News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-28

The nurse hurried back instantly, hear
ing piercing shrieks, and then saw the
little one struggling in the water. All
efforts to save the child were Intellectual
and it died, after having fingered few
hours in great agony.
As John Viege was walking on the
outskirts of his farm on the shore of
Raritan Bay, in Union Township, n. j.,
a few days ago, he noticed piece of
weather beaten canvas stricking above
the ground With some trouble he open
ed the frozen earth and drew out of it a
tarred canvas hammock strongly stitched
up. In the hammock was the skeleton
of man, still partly covered with rough
sailors clothes. The sea at one time
flowed over this part of the farm, and
the supposition is that many years ago
the man died at sea, and that his ship
mates shotted his hammock, enclosed
him in it and dropped him into the
shallow water.
JAMES DICKEY owns farm in Fannin
County, Ga. For years the Dickey fam
lily has cultivated it, getting what could
be raised on its rocky soil. Mr.. Dickey
has worked it from his boyhood. He
won't work it any longer, for a few
months since a Chicago firm that is
looking for marble in Georgia struck
this farm, and after prodding into its
crevices and gullies, told Mr.. Dickey
they would like to lease it for 100 years
on a royalty for every square foot of
marble quarried, which they guarantee
shall reach 81 900 month and not ex-
ceed $1,000 month. Mr.. Dickey thinks
this good enough and has leased his
farm.
A BANKER in Lille, France, had the
misfortune to wet eighteen bills of the
Bank of France, and in order to dry
them he placed them ON a board at an
open window where the sun shone upon
them. They dried more rapidly than
was anticipated. A gust of wind car
ried them into the street, where, unfor-
tunately, goat picking up odds and
ends at once captured the bank bills and
swallowed them The goat was pur-
chased, and the bills secured in a very
dilapidatad condition, but the Bank of
France recognized its obligations and
redeemed them.
A STRANGE phenomenon is noticed in
connection with the natural gas supply
at Montpelier, Ind. Six hours out of
every twenty four the gas runs down to
Il minimum, and six hours daily it
reaches maximum. When at low ebb
the valves are open wide to get suffi-
cheney and when at the highest point
the smallest turn of the key will supply
the demand The movements constant
with the ocean tides, but whether or not
the same influences are the cause is
matter of conjecture.
WALKING up Broadway, the attention
of Joe Howard, of the New York Press
was attrUcted to the driver of a hearse,
in which was Il neat little coffin, one of
those white affairs i'll which parents
bury their babies. There was jam on
the street and Il cigar in the drivers
mouth. Deserving an opening in the
crowd of vehicles, he whipped up his
horse, and, putting vigorously the while,
sped past butcher cart with n smile of |
NANCY and Sallie Severns, two maiden /
Isters, aged respectively 81 and 80 /
fcars, who have lived from time immem-
Drisll in a little frame house in Hulme-
Vile, Penn, have just passed away /
within Il few hours of each other.
IHE coStneSt stable IN the world has
been built in Syracuse, n. Y, for Mr..
ID. Edgar Grouse, millionaire horse
man. When it is completely ready
for occupancy, it will represent an out
lay of Mt least $500, 900.
A REPUTABLE author says that the
skull of John Theach, known as ''Black-
beard the Virginia pirate of IT'S, is in
the possession of Il Virginia family, in
the form of silver-rimmed drinking
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