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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
A BASE imitation-a hustle.
MARKET NOTES,

NEW YORK MARKET.
The Wholesale New York market quotations
show:
BEANs-Prime, 81 2O@s4 So; fair to good
$2.55@$2.60 per busheI
BUTTER - New York sold at 34036c. for
choice in pals, and 25028c common to good.
Western Creamery sold at 33@34c and the
common Western at 23@25c
CHEEsE-Factory fancy, 14@1415c; do fair
to good 12013c.
transformations ranged from 27c. for Or
binary, to 2Sc. for New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
FLOUR Superfine, 50. SO@$3. 40; Western,
So: 80@$6.s0; extra New York. $3.6O@$6. 90.
Shipping 4595Oc.; clover 40@50c.,
SALT Coo; straw, 50@55c.
HoPs-New York, 26CQ27c.; Eastern, 2O@25c;
yearlngs, 1N@25c; olds, - o.
PETRoLEUM-Refned, 739c; crude, 65S@7sSc
in bulk; in barrels, 85sc; naphtha, 6S4c. in
shipping order. and 11113G012c in cases.
PoRK-Clear back. $19.75@S2O.75; dressed
WHEAT Spring No. 8, S1.O2@s1. O6; Nil
waukee, No. 2, $1.05; amber, $1.32@$2. 40;
white, $1.03@$L.1O3I.
CoRN-Ungraded Western Mixed. 55@62c;
Steamer Mixed, 5915CG60c. in elevator. Gle.
delivered; No. 2, 6l@611(c. in elevator. 62@
Pike, delivered White Southern. 65c. de-
RYE-state, 7607sc.
WooL-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia,
XXX, 45(d46c.; Xxx, 42@144c.; X, 42GD43c.; No.
l, 45CG47c.; No. 2, 3S6D4Oc.; common, 330D35c /;
New York and Western Xxx and X, 39C04515c. !;
No. l, 44@45c.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET
FLoUR-State family, -@$L8715; rye -four
S3.5O@S3.6O: wheat. State, $-.-0$L1716
amber. $1.43; corn, yellow, 5Sc.; mixed States
| &c
PETROLEUM Refined, 7$sc.; crude, 61lc.
WooL-State and Weston Xxx, 46050c; x,
| 47@46c.; medium. 50051c.; coarse, Acc
BOSTON MARKET.
FLOUR = From $3.CO@S3. % for low and
| medium, to "a. 2505.75 for choice Minnesota.
| Corn. 63(066c. for mixed and yellow
BUTTER - Common, lie. C0Z0c Vermont
| dairy, 23@30c.; choice creamery, 31@DS5c.
CHEEsE-13@15c
BEANs-S3. 30OO$335
HAY-Choice, $15@$16
CATTLE MARKETS
BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality, IS. SOFA
$3.50; hogs, fair to good, $70O@9I20; best,
$7.45.
EAST LIBERTY. PENN.-Best cattle S625G
1878: medium to good, IS. 25GD$6. 90; common
to fair, $5.00@$6.00: Hogs, Workers. $500
Sc Philadelphias, $Z50@$7.85. Sheep,
S5.25@pS5.5 so.
WATERFOWL, MAss.-Cattle, choice. s.
@$10.25; extra. $S.0O@$9.OJ; first quality,
S7.OO@S7.50; second quality, $5.OO@$6. SO:
third quality, $40 GO3i.5O. Sheep and lambs
wool sheep, $2.5O@S4. so; extra, $4,000
5000; spring lambs, 5000; Veal calves,
319c@715c 10
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
WHERE THE WORD FALLS.
The Rocky and Barren Ground from Which
the Seed Does not Spring.

The fara ilifF parable of the sower who
went ont to sow his seeds was taken by
Mr.. Beecher on Sunday as the text of
his sermon. Some thoughts and express
sions are taken here and there:
"The upwritten realities of human life
put to shame all that literature ever in
dited. We waste the most precious part,
and human life, like an unstopped vase
OF effervescent and perlshlng quality, ex-
hales and throws off INTO the absolute
and the eternal the very best portions of
ITSELF
'sThe Gospel of Jesus Christ is knowl-
edge applied to disposition and to con-
duct That's the whole OF it. y
''The whole genius OF the Gospel was
so to teach moral truths as that men
should build up their minds and DISPOSE
tons on it..
"All the doctrines that speak about
sin as sort of SCOT in the fiues of this
life, and all hereditary sins and all i'm
puted sins, are part of the pagan night
mare of the medieval theology.
"Whoever commits wrong knowing
it is wrong and on purpose; whoever
neglects duty knowing it to be duty
and on purpose. affirmatively or mega
lively, violates Gods law. In the name
of conscience. that ought to satisfy even
a theologian. There's enough of it. "
"Poor old Adam, who had the fall of
the race in him, and who gave us a hered-
itary possession, a transmitted element
that wakes up in man as SIN. Let TINS
go to the moles and the bats.
ssA Christian life is an education, and
no man can become or continue to be
Christian without that same persistence
and that same resoluteness by which men
attain to knowledge in any department
of human learning,
"Men have said to me: Il wishI could
be Christian, but haven't time, as if
it took any more time to tell the truth
than to tell lie; ASA it took any more
time to be pure thafSSo be impure"
"The life of a truly born Christian man
should be automat;smand grow more so.
No man has mannIss who is thinking
about manners.
ssWhen a man has to open the door of
his soul and call down: Patience Pa
tience come up here, you're wanted,
that man hasn't learned patience. When
a man has TO say: John, go and call
down Conscience; here is a case for him,
that man has no conscience.
"Many a person rejects the Gospel be-
cause the preacher is dull. am not an
advocate of dullness. A man who is dull
mistook the call to the priesthood. There
may have been call, but it wasn't for
him."
s'There are ministers who have been
beguiled by the flattery of clique INTO
eternally pouring out appetizing food for
those who think they stand the highest
and starvation for those who stand
lower"
81 think the cry against prom'scuous
novel reading is just. 1 think that the
criticism made against much of the dra-
matte performance of the day is just, al
though [ haven't seen enough of it yet
to form correct Judgment. mean to
do so, however"
Cali high pleasures that do not take
hold of practical life and reform it
making it better, brighter, more useful
are pernicious in the long run"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
The Hollow Square.

The ''hollow square, formation that
won the battle of Ell Teb is undoubtedly
a formidable one in these days of long
range rifles, when the assailants can be
exterminated long before they ever reach
the bayonet points. But that infantry
squares have been broken by cavalry on
more than one occasion is now matter of
history. Authorities are still divided as
to whether Victor Hugo was right in
affirming or Siborne in denying that the
French heavy brigade drove in the face
OF British square at Waterloo. But
MOntbrun's cuirassiers broke a Russian
square at Borodino in 1912, and Colonel
Caulaincourt's Horse, in the same battle,
actually charged into an intrenched re-
doubt. In the course of the Anglo
Arabian war that followed England's
annexation of Alden, in 1889, an English
square was attacked in the open plain by
a mass of Abdali horsemen. The Arabs
forced their way in so far as to kill
several men in the third rank, and were
then beaten off with bayonets and
dubbed muskets, an occurrence utilized
by James Grant in one of his military
novels. The Irish Brigade had a similar
experience at Talavera. $50, my Con-
naught boys" said Gen. Picton to them
after the battle, ''you let the Frenchmen
get into your square to-day, did you ?"
"Well, your Horror" answered brawny
Irish grenadier, with stern Significance,
''the blackguards got in, sure enough,
but, bedad they never got out again. -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
The Physician and the Cigarette.

Standing with physician the other
day, says the Boston JOls' nal, he called
attention to a boy of twelve or fourteen
years Of age who was smoking a cigar
cite. "Do you see that little wretch ?''
said he. The boys face was pale and
almost haggard, his lips were bloodless
and bis eyes had an old, strained look.
"That boy" said the man of physic,
sis one of the hundreds, yes, thousands,
of confirmed cigarette smoking boys in
this State. The cigarette, in the first
place, is the most harmful way of taking
tobacco and one which the boy takes to
naturally. The tobacco in the cheaper
grades is vile stuff, frequently chemi-
cally treated to give it flavor, and the
paper is always poisonous. That boy is
nervous and irritable. He is not a nat
ural boy. His face shows the marks of
the poison. Feel his pulse and it is
quick and irregular. He is already old
He looks it. In few years he will be
confirmed dyspeptic and will have heart
disease and all the ills that the gradual
poisoning of a young system can be
made heir to. 1t is a dreadful thing, and
something should be done to put stop
to it. Tobacco in small quantities is not
harmful for a large number of men when
fully grown, and for some L have seen
have thought 1t almost needful; but for
boys it is deadly poison, somewhat slow
in most cases, but sure to bring its crop
of diseases, the early decay of power
and premature death. 1t should be made
a felony to sell boy tobacco under
eighteen years of age. The Legislature
would do much more to save the race to
legislate against this evil than to attempt
some other reforms by law"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
His Dead Child.

A New Orleans paper tells this sad
story The other day a New Orleans
man had occasion to go over the lake.
On his way back, and when the train
stopped at the bay, he noticed a man
getting into the car in front of him with
a little baby in bis arms. After the train
had got under way the conductor came
and said: "Comc with me; want to
show you the saddest, strangest sight
you ever saw" and he led the way into
the next car. There sat the man whom
he had noticed with the babe; his
precious little bundle lay quiet on the
seat in front of him, and as these other
two men watched he leaned over and
looked long and earnestly in the little
face, and then kissed the frail fnger-tips
he held so gently in his hand "That
babv's dead" said the conductor cit
died this morning at the bay. He couldn't
bear to put it in coffin, because then
it would have to go without him in the
baggage-car, and so he is just carrying
it home to New Orleans in his arms. !"
Stricken to the hearts core he sat there
quiet and unheading, watching over his
dead child, kissing the fingers that would
never again softly clasp his, looking
down upon the white lids that had
closed over the bright eyes as the petals
of n sensitive flower close at nighttime
over its delicate heart, and the world
was nothing to him.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
KINDNESS MADE HIM CRY.
An Unusual Scene in the Tombs Police
Court.

Ragged and dirty, but bright as a
dollar, Edward Broderick, twelve years
old, typical New York Dewsboy, was
arTaigned for examination before Justice
Duffy, at the Tombs Police Court, on
complaint of policeman that he had
overcharged traveller for carrying a
satchel. The boy had been locked up
three days.
"Wbat did you charge the man p"
asked the Justice.
Halt dollar" replied the boy. "It
was dirt cheap. Why, de baggage
weighed hundred pound and most
broke me back. / carried it from de Fall
River boat to Broadway. He hadn't
orter kick"
"They say you are a regular baggage
smasher. Is that SOP"
81 never smashed nothing. but I'm fly
enough ketchin' on to odd jobs all the
same"
"Where do you live ?''
"Hain't got no home but lodging
house."
"Where's your father and mother?"
'I never saw any"
''DO you support yourself?"
"Why, Of course l does. The perlice
wouldn't do it for me, would deyP 1
kin get along if dey leaves me alone"
Homeless, friendless, twelve years
old and full of pluck" soliloquized the
Justice, and he added aloud, boy, you
are discharged.
"Here, Johnny" said several of the
spectators, and dimes and quarters were
dropped into the lads hand. He began
to cry at this, and ran out sobbing,
s'Youse be mighty good TO a poor duffer
like me. ". J. Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
Statistics of Uliiteracy.

Mr.. Blair, OF New Hampshire, adj
dressed the United States Senate on the
bill to aid in the establishment and tenn
porary support Of common schools. In
the course of his remarks he said:
More than one-ninth of the citizens of
the United States are unable to read or
write. According to the census of 1880,
out of the 50,000,000 of population in
the United States there were 992 per
cent. who could not read and II. A per
cent. who could not write. The proper
ton of white people who could not write
was 696 per cent. and of colored AZ. 70
per cent. The number of persons of
school age was Is, 527, 1872, while the
number enrolled was only 9,7S1, 521, and
even of that number the actual average
attendance was only 5,805, $40. That is
to say, the average attendance was about
two thirds of the enrolment, or about
one-third of the number that should at
tend. In thirty-four cities OF the Union
fifty to eighty-two per cent. of the chill
dren were not enrolled at all-that is,
W ould never know how to read or write
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
What they Want in Texas.

Says a Texas newspaper correspond
ent: was talking with an old settler
the other day, about the society of the
State. He had been expatiating on the
marked improvements in morals during
the past few years, and as he shifted the
weight of his body on the other hip, he
remarked sententiously: "What Texas
needs MORN all things is women; yes
sir, women; women SIGH as will make
man slick up little and have some style
about him, Thar's homes for 10000
women on the line Of the Texas Pacific
Railroad, an welcome. Men with means
is plenty, but women SIGH as I'm allud-
in at is scarce. never knoWd mar
riageable woman who stayed three
months in q town bnt could a had the
fur to a cow-man who has beenQn the
rarge all summer red flannel petit
coat looks as nice as q sating dress an a
brsast-pin O. diamonds does In Chicago"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
How He Escaped.

Persons who have read with unques-
tioning faith the greater part of that
quietly-colored romance Monte Cristo, -
have perhaps had their credulity some
what too much strained by the incident
of Dantes's escape from the Chateau
diff by means of feigned death. 1t has
remained for one Joe Wilson, a noted
horse thief of North Carolina, to make
this episode as matter of fact as the rest
of the story. He was recently sentenced
to State Prison for 10 years for his out
lawry, took an appeal. and was awaiting
a decision of the Supreme Court in his
case. For some weeks he has pretend
ed 70 be ILL., The other night he feigned
death, was laid out by the prison Off
Gals, and prepared for burial. The
body was placed in an out building,
where it was viewed by many of the
prisoners and officers of the Jail. The
eyes were wide open and seemingly
glazed in death. Blood had spurted
from the mouth and ran down on the
bed covering. A minister was sent for
to preach at the funeral of the notorious
robber. The body was left alone until
the time for burial When everything
became quiet about the prison Wilson
suddenly resurrected himself, sprang up
and dashed out of the room, and made
his escape before any one was aware of
what had occurred. He dashed down
the mountain and fled toward Tennes-
see. The discoveries of the ruse PLAYED
on them by Wilson were so paralyzed
that they permitted the prisoner to get
two hours start of them before they
followed him. 1t is hardly probable
that he will be captured
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
Broken Hearted.

Truth is stranger than fiction, and
oftentimes the strangest tragedy is
rivalled by some incident in real life.
A few days ago a young desperate in
California killed a man in a drunken
row. The news was carried to his aged
mother. When she heard it she sank
into a chair and, covering her head,
wept as though her heart would break.
The father soon afterward came into the
room, and seeing his wife weeping asked
her what was the matter. "Oh. Morris,
my husband, our boy William shot a
man last night and the man is dead p
The terrified father raised his hands
above his head and murmuring, "Oh,
God ! not that, not that r' fell to the
floor dead. Medical aid was summoned,
but the old man was beyond human
help.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
A TRICK UPON A TRAVELLER.
The Lack of Presence of Mind in Some Men
APPLY Illustrated.


"Well," said Conductor Jones to a
Boston Globe representative, zone OF
the funniest things that ever happened
ON my train occurred one day at Bethle-
hem. An old man whom | had noticed
in the drawing room Car as very lively
and talkable traveller got off at that
station. I was standing at an open
window of the car just as the train was
starting off, when who should l see but
the jolly old man rushing toward me
from the outside, He pointed frantically
to window Just back of me, exclaiming
as well as he could while trying to catch
his breath:
"'My valise-left -there-throw it
out
Turning quickly, saw large black
valise in the seat indicated, and, Selling
it, rushed tie tha-rsar -plsltfor1n- OF t4ae
car, where there were quite number
of gentlemen. Tossing 1T to one of the
men, as they blocked the way so that L
couldn't get through, 1 shouted
""Throw it to the old man there
"Without a moments hesitation the
man did as directed. As the valise left
his hand he made an Intellectual effort to
regain possession of it; then, with a
muttered exclamation which [ couldn't
comprehend, leaped from the train,
seized the Inflated baggage and was just
in time to board one of the rear cars. It
was all done in an instant, although it
takes time to tell the story. In minute
he made his way forward and angrily
asked
"'What did you tell me to throw this
vaIise OFF for p
Because the old man wanted it.
"'Well, then, he's thief. That yalise
is mine.
"'rhen, said I. laughing, for the
whole situation seemed so perfectly
why under the sun did you
throw it off at all +? Didn't you know
your own property ?
Eyes, but then it was so sudden, and
you told me to throwit, and
''But the roar of laughter that greeted
the explanation broke short his sentence
and he was voted a leather medal by the
The jolly old man, as |
afterward learned, had been joking all
through"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
TOO MANY LAWYERS.
Inc composition of COngress-why Busi-
ness Men Feel Uneasy W lille Ir is In
From the New York Honr.1

lIIOu the New 1Ork Hour
81 always feel uneasy" said Mr..
Olnsmore, the President of the Adams
Express Company, ''when Congress is
IN session. Indeed, if Congress did not
meet but once in three years. it would
be great national benefit" There can
be no doubt that in expressing this
opinion, Mr.. Dinsmore correctly in
terpreted the sentiment of the majority
of business men all over the country.
The annual meeting of the National Leg
1slature Is looked forward to with appre-
hension, and great sigh of relief goes
up when it adjourns. Every fourth
year, when the Republic is plunged into
the excitement of Presidential cam
palgn, there is a great stagnation in
trade; speculation of all kind is almost
suspended; investors even in real estate,
to say nothing about railroad stocks and
new branches of business, become timid
and resolutely refuse to venture into I'M
tried enterprise until the struggle has
been decided one way or the other.
Especially has this been true during the
asst twenty-five years
The great trouble with Congressman
only the present one, but nearly all its
HASuSOSSSOIS uuIluS bu0 past n1I
century-has been, and is, that it con-
talns too many lawyers. It is seldom
that great merchant, manufacturer or
business man of any kind finds his way
into that body. The result is we have a
body of men legislating ON questions
about which they know next to nothing,
and making confusion worst confounded.
At least seventy-fve per cent. of the
men now holding seats in the Senate
and House of Representatives are law
yers and professional politicians. So
anomalous a condition of affairs exists in
no other country with representative
parliamentary system. In Germany, in
France and in England, the lawyers as
legislators are in minority. The gre at
landed, manufacturing, banking and
other interests are all represented
With us the half-educated, i'll trained
country lawyer from all the Squidunks
of the Republic pass upon the great
questions of commerce and trade, and
decide for communities like New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore,
questions of the most momentous i'm
portance. Fifty per cent. of the law
yers should be banished from the halls
of the National Legislature. Their
presence there is an evil and a menace
to the best interests of the country.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
After Three Days.

Mr.. CHARLES w. MoRRIs, Eagle" office,
Pittsfeld, Mass, writes May %, 1888: For
several months my wife's mother Mrs. Amy
Boyce) had been in very precarlous cond1-
ton with dropsy o. Bright's disease of the
kidneys, and having used all methods and
measures for her restoration in the line OF
treatment by our leading physicians, and
having failed to benefit her, her family de-
SPARED of seeing her relieved, and gave her
up to die. Happening to run across the ties,
timony of Mrs. Dawley, who had been cured
of similar sickness by using Hunts Remedy,
we at once procured bottle of it, and com
menced giving it as directed. After using 1t
three days she was so far improved that she
could get from her bed TO her chair without
assistance "a circumstance that had not hap
pened for months). Previous to taking 1T
she was troubled more or less with short
breath, requiring a continuous tanning to
keep her alive. This gradually improved as
we continued the use of Hunts Remedy, and
on the fourth bottle she was able to set up all
day. She was bloated terribly in both limbs
and body upward to the lungs. The tenth
day the bloating left her bowels, and now she
is not swollen above the knees. Her kidneys
we're very bad at the time, discharges being
of a bloody character and EMIT ng slcken-
ing odor l can say that the change in her
case has been wonderful, and Hunts Remedy
has worked a miracle in her"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10

One of our small Sunday-school
scholars was much perplexed over the
meaning of the word esprit, and, after
bordering ON the subject, one morning
greeted her mother with "Mamma, what
does spirit mean ?" The mother looked
OF her little daughter perplexed, and di-
rected the child to her father for ex-
PLANTATION. Upon hearing the question,
papa, who had been enjoying morning
nap, rubbed his eyes and wondered how
he could define the word for bis child S
understanding. ga spirit, spirit-well,
it is something you can perceive but
cannot see" Ertirely satisfied the child
went away, and after some minutes OF
quiet, nodded her head sagely. ooh,
know what spirit is. It's a skunk.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
Exploration of New Guinea.

x *'In connection with the Waltham
Watch Company, it may be stated that
when the proprietors of The Age desired to
present Mr.. G.. Z. Morrison (the explorer of
New Guinea) with reliable chrOnometer,
acting upon the advice of Mr.. r. L. j,
Ellcry, the Government Astronomer, two
Waltham watches were, however, procured
for Mr.. Morrison instead. These were kept
at the Melbourne Observatory for fort
night, and thoroughly and carefully tested
and were pronounced by Mr.. Ellcry, at the
end of that time, to be better suited for Mr..
Morrison's requirements than any chro-
nomeler. "-Extraat from Nolb0wine Age