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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06
Cruelty to the Birds.

went into large fruit store the other
day, says a New Orleans correspondent
to buy some partridges. The dealer led
the way to an immense zinc-hned Ice
chest, the lid of which he flung open.
It was half full of huge white blocks OF
ice, and packed and pressed down IN and
among the blocks lay quivering, fiut-
tering mass of brown birds. Now and
again a little SCREENINGS, sir, a scream
of agony went up from their pretty little
throats. Now and again one little crea-
ture Ieaped into the air as If the horror
of his cruel prison would give him
strength to escape from it. But no, he
could not escape. Wings broken, sides
torn, flesh all dabbled in blood that
froze as it dripped from his pitiful
wounds. de would sink back, and the
sad little flock huddled closer in their
agony. Sometimes a little streaked
head was thrown back and bird, with
final gasp, died. The most of them
did not die, however. / took one up IN
my hands; one hurt wing hung helpless,
the other beat in vain effort to escape.
It's little heart beat like a triP-hannnler
AGAINST my palms; its st''zsl@d eyes. dlIn
with agony, seemed to look appealing
into mine. Poor dumb, wounded thing
so cold from long contact with ice that
nv fingers were chilled. 1t seems I'M
possible that this story can be true
These birds are shot, or SHARED, OF
caught in nets. Often if shot they are
merely slightly wounded, and the
wounded and the dead are dumped into
bags and brought to New Orleans fol
our breakfast tables, and preserved IL
and ice pack until sold. Then the dealer
takes each bird by the legs and slaps its
small head sharply against the lce-box
This kills. The sight of that covey o
little creatures, cofined alive In ches
full of ice, wounded and bruised, waiting
for merciful death rap on their lnno
cent heads, or slowly freezing to deati
as they huddle close together, IN Got
knows what an agony of fright and pam
is a sight too painful for human eyes
Yet, eyes may see it here in New Orlean
any day.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06
ROSE OF Killarney.


Oh fair are your daughters by shannon's blue
waters.
And lovely the maidens of Clare and Clon-
mel
And look the world over, you'll fail to discover
Such colleens to love as in old Erin dwell;
Yet there's none on the island, in loWland or
highland
From the soft-bosomed lakes to the "uo
ocean shore,
Who praises could share with, or half way colli-
pare with,
Dark Nora, my rose of Killarney, ashore!
Ah, Norah's the beauty to loves more than
duty,
In the glance of her eye there's charm and
spell,
Andber voice. like the innet, has loves mean
ing in it,
And rIncs through my heart like musica
bell.
Oh. to WOO and to win her would turn saint to
sinner;
Her beauty compeIs you to kneel and adore,
But with signing and suing in vain you come
wooing
Dark Nora, my rose of Killarney, ashore
Won hear me entreating with heart wildly beat
ing,
You know how 1 love you, and still feign
surprise
I fear you're deceiving, with glances still weav-
ing
Those snares for my life in your beautiful
eyes.
But no! your lids glisten with tears as yor
listen,
Oh, fly TO my bosom and leave me no more
I've but this to give you, love, heart fond ant
true, love;
Dark Nora, my rose of Killarney, ashore
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06
Indian Ponies.

s'The possibilities of the Sioux pony
have never been dreamed of, y said a COW
gentleman Zone of the aristocracy OF the
GENUS cowboy to Pioneer Press re-
porter recently. "You know the old
plains saying, Let white man ride an
Indian pony until he can't make him
move step further, and, dismountng'
olive place to Sioux-the latter will ride
the brute twenty miles further that day.
Compromising looking? Well, they
are not pretty as rule, though I've seen
some dandies. Turn Jay-Eye-See out
in a Dakota winter, and give him Just
what food he rustled for-cottonwood
twigs and bark and scanty buffalo grass
mostly-and [ don't guess he'd show up
in very marvellous shape IN the spring.
I was at Sully once, just as retreat was
sounding Off sundown, you know. An
Indian rode up on pot-belhed, scrawny-
skinned, splay-footed, matted-halred
calico. and gave letter from the Ad-
iutant at Fort Hall to the Sully AdJu-
tant. To an interpreter who happened
to be standing by, the Indian, Brule
Sioux, remarked that he had ridden
good way that day and his pony was
tired. The Adjutant noticed that the
Hall letter was dated that morning, and,
his interest being aroused, asked the
messenger when he left his post. He re-
piled that he started just after first SER
gents call (after daybreak). Subse-
quent investigation proved his truth. He
had ridden that sorry nag fully 1O4 miles
in less than thirteen hours, and much OF
the way the road would have been hard
on a bird. I tell you, We treated that
mangy-l looking brute as if he had the
bluest blood of all the barbs IN hlt
veins.
almost any officer on the Missour
} river can tell you of the famous rid'
Gorse, the scout, made from the Stanle,
expedition. l don't remember the mile
something over 800 in less than fou
days), but know he only used on
y pony, and went straight across the mos
s God -forsaken country in America. Ih
o Indians war ponies are always the bes
1t of the herd, and receive good deal Q
y care. A buffalo pony ranks next. fo'
$ can tell one by the notch in the points
5. the ears. A good buffalo pony know
y how to elude the charge of mad bu
as we'll as know how to skin an ante
N lope; stops just at the right time, an
runs at the proper speed: You take
orosr horse and hunt buffalo, and you
and the affair isn't so tame after all
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06
The Egyptian Situation.

The horror of the situation in the
Soudan consists in the fact that there are
scattered at various points in it garrl-
sons of Egyptian troops, separated from
Egypt proper, or from the Red Sea, by
deserts over two hundred miles wide
which cannot, under the most favorable
circumstances, be traversed by troops
without great difficulty and the aid OF
large number of camels. These garrl-
sons the rebels have cooped up and re-
fuse to allow to withdraw peacefully, and
make no secret of their intention to mas
sacre them if they surrender.
What Baker Pacha has been trying to
do is to organize force capable OF re-
lieving at least one of them, and striking
enough terror to enable him to make
terms for the rest. It was for this pur
pose, too, that General Gordon has beer
trying to get to Khartoum.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06
IN THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE.
Crisp Bank Bills that Have No Owner and
that Go TO Uncle Sam.

When I was in the "Dead Letter"
Department the other day, says Wash
ington correspondent, one of the clerks
engaged in opening letters-at table
near by-called to the gentleman who
was entertaining me. He went to him
and Immediately beckoned for me to
follow.
.sNow, what can be done in this
case?" he says. ''Here is letter this
instant opened, and you see what it con-
tains ?"
There is a clean, new twenty-dollar
bill, neatly folded and wrapped In
piece of perfectly blank brown paper
not a mark of pen or pencil to show
from whom it was sent. The letter had
been advertised as unclaimed and was
dead. and the examination of its contents
made it more completely dead than
before.
eve have nothing but the postmark
and even that is almost obhterated, but
our expert will take hold of it and do
the best he can with it. There's pretty
slim chance in this case. l guess Uncle
Sam will get that money. This re-
minds me of something in my own
experience. a few years ago, when
[ was opening letters, I found one
Just like this, except that the amount
was $50 and on the paper wrapper
around it was written in pencil, "A
friend, Matthew vi, g. l looked thai
up and found it to be But when thor
doest aims, let not thy left hand know
what thy right hand doeth.' The lette.
was addressed to a woman and 1t wa
clearly case of charity. / really fel
bad that we could not succeed in finding
either party, and that money is in tn
Treasury to-day"
The number of letters opened last yea
containing currency, checks. drafts an
negotiable papers was over "a, GOO. Ih
amount of actual cash taken from letter
was nearly $4,000 and the value
checks, etc., representing money, abou
81, 100000. During the last year tn
number of pieces of mail matter tha
reached the Dead Letter Office wa
nearly four and half millions Ih
exact number was 4, 440, ,822. This
, about IA, $40 for every day.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06
WHEELING HALF SUBMERGED.
Thousands of Homeless PeOple-lndustry
ParaIyzed-TremeudO Losses
A correspondent writing from WheSl

A correspondent writing from Whesl-
ing, W. Va, says:
Night has again fallen upon a day
crowded with horror by both fire and
water. One-half of the city is sub
merged, many houses to the caves OF the
roofs, while quite large number-how
many cannot yet be ascertained-haVe
been turned over or carried away. The
stories of the Oldest residents of the raw
ages of the waters of 1882, and again in
1852, had never been duplicated within
the recollection of the thousands who
have grown up here in the last three de-
cades. But the food of last night and
it's results have far exceeded those OF
either of those noted years, and the mar
rator of these fables, who was of some
consequence yesterday, to-day hid his
diminished head in shame. An average
of the best estimates gives over tfty-two
feet of water in the river.
That night was distinctively night
of horrors. The terror that fire IN
spires is something awful; but that in
spired by the uncertain fluctuations of
an angry flood is far greater. To add to
the misery of the situation the gas works
were submerged at midnight, and the
work of rescue was henceforth pursued
in Egyptian darkness, intensified by a
heavy fog that hung over the water like
a pail. At the windows of each house
were men, women and children who
hailed passing skiffs and boats, and I'M
plored aid. The plunge of heavy logs OF
wood through the windows of deserted
houses, the crashing and crushing Of
blocks of ice, the surging of drift-wood,
the displacement of outhouses and other
small buildings, the floating fencing and
dwellings, the shrieking women and cry
ing children, all serve to make a scene
that one wants to see but once in his
lifetime. All this was intensified by a
steady downpour of drenching rain.
which only added to the awful gloom.
The scene from the suspension bridge
at dawn was impressive, and the first
gray streaks of light revealed thousands
of people lining the banks, anxiously
looking for missing relatives and friends,
or watching with deep anxiety the rising
tide. Huge bonfres had been lighted at
various points during the night, and
scores and hundreds of volunteers en-
gagged in the work of rescue. Many
streets were gorged twenty feet high
with miscellaneous mass of logs, ice,
trees, and broken and twisted buildings,
and after the subsidence of the waters,
the work of opening some thoroughfares
will be the work of weeks.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06
A Publishers Experience.

Tt is an experience of publishers that
too many people are apt to think 1t mat,
ters but little whether the newspaper bill
s paid promptly or not, that it IS small
sum and is of but little consequence.
This is not because subscribers are I'M
willing to pay, but rather because they
are negligent. Each one imagines be-
cause his years Indebtedness amounts
to so small sum the publisher cannot
be much in want of it, without for
moment thinking that the income OF
newspaper is made up of just such small
amounts, and that the aggregate OF all
subscriptions is by no means nconslder-
able sums of money, without which pub
fishers could not continue to issue then
paper. The proper way is to always pay
in advance. -GlenS Fails Republican.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06

upon Fort Sumter early in the war Will
have faint idea of what the attack upon
the Ice Palace was like. The snoWshoes
then retreated to Mount Royal, which
they ascended, forming three-mlle line
of blanketed Canadian torch bearers on
snow shoes. The head OF the line
reached the western summit OF the
mountain, while the last had not LETT
the Windsor Hotel. Torches glanced
through the trees, much like tre creep
ing in the underbrush in the Catskllls,
seen from the Hudson river boats some
times.
The head of the line disappeared INTO
the ravine at the west end and then re-
appeared at the summit and commenced
a zigzag descent. Such brilliant piano.
rama defies description. In and out
went the first section of the line, wind
ing, doubling, twisting and belchlng
forth, as it were, fire and birthstone.
Apparently it was huge fiery serpent,
whose vertebre convulsed, writhed and
emitted sparks from It's joints. Each
snowshoer was well supplied with Roman
candles, and these kept splitting away
during the whole of the manpuvres.
For more than an hour the panorama
continued. Forty thousand eyes of at
least twenty thousand gazers on the Do
minion square seemed never weary, and
only turned from the spectacle occasion
ally to view the specially attractive
shower from the palace fireworks. The
beauty of the spectacle was that the
Montreal inhabitants, from one end OF
the city to the other, had it in view the
whole time. The snowshoers continued
their descent, the procession passed
through the principal streets, singing
their s'snowshoe songs" and at length
the merrymakers sought their homes
after midnight.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06
A Mother Crazed by Grief.

A fire with fatal results occurred IN
Cleveland, Ohio, in two-story frame
house owned and occupied by Andrew
Mango, his wife and four-year old boy.
While Mrs. Mango was busy at her
household work the little fellow was
allowed to amuse himself about the
house. He went to the stove and stirred
the Goals about with poker until one
dropped into box of shavings near by.
They biazed up in an instant and en-
veIoped the little fellows clothing. lie
screamed with fright, but before his
mother could reach him he was terribly
burned. The boy died in half an hour
The mother has since become a ravine
maniac. The family have lost four chill
dren by diphtheria in the last few
weeks. The father is at present ava.
from home on business.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06

Chow POORLY you look, Octave! They
are right in saying that the young men
of to-day are feeble. Look at me.
am thirty to forty years older than you,
and l am as solid as an oak. | shall
live one hundred years" ooh, uncle
How can you speak so to your heir
You find only disagrssable things to say
to me?"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06

man would be coming, finally, and now
I'll overwhelm him -
Thornlove went down in his stockings,
and listened at the partly open kitchen
door. Hob5leden was really there.
"That's a mischief. making article p
said Babble to Hobbleden, who was
drawing it on. 81 came near losing my
place on account of it; Mr.. Thornlove
saw your name in it one morning, and
thought you came to the house secretly,
and that | knew it. He suspected that
1 had shined your boots and his together,
and had blundered when returning them.
Separate apartments for him and her,
this long time, you see"
s'Good gracious p whispered Hohble-
den in cold sweat of horror; ''could he
suppose so ?"
''But now that you have been telling
me how you took off your boots one wet
day in his store. it is all explained, and
III ease, his jealous mind tomorrow.
ssI have awaked from horrid dream,
at last p joyfully reflected Thornlove, at
this unexpected disclosure; "I'll make
amends at once. Come to my bosom, my
dear old Robbleden p he cried aloud,
rushing into the kitchen in his gown and
stockings; 81 have been long bewildered
by false dream, but now l know the
naked truth, all things are on proper
footing, and everything is as it should
be-"
Hobbleden did not reject the affection
ate saIutation of his old friend, who,
after further revelation of their mutual
sufferings, insisted upon sharing his
couch with him that night.
They slept serenely and when they met
Mrs. Thornlove at breakfast in the morn
ing the only point upon which they dis
agreed was, that they denounced while
she blessed the boots which had exercised
from her household the green-eyed mon
ster forever!
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06

something from book called The Au-
tocrat at the Breakfast Table What
does it mean ?"
"You are rather too young yet, my
son, replied the old man, as he helped
himself to the top buckwheat cake and
smothered it with the cream intended
for his wife's coffee, "to understand such
matters"
THE MEANS.
'fSee here, SIR" said a philanthropist
to seedy-looking tramp, "this is the
third time you have asked for help this
week."
81 know it."
"There is no need of any one getting
so low down as you seem to have reached.
I was careful early in life to keep some
thing laid by for rainy day. [ don't
see why other people can't do the same
thing and live within their means"
''It is easy enough to advise people to
live within their MEANS" replied the
tramp, sfbut the trouble is to find the
means to live within. That's what am
after now"
He got another dollar.
A REMEDY.
Mrs. Scantdiet (boarding house
keeper)-"You do not look very well,
Mr.. Slim; 1 am afraid you keep too late
hours"
Mr.. Slim (boarder)-'I was out q
little late last night, but usually am in
pretty early"
Mrs. Scantdiet-"Youo ought to take a
tonic of some kind, Here, for instance,
is an advertisement of DIR. Cure-All's
bitters, said to be remedy for the
tired, sinking, empty feeling that
some people experience. Do you ever
have that ?"
Mr.. Slim-"Yes, three times day
after every meal"
NOTHING REMARKABLE.
Mr.. D. (reading)-"A single mahog-
any tree has been known to bring $5, 900
when cut up into veneers.
Mrs. D.-"What of it?"
Mr.. D.-"What of it? Do you not
think that fact very remarkable?'
Mrs. D.-''No; it is nothing extraor-
binary. We have done better than that
with much less material"
Mr.. D.-"How do you mean?'
Mrs. D.-''You remember our last
church festival?'
Mr.. Dyes"
Mrs. Dwell, a single oyster
brought us in $6,OOO."
WHAT HE DIED OF.
Jones-FI see it stated that we'll
known Philadelphia business man died
suddenly in street car the other night
of alcoholism"
Smith-"You probably saw that III
some New York paper. Those New
Workers are always starting up some
libel or other on Philadelphia"
Jones-''Then it is not true?"
Smith, should say not. 1t is {
mean. despicable SANDER. The man wa
} friend of mine, and although not
: teetotaler, he was never considered
hard drinker. -
Jones-''Did he die in street car
Smith-"Well, yes; I admit that b
} did"
Jones-''Then what did he die of? p
: Smith-"Don't know. Froze t
death, probably"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06

'T BOUGHT some stock in the -
Railroad" said man, "because my
broker said it was a good buy. "Ano
wasn't it p "Good-by to my money,
replied the man.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06

EsoAPED.-A convict who escaped from
the Louisiana State prison walked hard
all night, and by daylight was forty
miles away. Fearing detection by means
of his striped garb, he went boldly into
negro farmhouse, told the owner that
he was circus performer disabled by
rheumatism, and offered to swap the cos
tune for any old suit of ordinary clothes
The bargain was made and the runaway
continued his fight in safety.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06

WHEN a gambler is doing a good
business he is doing bad business.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06

Love is sunshine; hate is shadow.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-03-06
DEALING WITH INDIANS.
WHERE THE GOVERNMENT PAYS SsOo
FOR EVERY SCALP.

The Mexican Method Applied TO inc
Apaches-A singular Scene IN an AZ'eo
City.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-07-04
A wonderful Chasm'

There exists mile or SO north OF the VII
lsge of Chatcaugay, N. Y, an immense
chasm, the wonders Of which have recently
been brought to the knowledge OF the worlu
through the enterprise of few of the lead
ing citizens of that spirited little hanll' l.
The chasm is on the Chateaugay nver,
which is the sole outlet OF the famous
Chateaugay lakes, aud not being very easy
of access. few. save now and then some
iutrepid fisherman have heretofore cnteu 10
explore its mysteries. II is said IN sotne
respects To rival the celebrated Ausaole
Cbasm. One who has explored say OIL IL
away down, a dizzy distance below III.
surface O. the country round, 10 narrow
assure, in some places spanned by the uis
lance of only few feet, the waters Vi wv
Chateaugay river go, now "ar'9s o.,
foaming down steep uescen.
now gathering into swiftly EyIn'l9;'
swirls. or resting AS It were Ill PiaT'
p ,ols, and !row plum ing over perpepe"
ular lCdaes IN beautiful cascahes' hn'
down in these depths, where the sun neVe
Shines heneath the ovcrhanging lodges
which to The behold,r from below seem l
reach to heavens arch sb1ve-there al
wonderful caves and siral &C formations G
rocks and moss, the whole forming scen
Of irdescribabe beauty and grandeur,
A large hotel has recently been ouilt
the Tank of the river, and stsirways' Walk
and bridges constructed through the chasl
rendering its exploration both safe ana cas-.
The place seems distined to become ,asoi
lite summer resort, if well advertised an
manager. Chateaugay village IS on IN
line of the Ogdensburg and Lake ohan
plain railroad, hence easily reached: Al
ready il has become popular as point &c
large excursions, and pleasure parties, iroi
some distance around.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-07-04
COuMENCEnENTA AT DARTMOUTH.
Tho Graduating Exercises Alumni
Dinncr-HOnorary Degrees.

HANOVER, n. H., June 26.-The exercises
of the one hundred and fifteenth annual COM
menccment at Dartmouth occurred to-day
At 1920 procession of alumni, with Pres
ident Bartlett, Gov Hale, the trustees, and
distinguished visitors, followed by the classes
led by the Boston Cadet band, marched from
Dartmouth hall across the campus to the
College church where an interesting pro-
Gramme was carried out. The salutatory
address in Latin was delivered by George
Dana Lord of Limngton, Me. Final hon
urs were awarded to the members of the
graduating class, as follows: Greek, Arthur
Whlpple jerks; physics, Louis Bell chem
lstry, Nelson ALVIN McClary, Charles Orion
ihurston. At the conclusion of the exer-
clses III the church the procession reformed
and marched to the hall where the alumni
dinner was spread. Hon. E. A. Rollins Of
Phadciphia, president of the associa
tion, presided. Speeches were made
by the President, Governor Hale, Hon
j. +. Sargent of Concord and others
Among the degrees conferred are the follow
ing Doctor of Divinity Josiah F. Stearns
Epping, N. H.; Doctor of Philosophy,
Richard $. Stanley of Bates College, Charles
h. Putncy Of ST. Johnsbury, Vt, The fol
owing honorary degrees were conferred
Master of Arts. Charles Dudley Warner o
Hartford Conn. j. T. Trowbridge of A,
lington, Mass, Leonard A. Morrison o
Wlndbam, n. II, Rev. Charles Z. Andrew
OF Biddeiord, Me. Prof, Herbert NJ. Dow
of Andover n. ii, Hon. Joseph g. Mors
Of Laconia Hon. Edgar j. sherman O
Lawrence, Mass. Ebenezer j. Ormsbee o
Brandon, Vt. Master of Arts IN course b
9. Jewett of Saco, Me. E. d. Kimball G
Nashua Ira A. Hall of Milford, N. III. C
Z. Davis Of Mortified, VT b. f. Armitag
OF Mortified and Il, N. Pearson of Con
cord