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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
Why the Men Won't Dance.

A general wall goes up at the scarcity
OF the male element at Washington par
ties which opens up vast subject-the
customs of society which drive men out
CT it. A local journal says 1.-THE Ger
man has disorganized everything. A
man may go to ball to amuse himself,
but when it comes to amusing himself
according to the directions of ballet
master, called the leader it is al
together a different thing. He must
dance whether he feels like it or not; he
must take out those who have taken
him out and taken him ia by so doing.
He must be always on the alert; there is
none of that fascinating softness of re-
pose, that sweet forgeUfulness which is
the subtle charm of dancing. We have
got the German, but we have given up
dancing. No wonder that men had
rather be chopped to pieces than &c
into society where the German prevails,
and grim and solid phalanx of nam
mas line the walls to see that no man
dances twice with the girl he wants to.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
A GiIded Youth.

A New York correspondent writes as
follows:-I cannot refrain from giving
you picture of society beau as he
appeared IN after dinner costume to bid
a young lady good-by before sailing for
England. He is tall and very slender,
and his chestnut hair is parted in the
middle. His white vest is cut low, and
his dress coat and trousers are of the
freshest broadcloth. On the first finger
of one large, shapely hand sparkle dia-
monds, sapphires, rubies and cat's-eyes.
On the other hand is large red cats
eye. His patent leather ties show en-
broidered silk hose. E[e enters the
drawing-room with his opera hat in his
hand, a jeweled match box with his
monogram upon it, and his cane with q
large topaz in its head. This latter he
is careful to keep in his hand, if he is
unattended by his valet, although it is
usual for that iunetionary to await him
in the hall, holding cloak and cane.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
Kangaroo and Young.

The old doe kangaroos have habit,
when closely pressed by their enemies,
of pulling their young ones from their
hiding place in the maternal pouch and
throwing them away and have, accord
ingly, by some authors been placed at
the bottom of the scale of animal life,
as deficient in natural affections but
this want of maternal instinct is more
apparent than real, for the poor mother
invariably, if she escapes with her life,
returns to pick up her joey as soon as
the coast is clear, having probably cast
it away for time in order to preserve
both their lives, knowing that the pur-
suers would neglect its slender form in
their eager chase of herself, who, tenn
porarily relieved of her burden, could
also more readily escape so that, in
reality, it is true affection, and not the
want of it, that prompts the old kan
CARGO to act in the apparently un-
natural manner peculiar to her race.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.

NEW YORK MARKET.
The Wholesale New York market quotations
show
BEANS Prime. $-@$3. 80; fair to good,
$3.00@$3.20 per bushel.
BUrTER-New York sold at 40@42c. for
choice in pals, and 33037c. common to good I;
Western sold at -@44c.. and the common
Western at 150D20c.
CHEEsE-Factory fancy, 12Ic. (D13c; do.
fair to good, 9(@l0c.
EGGs-Quotations ranged from 1870 for or
binary, to TIC. for New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
Flour Superfine, S3.82@$450 Western
81 600$5.10; extra New York, $4.G0@S5. co.
HAY-Shipplng, 60@65c.; clover, 5O@60c.;
salt, 65c.; straw, 45@50c.
HoPs-New York, 24@25c.; Eastern, l6@
&C.; yearlings 10@l5c.; olds, 7@15c.
PETROLEUM Refined, 79Se.; crude, CSC
738c. in bulk in barrels I4e: 5. naphtha, 6%4c
PoRK-New mess, $17.50@$18.00; dressed
hogs, $40. @85sc.
WHEAT-Spring No. 5, $1.24@1 rs; Mil
waukee, No. @ $1.S6; amber, $1.32@S1. 40 !;
white, 81 32@$1. 33H.
RYE-State, S6@87c.
WooL-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia,
xxx, 45O46c.; Xxx, 42C045c.; X, 42@43c.; No.
!, 45@47c.; No. 2, 38@40c.; common, 33@35c. /;
New York and Western Xxx and X, 39@i513c.;
No. 1, 44@45c.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
FLOUR - State family, S6.OUC0Sb.25; rye
flour, b OATS; wheat, State, $l.40@
SLAB; amber, SLAB; corn, yellow, 7519c.,
mixed State, 75c.
PETROLEUM Refined, 71(c.; crude &c.
WOoL-S State and Western XXX, 46@5tc.i X,
4704Sc.; medium, 50@51c.; coarse, 45c,
BOSTON MARKET.
FLoUR-From $40O@S525 for low and
medium to $4.75@$7 25 for choice Minnesota.
Corn S0081c. for mixed and yellow.
BUTTER - Common, 1Sc@35c Vermont
dairy, 35@40c.; choice creamery, 41@43c. D..
CHEEsE-7@1334c.
BEANS SO. 55@$S.65.
HAY-Choice. $19@$21.
CATTLE MARKETS.
BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality, $3.50
95 80 hogs, fair to good, $6.s0@$695; best,
1920.
EAST LIBERTY. PENN Best cattle, $6.25(9
1875 ;medium to good, S.. 25@$6.00; common
| to fair $4.25@$5.00; Hogs, Workers, 5000
1880; Philadelphias, $7.50@$76O. Sheep,
S615@$6.z5.
WATERTowN, Mass Cattle, choice, so. ESQ
$3.50; extra, $s.25@$9O0; first quality,
S7.5O0$9.00; second quality, $5.5O@$1OO;
third quality, $4.50@$5.O0. Sheep and lambs
wool sheep, $2.5O@$5.50; extra, Sc GOO
$3.50; spring lambs, 5@714c. Veal calves,
3c.@Tc. 10
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
The Original Gerrymander.

Now that half dozen State legisla-
lures are showing violent partisanship
in recognizing Congressional districts,
it is interesting to recall the history of
"gerrymandering," 1t began in Mas
sachusetts, and this was the way of it ::
In 1911, when the party feeling ran
high and voters in the State were very
evenly divided, the Republican Demo-
Gratis for the first time in number OF
years elected the Governor and ma
jority of both branches of the General
Court, and, to preserve their power,
they re arranged the senatorial districts
and made them of irregular shape, SO as
to give themselves majority in as
many as possible.
Nothing of the kind had ever been
done before; the move excited bitter OPP
position among the Federalists, and Ell
bridge Gerry, the granduncie, by the
way, of Judge Robinson of this city,
the Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury,
then Governor, and for years leading
Democrat, came in for q great share of
the denunciation. One district was
made of line of towns on the westerly
and northerly sides of Essex County,
forming something like an irregular let
ter F. The Boston Sentinel WAS the
leading Federalist paper, and Russell,
its editor, to show plainly what was
being done, took map of the county,
colored the towns on 1t included in the
peculiar district, and hung it up in his
Office. One day Gilbert Stuart hap
pened to see it and, saying that it re-
sembled some monstrous animal, took a
pencil and, with few strokes, indicated
upon it head, wings and claws, so that
the new district looked like some kind
of strange 6ssgon.
"There," said he, that will do for a
salamander. s.Salamander l'' exclaimed
Russell, "call il Gerry-mander p
And SO the new proceeding found a
name. This was in the spring of 1872,
and at the election of that year it ap-
peared that the first gerrymandering
was effectually done, for, although the
Federalists elected their Governor, they
got but eleven of the forty Senators,
and this while they had handsome
majority for their State ticket, and ac-
tually cast l, 500 more votes for Sen
ators than did their opponents, who
elected SO large a majority of them.
This event, however, made a great up
roar, and the gerrymandering was not
allowed to stand.
AS the G. in Elbridge Gerry's name is
pronounced hard, the pronunciation of
the word "gerrymandering" as if it
began with al" is evidently incor-
rect Washington Capital.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
The Western Mean Man,

They say that the meanest man in
the west lives in Fargo, Dakota, and
they give the following reason for say
ing so: A newspaper of Fargo pub
lished large special edition for general
distribution, and many enterprising cit
liens of the Forks paid handsomely for
advertising space to help the scheme
along. The man who did the meanest
thing ever recorded against human
being, according to the Fargo code of
morals, is said to have purchased large
number of copies, and, having his name
printed on slips the width of the news
paper columns, pasted them over the
name of merchant who had flaming
advertisement of similar business, and
then sent the papers east with his COM
pliments.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
"There's Money i'm It."

"I wonder" remarked a diner at a
restaurant the other day, who paused
to give his jaws rest from an attack on
st. Patrick chicken--"I wonder if
there. isn't money in raising chickens
for the market? / wish this hen were
alive so that could get her views upon
the matter, for she must have had a
long and varied experience, with plenty
of time for observation. What's to
hinder fellow from Matching 1900 or
3, 900 chickens, or, for that matter, any
number, per month. With care and
plenty of good food they would be ready
for the market as spring chickens in
two or three months. I believe there's
money in it, and I'll be hanged if I'm
not half inclined to go into the bust
ness"
"Of course there's money in it, re-
joined friend sitting opposite, who
was vainly trying to rend the muscle of
drumstick. CT know man who
made 81 1000 ont of it ever and above
= III SaI2s1lS>- 80 ssAAN-
all that he had to start with was about
fifty old hens and roosters, and half a
dozen big coops."
"That's just the idea p exclaimed
the first speaker, that's just where the
money-making comes in. He might
just as well have saved the cost of keep
ing those old hens and roosters as not.
What they ate in year would have
fattened 1 1000 chickens. An incubator
can beat hen out of sight at Matching
eggs matches nearly every one of them;
and the chickens are stronger than those
Matched by hen, for the heat is con-
slant and regular. That fellow could
have made So, COO with ar incubator"
"I'm not so certain about that" said
the other. You see, sort of cholera
broke out among the chickens, and
most of them died. he didn't pay his
rent, and one day his landlord went
over there in rage and fired the man,
hencoops and all, out into the street.
He sued the old man for damages in an
action for trespass, and got q judgment
in his favor. That's how he made a
Thousand dollars by raising chickens"
and the fowl assault was renewed with
higher temperature and signs of a
alm.-DetT0it Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
How to Make a Plum Pudding.

One pound and half Of rais1ns,
stoned and cut in half; one pound OF
currants, picked, washed, and dried;
one pound of beef suet, chopped fine;
one-half pound of citron, cut in small
pieces; one-ha1f pound of -four, and
half pound of grated bread, eight
eggs, one pound graduated sugar, q
pint of milk, two nutmegs, grated; a
teaspoonful of mixed cinnamon and
mace, a saltspoonful of salt, the grated
rind of lemon, the grated rind of an
orange. You must prepare all the in
gradients the day before Except beating
the eggs that in the morning you may
have nothing to do but to mix them.
Beat the eggs very light, then put to
them half the milk, and beat both to-
gether; stir III gradually the flour and
grated bread; next add the sugar by
degrees, then the suet and fruit alter
nately. The fruit must be well sprin-
killed. with -four lest it sink to the bot
tom. Stir very hard, then add the
spice, and, lastly, the remainder of the
milk; stir the whole mixture very well
together. If it is not thick enough,
add littls more grated bread or flour.
If there is too much bread or flour the
pudding will be hard and heavy. Dip
the pudding-eloth in boiling water,
shake it out and sprinkle it slightly
with -four; lay it in a pan and pour the
mixture into the cloth; tie it up care
fully, allowing room for the pudding to
swell: boil it six hours and turn it care.
fully out of the cloth; before you send
it to the table have ready some blanched
sweet almonds cut in slips, or some
slips of citron, or both; stick them al
over the outside of the pudding. Eat
it with sauce made as follows: Take {
pound of pulverized sugar and lump
of butter as large as an egg and beat t.
a paste; then add half nutmeg grated
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
Conscientious Indians.

AS showing the sense of honor that
belongs to the Indians of the territory
that Archdeacon Kirby visited in Brit
ish America, he says that on one occa-
sion he determined to leave the field in
which he had labored for some time
without very material results, and as he
was about to depart the Indians met to-
gether and endeavored to persuade him
to remain. Their spokesman said:
"You came here and found us hud-
died together like drove of cattle, and
now as you have begun to civilize us
you 60 away"
He replied that he would return in q
year provided they promised him just
to keep the Sabbath holy, which they
agreed to do. He was warmly greeted
upon his return, and upon asking if
hey adhered to their promise, one of
them replied
"No, / am sorry to say, we did not.
For long time we we're very careful to
do so, until on one Sunday, when we
were without food and nearly starving,
we saw a fat deer approaching our en-
campment. A council was held. We
remembered our VOW on the one hand,
and our hunger and suferings made
strong appeals on the other. We fin
ally determined to fire one shot, re-
solved if that was unsuccessful to let
the deer go free. We fired, the deer
fell, and our hunger was appeased."
1t is doubtful if even the most civil
lied of our own people would have done
otherwise, and the good archdeacon
frankly forgave them. Among the In
dams was one who wore, tied to his
neck, little stick full of notches. He
said he had counted all the days since
the archdeacon had left them, made a
notch for each, and always rested on
the seventh. This stick is one of the
numerous interesting relics Mr.. Kirby
exhibits in his discourses.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
ADRLFT.


From Harper's weekly.l
9hs father, weary with labor and watching,
slept
And the mother half slept with the babe on her
Then rang through the silent house a cry of
alarm;
And there stood on the moon-lit floor a little
child.
Trembling with some strange fear, calling in
accents wild:
Father, awake awake for Christ's dear
sake;
See what Trouble is oomingl Awake awake
VI have had such fearful dream !" In the
wan moonlight
She stood as warning angel. He sprang to
the door,
And listened with all his soul to the rivers
"Mother, fly for thy hfel wrap the babe in thy
breast:
Bessie, keep near to mother; I'll look to the
rest.
midnight air
Was dinn'd with the roar of the Flood and
shrieks of despair.
Half drowning, he clasps in his arms his two
little lads,
And shouts like drowning man: "Oh, neigh
bors, haste haste
The Flood the Flood There is not moment
to waste"
And the wild and warming clamor can scarcely
rise
Ere under tie raging river the village lies.
Scarcely he reaches the boat, then counts, in q
trembling fear:
Wife-baby-and Bessie-the boys. Thank
God, all hereI'
Adrift on the raging river, with drowning men
and beasts,
In the cold and solemn midnight, at rising sun,
The great, strong-hearted man comforts each
weeping one:
"Patience. my little lads; patience, Bessie and
wife.
Let the Home go, we have saved each precious
Life:
What care for my labor lost, if you are here 2"
But he turned with an aching heart to hide a
tear.
These are the men that build nation-strong
and kind
These are the men that carry Hope where'er
they go,
Fighting the raging elements, the savage foe.
Now stretch out to them Loves pitiful strong
right hand,
HelpfuIly, hopefully call to them, through all
the land.
Are we not brothers all--brothers il far or
nigh,
Under one starry flag, under one starry sky?
MARY A. BARR.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
The Difference.

"Who is this well-dressed man with
the sealskin overcoat, hat and gloves
He carries a gold-headed cane. and is
followed by bulldog in a scarlet
blanket. Do you know him ?"
ooh, yes that is Slugger, the pugi.
list. Fine man hard hitter very pop
ular. Always surrounded by crowd
of admiring friends, as you see him
now. He is very we'll off was given q
benefit the other night which Melted
him 50, $780,"
'Indeed he is very fortunate"
"Oh, yes, a very fortunate fellow
ranks high in his profession, you see. y
"Who is that white-headed. weary
looking old man close behind the pugi-
list and his friends? Poor man, he
seems thinly clad for this winter day.
He is alone. Do you know him ?"
ooh, yes; that is old Faithful-a
country clergyman. Very learned, they
say. Been a preacher of the Gospel all
his life, but, like Drudge, poor as rat.
He had benefit, too, the other night.
"Oh, indeed! Did it net him much p
az don't think it did. You see it was
a sort of surprise party. His parishion-
ers called upon him IN a body, ate up
everything there was in the house, and
left him presents to the amount of sixty
cents. "-iSOn1erViUe Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
Suddenly Weakened.

''I suffered with rheumatism Of the
pack and hip for number of years, u
said Mr.. Thomas Morgan, Superintend.
ent of Streets. 81 was waited on by
physicians, but they gave no perma,
nent relief, and I resolved to try st.
Jacobs Oil. My rheumatism weakened
at the first attack of its great enemy,
st. Jacobs Oil, and soon was well. -
Cincinnati Tia1es-iStQr.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

THEY were talking about the compar-
alive readiness of the sexes to oblige
one another, when Jones employed this
illustration ga man walking along
the street finds cigar in his pocket,
but no match. He meets another man
with lighted cigar, stops him, asks for
light, gets it and goes on. Now, do
you suppose one woman would do that
for another p
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

A DETERMINED LovER.-A license is
required for marriagein Illinois. Ayoung
mans wedding day drew near, and
the road to Galena, the nearest licensing
place, was in such a condition that a
horse could not be used on it. The dis
lance was seventeen miles. After try
ing to hire somebody to make the jour-
ney on foot, and failing to find a
pedestrian at the price he could afford
to pay, he set out himself on the morn
ing of the appointed day. 1t was hard
job, and he returned covered with mud,
almost exhausted, and barefooted, his
boots having been mired and abandoned,
but he brought the license, and the
ceremony was performed in the evening.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

CHOLERA. to the Bombay
Gazette, the totalnumber of cholera cases
during the past year was 30,966, Of
which 1922 proved fatal. The latest
returns show that for the present, al
least, the disease has wholly disappeared
in that part of the world.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
Snow Well and Strong"

SHIPMAN, Illinois.
DR.. R. Y. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y: DEAR
SIR wish to state that my daughter, aged
Is, was pronounced incurable and was fast
falling as the doctors thought, with consump-
ton. l obtained a half dozen bottles of your
Golden Medical Discovery" for her, and she
commenced improving at once, and is now vel
and strong. Very truly yours,
REV. ISAAC N. AUGUsIIN.
ttDiScoVerY'' sold by druppists
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

ASECREF MARRIAGE. "A young farmer
near Spring feld, Mass, says he was
working in a field when q man and a
woman came along in carriage. The
man asked him if he would marry the
woman for $500; he consented, and they
went to the nearest Justice, who per-
formed the ceremony. He shows the
$500 as proof, aud the Justice bears
him out in the strange story. The
mysterious bride and her companion
rode away Immediately after the mar
riage, and no more is known of them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

Mrs. J. G. Henderson, of Cleveland, Ohio,
writes: 1.-THE use of two of Pierce's pleasant
Purgative Pellets day, for few weeks, has
entirely cured me of sick-headache, from
which 1 formerly suffered terribly, as often,
on an average, as once in ten days" OF all
druggists,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

ELM HALL, Mich, Dec. 2 1881.
Piso's Cure has been great friend to me.
have used it in my family for eight years,
When [ first heard of 1t was in the last stage
of quick consumption and was ready to die:
After taking one bottle was able to work and
am now entirely well.
JEREMIAH HARRINGTON.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

WOODEN SHOES. shoes are
worn in the West, and enough of them
are sold to keep large mandatory
going at Green Bay. They are cut out
of green Eastwood, smoked and dried
like hams, and sold at thirty. five cents
a pair.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

One greasing lasts two weeks; all others two
Or three days. Do not be imposed on by the
humbug stuffs offered. Ask your dealer for Fra
zer's, with label on. 1t saves your horse labor
and you too. 1t received first medal at the Gen.
tennial and Paris Expositions. Sod everywhere,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

One of the most popular medicines now be-
fore the American public is Hop Bitters. You
see it everywhere. People take it with good
effect. 1t builds them up. 1t is not as pleas
ant to the taste n other Bitters, as it Is
not whisky drink. It is more like the old
fashioned boneset tea, that has done o world
of good. If you don't feel just right, try Hop
Bitters.-NltnddN elCs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
HAYEsv1LLE, Ohio. Feb. II, 49,

lam very glad to say have tried Hop Bit
tiers, and never took anything that did me as
much good. 1 only look two bottles, and l
would not take 300 for the good they did me.
recommend them to my patients, and get the
best results from their use.
n r MERCER M n
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

PURE CoD-LIvER On, made from selected
ivers, on the sea-shore, by Caswell, Hazard &
Co., New York. 1t is absolutely pure and
sweet Patients who have once taken it prefer
it to all others. Physicians have decided it
superior to any Of the other oils in market
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
,InIe In The Hnnse.

"THEY cannot all lie, was the observation of
one while reading the endless testimonials to
''Dr. Lindsey's Blood searcher." 1t is infal-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

Most PEOPLE knew something about
the discipline of poverty, and feel quite
ready to experience some of the awful
RESPONSIBILITIES of wealth.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
SING A song of hair oil,

SING A song of hair oil,
Pocket minus chink,
Four and twenty ed tors
Splitting printers ink;
Now the pen goes faster,
Wonder what they mean,
Guess they must be writing ads.
For the improved Caroline,
AN OLD gentleman in Maryland said he had
raised his family on ''Sellers' Liver Pills." and
considered them almost as essential to fam
lily as bread. That's true.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

"WHAr comes after .r?' asked a
teacher of a pupil who was llearning the
alphabet. He received the. bewildering
reply, "You do--to see Liza.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

Mr.. MICHAEL RoBBETT, " Sargent
street, Cohoes, N. z, was cured of a
very severely injured knee by st. Jacobs
Oil, says the Rochester, N. Y, Sunday
Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

HIGH tea is something like dinner.
It is long drawn out by conversation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

Send name and address to Cragin & CO.,
Philadelphia, Pa, for cook book free.