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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
The Late Madame Anna Bishop.

Madame Anna Bishop, the singer, died
at her home in New York ON Tuesday
night. She had been sick only three
days. On Sunday she accompanied
her husband, Martin Schultz, to
church and upon returning home she
found awaiting her in her parlor an old
friend, Mrs. Laird, mother of Colonel
George Laird, whom she had not seen
for many years. She was overjoyed at
the meeting, and the two, seating them
selves upon sofa, talked over their
friendship of past years. Madame
Bishop suddenly complained of severe
pain in her head, and in another mo.
ment, lifting her hands, fell back uncon-
scious. She remained in this state till
her death, which her physician said was
produced by apoplexy. She leaves no
children. The body will be buried in
the village cemetery at Red Hook,
Dutchess County, N. Y, where Mr..
Schultz has summer home. She will
be laid beside her son, who was buried
there some years ago. Madame Bishops
maiden name was Anna Rivere. She
was born in London in 1914, and at an
early age married Sir Henry Bishop,
well known as composer, conductor
and as the arranger of the Sicilian air to
which Payne wrote the words of "Home,
SweeG Home" Madame Bishop first
appeared on the concert platform in 1897
and some years later made an extended
tour in the course of which she visited
this country in company with the cele-
brated harpist Boscha. In 1850 she gave
series of concerts in New York, which
were exceedingly popular. Since that
time she has appeared in nearly every
country in the world, and has sung in
nearly every civilized language. The
incidents of her life and travels were in
terestingain the extreme and few women
were more entertaining than she as con-
versationalists. Her last tour around
the world was begun in 1875, and since
its completion she has lived in New
York with her second husband, Mr..
Schultz, whom she married in 1858. Her
last appearance in public was at Stein
way Hall in 1888. Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
Do Crows Know When Sunday Comes

A large number of crows were forag-
ing for food quite close to the house of
a farmer residing in town near Hart
ford, ct. They were unusually bold, as
though hunger had driven them to for
get their usual shyness and distrust of
their natural enemies-man. Two of
them lit close to the back door and
picked up the crumbs with seeming as
surance of their safety not easily ac-
counted for. The farmer was telling
neighbor about the tameness of the
birds and the latter remarked, "You
won't see them so foolhardy tomorrow. !"
"Why not tomorrow as we'll as to-
day ?" was the answer. "Because to. day
is Sunday, and those crows know it.
They know that one day in every seven
they are not popped at by boys and
men. They can count, crows can, and
they know that on the seventh day they
are exempt from persecution. "Do you
believe such stuff as that ?" "Of course
1 do. / used to live near a swamp,
where thousands of crows made their
roosting place, and early in the morning
they used to start for the mountains for
their food. And / was often out with
my gun trying to get a shot at them.
Weekdays they beat shy of me, and |
could seldom get shot at them; but on
Sunday morning it was different. Then
they would fly low down and close to my
house, their wings almost Tapping the
ridge. boards of house and barns. Do
crows know when it is Sunday? o
course they do"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
Power of an Avalanche.

The Denver (Col) NeaUs says: One
of the grandest snow-slides that ever oc-
CURED in Colorado took place few days
ago, just back of the Upper Twin
Lakes. Judge Harlan. an eyewitness,
says it was the most sublime sight he
ever witnessed. just back of Twin
Lakes are Pomeroy, Gordcn and Francis
gulches, on each side of which the
mountains rise thousands of feet. The
sides of these giants of the Rockies had
been covered during the heavy and pro-
tracted storms with an enormous depth
of snow, until the weight had become
such that it could be sustained no
longer. The Judge says that, as it hap
pened, he was standing where he could
see the avalanche perfectly. All at once
his ears were greeted with a low, rum
bling sound that seemed like the roar OF
a distant storm, and almost simultane-
ously an immense volume of snow be-
gan to move down the mountain side in
one of the gulches toward the road. The
agitation seemed to break loose the snow
from its moorings in the other two
gulches, and almost before one had time
to think hundreds of acres of snow were
coming down the mountain with roar
like thunder, and filling the air with
spray as they tore through the trees and
carried everything before them. AS they
descended their velocity increased, until
the rapidity with which the great field OF
snow and debris came down was some
thing terrific. The distance, he says,
must have been a mile from where the
avalanche started to the valley where it
stopped. So deep was the snow that a
grove of quaking asp, whose trees were
from 20 to 40 feet high, was completely
buried from sight. Logs a foot and a
half in thickness, that lay in the way of
the slide, were snapped in two like
straws; trees that were too tall to be
covered up were torn up from their
rooted places in the mountain sides and
carried like leaves with the avalanche.
The velocity of air produced by the ava
lanche blew down trees that were clear
outside of the track of the slide. For
tunately no one was in the way and no
lives were lost.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
The Plaything of an Empress.

Some marvels of the first great ice
palace built by the Empress Anna Ivan
ovna, on the Neva, in 1739, are given il
ST. Nicholas for April: The inside oi
this great ''plaything' was more won.
derful than the exterior.
One of the apartments was royal
chamber. In it was a dressing-table
fully set out with a looking glass and al
sorts of powder and essence boxes, jars,
bottles, watch, and pair of candle.
sticks and candles, all fashioned of ice.
In the evening these candles were
smeared with naptha and set in O blaze
without melting. A great ice-mirr0l
was hung against the wall. On the
with bed, pillows, counterpane, and cur
tains, deftly wrought in ice. A large
fireplace was on the right, with an ele-
gantly carved mantel, and within it, up
on the curious andirons, were placed logs
of ice which were occasionally smeared
with naptha and ignited.
The other principal room was alter
nately termed the dining-room and
drawing room. An elaborately con.
structed ice table extended through the
apartment. On each side were settees
or sofas handsomely carved. In three o
he corners were large statues; in the
other was handsome time-piece pro.
vided with wheels of ice, which were
visible through the transparent case.
All the other parts of the palace were
fitted up in a corresponding manner
"1he PIdything Of an Empress.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
Poor White Trash.

The poor whit is an institution known
only in the slave States, writes d. r.
Locke to the Toledo Blade. He is a
man who has no ancestry, no history,
no nothing. He may own patch of
very poor land somewhere on the hills,
where land is so poor that no one else
wants it, and on that is cabin which
only such as he would live in from
choice. 1t is quite as wretched as the
cabins in the south of Ireland; but the
difference is, the Irish live in them from
compulsion. The mild climate makes
living in such novels in something like
comfort possible, for except in excep-
tional seasons fuel is not necessary, ex-
cept for cooking purposes, and as they
have very little to cook, that doesn't
bother them very much. The inside of
the house needs no especial finish, nor
the outside either, for that matter. In
deed, house at all is well nigh super
fuous for these people. 1t is useful
when it rains, or during the few weeks
of cold weather. They live by all sorts
of work that is not exactly work. AS
for clothing, that is the last thing they
think of. a garment is worn so long as
thread of it remains, and as it is re-
placed only at long intervals, should not
be considered as an expense. They live
by the very slovenly cultivation of the
little ground they occupy, by woodcraft,
fishing, and those nondescript employ
ments that just escape absolute saw
aoery.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
ReverIeS of q Bachelor.

The true "Reveries of a Bachelor" is
yet to be written. The scene will not be
laid in country house, but in the top
story of a clearinghouse, or may be in
a room just about large enough to en-
able one good-sized person to turn
around in it, there will be no wood fire
there, with dying embers to glow and
pale, there will be no fire at all there.
unless it be the steadily burning, always
redolent fire of the kerosene stove; there
will be no toying of the wind in rough
play with the shaky bricks and loose
mortar of the chimney, but the adjacent
roofs near at hand vii. be alive with cats
raising rasping shrieks one to another
In such room, among such surround
ings, the bachelor begins to think seri-
ously of married life, as he sits clumsily
trying to thread the needle with which
he will more clumsily sew on the button
that must be made to stay ere he can
sally forth presentable biped. Did it
never strike you why the modern shirt is
fastened from end to end with studs. and
trousers have fancy catches in places
where the buttons ought to be? 1t is
only the process of evolution adapting
garments to the environment of an age
in which marriage and the wife's needle
are largely passing out of fashion,
WATERBURY american
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
TOO MANY CHILDREN.

Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Smith were dis
cussing Mrs. Brown as they walked
along Connecticut avenue last Sunday.
"She is an excellent woman" said
Mrs. Jones, "but she is miserable
manager"
"Why, what makes you think so ?"
queried Mrs. Smith.
"Why, my dear, returned Mrs. Jones
''she has eight children and only half
dozen spoons in the house."
There is a whole cord of philosophy in
Mrs. Jones remark. .-Hatc1tet.
TOO MUCH SARCASM.
Vandergraff, who is millionaire, but
who is notoriously stingy and mean, had
a very smart valet whom he called Maloni.
'Maloni,'' said the millionaire, as he
searched all his pockets few days ago,
''did you find fifty dollar bill in any OF
my pockets when you were brushing this
suit yesterday ?"
'No, sur; its that same didn't"
every strange. Wonder what / did
with it %
"If 1 may make so bould I'd Suggest
that maybe in wan av yer fits of absint-
moinded generosity you gave it to some
poor wildly woman to help to pay the
rint av wan O. yer houses"
Mallory is now driving an ash cart
Texas iSTftinoS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
Politics in Mexico.

Mexico has no political conventions.
The newspapers do the nominating. The
papers begin discussion of candidates
about year previous to the Presidential
election. Next they ''postulate" or
nominate certain candidates. At the
head of the paper will appear, "We
postu1ate" so and SO, naming the Jour
nails choice. Then, ON election day, the
voters assemble at the polling places,
and each deposits written ballot for
electors, who are to constitute the EIec-
toral Board of the State. This law stipu-
lates that the ballot must be written.
and table, with paper and writing uten.
sils, is provided beside the ballot box,
and the ballot must be written and i'm
mediately deposited under the inspec-
ton of the Supervisor. Sometimes the
voters of the different parties will meet a
few hours previous and agree upon some
candidate, but usually each voter has
made choice of candidates without any
pressure from party machinery.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
Mere Inventions.

If there is one thing more than anoth-
er of the regular dreary round OF stereo-
typed humor that am sick of, says
Luke Sharp, it is the eternal ringing OF
the changes on the alleged poverty of the
country editor. The country editor gen.
orally has pretty good thing of it ii
job work and advertising amount to any
thing. These stories about burglar
being laughed at by country editor for
trying to find in the editorial desk at
night cash that the editor looked in vain
for in the day time, together with all
the yarns about cord-wood ON subscrip.
ton, etc., are mere inventions of the
enemy, who desire to hide the source
from which our milIionaires spring.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
CHINESE WEDDINGS IN GEORGIA.
American Brides-Sreat Social SensatiO
Riots. Lawsuits and Separation.

American Brides-Great Social Sensation
Riots. Lawsuits and separation.
A letter from Georgia says: Con-
nected with eiectment of Chinese mer-
chants from Waynesboro last spring was
a little romance which has Just ended
disastrously. Willie Loo Chong, a
spruce young Chinaman, began business
in Augusta and prospered beyond ex-
pectation. Among his friends was Mr..
Fulcher, father of blooming daughter
of fifteen, whom the young Chinaman
married. The husband, elated with his
pecuniary and social progress, wrote to
his friends III California that Georgia
was the ''place to get Melican wifee. "
Two of them came and began business
in Waynesboro, which was already dis
gusted by the previous marriage. The
evident amatory intentions of the men
famed this indignation into flame, and
resulted in their expulsion from town by
an armed masked mob, which also up
turned and destroyed their goods.
This matter came before the Chinese
minister at Washington, was made the
subject of an interesting correspondence,
and is now undergoing investigation in
the Federal Court in Savannah, through
a suit for $4,000 damages. The pro-
ceedings are upheld by Secretary FIRE.
Iinghuysen, who has promised the Chi
nese Minister ample reparation for his
countrymen through the Court.
The Cinnamon of the city then became
bolder; and last August still another
mixed marriage took place, which had
the full appreciation of the brides friends
and relatives. a few weeks later the
Chinese husband asked his white wife to
do some very un-American thing; and
on her refusal he turned her out OF
doors, and threw her clothing out after
her. From this time the happiness OF
Georgia's Chinese colony seemed to be
sadly marred. Through it all Mrs.
Willie Loo Chong reigned as social
queen. But lately she, too, has failed
to meet the ideal of her yellow husband.
Quarrels ensued, in which it is said Loo
Chong beat his wife unmercifully; and
now she has quit him and returned to
the protection of her fathers roof.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
Varieties i'm Fashions.

A long narrow scarf made of ietted
nett with or without an edging of ietted
lace. will be worn in the street around
the neck instead of the Spanish lace
scarfs so long in vogue.
Jetted net pIastrons in heart shape,
pointed or square, in a soft puff, are
made with standing lace band or COL
lar to put on over any simply trimmed
dress of black silk, surah, or satin.
These cost from So. 80 to 81 in the
shops.
A Moliere vest of jetted net laid over
silk and edged with jetted lace may be
made of fourth of yard of ietted net,
and is pretty and dressy addition to
black corsages.
An entire basque of ietted net without
lining will be used in the summer just
as Jerseys are, with skirts of black silk
or satin that may or may not have dra-
perry of this net. Sometimes such a
waist is made to fasten behind. There
should be a separate lining of satin
surah to be worn under this transparent
waist, and this may have the sleeves
only basted in, so that they may be
easily removed to leave thin net sleeves;
there may also be a yoke cut separate at
the top of low lining, which can be
used or not, as the wearer wishes q high
lining for the daytime, or only transpar-
ent net over the neck in the evening.
The neck and sleeves are trimmed with
full frills of jetted lace.
White pique collars for ladies are now
made in all the shapes that are fashion
able for linen collars, but those in the
high close CARROT shape are preferred;
these have square pique cuffs to match.
Collar buttons of Old silver, with de-
signs of antique heads, are made to
match theS coin pins and bracelets now
in use.
One of the novelties in millinery is a
cork foundation or frame of the bonnet
covered over with a thin veneering OF
wood. New basket straw bonnets are
bronzed or gilded, and are now made SO
fine and pliable that they are bent into
small crowns and used as the smallest
capotes, with a cockade bow of coqueli-
cot velvet ribbon for trimming.
Persian vests are added to new basques
of Jersey cloth, and these are some
times made of iridescent beads in Per-
sian designs and colors. Ba-
zar.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
LOST In A BLIZZARD.
A Sad Tragedy of Winter Life in Dakota.

One of the saddest of this winters
storm tragedies, says a Dakota CORE
spondent, was that which resulted in the
death of the Nelson family, who lived
near Sanborn. They had not been IN
the Territory long, and they knew COM
paratively little about the fierceness of
the blizzards. They were poor and had
made but scant provision for the winter.
Running out of fuel, they had been
burning straw, and as the consumption
of this article was enormous during the
severe weather, it was found almost i'm
possible to keep enough of it on hand to
last more than a few hours. When the
last great blizzard swept over the coun-
try, the Nelson's found themselves with
only little straw near at hand and their
necessities very great. The nearest stack
was only half mile from their house,
but they feared to brave the storm in an
effort to reach it.
Hoping that the tempest would soon
spend its force, they economical the fuel
they had at hand as best they could.
Doling out the straw sparingly, they
managed to keep their hovel tolerably
warm, and to cook such food as they
were supplied with. Economical as they
were with the straw, however, it was
spent before the storm showed any signs
of abating, and as the cold grew more
intense it became question of securing
more fuel or freezing to death. 1t is be-
lieved that they realized the desperate
situation they were in and the possibility
that if they once ventured out in the
binding gale they might not return.
None of them wishing to remain in the
cherries home, the father and his two
children started out. 1t is known that
they reached the straw stack, and each,
having secured load, started back; but
in changing their course they lost their
way, and wandered aimlessly about un-
til, exhausted and benumbed with cold,
they could go no further. The father
then appears to have dug a cave In
huge snow drift at point as little ex-
posed as possible, into which he put the
children. He then started out in search
of assistance, but finding none he sue
cumbed to the snow and the cold. Be-
coming tired of waiting for him, and
probably crazed by her suffering one of
the girls left her retreat and wandered
aimlessly about the prairie. All per-
ished. A searching party found the body
of one little one in the cave, and that
of the other few rods away, and that of
the father about half mile from his
own door.
Almost every blizzard that sweeps
over this section causes similar cases of
suffering and death. They will continue
until people coming here to settle under
stand ia advance that they are Drawing
an Arctic climate in winter, and that
when the blizzard rolls about their habi-
tations they must stay in doors and wait
for clearing skies.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
WOMAN SUFFRAGE DEFEATED.
The Massachusetts House Opposed TO 1t
A Majority of 81.

The Massachusetts, House of Repre-
sentatives disposed of, for the session, the
proposition that in the conduct of mu-
nicipal affairs women shall have all the
| political rights and privileges that now
| belong to men. This action grew out of
an adverse report, for which favorable
| bill was offered. It was the most deci-
sive that has ever been had on this sub
ject, the vote standing so yeas, IA
nays, and II pairs. Last year the vote
was go yeas and 1877 nays, and 20 pairs.
1t will be seen that this year with total
recorded vote and expressed opinion of
IL less than those of last year, the ma
jority against the measure was increased
by II, and the minority for it was-less-
ened 10, showing a total loss of 81. The
Journal says that, so far as the records
show, woman suffrage in any form was
first presented to the General Court of
81, refused to indorse it. From that
time to the present, except in the years
1874 and 1875, this subject, in some
shape, has been acted upon by the
House, which has, without exception, re-
jected it by vote that has varied mate
rally. Last year the vote for municipal
woman suffrage was proportionately
smaller than it had ever been, and now
it is proportionately much less than it
was then. The average vote for the fif
teen years of which there is record has
been II in the affirmative and 11S in the
negative. Yet with these figures and
their growth staring them in the face,
there is no reason to suppose that the
advocates of woman suffrage will cease
to urge their claims upon the next
Legislature and upon many more that
will follow it.
It was expected that the measure
would be defeated, but the vote against
it was surprisingly large. 1t was thus
made up: Yeas-25 Republicans, %
Democrats, 2 Greenbackers. Nays-06
Republicans, 56 Democrats, 1 Inde-
pendent, l Independent Democrat. OF
those who paired-6 Republicans, 3
Democrats, Independent, and In de-
pendent Democrat, favored this extern
sion of suffrage, and Republicans,
Democrats and l Independent opposed.
A BIT of plantation philosophy: Yer
kahn judge man by de spread what he
makes. De size O. de waterriiyun amt
governed by de length Q si3s.-Ar-
EIyasoaO Traveller.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-17
THE ANGEL SLEEP.

from the Youths Companion
When the day is done and the shadows fall
Over the earth like dusky pail,
Then from the mystic, the silent deep
Rises the beautiful Angel Sleep.
Ger field and forest he spreads his wings
When the cricket chirps and the wood birG
sings,
And the murmur of voices dies away,
St1lled by the Angel calm and gray.
Human passions that surge and swell
Are silenced under the mystic spell;
And tired hearts that are used to weep
Yield to the power of the Angel Sleep.
Soft he broods till the, morning gray,
Then as noiselessly glides away,
And the spell is lifted and hearts again
Take up their burden of care and pain.
We call him Death 'Tis the Angel Sleep
That comes at last from the silent deep,
And smooths forever the brow of care,
And calms the fever of passion there
So We sleep and rest, till the morning gray
Breaks once more, of an endless day,
And into the mystic, the unknown deep
Flies forever the Angel Sleep.
ARTHUR WENTWORTH EATON.