News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-28
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Mr.. Blaine is on a stumping toul
in Pennsylvania, in company with
Gen. Beaver, the Republican candi.
date for Governor, and is received
everywhere by immense audiences
who manifest great enthusiasm.
A novel incident occurred in law.
suit at Cleveland, O., brought by
Scott Carnham against DR.. j. E.
Woodbridge to recover a balance due
on COW. Justice Reznor, the coun-
sci and jury on the call were conveyed
III carriages to where the COW was
kept, and Attorney McVey, for the
purpose of showing the good qualities
of the animal, MIXED the cow in the
presence of the jury. 1t was Gloves
labor lost" however, as the jury disa-
greed.
A South Sherborn, Mass, firm.
which does large cider manufactur.
ing business, has closed a contract
with a party in New Hampshire fol
$4,000 bushels of apples at cents a
bushel, delivered on the cars ready
for shipment.
The six hundred French army cats,
whose duty it is to catch mice in the
clothing store-houses, are to have
their rations reduced, since they have
become too fat and lazy to capture
the offending rodents.
The statement is made that if the
Chinese nation were to pass before an
observer in single file the procession
would never cease, for new genera
ton would be coming on the stage as
fast as the procession moved.
Ormond E. Colony, Bourbon Dem
ocrat, has been appointed postmaster
at Keene, N. H., in place of Asa
Smith, "offensive partisan, removed.
Mr.. Smith is conceded by all parties
to have been an exceptionally efficient
and satisfactory postmaster, has never
been a political manager or meddler,
and his commission had two more
years to run. This is a reform adj
ministration.
Fire swept the town of Pennington,
Maine, Friday night. Residences,
stores, hotels and churches were
burned and damage done to the ex-
tent of S350,000, on which the insur-
ance is small.
Two engineers have been killed by
strikers at st. Paul, Mimi, but no
collision between the strikers and the
authorities has occurred. The North
ern Pacific officials have applied for
an injunction restraining 139 strikers
whose names were given, from inter-
fering with the trains of that road.
The strikes of the past year have
had serious effect upon all benefci-
airy and secret organizations of the
laboring classes. Many who had con-
nected themselves with societies which
insure life and provide benefits, have
been obliged to drop out because they
cannot afford to meet the assess
ments.
The lesson of the great strike of
the pork packers in Chicago is the
loss of $320,000 in wages to the men
who struck, and the loss of employ
ment to 1000 of the strikers, whose
places have been filled by men who
were before unemployed.
The Philadelphia Times, speaking
of newspapers, says that newspa-
per and its value to business as an
advertising medium, like the quality
of its contents, are practically visible
to the whole intelligent reading pub
lie, and it is judged by other consid-
erations than regulation figures of
copies printed or boastful references
to its literature. Whether many or
few read public journal of any pop
ular pretensions is as we'll known to
the public as to the publisher, and
whether intelligent and thrifty people
are its readers, or whether the idle
worshipers must welcome it, is always
justly judged by all whose favor is of
value to legitimate journalism.
1t will be convenient to know that
the value of our mutilated coins,
those with holes punched in them,
has been fixed by the United States
treasury department as follows: Dou-
BILE eagles, fifteen dollars silver dol
lars, seventy-five cents; half dollars,
thirty-five cents; quarter dollars,
eighteen cents, and dimes, five cents.
From the day it begins to get cold,
people are very apt to let garb age
and other disagreeable matters accu-
mulate around their dwellings, think
ing, perhaps, that the cold weather
will render them harmless, and the
snow hide them from view. But this
is unwise, because before they can
find time in the spring to remove the
accumulation, much of the decaying
matter finds its way into the ground,
yet lies so near the surface as to fill
the atmosphere around the house, as
soon as the hot sun touches it, with
disease germs, which penetrate and
fill the dwelling. Oh, what vast
amount of suffering would be saved
to communities if the inhabitants
would be little more particular in
such matters