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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
SUNK IN BOSTON HARBOR.
The Rose Standish Sunk by n Collision
Her Passengers are Saved.

The steamer Rose Standish, of the
Boston and bingham Company, plying
between Boston, Downer Landing, and
bingham. was sunk in the harbor with
in sight of the wharf from which she
had sailed at 5:15 p. m. on Thursday.
The harbor was full of sailing craft, and
Capt. Ingraham says he was feeling his
way among the boats to get into clear
water, and was just rounding the stern
of a large schooner when he descrled
the Commercial Company's tug Wesley
A. Cove bearing down upon him. There
was no time, the Captain said, to even
blow his whistle before the propeller
was upon him. The Standish was
struck foot abaft of the forward port
gangway, the prov of the tug forcing
its way clear through the deck and
planking into the engine room, scatter
ing the lighted Goals in every direction,
igniting all the woodwork in the vicinity
and, as an officer of the boat said, "She
would have burned up if she hadn't
sunk so quickly"
There were 101 passengers on board,
and for time there was great excite
ment among them. The instant Capt.
Inoraham saw that his vessel must sink
he blew distress signal on his steam
whistle. This called five tugs and the
steamer William Harrison from the
adjacent wharves to the assistance of the
disabled steamer, and so excellent was
the discipline of the crew of the Standish,
and the ability of the aiding boats, that
every passenger was taken from the
sinking steamer without even "getting
their feet wet" Considering that the
Standish sank within six minutes after
she was struck, the safe and speedy
removal Of the passengers was remark
able. During the panic among the pas
sengers many women tainted. All on
board lost their wardrobes, and they are
now in their rooms in the sunken vessel.
She lies canted on the starboard side
her smokestack, pilot house, and few
feet of her hurricane deck out of water
and within $50 yards of the East Boston
shore. directly in the track of the harbol
vessels wharfng above Rowe's Wharf
Lights have been placed upon all points
above water.
The Rose Standish was built in Brook
Iyn IN. W in 1868 and thoroughly
rebuilt in 1877 at an expense of nearl.
$50, 900. She is 1892 tons measure
ment and is licensed to carry 1000 pas
sengers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
The Largest Wheat Crop Yet.

s. W. Tallmadge presents the follow
ing figures as the final estimate of the
wheat crop of the United States for
1884. The figures are based on official
reports made within few days by State
agricultural departments and statistical
agents in the different States and Terri
tories. The report shows the total pro-
duction of winter wheat TO be $50, ,000,-
600 bushels, and spring wheat $50, ,OOO,-
600. This makes the total yield of the
country fully $4,000, 900 bushels more
than ever before produced, 13O, 900, 600
more than last years crop, and O.OOO,-
900 more than the average crop for the
past five years. The departments all
agree in reporting the quality superior;
and where it has been threshed they say
the yield has more than met their calcu-
lations. This applies especially to the
spring wheat sections: Iowa, Nebraska
Minnesota and Wisconsin.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
THE LAST MATCH.
Little Sketch of the IIl-fated Gteeiy
Expedition.

Old soldiers who remember the picket
line and the rifle pit, old hunters, and
even the experienced picknicker, know
well what it is to be reduced to the last
match. That sole occupant of the
pocket match-safe is the last chance for
fire, for torch in the thick darkness,
for savory meal or dish of tea, for
flash of light on a watch face or COM
pass. So, too, it may be all that inter-
poses between the destruction and the
deliverance of a lost or shipwrecked
band.
Few incidents of the famous Greedy
expedition to the northern seas make so
vivid an impression upon the mind as one
recorded by Sergeant George b. Rice,
who did not live to return to his home
and friends. A sledge party was de-
tailed to visit and examine Halls Rest
on the coast of Greenland. In the
course of this expedition the stock of
matches that the men had brought was
reduced to one. 1t was a miserably
cold evening, when the shivering group
of men gathered in their damp tent to
watch the attempt to ignite, by this sim
gle match, the spirit lamp upon which
their lives depended. The lamp once
lighted, there was warmth and warm
food at their command; the lamp IN
lighted, there was not vital force left in
the party to resist the fatal chill of the
Arctic night. With what 'breathless in
terest the experiment was watched, we
can scarcely imagine.
"The match" wrote Sergeant Rice in
his diary, snapped, cracked, and
showed little flame which by dexterous
management was communicated to the
wood and triumphantly applied to the
wick of the spirit lamp. But, the wick
is wet from the falling moisture of the
tentl 1t sputters - fizzles - the match
itself is burned up to the benumbed fin
gers of the holder, when one of the
agonized spectators springs from his bag
and, with admirable presence of mind,
withdraws from his breast pocket a
document, which he holds to the explr-
ing match in time to perpetuate its fire.
They are saved p
But this is not all the story. The SER
geant intimates that the "document"
that saved their lives was far more pre-
cious than anything documentary. 1t
was the last fond and tender epistle
which its owner had received from his
sweetheart before sailing. He had worn
it as an amulet next his heart, and
would have died rather than surrender
it at any ordinary call. To save his
comrades he drew it forth, and gave it
to nourish the flame which alone could
warm them back to life.
Sergeant Rice concludes the days en-
try by expressing the wish that the
burning of the letter to assist the match
made on earth may conduce to the con-
summation of the "match made in
heaven" Who will not lament that the
worthy and witty soldier did not survive
to witness the realization of his desire
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
WESTERN LAND-GRABBING.
Peculiar Way the Cattle Owners Have of
Doing Things.


The latest and most alarming method
of land grabbing, and certainly the most
unscrupulous, says the New York Hour,
is that adopted by some of the "cattle
kings" of the West The general sup
position that these men own the land
over which their herds roam is entirely
wrong. They own nothing but the
water sources. In all the great grazing
districts the one absolute necessity is
water. Brooks and streams are not nu-
merous, and those which exist would not
be sufficient to the needs of all men who
would like to have cattle ranches, so the
first thing man does, when starting a
range, is to secure title to all the land
through which the water courses flow.
1t is not hard to do this; the cost is only
little lying and the expense of survey
ing. The head of the enterprise ''enters'
a quarter section-one hundred and
sixty acres-and so does each one of his
employees, so twenty or thirty miles of
a stream perhaps the only one within
is SO held that no newcomer can even
water his horse from it should the pre-
emptors see fit to object.
With the entire water-right thus Sc
cured, the cattle king has no neighbors
to fear, so he makes no attempt to buy
the surrounding land; he simply drives
his cattle to it, knowing that they will
stray but little from the only place in
the eneighborhood where they can quench
their thirst. No man will attempt to
center" homestead on any of the Gov
ernment ground on which the cattle
| feed, for agriculture in such localities Is
impossible without irrigation, and where
can any farmer or association OF farmers
dig irrigation bitches unless there Is
some source from which to lead water :?
Occasionally lone emigrant has entered
a quarter section near good spring or
brook. and begun in good faith to make
his improvements, trusting that the
Government would keep its faith and
protect him against intruders; but the
| presence Oh bucu d oSUuAoA' VI Va 00'O
such persons, does not change in the
least the plans of any cattle company
who may afterward think the locality a
good one for ranch. The remaining
land through which the water flows is
taken in the manner already described,
the cattle are driven in, and as the set,
Tiers farm is not fenced it is soon de-
stroyed. If the injured man complains.
the cattle king, if good-natured fellow
may pay him something for his claim
and advise him to leave. More fire
quently, however, the wretch is left tt
the tender mercies of the cowboys, anC
if he has any temper he is likely to sool
need only ground enough for grave.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
THE VIRGINIA OYSTERS.
some thing About a Lively Elizabeth River
Industry.

This country here is the land of the
oyster, and millions of bushels arc raised
yearly, writes a correspondent from
Fortress Monroe, Va. They grow in the
salt water at the mouth of the Elizabeth
River, and naturally fasten themselves
to the rocky parts of its bed. During
the season the river swarms with boats
fishing for them. They are caught by
kind of rake or tongs which the oyster
catcher thrusts down, catches hold of
them and pulls them up into mis- boat.
The business of catching them is done
by the colored population, and fish and
oysters form the staple diet of the
negroes of this region. It is a good
business, too, this catching of oysters,
and many of the oysterers make good
wages. A good catch is always saleable,
and the river is free to all. After the
men have caught boatload, they bring
them to the oyster packers and sell
them. I visited the largest of these es-
Establishments here, and watched their
preparation for the northern market. A
scow containing about 500 tons of
oysters in the shell, all of them dirty
and Shiny, piled up like a big lot Of
stones on its floor, had just come in.
These were unloaded by means of der
rick and bushel tub with an iron
handle. The oysters were shovelled,
still dripping, into this tub, and after
landing were wheeled into long, low
shed. Each tub was worth thirty-fve
cents, and they were counted as they
were unloaded. Stepping inside the
shed, saw two rows of narrow stalls
with sort of manger in their front
ends. Each of these was filed with a
big colored oyster shucker. The oysters
were emptied into the managers and
these men, with a small hammer and a
short t-bladed knife, opened them, took
out the oysters and threw them into a
bucket the size of common wooden
pail. First they would lift up the oyster
shell, then break off its end with the
hammer, then inject the knife into the
broken place and pry it open. They
worked very fast, and as they did SO
their queer Southern songs mingled
with the short hammering of the break
ing shells. 1 ate few of the oysters
just as they were opened, and found
them to possess a delicious flavor,
which I have never found in the oysters
of the North.
When a shucker has filed his bucket
he hands it over to the washer, and this
man empties it into large vat OF water!
where the oysters are washed ano
drained of their liquor before beng sen
away. The shuckers sort them as the.
open them, and put the little ones lnu
one pail, the medium ones into another
and the big ones into third. Inc
are paid twenty cents a bucket, an
sometimes they make as much as $3
dav. Many of them save their none!
and find here the same report L foun
on the peninsula, namely, that the co
ored people of the South are doing vel
and that many of them are acquirin
property After the oysters are washe'
they are packed in tubs and shippe'
: When packed, there is no liquor
them, and I am told that oyster selle
in the North often water their oyste
, | before selling
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
THE WISDOM OF AGE.

s'Wouldst thou have back thy life again ?"
l asked an aged man;
"Couldst thou not grander ends attain,
And better life's whole plan ?"
sNo. son." he said; 81 rest content,
And calmly wait the end.
One life alone to man is lent,
To waste or wisely spend.
''If with the knowledge years bestow
We started in the race,
All plans might meet with overthrow
And shame US with disgrace.
mo combination man can make
Insures complete success;
The lucky winner takes the prize
He won by random guess.
sI would not say chance rules below
And Nature shows design;
Life is not like the dice's throw
Luck follows laws divine.
''Some men are born to grace a throne,
Some to a leper's doom;
Yet equal light for both hath shone
Their spirits to illume.
'sMy life has run through light and shade,
The end is drawing near;
long for rest all undismayed,
And ask not back one year."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
The French Canadians.

Interesting as sections of ancient rocks
or drifts to the geologist are those Sec
tions of the France of the seventeenth
century in the lap of the nineteenth
century in the new world to the socl-
ologist. The ancient city OF Quebec Is
still 1.-THE centre of all the French Can
adian life; and how full of quaint beauty
and poetry it is only they know fully
who have been wearied to death by the
monotonous opulent sameness OF Amer1-
can cities. The student who would
make inquiries into this life, the music,
the customs and the trend of thinking
among the people will find the Cote de
Beaupre, a strip of country extending
down the river in the vicinity of Quebec,
most accessible district, and at the
same time possibly the most perfect
illustration of what he desires to lnves-
tigate. Not very long ago, the Able
Ferland said, SIN the habitan OF the
Cote de Beaupre you have the Norman
peasant of the reign of Louis XIV,
with his legends, his songs, his super
stitions and his customs. Untortu-
nately for him., he still sticks to ola
fashions in farming, as well as to old
songs, and the stiff Lombardy poplars
tnat his ancestors brought from France.
He does not care to spend money on ex-
pensive agricultural implements. lie
enjoys social merry -makings more than
political discussions, and prefers steady
hard work by day, and smoking MS
native tobacco with his neighbors IN the
long evenings, to thinking over rasn eA'
periments on his narrow terres. AT the
head of the ancient social pyramid Oh
the banks of the st. Lawrence stood the
General and the bishop. Ihe
Governor was supreme, though with
bishop like Laval it was often question
which of the two was the Governor
Then came the seigneurs and the cures
The base was constituted by the habltans'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

And much to her worldly mothers
chagrin year later, instead of waiting
for the often-talked of coronet, Ida
gives her handsome self, indifference
and listlessness left behind, to poor
young bank clerk whose only claim is
an honest. loving heart.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
The Tenement House. first
Small. Desirable ViIIaue Lots

in Hyde Park village. The demand for
labor in Hyde Park is good, and any
intelligent and thrifty laborer, who can
pay for the building lot, will be furnished
with the lumber, lime, nails, glass,
shingle, doors, sash and stone, with
which to build respectable building,
and the party building, allowed to re.
pay same IN installments of $50 per an.
mum and interest. Land within one
quarter mile of dwelling, will be sold in
lots of 1, 2, or 5 acres to suit pur-
chaser, at low prices and on liberal terms
of payment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

$50 YOU think John is becoming a
great man in the ci ity p said farmer,
speaking of his abs@nt son to compan-
ion of the youth. "Great man l
should say SO. Why there amt bar
keeper in the city hardly, that he don't
call by his first name"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

DooToR (who has been sent for at
ga. Madame, pray send at once
for the clergyman, and, if you want to
make your will, for the lawyer. "
Madame (horrifed)-"Good gracious
Is it SO dangerous, doctor?" Doctor
ssNot a bit of it; but 1 don't want to be
the only fool who has been disturbed in
his sleep for nothing.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

DIsMAn.-A Chinese orchestra re-
hearses daily on Mott street, New York,
preliminary to giving series of con-
certs in neighboring cities. A remark
able instrument is the trumpet. 1t is
of Tartar origin, and produces a noise
like bagpipe, but much louder. The
rehearsals are descri bed as "dismal DIM
nv those who heard Ehem.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

AN Ohio farmer says that q COW can
be cured of kicking "by catching hold
of her while in the act. This is prob
ably true; at least those who have tried
it never saw the COW kick again. Boston
Post
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

GERMAN1zED. Army, navy, and now
police in Japan are to be completely
Germanized. The Japs have applied
for German police officials on loan as
instructors.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

A LITTLE school girls definition of
scandal was: "Nobody does nothing and
everybody goes on telling of it every
where"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

IxED.-Black walnut sawdust, for
merly thrown away, is now mixed with
linseed gum and moulded into heads
and flower pieces for the ornamentation
of furniture. When dried and vanished
it is as handsome and much stronger,
and more durable than carved work.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

VERY RIoH.-The estate of the late
Nicholas Anchorena, of Buenos Ayres,
perhaps the richest person in the world,
consisted of seven hundred square miles
of land, four hundred thousand sheep,
and hundred and fifty thousand COWS,
besides houses in the city.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

New Style Cabman Ito miIitary-look-
ing chap on the avenue)-Hansom'
Captain? Supposed Military Chap
''WelI, y-e-s--so they tell me. Cab
man (soIo voce)-The bloody mug
wump. Life
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

SILENCE is the wit of fools and one of
tie virtues of the wise.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

In politics cheek wins its way where
modesty might despair.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

A ACAvE.-Leutenant Greedy and his
party during one of their explorations
entered a valley which was literally
filled with single block of ice, the
glacier being two miles wide at the face,
and winding its way in undulating folds
from the lake up the valley and having
the appearance of green chalcedony and
CRYSTAL, 1t was named for Mrs. Greely.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

The, [. P. Jones Farm. 98
acres, on Cooper Hill.
The Foss Farm near School
House in Greenfield; so acres-very
desirable place, except house of no
value.
The Greenfield Farm, go
acres, lately owned by R. S. Page; good
buildings, adjoins the Foss place last
above mentioned, and the two would,
together make desirable farm.
The Mill Farm, lying south
of Greenfield Mill above named; 60
acres, fair, cheap buildings.
100 Acres of Timber Land,
known as the Bean lot, lying on the
pond near b. S. Haskins' new pond
part of the land is flowed by Haskins'
mill-pond.
100 Acres of Timber Land.
known as the "Col. Whitney, Noyes
lot, near Wilkins Green River mill.
The RoweIl Place, near Hyde
Park village, acres land and house
a good, cheap place for laborer who
wants a few acres of land.
The Tenement House, first
building west of Catholic church in
Hyde Park Street. Would like to sell
this to some party who would fit it into
a boarding house, for which there is
growing demand in this village.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

PosrA1-Chlna proposes to adopt
postal cards on and after Jan. l, 1850.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WE FIND IN THEM TO SMILE
OVER.

Keen Sense-The School Boys Sinner
Why it was CIOsed-A Rainy DuY-A
Cruel Mana Little Quarrel, Etc.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

THERE is a place in Dakota named
Steele, 1t is probably hard town.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25

The [. P. Jones Farm. SO
acres, on Cooper Hill.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-25
The Greenfield Farm, go
100 Acres of Timber Ian

Park village, 3 acres land and house :;
a good, cheap place for laborer who
wants few acres of land.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-03-19
BREvlTY BASKET.

Filled With Mention OF Minor Events and Funny
Items.
A coughing man is hackman.-[ Pref
zell's Weekly.
Easy to take-a drink at some other
mans expense.-[N New York Journal.
A married man likes his tongue cold by
way Of variety.-[Hartf Telegram.
A workman is known by his chips and
q barber by his shavings.-[New Orleans
Item.
The age at which bank cashier usual
ly retires from his position Is SHORTAGE
Merchant Traveller.
Colored walters are the best. What
ever is said at the table they will be sure
to keep dark.-[New Orleans Item.
A young gushing thing-The latest
oil strike. That's why they call an oil
well ''she."-[P ittsburg Telegraph.
Tight boots are said to cause the blood
to mount to the face. That's why socl-
ETY. girls are all the time blushing.-
burlington Free Press.
Some Of the papers are discussing
Congressional tea" What Is wanted
In Congress is little more digni-tea.-
(NOrristown Herald.
The sunsets are still red, which is
more than can be said Of great many
scientific articles being published on the
subject.-[ Cincinnati Times-Star.
A ludicrOus spectacle generally hap
pens after husband has filed up his
snuff box out Of his wife's box Of face
pOwder.-[ Tobacconist Times.
A New York pastor preached the
other Sunday on the "The Shameless
Age" 1t was probably hit at some Of
the 90 old ballet dancers Chicago
Sun.
A society young lady told her illiterate
but wealthy lover that she was going to
give German, and he said that he'd be
sure to come as he was very fond of
beer.-[ Chicago Sun.
Divorce sensations are becoming so
numerous In the papers that 1t looks
like studied effort on the part OF the
press to intimidate the girls during leap
year.-[Chicago Drover's Journal.
"Unole, when sis sings in the choir
Sunday nights, who does she 60 behind
the organ to taste the tenor's mus
tache ?" "Oh, don't bother me, sonny
suppose they have to do 1t to find out
II they are In tune."-[ Yonkers Gazette.
The hymn beginning "The conse-
Grated cross I'd bear" had just been
sung, and In the momentary quiet that
followed the perplexed youth turned to
his father: "Say, pa, where do they
keep the conseorated cross eyed bear 2"
New York Sun.
One Of those things for which nobody
has ever advanced a satisfactory reason
Is why the homeliest man at the theatre
invariably selects front seat, and Is
continually turning his face around so
that everybody may see it, Boston
Globe.
A writer, who evidently never tried 1t.
calls skating the poetry Of motion.
When u pretty skaters feet slip from
under her and she tries to stand on her
head, we acknowledge she often gets up
looking the poetry OfemOtion.-[Chicago
Telegram.
When young man marrles for money
he is obliged to repeat the marriage GER
emory several hundred times before he
can, without faltering, give an afilrma-
tive, response to the question: "For
richer or for poorer."-[ YOnkers State
man.