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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
The Eight-HOur Law.

The decision of the General Term of
the Supreme Court in McCarty's case
against the city of New York, adds
nothing important to the Interpretation
of the "Eight-Hour Law" The natural
construction which has been repeatedly
given to this law since its passage is
that its purpose was to prescribe legal
measure of ga days work" just as the
Legislature might prescribe the cubic
contents of "barrel."
The law of 1870 prescribes that
s'eight hours shall constitute a legal
days work for all classes of mechanics,
workmen and laborers, excepting those
engaged in farm and domestic labor"
and with regard to employment by the
State and every municipal corporation,
or any contractor under them for the
performance of public works, it does
not retain even that exception. And it
further provides that 'overwork for m
extra compensation by agreement be-
tween employer and employee is hereby
permitted"
McCarty was a day laborer in the
Dock Department, and claimed extra
compensation from the city for working
more than eight hours daily during his
term of service, but showed no express
agreement for that purpose, and the
Court merely decided that the facts in
evidence were insufficient to raise pre-
sumption of an agreement by implica-
ton. Among those facts it appeared
that he had signed the usual depart
ment payrolls, receipting in full for all
services rendered -NeaU York Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
Getting Rid of a Tenant.

The Lancaster (Pa.) NeaO Era says
A sharp landlord in Pittsburg got rid Of
an unwelcome tenant few days ago in
a manner not laid down in the statutes,
and stands chance of being called on
to bear portion of the expense OF test
ing the legality of the measure. He told
the tenant that he wanted the house,
but would give him better one, at the
same time giving the number ard street
of the house. The tenant, elated at the
prospect of bettering his condition, pro-
cured wagons and loaded up his furni-
ture at once, but on driving to the new
location he found it occupied, and also
learned that his late landlord had moth
ing to do with it whatever. The tenant
had to seek other quarters, and now
he threatens to bring suit for damage,
based on charge of false pretense.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
A Close Relation.

There was disagreeable scene recent
" over at the Palmer mansion, between
Col. Floyd Palmer and his son William.
Bill Palmer is an Austin boy of the most
modern type, who always tells his par
ents just what he thinks about them,
regardless of their feelings. Not long
since, he wanted to celebrate his birth
day with some of his youthful compan-
ions, SO he applied to his father for an
adequate appropriation. Col. Palmer,
who is q close relation of Williams,
being his penurious father, responded
with q quarter of dollar, which bore
about the same proportion to the need
and expectations of Bill as did Calves
tons congressional appropriation to the
one she applied for.
Billy looked at the quarter, sneered
at it, and finally said to the author OF
his existence:
"That's mighty slim appropriation
to celebrate the thirteenth birthday OF
an Austin boy on, but still don't re-
proach you. You are not to blame for
my birthday"
"What do you mean, sir ?" whooped
the now thoroughly aroused father.
81 mean just what 1 say. If mother
hadn't married such a close relation as
you are, wouldn't never have had any
birthday to celebrate, and I would be
all the better off. She is the one who
is to blame. She should have married
a man of more liberal views, and ther
my father would have afforded me the
means of celebrating my birthday in &C
cordance with my social status. - Ie1a'
| ISiftihnS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
Kate Shelly's Hand.

The Council Bluffs Qowa) Nonpariel
says:-The following interesting item
has been engaged for some days in max
ing the rounds of the press: skate
Shelly, the young lady who saved q
train from plunging into an abyss near
Boone, Iowa, from which the bridge
had been swept by a torrent, is
about to marry the conductor of the
train which was rescued" Kate Shelly
was not sixteen years old at the time of
her heroic deed, and probably Is not at
this time seriously contemplating mar
riage with anybody, much less any one
of the persons to whom newspaper
scribblers are attaching her as bride.
When the time does come for venturing
upon the matrimonial sea, there is a
switchman in the yards at Moingona
who was with her in the sickness follow
ing her terrible adventure, who, al
though wearing the clothes of laborer
and carrying hand crippled in the
service of the railroad company, Will
probably put in the first and best claim,
regardless of conductors.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
Deceiving the Public.

Chemists say that absolute cleanliness
is essential to the manufacture of oleo-
margarine. Its fitness for human food
is also attested by scientific authority.
There is no reason, therefore, why peo-
pie should not be allowed to make and
eat it.
But the trouble is, says the New York
Ledger, this foreign stuff is sold as but
ter, and price is obtained for it about
five times as large as the customer
would pay if he knew he was buying
oleomargarine.
Strenuous efforts have been made SO
to regulate the trade by law that the
sale of oleomargarine as butter would
be impossible; but the difficulty which
even experts find in distinguishing the
spurious from the genuine butter has
proved serious obstacle to success.
No trade ought to be tolerated whose
existence depends upon deceiving the
public,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
Flarharity's Engine.
TT RUNS AWAY AND JUMPS THE TRACK
JUST IN THE NICK OF TINE,

The Denver Tribune says John FLAIR
harity, an engineer on Denver and
Rio Grarde engine, was running o
'spusher'' in the yards at Leadville. He
was ordered to go down the road and
meet the incoming passenger at Eiler's,
Just as he started out of the yards, the
strap connected with the lever broke.
and he lost control of the engine. The
engine was new one and in good con-
dition, and he says he never can explain
just why or how it happened. Running
at a tremendous speed down grade, he
expected every minute to be dashed to
instant death.
''It was an awful moment" said FLAIR
harity, "when found that the engine
would not respond the touch of the
lever, and that she was beyond my con-
troll. The cylinder heads blew out, the
steam blinded me, and every thing
seemed to conspire to url us to de-
struction.
"How heavy was the grado?''
"One hundred and eighty-five feet to
the mile. Down the steep incline the
train dashed. tugged at the lever and
brakes, but it was as if I had been tug
ging at the solid parts of the engine it.
self. Then suddenly remembered that
I was to meet the passenger train at
Elders. My fireman jumped off early
in the race, and was left alone, think
ing I had left him dead on the track.
We were making more THAI mile q
minute. Little pieces of sand and dirt
flew against my face and stung like
Goals of fire. III the distance 1 could
see the approaching passenger. I yelled
and screamed for knew that our only
hope was to flag the train and get her
on the side track. I saw the operator,
Woodward, running for the train as he
saw me coming, enveloped in cloud of
smoke and steam and dust.
"With one last effort L opened wide
the throttle, hoping that the engine
would throw herself from the track on
the curve and save the train from de-
struction. Then jumped. and uncon-
sciousness overcame me. When I re.
saw the engine lying on her
side within forty feet of the passenger
train, and people were crowding around
me and bathing my head, and hoping I
was not killed."
Flarharity escaped miraculously with
oDlv q faw c1ie,bt lruioao Tho ooo;5o14
was one of the strangest on record, and
in it not single person was seriously
hurt,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04

pull When grandfather shouted
Come do-o-wn on it, boys ! they just
walked off with that big lumber as
though it had been clothespiu. "
A small boy in the corner tried to
break the silence by a feeble attempt to
whistle. He did not get half through
before a big red, shirted lumberman
slowly arose and, reaching out
softly, exclaimed: "You old moss-b back
I can prove to you in five minutes that
there wasn't foot of railway in the
United States in 1920"
Then the man on the tea chest got so
mad that his seat caved in with him.
He was rescued from grave of Young
Hyson by the spasmodic efforts of the
storekeeper and the red-whiskered man.
Although pressed to stay he wouldn't,
and when he left the store was in such
an absent minded mood that he took his
own umbrella. Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
The New Comet.

Professor Sharpless has given the
Philadelphia Times the following infor-
nation about the new comet
The comets course is about north
northeast. The rate is say a degree
a day. Calculating that the comet is
about hundred million miles away,
which is about right it is coming at
nearly million miles day toward the
earth. 1t won't come nearer than
eighty million miles. Then it will go
down into the Southern Hemisphere. 1t
will be at its brightest there. The best
views VIII be had in Australia and
South America. 1t will fade rapidly to
the unaided eye in the South, but they
will be able to follow it with the tele-
scope for months"
"Will it ever come back ?"
"Its orbit has not been sufficiently
determined to say. Indeed, it is too
new to say much of anything about it.
Most comets, however, are seen but
once. They then go off wandering in
space for millions and millions of miles,
until perhaps they wear themselves out
and fall to the earth in fragments, as a
shower If meteors."
I" Is this the new comets first visit P"
"It appears 80. The comet of 1912
is, according to the records, to return
this or next year. This comet, how
ever, is not it. It's appearance is differ
ent, though that might not be conclu-
sive, as these bodies change in appear
ance; but the orbit is not the same, and
that settles the question. We may look
for the comet of 1912 to follow this.
This comet differs from telescopic
comets generally in having tail. AS a
rale, telescopic comets are only masses
of light.
"The presence of the tail indicates
that this comet is pretty big one. The
apparent length of the tail is about the
diameter of the moon. In reality it is
much larger, it is SO much further
away. The moon, you know, is two
hundred and forty thousand miles dis
tant. Put that against hundred mill
lions. The indications are that this is
larger comet than that of last sum-
mer. We shall tell better later. It is
not in the direction of the planets, but
off in space of itself. OF course, it
rises and sets with the stars.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
A "DUsT RAIN" IN MID-OCEAN.
A Singular Phenomenon in the At
lantic.

A remarkable phenomenon in the At
lantic has been recently reported by the
British ship Berean, which has made
the passage from Tasmania round Cape
Horn to England. In passing Cape
Horn she sighted no ice and did not
meet with the southeast trade winds
until she got within about seventeen
degrees of the Equator. After crossing
the line she soon picked up the north
east trades, carrying them "to the ut
most northern limit" (26 degrees north
latitudel. But, as the London Ship
ping Gazette of the 18th ult. states,
''when passing the Cape de Verde
Islands, though fully six hundred
miles to the westward of them, the
Berean's sails and rigging were thinly
coated with very fine powdery dust
of dark yellow or saffron color, scarce
ly discernible on or near the deck, but
profuse on the highest parts of the
rigging" so that the sails appeared
"tanned."
Fine dust falling on vessels in the
Atlantic near the Cape de Verde archi-
pelago has often. been reported, but it
has SO often been of reddish hue that
it is known among sailors as ''red fog"
In Lyons, Genoa, Sicily and other parts
of Southern Europe the same phenom-
enon, giving rise to "blood rains," has
frequently been recorded, and twenty
cases, between 1903 and 1870, have
been collected by Flammariou occur.
ring in Europe. Upon the ground that
Professor Ehrenberg microscopically
found the Atlantic dust rich in infusorial
forms belonging to equatorial South
America the 'fred fogs" have been by
many scientists thought to be the trans
port of atmospheric currents in the high
strata from the valleys of the Oronoco
and Amazon Rivers. Therecent obser-
vations on board the Berean are of great
interest as overthrowing this conclusion
and determining the African orig in
both of the Atlantic dust and the So
called "blood rains" of Southern Europe.
Admiral Smyth many years ago re-
ported during his stay in Sicily, on the
14th of March, 1914, "blood rain"
which fell sin large, muddy drops, and
deposited very minute sand of a yellow
red color'-quite similar to that now
reported by the Berean. This eminent
physicist at that early day regarded it
as "sirocco dust" from the African
Desert, " crowning the beautiful theory
of atmospheric circulation" Both on
the Atlantic Ocean and in Europe these
rains of dust have almost invariably
fallen between January and April-a
period of the year in which the Sahara
is most arid. The unusual force which
the Berean and other vessels during the
past winter found in the northeast
trades (Which sweep the rainless African
belt) affords conclusive evidence that
the remarkable phenomenon just re-
ported was due to dust transported by
the winds from Africa. The Berean's
log, therefore, cannot but be of great
interest and instructiveness to meteor
ologists, as furnishing them with vivid
illustration of the law of atmospheric
movements within the tropics.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
THE LUHBERMAN'S STORY.

It alrffappened in a supply store, one
rainy day, way up III the lumber woods
of Michigan. The neighboring settlers
had gathered in to trade, and have
quiet social chat. AS usual, the con-
versation soon drifted to the extraordi-
nary pulling done by different yokes OF
oxen. All had told their little story on
this subject, but the man on the tea
chest. He did not as much as utter
comment. This being noticed, he was
asked to chip in his yarn. He bash
fully declined, and being pressed the
harder, lifted one leg over the other, and
remarked:
"When 1 was small boy in York
State"
"Quiet, there" remarked the red
whiskered man, "until we hear this.
G. small boy in York State" con-
tinued the man on the tea-chest, "about
the year 1920, I lived with my gram
ther. He owned one of the wickedest
steer teams to pull that ever stood on
hoofs. There was new railroad being
built by the farm that spring, and the
steers were comm 3. The old gentle
man and I had been across the new rail-
road one day a-logging. Coming home
about 5 o'clock we crossed the track
where the railroad men were putting in
bridge. The steam engine was trying
to haul big stick of timber to the
place. They had it on rollers. 1t was
hitched to the tender by a six-inch
cable. Every time the engineer would
let on steam to pull, the drive wheels
would spin around and around on the
rails. She would not bulge an inch.
Then they sanded the rails and tried
again and again, but it was no use, they
couldn't move it,
Chow large was the stick ?" queried
the red-whiskereG man.
"WeI, it was about four feet square,
and SO long that it took man and a
small boy to see the other end of it, "
modestly resumed the narrator. "The
engineer got mad finally and jnmmed
the fire box full of wood, and got up q
power of steam. Then he directed the
men to leave their work and come with
hand-spikes and levers to lift on the big
beam when he gave the word. When all
was ready he opened the throttle full
length and shouted to the men. Every
one of them broke their hand-spikes a.
lifting. The stick didn't move. The
engine went though; it snapped that
cable like thread, and went ahead a
good many rods before it could be
stopped. The boss was just going tc
telephone to the superintendent for an.
other engine, when my grandfather
stepped up. Said he: Squire, car
draw that stick with my steers They
all laughed at him. He got his dandel
up and backing Buck and Bright up tc
the end of it, took a rolling hitch
Started them little ON the baw. Grea
Cesar but you should have seen then
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
Poor Calves.

The Massachusetts Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is
endeavorlng to break up the practice
of bleeding calves before they are
killed, practice which is extensively
resorted to in New England for the pur-
pose of securing the extra price which
is paid for veal thus unnaturally whit
ened. It is charged that calves are
often bled two or three times before
they are killed. The outrageous cruel
ty of such treatment is apparent, but
in addition to that the flesh so treated
is known to be positively unwholesome,
and the Society begs the cooperation
of the public in preventing its sale.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04

NONE AT A1n.-Mrs. Donnought's
husband left her in Providence, and
went fortune hunting in California, four
years ago. He sent her money occa-
sionally, and now, having accumulated
$40, 600, has returned to his old home.
But he finds that his wife married
Thomas Frockleton in 1879, and has
since had two pairs of twins. Frockle-
ton says that she told him she was a
widow, and he is willing now to give
her up; but Donnought doesn't want
her under the circumstances. Thus,
from having two husbands, she drops to
none at ALL
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
VA SOLITARIA.
SHE'D POEM. BY HENRY W. LoNGFELLow.

IFrom the independently
Alone walk the peopled city,
Where each seems happy with his own;
oh ! friends, | ask not for your pity
I walk alone.
No more for me yon lake rejoices,
Though moved by loving airs of June.
Oh! birds, your sweet and piping voices
Are out of tune.
In vain for me the elm tree arches
Its plumes in many feathery spray;
In vain the evenings starry marches
And sunlit day.
In vain your beauty, summer flowers;
Ye cannot greet these codial eyes;
They gaze on other fields than ours
On other skies.
The gold is rif1ed from the Golfer,
The blade is stolen from the sheath;
Life has but ere more boon to offer,
And that is-Death.
Yet well know the voice of duty,
And, therefore, life and health must crave,
Though she who gavethe world its beauty
Is in her grave.
live, o lost one for the living
Who drew their earliest life from thee,
And wait, until with glad thanksgiving
l shall be free.
Fer life to me is as a station
Wherein apart traveller stands
One absent long from home and nation,
In other lands;
And I, as he who stands and listens,
Amid the twilight's chill and gloom,
To hear, approaching in the distance,
The train for home.
For death shall bring another mating,
Beyond the shadows of the tomb,
On yonder shore bride is waiting
Until 1 come.
In yonder field are children playing,
And there-oh vision of delight =
l see the child and mother straying
In robes of white
Thou, then, the longing heart that breakest,
Stealing the treasures one by one,
I'll call Thee blessed when thou makest
The parted-one.
IS, 1868.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04

Gov. HUGHES. Tom Hughes, it is
said will soon be appointed Governor
of the Isle of Man. The Governorship
has q good house and salary of 81. 800
attached to 1t, the duties are very light,
and the cost of living about 30per cen t,
less than In England,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04

PUNCHED coin has been driven out of
circulation, except when you are in a
hurry sld the grocer knows you to be
a man who don't count your change.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04

A SPRINGFIELD dairyman furnished
butter to circus company recently,
and wanted to get in on the strength of
it. The ticket agent examined the but
ter. and granted the request.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04

A BEAUTIFUL church is sermon in
stone and its spire finger pointing
toward heaven. Philip SehaD'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04

MARRIAGE RESEMBLES a village fair,
where every one endeavors to trade off
his lame horse or his vicious COW fon a
handsome, sound and useful critter,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04
SEPTEMBER IS, 1868,

Now that our best and sweetest poet has left us
rending by his departure the veil of that sancuary
hls inmost life and feeing-it may not be unlawful to
pub 1sh, what would have been sacrilege before the
above touching poem not written for the public eve
but simply to give utterance to his heart-crushinQ
SORROW after the death Of his wife 1861 1t was scot
TO me by friend in Boston some years ago. after my
own great athtcton, and has, therefore, double
sacredness to all who have passed through a similar
sorrow; 1t VIII be read by many with fearful eyes,
when they remember how leng and patiently wi b
what brave and accomplishing heart he has waited
st the station" till now at last a. the parted are
OLIvET COLLEGE, Mich. H. NJ GooDyrS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04

THE JAMES GANG. The bank and
train robberies by the James gang in the
West are as follows: Columbus, KY,
$4,000; Elizabethtown, $40, 900; Hunt
ingtown, W. Va, $4,000; Liberty,
Mo-, $4,000; Corydon, Iowa, $4,000;
st. Genevieve, NO., $4,000; Corinth,
Miss, $4,000; Gads Hill, $4,000 ;
Munice, $40, ,OO0; Big Spring (gold),
100000. Total, $780, 900. This does
not include stage and other robberies,
which are estimated at over $50.000.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04

BOSTON BAKED BEANs.-Take one
quart of beans, pick clean from dirt and
wash, then pour boiling water over them
and let them soak over night. The next
morning pour off the water, put into
kettle, pour boiling water over them
and boil slowly till just soft take off
from the stove, skim out the beans into
a bean pot, add one tablespoonful of
molasses (sonae like them best without
any, one pound of salt pork that has
been washed, and the rind or skin cut
in squares. If the pork is not very
salt add little salt before putting in
the pork, then cover with the water
they were boiled in, add more water as
it dries away till the beans are nearly
baked. II you do not add the water
they will be too dry. Bake four hours
in o slow oven.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-04

A COOKING club---The rolling pin.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1882-07-27

widespread influence of the Land League
ana OF tie wonderful spirit of unity now
prevailing il il. He rested 11is homes for
the rescue Of Ireland III chat organization.
the hrst that had included all classes Of the
Irish people, priests and bishops, Protest
ants and Catholics and Orangan1en, men.
women, and children. lie did not think
that such al organization could be defeat
ed hy the latest scheme Of the landlords.
As for plans for the future, Mr. Dayftt
sald that it the other Irish leaders had no
plan prepared, he would slyetcl, out one on
his way across the Atlantic, and he had no
doubt It would meet with the appreciation
OF his associates. But one thing he prom
lsed, which was that there should be no
dlssention between himself and the other
leaders. He would retire and never be
heard OF in the cause again rather than
have such result. lie had no doubt that
there would be a prompt conference OF
parnell, Dillon, Egan and others: and that
they would evolve victory for united lre-
land.