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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-24

THE whisky men are ready to help Mr.
r lndull defeat the tariff bill If Mr.. Randall
will let up on tho whisky bonded extension
bill. Mr.. Randall won't trade and proposes
to defeat both measures.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-24
A Good Administration.

Tho Iowa delegation should canvass Mr., Arthurs
chances and prospects with as much kindlness
and friendliness as any other man named Take
him If he Is the man who can win; do not take
him II he is not, Arthur by his good adminstra-
ton has won the right TO be so treated by the re.
publi0sps Of this and every state,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-24

BECAUSE senator wanted ono communica-
tion kept from the press until acted upon the
minute book Of the proceedings of the dis
trict commissioners has been closed to ro-
porters all winter.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-24
MONDAY, MARCH "a, 1884.

The commissioners will no longer be able
to shield themselves behind Senator ingalls,,
He says he has nothing whatever to conceal
and no authority over the commissioners.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-24

WHAT q pity it is that Mr.. springer's little
side show has to encounter so much opposi-
ton In business. With Dir. Morrison's show
and Henry Watterson bugle blowing to divide
the attention of the audience Springer has
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-24

COMMISSIONER EDMoNDs might find that
perfect repose he SO ardently desires by
turning his Office over to somebody who
would not be annoyed by tho opportunities
of people who imagine they have business at
the district building
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-24

NATloSAE.-Mr J, X. Emmett.
FuRD's-" Confusion"
CoMQuE-Nariety.
DIME Observation-Disclosures and evening performance.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-24
ADJUSTMENTS.


THE NATIoNAL-"THE LIGHTS o. LONDON"
At the National tonight the great sensa-
tionsl drama, 'The Lights O. London" will
DO presented with elegant scenery and a
strong cast. There are six acts each Of which
ishighly sensational and advances artistically
to the climax. In tho cast are Messrs. George
Mordaunt, j. l.. Burleigh, Horace Vinton,
Miss Genevieve stebbins MAY RfS bS4 Nay
actors. The play runs every evening, with
Wednesday and Saturday mstinees.
FoRD's-"THE DEUCE or HEARTS"
The deuce of Hearts," new and
sparkling comedy, will be presented tonight
at Ford's. which is spoken of very highly by
the New York and Brooklyn critics. 1t is
full of comic situations. Mr.. George r.
Edeson as Bubble and Miss Louise Bale as
Nancy take the leading characters which, in
the hands of such popular artists, will be
most entertainingly presented. Every even
ing during the week, with Wednesday and
Saturday matinees
THE THATcHER-PRIMR osE MINsTRELs.
Thatcher, Primrose and Vests CONSOLE
dated minstrels will give three performances
at Lincoln hall, commencing Monday, March
81. They will present the same programme
that has created so much praise for them in
Now York and Boston. 1t includes the great
hit in minstrelsy. "Qur Base Ball Contest"
and the laughable burlesque, "Lsngtree's
Peril at Garden Party"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-03-24
CURRENT GOSSIP.
TIE PERIODICALS.

THE PRODIGALS,
When the roses Of summer were budding and
blooming
Aud the yellow wheat beat meath its burden Of
gold,
The prodigal son came, world.weary and tattered,
10 the home where his footsteps had echoed Of
old.
And they chung to his garments with tears and
oaresses,
Till the cup of his welcome ran over with ioy,
Aud the flowers Of love and forgiveness were
woven
In blossoming crown for the prodigal boy.
When the icicles hung from the caves aud tho
branches
And the winter winds moaned round the dwell.
ings of men,
Forsaken and homeless, the prodigal daughter
Crept back TO the homo of her girlhood again,
But they turned her away in the storm and the
darkness
To the icy.cod winds with their chill, piercing
breath,
And the tless curses that followed her footsteps
We're fierce as the tempest and cruel as death.
-Ernea McGo6fy IN The C,trrenL
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
A Stringent Bill.

Mr.. Budd, of California, has intro
dtfeed- -bi4l-befere- the-United States
House of Representatives to prohibit
and punish the importation into this
country of ''opium prepared for smoking,
and all opium except aqueous extracts
thereof for medicinal uses" The importa-
ton, sale or offer for sale of any opium
thus forbidden to be imported is declared
to be misdemeanor punishable by fine
not exceeding $4,000, or imprisonment
not exceeding five years, or both. The
proposed act furthermore provides that
the possession of opium, the importation
of which is thereby prohibited, shall be
prima facie evidence of guilt.
In a preamble to the bill, Mr.. Budd
states four reasons why it should be en-
acted.
The first is that ''the habit and curse
of opium smoking has been introduced
among the people of the United States,
and is spreading with frightful rapidity
under the fostering care of the Chinese. u
The second is that the importation Of
opium has increased from IS, 075 pounds
in 1881 to 29S, 152 pounds in 1883. The
third is that ''the habit of opium smok
ing once acquired cannot be overcome
and its victims will not live in any place
where the drug cannot by procured;
and final and conclusive argument il
found by Mr.. Budd in the averment that
nearly fifty per cent. of our Chinese
population are slaves of the opium pipe
and would be driven out of the country
if the drug was no longer imported.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
Buried Under the Snow.

The early winter was so pleasant in
Colorado that hundreds of men, disre-
garding the advice of old settlers, re-
manned in the mountains. The fate of
some of these is already known. As to
others there is great and increasing
anxiety. The men who have been scour-
ing the country on snow shoes, riding
on avalanches, and sliding down glisten-
ing mountains of ice have some strange
stories to tell of their experiences. At
Crested Butte, Irwin, and all surround
ing places the snow lies ten to sixteen
feet deep on level by actual measure
ment. Two-story dwellings are buried
to the roofs, and in numerous instances
it has been found necessary to piece out
chlmneys with sections of stove-pipe.
The people have tunneled out as best
they could, and cut air holes through the
solid masses which surround their
habitations. A man living in a one
story cabin delves out to the surface with
shovel in hand, and after clearing a
hole for his smokestack and opening up
holes for the windows, sets about CON
structing snow stairway leading down
to his door. The snow is packed so
hard that this becomes comparatively
easy. Getting the pitch of his steps to
suit him, he has but to lift the chunks
out as they are cut with the shovel, and,
with the aid of small pieces of wood,
which serve to protect each step, the
passageway remains firm, growing hard
er with use. Coming out of his house
a man has but to climb to the surface OF
the snow, don his snow shoes, and sail
away over the tops of houses and stores
at will. Many "city'' which cuts as
| big q figure on the map as Denxer does
| consists at this moment OF twenty OIL
thirty stovepipes stuck in the snow
That is the way it looks to a newcomer
at any rate.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
Women at Sea,

The life which women lead on board
ship, says the aquatic Monthly, is
usually monotonous one. Their quar-
tiers are close and their social opportuni-
ties are quite limited. The captains wife
may tire of the society of her husband
or of the constant care of her children.
If she wishes to go out to walk, she is
confined to the quarterback. A fiirta-
ton during her airing with one of the
mates or carpenter would be beneath her.
If she happens to be good looking, the
vessel will constantly swing a few points
out of its course, for the man at the
wheel will keep his eye on her as long
as she continues her promenade. She
may make an occasional excursion to the
forward part of the ship, but even in
that novelty she finds little to attract
her. A passing vessel arouses her inter-
est, and hurricane relieves, to a certain
extent, the monotony of her existence;
but these blessings do not come along
every day. She has no one to gossip
with but the stewardess, and they find
few matters of recent date which are
worth discussing at any great length.
The captains wife may be as gay as she
chooses without causing any scandal,
but, unfortunately, she has very little to
stimulate whatever desire for gayety she
may possess. She has some advantages,
however, for she is able to keep an eye
on her husband. How or where he spends
his evenings is no mystery to her.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
Holding a Farm $50 Years.

The Philadelphia Record says: "The
fine 160-acre farm belonging to the estate
of the late jeremiah Van Reed, in Amity
Township, Berks county, Penn, has
been willed to James Warren Van Reed,
now five years old, thus descending in
uninterrupted succession in the Van
Reed family for over one hundred and
fifty years. All the deeds and papers of
the old homestead are in the hands of
the Executors, and run back to the pro-
prietorship of William Penn. Jacob
Van Reed, the first of the family in
America, came over from Holland cen
fury and half ago, settled in Amity
Township, purchased the farm, and the
place descended to his sons and grand
sons. The fourth owner, jeremiah Van
Reed, was the great grandson of the first
owner, he lived longer than any of his
sons, and the old homestead now goes
in regular succession to his grandson,
James w. Van Reed. At the sale of the
personal effects of the old gentleman a
mahogany chair one hundred and twenty
five years old was purchased by relic
hunters. The family Bible, which goes
to the young heir, is more than three
hundred years old, and was brought
over from Holland
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
A Strange InfatuatiOn.

Coup, the circus man, tells this story:
''Years ago a well-known circus man
was in the high-tide of prosperity,
among the attractions in the retinue of
side-shows following his tent there was
freak known as Walter Stewart. This
human monstrosity was without legs or
hands, but he had short, stubbv arms,
and it was considered an interesting
sight to see him shave himself by the
use of these half-formed limbs. Although
repulsive in other respects, it is said
that Stewart possessed average intelli-
gence. One season the manager was
accompanied on his tour by charming
and beautiful young daughter. Kitty
was her name, and she was the idol of
her. amusement-loving parent, He was
worth at least $3.50, 900 at that time, and
he lavished every attention upon his be-
loved child. Kitty had her own will in
almost everything. She got acquainted
with the side-show monstrosity, Walter
Stewart, and day after day went surrep-
titiously to converse with him. AT
length, before the father had the slight
est inkling of the course affairs had
taken, his daughter had become strange
ly infatuated with and secretly married
the deformed creature. The father, in
his anger, cast her completely off, and
never spoke to either of the two after
ward. But Kitty chung stoutly to. her
choice, ministering to his wants, accom-
panying him in shows and museums,
and to all appearances loving him.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
A Strange Story.

Mr.. Edmund e., Yates, the editor OF
the London World, and the well known
novelist, has been condemned to four
months in prison for libelling the Earl of
Lonsdale. The Judgment has been
respited pending an appeal upon point
of law.
The following is the paragraph which
set all London talking and formed the
basis of the libel suit:-'A strange story
is in circulation in certain sporting cir
cles concerning the elopement of young
lady of very high rank and noble birth
with a young peer, whose marriage was
one of affection, but whose wife. has,
unfortunately, fallen into bad state OF
health. The elopement is said to have
taken place from the hunting field. The
young lady, who is only one or two and
twenty, is a very fair rider, and the gen
tleman master of hounds" Persons
in society at once 'placed" the young
peer. whose wife was an invalid, and
who himself was a.master of foxhounds,
as Lord Lonsdale, and by kind OF ex-
haustive process the conclusion was
arrived at that the lady said to have
eloped from the hunting field was Lady
Grace Fame, daughter of Lord West
Y1orplaOd
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
Making Their Own Butter.

500 milkmen ever sell butter ?" was
asked of a New York city milkman re-
turning from his route early one morn
ing.
"Well-no-that is, not often. OF
course if it was ordered they would pro-
vide it from somewhere-probably buy
it from the nearest grocery and charge
an advance in price. You see our bust
ness is to sell milk and cream, and not
butter. The milk and cream comes from
the country in cans, and we have no
facilities for making butter"
SIS cream much in demand?"
eyes. Much more of it is used re-
Gently, since the trouble began about
oleomargarine."
"Why should that increase the sale of
cream p"
"For this reason: Many persons
stopped eating butter rather than eat
grease. Then some of them began to
make their own butter. They take three
or four quarts of fresh sweet cream every
day and they work it up into the finest
butter. They are sure of what butter
they get. I have many regular Gus
toners of that kind"
''Who does the churning? ?"
Generally the servants, but fire.
quently some of the young ladies of the
house lend a hand-would-b dairy
maids as you see them ON the stage. .
~ Y, San.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
Behind the Door.

The following touching incident is re-
lated by a correspondent as having oc-
Cured in a suburban train on the New
York and New England Railroad the
other day: A tall, eldery and we'll
known gentleman, whose temperance
principles no one has suspected as other
wise than of the soundest, slowly rises
from his seat in the smoking car and
walks sedately into the baggage apart
ment of the car, which is separated from
the main portion by door, the upper
half of which is ground glass. When he
gets in he closes the door, and then is
seen (by his shadow, which is sharply
outlined against the glass;, slowly to raise
his hand to his mouth and indulge in a
good, long drink from bottle which
doubtless contained cough mixture, after
which, replacing tine flask in his pocket,
he sauntered back, all the while wonder
ing what the rest of the passengers were
laughing at He asked young man
the cause, and was quickly informed,
then-tableau and hasty retreat to the
rear of the train.-BOstO71 Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
Osman's Early Life.

With reference to the early life of Os
man Digma, the Suakim correspondent
of the London Times writes that he was
originally broker and trader, and prin-
cipally slave trader, in Suakim and
Jeddah, where he received a severe fl
nancial blow when, some six years ago,
British cruiser captured two slave
dhows full of victims, on their way to
Jeddah. Osman Digma's trade, then
fell from bad to worse, his house prop
erty in Suakim was all mortgaged, and
he became hopelessly involved. Being of
no great distinction by birth, his selec-
ton by the Mahdi to lead religious
rebellion is attributed to the accident
that Osman Digma, in one of his excur-
sions far south for slaves, met the
Mahdi, who formed high estimate of
his ability and of his influence, acquired
through successful trading. If this
history be trustworthy, passions fol-
other objects than holiness are the key
note of Osman Digma's character and
motives, and it is against all probability
that he will cast his goods and his posi-
ton into the broken balance of battle
He is no ignorant fanatic, and he can
not himself believe the myths which he
multiplies in order to control his follow
| erS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
Nuns in New Jersey.

"Would you believe" writes the New
York correspondent of the Boston Ira0-
eler, "that within an hours ride OF New
York fifty women have taken an eternal
vow of silence and of perpetual seclu-
sion? Never again (since recently will
an outsider be permitted to enter the
clustered monastery at Newark, n. j.
The contemplative Nuns of the Order OF
st. Dominic were instituted at Prouville,
in France, about the year 1906. They
have ever kept up their organization,
supporting themselves by their needle
lace and Illuminating work, for which
they are justly celebrated. They make
ecclesiastical vestments and altar cloth:
only, now, and no money is solicited
from the outer world. The perpetual
alteration of our Lord in the blessed
sacrament goes on day and night, tw'
nuns being always found kneeling befor
the sacred niche"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
MARKET NOTES.

NEW IO1th NuAIehLIs
The Wholesale New York market quotations
BEANs-Prime, 81 2O@s4. 35; fair to. good
81. 550$2 60 per busheL
BUTTER - New York sold at 34936c. for
choice in pals, and 25@2Sc common to good.
Western Creamery sold at 33@34c., and the
common Western at 23(025c.
cHEEsE-Factory fancy, 14@1414c; do. fair
to good, 12013c.
EGGs-Quotations ranged from 27c. for Or
binary, to 2Sc. for New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
$3650$6.0O; extra New York. S3.50d0$6.0O.
HAY Shipping, 45@50c.; clover, 40@50c.,
salt Coo; straw, $4,000.
Hops-New York, 26@27c.; Eastern, 20@25c;
yearlings, 1S@25c; Odds, = O..
PETROLEUM. Refined, 7ssc; crude 6T@73Sc
in bulk; in barrels S58c; naphtha CSC. in
shipping order. and II 9@12c. in cases.
PoRK-Clear back. $19.0O@$19.75i dressed
WI Wheat rAaS$ Spring No. 8, s1.O2@$1O6i Mil
"t ConIN|T1ngraded Western Mixed. 52@59c;
Steamer Mixed, 5414 @54$4c. in elevator. 6Oj4 G.
delivered; No. 2, -05515c. in elevator, @
5656c., delivered White Southern. 571sc. de-
livered.
RYE~state, 74@7415c.
WooI-Ohio. Pennsylvania and Virginia,
XXX 45(046c.; Xxx, 42944c.; X, 42945c.i NO.
/, 45047c.; No 2, 386D40c.; common, 33Ca)35e !
New York and Western Xxx and X, 39@4573c.i
No. /, 446145c.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
FLoUR-State family. $450@$L75; rye flour,
SO. 5OOS3. 50; wheat, State, $-.-@SLl 613
amber, $1.43; corn, yellow, 54c.; mixed states
sac. ~
PETROLEUM Refined, 73Sc.; crude, 64c.
WooL-State and Western Xxx, 46g5Oci X
47@4Sc. medium. 50@51c.; coarse, 45c
POSITION MARKET
FLOUR - From $2.75@S3 20 for low ana
medium. to Sd 25(D5.75 for choice Minnesota
Corn. 65dD7Oc for mixed and yellow
BUTTER Common, 1Sc. (G)2Oc. yerlon'
dairy, 25O3Oc; choice creamery, 33(g5oc'
CHEEsE-13@1513c.
BEANs-$3. 250o$3.3O.
HAY-Choice, $150$l6.
CATTLE MARKETS.
BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality. $5,5Od
$685.; hogs, fair to good, $5.59g96lo; DeS"
Sc. 20 IN &C os6
EAST LIBERTY PENN.-Best cattle, S6.ZoG
s6. TX. medium to good, $5.25@$6.OO; common
to fair, $5.O00$6.00: Hogs, Workers. S2.IoG
5000 Philadelphias, $G.4O@$6.5O. Sheep
$5.25Ca45.50. ~
25; extra, $S.00@$9.O0; tirst qtlaliltSy'
$7OOm87.5O; second quality, S5.OOq$O.oo
third quality, $4.02@$i.5O. Sheep and lambs lambs
wool sheep, $25O@$450 extra, $5;0Ofa
5000; spring lambs, 5000; Veal cal we
3l5CGD7l3c ~
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
- -m APPROXIMATIONS IN KEUAfkU TO
Fn CHEAP LAND
fkEE Excursion

Rates to Texas, Arkansas and California.
Pamphlets ETC. describing lands for sale can De 9 nag
va1dressins J. j FOWLER, East Pass; Ag Y oS aa.
NJ VI ID. McBEATH, n. E. Pass AZ :, po' Ma
n w I ANOWlTX. s. h. Pass. Ag,t Baltluiofe' i
- IN, IL. MCCLELLAN. v
Gan East Pass Att Mo. Pac. r. 243 u dWAy AZ. :.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
A Wild Boy.

The Panama Star and Hera la pub
fishes the following, from a Mexican
paper:
ga wild boy was recently caught in
the Santa Rosa mountains in the vicinity
of Tancanhuitz. He was carried to that
town and put in well-fenced garden,
where he greedily consumed fruit, let
tuce, roses, and the roots of several
plants. He never spoke nor appeared
to notice those who went to see him.
He seemed perfectly harmless, but one
day he seized little child three years OF
age and began to eat it. The child's
cries attracted attention, but before as
sistance reached the spot the young
savage had devoured the flesh of the
right arm and part of the face. On
seeing the child was about to be taken
away he squeezed it to death IN his arms.
This wild youth is now chained up, but
his captorS are at loss what to do with
him."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-01
A GIRLS ROMANTIC STORY.
HOW a waitress In n Summer Hotel Be-
came the Wife of Millionaire

Roth the Packer boys, Robert and
Harry. were treated like equals by their
father and mother. In the little village
where this good old man lived there was
a summer hotel, which was patronlzed
considerably during the season, young
Harry Packer often taking his meals
there. A young girl named Lockwood,
the daughter of respectable citizen
living near the village, came in to assist
waiting on the table. The frequency of
Harry Packers meals at the hotel at
tracted some attention, and his brother
Robert. or "Bob," as he was familiarly
and affectionately called By almost all
who ever knew him, said one day before
the father and Harry at the breakfast
table. that Harry was sweet on a little
girl down at the hotel and that was the
reason he did not come to his meals
regularly. Harry colored up a little and
after they had finished their breakfast
the old Judge seated himself on the
front porch, which overlooks Mauch
Chunk and gives such a magnificent
view of the Lehigh Valley, the moving
boats and trains, which his own industry
had created and brought together. The
old gentleman said: "Harry, who is
this girl Robert refers top
"Miss Lockwood, father, the daugh-
ter of man you know very well.
care YOU going to marry her, Harry ?"
said the Judge.
81 have some notion of it, father"
said Harry
"Well. wait until I go down and see
her." said the Judge. and picking up his
old white hat and cane the Judge quiet
ly ambled down to the hotel and asked
for Miss Lockwood. She innocently
came into the Office of the hotel with
her dining room apron on, and seated
herself beside the Judge. just what he
said to her, or she to him, will never be
exactly known unless she tells it, but
when the Judge came out he was smiling
and appeared mighty well pleased. He
went home and found Harry still sitting
on the porch where he had left him. By
this time the Judges face had resumed
its usual grave but kind expression
"Well, Harry" he said, "that is very
nice girl down there, but she has nc
money. We must raise her some.
The old Judge put down his memo
randa for $50, 900, the mother and the
others for $25, 900 each, and this $3.50,
900 was placed in the bank to the exclu
sive and immediate credit of Miss Lock
wood; the engagement was announced
the wedding day fixed. the marriag
took place and Harry Packer got tn
| girl he liked. -Pittsburg Post.