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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
AN CID STORY.

A mother sat through sunsets golden hours
Holding a wreath of faded orange flowers,
And, signing, said: sit was but yesterday
A lovely babe within these fond arms lay;
] watched its dimpled smiles, its laughing
eyes,
With love half joy, and half glad surprise,
Till, all UNDECIDED, passing Time, so feet,
Stole my fair babe, and left maiden sweet.
For my sweet babe I shed not one sad tear,
/ breathed no sigh, this maiden was so dear;
But day by day watched new charms unfold
Till scarce its weight of joy my heart could
hold.
For twenty years! How like pleasant dream
Those years of tenderness and watching SEEM
But now, from all my love she turns away
For fond heart known scarce a summer
day."
The father came. He paused beside her chair
He kissed her cheek, caressed the shining hair
Then, like a wooer. bent and whispered low,
Sweetheart, pray thee do not sorrow so.
Dost thou remember one bright afternoon
When woods and fields were all aglow with
- June;
We wandered forth down by the rivers side,
We too, forgetting all the world beside?
Forgetting time, till in the darkening stream
We saw the first pale lights of evening CLEAN
And while we watched them meath our tryst-
ing tree
Hast thou forgot, at my fond words to thee
That when those lights that burned on high
so far
Looked on the Charles and saw no answering
star
thine
That thou dids't leave thy mothers heart for
mine?"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
An English Princess.

The Princess Beatrice alone remains
unmarried of all the English royal
family, and, strange to say, the Queen,
who has always proved herself such a
devoted adherent of matrimony, is de-
clared by the intimates of the court cir
Gle to look upon the marriage of her
youngest daughter as thing impossi-
bic. For a certain time much whisper
ing was going forward among the priv
LEGGED about the desire expressed by the
Grand Duke of Hesse to become the
son-in-law of her Majesty, for the Sec
ond time, but the opposition to the
passage OF the Deceased Wife's Sister
bill has put natural end to the union.
Meanwhile the Princess, who is in all
things all that gracious woman should
be, purEues her task steadfastly and I'M
repiningly. Friend and companion of
her mother, consider of the immeasur-
able depth of woe by which the royal
lady once babe fair to be submerged,
she is pronounced no longer charm
and goother Of the Queens existence,
but actually to be the element necessary
to its continuance.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
Licking an Elder.

One summer in the years agone while
camp meeting was in progress in
Eaton County there arrived on the
grounds bully named Miller, who had
made VOW to lick Elder johnson and
break up the whole business. The Ell
der heard the news with calm compo.
sure, and as soon as at liberty, he hunt
ed up worldly friend of his own and
asked:
"Friend Smith, didn't you used to
fight in your younger days ?"
"Ah Elder. I have had many turn
with the boys"
"And what is the effect of sudden
blow between the eyes ?"
SIT astonishes and humbles.
sis there any danger of killing man
by such blow?"
''Never knew case of it"
The Elder went his way with serene
smile on his face. Miller had his coat
off and was looking for him, and they
met face to face as they turned wagon.
Miller started to crack his heels and
crow, but he never finished. The FL
der took him one square between the
lockers without stopping his pace, and
it took twelve rowdies, three dippers of
water and two quarts of whisky to re-
vive the patient and get him off the
grounds. One day, year afterward,
he met the Elder and seriously asked:
Glider, some of the boys say I was
kicked by horse, and others stick to it
that was struck by lightning, but I've
always had a suspicion that you hit me
with a provision stand. How was it,
anyhow ?"--Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
Very Obedient.

The wife of Benjamin r. Davenport,
a st. Louis lawyer. is suing for di-
vorce. She alleges cruel tyranny on
his part, and recites in her complaint
how he compelled her, when she was
about to visit New York, to swear implit
cit obedience to a set of rules. These
were that she should join her mother at
a certain boarding house have sepa-
rate table in the dining-room, and make
no acquaintance among the boarders ;
never sit in the parlor; not to be absent
from her mother for more than five
minutes at time, day or night; receive
no calls except from relatives, and per-
NIT no introductions and write a daily
letter, Swing an explicit account of all
her doings. She complied with these
rules, but now uses them as part of her
grounds for divorce.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
The Story of a Marriage.

Morston Niles, formerly lieutenant
commander of the Shenandoah and q
friend of the late Captain De Long OF
the Jeanette, tells the story of the
marriage as foil ows:-"At the time
Captain Wotton, Mrs. De Longs father,
was living in Havre, France. 1t was in
the winter of 1870-1871, during the
Franco Prussian war. The Shenandoah
was lying in the harbor. Captain Wot-
ton had been particularly hospitable to-
ward the officers of the vessel, and
naturally very friendly relations existed
between US. Arrangements had been
made that the marriage should take
place at the house of Captain Wotton,
as would be expected, and the Rev. Mr..
Washington, the chaplain Of the Es-
tablished Church at Havre, was to
officiate. The ceremony was to take
place at eight o'clock in the evening.
Just before the hour the bewildering
discovery was made that the marriage
would be illegal, as the French gov
eminent had issued an edict against
all marriages during the Franco
Prussian war. A little after eight
o'clock boat was seen to draw along
side the Shenandoah, and who should
come aboard, among others, but Cap.
tain Wotton, his two daughters Zone Of
them since married to General Glasgow,
recently the Consul at Havre, and the
other the present Mrs. De Long, and
Captain De Long himself. If the two
could not be married in France they
could be on the United States man-of
war. So the ceremony was duly per
formed on board the Shenandoah, anG
the happy couple received our congratu
lations."
Mrs. De Long is at present living IL
Burlington, Iowa. at the house of hel
sister, Mrs. General Glasgow. Rel
father, mother, and her brother, James
A. Wotton, Jr., reside in New Yorl
City. = In connection with the fate o.
Lieutenant Commander De Long, sac
interest centres in the terrible death o.
Ben Long Edes, the young naval Officer
who was killed at Newport last summer
by the explosion of a torpedo. Edes
was classmate of De Long at the
Naval Academy and each became the
others most intimate friend. Both me-
painful deaths within a few months o.
each other.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
The Vice of Intemperance.
HOW IT RUINS HOMES, DEGRADEs NATURES
AND DESTROYS FAMILIES,

"There is a popular fallacy," said
Professor Felix Adler before the Society
for Ethical Culture, in New York City,
g that whoever can afford to expend ex-
travagantly upon his pleasure has a
right to do SO that only those whose
expenditure is out of proportion to
their income are blameworthy." The
Professor then proceeded to show where
the true origin of the fallacy was to be
sought, and how men came to entertain
so perverted belief as that the limits
of right expenditure varied indefinitely
with ones income. The truth was, he
said, that no one was at liberty to ex-
pend upon himself more than his in
come warranted. Incidentally he re-
marked that the evil of the concentra-
ton of wealth in the hands of the few
cannot be attoned for by the occasional
charity which the very wealthy give.
For, in the first place, great gifts by the
very wealthy are the exception rather
than the rule; and, in the second place,
even if they were the rule, they would
not compensate society, for the great
fishes become great only by devouriug
the little; the great capitalists become
great capitalists always by wiping out
hosts of lesser capitalists and taking
away the means of comfort and we'll
being from many. ''And of what avail,
then" continued the Professor, "would
it be if one of the members of the great
monopoly which I have recently de-
scribed we're to found an orphan asylum
or to build an hospital? Should we
really be willing to clap hands, as many
are supposed to do, and cry, ooh, how
charitable the man is ! Why, he has
not begun to give back 10 society what
he has taken from it in the first in
stance, much less that he should claim
credit to himself for his charitablenoss. -
Finally he said !: I'VE have right to
expend on decent shelter, nourishing
food and the like, because a healthy,
vigorous and supple body it necessary
to tho leading of q wholly human life.
We have a right to expend on the means
of knowledge and, within certain well
defined limitations, on objects of art. 1t
is not possible to set up cast-iron rule
to govern expenditure, but the follow
ing may suffice. Think how much suf-
ferring there is in the world; think how
far even dollar will go TO help some
person in distress think how pitiful 1t
is to hunger and to be cold and to be
sick and poor, and then ask yourself,
when you are about to spend one OF
these precious dollars, is the object for
which am now about to spend it really
sufficiently important to outweigh the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
An Old Time Outlaw.
JOHN A. MURRELL, THE GREAT RoBBER OF
FORTY YEARS AGO.

The death of Jesse James in Missouri,
and the frequent references to his rob-
berries and to his notoriety as ''the most
conspicuous and formidable" scoundrel
of the Schinderhannes and Cartouche
type ever known in this country, may
suggest to some of our readers, with
long memories, that forty years ago or
more there was a robber, and band
organized and directed by him on the
lower Missippi, more famous than Jesse
or Frank James, or the "Blue Cut"
gang, more dreaded, more wide reaching
in crime, and far more bloody, for they
made it a rule to leave no victim to
become a witness. John A. Murrell
was a name of terror from the mouth of
the Ohio to the Yazoo, and far back in
the interior of the States bordering the
Mississippi, on the east side. The west
side was too wild woods for travellers
or robbers in those days, but the east
was beset for hundreds of miles along
the roads leading northward from New
Orleans. which was largely Travelled by
dealers from the North, who had taken
down droves of horses or f1atboat loads
of grain or pork or whisky. The depre-
dations were not confined to the land,
by any means, but unsuspecting abroad
horns" were captured and pillaged and
their crews fed to the fish, while tied up
at night out of the way of steamers and
RATS that might sink them in fog 1t
is said that the Murrell gang had hiding
PLACES in caves and stored their plumber
in them. Western Tennessee was said
to be their favorite ground, but they
ranged from the north of Mississippi to
the Ohio. Many efforts were made to
capture the leader and break up the
band without effect, till an adventurous
young fellow named Virgil Stewart
undertook it of his own notion, partly
to clear the country of a terror, and
partly to employ his superabundant
energy and daring. He became a mem
Der of the gang and continued SO for
some considerable time-a year or two,
possibly more, and finally trapped the
greatest villain ever known on the
American Continent since the days of
the buccaneer chiefs, Montbass and
Morgan. He was sent to the peniten-
tiary at Nashville for a long term on
conviction of robbery, it is to be pre-
sumed, as conviction of murder would
have hung him. It may have been that
no legal evidence of direct participation
in murder could be advanced even by
his captOr, however complete might
have been the moral certainty OF his
guilt. Stewart published an account of
his adventures in large pamphlet forty
years ago or whereabouts. The robber
chief died in the penitentiary, or, at all
events, before he got a chance to resume
his old career, even if he had been so
disposed. There are, no doubt, per-
sons who retain an accurate recollection
of the mans adventures and notoriety.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

HAD TO WAIT. The bride of Green
Bay wis., wedding was astounded by
receiving from friend pair of trousers,
with the message: Loaned for the
part you are to play" The bridegroom
construed the garment as an insult, and
the guests unanimously agreed that
some decisive form of resentment ought
to be shown. While the excitement was
high, the friend arrived in equal per-
turbatiop, and explained that the
trousers should have gone to fellow
for wear in an amateur entertainment,
while piece of silverware should have
come to the wedding. He had hastily
whipped the laundering messenger,
and would submit himself to any punish
ment that the bride might infict. She
made him wait for kiss until every.
body else had been served.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

consideration of these crying needs p
Professor Adler closed with tribute to
Emerson, whom he called the greatest
American of the present age, asserting
that a people that has produced an
Emerson will not perish in the mud of
baser purposes, but will disturbances it
self of its unclean vestments and rise to
new vigor and manliness.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

Work OF NIHILIsTs.-The PreSse
says that Immediately after the assas-
sination Of General StreInikoff, the
Public Prosecutor of the Kieff Military
Tribunal, who was shot at Odessa in
March last, an accomplice Of the assas-
sins extracted from Strelnikoff's pocket
a list Of Nihilists to be arrested, and
plundered his apartments, taking there
from documents furnishing a complete
plan of the Nihilits' methods of proceed
ure and their projects. The recovery
of these papers by the Nihilists was q
great blow to the authorities.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

A FIERY DREAM Hereafter Mr.. john
son, of Northampton, Mass, will believe
in dreams. He had contract for build
ing a church and the building was
almost finished, when one night last
week he dreamed that it was in flames.
He jumped out of bed, dressed himself
hurriedly, and rushed over just in time
TO extipguish the flames that were aris-
ing from pile of oily cotton waste.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
UNDER THE FLOOR. purchase,

UNDER THE FLOOR. purchaser
of an old house at Edgar's Ferry, KY.
saw that the floor in one spot was nailed
down far more securely than anywhere
else. Curiosity led him to remove the
boards. Underneath was small mound
of earth, from which he dug out the
bones of three human beings. It il
believed that dead-and-gone occupant
of the house was murderer of travellers
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

CHICAGO MmK.-The Evening Jour-
nal, of Chicago, says that the poor
quality of the milk retailed to house.
keepers has given rise to an investiga-
ton which develops the fact that most
of the dairy farmers in that region are
feeding their COWS on sugar. corn meal,
an article consisting of the residue left
after extracting the glucose from the
corn. 1t produces large quantity OF
very poor milk, and costs only about a
quarter of the price of good feed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

HEALTHY William Chambers
says in his journal that medical super
iutendent of large prison told him
lately that there is no condition of
society within his knowledge where the
health is so good. Within three months
after persons enter in pitiable plight
the regular dict, work and rest have
made them different beings.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
INrrREsr.-The sum of s867. wbic

INTEREST sum of S8.67, which
remained of the fund used in celebra
ting in Portsmouth, N. H., on the %,
of February, 1882, the centenary o
Washington's birth, was deposited il
the local savings bank against the bi
centennial celebration, and now, at tn
expiration of half the time, amounts T.
S143 "a
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
Wanted to Adjourn.

Senator David Davis does not enjoy
protracted sessions of the Senate when
dinner is waiting. The other day, says
an onlooker at the Capitol, when din
ner hour was close at hand and no end
was visible of the dun oratory of his fell
low-statesmen, the Acting Vice Presi-
dent became very uneasy. He fidgeted
about in his chair as if seated on needles,
and endeavored, by expressive looks, to
induce some one to move an adjourn
ment. These tactics proving of no avail,
and seeing a certain Senator rise to be-
gin speech which was certain to be
two hours long and exceptionally dull,
he grasped opportunity by the fore
lock, and exclaimed "There being no
further business before the Senate, q
motion to adjourn is in order the Sen
ator from -- hes the floor, and moves
toadiourn. AL those III favor of that
motion will say, aye; those opposed
will say No. The ayes have it, and
the Senate stands adjourned; ;" and be-
fore the would-be orator could recover
from his bewiderment, the portly Sena-
tor from Illinois was halfway to the
cloak room.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

BoxEs.-Chicago has had box-naii-
ing contest. The feat was to make
thirty boxes, each two feet long, a foot
wide, and foot high, and fastened by
twenty seven nails, the boards being
previously sawed. The winners time
was exactly h alf an hour.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

TRANNG.-The young women OF
Nevada City, Gal. amuse the town while
amusing themselves. Twenty-foar OF
them formed company, in mockery of
the young mems military organization,
and paraded in uniform of red calico,
with brooms for guns. Their last
parade was to escort bride to the rail-
road station.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
Its Star Still Ascending.

In recent call upon Mr.. W. FL. Nc
Allister, 206 Front street, general agen
for the sale of the Star Chewing Tobacco
hethus spoke to one of our reporters: g
was tortured with pain from acnte rheu
matism, and cared not whether lived Of
died. I tried st. Jacobs Oil-iust two
applications of which entirely cured
me. San francisco (Cal.) Call.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

The Louisville COurier-JOu7mdlin sin-
yates that if truth lies at the bottom of
the well, some one has stolen the pump.
Nonsense, old fellow, you didn't know
how to work it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

Still ALIvE.-At the gate of the
cemetery at Avignon, in France, tie
parents of a child certified to have died
OF Group insisted on having The coffin
opened to take last look The child
was found breathing, and vas expected
to be saved.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

Nor A CHARITABLE INSTITUTION The
Supreme Court of Maine decides that @
Masonic lodge is not a charitable OF
benevolent institution within the mean
ing of the laws of Maine, and conse.
quently that its real and personal estate
is subject to taxation like other prop
erty.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

FROM JAMES NJ WILSON, ESQ.,, 2 HaynC
street, Charleston, S. c..
DR.. HOLMAN 1t affords me great pleasure
to add my testimony for the Eenttit have re
ceived from the use of the Holman Pad ant
Plssters. For over forty years l have endured
the misery growing out of torpid liver anC
dyspepsia, accompanied with violent headaches
climate without receiving permanent relief.
have worn one of Holman's Pads about on
month with wonderful results. and can say tina
feel better than have done for years, and
believe will be permanently cured. From tn:
benefit have received, I am convinced of tn
virtue of the Pad and recommend it to suffer
ing humanity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

HAD severe attacks of gravel and kidney
trouble; was unable to get any medicine or doc
tor to cure me until l used Hop Buffers, and
thew cured me in q short time.-A DIsTIN-
GUIsHEp LAWYER OF WAYNE Co., N. Y.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

Ex-SANITARY Com. Rufus x. Hire
man, of New Orleans, was cured of q
severe attack of rheumatism by st.
Jacobs Oil, so we see by an item in the
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

JOHN SMITH. All efforts have failed
to identify murderer at Buckyrus,
Ohio. Hecalls himself John Smith, and
says that is good enough name to take
to the scaffold. He wantonly killed a
marshal, who was trying to arrest him
for drunkenness, and is now under
sentence of death. His only purpose
now is to die without being discovered
by his relatives and friends.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

One greasing lasts two weeks; all others two
or three DAYS Do not be imposed on by the
humbug stuffs offered. Ask your dealer for Fra
GERS with label on. 1t saves your horse labor
and you too. 1t received first medal at tue Gen.
tenuial an Paris Expositions. Sold everywhere,
RHEUMATISM There has been no medicine
for Rheumatism ever introduced that equals
Durang's Rheumatic Remedy. 1t is as sure to
cure as the seasons are to follow each other.
Many of our prominent men in public life here
have taken it with great success. We unhesi-
tatingly recommend it Washington CITY Re
publican.
Sold at all drug stores. Price, one dollar
six bottles for FIVE dollars. Write for free cir
cular to the proprietor. R. K, Helpenstine
Washington, d. @.
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The Golden Age is not behind but before

CoLoRLEss AND CODA young girl deeply
regretted that she was so colorless and cold.
felt as though the blood did not circulate. After
one bottle of Hop Bitters had been taken she
was the rosest and healthiest girl in the town.
with vivacity and cheerfulness of mind graft
fyinp to her friends
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

Those wao can Themselves do good
service ere but one to thousand, COM
pared to those who can see faults in the
labor of others.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
THE most effective coquetry is innocence

For DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, Depression OF
Spirits and General Debility, in the various
forms also as preventive against Fever and
Ague and other Intermittent Fevers, the FER
Ro-PHosPHoRATED ELIXIR OF CALIsAYA, made
by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York. and sold
by all druggists, is the best tonic and for pa
tients recovering from Fever or other sickness,
it has no equal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

The Only secret worth knowing in
this life is how one man can Gontrlve to
be better than another all the rest is
mere alchemy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
ssnicIhn AInhe Easy

Let your liver complaint take its own course
aud DON take DR.. Pierce's "Golden Medical
Discovery" Sold by druggists.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
IS Dra nRinu PnIna.,,

DR.. r. V. PIERCE Buffalo, N. Y: Dear Sir
My wife had suffered with 'female weaknesses
for nearly three years. At times she could
hardly move she had such dragging pains. We
often saw your ''Favorite Prescription" adver-
it did not amount to any thing. but at last con-
cluded to try bottle, which she did. 1t made
her sick at first, but it began to show its effect
in marked Improvement, and two bottles
cured her. Yours, etc.,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25

UNEASY sits the man that dimes with
the Czar.-.Er.