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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
Marital Responsibilities.

Mr.. Henry Toner, who was arrested
with Mrs. Bridget Toner, his wife, re-
Gently for alleged SANDER, which the
wife alone had uttered against Mrs.
Mary Jennings, is probably much dis
eusted man at learning that the law
holds husband responsible to some
extent for his wife's offences. Facts are
facts, however, and husbands whose
wives have lively tongues might as well
understand that there is no peace for
them unless they constrain their wives
to unload all their venom within the sa-
cred boundaries of the family chamber.
Woman's ability to free her mind
through the medium of her tongue has
been admitted ever since Eve blamed
the serpent for her own fatal fondness
for apples, and since that tune woman's
husband has had to pay the penalty.
The only remedy lies in giving woman
something better than her neighbors to
talk about, and judging by woman's low
opinion of her neighbors the task would
not be hard one.
Application was made to the Judge
for the discharge of Toner, it Icing
represented that he was unable to give
bail. The Judge ordered his discharge
on his own recognizance, at the same
time remarking that, though under the
law as existing for two hundred years,
the husband was liable to civil arrest in
a suit brought to recover damages for
the tortuous acts of his wife, it was a
law exceedingly disagreeable to the
Judiciary to enforce, and one which
they never would enforce to the full ex-
tent of its oppressive provisions.
The relieved husband left court ap-
parently happy, and vowing determi-
nation to benceforth bride the hayward
tongue of his spouse. York Her.
HIG
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
The SueZ Canal.

The Suez Canal which now has
assumed position of greater import
ance than it has ever before, was begun
toward the close of 1860. Work was
prosecuted steadily until 1862, when
there was kink among the authorities,
and had it not been for the enterprise
and llberality of the late Emperor of
France, who advanced 100000 to
the Vceroy to be paid to the Company,
it is doubtless whether the gigantic
undertaking ever would have been
finished. The water began to flow from
the Mediterranean in February, 1859,
and from the Red Sea in July, and by
the middle of October of the same year,
navigation was settled thing.
The whole length of the navigation
is So miles; OF this &c miles are actual
canal, formed by cuttings, IA miles are
dredged through the lakes, and miles
required no work, the natural depth
being equal to that of the canal. The
depth of the canal throughout is rs
feet, for width of ~ feet at the
bottom. The width at the surface Is
1916 feet. Its actual width does not
permit of two vessels passing or cross
ing each other in the canal itself, but
there are numerous sidings by which
vessels are enabled to cross one another
and the passage is quickened. The
largest vessel that ever passed through
the canal measured 430 feet in length,
with draught of 25 feet 9 inches. The
cost of the whole undertaking was
EFT, 518, 100, exclusive of e1,36O,OOO
issued to pay for coupons on shares In
arrear during part of the period OF
construction. Nearly 10000 laborers
were employed, and for their use a
supply of fresh water was conveyed
from the Nile at Cairo and distributed
along the whole length of the canal, a
work which of itself was one of no small
magnitude. During the work about
$4,000, 600 cubic yards of ma terial were
excavated and at one time sixty dredging
machines were at work,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
A Black Squatter's Dignity.

Fifteen miles out of Chattanooga on
the Bridgeport road I came upon ne
gro squatter. The cabin was struc-
ture of poles which a man could have
pushed over, and the roof was simply 8
lot of straw and weeds and bushes
thrown upon the rafters and held down
by large limbs. The one room was not
over twelve feet square, and in this,
with no floor but the earth, lived fam
lily of nine. There were two straw-beds,
one chair, one old table, three plates,
one knife, one fork. two spoons and a
bowl. It had been raining, and part
of the earthly floor was a mud puddle.
The family had about five pounds of
meal and three or four of bacon, and of
all the patches one ever saw the greatest
show was right there. The old man
had thirteen patches on one leg of his
trousers, eleven on the other, seven on
his vest, sad his cotton shirt was
patched in a dozen places with red, yell
low and white and blue wooden. The
old woman's dress looked like a crazy
quilt, and two of the boys had only one
trousers-leg apiece.
''Great Scots but how do you live p
I asked while one of the boys was wa
tering the horse.
Glib, sah-how does we lib?" re-
peated the old man, Well, sab, we is
gainin' on it right smart, I reckon it's
gwine to be good var fur poo folks. ,
"What do you raise %
"Chilren an dogs, sab l'' he soberly
replied.
"Do you work any?"
"Only when feels like it,"
"And this is all your furniture?''
"Well, p'raps dar' may be char out
behind de cabin"
"And these are all the clothes you
have"
"Yes, sab, 'cept one O. my ole hats
on de roof"
and you call this living, do you ?"
"See heah, sab, " he began as he rose
up from his seat on a log near the door
step, "'pears to me like you was in
quarin' leetle too much We doan'
advertise to keep no fust-cIass hotel
heah, an if you doan' like de way we
fling ourselves aroun' you'd better be
sailin' along down de road Some white
folks is so mighty nice an peart an
pertickIer dat muffin on airth am quite
up to DER style. Boy bring up dat
boss an let dis pertickler white man git
dun gone afore dem two naked chill'en
cum home wild de sassafras an skurry
his feelin's Pm. QUAD.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
Inst an Average Sample.

The occupant Of an Office on Grand
River avenue sat at his desk when
mild-faced stranger entered, passed the
time of day, and asked
''Would you let me sit at your desk
moment and use your pen ?"
Certainly"
Scan 1 use sheet of your paper ?"
continued the man, as he seated him.
self.
ooh, yes"
''Thanks. You may hang up my hat
if you will. can never sit for any
length of time with my hat on"
His hat was given place on the rack
and for ten minutes he was busy writ
ing. AS he finished he asked for an
envelope, and when he had sealed it he
said:
"Pardon the liberty, but can you
spare me stamp?"
He was given one, and after he had
licked it on he weighted the letter in his
hand and remarked:
"I'm afraid that's too heavy for three
cents. Perhaps you had better put or
another"
A second stamp was handed him, and
he then observed:
"I'll leave the letter for you to mai
as you go down."
every WE'LL"
"And as it is an important missive
allow me to suggest that if you SHOULD
go to the Postoffice on purpose to mai
it, I would take it as a great favor
Thanks for your kindness. Pleas
reach me my hat, and as suffer grea
deal from the SUD, L will borrow you
umbrella until pass this way again.
Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
A Fast for Sanity.

An inmate of the Camden County In
sane Asylum at Blackwoodtown, N. J.,
Henry Clark by name, recently COM
pleted forty-one days fast, which he
undertook in the hope that it might re-
store his mental faculties. Singularly
enough, that result is likely to follow,
in the opinion of the attendants at the
asylum. The man was watched day
and night, and every effort was made,
short of violence, to induce him to eat,
but the evidence is pretty conclusive
that for forty-one days nothing went
into his mouth except air and water,
and only six quarts of the latter. His
condition varied considerably at diff
ferent periods of the fast. On the forty
second day he asked for and drank a
cup of coffee, and thereafter for fort
night he lived upon simple vegetable
diet, consisting principally of strawber-
ries and milk. 1t is confidently ex-
pected that he will be discharged as a
cured patient within short time. Just
what share the fast has had in his re-
covery it is of course impossible to say,
but the case is one of interest to the
medical profession.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
The Best Time for TOp.Dressing.

The best time for top-dressing grass
land is generally soon after crop OF
hay has been removed. The top dressing
then acts as sort OF rnulching to pro-
tect the grass roots and stimulate rapid
growth of young grass to shield the
roots from the scorching rays of the sun
The soil is usually quite dry then, and
will absorb all the rain that may fall.
This is an important matter, and worthy
to be regarded in the practice of top
dressing. If the ground is dry at the
time, the soluble portions of the ma
nure, when dissolved by the subsequent
rains, will be absorbed by the soil,
which readily takes in all the water
which touches it. The amount of water
which falls upon an acre during even
light rain is considerable, and will dis
solve large part of the soluble portion
of the manure spread upon the surface.
A recent writer in regard to this matter
says: '.It must be remembered that
light rain of, say, only half an inch
pours down on to the manures spread
on an acre of land about Ia, 600 gallons
of water, or about fifty-six tons. If
you have put on eight tons of manure,
half an inch of rain would furnish
gallon of water to each pound of ma
nure. 1t is not difficult to understand,
therefore, how manure applied on the
surface, or near the surface, can be
taken up by the young roots"
1t is easy to zee that manure applied
to the surface after the hay has been
cut and then subjected to the copious
aims which fall during the months of
August, September and October must
become pretty well distributed through
out the surface soil. Ali the soluble
portions of the manure would become
thus distributed and the insoluble por-
tions would be acted upon by the air
and water, and as fast as they become
soluble would also find their way into
the soil. II, on the other hand, the ma
nure was plowed under to the depth of
five or SIX inches, it would require a
copious rain to reach it, while light
rains would scarcely affect it at all. In
case the soil is sandy and of leachy
character, so that fertilizers go through
to the subsoil and are lost, better time
to apply the manure would be in spring,
just after the grass had started well,
and the soil had become sufficiently dry
to readily absorb all the rains. By APP
plying the manure when the grass is in
an active, growing condition, the soluble
portions of the dressing, when carried
into the soil by the rains, would be
readily absorbed by the grass roots be-
fore they reached the subsoll. Moder-
ate top-dressing every year would be
best for light and sandy soils. If a
heavy dressing were applied, a portion
would be likely to reach the subson be-
fore the grass roots could absorb it all,
and thus loss would be sustained. By
selecting suitable time for applying
manure by top-dressing, gratifying re-
suits are likely to be obtained. and the
practice will increase in general favor,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
Why Some Men are Bald.

Dio Lewis accounts for the badness
of men in a simple way-the habit OF
keeping the head constantly covered.
He says you never see a man lose hair
below where the hat touches his skull.
1t will take OF as clean as You can shave
it down to exactly that line, but never 8
hair below, if he has been bald fifty
years. The common black stiff hat, as
impervious as sheet iron, retains the
heat and perspiration. The little hair
glands, which bear the same relation to
the hair that the seed wheat does to the
plant above ground, become weak from
comes too weak to sustain the hair. It
falls out and badness exists. A man
with a good head of hair needs very
little protection where the hair grows.
"And yet" he says, eve men wear i'm
mensely thick fur caps, and what
amounts to sheet-iron hats, and do not
dare step out in chilly atmosphere a
! moment lest we take cold. 1t is silly,
weak and really serious error. The
Creator knew what He was about when
He covered mans head with hair. 1t
was very important function in pro-
tecting the brain. Badness is serious
misfortune. 1t will never occur to any
man who wears such hat as I do, a
common white silk hat, with five hun
dred holes in the top, SO that there will
be more holes than hat. This costs
nothing the halter will do it when You
purchase your hat. If the nap be
combed back the wrong way, and after
the holes are made it may be combed
the right way, no one will observe the
popularity. The hat will wear quite as
lone-thehatter say considerable longer
because it is dry instead of moist in
brief, there is not single objection to
it, while it will certainly prevent bald
ness, keep the top of the head cool and
prevent much headache"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10

The Laramie City Boomerang says
The Chinese compositor cannot sit al
his case as our printers do, but must
walk from one case to another con-
stantly, as the characters needed cover
such large number that they cannot be
put in anything like the space used in
the English newspaper Office. In set
ting up an ordinary piece of manuscript,
the Chinese printer will waltz up and
down the room for a few minutes and
then go down stairs for a line of lower
case. Then he takes the elevator and
goes up into the third story after some
caps and then out into the woodshed
after handful of astonishers. The sue
cessful Chinese compositor doesn't need
to be so very intelligent, but he must
be good pedestrian. He may work
and walk around over the building all
day to set up stickiul, and then half
the people in this country couldn't read
it after all.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
Sail Against Steam.

Much is said about the new steamer
Alaska, which has lately made the fast
est passage from Liverpool to New
York on record. Her greatest run Oh
that voyage was 419 miles in twenty
four hours. More than twenty-five
years ago the clipper ship james
Baines, built by Donald Mckay, rar
42O miles in twenty-four hours, and the
Flying Cloud, another Mckay clipper
ran 433 miles in twenty-four hours ant
twenty-five minutes. Either of these
ships, then, could have beaten the
Alaska's time, provided the wind blev
right from the beginning to the end O
the trip.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
Law for Farmers.
some Things Every Agriculturist
Should Know.

Mr.. Ell. A. Haigh, LII D., of Detroit.
gives resume of the laws on the above
subject in the american Agricaltasrist
for June, from which we extract the fol-
lowing:
1t is general doctrine of law in this
country that the land in the highway
belongs to the owners of land living
along each side. With few exceptions
the American farm extends to the middle
OF the road, and the public has only
right to pass and repass there in an Or
DERBY manner, and the right to keep the
way IN repair. Every other use of the
highway which does not interfere with
THIS public right belongs to the farmer
owning the adjacent land. He owns
the soil, grass, trees, stones, and gravel,
and everything else upon the surface or
under it, and may use them all in any
way that does not affect the public right
OF passage and the law will protect mis-
ownership in them just as much as
though they were inside his fence. No
other person has any more right to pas
ture his stock there than in enclosed
lands; nor can he hitch his horse to a
tree there without being liable for the
trespass, especially if the horse should
gnaw the tree or do other damage he
can, in fact, only pass orderly along.
As to road fences, the laws do not.
with the possible exception of those of
New York above noted, impose any OBJ
legation; and the farmer may if he
chooses remove such fences, without
impairing his right of action against the
owners of any domestic animals that
enter and do damage by that means.
If perron lets his cattle go in the
highway, he is liable for the trespass
they commit by simply being there I'M
lawfully; for the grass they consume,
for the injury they occasion to the soil
or by barking the trees, and for any
other damage they may do. If while
there they hook, or kick, or bite any
person lawfully using the way, he would
be liable for tie injury. A man once
turned his horse into a public place
where children were playing, one OF
whom began switching the horse, which
turned and kicked and killed the child.
He was convicted of manslaughter.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
farmer owns the land of the road, he
cannot use it himself for any purpose
which at all interferes with the public
rights there. he cannot put his wood
piles, wagons or pig pens there; and if
he does, and the traveller runs into them
in the night and is injured, he would
not only be liable for the private dam
ages sustained Nindsley agt. Bushnell,
Is Conn, 225) but he may be indicted
for obstructing a public way.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
5000 90 REWARD

Will be paid for the detection and coz
viction OF any person selling or dealing
in any bogus, counterfeit or imitation
HOP B1TrERs, especially Bitters, or
preparations with the word HOP OK
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 BrTTEBs. The genuine
have cluster of GREEN HOPS (notice
this) printed OH the white label, and are
the purest and best medicine on earth,
especially for Kidney, Liver and Ner-
yous Diseases. Beware of all Others
and of all pretended formulas or recipes
of HOP BITrERs published in papers, OF
for sale, as they are frauds and swim
dies. Whoever deals in any but the
genuine will be prosecuted.
HoP BITTERs MIRO. Co.,
Rochester, N. Z.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10

THE Color LINE.-All the BARRIERS in
st. Paul are negroes. One of them was
refused drink at q fashionable bar on
account of his color. The next time
the rum-seller went to barber shop lie
was informed that no negro in that city
would shave him until he abolished the
color line at his bar. He is growing G
full beard in consequence.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10

ITALIAN PRoDUoE.--During the first
five months of this year no less than
5000 tons of italian produce, eggs, but
ter, vegetables, etc., have been imported
into Great Britain. This trade will I'M
doubtedly be Increased by the quicker
transit consequent on the opening OF
the st, Gothard.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
WIEN THE COWS COME HOME.
with kingle. klanel lie, klinSle,

With kingle. klanele, klinSle,
Far down the dusky dingle,
The COWS are coming home;
Row sweet and clear, and faint and low,
The airy tink ings come and go,
Like chimings from far-of tower,
Orpatterings of an april shower
That make the daisies grow;
Rolling, ko-lang, kolinglelingle,
Far down the darkening dlngie,
The COWS come slowly home;
And old-time friends, and twilight plays,
And starry nights and sunny days,
Come trooping up the misty ways,
When the cows come home.
With jingle, iangle, jingle.
Soft tones that sweetly mingle,
The COWS are coming home;
Malvine, and Pearl, and Florimel,
De Kamp, Red Rose, and Gretchen sehell,
Queen Bess, and sylph, and Spangled Sue
Across the fields hear her " loo-oo,"
And clang her silver bell;
Cooling, go-lang, golingledingle,
With faint, far sounds that mingle,
The COWS come slowly home;
And mother-songs Of long gone years,
And baby joys and childish fears,
And youthful hopes and youthful tears,
When the COWS come home.
With ringle, rangle, ringle,
By twos, and threes, and single,
The cows are coming home;
Thro' violet air we see the town,
And the summer sun a-sliding down,
And the maple in the hazel glade
tba ahada
And the hills are growing brown;
To-ring, to-rang. toringleringle,
By threes, aud fours, and single,
The COWS come slowly home;
The same sweet sound of wordless psalm,
The same sweet June-day rest and calm,
The same sweet smell of buds and balm,
When the COWS come home.
With tinkle, tankle, Jingle,
Thro' fern and periwinkle,
The COWS are coming home;
A-loitering in the chee8ered stream,
Where the sun-rays glance and CLEAN,
Clarine. Peaehbloom, and Phoebe Phlllis
Stand knee-deep IN the creamy lilies,
In a drowsy dream;
To-link, to-lank, tolinkleinkle
Ger banks with buttercups a-twinkle,
The COWS come slowly home;
And up lhro' Memory's deep ravine
Come the brooks old song and its old tim
sheen,
And the crescent of the silver Queen;
When the cows come home
With klinsle, klapgle, klingle,
With 10000, and 'mou-oo" and jingle
The COWS are coming home;
over there on Merlin Hill,
Sounds the plaintive cry of the whip-poor-will
And the dew drops lie on the tangled vines,
And over the oplars Venus shines,
And over the sile Mt null.
Ko-ling ko-lang, koln slclingle,
With ting-a-lng AMI jingle,
The COWS come slowly no ne.
Let down the bars let IN the ira
OF long-gone srngs, and flowers, and rain,
For de.r old times come back again,
When the COWS come home.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10

1 declined TO insert your advertisement of
Hop Bitters last year, because then thought
they might not be promotiye of the cause of
Temperance, but find they are, and a very val
liable medicine, myself and wife having been
greatly benefited by them, and l take great
pleasure in making them known.
Rev. JOHN SEAMAN,
Editor Home Sentinel, Alton, n. Y.
UNBoUNDED modesty is nothing more than
unaYOMed vanity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10

AN agricultural association or farm.
ers' club, my boy, is usually an asso-
citation of men born in the city, who
can't tell harrow from q shovel-plow.
and whose great aim and purpose is to
cultivate votes in the rural districts.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10

FoR DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, depression OF
fpirIts and general debility, in their various
forms also as preventive against fever and
ague and other intermittent fevers, the "FeE
ro-Phosph GRATED Elixir of Calisaya,' made by
by all Druggists, is the best tonic, and for pa
tients recovering from fever or other sickness,
Il has no euual
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
A smart Man

is one who does his work quickly and well.
This is what DIR. r. V. PIerce's Golden Med
ical Discovery" does as a blood purifier and
strengthened. 1t arouses the torpid liver, puri-
fies the blood and is the best remedy for con-
sumption, which is scrofulous disease Of the
lungs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10

are made pallid and unattractive by functional
irregularities, which DR.. Pierce's ''Favorito
Prescription will infallibly cure. Thousands
oftestimonials By druggists.
The first almanac was printed by George
Won Eurbach in 1850
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10

IHn Iolvtt, (O....J bee says: Col. q"
Dors Alexander, ediGcr B rnesviile GA
NetrS, LAS beeu cured Of rheumatism
w tho !lso Of st. Jacobs OIL.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10

SHIPS were first g copper-bottomed in 1888
The new circular of the Peekskill On. "
Military Academy is handsomely illustrated
book of 60 pages. Col. Wright the Principal
will send comics to all interested
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
Relief from Gravel.
The first iron Steamship was built in 1880.

WILLIAaGsPoRT, Pa, July 20, 1851.
H. FL. WARNER IL Co.: SiY'S-Your Safe Kid
ney and Liver Cure has given me permanent
relief from gravel. W. +. HAwLEY
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10

Mr.. W. a, FopBas, Greenuell, NJ
@ag cured By St. JAaobs o Of rhe1m
tism. = Cincinnati Christian ,St1ndQr.,