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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
est Was the Cat"

A good story is told Of an Orange
County boy who drives milk route in
New York City. It seems he had one
wealthy customer that he served early
by lifting a barred basement window
and pouring the milk into a pail with a
long spout. One morning when he was
late, in pushing the pail back to close
the window he upset it, the pail falling
into the room and tho milk spilling all
over the floor. He was iii trouble. He
had no time to call thegiil and wait for
her to appear. He started on his route
expecting to lose that customer surely.
But while serving his next customer he
saw cat in the area way. An inspira-
ton seized the milkman. The milkman
seized the cat. He thrust her between
the bars into the room where the
spilled milk lay, and drove on. Later
in the day he returned to the house, as
requested, by a note in the pail in the
morning asking him to ''leave tickets. :"
The servant girl came running out,
saying: ooh, Johnny, we must have
four quarts more of milk. A nasty
cat got in the house and spilled all the
milk you left. Just look ct that carpet.
The mistress was awfully mad. Thought
1 should lose my place." The milkman
looked his blankest amazement, and
sympathizingly counted out his tickets
and measured out the milk, saying ::
Accidents would happen sometimes"
The customer was saved. .--Middletoa
Press
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
A Mormon Story.


A man who CLAIMS 20 be a Mormon
elder, in q letter to the PiGtsburg Com
naercSal Gazette over The assumed name
of Joseph Smith, gives detailed ac-
count of the scheme for stimulating the
faith of Mormons and overwhelming
the Gentiles by the resurrection of
Brigham Young. He says that the plot
was laid about year before the an
nouncement of the Prophets death,
and that the originator of it was
Brigham himself. The writer was one
of the five persons admitted to the con-
spiracy, and his conscience will not
keep the secret any longer. Having
spent several years in comfortable
seclusion, while wax effigy reposed In
his coffin, the Prophet is about to
emerge and electrify the faithful. After
this frank exposure the writer's only
chance of safety is in concealing his
real name, and, as it is. he expects to
fall sooner or later "by the death shot
or the mortal stab of the Danites. This
fate would indeed be calanlltous, for he
has nine loving wives and any number
of children in Salt Lake City. Resurrec-
tion might prove to be the strongest
card in the Mormon pack at this stage
of the game, and, absurd as these stories
seem, q good many persons are dis
posed to see some truth in them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
A Convict Camp.

The convict camps in Kentucky, ac-
cording to a report made to the Legis-
iature are worse even than those of
Georgia. The convicts are insuficiently
clothed and fed, and are worked to the
last point of endurance and inhumanly
punished. In one railroad tunnel,
where the air was so bad that the COM
mittee could not stay for even five min
utes, convicts were compelled to work
twelve hours at stretch, with but a
few moments allowed for the scanty
lunch, and this was sometimes continued
Sundays and all. The men are whipped
with strap, lashed with twisted line
of fuse, kicked and beaten with what is
called swab-stick at the will of any
"boss" employed by the contractors.
They are often disabled by the punish
ment, and the story is told of one con-
vict, too i'll and faint to work, actually
pounded to death in spite of his plead
ings. The committee estimated the
death rate at 20 per cent.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
John BenninghOff Dead,

The Bradford (Penn.) Star says
John Bennington, famous for his wealth
more for that which was forcibly taken
away from HIM than for that which was
left-died at his home at Greenville,
Penn, Monday, aged eighty-one years.
This event Will bring to mind "the
Benninghoff robbery" of fifteen years
ago, which was committed in the oil
regions, where he then resided with his
family, on the farm that poured wealth
into his pocket faster than he could take
care of it. The robbers surrounded the
house, then entered, gagged the old
man and other members OF the family
present, proceeded at their leisure to oS
through his strong boxes, and stole
about $780, 900. The intruders got away
with their plunder, and SIS far as its
history is known, lived to enjoy it.
After the robbery Mr.. Bennington re-
moved to Greenville. To have seen
him on his farm, or on the street, one
would never have picked him out as q
millionaire. 1t is understood that he
died worth half million, notwithstand-
ing the loss.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
A Tramp's Awful Fate.

Peter Brown, q tramp, asked two men
employed at Thompson's Steel Works,
in Jersey City, for permission to sleep
in one of the empty sand-pits in the
foundry. He said he had applied in
vain at the police stations for lodgings,
and the men, out of pity for his condi-
ton, granted his request. He laid down
on the sand and was soon sound asleep.
At three o'clock in the morning the
report of loud explosion in the works
attracted the attention of the people in
the vicinity. Upon reaching the spot
a terrible sight met their gaze. A cru
chile filled with molten steel had ex-
ploded, and its contents had flowed
down into the pit where the tramp was
sleeping. He had been unable to ex.
tricate himself, and the fiery liquid had
burned all his clothing off as well as
the flesh from portions of his body,
leaving the bare bones exposed to view.
The man died shortly after being taken
to the hospital.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
Raising Turkeys.

Select by weight the largest fowls to
breed from if possible, have the gob-
blers from two to four years old. The
gobbler and hen should not be related
to each other. Have no more than four
hens to each gobbler, and do not starve
them during the winter. Watch them
closely about laying time, as they nearly
always hunt nest the day before they
deposit their first egg. Make good
large nest in some building that you can
confine them in, and next morning after
they hunt their nest catch them, and
shut them up in the place where yo1
made the nest, for after they have laid
one egg there they will always go back
to that nest. If they choose a good
place of their own accord I let them
alone though I put few common
hens eggs in the nest and take out the
turkey eggs every day, and keep them
in cool place, as heat injnres them
quicker than cold, provided it does not
freeze. I let each turkey set the first
time she wants to; but let no young
turkeys run with common hen, for if
they do 80 half dozen times they are
more trouble than fifty running with
turkey hen.
The advantage of letting turkeys set
on their first laying of eggs is this:
The young turkeys are Matched before
the weeds and grass get high enough to
wet and bofoul them in the mornings. I
watch them two or three days, that no
weak ones are lost then they get no
more attention, only feeding when they
come to the house. On no account give
them raw food when small. feed mine
on corn bread: sometimes soak it in
sour milk, and sometimes give them
curd. Never shut them up unless 1t
rains hard.
I have been raising turkeys for sew
eral years, and have never had one sick
one yet. Most of my chickens died with
cholera last fall, and one of my turkeys
took it very bad; his flesh had turned
dark colored when found HIM. gave
him a pill of assafotida the size of pea
and about a tablespoonful of equal
parts of sulphur, cayenne pepper and
rosin (thought it would either kill or
cure him), and he got well. I gave the
others sulphur twice week for about
month, and none of them took the
cholera. a.-R,tral World.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

Secretary Hunt has received from
Engineer Geo. W. Melville, under date
of Yakoutsk, Jan. 3, copy of letter
of instructions sent by him (Melyille)
to the local Governor of Verkhoyensk
regarding the search for the Jeannette's
men. In it he says:
Lieut.. De Long and his party, con-
sisting of twelve persons, will be found
near the west bank of the Lena River.
They are south of the small hunting
station which is west of the house
known among the Yakouts as Gu Vina.
They could not possibly have marched
as far south as BuIcom. Therefore, be
they dead or alive, they are between
Gu Vina and Bulcom. I have already
travelled over this ground, but followed
the river bank. Therefore it is neces-
sary that more careful search be made
on the high ground back from the river
for short distance as well as along the
river bank. I examined many huts and
small houses, but could not possibly
examine all of them. The
persons of the dead wish to have car
ried to central position most conven-
lent of access to Belun, all placed inside
of small house, arranged side by side
for future recognition, and the hut then
securely closed and banked up with
snow and earth, and to remain SO until
a proper person arrives from America
to make final disposition of the bod
ies y
Search for the small boat containing
eight persons should be made from the
west mouth of the Lena to and beyond
the east mou th of the Yana River.
Diligent and constant search is to COM
mence at once, and to continue till the
people, books and papers are found,
care being taken that vigilant and
careful examination of that section OF
the country where Lieut.. De Long and
his party are known to be is made In
early spring, when the snow begins to
leave the ground, and before the spring
foods commence to overflow the river
banks.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
Central america.
FORMER EARTHQUAKES THAT HAVE VS.
TIED THAT LOCALITY.

The mountainous ridge of Contra
America has long been known to be q
region full of volcanoes and subject to
shocks of earthquakes to an ex-
traordinary extent. The last great
earthquake which visited the locality,
previous to that lately reported, was on
March 10, 1878, when San Salvador was
totally destroyed. That disaster was
not so fatal as tha present one for
| though three successive shocks were
felt, the inhabitants, warned by pre-
vious noises, were able to find places of
safety, and only about 500 perished.
Earthquakes have been so frequent in
the Central American States that the
Indians are aceuetos~ad to say it is '.the
land that swings sille a hammock"
Costa Rica is the most southern Repub-
lie of this disturbed region, and the lit
tie State is filled with extinct and active
volcanoes, among which are Orisa,
Votos and Cartago. The population of
the Republic is about 10000. The
Pacific coast of Central and South
America has previously been visited
with several notably disastrous earth
quakes. The first shock mentioned by
the historians of Chilli occurred on the
9Th of February, 1910, destroying Con-
cepcion, then the most promising and
fourishing city of the infant colony.
More than two thousand persons per-
lshed. In 1647 an earthquake occurred
which was felt throughout all South
America. Without any warning, and
in a single instant, it leveled the city of |
Santiago to the ground. Ten years
later Conception was again overthrown.
In 1751 the same town was visited by
an earthquake accompanied by a tidal |
wave, which, on retiring, washed away
the entire place. The city of Caracas
was entirely destroyed in fifty-six
seconds on March 26. 1912. Quito, in
was almost destroyed on
March %, 1859. In Peru, Cailao was
destroyed in 1886, and the accompany
ing sea wave was ninety feet high. 1t
was again destroyed in lL746. An earth
quake which will be readily recalled was
hat of August 13 and LII, 1868, in which
africa suffered severely. The tidal wave
,arrieda number of ships inland, among
hem the United States steamer
Wateree. A United States storeship
vas also lost by it. The seaport of
Arica suffered severely. The earth
quake sea wave sped thence across the
Pacific, reaching the Hawaiian Islands
IN the 18th and Yokohama on the 18th.
t was also felt in Australia and Alaska.
n Argentine Republic, Mendoza was
in March, 1866. The shock
xtended over the entire Republic and
1000 persons are estimated to have
erlshed. An earthquake in Chill in
500 eaused a permdnc-t elevation to
n extent of from wv sA~i;o seven feet OF
1lly one hundred thousand square
liles of land lying bstween the Andes ,
nd the coast. February 20, 1885, the
ity of Conception was destroyed for '
he fourth time /; there were felt over {
hree hundred successive shocks within [
wo weeks. April 2, 1851, severe
hook was felt at Santiago.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
A Point i'm Law.

Few litigants, says an exchange, ever
sit down to count the cost of lawsuit
in advance-even the money cost. Let
US be among the few prudent, and
reckon up the costs of an ordinary case.
Suppose Browns cattle have broken
into Smiths corn and destroyed corn
valued at, say 800. Smith demands
settlement. Brown replies that the
fence was poor, that Jones's cattle got
in afterward and did most of the dam
age, and that the real damage done was
not half 80 great as Smith claims. Here
are issues for frst-class suit. If
Brown were properly approached he
would probably pay $10-possibly $40
but Smith is sure he has lost $10O,
and that Brown ought to pay it all. He
decides to enforce his rights. The law
yer will begin suit for $40. When it
is ready for trial he wants $15 more.
The clerks fees and jury fees are, say,
Sc more. The witness fees are 81.
Smith loses in all fourteen days time,
worth $28. At the close of the trial the
lawyer wants $25 more. Total disburse-
ments, $e8. The estimated loss was
800. To this add the costs of the ac-
ton, and the total damage is $1SS.
Now, taking the average of cases OF
his kind, Smith will be fortunate if he
recovers verdict of 1926. In such case
his net loss will be $143, or $63 more |
than it would have been if he had kept |
out of the court and let his rights" go.
Ii he had compromised with Brown and
gotten $40 or $40, that would have been
clear gain; his victory in the court has
been clear loss, and more disastrous
one than the original infiction. SO much
or the plaintiffs s side
Now let us see about the defendant.
He might compromise with his neigh.
Dor by paying, say, $50; but he will
,ot. He will fight the suit at whatever
'ost. His lawyers fees alone are $50;
le loses time, worth at least $25, and
has $25 to pay at the end the total is
ust twice the amount that the case
night been settled for. The original
lamage was said to be 800. The two
nen spend $189 in ''lawing" 1t, and of
ii this only $25 goes from one to the
ther the other $163 is dead loss,
which must be added to the original
10c to show the real damage.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
THE MERRY FIDDLER.

Sometimes if you hsten-listen
When the sunlight fades to gray,
You will hear a strange musician,
AT the quiet close of day;
Hear strange and quaint musician
On his shrill-voiced fiddle play,
He bears curious fiddle
On his coat of shiny black,
And draws the bow across the string
In crevice and in crack
Till the sun climbs up the mountain
And floods the earth with light,
Yon will hear this strange musician
Playing-playing all the night.
Sometimes underneath the hearthstont
Sometimes underneath the floor,
He plays the same shril music,
Plays the same tune DER and o'er
And sometimes in the pasture,
Beneath cold gray stone,
He tightens up the sinews
And fiddles all alone.
1t may be in the autumn,
From the corner of your room
You will hear the shrill-voiced fiddle
Sounding out upon the gloom;
If you wish to see the player,
Softly follow up the sound,
And you'll find dark-backed cricket
Fiddling outa merry round.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

DID NOT KNOW HIM.-Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes once being on lectur-
ing visit to Haverhill, Mass, learned
that an old schoolmate of his was a
stoye-dealer in the town and thought he
would look him up. So in the morn
ing he and friend started. They
found the stove man asked him il he
attended such school when boy. He
said he did. Asked him if he remem-
bered boy in the same class named
Oliver Wendell Holmes? He did not.
Had he ever heard the name since? DE
had not. Without inquirIng further
they left the an to the congenial COM
panionshlp of his stoves,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

On THE TRAL.-Cows on the prairie
get accustomed to the noise of locomo-
tive bells end whistles, and do not al
ways clear the track until thrown off
by the cowcatcher. A patented devise
is described in the Scientific american
for squirting hot water twenty rods
ahead. 1t is calculated that this would
stimulate the LATEST into action.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
rno--. When n hnrlesnna co

TRouBLE-When q burlesque COM
pany recently played in Indianapolis
the corps de ballet was recruited, as to
the unimportant back row, from resi-
dent young women. A fellow in the
gallery recognized an acquaintance
among them, and cried out, "Hi, Sallie
jackson p She looked up in quick
response, and the hilarity Of the audi
ence drove her from the stage.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
An Early Spring and a Wet Year.

A fisherman claims that the weather
invariably repeats itself, and gives the
following as the result OF his observa-
tions, viz:
All years ending in 8, 0 or l are ex
tremely dry.
Those ending in 2, 8, 4, 8 and are
extremely wet.
Those ending in and 8 are ordinarily
we'll balanced.
Those ending in 6 have extremely
cold winters.
Those ending in 2 have an early
spring.
Those ending in l have late spring.
Those ending in 3 and 4 are subject
to great floods.
HOPE Is DESIRE bolted through the
uioua &c 1,oliaf
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

ACCOMMODATING was an accom-
modating conductor who stopped his
train long enough, at Maysville, ILL.,,
for a village clergyman to pronounce a
hasty marriage ceremony for two elop-
ing passengers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
The Search In Siberia.

WHERE ENGINEER MELVILLE BELIEVES
THE MISSING MEN OF THE JEANNETTE
ru
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

Hope Is DESIRE bolted through the
sieve of belief.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-05-19
ASA ssin Cutie au Must Hang.

Al hough the curren, report of q dis.
agreement among the judges of the Dis
irict Supreme Court in regard to the
Guiteau case has been credited, there i.
good reason for believing that 1t was
wholely erroneous The Washington Post
of Monday makes the following positive
statement Chief Justice Cartier and Judges
MacArther, Hagner and James held a con-
suItatisn on Saturday summing up the
arguments Of counsel in the application of
Guiteau for a rehearing of the case. The
consultation lasted-during four hours, and
was marked by the most searching exam
ination OF authorities and the most vigor-
Gus analysis Of every point made in the
arguments. The judges were in thorough
harmony all through the consultation, and
in reaching decision, not for one minute
differing in the general steps by which the
decision was reached, although of course
each judge had bis individual opinion on
various points of law an1 their applica-
ton. The decision will be- announced
next Monday. Chief Justice Cartier pro-
badly delivering it. The decision affil ms
the sentence of the court below, and of
course overrules the exceptions. This
disposes of Guiteau's last chance He will
be hanged June 3Oth, 1882.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-05-19

1t is commonly understood that the
river and karbor bill for the next fiscal
year contains more than the usual items
of appropriation for creeks and mudholes
In the interior sections of the country,
but no adequate provision is contained
in it for the improvement of the Potomac
river. The Potomac river, one of the finest
natural water-courses of the United States
runs almost at che for the Capitol building
il which the lawmakers of the country are
assembled. A few days ago the President
of the United States and several members
of his cabinet, while sailing on the Po,o-
mac In Mr.. Benefits yacht, were run fast
into the mud within the corporate limits
of the city Of Washington. This noble
and historic .stream, whose broad and
deep waters were the pride of our ances-
tors, is drying up, when q 1.-THE of the
amount that is annually wasted ON shallow
inlets would rescue and preserve it.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-05-19

The long-continued rains have caused
a rise in the rivers in all parts of the
country, and in some sections serious
damage has been done. There is great
flood in the White river, and the region
in the vicinity of Jacksonville, Ark, has
been visited by the most destructive over
flow that has been known in that section
for years. The whole country is under
wafer and the town is almost wholly over
flowed. Great damage has been done to
crops and property. And even worse con-
dition prevails at Batesville, Ark, where
the rivers and creeks have been swelled to
a height never known before, the floods
sweeping every thing before them. Hot
Springs, Ark, is also flooded, and that
place and Crukin City have been cut off
from the rest of the world by the overflow.
Great damage was been done to the Hot
Springs Railroad and to all description of
property. The loss to crops in the vicin-
ity of Conway county alone is estimated
at 100000. Wareham, Mass and Ports
mouth, N. H., have been visited during
the last few days by storms of exception
al severity, accompanied by hail and
snow
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-05-19
Notes

Joseph WhiteweI Pease, oue OF England's
who ever accepted such title.
A Columbus, Ca, chicken thief had two
trained dogs that entered a poultry house,
caught the fowls by the neck, killed them care
fully, and brought them singly to their master
John Dornblaser, aged Is years, residing at
Tamsqua, attempted to board moving train
a, Reading, when he slipped and fell on the
track. Both of his legs were crushed of at the
thigh, and he died in few minutes.
Flanagan, the Texas delegate who in the
Chicago Convention rose to inquire what every
in Washington as a candidate for Marshal Of
Texas.
An Alabama man let locomotive run over
his hand for the purpose of suing the railroad
company for damages but his scheme failed
through his inability to show negligence on
the part of the company.
Tug Wilson will leave London for Amer.
ica the latter part Of this month to make the
champion pugilist, for the championship OF the
world The stakes will be So, 500 side.
Mrs. NJ. N. Kicker, who was admitted to the
bar of the District of Columbia on Friday, pas
sed the best examination among seventeen ap-
plicants, all men but herself She was found
to be particularly well versed in the law of
real property, branch supposed to be beyond
the reach of the female intellect.
The crop prospects in Oregon are of an ex-
tremely encouraging character. The surplus
of wheat in Willamette valley this year is ss,i.
mated at 23O, 900 tons, and that in Eastern
Oregon and Washington Territory OF las, 900
tons. The estimate of the total surplus for export
is 375, 900 tones.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
the great medicine for the cure of all female
complaints is the greatest rengthener of the
back, stomach. nerves, Kidneys, urinary and
genital organs of man and woman ever known
Send for circulars to Lydia E. Pinkham, Lynn
Mass.