News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
GENERAL NEWS.

The Western hog packing from November
1 to January "a will aggregate 1,765,000
against .O56. 600 the same time last year; in
crease, 900.
Notwithstanding the unprecedented large
receipts of corn at the interior receiving
points during the past two months the Vlsl-
Bile supply is now more than 2,OOO,OOO Dush-
els less than last We and more than o,OOo,-
900 bushels less than Mt this time in 1887.
Several of the belated steamers arrived in
Boston Jan. 27.
The national convention of builders and
contractors was opened the 9th at st. Paul.
A heavy thaw at the West has weakened
the grasp of Jack Frost on the Pacific railways,
but they are still in a bad condition. Meltlng
snow has been transformed into huge plies
of ice and travel is still interrupted
Patterson, n. j., silk manufacturers. are
iubilant over the correction made by the
House of Representatives IN the SILK
schedules.
The New York State Senate refuses TO
hasten the Worlds Fair bill.
The ten sailors of the barque Jennie Hark-
ness of Maine, who were placed under arrest
bv the captain on the charge of setting tire to
the vessel, and taken to Philadelphia, were
discharged Jan. 9th. Capt. Amesbury was
greatly excited over what he claimed was an
injustice to him.
The Boston schooner G. G. Kelley has
been wrecked and three men drowned ON
Nova Scotia.
Hon. Linus NJ. Child of Boston, Peter W.
French of Boston, Hon. j. Edward AddickS
of Phi adelphia, E. f. and f. l.. Clements, q
F. Fraser and John White of Halifax, are
seeking incorporation a the National Con-
struction Company of Canada. They ask LOT
power to acquire lands, railways, mines
tramways, gas and electric plants and works,
etc.
Nearly half a million dollars were with
drawn Jan. % from an Albany bank.
The defalcation Of Cashier Lounsbery Of
the New York Post Office amounts to $4T,-
350.52.
The estate of the late Adam Forepaugh, the
great Snowman, Is believed to be worth about
million dollars.
The Boston schooner Frank Harrington Is
ashore off Savannah and will probably prove
a total loss.
President Harrison advises the managers
of the National Republican League to main.
tain the organization until after the next
Presidential electiUn.
The SUBJECT of ballot reform is being agi-
tated in Pennsylvania.
The discussion of the proposed changes in
the Presbyterian creed was continued In New
York.
The Coroner's jury in the Kniffin muir der
case at Trenton, n. j., brought in verdict
Jan. 81 declaring that Mrs. Kniffin died from
the effects of chloroGorm, administered by
persons as yet unknown.
At Plattsburg Joseph Chapleau was SEN
fenced to be executed by electricity on March
8 at Dannemora Prison. He was convicted
of the murder of man named Tabor.
Justice Van Brunt has granted stay in
the case of John Most, pending an appeal to
the Court of Appeals from Judgment of
conviction and sentence to years imprison-
ment. Most will be liberated in $4,000 bail.
James Fitzpatrick, wholesale shoe dealer
at 419 Market street, Philadelphia, who re-
Gently confessed judgment to the amount of
$4,000, has disappeared, and large amount
of paper bearing his endorsement Is said to
be ''on the street."