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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
A Crows Intelligence.

The sentinel system of the crows is
very complete. Their guards display a
remarkable degree of Judgment and in
telligence. They will raise cry for a
man with gun long before he gets in
l-ange OF them, and they are equally
AIRY OF man who creeps toward them.
Bat team may pass close by without
dis turbing them, and they will even let
a man on foot pass unnoticed if he
hasn't gun and goes boldly about his
business. [ had curious example of
this when l first began to study their
habits. i commenced by trying to shoot
them, but though 1 had passed them
close enough before, / could not get
near then, after began carrying gun.
went Out with my gun every evening
for weeks. L crept behind fences and
lay IN wait in the bushes, but could
never get a shot at them. One day.
however, L struck upon plan which 1
have since operated very successfully
held my gun close to my side, the bar
rel running down the side of my leg,
and walked boldly down the road with
out taking any notice of them. With
their usual disregard for travellers, they
let me pass close up to them, when /
turned suddenly and fired. Now can
shoot crow whenever want to.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
Horace GreeIeys BOyhOOd.

Ben. P. Poore, in his "reminiscences,
thus speaks of Horace Greeley: Horace
Greeley's personal appearance was
always a subject of remark from his
boyhood. Rollin @. Mallary, a member
able champion of the American System.
used to narrate a visit of his to the
printing office of country newspaper
at Poultney, VT, his place of residence.
His attention was attracted to a young
compositor, who was rather awkwardly
sticking types" and who, though full
grown, was evidently the youngest ap
prentice in the office. His legs ran a
good deal more than "a feet" through
his pantaloons, the sleeves of his coat
scarcely reached below his elbows, his
hair was very white and faxen, and he
was, ON the whole, in the aggregate,
taken separately and together, the
greenest looking specimen of humanity
we ever looked at, and this is saying a
good deal, for "we keeps a looking
glass" "That boy" said Mr.. Mallary,
twill make remarkable man; l can't
hold an argument with him on Masonry
or anything else connected with politics. J"
As Mr.. Mallary was considered one of
the ablest men in Congress, his remark
caused me some surprise; and we not
only "made a note of, but took another
look at the ''deviI" (printer's we mean),
and could not but trace in the expansive
forehead ''a mind formed in natures
finest mould and wrought for immor-
tality." 1t was years afterward that we
became aware of the fact that that boy
was Horace Greeley.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
Advice to a Young Man.

No, son, you can't make up lost time.
You can only do the work of one life
time in iife-ti Yes, you may write
six columns to-day because you neglect
ed to write your three yesterday, but
you've discounted one day somewhere
about 35 or 40 years further ON in the
account. You have about 70 years
placed to your credit. Every day you
use or misuse is charged to you, and you
can't get credit for two days tomorrow,
if you waste to-day. An engine three
hours behind time, may reach the termi-
nal station on time, by running fifty
miles an hour instead of thirty, her
schedule time. But when she gets in,
she requires nearly all, or quite all, or
many hours more than the three hours
she made up, in being doctored for the
strain on nerves and sinews of steel,
by reason of the extra effort and speed.
There's something sprung here, a bolt
started there, a journal burned out
somewhere, she limps away to the round
house, overheated, rafting in half a
dozen places, covered with grease and
dust and CRIME, with an engineer groWl
ing in his cab and master machinest
grumbling as he walks around her
IHabs the way yoH~.'m makeup time, =
my boy. Believe me, you'll last longer
if you run on schedule time day by day.
You won't make people yell and, hurrah
and you won't make such a grand,
thunderbolt kind of show as if you
would go booming through the way
stations, swinging along like a cyclone.
But you'll go waltzing into the round
house in supremely better style, with
your steel bright and your brass shining,
and not spot on your jacket, and ready
to throw another hundred miles over
your shoulder the minute the gong
strikes. Just make your regular time,
day by day, nay boy. The superintend-
ent knows what you can do and what he
wants you to do, and you can't treat
yourself better nor please him more,
than to do exactly that much, without
mile wasted or minute to spare.
BURDETTE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
Texas Fence Cutters.

A funny phase of the late fence-cutting
special session of the Texas Legislature is
revealed in the fact now patent. that the
Legislature really meant to do as little as
possible to meet the difficulties that for
so many months have disturbed the
State. While the rich ranchmen and
large landowners held full control
of the Senate, the smaller landowners,
and with them the fence cutters, had
the House. So when the House
required that landowners should put
gates in their fences every three miles so
as to let the little men get to mill and to
water, the Senate made the penalty for
not doing so as light as possible. In
fact, few of the LEGISLATORS seemed to care
so much about S.he fences as to be on
the fence themselves The amount APP
propriated for carrying out the few
laws made is ridiculously insufficient. 1t
is now said that the Legislature was
wholly unprepared to deal with the sub
ject and that popular sentiment and
opinion were neither fairly presented nor
represented. Things generally will wait
probably till the next November cleo
ton, when the fence question will be
paramount in choosing members to the
Legislature.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
A Profitable Steamer.

The sale of the steamer Senator for a
coal hulk to New Zealand finishes the
active career of one of the most success
full vessels afoat. She was built at New
York in 1916, and ran for short time on
the Eastern coast, but during the gold
excitement of California she was sent to
San Francisco, where she arrived in
September, 1849, with over five hundred
passengers. Soon after arriving there
she was placed on the Sacramento river,
making three trips a week, and, with S35
cabin passage and SIS for standing room
on deck, she soon paid for herself ten
times over. In fact, her receipts averaged
close to $40, 900 TIP, and for four
months, fully $4,000 a week. She is
known to have carried in this trade, over
one million passengers. She has made
more gold than she could carry and has
outlived scores of the finest steamers
ahoat, which were wrecked or went to
decay, while the old Senator, one of the
few remaining links of the "days of
old, the days of gold, the days of 40. 4"
plodded along successfully, until she fl
nally had to give way to the march of
and to the new and more
economical style of craft, the steam pro-
heller
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
The SOudan.

The term Soudan is applied to a
region which includes the whole Nile
basin as far south as the cataract below
Khartoum, and also an indefinite stretch
of country west of that and south of the
Sahara desert. 1t is we'll watered and
fertile, and is inhabited by several races
more or less negro-like and, ON the
borders, by numerous tribes of Arabs.
During the reign of Ismail Pasha it was
brought under Egyptian sway by the
able British and American generals in
the service of that Prince, prominent
among whom were Sir Samuel Baker,
General Gordon and General Stone.
The slave trade was suppressed, some
systematic efforts we're made IN agricul-
ture, and the annual overflow of the
Nile was rendered harmless by simple
scientific apparatus.
The country has great capabilities,
but no present means of developing
them. The only outlet for its products
is across a desert, and the only way of
transportation is by camels.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
They will not hearken to our voices.
Soul Burying.

Whenever an Abchasian is drowned
his friends search carefully for the
body. but, if this is not'found, they pro-
coed to capture the soul of the deceased,
a measure which then has become a
1aatter of importance.
- A esoatslx1n bag sprinkled with water
and placed with its mouth, which is
stretched open over a hoop, looking
toward the river, near the place where
the man is supposed to have been
drowned. Two cords are stretched from
the spot across the river, as bridge on
which the soul can come over. Vessels
containing food and drink are set around
the skin, and the friends of the deceased
come and eat quietly, while a song is
sung with instrumental accompani-
ments.
The soul, it is believed, is attracted
by the ceremonies, comes over on the
bridge that is laid for it, and goes into
the trap. As soon as it has entered
that is, when the bag is inf tied by the
breeze-the opening is quietly closed,
and the bag is taken up to the burial
place, where a grave has already been
prepared. The bag is held with the
opening to the grave, the strings are
united, and the bag is squeezed into
the grave. and the burial is afterward
completed.
This rite is considered of equivalent
value with the burial of the body, and
the grave is treated with the same honor
as if the body were really within it
P0DaI1ar Science lfOnthtu.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
1t Was No Good.

There was a Chicago man who found
out that he was not so peculiarly en-
dowed by nature as he had supposed.
An inch more than usual would pro.
verbally be a great deal on a nose.
This man had it, and in consequence he
overrated his nasal Importance. A test
proved that it does not render him thrill
ling to the masses. He is a cigar maker
by trade. Whenever he took his walks
abroad he was gazed at in amazement.
''If 1 am to be looked on as a curiosity. -
he reasoned, sit would be better to make
lazy living with my abnormal nose. !"
So he took his big feature to the man
ager of ten-cent museum. "Very
well,' was the offer which he received.
''I'h do just the same by you that L do
by any other new freak. We can't tell
what'll catch on with the public. You
can have place on the platform for a
week. If you make a failure, I'll give
you five dollars. If you hit 'em, I'll
fix a square, liberal salary "But
how'm to know whether l hit 'em p"
the amateur curiosity asked. "By see
ing whether the folks stop to look at
you. That's the test" The nose was
not potent. What had been novel in
private life was almost disregarded in a
The man has returned to
his cigar bench.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
The Sneak Thief Cracker.

''This is the latest, l guess" said a
dealer in novelties, showing a reporter
what looked like the motto crackers that
aerpulled apart at evening parties with a
sharp report, disclosing a sentimental
motto. ''It is a motto cracker" ne said.
with the motto left out. They are also
minus the bit of candy that the motto
Is usually wrapped around These
crackers are for the use of the CONNER
cial travellers or others who have to
travel great deal. They are made so
as to produce report as loud as the ex-
plosion of pistol. The way to use the
cracker is to fasten one end on the door
by wetting this little surface of gum
with the tongue, and the other end to
the jam of the door. The result is that
the door cannot be opened by a hotel
sneak thief, if he picks the lock or shoots
back the bolt over the lock, without pro-
ducing a report that will arouse the &C.
cupant of the room. The alarm cracker
is popular particularly among iewelry
statesmen"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
A South Sea Fight.

A report from Auckland states that the
government schooner Julia, Whlcn Is
regularly employed in procuring LABOR
ers from the different groups OF ISLANDS
in the Pacific to work on the sugar
plantations in the Sandwich Islands, re.
Gently landed at the island OF NanoIk i
with about thirty returned laborers, who
belonged to the islands of Taraway and
Apiang, in the same group, the 1nhablt-
ants of which have been at constant
warfare with the inhabitants OF Nan
ouki. The returned laborers on lano,
ing seized a number of young girls and
assaulted them, which provoNed a hgnt
with the natives, who We're armed only
with clubs and spears. Twenty OF the
Nanoukis were killed and many were
wounded, while the others escaped to
the island of Apamama, short distance
away. Being reinforced there, num-
Der returned to Nanouki, where another
ARRAY occurred, in which several were
killed on each side, and three or four OF
the assailants were carried off to Apa-
mama,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
A LAMENT


Oh, gates of icel long have ye
held our beloveds.
Ye Cruel how could we keep from us
them for whom our hearts yearned; our
dear ones. our fathers, our children, our
bro theirs, our lovers.
Cold and Sleet, Darkness and Ice |
hard have ye held them; ye would not
let them go.
Their hands ye have bound fast; their
feet we have detained; and we'll have ye
laid hold upon the hearts of our be-
loveds.
Oh, silent Arctic Night thou hast
wooed from uN our dear, our only ones.
Oh, secret of the white and unknown
world too strong hast thou been for us;
we were as moth ing to thee; thou hast
drawn them from us; thou wouldst not
let them go.
The long day passed; thou wouldst
not let them go.
The long, long night came and went:
thou wouldst not let them go.
Oh. thou insaaiate why didst thou
keep them from us?
What to thee is youth, and life, and
hope and love?
For thou art Death, not life; thou art
Despair, not hope.
Nought to thee the rush of youthful
blood; naught to thee the beauty and
strength of our believe els.
The breath OF their bodies is not sweet
to thee; they loved thee, thou Iovedst
not them.
They followed thee, thou didst not
look upon them; but still, oh, thou in
violate! still did they follow thee.
Thee did they follow, through storm
through perils of the ice, and of the I'M
known darkness.
The sharp spears of the frost they
feared not; the terrors of death they
feared not; for thee, for thee, for thee,
not for US; only that they might look
upon thy face.
All these they endured for thee; the
bought of us whom yet they loved, this
also they endured for thee.
II.
Long, long have they tarrted in thy
gates, oh, North
But now thou hast given them up.
Lo they come to us once more-our be-
loveds, our only ones.
Oh, dearest, why have we stayed so
long.
With We, night and day have come
and gone, but with us there was night
only.
But no, we will. not reproach We,
hearts of our hearts-dearest and best:
our fathers, our children, our brothers,
our lovers.
Come back to us Behold our arms
are open for ye; ye are ours; ye have re-
turned unto us; ye shall never go hence
again.
But why are We silent, why do ye not
stir, why do ye not speak to us, oh, be-
loveds?
White are your cheeks like snow; your
eyes they do not look upon us.
Gone so long, and is this your Joy to
see us once more?
Lo, do we not welcome ye? Are not
our souls glad Do not our tears, long
kept, rain upon your faces?
Do We sleep then, after those hard and
weary labors? Oh. now awaken, for ye
shall take rest and pleasure-here are
your homes and kindred.
Listen, beloved, here is your sister,
here is your brother, here is your lover /
They will not hearken to our voices.
They are still; their eyes look not
upon us.
Oh, insatiate, oh, Secret of the white
and unknown world, cruel indeed thou
art.
Thou hast sent back to us our best
beloveds; their bodies thou hast rendered
up, but their spirits thou hast taken
away from us.
In life thou didst hold them from us
and in death they are thine.
New YORK, Feb. 20, 1884.
r. W, G..
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
BAD taste ia species of bad morals.


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ceived from the use of Hunts Remedy, | feel
proud to inform You of the good it has done
me; for the great suffering have passed AMI
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to suffer excruciating pains in the region of
my kidneys; had the most intense agony;
was confined to my bed and totally unable
to change my position or move in any way.
was tapped eight times. l then heard of
Hunts Remedy; bought a bottle, and after
taking a few spoonfuls the result was magi-
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given me up to die, said there was no hope
for me. 1 had one hundred and ffty-six
pounds of water taken out of me. Was
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Hunts Remedy has cured me. 1 feel proud
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would advise those having difficulty with
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
OHO IIOAI I1UI4ddU, ~ I.
One from Paterson, N. ].
One from Brooklyn, N. Y.
A Fortune From Six Inches of String.

''You see that large factory? 1t covers
an entire block. Half a million of
money wouldn't buy it. Well, it was
built by little piece of cord not more
than six inches long" Here the speaker
paused and scrutinized the reporters
countenance for indications of incredu-
lity, not to say establishment. But the
narrator was talking to a man who, since
the introduction of the telephone, has
madeit pointo principle to be ready for
anything and to believe all that he hears.
The speaker added: "Eight years ago
there lived in the third story of a cheap
tenement, in New York city, poor me-
chanic, who was kept poor because he
had passion for inventing; it amounted
to passion. He didn't drink and didn't
travel with the politicians, and all who
knew his family wondered why they
should be so poor. Time passed Oh,
and still the man was poor, but at last
he perfected an invention-the simplest
thing on earth-and with mis- patent in
his hand he went down town one day
and called for the head of house whose
check was current for five figures any
where in 'the street. The inventor Of
fered to sell two thirds of his patent for
$40, 900 if the house would bind itself to
put 500, 900 into factories for producing
the little thing that he had invented.
The firm 81 ned papers in less than an
hour from the time of hearing the pro-
posal and in another hour the inventor
had converted the firms check for $780,
900 into greenbacls. Lots were bought
and a factory erected. The business
speedily grew to gigantic proportions,
and at length the firm acquired all the
rest of the block, and covered it with
brick and mortar. and now the inventor
is able to associate with the millionaires.
TIE little glove fastener piece of
cord about six inches long and dozen
little metal hooks or buttons-is the
thine, +bot x.yaS1eI<A nfa.Tn
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
A LONDON SENSATION.
ANOTHER HIGH LIFE SCANDAL IN
ENGLAND.
The Earl OF Grafton Attempts to Put Away
His Wife-A Former Husband Ap-
pears.

Mayfair, q London society magazine,
publishes the following: "Another
celebrated case will be that of the gal
liant Earl of Euston, who will be the
next Duke of Grafton. The Earl seeks
to get rid of his wife. His contention
is that the lady's first husband was alive
when she became Countess of Euston.
is now alive and can be produced. His
appearance in the witness box will be
highly dramatic, for the lady has seen
him and declares she knows nothing
about him. The approaching trial will
rival the Tlchborne case and be the SEN
sation of the season."
The facts of the matter are these:
Thirteen years ago Henry Fitzroy, eldest
son OF Lord Augustus Fitzroy, fell in
love with a woman known as "Kate
Cook. She was handsome and stylish
IN person, and her matured charms were
quite sufficient to captivate the youth of
twenty-three. Unknown to his father,
who was Equerry to the Queen, he mar
ried her. Most chronicles of the peer
age ignored the marriage. Others de-
John Walsh and the widow Of "Mr.
Smith"
In 1882 the bridegroom's social posi-
ton changed. Lord Augustus Fitzroy
succeeded his brother as seventh Duke
of Grafton. Henry FItzroy became
Earl of Euston. The widow of ''Mr.
Smith" became Countess Euston and the
future Duchess of Grafton. But troubles
had already come between her and her
husband. They separated by mutual
agreement. No fault being proved
against the Countess since her marriage,
the Earl in vain sought an excuse for di-
yorce. The mysterious ''Mr. Smith"
has now appeared and the excuse is
found.
If the case fails Kate Cook will be
Duchess of Grafton, and the title
created for mistress of King will be
! borne by woman of the town.
The Duke of Grafton was made
Knight of the Garter little over year
ago. He succeeded his brother, who
died in the spring of 1882. The late
Duke was sixty-three years old and was
member of Parliament for Thetford
| from 1847 until 1852. In 1858 he mar
ried Mary Louisa Anne, daughter of
the third Lord Ashburton, and in 1868
succeeded his father as sixth duke. The
first Duke of Grafton acted at the coro-
nation of James II. as Lord High Con
stable of England, and commanded that
monarch's forces in the action of Philips
Norton Lane. Afterward he espoused
the cause of the Prince of Orange and
received a fatal wound while storming
the city of Cork in 1890. The third
duke was an eminent statesman, who
was Secretary of State and Prime Min
lister of England in 1771. The present
duke was born in 1921.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-20
In a Bear Trap.

The Janitor of the Lime-Kiln Club
announced at the last meeting, that
some evil-minded person who had
sought to enter Paradise Hall the even
ing before by way of the side door, had
put his foot in bear-trap waiting there
for just such an emergency. The jaws
and teeth of the trap were stained with
blood, proving that the fellow had been
considerably astonished in his mad ca
reer. He had managed to pry open the
Jaws and drag himself away, leaving
nothing behind by which his identity
could be suspected.
A vote of thanks was given the Janitor
for his vigilance, and the Secretary was
instructed TO advertise for information
concerning the victim. If he will come
forward and state how it feels to step
suddenly into bear-trap, the club will
present HIM with a recipe for removing
the marks left by the teeth.