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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
The Cultivation of Peppermint.

Peppermint is quite extensively Guilt
waited in st. Joseph County, but it is
noteworthy coincidence that Wayne
County, N. Y, and Wayne County,
Michigan, are alike celebrated for their
great mint crops. Lyons, N. z, is the
great seat of the distillation OF oil OF
peppermint in the United States. l..
A. Van Auken of the township of Nam
kin, Wayne County, Mich, was the
first grower in that State. His practical
knowledge of peppermint culture was
gained in Wayne County, N. Y. The
business proved quite profitable, and
great many farmers have engaged in it to
a greater or less extent. 1t is estimated
that oil of peppermint at $1.75 per
pound yields about the same profit as
wheat at 81 a bushel; but these are very
low valuations for each product, ac-
cording to the present market. Ferrand,
Williams & Co., have sold large guam
titles of oil of peppermint to New York
jobbing houses within the past month
at $2.2 per pound.
The price current of New York ex-
porters show recent quotations at So. so
and $2.75. An English price list shows
that the foreign oil is quoted at lis. 90.
These prices differ but little from those
of last year, when the market opened at
49, 40, advanced to $3.50 and fell to
so. 20. Mr.. Williams states that his
advices concerning the new crop, which
will be done in about a month, are of
the most satisfactory character.
The cultivation of peppermint re-
quires considerable care. The inter.
growth of weeds is disastrous. Fire
weed, cat tail, spsarmint, etc., must be
carefully exterminated, or the result is
known as tweed OIL" Mr.. Todd in his
circular complains that the shortage of
stock has led many operators to resort
to shameful authorizations, employing
oils, hemlock, turpentine, pennyroyal,
etc., for the purpose. He adds that he
has known oil peppermint to be adult
Grated with one-fourth of its weight
with alcohol. A prominent wholesale
druggist, who handles a good many
thousand pounds every year, does not
think there is any substantial basis for
these assertions. He insists that such
adulteration could not fail to be
promptly detected and points out the
fact that oil pennyroyal is worth about
as much as oil peppermint. Every
pound of the latter oil purchased by
him is promptly tested, and he states
that every iobbing house employs a
similar precautiou.
Peppermint, like adversely, hath its
many uses. The volatile oil distilled
from the leaves, and the preparations
from it, are largely used as aromatics,
carminatives and stimulants, and for
the favoring of confectionery. It
sweetens the onion breath of the rural
swain, and scents the snowy handker-
chief of his inamorata it relieves the
torments of oolicky babe and diarrhetic
atult; it skillfully DISCUSSES the taste
of castor oil and other nasty drugs, and
is wholesome remedy for the fatulent
small boy. 1t is the boss thing to keep
on the lower pantry shelf, right where
you can find it in the dark without
swearing out search warrant.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
The Contrast.

The Burlington Rarksye thus dis
courses in sc lay sermon" preached for
the benefit of these who are perpetually
contrasting the present unfavorably with
the past:
dearly beloved, so there are men in
Burlington this very Sabbath morning
who sigh for the good old times when
our times surpass those of Solomon
more than his days surpassed the years
of Egyptian bondage. You can buy a
box of matches to-day for five cents,
while Solomon's throne of ivory and
gold couldn't have bought one match.
The Queen of Sheba thought Solomon's
wisdom and greatness were beyond
comprehension what would she say
could she only have beheld yard en-
CINE of the Burlington and Northwestern
narrow gauge ? The weight of gold
that came to Solomon in one year was
six hundred three score and six talents
of gold, but with all of it he couldn't
buy common hard coal base burner.
He had fourteen chariots and twelve
thousand horsemen, yet he couldn't tele-
graph to Hiram that he wanted cedar
raft as soon as it could be shipped, aud
he couldn't give his messenger horse
that could trot in 2:30. There wasn't
newspaper nor a printing press in his
kingdom, so he didn't know what it was
to write dimes and have it printed
dinners There are conveniences to-
day in the county almshouse that Solo
mon had to go without. We can buy
watch to-day for twenty dollars-yes,
for five dollars-that couldn't have been
bought with his kingdom. We haven't
so many wives as he had, but we have
better children, much better, indeed,
for while Solomon had the theory of
training children all right, he never put
it into practice in his own family"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
shIpman's berth has made me. should

shIpman's berth has made me. I should
have been as well fed, and perhaps bet.
ter, for they'll stand no nonsense in the
forecastle, whereas boys can be imposed
on, and anything is thought good enough
for them. By going to sea in the fore
castle should have saved my father
large sum of money, and become sailor
which only women would consider me
now. And, though I'm only fifteen and
a quarter, I'm old enough to see this
that all that's done by crowding lot of
youngsters together on board ship is
allowing them to make regular black
guards of one another. Why, in our
berth, language was used which you'd
never hear in the forecastle. It wasn't
that we were more wicked than young
sters ashore. We carried on because
we thought it was nautical, and because
we were afraid of being thought spoonies
by one another il we hung back or
seemed ashamed. So far as I'm con-
cerned, I may go another voyage to
please my father, if he insists ; but I
don't reckon I'll die sailor. It's fine
life in books, where all the suffering is
on the other side; but it doesn't long
remain fine when once you're in it.
What's the lookout for manP Why,
the country s full of men with certificates
who can't get ships. What say is, if
boy will go to sea, let his father keep
his money until the youngster is for
ward enough in his calling to render
money useful to him by investing it in
ship, and making the youngster stand
well with the owners. That's what our
third mate used to say. He'd been a
midshipman, and his father had paid
three premiums for him, amounting in
all to 9210, with EDO more for mess
money, and another e200 at the back of
that for the outfitters, who filled his
chest with clothes, most of which he
used as I did mine-giving them to the
cook and the steward for soft tack and
plates of the leavings from the cuddy
table. Dye ask me if I've told my
father all this? Certainly 1 have, and
a good deal more; only, you see, as I
said before, he's parted with one pre-
MUM, and doesn't like to think of its
having been spent for nothing. It's
natural enough, but I've got my views,
too and though he's very good fellow,
and nothing would please me more than
to carry out his wishes, very much
doubt, if you meet me this time next
year, whether you'll still find me
nautical maxwell, / won't say man,
but fellow"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
THE GLoRLES OF SWEET CORN

Mong yegyt'bles de tu'nip hez a pow'ful LOT oh
fren's;
De happiness Of hund'eds on de common tatah
ponds;
De carrot er a handsome root, but, sho' ez yo
er bawn,
Oars muffin at dis time Oh yeah to ekil sugah
Gavin
ehorns-o sweet Gavin o sugah Gavin!
Wat mo- kin yo' desiah?
Jis' bile hit wild de shucks on,
En- roast hit by de tiah
De beet er red an full OBJ juice-de pa'snip
makes good stew;
De reddish relishes wild bread-termattah sass
duz too;
Dsgreen cowcumbah Il cut you off, in chill hood
er in prime
But sugah Gavin Il make yo' fat. Hi! golly T!
hits serbhme
De cabbage an de summah squash, de string
bean an de pea,
All fin de table, col er hot, 'twixt brekfus' time
an tea;
But clar be bod OBJ all SIGH truck-de Gavin er
wat take;
Hit knocks de ticement out OBJ chen pud'n, pie
er cake -AbaRyArgLs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

Would HIDE IT.-A family party of
French peasants are sitting together
after dinner on Sunday.
eff some one were to leave me 1O, 900
francs" says the head of the household,
I'D buy Father Matthew's little vine
yard patch over the way and turn it
into kitchen garden"
"Pd go and spend three months at
Paris" says his wife. "What would
you do, Jeanette ?" to their daughter.
81 don't know exactly" says the
young girl, "but I'd begin by hiding it
where you and pa couldn't get at it."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
REsCtTEn RROSr pHATB.

william J. Coughlin, OF Somerville, Mass says In the
ell Of 1876 taken with BLEEDING LUNGS fol
owed by severe cough. lost my appetite anil heSh
md was confined to my bed In 1877 was admitted &c
he hospital. The doctors sad had hole in my lung
zig han-dollar. At one time report went arcund
hat was dead. Igave up hope, but friend told me Of
DIR. WILLIAM HALLS BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS.
got BOTTLE when to surprise, commenced to fee
letter. and to-day feel better than for three years past
write this hoping every afflicted with Diseased
lungs will take DR.. WILLIAM HALLS BALSAM, and
Z convinced that CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED. J
positively say II has done more good than all tb
the: medicines have taken since my sickness.
If afi cted 18th sore eyes u DR.. Isaac Thomps MS
EYE WATER. Druggists sell it; 25c. a bottle.
FOR SPECIAL RATES for advertising in this paper
apply to the publisher of the paper. Zoo
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

The CANAL An unforeseen conse-
quence of cutting the Suez Canal has
been the intrusion of sharks in large
numbers into the Mediterranean Ssa,
with terrible resulting havoc among the
smaller edible fish. Formerly a shark
was almost q curiosity in the Mediter-
ranean, and there was no choicer or
better stocked fishing ground in the
world. The fishermen of the Provencal
coast supplied the cities of Flance with
the best of piscatorial food, and in never
failing abundance; but they now have
d fficnlty in furni .hing half the qunu-
tity that they then obtained with ease.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

mo she fingered and suffered along, pin
ting away all the time for years, the doctors
"doing her no good and at last was cured by
"this Hop Bitters the papers say so much
"about Indeed indeed how thankful we
"should be for that medicine. e."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
$4,000 REWARD

Will be paid for the detection and con.
viotion of any person selling or dealing
in any bogus, counterfeit or imitation
HOP BIrFERs, especially Bitters, OF
preparations with the word HoP OF
Hors 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 BIrTERs. The genuine
have cluster of GREEN HoPs (notice
this) printed on the white label, and ars
the purest and best medicine ON earth,
especially for Kidney, Liver and Ner.
vous Diseases. Beware of all others,
and of all pretended formulas or recipes
OF HOP BIrrnRs published in papers, OF
for sale, as they are frauds and swim
dies. Whoever deals in any but the
genuine will be prosecuted.
HOP BIETERs MFe. Co.,
Rochester, N. /.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

CHINESE LABoR.-The Chinese en-
ployed on the railway works at Victoria,
B. c., are warning on their bosses.
Whenever an accident occurs they drive
their foreman away. AS the Celestials
outnumber the whites in the country
the relations between the races are be-
comm Q strained.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

In the New York Herald we lately
observed mention of the speedy cure of
Thaddeus Davids, Esq, of the great ink
firm, 1877 William street, New York, of
rheumatic govt by st. Jacobs Ol.-iT.
Paul (Mi1aa.) Pioneer Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

BEING entirely vegetable, no particular care
is required while using DIR. Pierce's pleasant
Purgative Pellets" They operate without dis
turbance to the constitution, diet, or occupa-
ton. For sick headache, constipation, impure
blood, dizziness, sour eructations from the
stomach, bad taste in mouth, bilious attacks,
pain in region of kidney, internal fever, bloated
feeling about stomach, rush Of blood to head,
take DR.. Pierce's "Pellets." By druggists.
Innnatience dries tha Hood sooner tina mage
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

is bad thing, but DR.. Pierce's "Favorite Pre-
scription" deserves its name. 1t is certain
cure for those painful nlaladies and weaknesses
which embitter the lives of so many women.
By druggists
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
ALWAYS at the so side. B. and d.
w.SuIyoToN n q NAV 18th. 1880.

WASHINGTON, ID. o., May l5th, looU'
GENTLEMEN-Raving been sufferer for a
long time from nervous prostration and general
debility, L was advised to try Hop Bitters.
have taken one bottle, and l have been rapidly
getting better ever SINCE and think it the best
medicine [ ever used. l am now gaining
strength and appetite, which was all gone, and
was in despair until tried your Bitters. am
now well, able to go about and do my own
work Before taking it was completely pros
trated. Mrs. MARY STUART.
Sentiment at variance with facts is bastard
flower.
PURE COD LIVER OIL, from selected livers, on
the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard q Co., n. T.
Absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have
once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians
declare it superior to all other oils.
CuAPPED HANDS, face, pimples and rough
skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, maze
by Ctswell Hazard & Co.. New York.
This world belongs to the energetic.-Emer-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

WENDELL PHILLIPS once satirized our
love of money by saying that if an
American saw silver half dollar on tie
the other side of the everlasting pit he
would jump for it and run the risk of
falling in.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

WARM weather reading-The Ship
herd Blaine correspondence. So Chill
to Peruse, you know.-BoStOn Tran
script.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

GREAT improvements have recently been
made in Carboline, deodorized extract Of pc
troleum, the great natural hair remover, and
now it is absolutely perfect as an exquisite and
delightfully."- perfumed hair dressing and re-
storer. Everybody is delighted with it, Sold
nv all druopists
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

The thing desired found at last. Ask drug
gists for Rough on Rats. 1t clears out rats
Tlice, reaches, flies, bedbugs. 15c. boxes.
No one can read anothers mind few can
read their own.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
A Presidential Flag.

The Secretary of the Navy has ap-
proved the design of flag to be known
and used in the Navy es the ''Presi.
dents flag" It is IA feet long to II
feet wide, and is made of navy blue
bunting. In the centre is the Ameri-
can coat of arms, the eagle holding in
its mouth a pennant inscribed, "E
Piuribus Unum" Thirteen white stars,
representing the thirteen original States,
are arranged in semi circle above the
coat of arms. This flag will fly from
the mainmast of every vessel used by
the President. The first one to be used
for this service will fly from the United
States steamer Dispatch when the
President leaves Washington on that
vessel for New York.
"WHAT, sir, is friendship ?" Z" Friend
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

If bilious. or suffering from impurity of
blood, or weak lungs and fear consumption
(scrofulOus disease of the lungs) take DIR.
Pierces Golden Medical Discovery" and 1t
will cure you. BY druggists.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

WE like st. Jacobs Oil. and observe
too that the Rt. Rev. Bishop Gilmonr
indorses the emedy.-Baltimaore (Md.
Catholic Mirror,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
A JoKE.-Practical iokers are so sell

A JoKE.-Practical jokers are so sell
dom punished for their detestable
tricks that there is much satisfaction in
laughing at the di3comfiture of Troy
merchant who thought to make his
neighbor mad. The other night he re-
moved fruit stand from its own place
to the sidewalk in front of shoemakers
shop and then went chuckling home to
bed. But his little operation had been
watched, and in the middle of the night
he was aroused from pleasant dreams of
his own astnteness by a policeman, who
ordered him to carry the fruit stand
back to the place whore it belonged, on
penalty of Immediate arrest.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

MAUoH CHUNK, Pa, Sept. Y, 1881.
H. H. WARNER & Co.. SirS-I have used
your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure for COM
bination of liver and kidney troubles and have
derived great benefit therefrom.
II z NnNNFNf
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

The FIFTEENTH The case of De-
troit negro convicted of marrying a
white girl is to be made test of the
Fifteenth Amendment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

Confidence Is that feeling by which the mind
embarks in great and honorable courses with
sure hope and trust in itself.-Cieero,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

What has been unjustly gained cannot be
justly kept.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

Those are the most honorable who are thu
most T1Spfnl
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

THERE ara those who think time is
out of joint because it cannot turn and
go backward.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
NRnnzh IN Rnts.O

Impatience dries the blood sooner tina nag
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07

HE MEANS to promote any end are as
necessary as the end to be promoted.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
Sentiment at variance with facts is bastard
Facts from Experience.

This world belongs to the energetic.-Emer-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
Cannot be DISPUTED.

A these cuts indicate, the Oil ia used success
fully for all seases Of the human, (oie! and animal
daah Shake well before using.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
L|EDIG MALT EXTRACT.

FoR SPECIAL RATES for advertising in this pal
apply to the publisher of the paper. 10;
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-07-14
A Neglected Confederate Cemetery at
Manassas.

Especial correspondence of Lynchburg Advanced
MANASSAS, VA, July 10.-The strangers
eye wandering DER the landscape in search
Of something to recall the famous deed en-
acted upon this arena twenty-one years ago
rests upon this spot, and he asks the passer
by what ii is, and il he be q southerner he
hangs his head in shame rs he answers,
"'Tis the Confederate cemetery" Yes,
southerners, il is even so. That spot, the
resort OF village crows and wandering hogs
by day, for yelling cats and snarling dogs
by night. That blot upon the beautiful
landscape around, that picture of utter
desolation, neglect, and forgctfuness, is
the Confederate cemetery.
Here lie the remains OF those from Our
sister States Of the sunny South as well rs
our own, who, far from home and friends,
fell fighting for the "Lost Cause" some
OF them fell under Jackson when he won
his grand so'tbriquet; some with the noble
Bee when he strOve TO initiate that stone
wall, and others with the gallant Barlow,
and the thousands who fell in the battles
around Manassas. We love to sing OF their
noble deeds; our hearts heaye with pride
when others speake Of them; their names
have become inscribed in history; monu-
ments have been erected to them elsewhere,
and yet their remains are allowed to lie
here in sight Of where they fell, unknown,
uncarcd for, and forgotten.
Sons and daughters Of the South, will
YOU allow this? ] trust not. | believe it
is only necessary for you 10 know the facts
and YOU will help us to blot out this dis
grace. Will the papers through the South
help by publishing our appeal. Most OF
the residents Of Manassas are from the
North or emigrants from other countries,
but the few natiyc-born southerners there
have, with commcndablc zeal, formed an
association for this purpose, OF which Mrs.
Theresa Read Is president and Mrs. &. W.
Hixson secretary. They will have big
dinner on the 2lst, and there will be re-
union OF the Prince William cavalry, ut
which Generals Fitz. Lee, W. II. +. Lee,
William Payne, and Eppa llunton will be
present. Aid may be sent to the presi-
dent, secretary, or undersigned, at Manas-
sas, and will be gratefully acknowledged.
ARTHUR II. GRAY.
Rector Trinity II. +. church.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-07-14

STORM AND FLOOD-SIGNALS BY THE TELE-
GRAPH AND TIE CANNON.
National Republican,
By authority OF the Secretary OF War the
following system is to lie tested at Wash
ington: The signals will be fired at Fort
Myer. When q storm has commenced to
travel the first telegraph station over which
it passes is to send telegrams OF its coming
in the direction which it is travelling, to
points having signals established, scores or
even hundreds OF miles in advance, ac-
cording to the probable distance which it
NAV travel, the succeeding telegraph sta
tions always keeping telegrams well IN adj
vance. Also at stations on rapid rivers
telegrams Of coming sudden floods are TO
be sent to all towns below having signals
established.
At each city, county-seat, and town a
pood-siZed cannon is to be kept ready by n
fire company, or ut a military or naval sta
ton, which is to be fired three times as q
storm or food signal; at intervals OF one
minute if a tornado is coming; at intervals
OF three minutes il a rain-storm is ap-
preaching rapidly; at intervals OF six min
utes il a rain-storm is approaching slowly
and at intervals OF ten minutes II destruc-
tive river food Is coming. At large sea-
ports, where there are several military or
naval stations, signals Of the approach OF
gales should be repeated 10y each in regu-
larly arranged order from the sound OF the
first. And bells may be rung or steam
whistles be blown to increase the warning
of destructive storms.
Where a town has not suitable cannon
for a storm or floOd-gun, application
should be made to the State or national
arsenals.
The Western Union Telegraph Company,
with its 100000 miles a telegraph lines,
has three times generously offered free tele-
grams Of storms and floods to test this sys-
tenn at all points which may establish the
signals, and all such will be supplied. This
plan. when it shall have been generally
established, will doubtless save more than
sIOO. .OOO, 900 annually in damaged hay,
erain. and other crops. with many millions
of other property, together with thousands
NJ lives. and all at trifing cost.