News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-27

John Kelly, the Tammany leader.
is better and growing stronger daily.
Senator Mitchell, of Pennsylvania,
is recovering health after a serious
illness.
When Fred Douglass lectured on
John Brown at Brooklyn the audience
sang the John Brown song, and with
vigor, too.
William X. Vanderbilt will pay
$4,000 for the use of a London resi-
dence for ten weeks this spring and
summer for himself and wife.
President Cleveland will review the
G.. A. R. parade in Brooklyn on the
forenoon Of Decoration Day, and will
attend the exercises at the Academy
of Music in New York in the evening,
where Postmaster-General Villas will
deliver the grafton.
Gen. Grants widow will 60 to West
Point early in June, to stay most of
the summer, and will be accompanied
by Col. and Mrs. Fred Grant and
their children.
Ex-Congressman David Fisher, who
died at Batavia, Ohio, recently, was
the man who caught John Quincy
Adams and prevented him from fall
ing when he received his fatal stroke
of apoplexy on the floor of the House
of Representatives
Henry W. Jaehne, the first of New
York's " Doodle" aldermen to be
brought to trial, has been declared
guilty, and has been sentenced to nine
years and ten months Imprisonment
in Sing Sing, and Friday morning he
was landed in the prison and donned
the convict garb.
An official report shows that sixty
six policemen were wounded on the
night of the riot in Chicago; five have
died, ten resumed their duties and
fifty-one are still unable to work.
Of the Chicago rioters who sacked
a drug store, twelve are dead from
the effects of drinking colchicum,
which they supposed was sherry wine.
The commissioners of the new ma
tional library at Washington have de-
termined to locate the library on the
three squares directly east of the hall
of representatives. between East Cap
itol and B streets, south. This land
can be secured under condemnation
for very little more than $3.50, 900,
the amount appropriated by Congress
in the bill.
In the hope of making Cinnamon
more truthful as witnesses, the Chi
nese oath, which consists in the wit
ness cutting off the head of a chick
en- when he promises to tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth, is to be introduced in the San
Francisco courts. The oath is a rel
ic of the ancient covenant of blood"
which has been in force in all coun-
tries and ages of the world, and is
familiar to Bible students as one of
the marked features of the Hebrew
religious and social system.
The contest over the bogus butter
bill now pending in Congress takes
curious turn when the manufacturers
Of oleomargarine issue an address to
the Knights of Labor and other work.
ingmen, calling upon them to protest
against the passage of the bill on the
ground that it aims to make the dali
rymen monopolists and deprive the
poorer classes of the right to purchase
a cheap and wholesome article of
food. To the owners of COWS and
this will appear ridiculous,
but it is hardly more so than the So
called arguments for the bill, which
have been beloved forth by Reall and
other self-appointed champions of the
dairymen.
An unrepealed law of New Jersey,
passed while the State was a British
colony, reads as follows: THAT all
women, Of whatever age, rank, pro-
fession, or degree, whether virgins,
maids, or widows, who shall after this
act impose upon, seduce and betray
into matrimony any of His Majesty's
subjects by virtue of scents, cosmet-
cs, washes, paints, artificial teeth,
false hair, or high heeled shoes, shall
ncur the penalty of the law now in
iorce against witchcraft and like mis-
There are contractors for all the
broken meat at the sEcrack" hotels
Ind restaurants in Paris. They are
,alled Jewellers" and make up the
craps to sell in the markets for three
GUS a plate. One of these contrac-
ors made fortune in the business.
A private letter received from Will
lam Fl. Bissell at Washington states
hat the Presidents wedding, accord
ng to the present programme, will
ccur in Buffalo June II. The latest
dvices from Europe are to the effect
nat Miss Folsom was suffering from
relapse of the Roman fever, but
lat if she is able to travel, there will
e no delay in the date of the we'd
ing. On the other hand, if the
edding should be postponed on ac-
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