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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

P. o. Cats. Many people will be
surprised to learn that the Post Office
Department has on its pay roll about
1000 cats which are regularly in its
employ throughout the country, and
are paid for their services with food and
shelter. These estimable creatures
make themselves very useful by keep
ing rats and mice out of the mail mat
ter. Their number and the cost of their
maintenance are strictly accounted for,
and when any one of them declares a
dividend that fact is duly reported, and
provision is made for the newcomers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24
$4,000 REWARD

Will be paid for the detection and SON
viction of any person selling or dealing
in any bogus, counterfeit or imitation
HoP BrrTEBs, especially Bitters. or
preparations with the word HoP or
HOPS in their name, or connected there
with, that is intended to mislead and
cheat the public, or for any preparation
put in any form pretending to be the
same as HOP BrrTERs. The genuine
have cluster of GREEN HOPS (uotioe
this) printed on the white label, and are
the purest and best medicine on earth,
especially for Kidney, Liver and Ner.
vous Diseases. Beware of all others,
and of all pretended formulas Of recipes
of HOP BrrrEBs published in papers, o,
for sale, as they are frauds and swim
dies. Whoever deals in any but the
genuine will be prosecuted.
HoP BIT7rERs MIRO. Co.,
Rochester, N. 7,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24
Tennyson's' May Queen,

Who knows that if the beautiful girl who died
so young had been blessed with DR.. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" she might have
"Favorite Prescription" is q certain cure TO,
all those disorders to which females are liable
By druggists,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

mEN5LAN ) ETIONINID III IVE1
preparation of beef containing its entire nuh-a-
tious properties. 1t contains b~lood-making,
force generating and DEMONSTRATING properties
Invaluable for Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostitution, and all forms Of general debility
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly II resultlne
rom pulmonary complaints. Casvell, Hazard d
Co., proprietor; New York. Sold by druggists
We attract hearts by the qualities we dis
play; we retain them by the qualities We pos
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24
COACHES were first used in England in 1856!
Is ronR hair falling out or your scalp dis

Is your halr 1aIIhg QUE OF your scalp us.
eased? Carboline, a deodorized extract OF
petroleum, as now improved and perfected, is
Just the article you need. Buy a bottle, and,
like thousands who are using it all over the
land, you will value it as the choicest of al
toilet DreDaration9,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

If THE blood be impoverished, as manif ested
by pimples, eruptions, ulcers. or running sores,
scrofulous tumors, wellings or general debility,
take DR.. r. V. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery.' Sold by druggists.
KEROSENE was first used for Lighting pur-
poses in 1896,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

ALWAYS look on the right side a
mighty ugly hired girl can ring the bell
for a mighty good dinner. -Steu6en-
vile Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

THE Richmond (Va.) State writes
Ex-Mayor J. A. Gentry, Manchester,
this State, was cured of rheumatism by
st, Jacobs Oil.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

WE know from experience st. Jacobs
Oil will ure rheumatism .-Pe Oria
(IW.) PeOrSan, !
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

IF kerosene oil was selling for q cent
a gallon some man who had no chance
to sink $50, 600 in a daily newspaper
would set about driving a new well.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24
SEPT. 14th, 1880.

Hop Biters Co., Toronto
have been sick for the past six years, suf-
fering from dyspepsia and general weakness.
] have used three bottles of Hop Bitters, and
they have done wonders for me. l am well
and able to work, aud eat and sleep well. 1
cannot say too much for Hop Bitters.
SIMON ROBBINS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

PoTTsvILLE, Pa, Sept. %, 1881. I
Il. n. WARNER & Co.: SirS-I have suffered
for many years with Inflammation of the
kidneys and bladder, and have never found
your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
Mrs. MARY STAGER.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

We must learn to submit with grace to the
follics which depend upon character.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

To REPENT without mending ones
ways is to pump out the ship without
stopping the leak.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24
RESCUED FROM DEATH.

Singing, ,marting, irritation of the urinary
passages, diseased discharges, cured by Buchu
paiba. 81 at druggists. Prepaid by express
S1.25, 6 for IS. E.. s. WELLS, Jersey City, N. j
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

A CALIFORNIA town has a "Young
Ladies' Society for the Prevention of
Bad Taste" The first thing they did
was to go and see Guiteau hanged in
effigy.-BOstOn Post.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

WHEN we say there is nothing new under the
sun, we do not count forgotten things.-E.
Thierry.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24
MrNsMAN,s PEproNIzEp REEF TONIC. the onl

The destiny of nations depends upon the
manner in which they feed Themselves Bril-
Iot-SavariD
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

IF YOU are a f~requenter or a resident of a
miasmatic district, barricade your system
against the scourge of all new countrles-ague.
bilious and intermittent fevers-by the use OF
Hon Bitters,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

Ihave sold Hop Bitters for four years, and
there is no medicine that surpasses them for
bilious attacks, kidney complaints and many
diseases incident to this malarial climate.
Fl IT ATFYANDFR
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24
Well Once More.
SAL EAST ARCH STREET,

If all the hearts were frank, just and honest
the major part of the virtues would be useless
70 nc NTo1iara
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

Great men are like meteors they glitter and
are consumed to ~enlighten the world.-Napo-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24
Hostetter's Stomach

Hostetter,s Stomach
Bitters e~xtlrpates
dysnoDsio -.
dyspepsia "lnsreal-
er certainty and
promptitude than
an~Lnow,, .onaasn
any hnoWn me
and Is a o genial
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

IT IS NOT wise to reject benefits when
they may be refused.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

he who strikes a beggar with q club
in place of a cold dinner will hit the
case oftener than he misses it.-Detroit
Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

For SPECIAL RATES for advertising in this paper
apply to the publisher of the paper. t3S
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-24

$1,000 REWARD for proof of the exist
ence OF a better liniment than
"Merchant's Gargling Oil" or o
Vs%7H better worm medicine than
ny merchants Worm Tablets. Man
~ ~A ufactured by NJ. g. o. Co., Lock-
A~&&x21ERx% port, N. Y, U. s. A.
LoHM HODGE. Sec,x.
The National tribune., 1882-09-16
COMMISSIONER LORING.
His Address Before the Iowa State Agricultur
iasoefatFoD

| His Address Before the Iowa State Agricultural
| Association.
| Special Correspondence National Tribune.
DEs MONIES, Iowa, Sept IL, 1S32.-Hon. Geo.
B. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, ar
rived in the city On the 8th inst and delivered
an address at the annual fair of the State Agri-
! cultural Association. Senator Allison, Con-
gresham Kasson, Judge Cole, and other dis
tinguished gentlemen occupied seats upon the
platform. Alr. Loring expressed desire to
encourage all associated endeayor with regard
to the industry represented by the audience.
he believed in their great associations, which
had done SO much toward helping the agricul-
turist to exercise that thought, sound iudg-
ment, prudence and careful consideration,
which they were to-day exercising with SO
much profit TO themselves and their business
in life. Farming is largely an experimental
art, in which new laws and facts are constantly
discovered by societies, schools, and associa-
tions of every description. We would assist
the farmer in this calling. DR.. Ioring said he
was the more inclined to do this because he
recognized the fact that agriculture lies at the
foundation Of State and society in every coun-
try, and especially in our own, where for many
years it was almost our only industry, supply
ing us with our revenue and feeding our fam
lies and clothing the strong men who gave us
our nationality. 1t was cluster of agricul-
tural colonies which secured our independence
! The speaker then followed with an elaborate
account Of the growth Of agriculture in America
and its Importance as q factor in holding the
balance of trade in our favor. He believed that
this unusual and extraordinary prosperity is
due undoubtedly to many causes-our diversity
OF soil and climate and the variety Of our crops
and the economy with which new and fertile
lands can be cultivated, the artificial causes
being the advantages Of local and general mar
kcts, and the relations established between the
farmer and the soil he cultiyates by the inde-
pendent ownership of land under the laws of
our country. DR.. Loripg concluded his very
instructive address by appealing to the farmers
present to exercise economy and skill and de-
yotion in the management of their business,
and openmindodness in their inVesti cations,
assuring them that the kind Of prosperity
which would attend them rs a community
could not be surpassed by that Of any other in
dustry on earth, however imposing and attract
i've it might be. There were fully 80 1000 peo-
pie on the ground.
The National tribune., 1882-09-16
TWO BATTLES IN EGYPT.
General WOlSeley Captures One Of the
Egyptian StrOnghOldS,
A DESPERATE STRUGGLE.
Arab Compelled to Retreat
After a Sharp Fight.

IsMAILIA, Sept. 13.-Tel-El- -Kebir was car
ried this morning with a rush. The first shot
was fired at o'clock. The position was taken
in 20 minutes, we having surprised the enemy
by night march. The enemy are in full re-
treat.
TEL-EL-KEBIR, Sept. Is, AS a. m.-General
Wolsely has arrived on the ground. The ar
tillery opened fire before the enemy were
aware of our presence. The infantry immedi-
ately after pressed forward, deploying and
opening fire from sheltered position. At this
moment the battle is raging fercely so far as
firing is concerned, but the men have not yet
come to close quarters with the rebels.
9 a. m.-The great battle is practically over.
The rebels discovered our men when about q
mile from their works and opened a heavy
rifle fire. Our men paused for moment on
the line of the sand hills, then with gallant
rush they were among the rebels. Acting on
General Wolseley's orders they reserved their
fire and went in with the bayonet. The
slaughter for the time was very great. The
rebels could not stand it, and broke and fed,
pursued hotly. l followed the Royal Irish
regiment into the trenches before one of the
forts. They were filed with Arabrs followers,
dead and dying. The first rush was made over
distance of two hundred yards, the men skir-
mishing and seeking cover until they reached
this point. Several thousand Egyptians have
been taken prisoners. Our own loss up to this
time l should compute at 200 killed.
LAST WEEKS BATTLE.
LONDON, September 9.-General Wolseley
and Arab Bey measured forces to-day at Kas-
sasin. The reconnaissance yesterday showed
Arab preparing to give battle in advance of
his main position, as he was seen moving
troops forward. The British were ready there
fore at o'clock this morning when the scouts
and Bengal Lancers entered camp with the re-
port that the Egyptians in great force were ad-
vancing on the north side of the railway The
troops were at once put in motion, and by 7
o'clock an artillery duel began. Arabis troops
of all arms were spread over the entire ridge,
and mile and a half up the line train heav-
ily armed appeared. Arabis troops numbered
about 1900 men with twelve guns.
The attack was made on both flanks. The
gunners on both sides got the range exactly
and shells were seen to burst right over the
Egyptian ranks, while their shells dropped
steadily in the British camp. The British
horse artillery extended along line half a
mile. BY noon the attSck was repulsed, but
the action continued along the front, dis
tance of three miles, for some time longer.
While the engagement was going on very eff
fective reconnaissance of the enemy's position
at Tel-el-kebir was made. The total casual
ties are not yet exactly known, but the British
loss is roughly estimated at 100 killed and
wounded. Five guns and many prisoners were
captured.
The National tribune., 1882-09-16
George Morgan on lookout Mountain.

Back among the years when the greenwood
had more maguolias and fewer aXe-marks,
when our grandfathers sweetened their Sun
days with soft kisses and hard cider, with every
goose swan and every lass queen, certain
old Cherokee lived in cabin on the Lookout
Summit. Sharp Briar had seen enough of the
ways of the pale-face to want his children to
be civilized, and yet he loved to thrill them
with stories of the chase, the bite of the ar
row, the leap from the precipice and the warm
blood of the buck dripping into pools at the
foot of the cliff. So it happened that one day
Chief John Ross heard Sharp Briar tell the
young men how thunder had hurled an oak
from the mountain top clear into the Ten
nessee, two miles below.
Brother" said Ross, whose English was as
pure as his heart thunder does no harm; the
white fire that flies ahead kills and the noise
is as empty as the head of a Seminole"
" Hoch J." grunted the old man; "no killin'
thunder?"
"No; thunder docs not kill"
Sharp Briar was 10th to take such science
homo to his children, nor did he ever reach
home with it, for ho was dashed that night
from Sunset Rock by a thunderbolt that shook
the mighty mountain. In like manner was
poor old Joe Hooker taken back, / thought, as
| sat on the porch of the little house at the
point and took the yarn i'll at one ear not
to let it out at the other
Here had Hooker fought his battle with the
clouds around him-an action in mid-air, a fierce
combat even hard by the very archway of the
upper world-and pTosy Grant, with the glory
Of dozen victories reflected from his shining
blade, came to say that no battle ever was
fought on Loolout-that there was no "lIiil-
ing thunder" in that air on the 9th of No
vcmber, 1868. / beg to putitd down in blacl, and
white, that even though the fight was
heavy sllirmish only, it is likely to be written
about even above the grimuess Of Ficksburg,
the havoc of Spottsylyania or the masterIy
work on the Appomattox. Hooker's men
pressed into darl, folds Of mist, breasted hidden
foes took iron hail thundered down in battle
smoke from batteries overhead, and in the
midst Of satanic uproar won the great strong
hold.
The National tribune., 1882-09-16
THE PENSION BUREAU.

! An Official Resume of its Operations up TO the
Close Of the last Fiscal Year.
Gen. ". w. Dudley, Commissioner of PEN
siOns, returned from his New England trip on
Saturday last, in capital health and spirits, and
at once resumed the active duties of his office.
The employment of so many new clerks neces-
sarily devolves upon the old employees great
deal of extra work in the way of training the
new appointees in the routine of their positions,
and for some time to come it is not likely that
there will be any marked increase in the num-
Der of claims adjusted from week to week. 1t
requires nearly, if not quite, six months steady
experience to make capable examiner out of a
new appointee and in the meantime he is, III one
sense, clog upon the machinery of the Office.
Commissioner Dudley's annual report Of the
operations of the Pension Bureau for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1892 is now being pre-
pared for transmission to the Secretary of the
Interior. The following statistics, taken from
the official figures, embrace the principal points
of interest:
During the fiscal year ending June Both,
40939 original claims for pension and 34148
claims for increase of pension were filed, max
ing the total number of claims filed 75, ,0S7.
There were allowed during the year 1864
original applications, and 1O,231 for increase of
pensions received favorable action.
The total number of claims rejected, includ-
ing the claims for increase Of pensions, was
q, ,295, making the total disposed of So, 100.
There remain pending PCS, ,675 original appli-
cations and 21, ,2SS applications for increase of
pension. These figures, however, do not in
clude 75,26S claims which are on the rejected
files Of the office.
The total amount paid for pensions during
the year, including the cost of disbursement,
was So, ,296, ,28O.54.
The total number of pensions on the roll is
2S5, ,697, gain over the previous year of 6667.
The total amount paid by the Government
for pensions from 1871 to 1861 was $S1, $780,
455.50. The total amount paid from 1861 to
June so, 1882, was $560,641, ,32475 Ont of this
amount and since 1871, $25, ,234, ,232 SIS has been
paid to the survivors of the war of 1912 and to
the widows of those who served during that
war. Deducting this latter amount and esti-
mating that which may have been paid to
pensioners on account of the wars prior to 1861
and 1865, about $53O,00OOOO have been dis
bursed on account of pensions.
In the distribution of pensioners now on the
roll they are classified as follows:
Inva I75 499
Widows minors and dependent relatives 78,z03
Survivors OF the war 7l3i
..... ................ 2455l
The business of the Pension Office, it may
safely be said, was never so Systematically con-
Quoted as now, under the administration of
Commissioner Dudley.
The National tribune., 1882-09-16

for rsMaryland of the Garfield monument; also,
James A. Gary, Adam Z. King, c. c. Fulton,
James Hodges, John z. Hurst and Henry C..
Smith in connection with the National Indus
trial and Art Exposition at Washington for the
benefit of the same fund.
Work on the new post Office building at
Pittsburg progresses very slowly. The post
Office examining comnrttee state that the old
Office is badly arranged, dingy and crowded
The reorganization of the clerical force, as
recommended, provides for eight new clerks
and increases the pay of eight others.
The Board of Directors of the Garfield Monu-
ment Fair, at its last meeting, discussed the
ways and means of reaching the objects OF the
undertaking. subcommittee was appointed
to consider the amount of space at the disposal
of the Board, and make such allotment Of
space to various States as deemed most prac-
ticahIa
The National tribune., 1882-09-16
Grand Army Notes.

j. P Shepard Post was mustered at Menasha,
Wis, on the 8th inst, with large number of
charter members.
]. NJ. Brown, No. 285, is the name of new
Post G. A. R., organized at Jamestown, n. Y.
Post No. 1, G. A. r., of Philadelphia buried
at their own expense the remains of Owen A.
Strann, soldier of good record, who died of
injuries received in that city.
Post No. 2, G. A. R., of Philadelphia, will
give an excursion to Fort Delaware next Mon
day. There will be target exhibition for
$500 worth of prizes.
Morton Post, No. 1, at Terra Haute, Ind, is
now in good condition. Its members are
gradually increasing in numbers, and it is
hoped that before long every good and hOnora-
BILE ex-soldier will identify himself with the
G.. 4, r.
The National tribune., 1882-09-16
The Plain Of the Journey Of Death.
From the FL Paso Heral,

FROM int II hSp AlCiiitln
Nearly every one has read Of the Journey of
Death, ninety miles wide, located in the
western part of New Mexico 1t is q plain
covered with grass and delig htful to the eye,
but was for some years entirely devoid OF
water. The soil was of a peculiarly porous
quality. but would not hold the rain that fell
on the surface. 1t was the great bug-bear Of
emgrants travelling through the Southwest,
hundreds Of whom, with their cattle, have
perished with thirst within its confines. Some
individual, however, went over il prospecting
for water and finally, after eXPcnding some
thousands Of dollars, succeeding in striking an
abundance Of water in a well dug about midway
OF the plain, where he made considerable
money supplying emigrants with water. The
Government afterward bought the well,
making IL free, paying the owner very com
Portable sum for it. Since that, however, the
railroad has been built across the plain and
the company has dug innumorable wells, so
that the plain has become a real grazing
ground.
The National tribune., 1882-09-16
England's Pension Roll.

An interesting list of British annuities and
pensions has just been issued. Over and above
payments of the civil list, members of the royal
family receive G161,0 For pensions for
naval and military services the government
pays f3S, 1856; for political and civil services
go ,43f; for judicial services in Great Britain,
f4l,225; for judicial services in Ireland,
t22 4G7; for diplomatic services, 48,173; mis-
cellaneous pensions, 99,095, and hereditary
pensions, 46184. OF the naval and military
pensions, the f5 900 of Earl Nelson and the
$4,000 of the Duke of Marlborough are in
tended to run to the end of time like the f984
Of the Duke of Schomberg's heirs, the fl 200 of
the heirs of Captain Garth and the $4,000 to
the heirs of William Penn. The Duke of
Wellington's $4,000 ceases after the death of
the next holder of the title. Lord Eversley
draws $1,000, Lady Elgin 81 900, Lady Mayo
$1,000, Mr. Miner Gibson $4,000, Mr.. Spencer
WaIpole 50 600, Lord Clarence Paget fl,95O,
Mr.. Charles Villiers Il ,950 Earl Cairns f5, 600,
and six retired judges and a number of ex-
county court judges draw various sums.