News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-04-10
GENERAL NEWS.

uuItultAu Nu III Us
Charles Emory Smith, editor of the Phila-
delphia Press, and recently appointed Minis
ter 10 Russia, was given farewell banquet
by the members of the local press.
Mr.. III. NJ. Lord, who has, for the past ten
years, been connected with the Courier Gaz-
cite, ROckland, Me-, has accepted an offer TO
| engage in newspaper work in the growing
city of Cardiff, East Tennessee.
Hon. Chauncey NJ. Dppew will be unable
to attend the celebration of the Battle of Lex
ington on the 18th of April.
Gov. Hill has vetoed the Ballot Reform
bill.
st. Joscph's Catholic Convent In Milwaukee
was buried. One of the inmates was fatally
injured and some others were less seriously
| hurt.
Massachusetts, Congressman are not well
pleased with that part OF the Tariff bill that
relates TO hides and carpet woods, and will en-
| deavOr to effect Il change. The bill is largely
framed, they claim, III the interests of the
| farmers.
For the first time in the history of Green
| willie, Miss, the city has been flooded by the
| river which has burst its bounds.
1t is now estimated that the number who
\ were killed and those who will die of their
wounds at Louisville will not exceed 100.
|
! off with light sentences, receiving from two
TO four months i'll prison and fines of $500
each. A stay of proceedings was granted.
Congress has passed n bill allowing the city
of Boston to beautify Castle Island (Fort In
dependency.
There was n spicy discussion of the Chinese
| question yesterday ut the meeting of the Con-
| gregational ministers.
An American company has been organized
n thn IarNp Ii,
expected to yield easily u million tons per
| year.
The 6efalcation of Maryland's State
| Treasurer Is expected to reach half million
dollars.
Gen. Sickles is regarded as likely to make
great reform in the New York Shrievalty.
He is rich and IL regular martinez, and what
he says he will do will he done. ANY deputy
VIE attempts TO deceive him viii wish he
had never been horn. He SAYS lie is 6S years
old, and has twice refused more important
offices than this, but he accepts il nj the Gov
ernor's earnest solicitation in the hope of do
ing good.
A Pittsfield man has received letters from
Vice-President Morton asking what res-
dences are for rent in the town, and init
mating that he would spend The summer
there with his family il lie could tinI desired
accommodations.
Stain and Cromwell, the murderers of
have been sentenced to prison at hard labor
for life.
All organized bodies in the United States,
civic and military. are invited to participate
in the dedication of the Garfield Monument
ut Cleveland next May.
The reports from winter wheat are very
discOuraging.
EX-Sheriff Flack's son, who received the
severest sentence of all, at the hands of
I'M lfrf.n orr IN
betrayed the mother who bore him, is an un-
interesting, rather dull young man, who has
smiled all the way through the trial. The
Judge dashed him without mercy, in giving
him sentence twice rs severe as that passed
on his father.
Queer place-New York-wherc the In
coming Sheriff7s first duty is to take charge of
his predecessor rs pris Iner. The Tam
manyites are now saving that Gen. Sickles
will make good leader of Tammany. in the
place OF Croker, who Is in no hurry to come
home.
1t is announced that the wedding Of Miss
Rose Farwell, daughter of Senator Far well
of Illinois, and Mr.. Hobart Chatfield TAYLOR.
a millionaire lterateur, is fixed for the second
week of June. Immediately after the grs,dua-
ton of the bride.
The Duke of Bedford has spent 800, 100 in
trying to make cremation popular in Eng
land. but thus far without success.
Sir William Thomson, the noted English
electrician, regards it as definitely settled that
the distribution of electric energy for light
and power in towns of Great Britain IS to be
by underground conductors.
1t is reported in London that Nine. Tsche-
brikova, the Russian lady who recently wrote
a letter to the Car calling attention to the
political situati N of the country, hrs been |
secretly conducted to Siberia. Another re-
port states that Nine. Tschebrikova was re- |
leased by order of the Gar and that The Gar
wrote upon the margin of the letter sent him |
by Nine. Tschebrikova, ''This is bitterly |
written; nevertheless the author can be left |
alone"
Bismarck, referring to the Socialist strikes.
said that the were not the worst Danger
for they would pass over. The saddest pos
sibility for workers was the chance that the
axrikes would so dishearten the employers
tLat they would lose all desire to continue
20 sfncss.
"A dispatch to the Cologne Gazette from ST.
Petersburg says that arrangements have been
made for a meeting of Emperor William and
peror William will also attend the raaneuvr,s
of the Russian army Mt KrasnGc-Szelo, Is
miles south, southeast of st. Petersburg.
The Prince of Wales has gone tn Cannes.
The Figaro of Paris says that Queen Vie
toria will visit Ddrmstadt, whe:e she vii |
meet Emperor William and have conference
with him.
1t is understood that the hetrothal will soon
be announced of Princess Virtori,, sister o.
Emperor William, to Prince Albert of Sake
Altenburg. Prince Albert is Il vidower.
The Vossische Zeiturg says thst in replyi |
to an address from citizens of Dresden eX-
pressing regret that hc had resigned at so
critical a time, Prince Bismarck declared that
his retirement was not of his own seeking.
The reply has caused great excitement in
Dresden.
The young Prince OF Naples il having n
jolly time in COnstantinople, and the Sultan
wishes he would 20 away, Tor it costs de-
cidedly pretty penny to entertain him.
Don Carlos is so happy in his comfortable
palace in Venice that he Is not likely to take
the field as n prctender any more. Several
efforts have been made to stir him from his
apathy, but in vain.
N. de Freycinet, the Premier of the French
Republican Cabinet for the fourth time, is
very much annoyed because some of his col
leagues insist upon calling him Freycinet, for
short. His wife his very ambitious and anX-
ious that he should become president.