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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
Something to Live For.

1t has been asserted by scientific sur
geons that the will-power of sick NAL
has a great deal to do with his dying
and the case of CharIes O'COnOr is cites
as evidence.
A still stranger case occurred il
Michigan the past summer. An old
man, living in the northern part of the
State, got out lot of timber many
wears ago for tolI-road company, but
the company failed and left him in the
lurch.
For years and years he tried to sell
the timber to this one or that, but nc
one wanted it, and at last time and de-
cav rendered the beams almost worth
less. Last summer the supervisors o.
that company advertised for proposals
to build bridge, and the old man pu
in bid. While waiting to see wha
would be done he was taken very sick
and he grew worse so rapidly that
council Of doctors was held. After du'
deliberation he was informed that III
was approaching his end.
"When will 1 know about tina
bridge ?' he coolly asked.
''The bids will be opened to-day"
"Well, I'll send John over to see wh'
gets the job, and my living or dyint
will depend on his news"
At five o'clock in the afternoon tn
son and the family physician arrived il
company. The old man was neithe
better nor worse.
"Well ?" he asked, as John ap
preached.
"Our bid was accepted, father.
''And we've got the job ?"
eyes: but the doctor says you can
live."
'I can't, eh? I'm not only going t.
live to build that bridge, but I'm goinl
to work that square timber into it up t.
the last foot, or my name isn't JOIN
Rogers"
1t is a fact, vouched for by dozel
good men, that he was off that dying
bed in q week, and in less than fort
night he was at work on the BRIDGE
Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
Cremation In England.

Two cremations have just taken place
in England. That is singular circum-
stance for more than one reason. It is
singular because a large proportion of
Englishmen regard cremation as less
defensible than cannibalism because
the English Church is resolute in op-
posing it, and because the English
law has rec9ntly decided that it shall
receive no countenance from the Bench.
In q case which is still fresh in
memory an English lady who, following
her friends instructions, conveyed his
body to Milan to be burned, was re-
fused her expenses by the Court on the
ground that her friend had no property
in his body and could not dispose of it
as ne pleased. But the fate which
befen the late Earl of Crawford has
begun to excite in English households a
distaste for earth burial, and unless the
persons responsible for the present
cremation shall be prosecuted they will
have done much to popularize practice
which seemed to the ancient Greeks,
most delicate and poetic of races, to re-
move the terrors of death, reducing the
corporal dross to handful of white
dust, shaken down from the wings of
the upward soaring soul.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
The Government Architect.

I sometimes see, says New YORK
Tribune reporter, slender, womanly-
faced, perplexed man in poor gray
suit of clothes, walking arossld the Post
Office building as if he might have a
letter in there necessary to him but not
the money to get it out, and I say to my
companion "Whom do you guess yon-
der son of weariness to be ?" ga clerk
out of job" my companion will reply,
cor a crank inventor, or a credulous
nicled duck from Wall street." No, my
friend. that is Mullet. Ii you would
see his monument, look around you.
He built the Post Office. He raised
more popderous architectures than Van
brugh. In every large city OF America
he built the greatest edifice {: The mighty
Government citadels of Philadelphia,
Cincinnati, ST. Louis, Boston, Chicago,
the San Francisco Mint, the State De-
nartment at Washington, and nearly q
hundred lesser buildings which are the
boasr of minor towns. He was the en-
oineer of the beautiful streets of Wash
,noton where now, friend relates tc
me his wife takes boarders to support
his children. He who has built $50,
OOO 600 worth of public architecture is
next to homeless, and the wandering
child of need.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
A FATHERS WISH.
Il DYING JUDGES DAUGHTER MAR
RIED AT HIS BEDSIDE.
The Impressive Scene During the Perform
ance of what is Generally Very
Joyful Ceremony.

a correspondent of the Baltimore
american writing from Rockville, Nd,
| Oct. 10, says: This town was startled to-
day about noon by the report that a
wedding at death-bed had occurred.
Judge William Viers Bouic, who was
defeated for denomination at the recent
primaries by the Hon. George Peter,
was taken i'll last Saturday with ner-
vous prostrat1on and symptoms of
| typho-malaria fever. Almost immedi-
ately his silments took vital hold, and
he has been growing rapidly worse each
day. This morning his attendant ply
sician, DIR. Nathan S, White, of Daw-
sonville, announced that the case was
hopeless, and that death would hastily
ensue. AS soon as his condition was
made known to the Judge, he requested
that his eldest daughter (Ella) should
be married at once and in his presence,
to DR.. White, to whom she had been
engaged for several years. After con-
sultation between the interested couple
and others of the family, it was decided
to acquiesce in the death-bed request of
the father. Accordingly, license was
quietly secured from Mr.. E. B. Pretty
man, Clerk OF the Court, whose son is
married to one of Judge Bouic's
daughters.
The Rev. s. r. White, Baptist clergy
man of this town, was sent for, and he,
about 10 o'clock, repaired to the house,
where shortly he performed the mar
riage ceremony. Gathered in the dying
mans room were his son, William Viers
Bouic, Jr., his wife, and three daugh-
ters. Solemnly and quietly the little
company gathered around the bedside.
The Judge was propped up on pillow,
his pale, sharp features standing out
prominently. The Rev. Mr.. White
took his stand near the head of the bed,
the contracting couple standing nearer
the foot and facing the father. Quietly
the clergyman read the marriage cere-
mony, his voice sounding strangely
solemn in the subdued apartment.
When he had concluded and pro-
nounced Nathan 8. White and Ella
Bouic man and wife, the dying man
gave sigh of relief and fell back ex-
hausted. Approaching closer, the
daughter leaned over tenderly and
kissed her father, whose hand was
firmly compressed in that of his attend
ant physician and new son-in-law. 1t
was an impressive, touching scene as
the Judge lay in his bed in sight of the
courthouse where he had presided
in honor and dignity for fifteen years.
Miss Ella is the favorite daughter OF
Judge Bouic. For years he has not
been able to see well enough to read,
and it was she who read to him IN his
dry researches of the law IN the dis
charge of his judicial capacity. DIR.
White. the groom, has been engaged
for about four years to Miss Ella. he
is about forty years old, and has a
large practice in Dawsonville, small
town about ten miles from Rockville.
At a late hour tonight the judge is
resting easier, but it is feared that he
will not survive till morning.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
Preserved CitrOn Melon.

P.are. core and cug into slices some
fine oitron melon. Weigh them; to q
pound of melon allow pound of refined
sugar, for twelve pounds OF sugar and
melon combined, allow the juice and
grated rind of four large lemons and a
quarter of a pound of root ginger. Boil
the slices of melon half an hour OF
more, till they look quite clear and are
so tender that broom straw Will pierce
them. Then drain them and lay IN a
pan of cold water, cover them and let
stand sll night. In the morning tie the
root ginger in a thin muslin cloth ana
boil ID three pints of clear water TILL the
water is highly favored; take out the
bag Of ginger and pour the water over
the sugar, now put these in the preserv-
ing kettle. Set over the fire, put III the
grated peel of lemons, boil and skim 1t
till no skum rises. Then put IN the
sliced citrons and the juice of the
lemons. boil them in the syrup till all
are transparent and soft, but do not
break them. When done put the slices,
still warm, into jars and pour over the
Gvrun
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
The Samoan Islands.

Mr.. August Goddefroy, director OF the
German Commercial and Plantation So
ciety of the South Sea Islands, who is
now in this country on his way to Ger
many, gives an amusing explanation of
the fact that the Samoans won't work
and the company's 1aborers have to be
imported from the Hebrides, Solomon
and New Britain Islands. "The Sa-
moans do nothing most of the time, "
says Mr.. Goddefroy, "and when they
are tired OF that they get up fight
The young fellows see that the stock of
pigs and yams is a plentiful one, then
they begin talking politics, take down
their rifles and declare war. The last
campaign between the King and anti
King parties lasted five months, and re-
suited in three persons being killed by
accident. Bless you, they never fight
for yiciousness, but just for the fun of
the thing.
s"They dig deep trenches about two
miles apart, and in these sheltering
bitches keep popping away at every
thing that looks like head. Then,
when the pigs and yams are exhausted.
they conclude it's about time for the
war to end, yell out that the sport is
over, and go home. The Samoans can
not be said to rank among the most USE
full of mankind, but they live in para
disc. There is land to cultivate that will
yield fortune by cultivation, but it
takes another fortune to wait for the
second to accrue. My interests are CEN
tired there, SO that I speak advisedly
when say that, admirable field as it is
for the commercial capitalist, Samoa
cannot yet be considered the promised
and for the settler"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
Convicted.

The case of Colonel Charles Il.
Houghton, Perth Amboy's Collector OF
Customs, who was indicted for trans
m1tting to the Secretary of the Treasury
false and forged payrols, with intent to
defraud the government, which has oc-
cupied the attention of the United
States Court for twelve days, was given
to the jury at Trenton on Friday. The
jury took two ballots, the first being III
for conviction, not guilty and l blank.
On the second ballot all voted for ver-
dict of guilty with recommendation to
mercy. The defendant who was IN
court when the verdict was announced,
did not manifest any emotion. Through
out the trial he looked pale and care
worn. Much sympathy is expressed for
him, especially by the members OF the
Grand Army of the Republic, an asso-
citation in which he always took a lead
ing part. and was at one time its COM
mandant.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
Easy Come, Easy Go.

Turf, Field and Farm has this item ::
The father of a young man who recently
lost $15O,O00 by gambling, was very
close man. When I was boy" says
one who knew him, che hired me to pick
cherries. He weighed me before went
up into the tree, and he requested me
to step on the scales when came down.
was one pound heavier than when /
ascended, and he deducted the price OF
pound of cherries from my wages.
The next day I got even with him. ]
filed my pockets with stones previous
to being weighed, and I threw then
away after climbing the tree. ate
twice as many cherries as did the day
before, and yet the old gentleman wa'
unable to chalk anything up egainst me
when L came down. The boys of the
neighborhood soon found out the trick
and then the old man applied the scale tes
in vain." The boy who risked fortune
on cards, does not place as much valu
on dollar as his sire did. Easy come
| easy 90.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
Trihing.

An application of novel character
was made to the magistrate of London
police court not long since. A woman
stated that she wanted a summons
against another woman in whose house
she lodged. In answer to an inquiry as
to what she required the summons Tor,
the applicant explained that her land
lady annoyed her by ''a nasty sort oil
laugh" The magistrate was himself an
noyed at his time being thus taken up
unnecessarily, and declined to grant
summons against the offending land
lady. "n," he observed, II had to
grant summonses for such nonsense as
this, L do not know how the business ol
the court would be got through.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
The Press Gang.

Privates in the United States military
service who have disappeared from San
Francisco without leaving any trace of
their whereabouts are now supposed to
have been kidnapped by press gangs for
service on English vessels. A private
named Mcclure was thus treated re-
Gently. He was piled With drugged
drink, taken aboard British ship, and
when he came to his senses was informed
that he had agreed to go along on a
voyage to Cork as a man before the
mast. His efforts to communicate with
his officers ashore were fruitless until he
fastened letter to piece of wood and
threw it aboard passing steamer. The
letter reached its destination, aud caused
the mans release through the interfer-
ence of Government officials and the
British Consul.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
Ben Butler on Bunting.

In speech in Boston. Gen. Butler
spoke of one Of his enterprises as fol-
lows
What is the history of the bunting in
dustry in this country ? After the war
was over the Secretary of the Navy
asked me If we could not make bunting
in Lowell, saying, what was true, that
no American ship or American soldier,
at that time, had ever fought under q
yard of American bunting. In this
country, all through the war, we had
been paying $36 piece for bunting,
and we used many thousand yards with
our enormous armies and our extended
Navy, and he asked if it could not be
made here. I said: 'tMr. Secretary,
we can make in Lowell anything that
was ever made out of wool. will Ro up
and see. And so / called to me two
young gentlemen and said, "Can't you
make bunting?" And I brought them
q piece of English bunting. They said
they thought they could and they would
try the experiment. said, ''very well"
-one of them was a working mani
will lend you capital to start the matter,
to try the experiment.. They began. the
experiment. and at the end of six
months they produced bunting which I
took to Washington. It was hung out
on pole day and night by the side of
piece of English bunting, and was pro-
nounced by the verdict of the officer of
the Navy who had the matter in charge
to be better than any English bunting.
And then could sell it to them for $17
a piece instead of $56. What was the
effect? This same bunting mill at that
time was the sole nufactory in my
place that ran ten hours a Gay only.
What then? There was a large pro-
tective duty on bunting. What did it
do? It so stimulated production that
where 100 looms for the first three years
was substantially all that was required
to produce all the bunting wanted in
the United States, year or two ago
there we're 13, 600 bunting looms run
ming in the United States, and the mat
ter was wholly overdone, and most of
them failed, and we should have failed
if we hadn't quit the enterprise and
gone into dress goods for ladies. Now,
when anybody else talks about this, l
want them to talk with knowledge.
Now, 1 will answer the other question,
"Is bunting a necessity or a luxury ?"
1t is prime necessity for those brave
soldiers and sailors who follow it to the
front and meet the enemy, looking
upon its glorious folds as their inspira-
ton, a1d as the emblem of the power
and the glory of their country. But to
the stay at home politicians that never
did 60 to war and never would it is
positive luxury.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
To their friends and the
wagon purchasing public,
GREETING.

Believing that the COun-
ty of LamOilIe could and
would support a good
Wagon business, we pur-
chased i'm 1881 the largest
and best stock ever brought
into this County.
Our expectations were
more than realized our
trade was much larger than
we had any reason to eX-
pect. This encouragement
has been so flattering that
we have again personally
visited the manufactures
of some OF the largest and
best makers, and selected
another complete stock,
consisting i'm part of
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emily, with little sigh of despair, she

subsided into silence.
Now was the eventful moment OF my
destiny.
cecilia p said, softly.
She raised the liquid brown eyes to
mine.
"I want to confde in you tonight.
Have your permission to speak %
Certainly, Mr.. Markham.
&c am very much in love, Cecilia. In
fact, my heart has long ago gone out OF
my own possession into that of ="
stopped, with the fatal husky feel
ing in my throat. Cecilia was blushing
divinely. I drew my chair close to hers,
with the sensation of man who had
just pulled the string of cold shower
bath.
''Who is the lady p faltered Cecilia.
ss if she didn't know perfectly well al
ready,
"Shall I show you her picture ~ Ce-
ella.
Miss Vernon inclined her head al.
most to the level of my shoulder to look
at the little carte de visite 1 drew from
my pocket.
skillfully stole one arm round her
wsist.
"See, dearest p
But, to my horror and dismay. she
snatched her hand from my clasp,
sprang up and started away, like some
fair avenging goddess.
GLOW dare you insult me thus, Mr..
Markham ?"
Cecilia How-what-"
"Don't presume to call me Cecilia,
| sir p sobbed the indignant girl, burst
ing into tears and sweeping from the
room.
I sat like one palsied. What had 7
done? Why was the gracious mood of
my enchantress thus suddenly trans
formed to gall and bitterness ? Surely
she would presently return and apollo
gize for her capricious exit?
But she did not return and, after
waiting long in vain, I sneaked out of
side door, and crept deiectedly home,
my heart burning with wonder and re-
sentiment. l had no mind to meet the
assembled family group, so admitted
myself with the latch-key and stole
noiselessly up stairs, where my lamp
still burned-the lamp l had lighted
with such high and bounding hopes.
1 threw off my coat viciously. AS I
did so the forgotten carte de visite
dropped from my pocket. stopped to
pick it up. It was the portrait of Bes-
sic Armitage.
And there on the mantel, where in
my needless haste had left it, was the
divine countenance of my queen, Ce-
ella
I had showed her the wrong photo
graph.
Ali was clear now. Her indignation
and resentment-the whole tangled web
of mystery was Huraweled now. I caught
up my hat to rush back to her, but at
hat moment the clock struck eleven.
1t was too late now. All apology and
CA ApldudbtOn muob US llC1CIICu uutl tn6
morrow. And with a discontented
spirit l sought my couch.
Early the next morning walked over
to the old Vernon man sion; but expe,
ditious as was, Trefoil had been there
before me. I met him coming whistling
down the walk, as self possessed as
ever.
"Good-morning," I said briefly, en-
deavoripg to pass him. But he de-
tanned me.
Congratulate me, my dear fellow. 1
am the happiest man in the world. Ce-
ella Vernon has just promised to be my
wife,"
Well-so goes the world, and am
bachelor yet. There is but one Cecilia
and she, alas is married to Hugh Ire
foil.
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A PROCLAMATION.

By the President of the United States
of America,
PROCLAMATION.
In accordance with q custom, the arl-
nual observance of which is Justly held
in honor by this people, I, Chester A,
Arthur, President of the United States,
do hereby set apart Thursday, the 30th
day of November next, as day of pub
lie thanksgiving.
The blessings demanding our graft
tude are numerous and varied. For the
peace and smity which subsist between
this Repub lie and oil the nations of the
world for the freedom from internal
discord and violence for the increasing
friendship between the different sections
OF the lands = for the liberty, justice
and constitutional government for the
devotion of the people to our free insti-
tutions and their cheerful obedien ce to
mild laws; for the constantly increasing
strength of She Republic while ex-
tending its privileges to fellow men
who come to us; for the improved
means OF internal communication
and the increased facilities of inter-
course with other nations for the gen.
eral prevailing health of the year for
the prosperity of all our industries, the
liberal return for the mechanics toll,
sffording market for the abundant
harvests Of the husbandman for the
preservation of the national faith and
credit for wise and generous provision
TO effect the intellectual and moral edu-
cation of our youth for the influence
upon the conscience of a restraining
and Transforming religion, and for the
joys of home. For these and for many
other blessings we should give thanks.
Wherefore, I do recommend that the
day above designated be observed
throughout the country as day of
national thanksgiving and prayer, and
that the people, ceasing from their daily
labors, and meeting in accordance with
their several forms of worship, draw
near to the throne of Almighty God,
offering to him praise and gratitude for
the manifold goodness which He has
vouchsafed to US, and praying that His
blessings and His mercles may continue.
And l do further recommend that the
day thus appointed be made special
occasion for deeds of kindness and char.
ity to the suffering and the needy, SO
that all who dwell within the land may
rejoice and be glad in this season of ma.
tional thanksgiving.
In witness whereof / have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
twenty-ff5h day of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and eighty-two, and of the inde-
pendence of the United States the one
hundred and seventh.
L.s. CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
By the President-FREDERIoK Il.
FREIINGHuYsEN. Secretary of State.
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DISLLL USION,

All. what would youth be doing,
10 hoist his crimson sails,
To leave the wood doves cooing
The song of nightingales
To leave this woodland quiet
For murmuring winds at strife,
For waves that foam and riot
About the seas of life2
From still bays silver sanded
Wild currents hasten down,
To rocks where ships are stranded
And eddies where men drown.
Far out, by hills surrounded,
Is the golden haven gate,
And all beyond unbounded
Are shoreless seas of fate.
They steer for those far highlands
Across the summer tide,
And dream of fairy islands
Upon the further side.
They only see the sunlight,
The flashing of gold bars,
But the other side is moonlight,
And glimmer of pale stars.
They will not heed the warning
Blown back on every wind,
For hope is born with morning,
The secret is behind.
Whirled through in wild confusion
They pass the narrow strait
To the sea of dlsillusion
That lies beyond the gate.
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After the Navy.

The Philadelphia Times says:-It is
hoped that during the bl-centennlal Gel
ebration the large steam-tugs chat ply
between the breakwater and the city
will keep away from the immediate
vicinity of the North Atlantic Squadron,
which will be anchored somewhere be-
tween the Delaware avenue wharves
and Smiths Island. Should the big
tugs by any accident get between the
war vessels and the wharves, the naval
officers might look upon it as dellber-
ate attempt to conceal the navy from
view. Clearly, the tugs should be sent
somewhere down the coast until the
celebration is over.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09

HIS PENsIoN.-Mr. Lewis W. Ayres,
who was Corporal in the Second New
Jersey Volunteer Cavalry, has relin-
quished his pension because his disa-
bilities do not prevent him from earning
livelihood for himself and family. In
his letter to Commissioner Dudley he
says: eff the time ever comes when ]
shall not be able to get living without
assistance from the United States Gov.
ernment the case will be different, but
I cannot conscientiously accept money
from the Government in my present
condition"