News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-18
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1t is announced that the Wander
bilt and Garrett systems of roads
have united to defeat the scheme to
turn the Reading over to the Pennsyl-
vania railroad.
The Boston & Lowell railroad has
issued for its Vermont division a new
and elaborate set of rules. which every
employe on the road must follow.
United States Minister Cox has OBJ
tanned furlough on account of poor
health, and has gone to Egypt with
his wife.
A curious coincidence in connection
with the death of General Hancock is
that the prescribed term of mourning
for General Grant, ordered in the
army, expired on the same day.
President Egan, of Lincoln, Neb.,
Of the Irish National League of
America, has donated his salary of
$4,000, as President of the League to
the fund of that organization.
The four Americans, Barren, Jens,
Jurgensen and Jessen, have again
been ordered by the German govern
ment to quit the island of Fohr.
A plot has been disclosed at New
Haven, Conn.,, TO blow up the EUen-
ming Union office, by discharged en-
ploye.
Advices have been received of the
killing of six mounted police near
Regina. Northwest correspondents
say that rebellion in the spring is
likely to occur.
The President has nominated Ste
phen A. Walker, a we'll known lawyer
and President of thesNew York City
board of educasiefort IN succeed Mr..
DorstFARaa masters of feaJes district
attorney. He IS adis1n of standing
and ability.
Mr.. Gilbert, the librettist, must be
an unhappy man. He is credited
with saying that husband can hope
to be a hero in his wifes eyes only
two months-the month before he is
married and the month after his death.
Mr.. James French, of Toronto,
has received letter from Mr.. Glad
stone acknowledging the receipt of a
barrel of Canadian apples, and ex-
pressing some anxiety about lot of
Canadian turkeys alleged to have been
sent by later steamer.
| Mr.. Charles Gayarre, the historian
of Louisiana, was well grown boy
of IA when Gen. Jackson fought the
battle of New Orleans, BIT he still
occasionally publicly lectures in the
Crescent city, and reads his manu-
script without the aidof spectacles.
A tramp named John Boyen, who
was found in a barn near Hunting
ton, L. l., recently with his hands and
feet badly frozen and who was COM
mitted to the almshouse was found to
have bank-books about his clothes
showing that he had $4,000 on de-
post.
The recent freeze at the south was
not an unmixed evil. The frost pen
etrated the soil to the depth of a foot,
and soil that had been impacated for
several years was loosened and made
ready for unusua lproductiveness, and
numerous pests of the worm and bug
order were probably destroyed by the
cold.
During the recent freeze, says the
Valdosta, (Ga.) Times, some darkies
ventured out on the ice in a lake in
the lower part of Lowndes county,
and one of them fell in. The water
was over his head, but he was only a
short distance from shore. He lmme-
diately dove under the ice and swan
toward the shore. At length, finding
himself to be within his depth, he let
himself down, and, placing his feet on
the ground, deliberately battered g
hole through the ice with his head
and escaped without a headache.
Two safss rss,rfrr.@ ~.
who had over a thousand dollars booty
between them, were overtaken on the
train by two officers, who did not sus-
pect them but the robbers mistook
the officers for highwaymen and sur
rendered their spoils voluntarily.