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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
The False Prophet.

Various special dispatches to London
newspapers and kilograms received from
Cairo say that the report from Khartoum;
dated October 80, of the defeat Of the
False Prophet with great slaughter is not
believed. Dr. Schweinfurth writes to the
Antislavery Society, under date of Cairo,
October %, that all the provinces of
Egypt lying south and west of Khartotfn
are in the hands of fanatical insurgents,
and that Khartoum is only hanging on by
a thread. The army has been cut down
by constant disastrous combats with the
False Prophet, and is reduced to half its
original size. The mass of the popula-
ton believe in the ever victorious False
Prophet. Six thousand men, DR.. Schwein=
furth says, were massacred in June by
Mahdi's army, which is reported to num-
Der $50, 900 men, and is desperately brave.
AS soon as the town of Obeid has fallen,
the army, it is expected, will march on
Khartoum. DR.. Schweinfurth also states
that the Governor of the Soudan esti-
mates that during the war 80, 600 of the
False Prophets followers have persisted.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
A Brave Conductor.

A locomotive with raging wood-fre
beneath the boiler, was dragging long
train up a heavy grade near Colfax,
CAL, week or two ago, when the wire
netting over the smoke-stack blew out
Instantly stream of live Goals shot into
the air and fell back upon the cars so
thickly that there was great danger of a
confagration. The conductor stationed
brakemen on top of the train and was
hoping to surmount the grade without
accident, when, on looking over his way
bills, he discovered to his horror that the
car directly behind the locomotive was
loaded with gunpowder. He immedi-
ately uncoupled it, without alarming the
passengers, and while the other cars
stood on the grade with the brakes hard
on, the powder car was drawn swiftly up
the slope and left on side track. The
engine then returned and took the rest of
the cars forward. The conductor,
Charles Loughbridge, is entitled to
public credit for his calm courage and
sound judgment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
Being NeighbOrIy.

There are people who seem to base
friendship on borrowing as long as you
will lend to them. Neighbors of that
stamp illustrate the impudence that de-
mands without consideration, and the
familiarity that breeds contempt. We
find the following in the New York 1fe1'-
camille Journals:
He was small boy, with dirt on his
nose and a faded straw hat on his head.
and feet so long unwashed that it was
hard to tell where his toe-nails were To-
Gated. He walked boldly up the steps,
pulled the bell, and when the lady came
to the door he said, >
''Say, can you lend me your telephone
for few minutes ?"
"Why, I can't" she gasped out.
"We'll bring it back in half an hour. -
''But I can't lend it child. You don t
seem to know what telephone is. Who
are you ?"
"We live around the corner-iust
novel in, and we want to be neighborly.
I trie to borrow your wheelbarrow and
shovel, but your boy wouldn't lend 'em,
and our hired girl has been over to bor-
row tea and sugar and couldn't get any.
We kinder thought we might borrow
your telephone or something and ma
would bring it back and get chance to
see your style and ask you to run right in
with your old clothes on
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
A Foolish Superintendent.

John A. Cobben, the Superintendent
of Public Schools at Wakeman, Ohio, be-
came enamored of Miss Welsh, pretty
pupil. Having made up his mind to go
away with her, and make his wife and
children believe that he was dead, he be-
gan by pretending i'll health. Then he
went on a trip as though to reeuperate
He wrote home from Milwaukee that he
was about to drown himself, and, leaving
his baggage at hotel, disappeared. His
family mourned him as a suicide, while
he was alive and well at Moore's Hill,
Ind, where he and Miss Welsh had OBJ
tanned employment as teachers in an
academy under false names, and were
about to get married. Cobben had been
an active church member at Wakeman,
and his pastor went to Milwaukee to re-
cover his body if possible There the
clergyman noted that several valuable
books were missing from the drowned
mans effects, and he srrmised the truth.
Working upon that clue, the clippers
were traced and caught.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
A Canary Bird.

The Virginia New Enterprise says:
J. Minor Taylor, chief clerk of the bon
ANA firm in this city, has canary bird
five years of age that never sang a note
until about week ago. AS the bird
never sang, and as it was some trouble to
take care of it, Mr.. Taylor one day told
Mr.. Chaplin, his fellow clerk, he wished
he would get some chloroform and kill
the bird, as he believed it was dumb or
troubled with some impeachment of the
vocal organs. The next day the bird
suddenly burst forth in song, and hardly
stopped to take breath all day. 1t is not
only the best singer among half a tlozen
birds that are in the office, but has song
different from any of them and different
from any canary ever heard. There is
hardly single canary note in its song.
1t now sings daily and all day long, and
will probably not cease to do its best I'M
less again threatened with chloroform.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
He Knocked off Four.

In riding over to Lost Mountain from
Marietta, I came across "a young man
who was digging post-holes for barbed
wire fence, and when L told him what I
wanted, he replied:
"I'u go with you. I was in that fout
yself, and I kin point out every posi-
ton" Aauzz=
When we reGEhed the ground, he began
telling where this and that regiment was
stationed, and finally he halted beside a
huge boulder and said:
Fright here, stranger, was where I
squatted for four long hours. I rested
my gun right thar on that ledge, and
I reckon I killed exactly twenty-eight
Yanks that day"
"No?"
"Solemn fact, and I know dozen men
who'll swear to it"
"Let's see? This battle was fought
in 1852"
"K'rect you are."
"That's about eighteen years ago?"
"Jist about"
"And you are about 25 years old !"
81 was 25 this spring"
Then looked at him long time, but
he never WINGED. When we were going
home, and after long period of silence,
he suddenly remarked
stranger, don't you believe I was
thar?"
Perhaps you were, but you see you
were not quite years old on the day of
that fight"
"That's what I've been figuring on"
he continued in a very serious voice,
"and I'll tell you what I'm willing to
do"
"Well p
"Tl call it twenty-four instead of
twenty-eight dead Yanks in front of my
position That's fair, isn't it ?"
told him that nothing could be more
liberal, and cordial relations were at once
re-established.-M. QUAD.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
red as comet, came into Mr.. Mablstick,s

red as comet, came into Mr.. Mahlstick's
studio the other day, saying he had fine
collection of water colors, mostly marine
pieces, to dispose of, and he wanted
Mahlstlck to come and look at them.
Inc artist was all the time intently look
ing at his visitors nose. "By Jove," he
SAID, that is no water color p "Young
man, solemnly replied the caller,
you're right, it's distemper."
SEVERAL members of this congrega-
ton, remarked the Rev. Esaias Plush
FOUNDER, just before giving out his text,
say that my sermons are entirely too
long. Well, brethren, that may be true,
but 1t is equally true that the collections
are always very short, and between the
pulpit and the pews we average things
just about right" And then the good
old man sailed in and let them have clear
through to 17thly and half-past twelve
o'clock, but they ratified him in collec-
ton that fairly made the baskets creak.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
Keep the Boilers Heated.

A reporter dropped into our largest re-
tail establishment Wednesday.
"You have great rush of business,
remarked the reporter.
eyes" replied the proprietor, ''partly
because it is holiday season, but mainly
on account of advertising"
"How can you tell whether advertising
pays?"
81 can tell that advertising pays by
stopping it. I've tried it. Trade drops
the tide of purchasers flows some other
way"
Suppose you should give up adver-
tising?'
81 should save a big pile of money,
but should lose bigger pile. You must
keep the boilers heated if you want steam.
If you bank your fires too long, it takes
ime to start up. Advertising is the
team which keeps business moving. I've
tudied the matter. "-BOStoaa Journal.
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A Curiosity.

The Mobile Registe remarks " One
of the curiosities of journalism is set of
letters, emanating from a faithful CORE
spondent in New Haven. For ten years
and odd, letters have come every two
weeks from this correspondent, each
letter being bulky and properly prepaid,
sometimes with two and sometimes with
three stamps. The correspondence is
never printed and never will be. The
author once signed himself James, but
all subsequent letters bear the initials
A. B. j. Who he is, or what his OBJ
ject in writing, save to put his views upon
paper and pay liberal postage thereon,
cannot be stated. The letters are each q
dissertation upon some abstruse point of
constitutional law, and are very verbose
and nconsequential in argument"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
Black Bean Scum.

Pick over half pint of black beans
(Which are sometimes called turtle beans),
wash them in plenty of cold water, and
put them into tepid water to soak over
night. The next morning break the
bone of a knuckle of veal and put it over
the fire with the beans and three quarts
of cold water; season the soup with two
teaspoonfuls of salt, saltspoonful each
of ground cloves, alispice and white pep
per, and boil it gently for four hours,
keeping it closely covered. At the end
of that time take out the knuclzle of veal
and strain the broth, through a colander,
using a wooden spoon or potato masher
to press the beans through; pick all the
meat from the knuckle of veal, shred it
rather small, and put it, into the soup !;
boil two eggs hard, chop or slice them,
and put them into the soup-tureen with
one lemon sliced thin; put over the fire
in thick saucepan two tablespoonfuls
each of batter and -four, and stir them
until they begin to brown then gradual
ly stir into them the soup, and let it boil
once see that it is palatably seasoned,
and serve it hot in the tureen containing
the egg and lemon.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
AN ODD LITTLE INDUSTRY.
no" the vi OF WinterRreen is Distilled in
Pennsylvania.

The manufacture of the oil of winter
green has some interesting features-in
TACT, nothing from a shoe peg to loco
motive without details of more or less
interest to readers. Just at this time the
essence OF wintergreen is very high-as
high as IS pound. The oil of winter
green comes chiefly from New York State
and from Pennsylvania, where the winter
green vine and birch trees grow in abund-
ance. Wintergreen is a plant common
IN nearly all parts of the country, but
not III every part do the inhabitants
thereof make the oil of wintergreen.
The makers of wintergreen essence are
under thesssrveflance of the Govern
ment.
The oil is made from wintergreen when
wlntergreen is abundant. IF it is not
plenty, birch is used. The plant of an
oll-maker consists of a furnace made of
rough stones, boiler, a tin pipe, q
trough, a barrel and a running brook.
The tin pipe leads from the top of the
boiler through the water in the trough to
barrel. Under the end of the pipe is
placed a barrel, and on the end of the
pipe in the barrel is hung a glass jar.
The boiler is filed with water and birch
bark and wintergreen twigs. A fire is
built, the steam is forced through the
tin pipe, and is condensed by the pipes
no i,
The oil of wintergreen and the water fall
into the glass jar, but the oil, being
heavier than the water, goes to the bot
tom of the jar, while the water runs
over into the barrel and is used again.
The business is carried on in certain
seasons both day and night, as the pot
must be kept boiling. The men who
work at this business make their homes
during the season in the forest or field,
wherever the birch or wintergreen is to
be found. They enjoy an an-season pic
mic unless the Internal Revenue Collector
" drops down" upon them, as he has
done upon many, and collects $50 for
every still-like apparatus he finds. 1t is
supposed that some of the rude affairs
for condensing which the Government
calls stills, are so concealed in the forest
that the collector does not find them.
The manufacturers dispose of it Ghe oiD
to the apothecaries for about So a pound,
who after dilutng it with alcohol, sell it
to confectioners and others at the usual
apothecaries' profits.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
THE WIFE.

Ahod was a wealthy herdsman of the plain,
His wife one summer day set down her pitcher
And lay and slept beneath tree in Bethel,
And sleeping had dream after this fashion:
At first it seemed she woke from such dream.
And Ahod said thus: ''Wife get thee up in
haste.
Last year sold to merchants of Sagor
hundred sheep; they owe me still one third
lis a long way and but feeble now,
Whom can 1 send to Sagor in my stead?
Few are the faithful ENJOYS one may trust
Go thou and claim those thirty silver shekels. -
Then spoke she not of terror, or the desert,
Or thieves, but said: ''Dear lord am thy
servant"
And when with his right hand he showed the
way
She wrapped her mantle round her and de-
parted.
The road was hard, and thick with pointed
stones
That cut her feet and made tears brim her eye
lids;
But, ceasing not, she journeyed all the day,
For ceasing in the evening journeyed still,
Taking no heed of sight or sound-when 10,
Suddenly, with fierce cry, one leapt upon her,
Held tight her mouth, and with the other hand
Rent off her mantle; then before he fed
Stabbed her, leaving the dagger in her breast.
A sudden start of horror in her dream
Woke her thereat.
Her husband stood before her,
''To merchants of Sagor, said he, Il sold
Last year one hundred sheep; one-third is
owing.
Whom may send to Sagor in my stead?
Since faithful messengers are few to find,
Go thou and claim those thirty silver shekels"
Then the wife said: ''Thou art my lord; go''
She called her children to her, laying her hand
Upon the elders head kissing the younger.
Then, wrapping on her mantle, she departed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
INFANTS FOOD.
Mode of Preparing Milk That Closely I'm
itates the Provisions of Nature.

In a clinical lecture lately delivered at
the Pennsylvania Hospital upon the
artificial feeding of infants, DR.. Arthur
N. Meigs described food which he has
devised, and with which, he says, he has
met with good success, in many cases of
defective nutrition. 1t contains the same
elements that are found in human milk
and in more nearly the same proportions
than any other food heretofore recon-
mended. This consists of two parts of
cream, one of milk, two of lime water,
and three parts of a solution of milk
sugar of the strength of II "a drains to
the pint of water. The milk to be used
should be good ordinary cows milk, and
not the very rich milk of Jersey or other
high-bred stock, and the cream in the
same way should be such as is usually
sold in cities, and not too rich, contain
ing 16 or IL per cent. of fat. The
quantity of this food taken by a new
born infant should be two or three fluid
ounces every two hours, and if it thrives
it will soon take as much as a gill every
two hours.
The best way to prepare and use this
food is to order five or six packages of
milk sugar, containing seventeen and
three-quarter drains each the contents
of one of these to be dissolved in a pint
of water, and each time the child is to be
fed let there be mixed together and then
warmed three tablespoonfuls of the sugar
solution, two of lime water, two of cream
and one of milk. This makes about a
gill, and as much of it as the child does
not take should be thrown out and a
fresh mixture made for the next feeding.
The solution of sugar should be kept in
q cool place and at once thrown away if
it sours, as occurs if kept more than a
day or two in warm weather. The dry
sugar keeps indefinitely and is easily dis
solved in warm water. A pint bottle
should be kept for the purpose of con-
tanning the solution, to serve also as a
of the quantity of water to be
used with each package dissolved, and
also to save further measuring.
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$4,000 REWARD !

VIII be paid for the detection and con-
viction of any person selling or dealing
in any bogus, counterfeit or imitation
Hop BrrTERs, especially Bitters or
preparations with the word Hop or
HOPS in their name, or connected there
with, that is intended to mislead and
cheat the public, or for any preparation
put in any form pretending to be the
same as HOP BITTERs. The genuine
have clusters of GREEN HOPS (notlce
this) printed on the white label, and are
the purest and best medicine on earth,
especially for Kidney, Liver and Ner-
vous Diseases. Beware of all others,
and of all pretended formulas or recipes
of HOP BITTERs published in papers, or
for sale, as they are frauds and SWIM
dies. Whoever deals in any but the
genuine will be prosecuted.
HOP BITTERs MFG. Co.,
Rochester, n. Y.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30
MARKET NOTES.

NEW YORK MARKET.
The Wholesale New York market quota tons
show:
BEANs-Prime So 35@$34O fair to good,
$2.65@S2.70 per bushel.
BUTTER - New York sold at 36038c. for
choice in pals, and 30@33c. common to good.
Western sold at 37@3Sc. and the common
Western at lS021c.
CHEESE - Factory fancy, 123Ic. (0D13c; do
fair to good, 9010c.
Transformations ranged from Csc. for or
binary, to 32c. for New York. New Jersey
and Pennsylvania.
FLoUR-superfne, $3.25@S390 Western,
$4.400$7.75 extra New York, $4.40@$6.75.
HAY-shipping, 55@6Oc.i clover. 45@7Oc.
salt. 65c.; straw, 30@4Oc.
HoPs-New York, $1.1O@$1 20; Eastern, $50
$1.10; yearlings, %; olds, %.
PETROLEUM = Refined, 10c.; crude, TO
TIC. in bulk 4; in barrels, S58c.; naphtha, 6S4c.
in shipping. order, and 1116@12s4c. in cases.
Pork New mess. S2l.9O@$22. 90; dressed
WHEAT-Spring No. 8, $1.2O@143; Mil
waukee, No. 2. $1,36; amber, $1.32@$1. 40;
white, 86c@$1.124.
RYE-State, 74@7415c.
WooL-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia,
xxx, 456D46c.; Xxx, 426D45c.; X, 42(D43c.; No.
], 45947c.; No. 2, 38040c common, 33035c
New York and Western Xxx and x, 39@4515c.;
No. /, 44045c.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
, = olaIe family, -0$4.SI: rye
nour, S4.25@$4.3719 wheat, State, SO
Si.I3 amber. $l43; corn, yellow, 81c.
mixed State, 84c.
PETRoLEUM-Refined, S%c; crude, 6Lc.
WooL7State and Western Xxx. 46@50o.; x,
4(a'48e:; medium, 50051c.; coarse 45c.
BOSTON MARKET.
FLoUR-From $3.750S4OO for low and
medium, to $550@$6 25 for choice Minnesota
Corn, 07@9Oc. for mixed and yellow.
BUTTER - Common, 23@2Sc. Vermont
dairy, 29934e.; choice creamery, 36@38c.
CHEEsE-12(013c.
BEANs-$3 10CD$315
HAY-Choice, S1SOS19
CATTLE MARKETS.
BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality, S515O
$7.15. ''''' '0'''
EAST LIBERTY, PENN. Best cattle, sc, rom
$100; medium to good, $5.5O@$6. 90; common
to fair, $4.00@$450; Hogs, Workers. Sc 700,
$500; Philadelphias, $7.25@8z50. Sheep,
WATERTowN, MASS Cattle, choice. $40 On
@$l0.50; extra, S9.0O@$g5O first quality,
$7.O0@$8.50; second quality, $4.5O0B7.O0
third quality, $4.00@$4.25. Sheep and lambs
wool sheep, $2.00@$4.5O; extra, IS 0OG0
50 25i spring lambs, 41s@51zc. Veal calves,
3@716c. AZ
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On a New Plan,

A Detroit saloon keeper advertises that
he has paid $500 for a years license to
sell liquors, but that he means to volun-
tarily restrict his business within certain
moral bounds ''To the wife who has a
drunkard for a husband" he says in an
advertisement, cor friend who is dissi-
pated, I say emphatically, give me notice
of such cases, and all such shall be ex-
Guided from my place. Let fathers,
mothers, sisters do likewise, and their re-
quests shall be regarded. 1 pay heavy
tax for the privilege of selling whisky
and other liquors, and I want it distinct
ly understood that I have no desire to
sell to drunkards or minors, or to the
poor or destitute. I much prefer that
they save their money and put it where
it will do the most good for their
families"
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standing with arms akimbo, gazing with
satisfaction on the Uttered floor, expressed
the feeling of every one when he impul-
sively exclaimed:
''That blessed old barrel Well, I'll
never think even way down in my heart
that we've nothing to be thankful for, so
long as we have dear Aunt Susan p
Youths Companion.
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WHAT BUTLER SAts.-In closing his
speech in Boston, the other night, Gov
ernor-elect Ben F. Butler said For
myself, I have but one pledge to make,
and that is, that not one of you shall ever
regret the vote that you have given this
day. and that it shall be my endeavor
that in this Commonwealth every man
shall enjoy equality of right, equality of
power, equality of burden, and equality
of privilege under the law.
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Am a invenile nnrtv Young pentIemnn

AT juvenile party young gentleman
about seven years old kept aloof from
the rest of the company. The lady of
the house called to him, saying, "Come
and play and dance, dear. Choose one
of these pretty girls for your wife. :"
"Not hkely!" cried the young cynic.
"No wife for me Do you think 1 want
to be worried out of mSlife like poor
Dada p"
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A Widows Tears.

Mrs. Soteldo, the widow of the man
who went to shoot a Washington news
paper man and was shot himself instead,
begs Col. Corkhill, the Government
prosecuting officer for the District of
Columbia, not to go further and prose-
cute Barton, the newspaper man, because
her dead husband made it his dying wish
that he should not be prosecuted, and
she herself has not the heart " to bring
upon his household any pain or anxiety, :"
but her sincere prayer to heaven lis
that his family may never feel for one
moment that dreadful anguish that 1
must bear with me even to the grave"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-30

1T IS said that when you touch mans
pocket you touch his soul, but how was
it before pockets were invented? Was
his soul untouched up to that period !?
The ancients knew nothing of pockets,
for they are a comparatively modern in
vention. The condition of six-year-old
ancient, with no pocket with which to
stow away his top, fish hooks, iackknife,
jewsharp, bean blower, cellar door lock,
loose matches, cigar stumps, jumping
jack, marbles, ink stopper, button hook,
infer rubber gum, slate pencil, kite,
string, drum sticks, etc., must have been
quite deplorable. Before pockets came
into fashion, purses were carried sus-
pended from girdle. Thieves secured
them by cutting them away, hence the
term cutpurse, which is much older than
pickpocket. Cincinnati Saturday Night
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SoALPNa. The State of Wisconsin
paid during the last fiscal year $31, 1862
for the scalps of wild animals, of which
$3,375 are alleged to have been paid to
persons who rear wolves for the sole pur-
pose of securing the bounty on their
scalps,
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A BosToN editor bounced the

A Boston editor bounced the cook,
cuffed two children, left his wife in tears,
and made a Decline for the office, and
wrote eff you want to make the world
brighter and better, begin by being kind
and loving to those in the small circle of
your own family, and from that as a CEN
ter work out as you are permitted to CO.
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