News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-29
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is improving since he has taken up his
residence at New London, Conn.
Prince Napoleon is about to start
for New York, to meet his son on the
completion of his trip around the
world.
1t is reported that tie Democratic
Congressional committee is having the
clerks of the departments detailed to
do it's work after office hours.
Harry Roberts, notorious Chicago,
burglar, after the jury disagreed on
his trial, arose and pleaded guilty,
and was sentenced for one year.
There are about 1000 fraudulent
names on the Louisville, KY, registra-
ton lists, and the annual attempt to
reform the local elections was begun
at mass meeting the other night.
Mrs. Cleveland has given up her
public receptions, but the President
shakes hands with from 200 to 800
men, women and children four after
moons in the week.
President Cleveland is reported as
saying that as soon as the weather
becomes cool and pleasant in the fall,
Secretary Manning will return to
Washington and serve out his term as
Secretary of the Treasury.
Justice O'Gorman is wisely COM
mended in New York for refusing to
give papers of naturalization to a man
who had not read the constitution of
the United States. An oath to sup
port a constitution which a man has
not even read cannot be worth much.
1t is reported from Portland, Me-,
that Prot. o. Brunber, has discovered
a method of producing from water gas
a substance that promises to develop
into an anasthetic of great power.
The gas is condensed into solid ma
terial of intensely cold properties.
According to an Indiana paper
some wood choppers in Rock Creek
county found a big white oak tree to
be hollow. When the axe entered
the cavity air rushed out with whistle,
followed by flow of coal-oil. Two
barrels were filled and the hole plugged
up for future use.
A Washington correspondent saws
that Senator Edmunds is now one of
the most active figures in the Senate.
He appears to have recovered his
health. He looks as alert and active
as at any time during the last ten
years. He takes part in nearly every
debate.
Madame Adam, the well-known
French journalist, writes from mid
night until 4 a. m. Her dress in her
study consists of neglige costume of
white silk, with pearls about her neck
instead of a collaret, and with tiny
red slippers on her feet.
One of the good deeds of Secreta-
ry Bayard was that when he was Sem
ator and Chairman of the State FL
nance committee, he held back free
silver coinage bill passed by the
House, so that no report was made in
the Senate, which would probably
have passed it. The Morrison reso-
luton could be strangled by the same
tactics.
A sad family history is reported
from St. Thomas, Ont. A hen that
was put on some ducks eggs Matched
out two young ducks. Not long after,
one of the ducklings was killed by
dog, then its mate laid down and died
of grief, and the mother, distracted
by her losses, stuck her head between
the pickets of fence and committed
suicide by hanging.
A man by the name of John Breen,
about sixty years of age, while walk
ing along the Grand Trunk Railroad
track n short distance from the
Auburn Me, station, was struck by
the afternoon passenger train No. 8,
July %, and i1tantly killed. The
verdict of the coroner's jury was that
the man came to his death as the
result of his own negligence, and that
no blame was attached to the servants
and employees of the Grand Trunk
Railroad.
Copies of handful printed in red
ink were received at Portland Thurs
day morning, from Gloucester. They
bear satirical headlines and quote the
following from the Halifax Herald:
"But fishing vessels of Gloucester
and Whereabouts, owned as they are by
pirates and manned by thieves, we
neither love nor respect, and against
them we believe in enforcing any and
every law in our power" Fishing
people are very indignant at this Ian
guage.
A strange story comes from Brad
ford Junction, O., concerning farm
er there. Simon Wilcox was form
erly an enthusiastic church member,
but on Tuesday of last week, when
he surveyed the ruin of his crops,
wrought by hailstorm, he began to
curse God for allowing such destruc-
ton. In the midst of his curses he
was suddenly stricken with paralysis,
and could not leave the spot. There
his neighbors found him, and their
story is that they could not release
him; that he was surrounded by a
circle of intense heat, and that when
they tried to push him outside of it
with pole, the pole turned off. But
toward evening the mysterious heat
disappeared, and he fell down uncon-
scious and was picked up raving
maniac.
The young man named Schiller
who was arrested by the Albany, N.
Y, police Friday for fear he was a
possible Guiteau, is a resident of
Rondout, n. 7. He can be described
by the Scotch phrase san innocent"
In Rondout he has always been
looked upon as. a harmless crank, and
has served as butt for practical jok-
ers. When Mr.. Cleveland was cleo
ted President he wrote to him, asking
for the position of postmaster at Ron
dout. Every week or so he proposes
marriage to young ladies'. His antics
amuse but do not brighten anybody.
When the postal inspectors were in
specting the Rondout post-office two
weeks ago, joker induced Schiller to
call on the officials and demand that
the office be turned over to him. He
has always spoken enthusiastically
about the President, and there seems
to be no doubt that he went to Albany
to ask the President for position.