that two machines driven
along Broadway from the Battery to
Chamber street would clear off the snow
between daybreak and Ga. m. To clear
the snow from the whole of Broadway
eight machines would be required.
THE method pursued in removing OBJ
structions from the pneumatic tubes in
Paris is that of simply firing q pistol
into the tube. The resulting wave of
compressed air, traversing the tube at
the rate of 1000 feet second, strikes
the lmpediment, and is then DETECTED
back to its origin, where it strikes
against delicate diaphragm, its arrival
being recorded electrically upon a very
sensitive chronograph, on which, also,
the instant of firing the pistol has been
recorded previously. The wave of
sound on reaching the diaphragm Is re-
corded. and thence reflected back a sec
ond time striking the obstacle, and re-
turning to the diaphragm. This opera
tion being several times repeated, sew
eral successive measurements are thus
made Of the time required by the sound
wave to traverse to and fro within the
pneumatic tube. Other means have
been resorted to for the accomplishment
Of the purpose in question, but none has
proved equal to this.
, Mrs. FANNIE GARRISON WILLARD, the
wife of Henry Willard, was recently
asked by the Crown Princess of Germany
to take the part of an English barmaid
at fancy fair in which that lady was
deeply interested. The Princess and
Mrs. Willard are on intimate terms, and
the former meant to offer her friend a
compliment by the invitation, not know
ing that the daughter of William LLOYD
Garrison, like her father and brothers.
is a total abstainer. Mrs. Willard, al
though conscious that requests from the
royal family are considered commands.
declined the intended honor. She ex-
pressed her cheerful willingness to aid
the fair, which was charitable object
but not in that way. The Princess, on
learning the American lady's feelings,
apologised. Total abstinence in Berlin,
or any part of Germany, is so rare that
nobody is ever suspected of being its
advocate.