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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-06
A Paris Cabman Inundated.

A Paris cabman who would not be
thrown over the Falls of Niagara by the
indignant hacEmen, was arrested for
insulting and abusing lady who had
hired him to drive her to her residence.
Having heard her say on entering his
vehicle that she had been losing at
cards, he stopped after driving while,
got down from his box, and insisted on
playing bezique with her for her fare.
Partly amused, partly terrified at the
situation, she agreed to the proposal
and the cabman lost. Mounting his box,
he drove her home, where, on her ar
rival, she rendered him the fare.
He refused it, saying that she owed
him notbAe;e she insisted, protesting
that she was not III the habit of play
ing bezique with hack drivers. He was
quite as firm, and she told him that ii
he did not take the money she wonld
throw it into the coach. At this he be-
gan abusing her, saying that he was as
good as she was, and that she was in
sulting his manhood by Offering to pay
him. A policeman coming up took him
into custody. His defense was that
she Inundated a citizen by not taking
the stakes which he had lost, and which
was debt of honor.
The sensitive cabman had to go to
prison for forty-eight hours.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-06
Visual Vaccination.

Mrs. Robert Bull, who lives on iona.
wanda Greek, about seven miles south
of Lockport, n. Y, became vaccinated
under peculiar circumstances, and in q
peculiar place. Her infant child was
vaccinated in the arm, the bandage be-
ing secured by pins. Mrs. Bull used
one of the pins to pick stye on her
eye. Soon the eyehds began to swell.
A doctor who was called decided that
Mrs. Bull had unintentionally vacci-
mated herself with virus on the pin. Her
sufferings have been of most excru-
ciating character; indeed, they are not
yet over by any means.
The affected eye has been treated with
bran poultices in which laudanum was
placed to help dull the pain. Mrs.
Bull has not been able to see from il
until very few days ago, when the
swelling went down enough for her to
open her eye little; even then she
found the muscles of the lid too weak to
lift it, and had to assist them with her
finger. A slight film which has started
to grow on the eye it is expected will be
successfully removed; and if the lady
does not take cold she will probably
have two good eyes again in a few
weeks longer. The other eye was at
one time slightly affected with sympa-
thetic infamm alton, but it appears to
be all right now.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-06
4 Settled Case.

A case was recently decided in a
Canadian court which establishes an
important point as to the rights OF
church worshippers. The defendant
was a gentleman who rented pew in a
church, and was accustomed to sleep
during the sermon, and worse than that,
says the Chicago Tribune, to snore.
The snoring was declared a nuisance by
the brethren, and tffey sought to COM
pei him to give up his pew. He re-
fused to do so, and took his stand upon
the fundamental position that he paid
for his pew, that it was his own, and
that he could do what he pleased with
it. The brethren thereupon brought
suit against him, charging him with
maintaining a nuisance. The court
decided "that a pew is like berth in
sleeping-car the person who hires il
can sleep or stay awake, and can snore
or not, as seemeth good unto him.
Furthermore, as snoring is not an act
of volition, but is incidental to the re-
taxation Of certain muscles, there is nc
malice or premeditated malevolence in
it; consequently the snorer is not q
vicious disturber of the peace of the
church. The snorer has returned to
his place, and the brethren now threaten
that at the expiration of the time for
which he has hired the pew it shall MOI
be reIet to him. In answer the bold
snorer says he will apply for a mandamus
compelling the church to rent him the
property. The case is an aggrayatine
one, but it would seem as if some means
might be devised that would make it sc
lively for the snorer that he would take
himself and his trumpet elsewhere.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-06
Goodness and FOrtitude.

The lizard County (Ark.) Register
tells this story of the food: A remark
able case of GOODNESS and fortitude oc-
Cured on White River, fifteen miles
west of here, during the late flood.
Mr., r. J. Goodlin and wife started from
the raft yard, four miles above Calico
Rock, in a small boat to go down the
liver. Mrs. Goodlin had her babe in
her arms, and the boat contained, be-
sides lot of bedding, household uten-
sils, etc. At the mouth of Piney the
boat upset, and Mrs. Goodlin caught
the limb of willow tree with one hand,
holding the babe up with the other.
The husband with difficulty swan to
her assistance, assisted her to a spot
where she could barely touch bottom
with her feet and went in pursuit of the
boat, which he found sunk III the slough
below, but was unable to right it alone.
John Richardson happened to appear
on the mountain above mt the time, and
hearing their cries assisted the man i'll
turning over the boat, when he rescued
the woman, who had been in the cold
water with her child for three hours.
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Bill Apps School for Boys.

Nature is the next study. DR.. Jenner
was a close observer. He was the first
man to find out that the cuckoo never
built nest, but always laid her eggs in
other birds nests. Do the boys know
that when horse crops grass he eats
back to him, but COW eats outward
from her, because she has no front teeth
in her upper jaw, and has to gum it.
The boys have seen many white horse,
but did they ever see white colt2 Do
they know how old the twig is that
bears the peaches, and how old the vine
that has the grapes hung on to it? Do
they know that hop vine winds with
the course of the sun, but bean-vine
always winds the other way2 What
timber will bear the most weight; what
is the most elastic what will last longest
in water, and what out of water; what
is the best time to cut down trees for
fre-wood how many kinds of oaks can
you count up that grow in this region,
and what are they specially good for !;
how does a bird fly without moving a
feather or Tapping wing; how does a
snake climb tree or brick wall what
is the difference between deer's track
and hogs track, and how often does q
buck shed his horns, and what becomes
of them which ought to be the largest,
the throat Of a chimney or funnel, and
ought it be wider at the top or drawn
in? Books are q wonderful help, but
man ought not to be satisfied to go
through life and be always on the bor-
row from other peoples brains. He
ought to find out some things himself,
and leave little to posterity in payment
for all that he has learned from others
Constitution. -
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Naturalization of Chinese.

In denying the right of naturalization
to Hop Sing, Commissioner Shields
simply followed the law as it has been
laid down By the United States Court
in San Francisco, Chicago and New
York. As amended in 1875 the act of
Congress provides for the naturalization
of "alens being free white persons,
aliens of African nativity and persons Of
African descent" This statute was inter-
preted by Judge Sawyer. United States
Circuit Judge in California, to apply
only to the Caucasian or white race. It's
provisions do not extend to Mongolians
nor to Indians. He cites the debates
in Congress to show that it was tue in
tention of that body to exclude the
Chinese. KS decision has been fol-
lowed by ther courts. This view is
bel rot } De in conflict with the four
teenth amendment nor contrary to the
Burlingame treaty. In recent case in
Oregon, Judge Deadly decided that u
man of half white and half Indian blood
is not a white person within the mean.
ing of the naturalization law.-N. Y
Herald
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-06

I had my letter to write and post, and
this involved five mile drive by moon
| light to the rear, across the most
| CHASTITY field which can well be i'm
agined. I had some trouble il finding
my carriage. I had left it at well de-
fined position on the battlefield of the
day before, Tut to reach it 1 hal tc
walk for mora than mile over plain
where the carcasses of men and horses
were not merely thickly strewn, bat
frozen into all sorts Of fantastic atti-
tudes. The thermometer had been ten
degrees below the freezing point on the
previous night, and men only slightly
wounded, who had not been able to
crawl to their comrades, had been
frozen to death.
One man was stiff in a sitting posture,
with both his arms lifted straight above
his head, as though his last moments
had been spent III an invocation, and it
gave one shudder in the clear moon
light to approach him. Others were
crumpled up in death agony, and SO
frozen. In places, many were together,
French and Germans were mingled, not
because they had been at close quarters,
but because the same ground had first
been occupied by one and then by the
other, perhaps, at an interval of half q
day. I think I was more comfortable
with bullets ringing in my ears than
walking amid the distorted shadows OF
these dead and stiffened men and it
was quite relief to see hay-stack on
fire and a regiment warming themselves
at it, and my prudent coachman within
comfortable distance of the ruddy
blaze.
Then comes the hard part of the cor
respondents life. I had still to dine.
I had lived since the mornings coffee
on loaf of bread, which [ had been
picking at all day I; then, to write my
letter-a good two hours task; then to
see that it was safely posted, either that
Light or the next morning early, so as
to give me time to get to the field for
the third days battle. And ali this after
having been on a strain of exertion and
excitement since daylight; and then the
gentleman az ease in London reads it all
in his armchair after breakfast for a
penny, or. at the most, two-penee half
penny. -BlackWoOd's Magazine.
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Mason In the Penitentiary.

The Albany Argus says Sergeant
John A. Mason, convicted of deadly
assault on Guiteau, the assassin, reached
this city at an early hour in the morn
ing in charge of Sergeant Satles and
Private Frederick Fl. Gehrman, both of
the Second United States artillery,
from the barracks at Washington. He
was not shackled in any manner. After
breakfasting at restaurant the prisoner
was taken on horse car to the peni-
Tertiary. which is to be his home for
eight years to come. He was received
at the institution by Deputy Biglin and
Clerk Bowers, the papers were soon
signed and the guards departed. The
following record was placed on the
books of the prison: "My name is John
A. Mason I am thirty seven years of
age and was born in Virginia, hair black.
sound, able-bodied, five feet ten inches
in height, color white, by occupation a
soldier, habits of life intempel ate, mar
ried, has wife and child, reads and
writes, has no religion, health good,
and has been vaccinated."
The prisoner was attired in a SER
geant's uniform, but had been stripped
of his stripes. He has rather spare
face, but wears heavy ight-colored
mustache. aud weighs about one hun
dred and sixty-five pounds. He was
never in prison before. He is locked in
cell No. 100 at present. He was allowed
to retain his army blankets. He had
not been in bed since leaving Washing
ton, and was much fatiaued. Almost
as soon as entering his cell he fell into
a profound slumber. Subsequently, he
was placed in cell No. 1877, on the Sec
ond tier, looking toward the east and
adjoining No. 1913, Tom Billiards. cell.
Mason will be set at work in No. shoe
shop. No person will be allowed to
speak or correspond with him until the
lapse of one month. He appears to be
a man of strong will and quite impul.
sive. His wife and child are now in
Washington.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-06

besides labor lost. would rather have
two loads raw, than rotted into one
load; yes, one and half loads raw than
two rotted into one. For my use the
soil will take care of all the value when
the raw manure is put into it, and it
will extract the fertilizing elements, no
matter how raw the manure when it
goes in. I do not accept the theory that
raw manure is not good for wheat. No
doubt fine manure is better, but even
wheat will stand raw manure in the soil.
and if it doesn't take all there is in it,
the next crop will get something. do
not believe any single grain crop will
exhaust heavy dressing of manure.
Tobacco may do it, SO far as the ele-
ments it appropriates are concerned,
but even after that crop something
would be left to support a succeeding
grain crop-and tobacco is more ex-
hausting to the land than anything else
We raise"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-06
Production of Sugar and Molasses.

The latest census bulletin gives some
interesting facts as to the sugar cane
production of the United States in 1879.
The production of sugar reached 49,
600 hogsheads, and of molasses nearly
IL ,000,0 900 gallons. This is a remark
able increase over the amount reported
in 1870, when 81, 900 hogsheads of sugar
and 6, 900, 900 gallons of molasses were
produced. But the present yield does
not compare so faVorably with that re-
turned by the census of 1860, which
was 231, 900 hogsheads of sugar and 49,
600, 900 gallons of molasses. The bulk
both of sugar and molasses is the pro-
duction of Louisiana. In the present
census returns this State is credited
with nearly 100000 gallons of mo-
lasses and more than 1S1, 800 hogsheads
of sugar. Its production of the former
article has nearly trebled since 1870, and
of the latter more than doubled.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-06
One Milkman Who Had a Conscience

The Sacramento (Csl Record tells
the following story of joke on milk
man:
A young man who has long driven
the milk wagon of one of the oldest es-
tablished diaries of this county, and has
supplied railk to it's customers for years,
yesterday, early, came to his employer,
and to his great surprise resigned his
situation. He had no other place, had
no complaint to make, was attached to
his employer, liked the business, and
all that, but resign he would. It turned
out that this was the cause Tuesday
the maid, whose duty it was to fill the
used cans Of that day, poured them full
of water as they stood in the wagon, and
left them to stand twenty-four hours to
sweeten, as is the rule. Before day
break yesterday the driver brought out
his wagon containing the cans of water
colcred by the remains OF milk, instead
of to second wagon in which the fresh
milk bad been placed for him. Obliv-
ious of his error, he drove over his entire
route and served all the customers with
milk-colored water. When, later in
the day, ha discovered his error, he re-
signed rather than face the battery of
complaints he knew was ready for him.
81 can go up to lannon's mouth,
said he, " and let 'em shoot me in two,
but never want to set eyes again on
hous where ] served that water" His
employer enjoys the joke hugely, and
was busy all day yesterday setting things
to rights and explaining the error be-
tween his gasps for breath from too
much laughter. Some Of his customers
remarked that they had noticed the
milk wasn't quite as rieh "a usual.
BIZ WORK 81 the mind one secures re-
pose of the heat
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Sisters Reunited by Their Children.

A very pretty romance not long ago
occurred in Cleveland, which illustrates
the freaks of chance in this world of
ours. Ga the stage of the Academy of
Music sometimes appears in small parts,
prepossessing little lady whom we will
designate by the name of Myrtle. While
attending school, Myrtle made the &C.
quaintance OF school girl named
Martha. Visits to one home or the
other became frequent. The parents,
however, had never met. One day
Martha was overlooking the family
album of Myrtle's mother, when, on
coming to the face of young girl, she
remarked: Glow did you get my NAM
mas picture in your album ?" "That
isn't your mothers picture, my child
1t was little sister OF mine who came
out West and died long time ago."
81 don't care" persisted the child,
"that is my mamma, and she has a pic
| ture at home just like p
There was a hasty putting on of
street clothes, aud visit to Martha's
mother. She proved to be the sister
who was supposed to be dead T.. say
that there was a jubilee when the two
families came together, wouldn't ex-
press the half. II seems that Martha's
mother Che children being orphans)
was taken into the family of man who
emigrated from the east to Cleveland.
Here Martha's mother married and has
since lived. Myrtle's mother remained
in the east until her marriage, when she
too, came to Cleveland. Both sisters
had lived within sight of each other for
half dozen years, and only discovered
the fact after the children had been
visiting back and forth for a year or
Cleveland Sunday Sun.
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Education in Iceland,

The correspondent of Swiss journal
thus writes as to this subject zone
would certainly have no trouble in find
ing among the corps of teachers some
men of great merit, even erudite, whose
obscure and modest science is devoted
to study and to the good of their coun-
try, without care for renown or the re-
gard of this world. I once asked q
young Icelander, Who undertook the
instruction OF children who, from the
distance of their dwellings, or the pow
erty of their parents, could not attend
school? At the age of seven years,
he replied, al our children knew how
to read, write and cipher among the
poorest fishermen of the coast there is
not one who has not received what may
be called a good primary education.
Our mothers are our teachers, the boe1'
ICELAND house, our schoolroom. The
nearest pastor has an overnight of the
progress of the children, and that one
who does not furnish the proof of q
NOlllu 1Ob NO hU-
mitted to confirmation. An Icelandic
mother would not survive the chagrin
of seeing her children refused by the
pastor, and not single example is
known of it, Ask the first child you
meet who it was that taught him or her
the history and geography of his coun-
try, the name of the birds and flowers,
and the invariable reply will be, Modre-
min. my mother. Touching in its SIM
plicity and grandeur, and revealing
truly the character of this sympathetic
people At twenty five the young man
is profoundly religious, chaste, gentle
and honest as on the day when at his
mothers knee he was spelling out his
first lesson. Can one be astonished
after this that in Iceland there are
neither soldiers nor cannon; that the
art of robbing ones neighbor of his
land is unknown that one sees there
no police nor prison; and that for CEN
turtles one has lost the memory OF every
kind of crime p''
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-06

A HEAVY VoIoE.-A countryman
climbed out of wagon in Austin, en-
tered music store, and said he wanted
to buy piece of music for his son.
''If your son is not very far advanced
perhaps this would do" said the clerk,
handing over piece of sheet music.
"How much does it cost %
s'F,fty cents"
well, that's too low fol- him. The
last piece 1 bought for him cost seven
ty i've cents. He's got tenor Voice,
and I reckon piece worth dollar and
a quarter at least will suit his gait"
The clerk accidentally found piece
that was suited to higher-pricad voice,
and the proud father shelled out the
cash.
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WEA WING THE WEB.
From the Boston Transcript

From the Boston Transcript
This morn will weave my web" she said,
As she stood by her loom in the rosy light
And her young eyes, hopefully glad and
clear,
Followed afar the swallows flight.
a. IA soon as the days first tasks are done.
While yet 1 am fresh and strong" said
she,
= will hasten to weave the beautiful web
Whose pattern is known to none but me
"I win weave it nne, viii weave it fair,
And ali ! how the colors will glow!" abe
said,
" So fadeless and strong viii weave my web,
Tnat perhaps it. will live after am dead. "
But the morning hours sped on apace,
The air grew sweet with the breath of
June;
And young Love hid by the waiting loom,
Tangliny the threads as he hummed q
tune.
All life is so rich and full" she cried,
Sand morn is short, though the days are
long
This noon will weave my beautiful web,
win weave it carefully, fine and strong"
But the sun rode high in the cloudless sky;
The burden and heat of the day she bore !;
And hither and thither she came and went,
While the loom stood still as it stood
before.
All life is too busy at noon," she said,
Ny web must wait till the eventide,
Till the common work of the day is done,
And my heart grove calm in the silence
wide p
30, one by one, the hours passed on,
In the creeping shadows had longer
grown
Til the house was still, and the breezes
slept,
And the singing birds to their nests had
flown
And now will weave my web," she said,
As she turned to her loom ere set OF sun.
And laid her hand on the shining threads
To set them in order, one by one.
But hand was tired, and heart was weak;
am not as strong as was" sighed she,
" And the pattern is blurred and the colors
rare
Are not so bright, or so fair to see
III must wait, I think. till another morn;
1 must go to my rest with my work I'M
done.
1t is growing too dark to weave !" she cried,
As lower and lower sank the sun,
She dropped the shuttle the loom stood
still
The weaver slept in the twilight gray,
Dear heart Will she weave her beautiful
web
In the golden Light of longer day
JULIA c. r. DoRR
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MILK EPIDEAuCs. The British Nedi-
cal Journal says the revelations made
from time to time by medical officers OF
health describe So much ignorance and
neglect, and snch fatal sources of dis
ease, that it is not surprising that
"milk epidemics 3" are so numerous.
DIR. Goldia hes been Investigating the
probability of the spread of certain
epidemic which has just been visiting
Leeds, Eng, through the medium Of
the milk supply. He has come to the
conclusion that the way in which some
of the milk supplies are stored in dirty
houses, where all the usual operations
of hole household are being carried
out, with, lii many cases, gallons Of
milk standing in open vessels, is, sim
ply ready method of spreading ty-
phoid or other Infectious diseases.
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Detectives Detected.

Another Philadelphia ring-that OF
the detectives-has come to grief. An
exchange says: The Mayor of the city,
who fortunately possesses the power,
has, with one exception, dismissed the
whole force and appointed new men in
their places. The charges against the
accused officials are the most serious
that conld be preferred. 1t is alleged
that they used their positions to ham,
per instead of to advance the interests
Of Justice. 1t is charged that they were
in collision with criminals and shielded
notorious outlaws whom they should
have brought to justice.