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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1884-11-18
CLEVER COLUMNS
Carefully Compiled and conven-
iently Converted Into Con-
troversial and Convi-
vial Comments.
Home Hints, Humerously and
Happily Heaped With Fa-
miliar Facts Forci-
bly, Fixed.
Montana Mention and Mormon
Menaces Methodically Mar
shalled and Marvellous
ly Modulated.
District Court.

After the clerk read the journal of
Saturdays proceedings, J. w. Sire
veil, esq, asked tie court TO instruct
the clerk that In taxing costs In civil
cases tried by u jury he should tax up
against the unsuccessful party only
the actual time the jury WAS occupied
in each case. and that II the jury were
engaged Ia one case only half day.
that only half days per diem should
he charged In the bill Of costs. The
court decided that there are no frac.
lions Of days in contemplation Of The
law ON that subject and declined to
make any such rule for the reason
that there was no law authorizing
him to thus divide up the day. Not
withstandiDg the decision of the
judge, Mr.. Strevell thought 1t all
wrong and that the county ought not
to be permitted to speculate on liti-
gants and jurymen to the detriment
Of bis profession In this way, hut
finally submitted to the superior judy
ment Of the court.
The case Of the Territory of Nom
tana v. A. ]. Williams was then
called. and the district attorney asked
that the jury be allowed to 60 out Of
doom aud inspect the brands on the
bull alleged tn have been stolen by
Williams. There being no law per-
hitting bull to be offered In evi-
dence In the manner proposed. his
honor refused 10 grant the extraordin.
AIRY request. As there was no further
testimony on either side the case was
then argued to the jury by the district
attorney for the territory and w.
Green, Esq. for the defendant. Al
the conclusion of the wind music by
the attorneys the court delivered a
very clear and comprehensive charge
to the jury as to the law governing
the case, after which at II o'clock, a.
M, the jury retired to their room in
charge of a bailiff.
On the two eases No. 594 aud sos on
the criminal calendar In which
JoshIah Nichols Is indicted jointly
with Mcmillan and others for con-
spiracy to defraud Custer county the
defendant Nichols asked leave tn
Withdraw his plea of not guilty aud
file n demurrer to the indictment, to
which the district attorney consented.
The Territory of Montana v. Robert
Tate, ct. al, endicted for horse steal.
ing being the next ease on the erin.
inal calendar was called fer trial.
While the jurymen were taking
their places In the jury box the cour,
announced that he sustained the de
murrer 10 the answer In the case o
George Wilde V. J. w. johnson a,
sheriff Of Custer county and CAV,
leave to the defendant to file a new
answer.
The balance Of the forenoon wa,
taken up In empannelling "A jury II
the criminal case on trial.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1884-11-18

Sleeper's auction sale will le one VI
the rarest chances ever known 10 ~
what you want for next to nothing.
Everything put W. viii be soId hr
whatever II will bring.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1884-11-18

There Is = b,g rush ~ ssslW - &
the Art Gallery. r1,-f
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
Want to Tax the Dogs.

There was an amusing scene at the
State House, in Boston, recently. Sew
eral members OF the, Legislature have
stirred up the Commonwealth by pro.
posing to make it impossible for any ex-
cept the wealthiest class to own dogs.
The Governor in his message called at
tention to the subject and referred to the
decline of the sheep industry in that
State. A public hearing was given in
the matter at the State House.
Julius A. Palmer spoke vehemently in
favor of the protection of human life
against attacks by dogs, and instanced
in danger by these animals while in the
ordinary conduct of business. He said
that there was no animal so dangerous as
a dog, a statement which was met with
laughter by the audience. The laughter
was renewed when he added that, in the
belief that any man might keep dam
gerous animal if he chose, he had kept a
pet snake, but had kept it under proper
safeguards. Vigorous protests were
raised by number of gentlemen against
the proposed legislation. Everybody
got excited and all tried to talk together
and while the excitement was at its
height woman who had been an atten
tive listener, suddenly sprang up with a
two-pound canine pet in her arms, and
rushing up to the head of the room.
thrust the dog in the face of the COM
mittee and exclaimed, ''Do you think my
dog would kill sheep?"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
What a Country Editor Has to Do.

The New York Graphic gives to its
readers some samples of rural journalism
by making quotations of the ordinary
events of everyday life from our local
summary, and remarks: "All this is very
funny, as read in other localities, but it
is precisely the kind of record, as the
shrewd editor of the AdUerti8er well
knows, that the home readers of weekly
newspapers want" That is just it. The
country editor lives nearer to his readers
than the city editor does. The country
editor knows by sight and by name
goodly proportion of his subscribers, and
to large extent he is familiar with their
family history. He personally congratu-
lates them upon the birth of a child and
sympathizes with them when death takes
a loved one from the family circle. He
attends the funerals, the weddings, the
anniversaries and all other sorts of
gatherings. He joins their societies, re-
ligious and otherwise, acts as president
or secretary or as private member, dis
cusses questions with them, writes es-
says and delivers speeches. He is
trustee of all sorts of local enterprises
and tries to make himself generally
"useful as we'll as ornamental" CAN
this is very funny" too, no doubt, to our
friends of the Graphic, but it is custom
in the country. -DanSUiLLe AdUertiSer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21

f1ectlng the front end, caused it to turn
with a suddenness that threw four of the
occupants far out to the opposite side of
the road. Like flash of lightning the
| sled bounded across the sidewalk, and
struck the drug store with such force
that 1t cleayed its way through like an
AK through a muslin sheet. There was
a sudden crash, loud cry, a fall, and
the next instant all was quiet, save the
groans of the injured ones. The people
who had been standing on the street at
this point to witness the flashing by of
the party hurried over. The pung had
passed through the store, demolishing
its contents, and had fallen upon the
rocks and snow where it lay wrecked.
Here and there, far and wide, were the
pleasure party who had made the fearful,
plunge. Six of them-two ladies-were
found dead, their skulls smashed and
their bodies crushed almost out of hu-
man shape. The living were terribly
MANNED, and such as were sensible cried
piteously for aid. They were cared for |
tenderly, but before daybreak four more
had paid the penalty for their rashness
in death. Those who witnessed the
flight of that sleigh through the store,
like an arrow through an apple, declare
that it was the most awful sight they
ever beheld. Such was the outcome of
this great coasting excursion up among
the Colorado mountains away back in
the early days of that country's settle
ment. 1t served as a permanent cure
tor such foolhardy enterprises.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
Floating Villages.
LITTLE COMMUNITIES THAT LIVE ON THE
CLUSTERED CANAL BOATS.

People who visit the neighborhood of
the Atlantic or Erie Basins will notice
the smoke curling from the little stunted
stovepipes projecting above the neat
white cabins of the scores of canal boats
that remain there the winter through.
About the decks, when the snow is on,
will be seen the tracks left by the shoes
of little ones, the French-heeled shoes
of maidens and the broad soles of the
men. There are other easily-found
signs which show that in every boat
family is living, and that, in fact, these
collections of boats are communities,
separate and distinct like villages in the
country. These families are bound to
gether by social ties and by similar bus
mess interests. The boats furnish them
their means of livelihood, and are their
homes the year round. They inter-
marry, and many man among them
was born on a boat of parents who were
on the canal about all their lives before
him. More quiet, peaceable, industri-
GUS communities cannot be found than
the villages floating in these basins.
The community of interests among
them is so strong that society was
formed some years ago for the advance
ment of their pecunlary and other in
terests. By its efforts the agitation was
started which first took the toll from the
unloaded boat and at last gave New
York State its free canal. The society
is now called the Canal Boat Owners
and Commercial Association. 1t num-
bers over 200 members.-N. Y. Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
Making Use of a Burglar.

Inspector Thorne related at the New
York police headquarters the following
story: A lady living in q large brown
stone house just off Fifth avenue, was
in her home one night last week with an
invalid mother in her charge and no.
body but a woman servant to assist her.
All the men had gone off to ball. just
before II o'clock the sick woman be-
came worse. The daughter was alarmed
and went to ring the bell intending to
send the servant for particular kind of
medicine. The girl appeared just at
this moment, and in terrified voice, in
formed the mistress that there was a
burglar in the basement.
''It is just what [ want" said the
mistress, "a man to send for medicine.
She went down to the basement and
encountered burly negro in a room in
the basement.
"Come out y she said, in an impera-
tive tone.
The negro, who had been a slave, in.
stinctively listened to the tone of au-
thority and obeyed. He took the order
for the prescription, had it filled, and
returned with the medicine and change.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
An Experiment.

An experimental work has been going
on for short time along the Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railroad branch and the
Brandon branch, about thirty miles in
length, the object being to determine
whether or not the barbed wire of the
fence on either side of the road can be
utilized for telegraphic purposes. The
fence wire was placed in proper condi-
ton for q sufficient distance to make a
satisfactory test, the wire being run
under the surface ut road crossings.
Superintendent of Telegraph Simpson
decides that the plan is not practicable.
Telegraph work can be done over the
fence wire in summer, he says, but dur
ing the winter months, when huge snow
banks completely cover the fence, the
line would be made useless. There are
thousands of miles of wire fence along
tie Western lines, and it has been con-
tended that they should be utilized fol
this purpose.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
GONG Through.

An ex-conductor tells a Leadville
Chronicle reporter how some porters in
the sleeping cars accumulate wealth:
ga Pullman passenger jumps aboard
late at some intermediate station. He
is tired and sleepy. He wants to go to
bed at once. Usually fhe berths are
made up. Why, certainly, the porter
says tumble right in. Just give me
your fare, and when the conductor
comes along I will turn it oyer to him.
The passenger is delighted with the
courtesy. He pays his Pullman and
car fare, $40 or 800, as it may be, and
retires for the night. Meanwhile the
conductor has got number of trip checks,
most likely from some fellows who are
doing away in the smoker, and,
presently returning, he inserts one
under the hat rim of the belated travel
er. The train conductor comes around
in the morning, takes up his checks and
everybody is happy"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
Making Ice Cream With Snow.

At Miss Parloa's school for cooking il
New York, the articles cooked and
served before the class were ice cream,
ounce iced pudding, jellies in baskets
and other ways, and Swiss pudding with
creamy sauce. Miss Parloa opened the
lesson with orange jelly. While the
jelly was cooking the lecturer prepared
Swiss pudding, which she stated was a
most delicate kind of batter pudding
The preparation of gallon of excel
| lent ice cream in half an hours time was
a noteworthy feature of the lesson. Miss
Parloa took three pints of cream and a
cup and half of sugar, which she beat
to a cream with a churn, adding for
favoring a tablespoonful of vanilla.
When the whole was stiff the cream was
put in the can of the freezer. Miss
Parloa here explained that cream may
be for rich as well as too poor to beat
well. Fine Alderney cream must be
diluted one half with water and strained
through a fine wire sieve to remove
heavy clots before it is used. Large
pans of snow were now brought in to
freeze the cream. If the snow was dry
small portion of water must be added
to it. Three pints of coarse salt were
used in freezing the gallon of cream
made. Five inches of snow was first put
in the tub around the tin can of cream,
then a layer of salt was sprinkled over
it, and the whole was packed down
firmly with a small wooden spade. Snow
and salt were then added alternately and
packed down until the snow reached the |
edge of the tub. The crank of the
freezer was then turned steadily for
twenty minutes, when the ice cream was
declared ready and was turned out and |
served.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
TERMS $3.50.
A MYSTERY SOLVED,

Blifkins-"Well, I don't know abou
his honesty. He seems to save up none,
surprisingly fast"
Bliffers-''You don't suppose he use
the public funds, do you?"
Blifkins-"Well, I have nothing t.
say about that; I only say that eve
since he has been member of the Ga.
Trust he has lived like lord"
Bliffers-"Yes, I know that; but al
the same time I am sure that he is a
man who would rather starve than touch
a cent belonging to any one else."
Blifkins-'"Then how in the world do
you account for the astonishing fact that
he is getting rich so fast?"
"Blffers-"Oh, that is simple enough
He probably gets his gas free.'
wao THEY WE'RE.
First Actress "Ah ha So it was
not the Duke of Portland who wanted to
marry Mary Anderson.
Second Actress-''You don't say SO.
Why, what duke was it %
First Actress-s'No duke at all. The
paper says it turns out that the man is
a Mr.. Dukes, of Portland, Oregon"
Second Actress Shouldn't wonder
a bit; and I really and truly believe it
was not the Prince of Wales that she
snubbed either. As like as not it was
a Mr.. Prince from Oshkosh or Kalama-
ZOO"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
A Senator's Little Rom ance.


The election of Judge Wilson as Sen
ator of Maryland is wellregarded in Wash.
ington. He has had his romance, says
letter from the capital. He was an in
veterate snuff taker many years after
the practice had been tabooed in good
society, but finally compromised by CIV
ing up his snuff box and making an ar
rangement with deserving woman who
kept a shop in Snow Hill, to get pinch
whenever he called at the shop for it.
Mrs. Knox, who had been in better cir
cumstances before she kept the shop,
had pretty and refined daughter, who
had been educated and was a lady in
manners and department. The mother
died. Thinking Judge Wilson staii
old widower, and adapted to looking
after a pretty and friendless girl, she
had left her property in the Judges
hands, asking him to look after it, and
to be mindful of her daughter, left an
orphan.
The Judge settled mp the estate, Sc
cured her little patrimony to her daugh-
ter, and tinally Y succumbed to her beauty
and merit and married her. The match
turned out most happily.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
FRED DOUGLASS'S MARRIAGE.
The Colored People of Washington Sorry
he Married IL White Woman.

A Washington letter says: Fred
Douglasss marriage was a surprise even
to his own family. In the morning he
went into the Registers office, and, after
few moments whispered conversation,
the Register took down his big book
and filed out blank. Mr.. Douglass
paid his fee and went away, after urging
the register to make no announcement
of what had transpired. The news did
not keep, however, and in a short time
it. became known about the City Hall
that marriage license had been issued
for Frederick Douglass, aged 65, to wed
Miss P. Hill, aged 80. Mr.. Douglass's
age is mere guesswork. He does not
know whether he is 60 or 70 years old,
but surmises that he is about 65. His
hair, which is abundant, is gray, and
his beard is white. Miss Hill, who is
from Avon, n. Y, is q very pretty
brunette, white woman, who has been
employed in Mr.. Douglass's Office for
year or more as a copyist. Mr.. Douglass
is the Register of Columbia. While
those in his employ have been aware
that he was very kind to this woman,
nobody dreamed that he had any idea of
marrying her. When the news was
taken to his daughter she was overcome.
About o'clock in the evening Mr..
Douglass. with the bride and friend,
drove to the residence of a Methodist
clergyman, and We're married. Then
Mr.. Douglass took his bride to his home,
which is q fine house situated on the
eastern branch of the Potomac, just
opposite the navy yard. There was a
wedding supper, and the bride and
groom left for wedding tour.
The colored people of the District ex-
press great regret that Mr.. Douglass has
Seen iii 10 Jaho wAAAVN oAAsssA-
wife. Mr.. Douglass associates more
with the white than with the colored
population.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
SAVING MONEY.

Mrs. B.-"You remember, dear, that
you said last week I better attend Cash
& Co. S annual remnant sale as I might
pick up a few little bargains and save
something"
Mr.. B.-"Yes, and I hope you went,
for my business is not prospering and we
must save where we can
Mrs. B.-"Yes, went, and you can t
guess how much saved"
Mr.. B.-"How much? A dollar?"
Mrs. B.-"A dollar I saved ten
dollars p
Mr.. B.-"Bless my stars. What have
you been doing?"
Mrs. B.-"Saving money just as you
said. found fifty dollar remnant of
silk just large enough for two dresses
and by taking it all [ saved ten dollars.
The bill will be sent to you tomorrow.
Shall [ go again and save"
But Mr.. B. had tainted.
A CLOSE DEFINITION.
Little Nell" Mamma says cn1ldfen
must not be selfish. Do you know
what Selfish means ?''
Little Jack-"Of course do. I goes
to Sunday school,"
Little Nell-''Well, what is it ?"
Little Jack-''It is gettin' mad and
complainin' to mamma when I don't
give you any Of my cake"
DISAPPOINTED PATIENT.
He had sworn eff drinking the first of
the year, and not feeling very we'll ap-
piled to physician for advice.
"Your SYSTEM" said the doctor,
''needs quinine. would advise you to
take say two ounces about four times a
day."
"The very thing, I do believe p ex-
claimed the patient. ST wonder quinine
did not occur to me. And how much
whisky did you say should take with
each dose ?"
81 didn't say you should take any
whisky with each dose. Take the qui-
nine in the form of pills."
LITTLE INTERVIEW.
Reporter-"Are not prima donnas, as
a rule, ladies of good education outside
of music and the languages ?"
Opera Manager Many of them are
generally speaking; but all are very
weak in one branch"
Reporter-"What branch is that ?"
Opera Manage Mathematics. -"
Reporter-"Indeed %
Opera Manager-tYes, none of them
can be made to understand that there is
no such thing as $50 per cent. of the re.
! ceipts."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21

"STAY EAST, YoUNG MAN. "A Bangor
correspondent says: ga former Bangor
young man, now farming in Central
Minnesota, writes to his cousin here in
Bangor to stay at home and be content
with Maine. He says that he has, after
a hard years work, but two-thirds of a
crop of wheat and less than half crop
of corn, the grain having been injured
to that extent by frost, weevils, ETC.
There is very little numbering going on
this winter, and many men are idle. The
inducements to immigrants, it will be
inferred, are not very great. This state
of affairs prevails over large area of
Minnesota. But it is not so in Maine ;
people are making living here, at
east "
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21

THE Eastern railroad having invented
an arrangement for keeping cars warm
so that potatoes may be carried in the
winter without freezing, a suffering
traveller wants to know if passengers
cannot be put on par with potatoes and
be kept from freezing while in transit.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
MOTHER LOVE.

No love like the love of mother
When trials are gathering fast
Though fond is the care of a brother.
Sometimes it will fail at the last.
Should you turn from the pathway of duty
A sisters affection may fade:
But mether-love shows its best beautv
When her child TO sin is betrayed.
A father may speak stern and coldIy
Ii his son has wandered astray.
But mother viii stand forward boldly
And help him regain the lost wav
And speak to him kindly. in warning.
With just as tender tone
As she did in childhood's pure norniro
Ere sorrow and crime he had known.
All, no there's no love like a mothers.
So noble, forgiving and true:
We may trust to many another's
And value it, that it is new.
To find, when Efe's sun is sbroudad
And our pathway enters the gloom.
Their love for US, too, viii be clouded.
While hers follows US to the tomb.