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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
ALI Honest People.

I was in village of the Alps, and had
the misfortune to lose, while travelling,
an important part of my luggage. My
case seemed to myself hopeless; never
theless l took what steps could to re-
cover the property. In doing so 1 con-
suited the manager of a rather large
hotel a few miles off-a German, who
spoke English. "Much will depend"
said he, after he had heard my lament :
ton, ''upon whether your lost goods
may have gone beyond this district or
not; if they have, have not much COM
fort to give you; if they have not, you
will certainly get them again, for they
are all honest people here" The things
were brought back in about week after
that, with straps, locks and hinges all in
order. asked myself whether, if the
loss had happened in a country district
of England, 1 could have been so for
tunate, and decided that the chances
were very much against my being so. 1t
is fine thing to claim to rule the waves,
very grand idea to have dominions on
which the sun never sets; but one feels,
at time when large rascality has been
occupying the public mind, that it is
thing of no mean importance to live
among people of approved honesty.
Haroun the just, if he had come among
them, would probably have placed my
Alpine villagers very high in his scale of
desert-Perhaps WOULD haxe-hadz it-Ee-
corded in letters of gold (his favorite
b1azon), "They are all honest people
here. "-BLdckaUOOd's Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
Shad Getting Scarce.
SETH GREEN HAS A PLAN FOR MAKING
THIS TOoTHsoME FISH ABUNDANT,

eyes, that is So" said Seth Green,
reading an extract from the Albany En-
press, in which the writer bewailed the
scarcity of shad in the upper Hudson
river. "Fact is, we cannot catch shad
enough up there to get spawn for hatch
ing. Those fellows at the lower end
catch 'em all, and only once in while
one gets up stream. The river is filled
with nets, and helpers make SIS day.
The nets are made very cheap, and they
fill the river full. The Albany folks are
right in asking for close season of one
day each week; think it ought to be
two days. That would let enough fish
get through to furnish good up-river
fishing, and we could get some spawn
for our Matching operations. There is a
bill before the Legislature now to make
a close one day each week, but it won't
pass. These fellows want all the fish
that come into the river, and you can't do
anything with them. They don't know
when they are we'll off, though. Why,
there's thirty fishermen making money
out of the business now, where there was
one before we commenced operations.
"I'll tell you what ought to be done.
The fisheries at Holyoke, CD the Con-
necticut river, should be hired in the in
terest of artificial propagation. Then
there should be two close days in sue
cessioH in each week, in which not net
should be allowed in the river anywhere.
The fish caught for spawn should be
caught only in the night, because when
shad are ripe, they do not travel in the
day time. Then when the fish are
caught only those that are ripe should
be taken, and the rest turned loose, to
be caught again at the proper time. In
this way we could hatch 100000,000
shad year, and make more shad than
ever have been seen. The process of
artificial Matching is one for all. time,
and with fish enough to furnish spawn
there never should be a scarcity of
shad. Rochester Democrat.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
Drunkenness in Paris.

There are two days in the week.
Sunday, day of rest for respectable
people, and Monday, day of rest for
those who work on Sunday, to show
their contempt of God and religion
when you can see as much drunkenness
here as in any other city in the world
All the mannezingues, as the lower dens
are called, are crowded with male and
female customers, who drink wine which
does not contain single drop of grape
juice, redhot eau-de-vie made out of po-
tatoes, and liquors strong enough to
scald the tongues of honest men and
women. have ventured to demonstrate
with these people and they told me they
drank to give themselves strength, and
that wine takes the place of food. Now,
alcohol in the animal stomach undergoes
no change whatever; it will be foundvin
its original state in the brain, in the
blood, and in the liver, and it escapes
unaltered from the system, causing most
frightful ply ical, mental, and moral
ravages. Those who have lived in Paris
for few years cannot but have noticed
that this vice of drunkenness is on the
increase. There are sections of the city
where every other door Is liquor shop.
The State derives vast revenues from the
sale of this poison. The annual amount
spent by Parisians for drink exceeds
S125. OOc, 600, and half of it is expended
in intemperance.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
Rescued Mariners.

The Navy department is informed
that the Essex succeeded in rescuing
the crew of the American schooner
wrecked on Marshall Islands.
the wrecked ship was new vessel
named the Rainier, and was bound from
Philadelphia for Hiogo, Japan, loaded
with refined petroleum in cases. On
January the Rainier went ashore on
GATHERINGS Island, one of the Marshall
group, which are situated in latitude
degrees north and longitude 173 degrees
east. The captain and his daughter and
twenty-five others reached the shore.
The mate and four men started in the
long boat for some point to report the
disaster and secure assistance. They
were picked up when eleven days out
near Nalan, by the English bark Cata-
lima and landed at Saigon. The mate
did not think the others would leave the
island where wrecked, but would there
await assistance. The Essex, of the
Asiatic fleet, was sent in search of the
shipwrecked crew and has succeeded in
her mission,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
A Monster Dredger.

A monster dredger is at work on the
Cape Cod Ship Canal. The dredger
was excavating, during an inspection,
about 600 cubic yards per hour, its full
capacity being 10000 cubic yards per
day. The deposit by the force of the
filtration is carried some 800 feet from
the point of excavation, forming by its
distribution an additional embankment
to the width of 100 feet. The dredger,
it is said, is the largest in the world,
and can do the work of from IT'S to 200
men. By the new survey and other
changes proposed, the work will require
at least four years for its completion, at
an estimated expense of 81 10000 per
mile. The channel will be eight miles
long, 240 feet wide, and deep enough to
float the largest vessels. Under the
proposed change of location, the en-
trance at Buzzard's Bay will be between
Mashee and Tobey's Island instead OF
Aganam Point. Over $780, 900 have been
expended in deposits for prospective
damages, the payment for right of way
and expenses for labor and material.
The working of the dredger was salts
factory
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
The Base Ball Season.

The championship base ball season
has opened with an intensity of popular
interest not surpassed in former years, if
ever equaled, says the New York San,
Assemblages of fifteen thousand spec
tators in some cities, and of ten or twelve
thousand in others, watched Thursday s
games, while those of the two subse-
quent days were also witnessed by
greater throngs; yet the competition of
other open-air sports has been much in
creased of late. If the excitement over
the chief contests is not always main
tanned to the close of the season, this re-
suit is partly due to the uniform supe-
riority of certain clubs. In the League,
for example, from its foundation to the
present time, the championship pennant
has been passed around between three
clubs only, those of Boston, Chicago
and Providence. The second place as
well as the first has usually fallen to one
of these. The New York club has again
opened the season, as it did last May, by
winning three games in succession. For
the sake of the general interests of the
League, it is hoped that either this club
or some one of the others that have
been hitherto invariably shut out from
the coveted emblem may win it this
wear,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
AguerO Hiding in a Swamp.
HE EXPECTS TO ENLIST THE PEASANTS IN
HIS ARMY AFTER THE CROPS ARE
GATHERED.

Gen. Aguero, it is learned from reli-
able gentleman who has just reached Key
West after tour through Cuba, has now
but forty or fifty followers at his back.
These are well mounted and we'll armed.
Being close pressed by the Government
troops, they gained the swamps of Ia
pata before their capture could be eff
fected, but were compelled to turn their
horses loose and flee on foot in small
bands to the hills between the railroad
and the Rio Guazabo Largo, where they
are in hiding.
Among the band are several herdesr
whose familiarity with all the unbeaten
paths enables them to avoid capture with
comparative ease. Relying on their
ability to preserve his liberty, Gen. Aguero
expects to remain in hiding until after
the crop is harvested, when, counting on
inducing the peasantry to join him in
large numbers, he will begin an aggres-
sive campaign.
The Captain General continues his as
surances that the whole rebel band will
be speedily captured. Gold is at....250,
and the sugar crop is selling at lower
prices than ever before known. These
facts have greatly depressed financial
circles, and make another disastrous
panic almost inevitable. The chances of
interference by the United States and
ultimate annexation are openly discussed
In the cafes throughout the island.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
A Turkish Horse Seller.


ga Man of Leisure" describes in the
Boston Commercial Bulletin his expert
ence of buying a horse, while travelling
in the East, his companion, whom he
calls ''the Captain" conducting the
trade in the Oriental Jockeys own Ian
guage.
The owner was called for, and strap
ping fellow, 80 years of age, approached.
He was attired in the Turkish costume,
consisting of a short jacket, blue vest
embroidered and covered with bell-but-
tons, baggy breeches, yellow sash, goat
skin boots and red fez; his hair was
short, face dark, with bright, cleaning
eyes and fierce mustache. He was
above the medium size, and withal a
pleasant looking fellow.
snow, my son." said the captain,
show much do you ask for the
horse 2"
Making a salaam, the Kurd an
swered-
master, if thy servant hath found
favor in thine eyes, thou shalt have the
horse for two hundred sequins."
go Father of the Faithful, hear the
thief p shouted the old fellow with the
swivel neck. 1.-TWO hundred sequins for
the brute, when I will sell my beautiful
beast for one hundred"
"You ask too much, my son, said the
captain.
''Thou seest, o Frangistani, that ny
horse is swift as an arrow from the bow,
and that he springeth like jackal. See
his loins; they are in strength as the
lion."
81 see all these things. o child of the
faithful, but yet thou askest too
much"
"Well, please God, thou wilt buy him
for one hundred and fifty sequins.
''Now, may dogs defile thy grave,
thou robber !" shouted the fellow who
sported the blue gabardine and yellow
slippers. "Wouldst thou cheat the
stranger within our gates. when for
eighty sequins he can buy my beast, the
pride of Bassora, instead of mounting
thy old camel, which is fit for nothing
but lepeIs to ride p
81 will count down in thine hand
twenty sequins with the Sultana of
FRANCISCAN thereon for thy horse, said
the captain.
"What hath thy servant done to thee,
" uldSttT, lIdt tIlOu SuOulu illus IONhC
him? Say eighty, and We shall re-
ioice."
mo; I will give thee twenty"
"Fifty sequins, and he is thine"
"No."
"He is of the children of Araby; but
still thou mayest have him for forty"
Twenty, or we shall depart In
peace.
'In Allah's name say thirty
sNo."
"Well, thon shalt have him for
twenty; but be kind to Selim, for he is
good horse, and does not love to be
beaten"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
More Song Histories.

Hatton was one day dining at the Star
and Garter, at Richmond, near an open
window. just as he was about to begin
his last course, tramp thrust his hand
in the window, seized the jam pie, and
made off with it. The composer, struck
with the incident, at once dashed of
Goodbye, sweet tart, good bye. "
Cowen once attended the races at New
castle, England, and was Immediately
surrounded by gamblers and betting
men, beseeching him to make wagers
with them on the result. Instead of do
ing this he called for pen, ink and paper,
and composed the Better Land" Ros-
SIM was once a guest of Presbyterian
divine in Edinburg, and was invited to
come and hear him preach, a special
pew being proffered for the use of the
composer. His only reply was the aria,
"-Non pin Mestd." Sullivan once was
in search of habitation in London, and
called on well-known real estate agent.
who asked him, "What kind of cham
bers do you want, and at what price %
Sullivan Immediately sang "Suite, and
low, "-lf,GsicaL Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
Cotton and Silk.

A very large proportion of the textile
manufactures of the country is located
in the nine easternmost States of the
Union-New England, New York, New
Jersey, and Pennsylvania. OF the $780,
900, 900 of capital invested in the manu-
facture of cotton goods, according to the
last census. $780,, 1000, OOO-SS per cent.
of the whole-was in these States.
Eighty-one millions of the 500, 00O,0 600
invested in the wooden goods manufac-
ture-nearly SO per cent.-was in the
same States. The proportion for silk,
worsted goods, hosiery, carpets, and
mixed textiles was larger still, so that,
when all the textile industries of the
country are combined, we find that the
gross capital invested in them is $431,-
1878, 900, of which sum 1897, 574, 900
represented the amount invested in the
nine States named, being S9i per cent
of it all.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
WHAT THE BOYS ARE DOING.

Boston, May 6.--Buffalo, 8; Boston, 2.
Ar New York, New York 8: Detroit, l.
AT Baltimore, Baltimore 8: Athletics, 3.
AT Philadelphia, Chicago II; Philadel-
phia Z.
AT Trenton, n. J., Trentons 7; Allen
towns 3.
Ar Wilmington, Wilmington ID; Viz
ginias, 1.
LOUISVILLE, May 6.-LouisviIle, 8;
Columbus, 3.
AT Pittsburg, Pa, Metropolitan 6;
Alleghenys, 1.
ST. LOUIS, May 6.-St. Louis Gamer
icaD), 6; Toledo, 8.
THE Bostons defeated the Clevelands at
Boston. Score 8 to 8.
The Domestics defeated the Readings
at Newark, n. J. Score 8 to 6.
THE Louisvilles beat the Columbus
nine at Louisville, KY. Score to 1.
The St Louis Unions defeated the
Altoonas at Altoona, Pa. Score II to 2.
The Monumentals defeated the Harris
burgs at Harrisburg, Pa. Score to f.
THE Boston Unions defeated the Key
stone Unions at Boston. Score Is to s.
THE Chicago Unions detected the Gin
cinnati Unions at Chicago. Score 5 to 2
WHEN batter makes fowl, do the
base-ballers say he has made a goose of
himself?
The Providence and Buffalo clubs
played at Providence. Score 5 to 2 in
favor OF the home club.
IT is thought that Cain was a base
ball umpire. Il member his words: 81
shall be fugitive and vaeabond in the
earth; and it shall come to pass that
every one that tindeth me shall slay me"
Boston Transcript.
BARNUMs greatest curiosity is said to
be--not the white elephant-but base
ball umpire whose decisions last season
gave satisfaction to both mines. He is
claimed to be the only one in the country,
and is not whitewashed.- Norristot01a
Herald
TIE Fencers' Club gave a house
warming Wednesday night at the new
club house, No. 10 West Twenty-fourth
street, New York city. The club was
organized short time ago by a number
of gentlemen devoted to the fine art OF
athletics.
The Underhill Cricket Club, of Brook.
lyn, held its opening day at Prospect
Park Wednesday afternoon, May 7. A
scrub match was played in which a
large number of members took part.
Following the play the annual dinner
was enjoyed in the club house.
THE New York Club has engaged
"Bob" Ferguson to cover second base.
He has been connected with the national
game longer than any of the leading
players except Joe Start, and will prob
ably strengthen the team. He is a good
batsman and is regarded as a first-class
second base man.
In the Circuit Court of st. Louis a
temporary restraining order was issued
forhi1dirQ Tony Mullane to play with
the Toledo club. The order was asked
for by President Lucas, or the Union
club, on the ground that Mullane had
broken his contract with that club. The
case will soon be argued on its merits.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
The Wide. Wide World.

LIMA, REPUBLIC OF PERU.-Senor A.
de La E. Delgado, L. L. d. and Coun-
sellor, Tribunal of Justice, Lima, Re-
public of Peru, says: One single appi-
cation of st. Jacobs Oil cured me COM
pletely of rheumatic pains in my left
arm. / recommended it to two of my
friends, the Mrs. Dona Juana Garcia,
widow, and Mr.. d. Herman Decker, a
German gentleman. Madam Garcia was
relieved entirely by the pain-eure from
terrible neuralgia pains of ten months
standing. Mr.. Decker was cured of in
explicable pains by single application
of the cure. My brother used the great
remedy for a species of paralysis of the
arm. He was entirely relieved from his
ailment by one or two applications, after
having tried numberless other remedies
without effect.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29

L.
The Wholesale New York market ouotations
show:
BEANs-Prime, "a. 2O@s435; fair to good,
$2.55@$2. 80 per busheL
BUTTER = New York sold at 34@36c. for
choice in pals, and 25@2Sc. common to good.
Western Creamery sold at 93Q34c., and the
common Western at 236D25c.
CHEEsE-Factory fancy, 146D1415c; do. fails
TO good, 12913c
EGGs-Quotations ranged from 27c for or
binary, to CSC. for New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
FLOUR Superfne, So 9O@ss. so; Western,
$3.90@$6.65; extra New York. 50. S0@$6. co.
HAY Shipping 45@50c.; clover, 100000,
salt, Coo; straw, 50@55c.
HoPs-New York, 26@27c. Eastern 2O@25c;
yeanings, 18@25c; olds - O.
PETRoLEUM-Refned, 79sc; crude, 61S@79Sc
in bulk; in barrels, $50; naphtha, $40 in
shipping order. and H. 6@12c. in cases.
PoRk-Clear back. $1S.75@s19.75; dressed
hogs, 7I4@73sc.
WHEAT Spring No. 8, s1.O2@s1. O6; Mil
waukee No. 2, $1.O5; amber. $132Q$2 40;
white $1.03@$1.10$4.
CoRN-Ungraded Western Mixed. 56@6s1lc;
Steamer Mixed, --@62c. in elevator. 63c
delivered No. 2, 6O14 QD6215c. in elevator. SEQ
624c., delivered White Southern, 5715c. de-
hvered.
RYE-state, 74@76c.
WeoL-Ohio Pennsylvania and Virginia,
XXX, 45@46c.; Xxx, 42tQ44c.; (, 42tQ43c.; No.
y fOWtfC.j NO. q, oo(OfUc; common, 33Cd31S.;
New York and Western Xxx and X, 3904516c;
No. l, 44@45c.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET
FLoUR-State family. "a. 5O@$4. rs; rye flour,
S3.4O@$3.5O; wheat, State, $-.-@$1.l8;
amber, $1.43; corn, yellow, &C.; mixed States
6216c.
PETRoLEUM-Refined 796c.; crude, 6bc
WooL-State and Western Xxx, 46D50c.; X
47@48c.; medium, 50@51c.; coarse Acc.
BOSTON MARKET.
FLOUR - From $2.75@$3.15 for low and
medium to $4.25@5.50 for choice Minnesota.
Corn 64C070c. for mixed and yellow.
BUTTER - Common, 1Sc. GD20c. Vermont
dairy, 25027c.; choice creamery, 29@31c.
CHEEsE-131 ~ D15c.
BEANs-$3. 20@$325
HAY-Choice, $16@$1750
CATTLE MARKETS.
BUFFALO Cattle good quality, SIS. 6Otd
$6. 10; hogs, fair to good, $555@$6. 65; best,
$6.15.
EAST LIBERTY. PENN.-Best CATTLE S6256
1916 medium to good, $525@$6 90; common
to fair, $5.0O@$6.0o; Hogs, Workers, $5.750p
5000; Philadelphias, $640@$6.5O. Sheep,
$5.25tG$55O.
WATERTowN, MAss.-Cattle, choice. s.
@$10.25; extra, $8.00@$9.O0; first quality,
$7OO@$750; second quality, $5.0O6$6. so:
third quality, $4.00@$4.50. Sheep and lambs
wool sheep, $25O@$450 extra, 10000
$500; spring lambs 5000; Veal calves,
315c071@o On
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
A Little Reflection.

ST must have some rest this summer,
said the clock; 81 am all run down."
81 think ] need a country seat" said
the easy chair, leaning on his elbow.
81 am getting played out" said the
piano; ''a little fresh air would be good
thing for me-"
'That's what want" said the sofa:
ga little fresh air at the springs"
81 should like to go with the sofa, and
lounge in the woods" said the footstool,
eff my legs were stronger" said the
table, 'I should go to the country for
some leaves"
Country board is always SO plain, -
growled the sideboard; nobody that is
knObby or polished there"
'Let me reflect" said the mirror
''they have very plain looking lassies
there, too, do they not ?"
"You MAKE me plush" said the divan
and here the housemaid closed the
folding doors and shut them all up
Boston BuLLetin.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29

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Of the best REMEDIES ever offered to the public
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should be more effectual than hastily written and
carelessly prepared prescriptions made by incompe
tent physicians. Take this medicine for adj disor
ders arising from impure blood. 1t is Endorsed by
leading professional as well as by eminent
physicians and others. Try it.
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apply to the pu blsher of the paper, U2O
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29

The tendency of to-day is to sepul-
chrize religion. Why don't more people
go to church Because they can't stand
the humdrum. We want in all our work
to freshen up. But don't let fondness for
the dramatic lead you into sin. We
don't try to suppress it in you. We
would have it directed, educated, har-
messed for multipotent usefulness,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29
An Argument Refuted.

Labor Agitator-''There is no use
talking; the rich hate the poor"
Citizen-"Oh, nonsense l work ten
hours day right along, wear blouse
and overalls, and instead of finding dis
respect it is just the other way -"
''Oh when you go out, after your
days work, all dressed up, and nobody
knows who you are, why of course"
81 am not referring to occasions
when / am dressed up, but to my daily
trips to and from work when l am in my
working clothes"
"Humph Well, how do you know
You are treated with respect?"
because the proudest millionaires
and the haughtiest danes politely step
aside to let me pass"
''Stars and carriers ! You don't say
so What are you anyway ?"
81 am a house painter, and usually
carry pot in each hand. "--Phila. call.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-29

AFTER THE RABBITS. About one hui
d ed stoats and weasels, which had been
caught with considerable difficulty in
different parts of Lincolnshire by a YER
min catcher, have just been sent to New
Zealand. They have been purchased
by the Government of that country for
the purpose of destroying the rabbits
which overrun the colony. One thousand
five hundred live pigeons have been
shipped for the consumption of the ami
mails during the voyage.