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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
An Alleged Pension Swindle.

"We know" says the Grand Arn2y
Gazette, "of one glaring instance in
which a one armed soldier who was
getting $24 month, the full amount he
was entitled to by law, through political
influence had his pension raised to $50
per month, and the Arrears bill gave
him an opportunity to collect nearly
$3, 900 IN one lump. Now this man has
slight wound, he claims, in his leg.
We know he rides well, and can walk
and run well, for we have, in walking
with him, had to request him to take a
slower step. This is only one instance
out of hundreds. They are unfair, un-
Just, at least as far as arrears are con-
cerned, when 50 many poor soldiers
who we're severely injured only secure
So, 81 and Sc per month. This same
gentleman gets a handsome salary OF
81, 600 a year from the government and
does not need to beg, as SO many poor
soldiers do. We blame the laws that
give this power and allow this discrlml-
nation. This case will be good one for
Congressional investigation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02

cess of his system was its ruin. Millison
no longer satisfied. Ten and twenty
millions were the vague limits each
gambler set upon his gains. Then fol-
lowed such a picture Of human abase-
ment as, happily for mankind, few knew
of at the time, and but few take the
trouble to trace now after 200 years of
oblivion, picture which would seem a
monstrous caricature of human passion
and baseness were not the Black Friday
and the present crash open to the whole
world to see and marvel at. The mobiles
who had immemorially disowned money
making, if not money getting, by any
of the appliances of commerce, sur
rounded Law in ranks of cringing syco-
phancy.
? The result was readily to be foreseen.
In spite of the most brilliant resources,
an inexhaustible fecundity of expedi-
ents, the vast fabric tottered. Law,
great in his triumph, became terrified.
He was only saved from being torn in
pieces by taking refuge in the Palais
Royale with his patron, the Regent,
who, to his credit, remained constant to
the last-though it was through his
own duplicity the disaster had been
brought about. For the Regent had
sold himself to the English Court, and
one part of the price was the ruin of
Law, and the obliteration of his vast
system for the aggrandizement of France
through colonization and commerce.
The anarchy of quite another sort of
madness followed. In the present chaos,
fear was the impulse and despair the
ruling passion. The big stockholders
sent for the redemption of their stock
carts, and some carried away as high as
three carts laden with gold. But terror
was not to be checked any more than
hope, and Law, after herculean efforts,
deserted by the court, discarded by the
Regent, erected his last barricade against
the rising tide. The company pro-
claimed that in future the Royal Bank
would be governed by the company's
directors alone; that under no clrcum-
stances would the company be COM
PEELED to make advances to the King
that in future the company would sell
no more stock. This checked the panic,
but it ruined the spectators. 1t main
tanned the value of the banks circula-
ton, while restraining the speculation
on shares. The treasury allied to Eng
land, and the jobbers procured an edict
fixing the value of the shares at certain
sum redeemable on presentation at the
bank. That was the end of the India
Company. The inevitable result fol-
lowed. Paris next day was q mob of
madmen. The horrors of the
callapge terrified the court. The chief
agencies in the tragedy were summarily
exiled to save their heads from popular
FURY.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
How to Trim q Lamp.

There is such vast difference in both
the quantity and quality of light prom
ised by a common coal oil or q kerosene
lamp when properly trimmed and that
produced by the same lamp when i'm
properly trimmed, that it is surprising
how any one of ordinary intelligence
and observation can be satisfied to use,
even for single hour, an imperfectly
trimmed lamp. Yet, strange to say, a
large proportion of the millions of kero-
sene lamps that are in nightly use are
not trimmed as they should be. Care
less housekeepers and stupid servants
think s'it will just do as well" in trim
ming lamp, to break the charred wick
with the fingers. to saw it with rough
knife, or to haggle it with pair of dull
shears, as it will to clip it smoothly and
evenly with sharp trimmer. But peo-
pie who are fastidious enough to care
for light they can read, sew, or do any
kind of work by, with satisfaction and
comfort, know that such is not the fact.
Since kerosene came into use as a
light-producing agent, various imple-
ments for trimming lamps have been
patented and placed upon the market
but, after pretty thorough examina-
tion of the most of them, says a CORE
spondent, incline to the belief that
nothing has yet been invented for the
purpose quite so convenient, cheap and
effective as pair of ordinary, medium
sized scissors. To do the work proper
ly, however, the scissors must be sharp,
for it is impossible to trim lamp per-
fectly without sharp trimmer.
The belief is quite general that to
prevent a lampwick from faring at the
corners and breaking the chimney, it
must be cut rounding, to correspond
with the cap or cover of the burner.
My experience, however, coupled with
close and careful observation, leads me
to the conclusion that the way to trim
lamp so as to secure the very best
result-to get the most and pleasantest
light with the least breakage of Chin
neys-is to cut the wick parallel with
the top of thu burner.
When ready to trim the lamp remove
the chimney. Raise the cap of the
burner. Turn up the wick, and, with
pair of sharp scissors, clip it even with
the top of the tube. Be careful not to
cut or squeeze the tube with the scis-
sors. See that no lint or thread re-
mains on the wick, and that it has not
been pushed out Of its perpendicular
position and cut diagonally. Close the
cap over the tube, put the chimney in
place, and the lamp is ready for use. If
these directions are strictly followed, it
will, when lighted, yield broad,
straight-edged flame, without notch
or indentation in it, and furnish clear,
pleasant, steady light. Try it and see.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02

he heard that the white men had found
gold at Clark's Fork, on his reservation,
Iron Bull Immediately sent them word
to continue to dig and he would cede
them the lands. When the Northern
Pacific Railroad ran it's line through the
Grow reservation the Indians pulled up
the stakes and threw them into the Vel
lowstone River, but Iron Bull said this
would not do and roundly scolded the
Indians for disturbing the white mems
stakes. He last year made treaty with
the railroad commissioners, granting
them the right of way for the peltry
sum of $4,000. The Northern Pacific
runs through the Grow lands for dis
tance of over fifty miles along the south
bank of the Yellowstone River.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
A Noble Teacher.

Mr.. Frank V. Rafter, Principal of a
school in East st. Louis, Ill.,, saved one
of his pupils from drowning on Friday.
The boy broke through the ice of pond
near the school-house at the noon recess,
and the teacher, hearing the other
children scream, ran upon the pond,
and, the ice breaking under him, broke
his way to the point where the boy went
down and then dived to the bottom.
Luckily he found the. boy and brought
him to the surface. Then, however, he
had hard struggle breaking his way
again to the shore. Finally he reached
it, half dead himself from fatigue and
cold and life almost extinct in the boy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
Lost i'm the Ice.

A dispatch from st. Johns, New
foundland, lecites painful
story of the perils of the wintry sea.
Nine open boats, manned by about fifty
men, caught at sea in o sudden
change of weather, were imprisoned in
a vast field of drift ice, aud though by
traordinary exertions seven escaped,
two, with their crews, were carried
away. Such an incident occurring on
the Newfoundland coast will revive the
wonder at the great journey of the jean
nette's boats in the Arctic Ocean from
the New Siberian Islands to the mouth
of the Lena River.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
LESSON OF THE WATERlIILL


: But this say, brethren, the time is short
Listen to the watermill
Through the livelong day,
How the clicking of its wheel
Wears the hours away
Lapguidly the autumn wind
Stirs the forest leaves.
From the fields the reapers sing
Binding up the sheayes;
And proverb haunts my mind
As spell is cast:
''The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past
Autumn winds revive no more
Leaves that once are shed,
And the sickle cannot reap
Corn once gathered;
Flows the ruffied streamlet on
Tranquil, deep and still;
= Never gliding back again
To the watermill;
Truly speaks that proverb old
With a meaning vast
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past"
Take the lesson to thysef,
True and loving heart;
Golden youth is fieeting by,
Summer hours depart;
Learn to make the most of life,
Lose no happy day.
Time will never bring thee back
Chances swept away
Leave no tender word unsaid,
Love while love shall last;
''The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past"
Work while yet the daylight shines,
Man of strength and will
Never does the streamlet glide
Useless by the mill;
Wait not till to-morrow's sun
Beams upon thy way,
All that thou canst call thine own
Lies in thy "to-day;
Power and intellect and health
May not always last;
''The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past"
Oh, the wasted hours of life
That have drifted by J
Oh, the good that might have been
Lost without sigh
Love that We might once have saved
By single word,
Thoughts conceived but never penned
Perishing unheard;
Take the proyerb to thine heart,
Take and hold it fast
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past"
SARAH DoUDNEY.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02

TIrnEs.-In searching the title to a
piece of shipyard property in Marble
head recently, a queer deed was found
in which a boundary line is described
as extending from pencil mark on
barn to pencil mark on the school
house fence. This description is almost
as absurd as the imaginary one once
conjured up by Rufus Choate to ridicule
the other side in a cause which he was
trying. "You might as well say, said
Mr.. Choate, Starting with a blue
iav. thence to swarm of bees in hiving
time"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02

Tom THUMB has become a spiritualist,
but he is not medium. He's much too
small for medium. He's hardly half
medium. -NOrristoaUn Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02

TITS said that Brooklyn landlord
never smiles except when he can charge
it to his tenants.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02

A FANoY.-A fanciful story comes
from Akron, Ohio, that freedman who
had lost all traces of his family since
the war and had forgotten the name of
his last owner, had dream not long
since in which the name Alcorn returned
to him, and that he straightway wrote
to ex-Gov. Alcorn, of Mississippi, and
through his assistance has reioined his
mother, brothers, and sisters.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02
Honor Among Thieves.

An exchange gives us what it terms
an instance of honor among thieves,
which was said to have been shown at
the late prize fight in Louisiana and
seems to mark the revival of an ancient
professional sentiment regarding en-
counters in the ring. The New Orleans
Chief of Police is reported to have re-
ceived promises from the Northern
pickpockets, burglars, and other gentry
who went down to the fight, that they
"would not work the town." but would
leave it when the fight was over. This
understanding was so faithfully kept
that even fewer than the ordinary num-
ber of robberies were reported in New
Orleans the two days and nights after.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-02


LETTER LANGUAGE.
The farmer feeds the bleating u,
The sailor sails the c c,
The gardener plants the P, he does,
The printer takes his Q.
The owl looks veryyy
At everything he z.
The schoolboy dots his i
And crosses all his tt.
PROVERBS AS THEY MIGHT BE.
A HALF loaf is better than q whole
loafer.
FUL1-LENaTH statues stand all kinds
of weather.
IT is easier to run in debt than to
crawl out again.
ALWAYS judge a man by his depth
instead of his length.
Nc MAN can afford to put on airs un-
less he can raise the wind.
The wheel of fortune runs slow, be-
cause its felloes are tired.
FEw men are aware they possess a
conscience until caught committing
crime.
A MAN never swears vengeance on his
neighbor's dog only when his own
canine cannot lick him.
MANY a man owes his success in life
TO the Kisses of his enemies, instead OF
the plaudits of his friends.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-04-12

LITTLE Rock. ARK, April ia letter
from PerryviIle. Perry county. announces
the assassination on FRIDAY evening, eight
miles from that town, OF .. NJ butter, who
came from China three years ago. II was
reported in the neighborhood that Butler
ln.endcd marrying Mrs. Brazil, a widow.
On Friday evening, when on the porch Of
the house Butler saw a man toss a note
over the fence. Butler called to the man,
who at once discharged both barrels Of a
shotgun ut his yie' i; ~V yya .'u IN rev
picked mp, read rs follows;
eve warn YOU in plain words to leave.
Billy Brazil worked hard for what he had.
and we can't stand to see IL squandered by
YOU. II that Is not enough we will make IT
all right with you.
rSigned1 "J. \. dOoDsHooT."
An officer has clue TO the murderer,
and it is believed the guilty parry will be
arrested.
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Booths pauacca.

The audience at the Opera House last
Friday night when Edwin Booth played
"fIamlet" undoubtedly noticed the pun
gent OGor that pervaded the house, after
the great scene between Hamlet and bis
mother, dming which the old chamberlain.
Poonius, Is killed. 1t was peculiar. yet
not unpleasant, and only those familiar
with the substance producing il could ac-
count for the odor. The eminent TRACE
dian himself and the company supporting
him have been suffering for several days
past from colds and physical aches pro-
duced by the changeful weather and the
usual exposure on the stage, and one Of
the company, Mr.. ID. &. Anderson, who
played Polonius. was taken violently and
suddenly i'll during the play By direc-
tons Of Mr.. Booth, who is always solicit
Gus for the welfare Of his people, bottle
Of Il. Jacobs oil was brought from his
dressng-case, and the suffering actor
thoroughly rubbed with the famous Ger
man Remedy. which soon brought relief
and full recovery. Mr.. Booth always car
ries this reliable cmolient with him, and
the contents Of his dresSing-case without
ii would be as incomplete as the play Of
Hamlet without the Burlington
(Iql Gazette.
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NEW YORK. April 11.--t'otton--Ne, rsceipts:
steady; sales. 100000 bales; April, tl2.l1n
sl2.l9; May, sl2.26ms12.27i Jane, sl2.2ztt
tl2.23: July. sl2.57Msi2.ss; Auyrst. SILL
tl1.67mSl1.69. November, fll.ftMsl 40;
December. ell.50@sll.5l; January, sil.02sp
ell.C4.
The Posts cotton report says: "Futare delly-
cries 10 the first call bought NJ Yesterday y
closing quotations advanced slowly but steadily
prices further rose5 -100 10 7-i00. The buying
u partly for covering, but chiefly to OH outside or
TIE third call displayed partial decline OF loo
TO 3-tO0: April brought sl2.i6; May, sl2.2Ge9
sI2.29; June, tl2.45; July, sl2.5O@sl2.57 :;
september. 37egsl2.36; November, sli.4o;
December, 81 l.51.'
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3nllmond Qispatrl.
PETERSBURG.

ANOTHER KFROSrNE ACCiDENT-A CoLORED
WOMAN BURNED TO DRATH-AN INFANT
RrRIED AIJyE--cONPIRuATlON SERVICES
RELIGIOUS AND PERSONAL. TTEMs--AN AGED
LADY FARALYZED.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatoh.i
April. IL. 1882.
colored woman named Catherine Law
son. living in a tenement on Rock street.
attempted 10 kindic fire last night with
Kerosene oil. The result was hardly sur
nrising. Her clothes caught fire and she
ran ont into the street enveioped in flames
and attracting the attention Of her neigh
bors by her screams. The fire about her
rerson was extin9uishcd, but not before
She had been drcadfully burned and fatal
injuries inflicted. She fingered during the
night and died this morning.
4 Young coiored woman named RoXanna
Nurford. living on Halifax street, j. re-
norted 20 have attempted 10 destroy her
newly-born infant last night by burying II
alive In 2 box. The cries OF the child at
fracted the attention OF a woman, who dug
n up and -aved 80 from death.
The 10. Rev. Bishop keane Is expected
IN visit orr city and administer conhrma-
,i,p m 81. Joscph's Catholic church next
sunday. I understand that Father Wilson
,cil have quite q large class 10 be presented
~ the Bishop on that occasion.
The congregation, 81 the several Episco-
,,i churches In this city elected their YES
tIe. Yesterday for the ensuing year. The
IA members were generally reelected.
TIe several bodies viii meet hereafter TO
.,roioi lly delegates 10 the Council a the
1lurch. witi.h meets in Norfolk in May.
Rev. ". s.. Anvil. pastor OF Wesley
Hetbodi.; Episcopal church, reports sixty
iour conversions in his congregation du-
-;ns tl.c revival meetings Of the past few
-. The meetings have been discon-
,t,.,,ed md Mr.. Atwill has been aAowed
" hrici reriod o. rest by his church.
,rpo nry. Hugh Calvin Smith, who has
t,,', hcen ordained 20 the ministry by East
iu.noysr Prc.bytcry. has been laboring for
~ Time mast as thc pastor Of the Old
Street Presbyterian church IN TINS city, 7
whore hc /. building up q me congrega- Z
tion This church is an onshoot OF The I
Tabb-sfrcet church, and Is now seli-sup-
porting - .
among the gentlemen who have con- /
scented 10 deliver lectures 10 the regular .
course before the Young Mems Christian /
Association this spring are the REV. l.. :. 1
Gregory. u Lynchburg, and Rev. Or. /
Gerard. Of Baltimore.
The venerable Mrs. :. Z. Mcrtcns, aged .
about niucty-four years. was paralyzed yes
ferdav NJ her residence. on BOllingbrook .
street and 10 is feared. by reason OF her
Great agc. that the attack may prove fatal.
She is one of our oldest residents. and one
az our most liberal-hcaTted Christian wO-
men. ROBIN ADAIR.
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
70 rur DISPATCH FROM ALL POINTS.

Congressional Proceedings Yesterday other
Washington News and Gossip-Iion.
George N. ChiIeotte Appointed 20 Succeed
MIR. Teller In the United States senate-A
Steamship Corporation Winding Up Its
Malignant scarles-Ferer In Penn
syivania-A $50. 900 Fire az Olivet tMiehi-
gam Ceiiege--An Arkansas Tsasedy-Death
OF Mrs. Nicholas Smith nee ida Greeley
The surry County Tragedy; Confession OF
the Murderess-The Assassin Guiteau's Es.
ta,e-Deash Of n Mexican-war Veteran In
New Orieans-fnseresting Foreign Events.
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STAUNTON.
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.
April. II. 1882

Correspondence Of The Richmond Dispatch.l
APRIL II, 1882.
DIR. W. II. Pilson. q popular and rising
voung physician Of Augusta. died yester-
day. 90 New Hope, oil consumption. He
was son Of Mathew Pilson. Esq, and
was thirty-ihree years Of age. and leaves q
discou.olatc widow. lie married q daugh-
Der Of Thornton stout, Esq.
Mr.. II. 81. g.. Tucker. only son OF Hon.
Ran. Tucker. las been invited % deliver
the annual address before the young ladies
of Holm. Female Institute next june.
Nelson Dag. 'coiored) was tried in the
CITY Court. which has Just closed its ses-
sion. Tor stealing q trunk OF Mr.. Il. II.
RAWLINGS at the Chesapeake and OHIO de-
pot. lie confessed his guilt. and was sem
fenced TO three years in the penitptiary.
Dr. 4. NJ. Fauutieroy. the late superin-
tcndcut 0i the Western Lunatic Asylum.
leaves here tomorrow FOR Baltimore, where
he viii deliver the annual address before
the Maryland Medical and Chrurgical So
ciety. whichmcets there Thursday. PENN.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April LITTLE Phil
adelphia and Southern Mail Steamship
Company was organized in 1866 with a
capital Of a million dollars. The company
owned eight steamers Of from 500 TO 1000
tons burden each, built for freight and
passenger traffic between Philadelphia, Sa-
yannah, Wilmington, New Orleans, and
Havana. The enterprise, however, was a
failure from the start, and the company has
been gradually disposing Of their steam
ships by private and public sale, the last
vessel having been sold just before last
Christmas, and to-day the stockholders met
and voted 70 wind up the affairs and dis
solve the CORPORATION.
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The Double Murder i'm Surry.

PETERSBURG, VA, April l1.-Mary
Booth (colored), aged fourteen years. ar
rested Tor the murder Of Mrs. Il. G. Gray
and Mr.. Travis Jones, in SurTy county, by
poisoning them with arsenic in coffee, has
confessed her guilt, duplicating Martha
Jones and others. The feeling against
Mary Booth is so strong that threats haye
been made Of lynching her. The stomachs
Of the victims have been taken 10 the State
chemist at Richmond for examination.
Mrs. Gray remains arrived here this after
noon en- route TO New York.
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Malignant scarIef-Fever.

PoTTsvLLE. PA, April IA malignant
form Of scarlet-feyer has broken ont at
Cressona within a few days. one family
lost all their children, consisting OF four
boys; and two of another family, who were
in good health yesterday, died this morn
ing. The citizens called a meeting, and to-
day all the schools were closed. 4 liberal
use Of disinfectants has been ordered, and
great uneasiness is felt. Physicians seem
unable to cope with the disease, since il
terminates fatally within twenty-four hours
after the appearance Of the first symptom.
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COMMERCIAL.
GRAIN AND COTTON EXCHANGE

OFFERINGS.
WHEAT.-Whifc, . = bushcs-rc-c Inhibited. Red.
LOGS bushels: 8 hushcls-rc-exhiIited.
COHS.-Mhite. I5r bushels.
OATS.-466 bushels. IA bushcls-rc-cXhibltcd.
BLACK PEAs.-iO bushels.
SALES REPORTED TO SECRETARY.
WnEAT.-White. 40 bushels very good at 5 As (:
~ bushels fair 20 sl.35. Rcd. 3 bushels very
good mixed ats l.I3 500 bushels very good mixed
private terms; a. bushels good FullZ at ~ :
300 bushel. very good FultZ nc l.36.
CORN.-Whiie. lS bushels very good on private
terms; 80 bushels very good on private terms; 90
bushels very good on private terms.
OATs.--l4 bushels very good winter at Gle, 90
bushels very good spring at 02c.
BLACK FEhs.-4N bushels on private terms.
COTTON.-lOne nrrn. BccdUts,23 bales. Quota
lions: Niddllng. ilAc.. low middling. 1Ihm
llkc.; good ordinary, lO4WlOtc.; ordinary,
9m9.c.
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old DOMINION STEAMSHIP 11eST
~ COMPANY. 1880
FOR NEW YORK.

This company VIII dispatch one Of their splendid
steamers-OLD DOMINION, WYANOkE. ROA-
NOhE, ana RICHMOND-ENERl TUESDAY
and FRIDAY at O'Clock +. NJ, and SUNDAY
NJ \ 4. NJ.
steamers leave New York TUESDAYS. THURS
DAYS, ana SATURDAYS 40 u. VI. from Pier
20 new numberl foot OF Beach street, North
river.
They have splendid saloons, 5tate-roOms, and
bathrooms.
The fare. accommodations, and attentions are
unsurpassed.
Afler-cabln fare 10 New YORK, go; round Trip,
$iS; Storage. IS and 81.
Freights Tor points beyond New York Forwarded
with Dispatch. and no charge made except actual
expenses incurred.
Freights received until O'Clock y. N. daily.
For further information. apply %
GEORGE W. ALLEN \ CO, Agents
nv Office COmHany's wharvea. Rocket