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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
Very Hot Work.

NJ. Quad, in writing Of the assault on
Vicksburg says: While a constant uitil-
lerv fire was maintained on both sides,
most Of the loss was OccaslOned by the
sharpshOOters. The FederaIs were IN
rifle pits or behind rocks, and III some
cases near enough to have killed a spar
row resting Oh the Confederate works.
One of their objects was to silence the
big guns by picking off artillerists, aud
in a few instances they were quite suc-
cessful. There were cannon i'll the Con
federate forts which were struck by as
many as sixty bullets. A wooden shield
in use to protect the man at one of the
guns was in eight hours hit by forty
four balls. A Confederate soldier had
only to raise his hat above the works to
have it plugged by from two to five bull
lets, aud the man reckless enough to ex-
pose himself at any point was certain to
be hit on the instant
On the other hand, the Federals suf-
fered even more from the Confederate
sharpshoOterS, because less sheltered
and almost constantly making new
movements and taking new positions.
4 Louisiana riheman who had duga hole
for himself III front Of Fort Hill and
rendered himself Il dangerous object.
made a long shot one day and killed or
wounded an officer. Within five min
utes, as he relates, five or six pieces of
light artillery were turned upon the spot
where he was concealed, and a score of
Federal sharpshooters likewise gave him
their attention. For thirty minutes he
was doubled up in hole Just deep
enough to shelter him, and over and
around him swept shot, shell and bullet
in way that left the ground sight to
see. While he was not hurt, piece of
shell and two spent bullets rolled into
his door. and he was almost buried alive
by the dirt flung into the hole,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
How They Strike i'll France.

The city of Marscillcs has been, dur
ing the present month, the scene of two
new strikes, the motives of which are
ont of the common run. On the 9th of
July about 300 Piedmontese employed
III the st. just Oil Factory left work
and tried to prevent their cOuntrymen
in the Magdalen Factory from working.
The main cause Of discomfort on the
part of the workmen was not their small
pav-frOm 50 to 80 cents Il day for
twelve hours workout the tyranny of
the companies, which keep all doors
closed during working hours, so that the
men are compelled to buy from the in
side cantecms what they need for break
fast or lunch. They asked for half an
hour for breakfast and an hour for lunch,
IL practical reduction of an hour and II
half in the working day. The other
strike was that of 1000 walters en-
ploycd in the hotels, restaurants, cafes,
and saloons Of the great seaport. 1t be
gan on the 18th instant, the first demand
Of the knights of the white apron being
the liberty TO wear a moUstache. They
refused to submit longer to the custom
obligiug them only to wear WHISPERS,
and took the GROUND that, when out of
work, they were mistaken for lawyers,
which, so they said, deeply wounded
their self-love.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
Domestic Hints and Helps.

If you are afraid that your yeast cakes
are a little stale, put one of them in a
cup of warm water with good pinch of
hops, let this stand for an hour or so be-
fore using; it will have an excellent
effect on the yeast and will insure good
bread.
Veal salad, if made with care, will ac-
tually take the place Of chicken salad,
and will deceive the epicure. Use at
this season of the year little lettuce
torn in small bits and plenty of celery
salt Make the dressing just the same
as if the meat were chicken.
Corn fritters, or "oysters,' as some
humbug- loving cooks call them, are now
in season. To six ears of grated corn
add one well-beaten egg, a little salt,
and tablespoonful of sweet milk, with
enough flour to make a stiff batter.
Drop in hot lard and fry a delicate
brown.
An economical and appetizing way to
cook very small new potatoes is to wash
and scraPe them well, boil them, and
the instant they are done drain off the
water, dry them off, and then in the
kettle, right with them, make a milk
gravy. This is a nice dish for breakfast
or supper.
An excellent meat sauce, for use at
any season of the year, calls for four
quarts of ripe tomatoes, one cup and a
half of red pepper cut i'll bits, one cup
of chopped onions, one cup and a half
Of sugar, half cup of salt, one pint and
a half of vinegar, one teaspOOnful and a
half of cloves, the same quantity of CHINA
mon, one teaspoonful each Of ginger and
nutmeg. Let this boil for three hours,
then bottle and seal, or put in tin cans.
If the tomatoes, onions, and pepper are
chopped very fine, it is best not to strain
the sauce.
Green pepper pickles may be made
after this somewhat unusual recipe:
Half bUshel of green peppers, six
heads of cabbage, two pounds OF mus
tard seed, one of black and one of white,
one quarter of pound of cloves and of
alIspice, two ounces of celery seed, one
head of garlic. Remove the seeds from
the peppers, and cut in slices, chop the
cabbage, mix the peppers with it, and
sprinkle salt over all, and let il stand
over night. In the morning drain the
water from it. Put the spices, ETC., in
vinegar enough to cover the pickles.
| Let the vinegar come to a boil, cut the
garlic in pieces and let it boil in the
vinegar, but skim it out before pouring
over the vegetables. Pack III q
stone lar, and cover with hOrseradish
leaves, a cloth over them, and tight
| cover over all.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
The Law of Finding.

One hundred years ago, the law of
finding was declared by the Kings
Bench Gondon) in a case in which the
facts were these "a person found
wallet containing a sum of money on a
shop floor. He handed the wallet and
contents to the shop keeper, to be re-
turned to the owner. After three years,
during which time the owner did not call
for the property, the finder demanded
the wallet and money from the shop
keeper The latter refused to deliver
them up, ON the ground that they were
found on his premises. The finder then
sued the shop keeper, and it was held, as
above stated, that against all the world
but the owner, the title of the finder IS
perfect And the finder has been held
to stand instead of the owner, so that he
was permitted to prevail in action
against a person who found an article
/ which the plaintiff had originally found,
| but subsequently lost. The police have
no special rights III regard to articles
lost unless those rights are conferred by
statute. Receivers Of articles found are
trustees for the finder They have no
power, i'll the absence Of special statute,
to keep the articles against the finder
any more than the finder has to retain
the article against the owner.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
Losing His Scalp.

The scalp torn from the head of
the great chief Yellow Hand by
Buffalo Bill is a part of the latter's tray
cling stock i'll trade. The hair is long and
soft, and was braided like the queue of q
Chinaman. One of Bills comrades told
the story of the scalping. cit was just
after the massacre of Custer" he said
bill was with General Miles at the head
of the scouts. They were trying to cut off
Yellow Hand from Sitting Bull. Early
in the morning Yellow Hand rode up at
the head of a war party and challenged
Bill to an open combat. General Miles
and others tried to diSsuade Bill from ac-
cepting the challenge. He replied that
a refusal to accept it would ruin his pres
tiga among the saVageG and that was
something he could not afford to lose.
He told Yellow Hand that he would fight
him. The two armies were ranged less
than a mile apart Six mounted scouts
accompanied Bill and six mounted
Brule Sioux rode forward with Yellow
Hand. They were to open fight on
horseback with rifles. Their escorts
drew aside, and the combatants dashed
forward. Yellow Hand began to spin
around Bill in a circle, and Bill began to
circulate on a circle himself. Around
and arouud they went like swallows in
the air. Both white men and savages
were eager spectators. Each cCmbatant
had his leg over his horses fore Shout
der, and each was swinging head down
ward, awaiting an opportunity for fatal
shot. They fired so close together that
it sounded like the crack of one rifle.
In a twinkling both horses were biting
the dust Bill was as spray as a cat.
He was on his feet before his horse
struck the ground. Yellow Hand was
partly pinned to the earth by the weight
of his pony. The two men We're not
over seventy feet apart. Before the
chief could extricate himself Bill had
shot him through the body. 1t was,
however, a flesh wound. Yellow Hand
gained his feet, drew his scalping knife,
| and went for Bill like demon. The IN
dams were yelling like hyenas, and Miles S
troopers were rending the air with their
shouts. Yellow Hands knife went
through Bills hunting shirt, barely
scraping the hide There was quick
struggle, some labOred breathing and
gritting of teeth, and Bills knife slid be-
tween the chefs ribs, and pierced his
heart. He fell hfelcss on the plain.
In a second Bill encircled his topknot,
and yanked the scalp from his head.
With tiendish screams the Indians
poured down upon him. But old Miles's
troopers were there on time, and there
was as lively an Indian fight as was even
seen in the Big Horn country"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
4 Career of Crime.

The celebrated ''Robber of the South,
Mamai, has long been the terror of
Southern Russia. His career of crime
commenced twenty years ago, but his
principal laurels have been gained since
he fled from TOmsk, and turned up
afresh in the scene of his former tri-
umphs two years ago. Organizing a
band of robbers, and arming them with
Berlan rifles aud revolvers, he rcamed
about the country, numbering in his
course as many as sixty-fve persons.
Caught at last, through the treachery of
a woman, he was conveyed to NicOlaetf
and locked up in prison, there pending
judicial examination. Although famous
as a prison breaker, the authorities APP
pear to have put no special watch over
him. and in consequence he nearly es-
capped by digging a subtcrranean pas
sage one hundred feet long from his cell
to the outer wall. Prom excavations
are so common in RusaIa that the only
merit in Mamu's was the length of it &;
but 1t was an uncommon feature in his
case that he should have been discov-
cred ut last through the trcachery of a
fellow prisoner. since honor prevails
among thieves in Russia a. elsewhere.
anu llG LIibl'L N'ltftl LllLll0tll L'tN' llttts
a chance of escape with the rest as soon
as the passage was finished. RebulIed
in this attempt Mamai awaited awhile,
and then one afternoon, when police
man came to his ell, he threw him
down, gagged him, and donned lis uni
form. The following day, having ex-
changed the uniform for a peasants
dress, he went into the market, and
choosing the best cart without its driver,
drove away to Khcrson. Here he was
recognized outside a public house by a
police officer, who touched him on the
shoulder and said, '.What, Mamai, you
here ?" Certainly" replied the fugi-
tive. knocking him fiat on his back; and
before the officer could recover his
senses Mamai was ont of sight
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
AN RESURRECTION SUBDUED.
4 Backyard Battle seen from a Distant
Horse Car.
From the Detroit Free Press

One of the traces of the street-car
horse broke, delaying the car seven or
eight minutes. Afar off to the right
one could see into the back yard of a
| house, and directly the passengers on
! the car were gazing that way at panto-
! mime A man the took it uIoon
! himself to explain what was occurring.
| He began
"a woman and her husband appear
at the back door. She is excited-he
is the picture of calmness."
1t was so. She waved her arms and
Observation-Disclosures an seemed to whistle.
"Now she leads him to a bedstead she
has been scalding, continued the pas
senger. "She is probably saying that
she will smash it with an ak, and he Is
probably replying that she'll have to
sleep on the floor if she does. If had
time I'd advise her to use kerosene oil
in the crevices, but haven't"
The woman then led the man to a
carpet hanging on the fence and waved
her arms some more.
"She's telling him to pull off his coat
and beat it." explained the passenger,
g and he replies that he'll see the old
thing burned first No true wife will
!
to do with carpet"
The two suddenly disappear into the
house, and the interpreter remarked
Hold On-this isn't the END She S
| taken him in to show where she wants
the kitchen stove moved to. There
thew come, and she is madder'n ever.
| The actors reappeared and stood IN
/ the attitude of enemies about to begin a
| combat
"She's saying that she rues the day
| she ever sat eyes on him, " whispered
/ the passenger.
"She's calling him loafer and q
drunkard, and he's telling her to set the
chimney afire and let the firemen dc
her house cleaning. Whoa, there Shes
fving off the handle There she's
hit him with a bedstead Stat He stag,
gers, but RECEIVERS and tries to grasp her
She whacks him again, and now ne
turns to flee He reaches the fence
but she reaches him y
Some of the passengers ran out upo1
the platform to get clear view, but the
interpreter climbed to the roof and con
tinued:-
"She has got him down on an asl
heapl She's a telling him that he hal
reached the end of his rope and ha
got to cut bait or fish. He struggles
She chokes him and jams his head int,
the ashes Now he is quiet. Now sh
let's him up. Now he is walking tOwarC
the carpet with a stick. Ladies anC
gentlemen, the great moral exhibition
Is over, and virtue and perseverance
have won another glorious triumph =
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
Hop Bittcrs are the Purest ana Best Bitters
Ever Made.

They are compounded from Hops, Malt Bu
chu, Mandrake and DandeliOn,-the oldest
best, and most valuable medicines in the world
and contain all the best and most curative pro-
perties Of all other remedies being the greatest
Blood Purifier, Liver Regulator, and Life and
Health Restoring Agent Oh earth. No disease
or i'll health can possibly long exist where these
Bitters are used, SO varied and perfect are their
operations.
They give new life ana vigor to the aged and
infirm. To all whose employments cause ire
guarity of the bowels or urinary organs, or
who require an APPETIZER Tonic and mild Slim
ulant, Hop Bitters are invaluable, being highly
curative, tonic and stimulating, without intoxi-
eating.
No matter what your feelings or symptoms
are what the disease or ailmcnt is, use Hop
Bitters Don't wait until you are sick but if
YOU only feel bad or miserable, use Hop Bittors
at once 1t may save your life. Hundreds
have been saved by SO doing. S5OOwiu be paid
fer case they will not cure or help.
Do not suffer or let your friends suffer, but
nse and urge them to Use Hop Bitters.
Remember, Hop Bitters is no vile, drugged,
drunken nostrum, but the Purest and Best
Medicine ever made the "Invalid's Friend
and Hope" and no person or family should be
without them Try the Bitters to-day.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
DISSERTATIONS ON RISING.
20 A. NJ.

By Jove this room is in pretty state!
There's nothing in the place it ought 10 be.
When come in last night twas pretty late,
And then the place appeared all right to me-
Where are my clothes? I had shirt ALI,
there
It's, hung upon the peg which devote
To that dark object which see is where
The shirt should be-a rubber overcoat,
Ihad another stocking. am sure
Aha. My watch upon the floor, with broken
face;
The stocking meath my pillow, where, secure,
1t Is my rule. at night, my watch to place
A shoe upon the hat rack hung. That's good
My hat is by the other, on the floor.
And IN it has my wet umbrella stood
And dripped, instead Of III the cuspidore.
It's quite enough tomake an angel weep;
Especially the spelling of the hat
Show me the wretch who, while was asleep
Entered my room and mixed things up like
that! -BOStOit Post.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
A Wonderful Salt Spring.

Senator Logan was cat home" to
newspaper men, ready to tell them any
thing they might care to know about
his western trip, but silent as the grave
on the subject of politics. He left
Chicago in Nav, and, in answer to Il
general question from a TIibn1e repre-
sentative, said he had travelled through
New Mexico and Arizona, and a part of
Colorado, concluding his trip with a
visit to Denver, where he took part in
the proceedings of the Grand Army en-
campment From Santa Fe he had gone
pretty much all over New Mexico, sight
seeing and pleasure-seeking.
"You saw that wonderful salt spring
in southwestern New Mexico, about
which there has been a good deal said of
late, did you not?'
eyes, and a wonderful spring it is.
Our party OF four travelled 900 miles by
rail aud 100 miles i'll an ambulance to
see it. 1t is very curious formation.
The spring is i'll the centre of an extinct
crater, which has been surveyed and
found 20 contain $40 acres. Right i'll
the centre is an upheayal which looks as
though it was II perfect cone at IL dis
tance-a cone of Il reddish color, made
up of cinders, ashes, stones, etc, form
ing conglomeratc mass. At Il distance
there is no appearance of Il hole in the
top, but on going up the cone a height
of $50 feet you discover an immense
opening inside, and find that it is a
spring about forty feet in diameter, con
stantly boiling The water looks per
fectly green, such is its clemncss, and
contains very high percentage of
salt"
HAS it shown no signs of giving
out ?"
CAN somdings have failed to find any
bottom to the spring. Through Il Gre
vase III the side Of the cone the water
escapes and forms a lake covering an
area of about two hundred and fifty acres
of land, covered all over with about two
inches of perfect hard salt. The water
is constantly pouring in, and the cvap-
Grafton produces the salt The country
around it isa very beautiful mountainous
one but this is almost on plain be
tween the mountains.
IT does rather stir up the bile OF col
lCge president to speak of him as rum
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
American Diamond Wearers.

At Long Branch, as at Saratoga and
many American and European Watering
places, the possession of diamonds and
other Jewels partakes of the nature of a
fearful 10Y. Naturally enough, the
owners wish TO display their gems at
proper times and seasons, and in proper
graduation. Thus rings at dinner, ear
drops at a chop" or scratch" hotel
dance, and far-gleaming necklace at a
ball. would satisfy the aspirations of such
diamond worshipers as are endowed
with good taste. Unhappily, however,
the temptation of great value draws
around the diamond-decked bellies so
many birds of prey, that extreme vigi-
lence is required to prevent them from
swooping down on the prize. There is
true story of pretty girl coming down
to breakfast ut Saratoga with several
thousand pounds worth of diamonds on.
Her explanation was the simple one that
she did not think them safe anywhere else.
More ingenious minds resort to strange
devices to throw criminals Of the scent
They imagine quaint hiding places for
their treasures, sometimes, after the eX-
ample set in Edgar Allan Pocs story and
in Les Pattes de MOuche, Selecting open
places as those in which nobody would
think of looking for the object they are
in quest Of. An inventive lady stay
ing at Long Branch during the late
hot weather after serious Thought de
cidcd that the interior of an old umbrella
was the safest place for two large and
valuable Diamond rings. Unfortunately
a shower and her husband arrived dur
ing her absence. Selfish and thought
less man took tie only umbrella he found
handy, opened it when he got out of
doors and the ring was lost. Clearly no
opening should be left when a jewel
''cachc" is selected for masculine heed
lessness and clumsiuess.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30
WONDERFUL WORK OF A HEN.
Aided, Allotted, and Assisted by a Bad
Boy in the POst-Onice.

According to a Syracuse paper, Mrs.
Whitnal, the estimable wife of harness.
maker of Erieville, Madison county,
n. Y, heard her favorite hen cackling
in the barn in strange and unprece-
dented manner. Upon reaching the
nest she found an egg of ordinary size,
but emblazoned with raised characters,
which nearly caused her to faint. Stag
gering from the barn into the house, she
displayed the hens miraculous product
to her sons and daughters, some of whom
rushed out and spread the alarm among
the pOpulace.
All further work on that day was sus-
pended. Men working in the field put
up their horses and tools in the barns,
after which they gazed anxiously at the
Whitnal residence. The excitement was
intensified when the report was con-
firmed that samuel Curtis, an hOnOred
shoemaker and a brother of Mrs. Whit
nal, had become so unnerved at the sight
of the egg that he had taken to his
bed in alarm, and refused to be com
forted.
The most skeptical were convinced Of
the sacred eggs genuineness when it was
taken to the hotel and exhibited by two
of Mr.. Whitnal's sons. The characters
were simply raised upon the shell, as il
they had been made upon the inside anC
pulled ont by some interior agency. Or
one side stood out boldly the figures
1854" On another side was a cross
and on a third side was Il strange sym
Dol, which some thought was letter
sc, while others held that it was hal
moon. The latter theory was more
generally accepted, since, when the egg
was held to the light, something which
resembled face was discemible in the
concavity of the character. This was
inferred to represent the man in the
moon.
On that night the morals and manners
of the village of Erievllle were excellen
beyond parallel. New resolutions wer'
formed and bad habits sworn off. Hus
bands and wives no longer exchanged
doubtful compliments and tiatlrons, bu
tenderly embraced each other and agreed
to await the coming of the Lord IN
commendable manner. Mrs. Whltnal
household was too excited to sleep
Her daughter Sarah was quite i'll
and it was feared that the sacred egg
! would tend greatly TO shorten her NE
Alameda this, FrankRichardson, a clerl
in the post-ofice, acknowledged tina
the miracle had been performed through
his instrumentality.
He explained that to get even will
one of Mr.. Whitnal's sons he traced
the characters on the egg with tai
low and then placed it in vinegar
After the acid had sufficiently eaten tn
shell as to allow the parts traced wit
taIlow to become prominent, he visite
the Whitnal barn, deposited the egg in
nest, scared an innocent hen and de
camped.
Mr.. Richardson's expose has had tn
unfortunate effect of dispelling the mora
influence exerted by the egg. TIL
villagers have returned to their forme
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-30

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