News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-09


mates for the harems
of the wealthy. In 1886, 40 female
slaves intended for the harems were res
cued, and provided with a home at the
asylum; most of these women were neg,
resses, but some of them were pretty
Circassian and Abyssinian girls. All
these women are retained at the asylum
until they receive some education, and
are fitted to support themselves by work
provided for them. During the year
thirty slave dealers were found guilty
and sentenced to prison.
AMELIA BARRETT, in Auckland, New
Zealand, went walking along the beach
alone one evening, and next day her
clothes were found in heap, but no
other trace of her except the marks of
her bare feet where she had walked into
the water. The police searched along
the shore for her all the next day, but
the waves failed to cast up her body and
the newspaper set it down as a case of
suicide. That night she came home
clothed principally in fern leaves, and
said that as she was on her way home
the night before her hat blew off into the
water, and seeing nobody in sight and
knowing that no one was likely to come,
she had gone in after it. The tide was
stronger and the water deeper than she
thought, and when she did manage to
get back to shore it was not at the same
spot where she went in. In the dark
ness she could not find her clothes, and
spent the night in searching for them up
and down the beach. Just at daylight
she saw them, and at the same time saw
a policeman come along and pick them
up. She spent the day in alternating
between the water and the bushes.
THE Russians are pushing forward the
Trans-Caspian Railroad as rapidly as
some of our own roads have advanced.
The people of Bokhara never saw SO nov
ell sight before as the spectacle of the
1000 men who are now grading the
road through the country where a few
years ago no undisguised white man
was safe for moment. The road is now
ready for the rails for four-ffths of the
way between the Oxus and Samarcand,
nearly 800 miles, but the track cannot be
laid until the bridge over the Oxus is
This bridge, now more
than half finished, will be three miles |
long, and will be one of the largest |
structures of the sort in the world. 1t /
will connect the road now completed to |
the Oxus with the extension to Samar- |
cand, and next spring the ancient capt. /
tai of Tamerlane will be connected by /
steam with the Western world.
In july last Dewey Ensign, the only /
son of Capt Daniel Ensign and his wife,
ran away from home because his father
insisted upon his going to school. The
boy wanted to go into a machine shop. /
The loss of the lad made the old man i'll, |
and on the Both of July he was so low
that he called in witnesses and made his .
viii. 1t was to the effect that the prop /
srty should be divided equally between
his wife and his son, provided that the |
son was present at the formal opening
Of the will, which should take place six
months after his death. If the boy was
not there he should receive but so, and
the property should go tUa nephew. The
Captain died on August 9Th. If the boy
doesn't turn up by February 9TH, he /
won't get $50, 900, for that is his share of
the estate. His mother is anxiously |
looking for him.
A SHEPHERD walking over Holmes |
field Moors, England, was led by his dog |
a mile from the path, and there found |
the remains of a man reduced nearly to |
a skeleton and hidden under the moss !
By a shoe the body was identified as /
that of medical botanist, 81 years old, |
who, two years before, had stopped at a
hotel near the moor and asked the way
% Froggat's Edge. 1t was near night
all and showing, but the old man re-
used to stay, and started on again in
he direction of the place he had asked .
about. He was never seen alive again,
a wide search was made, and |
MS disappearance became known as ''the |
Froggat's Edge mystery" He was ac-
,ustomed to walking on the moOrs in
search of specimens. There is no doubt I
hat in crossing he wandered and was
.ost in the snow.
A STORY comes from Honolulu that |
ter got home from their recent trip to /
Europe they caused to be put into shop |
windows pictures of themselves taken in |
London in the superb court costumes
that they had bought in Paris. A native |.
mob passed resolutions denouncing this |
breach of Sandwich Island customs as to |
visited all the shops where the
pictures were displayed, destroyed the |
portraits, and then went to the palace |
and demanded that the costumes them !
selves be delivered to them. The royal /.
ladies' had to yield, and saw the triumphs |
Of Worth torn in pieces by the mob. A |
promise was then exacted that the Queen |
and Princess hereafter would wear only |
the native costume, and the mob broke |
up.
SOME white men who were steaming
up the Itimbiri river, one of the north !
ern tributaries of the Congo, made a
very unpleasant discovery q while ago. |
They found that the banks of the river |
had Just been ravaged by armed negroes |
who had been sent by Arabs from the |
north on a slave hunt. Heretofore it has |
been the Arabs from Zanzibar who have |
brought sorrow to the Congo tribes, but |
his time it is the Arabs from Khartoum
whom Gordon nearly drove out of bust
hess, but who have now resumed their
aids. This invasion of the northern
jlave stealers is an attack on the flank
hat the Congo State authorities had not
expected The State is now confronted
" unfriendly Arabs both in its eastern
erritory and on its northern frontier.
A PHILADELPHIA grocer advertised to
i've every thirteenth customer the
mount of his purchase free. The plan
eemed success. at first, and business
hrived, but one day the boys put up
OBJ on him. Twelve of them walked into
he store, and each made a trifing pur-
,hase; the whole bill for the dozen was
ess than q dollar. Then the thirteenth /
nan walked in and ordered a barrel of /
sugar, ten pounds of tea, ten pounds of |
coffee, and box of cigars. The grocer |
laced the music like man, but at once |
5oOk down his sign and put up another |
saying that the offer had been with /
Drawn.
Mrs. HENRY CLEwEs, wife of the New |
York banker, is said to be the only /
American lady who owns a chariot. |
This chariot is very large, and is hung
IN springs that swing gracefully up over /
The back and front. A high seat, heay- |
ly upholstered, is for tho coachman, /
while at the rear is a step for the foot (
men to stand on, with the wide straps .
or them to cling to as the chariot /
pumps over the cobblestones of the city
II the "thank you, marms," of the
country. Around the top of the chariot,
IN ali four sides, is row of coronets in
'aised brass.
A FoUR-MoNTHs-oLD boy Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Pickle o. Middletown, Pa,
vas attacked by a large rat n few nights
ince, while sleeping between his par
,nts. Cobwebs and all available mate