News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-13

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NNMStM M she was badly hurt,
ESsSS W., > he was killed out
. Ny Ezz=7zvF = right, and horses and
@NJAWW : buggy smashed to
i'll Q\ pieces. They had the
dead wood on us for SIS, 900, as the en-
gineer did not signal the crossing. L
went out to make an offer of about S12,-
900. The widow was not able to sit up,
and stopped at a store in the village
and bought some oranges and lemons
and took them up. When we finally
got around to the matter of damages size
said: yes, it is sad thing, and the
railroad was to blame, but [ don't want
to be mean about it. | suppose the
President and all of 'em are worried
most to death, and l suppose L could
stop all the cars from running, but l
fruit proves how kind hearted you all
are, and if you think you could afford to
give 81 900 I'll sign off, / made her
accept 5000, and took her the money
myself. "-DetrOit Free Press.
GEORGE and Weldon Grossmith, the
English actors are doing q clever piece
of coniuring business this summer before
parlor audiences. One appears as n con
jurer, and the other, both being dis
gTised, arranges to be selected from the
audience to be operated upon. The
conjurer then announces that he will do
the great ''burnt handkerchief trick.
| He borrows a handk erchief from the
victim and burns a hole in it. Then he
takes the victims hat and knocks
the top of the crown out with his fist.
The victims tie is next taken off, and
the burned handkerchief done mp IN a
wad is tied about with this. by this
time the victim is very uneasy indeed
and inclined to be indignant, but the
coniurer assures him that it is all part
of the trick. The crownless hat is then
placed over the tied up handkerchief,
and mysterious incantations said, after
which the coniurer tells the victim to
lift out the handkerchief aud unite it,
and he will find that the burned spot
has disappeared. The victim finds on
the contrary, that there is hole IN the
| handkerchief through which he can put
| his head and forthwith looses his temper
and assaults the conjurer. In the tussel
false boards fall of and the two brothers
stand disclosed.
SHORTLY after the destruction near
Anasilitza, in the Turkish sand;ak, of
Serfje, of a band of brigands composed
of thirteen men another band of twelve
was surrounded and every one of them
killed by the rural police, assisted by
the military in the district of KaStOria,
in the vilavet of Monastir. 1t has been
officially confirmed that the chief of the
band, the renowned Nike, the author of
no less than twenty seven murders and
capturer of the late Col. H. Syngc, was
killed. The British Vice Consul ut
Monastir, telegraphed to Consul General
Blunt that NillO's head was brought to
MOnastir, with the heads of the
rest of his band and publicly ex-
posed for identification. Nike until re-
Gently was in Thessaly, and it is only
about three weeks ago that he organized
his band and crossed over, about the
same time that the band which was de-
stroyed at AnasilitZa also came over.
A GENTLEMAN picked up one-half of
Gve-dollar bill It had been torn exact /
ly in the middle. He was told it was
good for one-half its original value, !
81 80. Going to bank he received like
information. Alterwurd he took it to
! Boston, but was told mt the Sub-Treas-
ury that the half bill was worth IS if he
could positively prove that the other half
had been destroyed; otherwise it was
worth nothing. The next time he went |
to his bank he was told that a person
unknown had brought in the other half /
on the very day he went to Boston. |
There the matter rested until the I'M
known entered the gentlenan's store, /
when one paid the other $3.50, pasted |
his bill together, and thus added IS to .
the volume of currency afoat.
''THE us of ice-water in this country !
is universal" said an old doctor, "but i'll |
thought that factory for producing ar |
there, where the temperature is very
high An English syndicate construct |
ed the necessary works, but found that /
the natives would not touch ice-water. |
Then, to tempt their palates by creating |
an appetite for it by constant use, the |
company placed free tanks of ice-water |
upon the street corners of the cities. 1t !
was novel plan, and the fruits of the !
investment are being borne. The use of |
ice-water is increasing, but 1T is not yet |
universal beverage"
ONE of the worst weeds with which
the wild morning glory. John Young,
of Alameda county, is experimenting
with it. He tried ploughing and cult
walton, and that was exactly what the
morning glory thrived ~on. Then he .
ploughed deeply, stripped the entire
field of surface soil to depth of fourteen
inches, and picked out all the roots by
hand. The soil that remained was soon
covered with fine crop of the weeds.
Even the loose dirt which he had piled
i'll heaps yielded good crop. Next he
tried salt, and at last accounts was wait
ing to see what would be the result.
A NUMBER of worlmen on the Red
River bridge at Arthur, Texas, ran bills
amounting to $50 at the saloon of John
Chic, and then boarded a train to go 10
st. Louis. Chic heard of their inten-
ton, and got on the train, too, with his
shotgun. At watering tank two miles
beyond the Texas line, he started through
to collect his bills. The first man paid
without a murmur, but the others Jump
ed from the train and took to the woods
with Chic in pursuit, firing as he went.
No one was hit, and the saloon keeper
went home impressed with the idea that
the credit system is failure.
A CURIOUS-L LOOKING craft, built III q
Chinese yard near Tunkendoo, a sort of
stern-wheel boat i'll which the motive
power was supplied hy n number of
coolies working with their feet, was seen
passing down tue Nile by an enthusiast
tic amateur photographer, foreigner
He began to get his apparatus in ord
to photograph it, when he was a costed
by an officer. who i'd: ''No can makee
picture this steamer; bye m by you 90
to England side make all same" And
to make sure lie warned the foreigner
with his camera off the river bank
MAINE folks in aud about Portland
are specializing about certain mysterious
bright lights, like big fires, that appear
on occasional nights. From Portland
they appear to be i'll Gorham or Alfred,
from Alfred they seem to be in Scarbor-
ough; Scarborough folks have | Gated
them in Westbroob, and Westbrook sees I
them off toward Portland. The most {
reasonable theory to account for them is !
that they arc n sort OF mirage, produced
by the reflection of the Portland electric t
lights. They are always seen on foggy ]
evenings.
JOHN MaADAMs of Monroe, Ga, went
ont carly the Other morning for q sill
hunt. He waited patiently for game, :
and just after daylight he heard some
thjno in tha bushes IIn cot ctilI or1