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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07
Mr.. Lincoln and the Rebel Chiefs.

Following are two anecdotes of Lin
coin illustrative of his spirit of forbear-
ance toward the principal actols in the
great rebellion. One day, about the
close of the war, word was brought that
Jake Thompson was at Portland, Me-,
about to sail for England. Mr.. Lincoln
was washing his hands at the time, when
Secretary Stanton urged him to take
immediate action to secure his arrest.
WELL" said the President, eff
Jake Thompson is satisfied with the
issue of the war, 1 am. Better let
him s-l-i-d-e."
"Such men should be punished to the
full extent of the law" said Mr.. Stan
ton. "Why, if we don't punish the
leaders of the rebellion, what shall we
say to their followers?"
"B-e-t-t-e-r let him slide, Stanton"
said the President, laying aside his
towel.
Mr.. Stanton went out, evidently an
noyed, and Mr.. Lincoln, turning to
Admiral Dahlgren, who was present,
said: Dahl, that is one of the things [
don't intend to allow. When the war is
over 1 want it to stop, and let both sides
go to work and heal the wounds, which,
Heaven knows, are bad enough; but
jogging and pulling at them is not the
best way to heal sores"
A similar story is told of Mr.. Lincoln
relative to the attempted escape OF jeff
Davis. An officer approached him for
the purpose of learning his wishes. AS
soon as Mr. Lincoln OWNED the officers
purpose he proceeded to tell him story,
HI al, OF, FOL
Il remember" said the President, "a
noted temperance lecturer who lived in
SangamOn county, Ill, and was very
earnest in the cause. He was proceed
ing afoot on hot and dusty day to de-
liver temperance discourse in a neigh
boring town. Being exceedingly thirsty,
he stopped at tavern on the roadside
and called for glass of soda water.
The tavern-keeper knew him, and, lean
ing over the bar, he said to him in a
whisper: This is very hot day, and
you look very much used up. Shall [
put a stick in it p If said the lecturer
in confidential tone, a stick could be
put in it unbeknOwn to me, am not
prepared to say that anybody would
suffer by it Now" said Lincoln, II
cannot tell any one to be party to
Jeff Davis escape; but, if he should
contrive to quit the country unbeknown
to me, I am not prepared to say but that
we would be able to get along very~
comfortably without him.
The officer needed no further in
formation touching the wishes of the
executive head of the Government, at
all events, and he left the White House
entirely satisfied.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07
How Mark Twain's Father Commanded
Silence i'm Court.

In 1S43, at Hannibal, Mo-, John
Marshall Clemens, the father of Sam
uel i. Clemens Mark Twain, filled
the ancient and honorable office known
as Justice of the Peace. Here on
court days, when the Judge climbed
upon his three-legged stool, raped on
the box with his knuckles and demand
ed "Silence in the court, +" it was fully
expected that silence would reign su-
preme.
Late in the fall of 1913 the case of
Allan B. Mcdonald VS.. Jacob Smith was
ON trial Frank Snyder, a peaceable
citizen, had given his testimony in IA
vor of defendant Smith, and resumed
his seat, when Mcdonald, with an eX-
asperating air, made face at him. AS
quick as thought Snyder whipped out
an old pepper-box revolver and emp
tied every barrel at Mcdonald, slightly
grazing Mes head with one shot, hurt
ing no one else, but filling the room
with smoke and CONSERVATION. In the
confusion that followed Judge Clemens,
doubtless remembering McDOnald's
mean tricks, instantly concluded that
he was the aggressor, and gathering up
hammer bnaG lay nedf ny nc uealu hlIll
a blow that sent him senseless and
quivering to the floor. Then silence
like n poultce came to heal the blows
of sound" and the irate court was COM
plete master of the situation.
Judge Clemens was a kind-hearted
man. and was mortified when he
learned that he had struck the wrong
fellow, but the Oldest Inhabitants never
heard him admit that it was "a lick
amiss." He held his Office for years
and years aftervard, and it is not rec
orded where any other disturbance ever
occurred in his courtroom.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07

In the New England States the aver
age capital invested in business by these
trades was $40, ZOO. Massachusetts
showing the largest average $27, 900 and
Vermont the smallest, So, 700. In 1880
there were IN these States 635 failures,
or an average of in every 135 trades,
of these failures 334 were in Massachu-
sets, the largest number, and % in
Vermont.
In the Middle States including Della
ware and Maryland, the average capital
invested IN business was $13, 700.
The number OF failures III 1880 was go,
an average of III 232. New York being
the largest with 554 and Delaware the
smallest with 10.
A summary of the tables for all the
States shows that the total capital III.
vested In business was IS, III, sos, 900.
The total number of trades was 703,-
32S.
The total number of failures in bust
ness in 1880 was 4, $50 or an average OF
1 In every 1872 The average capital In
vested in business was $11, 600.
The aggregate amount of capital equal
to IS, 1T, sos, S62 invested in industry
and commerce in 1880 is sum equiva-
lent to nearly one fifth, or exactly 49,
per cent of the total reported and esti-
mated accumulated wealth at that time
IN the United States.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07

A citizen of Detroit who has been to
Lansing on business was returning
when an old farmer, going East with
his wife, took the next seat back and
opened a conversation which lasted
almost into the city. Then he happened
to mention something about Europe
which the farmer doubted, and the cit
izen protested.
"But I have been there and know"
"Whatl You bin to Yurup?"
"Yes."
"Bin in England and France"
81 have"
"Bin to Rome and seen the ruins ?"
dyes"
"Bin right in Paris?"
81 was there two months"
"By cracky, Maria !" said the old man,
as he turned to his wife, 'here's Teller
who's bin all over Yurup and rides with
us hull half day before he lets on a
word! Why, the Bixbys didn't go no
further than Boston, and the fust night
they got home they kept the hull town
up till o'clock in the morning to tell
about pavements and pictur' halls and
opera houses and street cars and door
bells which would ring by pressing on
a button! Wall, wall! Bin to Yurup
and no Dragging over it!"-Free Press.
LAND speculation of the widest kind
has superseded stock gambling in Aus
tralia. Villages that were sold twenty
years ago on paper have never pro-
crossed any further, and are now being
sold over and over again.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07
Not True Farmers.

The Minneapolis Pioneer says: In
Mr.. Finkle's store to-day farmer came
in to settle for load of wheat, and
made a number of purchases, and
among them were several pounds of
very ordinary butter and three or four
dozen packed eggs. L inquired if this
sort of thing was common practice of
the farmers in the vicinity.
Farmers" repeated the merchant,
contemptueusly, "why, we haven't got
twenty real farmers in this county.
They are all nothing but wheat-raisers,
and that is a long way from being a
farmer. A large number of farmers in
Dakota who own whole quarter sections
of land seldom have drop of milk in
the house, and the butter they eat is
bought at the nearest store. They don t
even keep COW or pig or try to raise
vegetables enough to provide for the
winter"
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At the Wrong House.

Alex II. Stephens had a keen sense
of the ridiculous, and used to relate
anecdotes from his own experience to-
amuse his friends. One which he was
very fond of telling occurred during
his service in Congress before the war,
when Senator Edward Everett and M.
de Sartiges, the French Minister, re-
sided in adjacent houses on G. street.
One evening, as the guests invited by
M. de Sartiges to dinner party arrived,
Mr. Stephens came with them in even
ing dress. The polite Frenchman, not
having invited the well-known Repre-
sentative from Georgia, asked him if he
desired to converse with him on any
subject.
"No, thank you" replied Mr.,
Stephens, who went on chatting with
the other guests.
M. de Sartiges went to his dining
room, told his butler not to announce
dinner until that little gentleman in the
parlor had gone, and returned there.
After waiting a quarter OF an hour,
with the full knowledge that his good
cheer was being spoiled, he again APP
preached Mr.. Stephens, saying:
"Meestear Steven, would you like to
see me about something's"
"No, sirl No, sir" was the prompt
reply, and, as the disconsolate host
walked away with gesture of despair,
Mr.. Stephens said to gentleman with
whom he was conversing:
"What does that impertinent little
Frenchman mean by thinking that ]
want TO talk with him ?"
THAT" was the reply, lis our host,
you know, and perhaps he invited you
to have little chat before dinner"
"Our host!" exclaimed Mr.. Stephens;
"why [ came here to dine with Senator
Everett, of Massachusetts
The joke was too good to be kept
quiet, and aft 7 lr. Stephens had left
the guests at the French Legation
joined in a roar; he created another
hearty laugh in Mr.. Everett's drawing
room next door, where the guests for
another dinner had been waiting his
arrival. He had gotten into the wrong
house,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07
lie benefits himself that doeth good to other

Mr.. II. L. SoPER, principal of the High
School at Poquonock, Conn, says in relation
to matter which has given him much anxiety
and pain: only wife and have both used
Hunts Remedy, and find it really superior
article. A year or so ago my kidneys became
weak and sluggish owing to a severe strain,
and finding relief in Hunts Remedy l con-
tinued its use until L had used four bottles,
when l became well. Since my cure have
suggested its use to a great number of people,
who know have been benefited by using it.
And to substantiate this state nent, Mr.. H.
S. CLARK, assistant superintendent of the
High School, says: 81 can certify to the
value of Hunts Remedy, having received
great benefit from its use. My troubles com
menced twelve years ago, when my kidneys
became afflicted with inflammation of the
passages, but the timely use of so valuable a
medicine arrested the disease. l can now
cheerfully recommend it to all suffering as
was" May 81, 1888
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07

A human interrogation point went to
an oculist to get a glass fitted to his
eye. "Thie is the weakest glass you
have?7 he asked. Eyes" well, what
shall I do when [ can't see with this q
"Why, you viii probably be compelled
to purchase a stronger one" "And
when / cannot see with that?" "Well,
then you will have touse a still stronger
one "And after that?" ooh, then
You Will have to get the very strongest. 8"
The victim of defective eyesight thought
a moment, and then asked: "And
when / can't see with the strongest 2"
The oculist didn't care to say what
would happen after his own skill had
proved Intellectual, and was rather in
dignant at the inquisitiveness of the
customer, so remained silent. "But
tell me-" persisted the knowledge seek
er, what shall do when the strongest
glass fails me?" ooh, ahem, well,
was the answer, 81 should say that the
next thing to do would be to buy a
small dog with a string round his neck
and let him lead Won.
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Ashes TO Ashes i'm Jauan.

There are three large cremation
places in Osaka, and one of these 1 Wis
tied the other day. 1t is situated near
the Kidsugawa, outside the city limits,
and is surrounded by high wall. The
appearance of the place from the road
is similar to that of a temple, were it
not for the chimney, which towers aloft
about sixty feet. In the main crema-
tory there are twenty large furnaces,
each capable of burning three bodies, SO
that sixty corpses can be reduced to
ashes at the same time. Operations
commence at II p. m, and by 3 o'clock
in the morning the process is complet-
ed. CARNATIONS do not take place in
the day. When / visited the place there
were five bodies awaiting cremation.
three grown-up persons and two chill
dren. 1t was then late, and no NOR
were expected. | was particularly
struck with the scrupnlous cleanliness
of the cremation establishment.-O Osaka
letter IN the HjogO NelCS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07

Col. l.. A. Brandebury, now clerk
in the Pension Office at Washington,
tells the following: "One evening in
October, 1865, President Johnson asked
me to take small parcel to Alexander
II. Stephens, then stopping at Wizards
Hotel, and who had been released from
Fort Warren, Boston harbor. / found
the gentleman surrounded by many dis
tinguished callers. After the company
had left L handed Mr.. Stephens the
envelope. He took it and with a nerv-
Gus hand broke the seal Cthe envelope
was an official one, and bore the line,
From the President of the United
States, on the upper right-hand corner,
and his eye caught these words as soon
as he received the packet, AMI after q
few moments, during which time his
cOuntenance seemed to say Il am per-
mitted to go home he turned to me
and said: L have had many callers,
many persons that Twas glad to see, but
L am more glad to see you, my young
friend, than all of them Taking re-
ceipt for the papers (orders for his
transportation to Charlottesville, Gao,
left him. Seventeen years later l
called on him at the National Hotel.
When | said to him that he had ex-
pressed so much pleasure at seeing me
the last time [ called thatI felt encour-
aged to call again, he replied with a
puzzled look, that he could notrecall nv
face or my former visit to mind. When
] handed him his old receipt, given me
IN 1860, he was not long in saying that,
while l had outgrown his recollection,
he had never forgotten the visit. Leav-
ing written request for an autograph
letter, withdrew, and never saw him
afterward." He soon received the au-
tograph with kind note.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07
MARKET NOTES.
NEW YORK MARKET.

NEW 1OIh MANNED
The Wholesale New York market quotations
show:
BEANs-Prime, 81 25@s4. 40; fair to good.
So. S5GS2. 81 per busheI
BUTTER - New York sold at 4It042c. for
choice III pals, and 1SG119c. common TO good.
Western Creamery sold at 36938c., and the
common Western at 17O1Sc.
CHEEsE@Faetory fancy, 13@1375c; do. fair
to good, 10@1215c.
EGGs-Quotations ranged from Bic. for Or
binary, to 32c for New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
Flour -Superfne, $2.8O@S3. So; Western,
S3.9O@S70O; extra New York, 50. SO@96. 90.
HAY Shipping. 5O@55c. clover, 45@55c,
salt, 60c; straw, 50@55c.
HoPs-New York. 25026c.; Eastern, 23925c;
yearlings, 1S@23c; ODDS, - O..
northumberland, 1850; crude, 65s@73sc
in bulk; in barrels, S5Sc; naphtha, $40. in
shipping order. and II 119@12c. in cases.
PoRK-Clear back. $17.3719@$18, 50; dressed
WHEAT II Spring No. 8, S1.O2@sLO6; Mil
waukee, No. 2, $1.05; amber. $1.32@$2.4O
white, SI.11@$1.12.
CoRN-Ungraded Western Mixed. 5O@6315c;
Steamer Mixed, 60@6015c in elevator 63c.
delivered; No. q 627s9631(c in elevator, GAO
IS delivered White Southern. &c. de-
livered.
RYE-state, 71@73c.
WooL-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia,
xxx, 45G46c.; Xxx, 42Cd)44c.; X, 42943c.; No.
l, 45D47c.; No. 2, 3SGd40c.; common, 33935e.;
New York and Western Xxx and x, 39@4515c.;
No l, 44@45c.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
FLoUR-State family, --0$5. co.; rye flour,
So. 5O@$3. rs; wheat, State, s. OSLO
amber, $1.43; corn, yellow, 55c.; mixed States
&c.
PETROLEUM Refined, 1870; crude, 6Hc.
WooL-State and Western Xxx, 46@50c; X,
47@48c.; medium, 5O@51c.; coarse, Acc.
BOSTON MARKET
FLOUR = From $3.0O@$3 so for low and
medium to $4.25@5.75 for choice Minnesota.
Corn. 68CD70c. for mixed and yellow.
BUTTER = Common, 19c. CdD22c. Vermont
dairy, 24@30c.; choice creamery, 33@3tc.
CHEESE 5@1315c.
BEANs-$2. 7O(D$2.S so.
HAY-Choice, $15@$16
CATTLE MARKETS.
BUFFALO Cattle, good quality, $6.65d
$500; hogs, fair to good, $6.20@$6.30; best,
$6.75.
EAST LIBERTY. PENN.-Best cattle, $6.25@
$685. medium to good, $5.25@S6.00; common
to fair, $5.00@$600: Hogs, Workers. $500
So. 10; Philadelphias, $6.3O@$6GO. Sheep,
&525@$5.5O.
WATERFOWL, MAss.-Cattle, choice, s.
@$1O25; extra, $8.GO@$9.O0; first quality,
$7.O0@$7.50; second quality, $5.00@S6.50:
third quality, $4.00@S4.50 Sheep and lambs
wool sheep, $250@$475 extra, $4,000
1918; spring lambs, 5@654c.; Veal calves
315c6)715c.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07

Dr. r. Y. Pierce Buffalo, N. Y: Three
months ago was broken out with large ulcers
and sores on my body, limbs and face. Ipro-
cured your Golden Medical Discovery" and
''Purgative Pellets and have taken six bottles,
and to-day am in good health, all those ugly
ulcers having healed and left my skin in a
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yet there is drop of joy in every word write.
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UTICA, june 3, 1855,
FRANK w. HOFFMAN, clerk of the American
Districs Telegraph Co., says: g Having had
occasion to use a medicine for kidney trouble
with a lame back, L was recommended by one
of our Utica druggists to use Hunts Remedy,
as he had sold a good deal of it to many of
our leading families here with great success
for kidney, liver and urinary troubles. l
purchased some, and have only used three bot
Ties. 1t has cured me, and can truly recon-
mend Hunts Remedy to any one IN need OF
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led people are generally bores.

THE voLTAIo BELT Co., Marshall, Mich, win
send DR.. Dyes Celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belts
and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days
to men Cyoung or old) who are afflicted with
nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred
troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete
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thirty days' trial is allowed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07

WHATEVER the internal application of
hot water may effect, girls DESTROYS of
having a good complexion would do
well to apply it to their faces. They
should either dip their faces into basin
of very hot water or apply the water
with a sponge. At first they are like
Holsters. but in few moments this is
replaced by the tints of peaches and
lies.-LORdOn Truth.
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Walnut Lenf Hair Restorer

It Is entirely different from al others. It is
as clear as water, and as its name indicates is a
perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. 1t will imme-
diately free the head from all dandruff, restore
gray hair to- its natural color, and produce new
growth where it has fallen off. 1t does not in any
manner affect the health, which sulphur, sugar
of lead and nitrate of silver preparations have
done. 1t will change light or faded hair in few
days to beautiful glossy brown. Ask your drug
gist for it. Each bottle is warranted. SMITH,
KLINE q Co. Wholesale Agents, Philadelphia,
Pa, and G. N. CRITTENToN, New York.
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Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses
Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Tnre or IsDeUm0nI;l.

Mr. D. ii. Barnaby, of Owego, New York, says that
his daughter was taken with violent cold which ter
minated with pneumonia and all the best physicians
gave the case up and said she could not live but few
hours at most She was this condition when friend
recommended DR.. VIM. Halls Bssam for the Lungs
and advised her to try it. She accepted it as last
resort and was surprised to find that it produced a
marked change for the better and by perseVerns IN "
use a permanent cure effected.
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Farms. Observation-Disclosures. 1O,197
Residence and business real estate, cap
ital employed in business, including
water power. ...--...-------. 1901
Railroads and equipment ..... 5,J36
Telegraphs, shipping and canals. ...... 419
Live stock, whether on off farms,
farming tools and machinery. 1900. 2, 4O6
Household furniture, paintings, books,
clothing, jewelry, household supplies
of food, fuel, etc. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Mines Cincluding petroleum wells) and
quarries, together with one-haf of
the annual product reckoned as the
average supply on hand. ...... $50
Three-quarters of the annual product
of agriculture and manufactures and
of the annual importation of foreign
goods, assumed to be the average
supply on hand. ..................9. 616O
Churches, schools, asylums public build
ings of all kinds, and other real
estate exempt from taxation. ....... 1900
Specie 612
Miscellaneous items, including tools of
mechanics ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 65U
Total. ....................... 1862
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nEotbers, Atteutiun.

Charles Jones, of Elizabeth, Spencer county, Ind,
says az have dealt in medicine number of years, and
will say that Dr. Rogers Vegetable Worm Syrup is the
most valuable medicine ever Sold"
FOR SPECIAL RATES for advertising in this paper
- IL - tlnnr, lish nr of the plDer. ~
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He that is master of himself will soon be
master of others.

DR.. r. v PIERcE's "Golden Medical Discov-
cry cures every kind of humOr, from the COM
mon pimple or eruption to the worst scrotula.
-Four to six bottles cure salt-Theum or letter.
One to five bottles cure the worst kind OF
pimples On the face.
Two to four bottles clear the system of boils,
earbuncles, and sores.
Five to eight bottles cure corrupt or rum
nlng ulcers and the worst scrofula.
BY druggists, and in half-dozen and dozen
lots at great discount