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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
ROBBED THE CORPSE.
An AtrOcious Outrage Committed In
Cemetery of Vienna.

An AtrOcious Outrage Committed In a
Cemetery of Vienna.
Particulars have been received at Vienna
of an atrOc1ous outrage which was committed
at Galatz few days ago. The wife of a
military officer, daughter of an eX-minister.
died, aud was inferred according to the rites
Of the Greek Church, in the cemetery at
GafatZ.
1t is the custom in Roumania to make an
elaborate toilette for the dead before they are
consigned to the grave. Not infre4 uently
rich dresses are put on, together with rings,
bracelets, and other jewelry, satin shoes on
the feet, and lace handkerchief in the hand.
The deceased in this case was so decked out
for the tomb, and on the day following the
burial a priest went, in accordance with the
orthodox custom, to say prayer at the grave
side, when his attention was arrested by see
ing something VIII tie, which, on examination.
he found to be lace handkerchief.
His suspicious were aroused and he called
for help, when it was found tint the grave
had been rifled, the rich gown torn of the
corpse, and the jewelry was carried away,
even TO the earrings, which were torn from
the ears
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
NehraSka'S Embarrassment

The Nebraska governors appeal to
the railroads to lower their rates and
haul out the corn crop at a profit to
the farmer is about as remarkable
deliverance on the granger question as
has been seen in some time, says -
Chicago paper. In the lack of extra
neous evidence one would say Govern
or Thayer- did not correctly res,reseht
public sentiment in this matter or tie
real attitude of the agricultural intet-
ests of the State towards the railroads.
But as petitions signed by one hundred
thousand Kansas farmers have been
addressed to the roads in that State,
praying for an "emergency rate" on
corn, for the reasons advanced by the
Nebraska Executive, we must give il
weight.
The cause of Governor Thayer's
piteous appeal for help is bonntiful
crop. "Millions of bushels of corn
are lying upon the ground going to
waste" The farmers, he says, are
helpless to get it to market because of
the high freight rates; there is so much
corn and so little market for it at pre-
sent rates, that "farmers are unable to
pay for provisions and COAL" ''they
cannot meet their obligations" "'the
merchants cannot buy goods because
they cannot pay for them" ''there is
an almost universal paralysis of bust
ness, and every department of human,
enterprise is blocked, and a most
gloomy prospect for the opening of
spring is settling down upon the
people,"
Short crops may have their draw
backs to the agricultural community,
but whit could be much worse than a
bountiful crop if this is its effect? In
the mist of plenty, with grail crib;
bursting and barns stuffed to repletion,
tie Kansas and Nebraska farmer is in
want Governor Thayer's remedy is
a reduction of rates. 81 know, and so |
do the people, that you can give the
reduced rate asked for, and your roads
will hardly feel it. The demand of
The people for this reduction is univer-
sal; the people and the press are
speaking out with one mighty voice;
you must heed it."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
If Shakespeare Had Reen Inter, ,cwad

Imagine had but the interviewer
iiVed III the days of good Queen Bess,
how much of undying interest would
attach itself to his articles. "Our
representative called on Mr.. William
Shakespeare this morn ng. Curious
10 say, the great man appeared i'll at
ease and confused i'm manner. This
was subsequently explained by Lord
bacon who was sitting writing in the
next room, calling out. Now, Win,
l We finished "Hamlet;' all you have
to do is to sign your name. ''-English
Paper. LISA
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
A Filial Emnpror.

TIE Emperor of China visits the
Empress Dowager at the Nanbai pal
aces every five days to inquire after
Her Majesty's health. The visits are
always made very early in the morn
ing, attended by vast rctinue of per-
sohal followers. After saluting Her
Majesty and making the usual inquiries
after her health, the Emperor generally
has some State affairs of Importance to
consult with Her Majesty, whose adj
wee and suggestions he still highly
values. This his tilial conduct is made
manifest to the world.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
CHICAGO NOT YET SURE.


An Indiscreet Ac- May Deprive the City of
the Prize
Some of the Chicago enthusiasts who are
making demands for large appropriation
from the national Treasury appear to have
forgotten what the exact situation of the
Worlds Fair project is. 1t is not fact that
the Congress has definitely decided that there
shall be Worlds Fair and that it shall be
held in Chicago. Congress has made no de-
cision upon the subject, and neither branch
of Congress has reached such a conclusion.
A fatal indiscretion will be any speech or act
which will create the impression that Chicago
seeks large appropriation from the national
Treasury. Such claim now would be in
the teeth of all the claims which the friends
of Chicago from the beginning have made.
The Worlds Fair movement proceeds
upon the assumption that there is to be no
considerable Federal appropriation. There
can be little doubt TO two things: First
that If Congress is to be asked to appropriate
S10,000,000 for Worlds Fair it is more
probable that the fair would he located at the
national capital than at any other CITY; sec
ond, it is almost certain that if S10,0O0, 900
should be asked for Worlds Fair anywhere
the request would be disregarded, and there
would be no fair.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
THAT KARA BRUTALITY,
Mime. Sigida Was FlOgged Against III
Surgeons Protestations.


Further particulars of the Kara Outrages
In Russia have just been received. The third
hunger strike among the prisoners was to
obtain the removal Of the Odious Gov. Mas
ukoff, who had ordered Il lady to be dragged
from her bed. She was subjected to the
coarsest insults and clothed in the prison
dress. The first strike lasted Is days, and
ended in MasukOtf rendering his resignation,
which Gov. Korf declined to accept. The
second strike lasted eight days when Masu-
kof asserted that he had been ordered to an
other prison. When this was discovered to
be lie there was a third strike which lasted
p days. The prison surgeon declared that
Nine. Sigidi was too i'll to be flogged and
that her heart was weak. He expressed the
opinion that to further carry out the sentence
would be illegal. Samitine. chief director of
prisons, upon learning the surgeons de-
cision, telegraphed this laconic message ::
Execute sentence without surgeons pre-
sence." Superintendent viii hesitated, and
the official who figured in the first named in
cident performed the flogging.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

The ragged ball in Vienna, Austria,
was great success, over $4,000 being
collected for the poor. Wealthy
citizens and members of tie a:istocracy,
all attired in tatters, and high-born
DANES dressed as beggars, were in at
tendance. The quadrille of ragged
mobiles was wonderful sight, as als)
was a ludicrous cancan by officers
disguised as blind beggars. Another
quadrille included c0untesses costumed
as Nautch girls and three archdukes
attired as scavengers. All distinguish
ed society people of Vienna not on the
floor were watching the ludicrous scene
from the boxes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

W. II. smith, the condemned wife-mur.
derer in Pittsburg, has given up hope of n
communication OF his sentence, and is getting
ready TO be shufed off on the day appointed.
He spent the best part of the day Yesterday
with his former pastor At the close of the
visit Smith professed himself converted and
desired to be baptized. Sheriff McCandleSs
was sent for to arrange the matter At
length 1t was arranged that bath-tub i'll
the Jail should be adjusted for the purpose and
no risk incurred either of the drowning or es-
cape of the prisoner. The ceremony was
conducted with due soemnity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

SENATOR BLAIR goes on compl lining
because the newspapers don't print his
speeches, and the people go on won
dering how long it will take him to
find out that there is no market for
last years birds.nests.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
Pneumonia Cured by Love.

Bessie Miller of st. Louis was down with
pneumonia. She was delirious and would
repeatedly ask for her lover, calling him by
name, John. Fearing that the girls sick
ness would terminate fatally, the mother tel
egraphed John, the girls lover. When he
arrived it seemed as though the young lady
had instantly recovered from her sickness.
Johns presence was all that she needed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

The Republicans of Burlington, VT, yes
terday reelected Mayor Crowbie, elected
four out of five aldermen, and reelected City
Judge Peck.
Hartlands debt is now reduced to $1,000.
At a recent meeting of the trustees of the
Vermont Live Stock company it was voted
to spend $4,000 the coming spring for two
years old steers to put upon the range.
The seventeen town schools of Randolph
nave cost S2916.61, and a tax of % cents on
the dollar of the grand list has paid all school
expenses, and there is S517.S3 ON hand to-
ward next years expenses.
Rev. J. c. Nelson, pastor of Sheffield, VT,
Free Baptist church, has resigned.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
BoNvILLE's LAUGHING BURGLAR.
Fifty Houses PIundered by Merry Burg
Lar Whose Anice is L ike \ o.

TIT W HOst FUICt Is Like 4 W OIllan' .,
There is wild excitement among the citi-
Zens of Bonville, Ind, over Il mysterious
hOuse-breaker, who detes bolts and bars and
has plundered over 90 houses within the last
dollars.
The thief is a small person, with musical
laugh which those who have heard it say
could belong only to young woman. In
every house or store visited by the mysterious
robber a peculiar cipher is found marked on
the floor or walls with chalk or pencil.
Notices of a reward of $500 for the laughing
burglars capture are posted in the store
windows, and on two of tAese the thief has
written: ''First catch your hare. Dick
Turpin, Jr."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
AN ICE FAMINE IN PROSPECT.

Failure of the Lake Champlain and Lake
George Sources of Supply.
Four days ago contractors in Whitehall. N.
y, could not find men enough to handle the
ice which they were anxious to take from
Lake Champlain, Lake George and the creeks
tributary to them. Every boarding house
and hotel was filled with men, and dozens of
families in every village took in boarders
Ihere was general boom, everybody was
making money, and fabulous sums were ex-
pected to be realized out of ice To-day the
situation is entirely changed The scene of
activity has given place to one of absolute
id!eness. The ice boom has collapsed ard
many of the men who saw fortunes ahead
see ruin staring them in the face
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

''Have New Workers contemplated
with pride the fact that the representa-
tive of the Boston Public Library who
attended the sale of the Barlow collec-
ton of rare books last week and Sc
cured a good number of the treasures
came here with s25, 900 from the city
treasury of Boston in his pocket?
When will this metropolis have a
library corresponding to that which is
the pride of Boston, and which that
city supports with a generous hand"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
The Sugar Question I'm California.

Since the shutting down Of the American
Sugar Refinery in San Francisco, owing to
the adverse decision regarding its connection
with the trust and the appointment of a re-
celyer by Judge Wallace, Spreckels has con-
trolled the trade of this coast, and prices have
advanced. A boycott has been placed on GER
tain jobbers whose sympathies are with the
Trust people. 1t is now reported that
number of prominent wholesale alers have
arranged for refining their own sugar in case
the maj decision of the Supreme Court i,
against the reopening of the American Ref
merry.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

Railway men report at Redding, CAL, that
there has been terrible suffering in parts of
Modoc county, where snow has fallen to
great depth. One story is to the effect that
the ranch of a man named Best, in Souaw
Valley. became cut off from communication
with the outside world early in the Storm
His cattle were starved and frozen, and final
Iy his supply of provisions became completely
exhausted. There was no way of obtaining
other food, and he was obliged to kill and eat
his team of horses.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

The coal steamer Wikosbarre. owned bv the
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company.
and commanded by Capt. Frank Gates,
was badly damaged by fire while
lying at Mystic wharf in Boston.
The fire caught in the hold of the steamer,
which was empty. and worked its way into
the coal bunker. To reach the fire it was
necessary to cut holes through the side of the
vessel and in the decks, through which water
was poured upon the flames. The damage to
the steamer is estimated at about $4,000 and
is covered by insurance.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

IT was happy thought of James
Russell Lowell to say to the blind chill
dren, in his letter of regrets at not
going to see them read his poems from
raised type, that they, more than the
author, could be said to have his
works 1"at their fingers ends.''
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
SENATOR EDMUNDS' SCHEME.
How He Would Commemorate the Dis
cOvery of America.

cOVery of America
Senator Edmunds, in speaking about the
Chicago worlds fair bill, said that he did not
intend to antagonize that measure when it
comes up for consideration, but that he did
propose to bring forward at az early day as
possible his national university bill. He said
he intended to have the measure matured
some time ago. but owing to a severe illness
from which lie had not entirely recovered, he
had been unable to give the subject the atten-
ton it required. That it would carry with it
a large sum of money to be appropriated from
the treasury of the United States, and whe-
Their it should be a colhmemortion OF the dis
coyery of America by Christopher Columbus,
was for the senate to determine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

THE Astor family fortune was be-
gun in the fur trade. That was i'll the
days of the old-fashioned winter.
That line of business doesn't offer so
many inducem nts IN these murky
days. Investments in ice for summer
consumption offer far better returns.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

r. S. Carter of Hamilton, o., on Thanks
giving day, promised to marry Miss Emma
Allen, one of the wealthy girls of Hamilton.
On the eve of the wedding Carter persuaded
her to give him $1,000. In the morning she
drove around in her carriage to meet Carter
and marry him, but when she arrived at the
hotel the bridegroom had flown with the
$4,000. Carter has been caught by detectives
and over $500 of the money has been re-
covered. Miss Allen refuses to prosecute,
says she loves him, but will not marry him.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
Purchase of Gas Companies,

The largest financial transaction ever
known was consummated by the transfer of
the property Of the two Illuminating gas
companies and the largest natural gas com
pany of the city to a syndicate of New York
men, some of the largest stockholders in the
Equitable Gasight Company of that city.
The price paid for the property is about
s2,000,000. The central figure in the pur.
chase is Baron JeaIinolowski of Amsterdam,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

In the room of the House Committee on
elections at Washington is ballot box. The
box is plain and simple, is made of tin, and
looks like any ordinary cheap ballot box.
But there is n popularity about it that APP
pears only upon closer inspection. The orifice
where the ballots are placed is double, so
that a ballot, if placed ON one side, slips into
the box, but if placed on the other side slides
unperceived down into a waste basket or
upon the floor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

THE Tipping out of twenty naval
cadets at Annapolis for b&ckwardness
in their studies 10 ks as ie the stand
ard of scholarship in the naval acade-
my was to be raised to correspond
with our improved ships. The ounces
will have to go with the old hulks.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
Crazy ..Eaith txar1.ersn

Mrs. Molie Smith and her two sisters, Miss
Julia and Emma Barnes, three prominent
and highly respected young ladies of Say
brook, ILL.,, were lodged in the county Jail at
Bloomington, suffering from the widest and
most affecting emotional insanity upon the
recently been attending meetings held by the
so-called ''faith workers." and their minds
have given away entirely. The sight in their
room at the county jail is most pitfu and
touching. They spend their time in praying,
singing and quoting from the Bible.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
EARLY MACKEREL.
They Have Been Sighted Already OF Nan


tucket.
Capt. Hopkins of the schooner Mabel How
ard, arrived last week in Boston from King
ston, ia, reports that on Feb. %, when 45
miles off Nantucket, passed large school of
mackerel. The presence of macherel so far
north at this season of the year is believed to
be without precedent, as they seldom appear
in schools off the United States coast before
the latter part of March or the first of April,
and are almost invariably seen first in or
near tn latitude of Cape Hatteras. The
macktre are as much ahead of their usual
time as the icebergs were, which became nu-
merous in the track of European steamers in
January
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

The accounts of dances, dinners ard
receptions which come from our squad
ron of evolution show how manfully
our Jolly tars do their duty under all
circumstances. This sort of thing i'm
presses Europe quite as much as naval
demonstrations would de-.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
THE COLORPHOBIA CASE.
Plate Printer johnson Repents and


Plate Printer johnson Repents and is
Reinstated.
No further trouble will be experienced at
the Bureau of EngraN ing and Printing at
Washington growing out of the assignment
of a coiored woman printers assistant,
the matter having been amicabIy adjusted
Plate Printer Ohnson. who refused to work
with Frances Flood, the cOlored woman sent
to his press by the Civil Service Commission
and was discharged, called up Chief Meredith
and announced kis--5T 41fgness to give the
woman a trial if he could be reinstated. Sec
rotary Window was Consulted and he deter
mined to grant the printers request, making
the stipulation, however, that the new assist
ant should be given a fair trial
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

A KANSAS farmer sold beef animal
to butcher for two cents pound
agreeing to take quarter of it for his
own use. The butcher charged him
regular rates for the meat, and when
they settled the farmer owed the
butcher two dollars.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
HORRORS OF A POOR FARM.
Indiana Paupers Living in a Terrible Condi
ton of Nakedness and Filth.

ton of Nakedness and Filth.
Secretary johnson has just returned from
a visit of inspection of the poor farm at
Bonneville, Warrick County, Ind, and pro-
nounces the institution to be in the worst
condition of any that he has ever visited.
He says there are no lights in the windows
of the paupers' departments; they have no
knives and forks at the table, and all of them
are dirty and covered with rags. in many
cases their clothing not being sufficient to
cover them.
In the colored department there are five
persons, aman of so, another of 60 and a girl
of 10, all paralyZed, and an infant and its
mother. The room is small and the dirt and
filth so deep on the floor that they can be
scraped up with the foot.
The commissioners refused to buy glass for
the windows, and declare that the paupers
should eat with their fingers, and refuse to
buy knives and forks.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

RED is to be the prevailing color this
season, according to fashionable
authority. 1t would be pleasant to
add that everything will be couleur de
rose, but truth is mighty and will not
admit of such prop, ecy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
PAINTED THE TOWN BLACK.
Serious Frolic of Party of Pennsylvania
Roughs.

The front of nearly every building in the
village of Wesnervile, Penn, was painted
black the other night by men as get unknown.
A hoatman, who went through the outskirts
of the place Monday night, says that about
. O'Clock he saY sAAsss.g of masked men ride
toward the town and tie their horses near the
dollhouse. The gahg then quickly went into
the town and began their nefarious work.
One of the men held a revolver at the head of
the boatman and warned him to keep
quiet or be shot. In the morning
the place looked as if i'll mourning.
The inhabitants were astir early and
dumbfounded when they saw what had
the outrage are desperate gang of thieves
that have been operating along the Berks
and Lehigh X. r.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

THE principal objection to the color
ed man who has been appointed Post
master at Athens, Ga, appears to be
that he has the audacity to be much
better qualified for the place than the
white man whom he succeeds.