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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
A City Cemetery.

Mr.. Brennan, the Superintendent of
Calvary Cemetery, said to q New York
San reporter: 81 have seen the ceme-
tary fill up from a sparsely used tract of
land until every foot of territory had
been sold and a new. enclosure of one
hundred acres had to be secured. Since
Archbishop Hughes founded the ceme-
terry on the bleak hill of Blissville, in
1S4S, there have been over $50, 900 in
terments. I, myself, have signed per-
mits within the twenty years of my su-
perintendency, for more than 100000
dead. During the year 1888 there were
1910 interments in Calvary and New
Calvary. OF this number 1892 were
buried by the Church. A Catholic is
accorded the right to be buried in the
consecrated ground, and if his friends
cannot pay for the small piece of sod,
the Church buries him through charity
For many years the Church buried those
who died in the hospitals, and who were
left unclaimed in the Morgue, if there
were good reasons for supposing they
had been Catholics during life, but the
Health Board interfered, and now they
are inferred in the Potter's Field unless
friends send them to us.
WudL uOeS all luGerm0nG COSU! LII de-
ponds upon the worldly condition of the
friends. All the plots and graves in old
Calvary are sold. They are worth $500
to 50, 900 each. A plot is 16x1S feet.
The poor people buy graves. There are
sixteen graves, each nine feet long by
two feet wide, in plot A grave brings
SIS, and each interment in the grave
costs, in addition, 81 for adults, SIS for
children above seven years, and So for
children under seven. The graves are
sunk nine feet deep, and five adults are
buried in one grave, leaving three feet
of earth over the uppermost. The very
poor cannot afford to pay for whole
grave, and they are charged 81 for an in
terment"
''And those who never knew each
other in life occupy the same grave ?'
''Yes. So many thousands are
brought from New York, Brooklyn,
Newark, Jersey City, Westchester, and
Long Island that room could not be
found otherwise. There are about three
hundred burials week on the average,
varying with the season from as low as
two hundred TO as high as four hundred
On Sunday there are all the way from
seventy-fve to one hundred interments,
and on week days from twenty-five to
fifty, and even more in sickly seasons. y
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
With no Drop Of Negro Blood.

The Selma (A1a.) Times tells the fol-
lowing singular story Mr.. Isaac
Frank, white man, was indicted by the
last Grand Jury Under the charge of
living in unlawful wedlock with negro
woman. Mrs. Mary Ann Frank, wife of
the accused, was present also her
alleged mother, Lucinda Weaver. col
ored Lucinda was sworn, and put upon
the witness-stand. Her testimony threw
new light upon the case and caused
little futter of excitement and surprise
among those present. She spoke in
straightforward manner. Notwithstand-
ing Lucinda has always been known as
the mother of Mary, it turns out that
the young woman's parentage is purely
white. Lucinda testified that she was
not the mother of Mrs. Mary Frank and
that Mrs. Frank was given to her when
an infant three days old that promi-
nent gentlemanin South Carolina brought
the young child and presented it to
Lucinda, requesting that she raise it as
her own. She stated further that the
child was the ilIegitimate offspring of
an aristocratic woman, and it was her
brother who gave the infant to the old
negress to shield his sisters reputation
and conceal her shame. The old negress
brought her charge to Alabama, claim
ing her as a daughter, and the real
truth of matters very probably never
would have been uncovered to the world
but for Marys marriage to the white
man and the Indictment issued against
him. Mrs. Frank, now grown into
mature womanhood, has light, straight
hair, fair complexion, and clear, blue
eyes, and doesn't bear the remotest trace
of African blood. A number of gentle
men visited her recently, conversed with
her, and decided that she was beyond
doubt white woman. After Lucinda's
testimony was heard, Solicitor Pitts
agreed to a verdict of not guilty, and
the happy twain departed in peace.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
Marriage of Blacks and Whites.

An important case has been decided
in the Po1iaeV Court of Toledo, Ohio.
Robert Bailey, colored, was married to a
young white woman. Under the sta
tutes of Ohio. the marriage or cohabita-
ton of white persons with those having
the least faint of African blood is a GRIM
inal act. On complaint being made,
Bailey was arrested and tried for the
offence He was convicted and SEN
fenced to pay a fine of 800 and costs,
and to be imprisoned three months.
His counsel entered a motion at once for
a new trial, and gave bail for hearing
of the case at the next term of the Court
of Common Pleas. It is said that there
are over 100 Africans married to white
women in Tolddo. and another hun
bred living with white women without
having been married to them. There is
only one white man in Toledo living
with black woman. He is married to
her, and seems as much attached to her
as though she were of the purest Anglo
Saxon blood The authorities are await
ing the result of Bailey's case, which is
to be made test case of the constitu-
tionality of the law, before proceeding
to break the bonds already formed be-
tween the whites and blacks in the State.
The white girl in the Bailey case has
been sentenced to the Workhouse Tor a
long term, having no means with which
to pay her fine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
Millions in Barbed Wire.

The manufacture of barbed wire has
made millions for many men. The great
West NAV be said to be fenced with
barbed wire. The $500 miles of fenc-
ing destroyed by the cowboys of Texas
this winter was all of barbed wire. The
most familiar pattern of this fencing is
is made by twisting two strands of thick
wire SO that at every few feet the pointed
ends of the metal thread project at right
angles with the lengths. During the
civil war and for ten years thereafter
thirty patents we're issued for barbed
wire. Before that, plain wire had been
used on the great farms and pastures,
its cheapness rendering it preferable to
any other material. A worcester man
bought up all the barbed wire patents,
and the firm he established had the pat
ents re-issued, and then asserted that this
gave them the control of the principle.
It took them years to get decision sus-
tanning them, and III the mean time
barbed wire factories sprung up like
mushrooms all over the West. After
the decision, the Worcester men got all
the other makers together and issued
forty licenses to as many firms to con-
tinue making the wire, each being lin
tied to n certain output, obliged to sell
at q certain figure, and compelled to pay
the Worcester men $l5 ton. The lit
tie makers were all crushed out. The
MONOPOLY raised the price two cents
pound and added $40, 900, 900 to the prof
its in half dozen States.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
The WealthieSt Man.

At the beginning of every year, says
newspaper correspondent, Mr.-W. FL.
Vanderbilt, of New York, makes it all
invariable custom to take a careful in
ventory of his immense property. His
strong-boxes are then opened, their con-
tents counted, and from the total the
profit for the year is reckoned. In
January, 1888, he told an intimate friend,
who had dined with him that day, that
ne was worth 1894, 900, 0O0
81 believe l am" said Mr.. Wander
bilt, "the richest man in the world. In
England, the Duke of Westminster is
said to be worth 5000, 900, 900 but it is
mostly in lands and houses. 1t does not
yield him two per cent. A year from
now [ shall be worth more than $780,
900, 900, and will have an income equal
to six per cent. on that amount"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
The Manufacture of Heavy Ordnance.

After seven years of idleness the larger
furnace of the South Boston Iron Works
was lighted up on Saturday for the cast
ing of a twelve-inch rifle mortar for the
United States Ordnance Department.
This is to be the first of lot of five
heavy experimental guns authorized by
the last Congress. The second will be a
ten.inch breech-loading rifle. The body
is to be of cast iron, reinforced by a
wrapping of steel wire. The third is to
be twelve-inch breech-loading rifle,
entirely of cast iron, and is to weigh
tifty-seven tons. The fourth is to be
like the third, with the exception that it
is to be lined from the breech with a
short steel tube to reach little beyond
the trunnions. The fifth is to be a
twelve-inch breech-loading rifle. The
body, of cast iron, is to be reinforced by
steel rings around the breech and to be
lined the full length with steel tube.
1t is expected that these heavy rifles
will endure charges of 200 to 800 pounds
of powder with projectiles weighing 700
pounds, giving a velocity sufficient to
penetrate twenty-four inches of iron.
The works have also contracts with the
United States Navy Department for six
and eight inch steel breech- loading rifles
for the new steel cruisers, and for the
conversion of ten-inch smooth-bore
'Rodman" guns into eight-inch muzzle-
loading rifles for the War Department.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
A TattOOed Baby Born.

The tattooed woman known as Laura
Lavarime gave birth in Baltimore to a
ffteen-pound boy. The baby's skin is
marked in the same manner as the
the mothers, with snakes, animals,
flowers, etc. The strangest part of the
freak is that the colors of the India ink
used to decorate the mother are exactly
reproduced on the baby's body except
the face. The colors are blue and red.
The fathers name is AdOlph Morath.
He is travelling Snowman, and is de-
formed, having a club foot. lie says
his wife was tattooed within the past
year at various times and in various
cities and by different artists. He has
been travelling through the small towns
of Maryland with his museum, in which
his wife is one of the curiosities. DIR. A.
Trego Shertzer, a reputable and we'll
known physician of Baltimore, attended
the mother. He thinks the case re.
markable
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
BeIlS.

Bells are said to have been introduced
by Paulinus, Bishop of Mole, in Cam
pagna, about 400, and first known in
France in $50. The army of Clothair
H., King of France, was frightened
from the siege of Sens by the ringing of
the bells of st. Stephens Church. The
second exception of King Egbert COM
mands every priest, at the proper hours,
to sound the bells of his church. Bells
were used in churches by order of Pope
John TX, about 900, as a defence by
ringing them against thunder and light
ming. Bells were first cast in England
by Turkeytel, Chancellor of England
under Edmund l. His successor i'm
proved the invention, and caused two
first tunable sets to be put up at Croy-
land Abbey, $50. The celebrated
Song of the Bell" by Schiller, has
been frequently translated. Bells were
anointed and baptised in churches, it is
said, from. the tenth century. The bells
of the priory of Little Dunmow, in Es-
sex, were baptised by the names of st.
Michael, st. John, Virgin Mary, Holy
Trinity, etc., i'll 1901. The great bell of
Notre Dame, of Paris, was baptised by
the name of Duke of Angouleme, 1916.
On the continent, in Roman Catholic
states, they baptise bells as we do ships,
but with relinions snlemnity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
The Lasker Incident.
RESOLUTIONS OF GERMAN LIBERALS
THANKING THE HOUSE OF REPREsEN-
TATIvES.

The following is the text of the letter
received by Speaker Carlisle from the
Executive Committee of the Liberal
Union of Germany conveying its thanks
to the House for the Lasker resolutions ::
BERLIN, Jan. 81, 1884.
The undersigned, the Executive Com
mittee of the Liberal Union, has the
honor to express at the request of its
who are to-day present from
the various parts of the German EN-
pire, to the House of Representative at
Washington, its warmest thanks for the
resolution which they have passed in
honor of Edward Lasker. its late leader
and friend. The Liberal Union com
bines with this acknowledgment of its
thanks the most heartfelt wishes for the
welfare and prosperity of the powerful
and rising United States of America,
and for the strengthening and further
development of mutual friendship be-
tween both nations.
The letter is signed by the Executive
Committee of the Liberal Union of
Germany.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
Severe on the Theatre.

Mrs. Livermore, in an interview with
a reporter, concerning the effect of the
stage upon women, said: 81 can answer
your question best by telling you story
about Mrs. Waller. A young girl was
acting in the same theatre with her and
was observed. Mrs. Waller called the
girl to her, and in a more tragic tone
than she ever used in Lady Macbeth
said: Get out of it; get out of it. say
You are on the brink of hell. Get out
of it at once. To succeed you must be-
come denounced. Get out of it, I say.
And she sent for the girls parents and
saw that she did leave the profession. 1
believe Charlotte Cushman used to adj
wise young girls against the life. Where
few rise to eminence and attain to sue
cess, many fall.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
Rents I'm New York.

For houses in fifth avenue between
Tenth street and Ffty-sixth street SAYS
the San, the rents are all the way from
81, 500 to $15, 900 year. The ordinary
Fifth avenue house rents for Sc, 900 or
Sc, 900, while $1,000 and So, 900 rents are
common, but Madison avenue has taken
the place of Fifth avenue as a residence
street, and four-story high-stoop brown
stone houses there rent for from SO, 900
to $1,000, according to locality and fin
ish, and even at those rates there are
not many houses to rent. In the quiet
cross streets between Madison and Park
avenues and between Madison and Fifth
avenues four-story high-stoop brown
stone houses rent for from s., 900 to 81
500. Even in Lexington avenue, from
Twenty-ninth to Seventy-sixth street,
three=storv high=stoop brown-stone
houses rent for from 81, 800 to 1900 a
year. Throughout the city, where sep
arate houses are to be hired, the rents
range about the figures given. For in
stance, four-story high-stoop brown
stone house in West Washington square
rents for 81, 600; three story high-stoop
brick house in East Tenth street, near
University place, for $4,000 or 81, 500; a
four-story high-stoop brick house in
West Seventeenth street, near Fifth
avenue, for $4,000; four-story high
stoop brick house in East Twenty-irst
street, between Lexington and Fourth
avenues, for $4,000; four-story high
stoop brown-stone house in West Twen-
ty-ninth street, between Broadway and
Fifth avenue, for $4,000; four-story
high-stoop brown-stone house in East
Thirty-second street, between Fifth and
Madison avenues, for 81, 900; the same
kind of house in West Thirty fourth
street, near Fifth avenue, for Sd, 500; in
east Fifty-seventh street, with little
better finish, $1,000. In short, for the
money that is required as rent for a first
class dwelling house for one year man
can buy ground and house in the SUBJ
urbs, wIf1i1 an hours ride of the City
Hall in various directions. All the
prices thus far given are for unfinished
houses. For similar houses furnished
the prices range from $500 to 800 a
month, and no house can be had except
on the best references and good security.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
GRAPES In CITY YARDS.
The Vines that Thrive the Best-HOw to
Plant and Train Them.

The best time for planting grapevines
in our Northern States is in spring, as
soon as the frost is out, and the ground
warm and dry enough to work easily.
There are scores of varieties that are we'll
adapted to cultivation in city yards or
gardens. Varieties not sufficiently hardy
for vineyard culture in the country often
succeed admirably in city yards, where
they are in great measure protected
from cold winds in the winter. We have
known the golden chasselar, sweet
water, and Black Hamburg to be grown
successfully for many years in the yards
of this city; but we would not recon-
mend these varieties except for very
favorable situations, andi for persons
who know how to prune and train vines
systematically.
The main point is to select location
where the vine will receive the direct
rays of the sun for at least six or eight
hours a day during the summer months.
This insures healthy growth and the
ripening of the fruit. As for the roots,
they will usually take care of themselves
| after the first two or three years, as it is
well known that they will go long dis
lance under fiagstones, brick walks, and
| along cellar walls into drains and cess
pools in search of nutriment and mois-
ture. A man who plants grapevine in a
city yard is never exactly certain where
the roots will goin search of food. At the
time of planting, however, tbs best to give
the roots some good soil and quart or
two of bone dust, well mixed in, to start
the vine In life. Further application
may be made Ill after years If found
necessary.
In purchasing grapevines, beware of
old and large ones, frequently exposed
for sale in our markets. A young, healthy
vine, one or two years old, is worth far
more than one three or four years old
for planting. In the first year after
planting, only one cane should be
allowed to grow. All others should be
rubbed off as soon as they appear. Train
up this cane to stake or trellis as far
as it will go. The next season it must
be cut back, but just how much will de-
pend upon its growth and the system of
training to be adopted. Very few vines,
however, are raised in city yards that
are ever trained. They are generally
terribly mutilated by ignorant day Ia
borers who go about the city seeking
such jobs, while protesting to be intelli-
gent gardeners. Success in raising
grapes In city or country depends more
upon proper pruning and training than
upon the soil, location, or variety.
Any of the following named varieties
will thrive in New York city or vicinity.
They are among the best of our free
growing, productive native vines:
Brighton and Jefferson are large red va
rieties- Moore's early and Concord and
black Prentiss are large yelloWish green,
usually called white grapes. Packing
ton is a very large light yellow grape,
snowy, but not equal to the Lady Wash
ington, the fruit of which is not quite as
large, but of pale pink color, very
sweet and delicious. Tue vines can be
ordered of any of our city seedsmen.-
N. Y Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27

The LOST VALIsE.-At 8 o'clock on a
recent evening Partisan policeman OBJ
served vnlise on the bench near the
starting point of a line of omnibuses,
and supposed that an intending passen-
ger had laid it down there for minute
Finding 1t there an hour later. he took
it to the police station. 1t contained
wearing apparel. notes for $1,000, a
purse full of gold and some very valuable
!ewelry. The extraordinary circumstance
IS that no one should have touched it
during so long time in so public place.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27

PENSIONERS. were 2,063, 800
different persons enlisted in the United
States army during the late war. OF
these 1919, los deserted, leaving 1864
2S5; died leaving no pensionable rela-
tives, 100000, leaving 1,644,2 S6. OF
these there are now drawing pensions
51O,938, leaving 1888 OF these
there died in the army 279,3 1916, leaving
853,972. OF these there have applied
for pensions 375, 199, leaving ATS, 773 to
to be provided for.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
THE STARTLING

Inflammation Discovered I'm Newspaper
Paragraph and How it Saved n Life.
No main which man has to endure equals that OF
gravel s'Iwould rather de-" exclaims the patient
..than have such attacks often" Gravel forms
in the system because Impurities of the blood and
prevails among all classes 1t caused the death Uf Ma
poleon Ill. Mr.. E. Dewitt Parsons, OF I'll plymouth
Ave Rochester NY, recently had remarkable e1pe-
ience with it. He is a welknit, fne-lookng, hearty
appearing gentleman One day he was prostrateo Win
main from the small of his back to the abdomen For
sore time previous his appetite had been hckle, MS
bowels Inactive and he had felt sore above his hips
After Welding water he had pain and gnawlng
sonsation For some time my disorder mystlned me-
he said ''but one day read of case very IKE my
o,vn in a paper. wrote the person whose name ap-
ared and he confirmed it fully From that little H.
cident discovered 1 had stone in the bladder anu
Gravel IN the kidneys. 1 greatly alarmed then,
hut the disease has its terrors to now, for am
e,Ilv recoyered-cured by DIR. DAVID kENNE-
DY,S FAVORITE REMEDY, tof Rondout,
N v which most cordially commend to all persons
erng from kidney disorders, pain in back, stone or
Gravel My wife also regards it as especially excellent
Cor women Under the effects of this medicine many
ases of stone and gravel have been perfectly cured
and the tendency to its reformation prevented DR.
Kennedy has performed surgical operations for
the removal of stone by the knife when size prevented
ramovaI through the natural channels, and he has
rever lost a case! and the is due to his using
FAyORITE REMEDY in the after treatment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
Chinese i'm New York.

There are in New York State 5000
Chinese. Most of them live in the city
and make cigars or do laundry work. Mott
street is their centre. 1t has bad repu-
tation, but the wealthiest Cinnamon live
there and the largest and best grocery
stores are in that street. Whenever a
Chinaman from out of town visits the
city he steers for Mott street, and spends
his money in the stores or among the
gambling bells and opium joints. There
are 500 Chinese in the city who attend
Sunday-schools regularly, and 100 are
church members in good standing. One
quarter of the Cinnamon smoke opium
and four-6fths of the remainder smoke
cigarettes or cigars.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27

Spring medicine is a necessity. Being mousse - s;r
.,rong the winter and breathing impurities in the AIR
of rooms bsated bv wood or COAL and contaminated oy
the gases they throw off, the vitality of the blood Is 30
reduced as to be unable to stand the debiLta',ns
influences of spring weather. hence the need OF rea
bic medicine like Hoods Sarsaparilla.
81 consider your sarsaparilla the best blood pun
fer in the market. triel dozen different artces
warranted to cleanse the blood, but never iouhu
anything that did good till commenced using
Hoods Sarsaparia. Nv. II. PEER, Rochester, N X
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27

A KNOWING HEN-At Bethany, Pa,
recently, Thos. Avery, while shoveling
snow out of his yard, discovered buried
in the snow a hen which had been
missed for ten days. She had packed
the snow down and made a room the
size of a bushel basket. Beyond the
loss of flesh incident to the long fast the
hen was unframed,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27
Spring Medicine c j. '.''::'.

spring. when the blood i sluss saob % as feeling
various disorders manifest of weakness want of
of general debility sense sometimes WEAKNESS
appetite isnsU This condition, enervatins ana en-
and ass IT, wholly by tans Hoods S'''N
rsY the great blood purifier -;,,,
pafln'' triad Hoods sarsaparllla, ana WIN
Last sprns It gave me, good appetite and seemeu
sopu GOOD me- over cheerfuiy recommend :, u.Ie
1;,S UL medicine. IF. M. HALE trm oil L. M" -'
r. lima Ohio.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-27

FROM The Scientific american we
learn that there are about seventeen
thousand dentists in the United States
who use ton of gold annually in filling
teeth. At this rate all the gold must
eventually find its way to the graveyard.
DR. FOOfe'S Health 1fO1lthLU