Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-05-08

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2 MT EiiHuR - hardly expected 2 Oct
4 ter fate fer my fat letter than eonsigu
y meut TO the waste basket. hat a. yea have
/. thought b.; 90 ruhli-h g.. take 10 "a
granted that auoiher sili Dee he ~ms De-
. gree acceptable.
h | intend simp'y o. give yos a iiii'e ia-
G formation concerning O.. 3 u,ach taikci ~
e often abused bat ne,rF b..sten portion u
Uncle Sans dominion
| shall tell you nothing Dat iha truth,
IN plain. ungarnished iasis. believing this
manner Of advertising our Young State to
= be far better for Il, ia the long run than
indiscriminaie. unmiiraici putting
newspapers aud lani asen's to ihe eoata-
~, Notwithstanding.
Life here, as everywhere. has is lights
aud thadoWs,-the former generally Of
the lightest kind anl the latter Of the
/ darkest This is why visitors first inn
preSs;ons are either very god or very
bad.
Now AID ihcu ini persons Who seem
TO think tat the lights are decidedly tie
exception, not the riilr; hat also fnl
that these persons are almost always the
habitual fau i-iuirr> uud Jaw pickrrs.
those who are very UNHAPPY unless they
have something about which TO be nlissra-
bic.
Now il is well known fact that men
Of this character are ccutentcd nowhere
The Garden of Eden would not have
pleased them a whit better than do the
prairies Of Kansas or the hills Of Vermont.
Our shadows are numerous aud as /
said before are none Of the most trihing
KIND; hut We console ourselves with the
reflection that there j. scarcely one which |
l. not the cause or effect Of some great
and overwhelming good
For instance, whena stiff breeze from
the south bows without intermission for
two or three days, we remember that
while it purifes the atmosphere it bring.
rain which prevents terrible drought;
;hen, when the rain comes, perhaps in tor.
rents. transforming our rich soil into u
substance very much like putty in consis.
tency, We remember that without this
rich soil and heavy rain the great variety
OF fruits and vegetables which we now en-
JOY would not be ours.
And so on all through the catalogue off
troubles which have at first so disguised
newcomers from steady old New Eng
land.
1t is said that all signs fail in Kansas,
md it is about the truth.
once heard an old gentleman remark ,
hat it is never safs 10 go three miles from n
home without taking II fan, an umbrella >
md an overcoat, as you will be sure to
reed one of them before you return -
L once knew hail aud snow to fall in .
TX hours after we were sitting with open +
windows aud no fire
| sometimes think it is this popularity u
It our climate which so fascnates people Z
rom the East, for you know variety is II
he spice of life. W
Our prairic-fre season has just passed. .
Inc evening, from the top of Mt. Dread q
counted for'y-fye large fires scattered pc
long the horizon, these with the lights Of 81
he city b1ow me and the gems of the
KY above, you may imagine formed to
lorious sight. wi
Spring has at last begun work in car w
est. Mother Earth has doffed the som. 70
re colors Of winter and is making her. nj
,if beautiful with the verduro of summer. IA
All sorts Of fruit trees are in bloom. II,
&c long winter has killed the insects and tn
Q have every reason to expect a better tn
arvest than ever before.
Many kinds Of garden sass" have
ade their appearance in market, such as
Mons, lettuce, radshes and pie. plant.
We find sale for all surplus products
est Ct us, and tn S has already proved ap
lpoHant feature of our trade WI
The topic general interest with us r r@
st now is the tragedy recently enacted usi
Cass Co., Mo-, the circumstances of an
hicl are about as follows: no
A few weeks since it was discovered e ea
at large amount Of railroad bonds had fir
'en fraudulently issued by tie Cass Go. to
urt. This was a regular Tammany
Ime and OF course aroused the indigna- res
IN OF the citizens, so much so in fact NO,
at the principals in the affair deemed it ed
Se to make good their escape.
Accordingly one ofthem came to Kan cor
5 City, was captured, thrown into jail, Pn,
d there blew out his own brains with
stol. Two others, Judge j. 9. Steven. has
and deputy county attorney j Cline |
me to Kansas, were.also captured and zoo
ken back to Harrisonvilo but gave bonds The The
appearance at court and were released kim
Wednesday, April Oath. Stevenson 7
d Cline, IN company with Thos. Dero duc
Q OF Stevenson's bondsmen started for na,
'lden, Mo-, by rail. As the train stop. n ,,,'
at asmall way station called Gun I
ty, about lo0 armed and masked men leys
rounded the train and called for the TseC
owe gentlemen. AS they did not make cent emf
'lr appearance the ruffians began shoot so Il
into the cars until, at last, the three were
tins, despair!ng of life, went out and ~ II
re Immediately shot dead. o 'eF
The devils threatened to murder any worl
o should testify against them in court. thi
is is an awful crime but | fear the tally
tie authorities will be unable to punish a sha I
perpetrators. Yours truly, Of b
"KANsAs YANKEE" use !