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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
A Refractory Audience,

A very sad thing occurred at late
performance given at Laramie city. At
the close of the last act one of the prin-
cipaI performers is instantly killed. It
is then the duty of the audience to rise.
pick up its umbrella and walk home.
! Sometimes, however, the audience is not
familiar with the play, and does not
go home. 1t waits for more death and
carnage before its awful thirst for blood
is glutted.
This was the case at Laramie two
weeks ago. The stage hired man, who
hauls the dead off into the dressing-room,
waited patiently, but the people would
not go. In order to get the full value
of their dollar they desired to see the
post mOrtem examination. They could
not go home until it lad been settled
that the villain was fully and thoroughly
dead.
There he lay, with his ear against a
kerosene footlight, suffering. at 50 per
week, and the audience absolutely refus
ing to go home and allow the man to re-
vlve or to requicScGt IN pace. The cur
tain, though loaded at the bottom with
a telegraph pole, failed to come down.
aud the legs of the avenger, and other
members of the troupe, fitted past the
space left by the unruly curtain. and the
dead villain lay on his back, having
yielded up his life four times that same
week, III the same manner, beside car
rying the heavy trunks of the beautifuI
actress up two flights of stairs for her in
three different towns.
AS there were no programmes people
looked at each other and wondered.
They knew that this man was undoubt
edly dead, but whether the company
had fresh one or not was the question.
Finally two adult members of the
troupe came forward and pulled down
the refractory curtain. Then the man.
ager advanced to the front of the stage.
and, i'll voice choked with emotion.
said:
'Ladies and gentlemen, we would be
glad to massacre some more of our troupe
if we could, but we cannot afford it. In
a one-stand town one man is about all
that we can yield up to the cold embrace
of death. Our printing is high, and we
have to pay $15 for the hall. Therefore
we regret to announce that the play is
now over. You can go home with safety
and we will attend to the remains. We
have every hope that the young man
will be able to draw his salary next
week, and that we may win him back to |
Joy and health again. He has a good |
constitution, a fair appetite, and we feel |
like trusting it all to the future. We |
regret to see you go, but as the janitor
is now blowing out the lights and it is
getting pretty well along int the shank |
Of the evening we must say goodbye to /
you, hoping that during our absence the |
Laramie Opera House Company will |
1ecide to assess its stock holders. pur- !
shase some more wicks for the fOotlights,
put the old piano out of misery and
stick another pair of Ove1alIs into the
window of the ladies' dressing-roOm, so
that the actresses who visit your town
will feel more segregated, as it were,
and separated from the great, vulgar
world - RTTT, NyF
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
A Slight Mistake.

He stepped into cane store in 125th
street, near Third avenue, New York
city, and said to the proprietor:
"You are just the man I've been look
ing for, and your business ought to be
good"
cit is fair, replied the proprietor.
"If you were near a church your bust
ness would be rushing"
"What do you mean ?" asked tue cane
merchant.
"Why. L lost mine in a church last
week and 1 want to get it back.
"Get what back? ?"
my umbrella
"What have got to do with lost UNI
brellas ?"
Everything; don't your sign say so?
Here is my address, send it to me when
you find it. "
"But I don't understand. I"
Don't you. Well then look here, :"
and the man pointed to a sign outside.
"Umbrellas recovered" Explanations
followed and the sign viii be changed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
Catching Fish.

A new method of catching fish called
''jug fishing" has been invented in the
South. A corked jug is attached to the
fishing line, both are then cast into the
water, and the fun is supposed to begin
when the fish bite and cause the Jug to
bob up and down. If the South thinks
it has done something in inventing this
kind of amusement, it is much mistaken.
Up here in the North hundreds of men
go 'jug fishing" every day. But the
method is slightly different from that of
the South. The fisherman, and not the
Jug, begins to bob up and down, and
doesn't wait for the fish to bite either.
ManifestIy the South has many things
to learn about 'jug fishing" ="
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
A Change of Mail Locks.

On October l the United States Post
Office Department will substitute a new
general mail lock for those now in use.
The new lock is made of corrugated steel
is lighter, stronger and safer than that
now in use, and is manufactured by the
Smith and Egge Lock Company of
Connecticut. For several months clerks
in the Mail Equipment Division of the
Post Office Department have been test
ing the new locks and keys and distrib-
uting them throughout the country.
Fifty thousand keys were sent out to
postmasters and other persons author
lied to hold them in separate registered
letters and the efficiency of the registry
system is shown by the fact that they
were all properly delivered. When the
receipts for the keys had been returned,
locks we're distributed among the heads
of star routes, the termini of railway
routes, and lock repositories. The
work has Just been completed. The
change of mail locks is made only once
i'm ten wears.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
A LinguISt's Fall.

A tall man impressively polite in his
manner accosted a well known citizen
on Third street, Troy, N. Y, Tuesday
evening. "My friend" said the tall
man, 81 am a furrier from Worcester,
Mass. L have walked all the way here
to Troy. l am familiar with the
French, Latin, and Greek languages,
and can speak several East Indian
tongues. But [ am really in need of
something to eat. Can you help me by
giving me little money!" ''Do you
speak Hebrew?" said the citizen. 81
must confess am unacquainted with He
brew" "Well, here's ten cents for not
speaking Hebrew" said the citizen
''Be COB, was the reply, "pays some
times not to know too much, don't it %
At 4 80 o'clock the next morning a man
answering the description of the stran-
ger was found drunk on a stOOp. In
the Police Court he gave the name OF
Philip Burns, and was sent to Jail fol
ten ays.-TrOy Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
THE RUsE OF YOUNAGUSTA.
Chief Who had to Die in Order to Reform
His Beloved CherOkees.

1t may not be generally known that
there lives in these North Carolina
| mountains the last remnant of the east
ern band of Cherokee Indians. They
own fee-simple title to 80, 900 acres of
land on the OcOna Lufta and Soco creek.
known as the Qualla boundary. They
number at this time about LOCO souls.
They have decreased in the last ten
years about ten per cent. They have
no towns, nor does their manner of life
differ in any particular from that of the
white people among whom they reside.
Their principal products are corn,
peaches and apples. Small herds Of
ponies and cattle are the main sources
Of revenue upon which these people rely
for what money they need. This is
mainly used as expenses incident to
their government and schools. Their
chief is named Smith and his wife is a
white woman; his children are well
educated; his term of Office is four years;
his salary $500 and 81 dollars per day
extra when on official business for the
band. There is also an assistant chief
with a salary of $3.50. No one is eligible
to the chieftainship unless he be thirty
five years of age. Every male Indian.
who is sixteen years old is entitled to
vote.
[ will here relate an incident as re-
ported to me of one of their former
chiefs. Younagusta was his name. He
was an extraordinary Indian. He had
qualities which made him both feared
and respected by his people. He knew
how to control their weakness and super
stition. The Cherokees, like all Indians
who came in contact with the white man.
became intemperate. YOunagusta de-
termined on a reformation of his people.
He sank into trance so heavy that the
whole town thought him dead, though
some signs of life remained. They
watched and waited fifteen days and de
termined to perform their funeral rites.
two hundred of them marched and
around the PROSTATE
body of their chief
Then came a sudden pause and fright,
for the dead had returned to life. He
spoke with deep feeling, telling his peo-
pie that he had been III a trance; that
he had communed with the Great Spirit;
that his long service for his people was
not ended; he was to remain with them
as many years as he had been days in
the happy hunting grounds; he told
them that he had served them for more
than forty years without any pecuniary
consideration; his sole aim was to pro-
mote their good; he was convinced that
was the cause of the ex-
termination of the tribes who lived in
contact with the white man. He directed
all 70 sign the following pledge: ..The
Cherokees belonging to the
town of Qualla agree to abandon the |
use of spirituous liquors." The old |
chief signed first and was followed by
the whole town. The pledge was en-
forced with the rigor of a written law.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
An Object Lesson.

An object lesson i'll the transmutation
of virtue is conveyed in this paragraph
from an exchange:
''Tennyson can take worthless sheet
of paper, and by writing a poem on it
make it worth $1,000. That's genius.
Vanderbilt can write few words on a
sheet and make it worth $1,000, 600.
That's capital. The United States can
take an ounce of gold, and stamp upon
it an eagle bird and twenty dol
lars That's money. The mechanic
can take the material worth S., and
make it into watch worth 800. That's
skill. The merchant can take an article
worth 25 cents, and sell it for 81. That's
business. A lady can purchase a very
comfortable bonnet for $40, but she pre-
fers to pay $l0O. That's foolishness.
The ditch-digger works ten hours a day.
and shovels out three or four tons of
earth for 50. That's labor"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11

FEsruAGE. Mr. G. E. Benedict, Holy
oke, Mass, is soiling sixty head of cat
tie with ensilage, of which he says he
gets two crops per year from the same
land with less draft upon its fertility
than would he made by one mature crop.
Twenty-eight acres of rye was cut early
and stored in silo; the field planted at
at once to fodder corn, and it will be
seeded again to rye this fall for packing
green next season. Under this system
he tells The Manchester mirror, q
smaller acreage is required, and all
droppings are saved, both liquid and
solid.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
History of the Omnibus.

The omnibus is not, as is sometimes
supposed, an old institution. The first
omnibus, indeed, was built some centu-
ries ago, but it is only since the begin
ming of the present century that they
have become one of the chief means OF
transport in all cities and large towns.
The French, of course, claim the honor
of having invented the first omnibus.
A recent writer who treats of the history
of the omnibus says that only two car
riages were known to exist in France,
one of which belonged to the Queen,
and until the end of the reign of Louis
XIII. carriages were exclusiVely y reserved
for the use of high persOnages. In 1856
the privilege was first granted to an en-
terprising Frenchman to establish only
in the town of Paris large and small con-
veyances, Iitters, and stretchers for the
convenience OF the public. Not long
after this the Due de ROuanes and other
mobiles received patents for the establish
ment in the suburbs of Paris and else
where, of such a number of vehicles as
they should find convenient. By and
by improvements were made in the new
system, but the fares remained too high
to allow the petitS gems to indulge in
the luxury of riding. In revenge they
showed their discomfort by throwing
stones at the omnibuses and the "bloated
capitalists" who patronized them; and,
although for short time the enterprise
hourished, after some years it collapsed.
Omnibuses remained virtually extinct
for long time, until the successful pro,
prietor of bathing establishment made
an attempt to revive them in 1926. He
succeeded, and before long had a hun.
dred Omnibuses in circulation. Since
then this branch of industry has become
more and more profitable, and to-day il
is the most common if not the most con.
venient means of transport all over the
civilized world.-PdU lf0U Gazette.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
SPRING IN 4 UTJ-lIN.

Shall we remember in some time far off,
When youth is dead and life has lost its sweet,
ness.
What scents and sounds that day was woven Of
Whose memory, rose-like in our hfe's Decem-
Der,
Would melt its SHOWS to June's divine COM
pleteness?
Shall we remember?
Oh, day too bright, too brief when we two
stood
Beside the Old wall, Unveiled. moss-covered
The purple mist clunG to the crisp dun wood
May to our hearts set in the years Novcm-
ber-
Above our souls the soul of parting hovered
Do you remember?
All, that one moment ere we turned to go
If this my early life have end tomorrow,
Strong in that memory my soul will know
Not one regret for Iife's expiring ember,
Nor one thoughts pain, nor one hours dream
of sorrow,
While remember
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
A Dogs Intelligence.

The Fall River correspondent of the
Providence Jowmal relates the follow
ing
"Mr. William H. Baylies of this city
is the owner of fine spaniel dog, who
is with his owner rusticating for season
near Robbins's Pond, just over the Ply
mouth county line. A few days ago a
horse left tied near the pond broke loose,
and by some mishap fell into the pond
where it was very deep and appeared too
bewildered to find his way out. The
dog happened to be strolling along the
edge of the pond and observing the
danger the horse was in, instantly
plunged in, swan to the horse, seized
the bride with his teeth, and gradually
pulled the horse round and guided him
to the shore, where he could emerge from
his perilous condition. The statement
is made on reliable authority"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
"A Little Bit of a Chap"

81 used to think it was my dutytO cut
'em with the whip, and took satisfac-
tion in striking hard, but L wouldn't
strike a boy now for the best thousand
dollars ever coined"
He was a car driver, and his attention
had been called to three or four boys
stealing a ride on the rear platform.
eyes, I was a sort O terror on this
route to the boys" he continued after a
time. "Not one of the crowd could
put his foot on the step and get away
without cut from the whip. Big or
little rough or gentle, Iserved all alike,
and if the passengers scowled at me for
lashing a little kid of seven or eight, l
soIaced myself with the reflection that
it was my duty.
"WeIl, one day when the boys
bothered me more than usual, lodged
through the car and found little bit
of a chap, not over seven years old
seated on the lower step. He was all
bumped over and softly crying about
something, or other. At another time
1 might have felt pity, but the boys had
got my mad mp, and what did I do but
give the little chap cut with the lash
and call ont with such a voice that he
tumbled off into the dust. / saw him
rise up and limp away, and there was
something in the look he gave me that
I shan't forget in hurry. Whoa lnowl'
The car stopped to take ON two ladies,
and presently the driver resumed:
"Do you know that I felt so con-
science-stricken that l kept looking for
that boy on every trip, calculating to
make up with him and secure his for
giveness for my brutality. did not see
him again until the afternoon of the
second day"
"And what did he say ?' was asked as
the driver hesitated.
''He was i'll his coffin y was the reply.
''It was his funeral procession which
stopped nay car for two or three minutes.
That child was i'll when he tried to steal
his way home with me, and death was
not twenty-four hours away when
lashed him and chuckled over the way
he rolled into the street | tell you,
sir, when l saw his coffin in the hearse,
and caught a look from the mother.
which seemed to charge me with being
his murderer, ] got Il stab at my heart
that pains me yet, and [ wouldn't strike
another boy If the reward was to be the
whole line and its outfit. "-DetrOH Free
Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
TERMS $3.50.
TIE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WE FIND IN THEM TO SMILE
OVER THIS WEEK.
He Could Have SalIy-She Saw II in Church
A Western Trip-Thcy were Empty
RRra AVis-Etc., Etc.
wOULDN'T T WASH.

''Those goods are rather dear, AIM
they?' remarked Miss Araminta at the
dry goods store to the new clerk.
81 think not, ma'am. They're marked
down almost to cost"
"But they don't look as though they'd
wash"
'Eh !' replied the open-mouthed
clerk.
"They don't look as though they'd
| wash. "
'Lord, NO l' replied the clerk, "you'd
have to wash them"
And then the young man wondered all
day what made the young lady founce
out of the store so quickly.
A TON OF SATISFIED COMFORT.
A tramp who had been hired by a circus
to appear as an Oriental Knight in the
cavalcade fell from grace and once more
resumed his ancient calling.
"Hello!" said man, meeting him
one day. 81 thought you were circus
ing"
81 was, but I've quit"
"Do you like this business as well as
the circus ?"
"Well, L don't know. I may not be
SO awful gorgeous as was, but don't
have to wash every day and change my
clothes, and there's whole ton of salts
fed comfort in that, even if I don't look
quite as purity as an Oriental Knight. -
Merchant Traveller.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11

The Lumber Wagons are
Of MIR. LILLEY'S own
manufacture and are well
and favOrabIy known
throughout this vicinity
as being thoroughly and
honestly made.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11

"AH, here are some interesting sta
tistics," said Mr.. Job Shuttle, as he
wiped his eyeglasses. at seems that
twins occur only once in SO births.
"Well, that's encouraging, now, isn't
it ?" said his wife with smile. "And
triplets," continued job, "occur only
once in 1910 births, while quadruplets
only once in 371, ,126 births. Great
Jinks what family man must have
before he can be the happy father of
quadruplets r Hartford Post.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11

NONE are so fond of secrets as those
who do not mean to keep them; such
persons covet secrets as a spendthrift
does money, for the purpose of circuIa-
ton.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11

"Ir IS rule at my table, said an old
settler TO his guest, "that each one shall
wipe his knife on his plate before stick
ing it into the butter-dish." "
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11

Books serve to isolate man; that which is
told US by word or mouth is far more potent
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11

N,THNG more disgusts a party of
Newport hunters than to have an old
COW get ahead of them and go racing
and sporting along with her tail in the
air and terror in her soul. 1t looks as
though they were chasing the COW, and
that's not an English custom.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11

A country editor undertook to ride on
a pass belonging to one of his subscrib-
ers who had an advertisement in his
paper. After examining it the conductor
looked at it and the editor, and said:
"This pass is crooked"
"Guess not" said the editor, blandly.
"But I say it is.
"Thats just where you are fooling
yourself; it's me that's crooked. The
pass is all right enough. "-7eraS Syt-
mas.
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DRY GOODS.
LACE DEPARTMENT.

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-Crocheted Military Collar, with Cuffs 10 match.
Also new Hemsutched Nun Tchus in exquisite de
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NOTION DEPARTMENT.
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HANDKERCHIEF DEPARTMENT.
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TRANSFORMING Box TREKa-Workmen are en-
gagged in planting . number OF large box trees in
the White Lot. They were brought on stone
moval was made necessary by cutting down the
streets Some OF these specimens are thought to
ever transplanted in this part OF the country.
Some of them are at least IL feet high and 10 feet
through.
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CITY AND DISTRICT.

Amusemenis. &c, Tonight.
FoRDs OPERA HoUsE.-MiSS Minnie Palmer In
"Ny Sweetheart"
NATIONAL THEATER--Maggie Mitchell in 1.-THE
Little savage"
THEATER COMIQUE.-" Nobody's Claim and
Varieties
DINE MUsEUM.-Dog circus and other attrac-
lions
WILLARD HALL--Health lecture by DR.. Hale
LINCOLN HALI--ROyaI Bell Ringers and Glee
SINGERS.
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OF Rheumatism, Neuralgia. Sciatca, Coughs Colds.
Weak Back. Stomach, and Bowels Shooting Pains,
Numbness Hysteria. Female Pains, Palpitation Dys-
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iaugh at PAIN Zoe. everywhere. ap1 2-th&m 1t