News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

Vernon by George Washington, was
brought from there 10 New York by
Van Rensselaer, and put in Niblo's Gar
den when that resort was first opened;
thence it was sent to Clinton Point, the
Van Rensselaer, homestead. where for
forty years the head gardener, Ed
ward Downing, cared for it, to whom
the plant was eventually given. 1t alter
ward became the property of the pres
ent owner, John NJ. Goring. The plant
is fully $50 years old stands 10 feet high
and weighs 400 pounds.
SHEEP raisers in Lincoln county, Ne
vada, have been mach troubled by Wild
cats. They appeared in the vicinity OF
Phoebe and Bristol several weeks ago IN
droves, and, before the farmers thought
of any organized resistance, did great
| damage. One man lost sixty-hve head
of sheep, another fifty, and another sey-
enty-tive. There seems to be two kinds
of cats, one small and gray, the other
large and yellow and white. Tney are
hard to get a shot at, do their work IN
the night, and it takes q mighty good
dog to kill one The farmers are using
poison with considerable success.
FOURTEEN years ago iaIy of Cleve-
land, O.. received in the course of a
thunder storm an electric shock so pow
erful that she was partly paralyzed.
Since then whenever there is thunder
storm, though she retains consciousness,
and suffers no pain, she loses all muscu-
lar power, and regains 1t only wher the
weather clears up. The only relief IS to
shut herself in a room completely closed
and lighted by gas Even then, II the
storm lasts few hours she is overcome
by it.
AN Albany phys.oiau says that the
most curious prescription he ever gave
a patient was one he prepared for lady.
1t was: ".5top walk5ag up and down
stairs" The only way this prescription
could be taken was by changing her
house, as she lived IN. one of the three
story and basement houses SO peculiar
to Albany architecture. Her husband
secured roomy cottage of two stories,
and within year the invalid's health WAS
almost completely restored.
OYSTER dredgers near Norwalk, Conn,
recently caught in one day 200 bushels
of starish, the biggest catch ever known
i'll those waters. The starfiBh have de-
stroyed many oysters on those beds dur
ing the summer, and have been caught
at the rate of from % to 100 bushels a
day. The oysters from whose beds the
stars were taken were removed from
! Bridgeport last summer for the express
purpose of getting them away from the
destroyers,
JAMES A. STEWART, the newly elected
Mayor of Griffin, Ga, is one of the
youngest Mayors on record, his 22d
birthday having been C LIBERATED III Au-
gust last. He is the son of Congress-
man J. d. Stewart, who was greatly sur
prised when he heard of his boys cleo
ton. Young Stewart entered the cam
paign but one day before the election,
and received 80 majority over one of the
most solid citizens of Griffin.
TwENTY-sEvEN years ago an acorn
lodged somehow in the mortar or be-
tween the stones of an Ohio Court House
spire, took root and sent out an oak shoot.
To-day o miniature oak grows on the
spire, eighty feet above the ground. 1t
draws life from the cement, the ''sllin of
the rock" and the air, but principally
from the air, as there is very little &C.
ment in the spire.
A BIG hawk swooped down on one of
Mrs. Matte Earnest's chickens at De-
catur, Ga. Her 12-ycar-old boy, Mar
cellus, heard the squawks of the fowl
and ran TO the rescue. He grabbed the
hawk and the bird sunk both talons in
the little follows arm; but Marcellus
was plucky, and held the hawk until his
mother came and cut off its head with
q hatchet.
Two young women of Sacramento
went berrying near Bollinas, where they
were spending n few weeks, and a big
brown bear came into tho patch and
endeavored to monopolize it. One of the
girls had n small rife, and finding that
either they or the bear must go, took
careful aim and put bullet through the
brute's brain.
t.: GI,rnroNs. ot Galveston, found a
good-sized pearl yin a d1sH of raw oys-
tiers n few days since. He placed the
pearl in collGr-box in his bedroom.
Two days later he found the pearl a
soft grayish mass with red center. If
a finger is placed on the pearl it becomes
hard and the red spot disappears.
Crows have become so abundant in
Maine that it is estimated that they cost
the State 100000 year in corn, pota-
toes, young chickens, fruit, grain and
the like. The next Legislature will be
asked to pass law giving a bounty of
tan cents for every dead crow.