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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-04-01
Ex-senator spencer.

While Hon. George E. Spencer of 0s-
ceola, Nevada. but formerly United States
Senator from Alabama, seems to have the
whip-hand, as to the Star Route business. so
far as his testimony is concerned, whether
to give 1t or withhold 1t, the .'chiefs" at
washington lose no opportunity to give
him the knife. Col. George Bliss, in his
testimony before the Congressional Star
Route Investigation Committee. recently
stated that Secretary Chandler said to him.:
spencer is not the kind of a nan who has
such devotion to his friends that he will
say no il you ask him if he knows any
thing" The purpose of this remark
could not be inexperienced. Mr..
Chandler wanted the counsel for the prose-
cution to understand in advance that
Spencer would deny the truth in order to
shield the men on trial.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-04-01

A IDEA.

Senator Sabin of Minnesota, who is
Chairman of the Republican National
Committee, appears, like a good General,
to have very sound views of his enemy's
resources, whatever he thinks of his
own. He held a conversation recently
with a New York Herald reporter upon
the subject of possible Democratic nomi-
nations, in which the following dialogue
occurred:
"Leaving Tilden out of the question
for a moment, you believe that, In order
to carry New York, Ohio being put of
the probabilities, the Democrats would
better select a candidate from that State,
do you not ?"
Il do"
Sand that the election down
to Roswell P. Flower and Gov. LCleve-
land 2"
eyes; two very good men,"
"What do you think of them? ?"
81 think a great deal of Mr.. Flower.
/ have known him a number of years
and in many large enterprises. He was
at one time prominent in several West
ern railroads, out of which he is gone
now, 1 believe, entirely. AT that time
formed a very high estimate OF his bust
ness qualifications; since then he has
gone into other lines requiring sagacity,
tact and courage and has been success
full. He is very ambitious, as is his wife,
and if he were to be nominated, and by
any chance elected, he would make 9
sound, discreet, wise executive. But, Of
course, | see no chance for him any more
than any other Democrat. As for Gov.
Cleveland, he wouldn't be dreamed o.
by our Democratic friends if it were not
that he lives in New York and was elect
ed Governor by a tremendous majority
That majority, however, was exceptional,
and he long since fritted away whatever
strength his election gave him. l see nc
chance for him. Mr.. Flower, however,
can count on the cordial support of dele
cations from several of the Western
States, and / understand he will make
very strong showing in his W State al
WELL"
Curiously enough, Col. A. X. Mcclure,
of the Philadelphia Times, a thoroughly
independent Republican, who is opposed
to Democratic tariff principles, and will
probably sustain any Republican, makes
a similar discrimination in another in
terview. He-says:
81 should judge from all l hear that
the only others seriously thought of are
Mr.. Flower and Gov. Cleveland, with
the odds in favor of Mr.. Flower, Mr..
Cleveland having very largely gotten rid
of the extraordinary popularity which
he, in common with other tidal wave
Governors. enioyed some years ago."
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-04-01

Tuscarora is petitioning the Elko
Board of Commissioner for q branch
County Hospital.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-04-01

L

MOTE SOME OF THE PRICES AND COM
IN pare them with what you have been
On and after this date I will sell for
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
Novelties In WatermelOns.

''There's no fear of watermelon fam
inc this season" said dealer in Phila-
delphia as he gazed upon pile OF the
luscious, groen-coated fruit.
s'Any new varieties this year ?
"Well. we have the vanilla and the
lemon favored watermelon. They are
got by injecting the vanilla flavor or in
serting bit of lemon into the stem
while the melon is growing. The flavor
is taken up by the pulp and makes de
lieious coordination. Only epicures know
| of this Wrinkle, and we therefore have
| few of the doctored species on sale. You
can get toothsome dish by plugging q
melon, injecting a little fine claret, re-
storing the plug and allowing the wine
to be taken up by the fruit. But, be-
ware: the com bination is as seductive as
Roman punch"
"Any new ways Of preparing the mel
on for table p
"Well, I've been eating melons for
forty years and still prefer 'em plain.
Some of my customers, however, like
'em mixed. One of my best boarding
house customers has watermelon salad
every Sunday in the season. She pre-
pares it, she says, just as she does let
tuce-cuts the red part of the melon up
into bits and adds pepper, salt, vinegar
and oil. 1t ought to make 'em sick, but
she does say her boarders just fight for
it. Another family that I know of pour
molasses on their melons. Agood many
people, 1 believe, always add a squeeze
of lemon to the fruit. A Boston family
that deal with me are always particular
to have their melons firm and just ripe,
and don't haggIe about price when they
get 'em to suit. They have the melons
cut into little strips and eat 'em with
cold baked beans. But, as L said be-
fore, for my part like 'em plain"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09

say that I love you still as dearly
as ever? Daisy, you will come
back to my heart"
Hebrew out the gold coin, hanging
from its faded ribbon, and extended il
smilingly toward her.
"Oh, Herbert I have missed it and
wept over 1t so often. Where did you
find it ?'
He told her, adding: ''It is a golden
link, dearest, to bind our two hearts to-
gether; little guide which has led ME
back to your side, after all these years
of estrargement -
When Mrs. Wallace returned from
her brief absence, she found Daisy once
more the betrothed bride of Herbert
Winfield. The ten years of trial and
poverty were but a dream that had
passed away and been forgotten-and
round Daisy's neck hung, as of old, the
talisman she had not seen for such a
weary 5vhiie--the tiny gold dollar on its
ribbon of blue
The ''course of true love" had not
run smoothly, but it was true love, and
so it came right at last
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
Did Not Want a Receipt.

A letter from New Brunswick, n. j.,
in speaking of the Bank suspension
says: Depositors from remote towns
who had just heard the news of the fail
ure, wandered around in search of their
money and definite information. One
farmer from Little Washington may be
quoted as fair instance of the absolute
trust placed in Cashier Hill by people
round about who knew him from boy.
This man and his economical wife, by
careful scraping and saving, had saved
80 900. When he came to this town
last spring, he gave it to Hill to invest.
While Hill was writing out a receipt,
the farmer picked up his gloves and
hurried out.
"Oh, never mind that" he said jocu-
Iarly; 81 kin trust ye, guess, Ha
ha !"
To-day the farmer wiped the tears
from his eyes with the tail of his linen
duster and told his story to crowd oi
loiterers around the bank who believed
themselves to be about as badly off as ht
|
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
Lady Cashiers.

The Buffalo Express has made in
vestigations in its city and speaks
an emphatically good word in favor OF
lady cashiers. 1t cannot find case IN
which one of them has ever been justly
accused of embezzlement. One retailer
said that the cashiers were invariably
honest, but occasionally female clerk
had been detected in pilfering small
articles-collars, handkerchiefs, and the
like-but the cases are rare. A leading
dry goods dealer said: II never knew ",
woman who handled other people
money to steal one cent. I have en-
ployed women cashiers for years. They
are quicker at making change than men
they will detect counterfeit money
quicker; they keep their cash accounts
clearer, and they don't want to run the
whole store, as men do. 7
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
THE FOUR SEASONS.
Time Slides Along Like n Saw Log Down a
R0ilwny.

Time Slides Along Like Saw Log Down a
ROilwny.
"The Summer amt quite past yit, said
the Old Settler, as he showed a broom
splint through the stem of his pipe to
enlarge its draught, f'but, b'gosh, the
harvest is durn nigh ended, an ez fur
ez 1 kin git in the returns, only two
townships bein' to hear from yit, it
'ain't agoin' to turn out in lump big
enough to skeer the market much. Time
slides along, Squire, like saw log down
a rollway. 1t don't stop for nothin', an
the longer ye see it runnin' the faster it
seems to 60"
eyes, Major" said the Squire, eyer
right. The seasons play tag with one
another now iist the same ez they did
when we was young, only they seem to
scoot along a little livelier. 1t pears
nowadays ez if Spring hain't no sooner
come skippin' along. an, gentle ez she
is, swatted ole Winter in the face fur his
impotence in tryin' to lay his head in
her lap an keep it thar, an made him
glad to hustle hisself off, fore long
comes summer prancin' up ez sassy an
proud ez a school gal in red jersey, an
begins to make it so warm fur little Miss
Spring that she can't stan it, an away
she goes, leavin' all her nice, fresh,
sweet-smellin' duds for Summer to
p'rade 'roun' in. and to cut over an
make up new. Then ye don't git used
to the high-strung and gushin' Sum-
mer's smillin' an prancin' an runnin'
things ez if she was the perpetual boss
O. the whole year, fore clipper Autumn
hears O. her COINS on, an comes a-callin'
on her, an finds her, instid of a queen
o beauty, a faded an an overgrown
slattern, but tryiD' hard to make out
that she's the same bright gal that
pranced along so proud an sassy q
leetle while afore, an checked the bash
full Spring out'n her own. But she can't
pick the newcomer up for no fool, an
Autumn, bein' red headed, has got a
temper O. her own, an the fust thing ye
know her an Summer goes to clawin'
one anothers hair. Summer gifts the
wust of it, an has to pull up an make
tracks. ragged an bare legged an all
used dp. Autumn jist more'n th59l
brightens things up fur spell, fur she's
red and lusty, an dresses gay an lives
fast. Ye hain't hardly got to admirin
Of her an her ways. though. fore ole
Winter comes a stealin' back again, an
goes to coaxin' 'roun' this snappy red
beauty. Strong an crowd up ez she is,
an orto know better, she hain't got the
courage O. the young an tender Spring,
an she don't hustle him off with a flea
III his ear like the little 'un did,
but listens to the 'hoary ole sinner,
and bimeby gives herself up to him.
Then the fust thing ye know her charms
is gone an he throws her of, an ye
hear her go moanin' an moanin' away,
shiverin' in her nakedness, an lookin'
like ghost. An SO it goes, Major. The
four seasons chases one another 'roun'
an 'roun' year in an year out, all the
world over, an we foller the trail long
with 'em, drawin' all the time higher an
higher to the last campin' ground. -
| Ed, Mort.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09

guess I'm the only man in the world
that can guide you over the ruins of the
city that he himself laid out and helped
to build. Strange, isn't it ? stranger
than death. Well, the lower paths
your best way out, guess-old Titus
vile plank road you know. You'd bet
ter prod the gray little; there's a big
rainstorm coming. Good day."
Standing in the middle of his lonely
field the old man watched me out of
sight, and when the trees hid my horse
he turned slowly and, climbing to his
seat on the bluff, buried his grizzled
face in his thin brown hands.
And that is the history of J. Nelson
Tappan's town among the Pennsylvania
Hills. No story of the past can be its
equal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
A Caution. .

The terrible ravages of cholera in
Naples furnish another example of the
suffering which one-half the world must
undergo because the other half will not
obey the simplest laws of health. This
same epidemic which is now terrorizing
a large part of Europe also attests the
influence which the habits of men on
one side of the globe exert upon the well
being of their fellows on the other side.
A host of unclean pilgrims on the banks
of the Ganges breeds a disease which
spreads like a curse over the earth, rag.
ing the fiercest where it finds the most
uncleanliness. In these days no part o.
the world can afford to let any Other
part disregard the conditions upon whiel
health depends.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09

FAST HORSES. -''Anything that IN
wolves or includes betting, whether IL
be theresult of contest between horses
or the result of q contest between can
6idates for the Presidency, object to,
saws Mr.. Robert Bonner, and he aoos'
II have always maintained that a gen.
tleman can own and drive good morse
without being obliged to wager money
on what the animal can accomplish.
This Is sound sense, says the N. Y.
Times, and Mr.. Bonner will have tue
thanks of great many gentlemen VINO
own and drive good" horses for the prac-
tical manner in which he has adhered
20 his convictions, also for the intention
he announces TO give Maud ,. 5 cranes
tsfo beat her own unequaled record.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
PROCESSES FOR PRESERVING EGGS,
The Employment of Sulphur, SaIicylic Acid
and Other Annseptics.

How to pack eggs during the season
of abundance, when low prices prevail,
to be kept until the season of scarcity,
when prices are such as to prevent many
families from using them freely, is a
problem the successful solving of which
is important in very many households.
Already this season there appeared in
the New York World number of rec
ipes which in time past have proven
more or less satisfactory, with state
ment of precautions that must be OBJ
served in every process to insure success.
Following are additional processes
which, it is claimed by trustworthy au-
thorities, have been successfully en-
ployed for preserving eggs. Before pre-
senting these processes attention is
again called to the fact that no process
will succeed if the eggs are not packed
Immediately after being laid and the
packages are not kept in cool dry at
mosphere:
The Farmers Reviea0 in this connec-
ton gives directions for what is known
as the sulphur process. Place the eggs
in tight keg, box or barrel, the size
according to the quantity of eggs, which
should in no case fill it more than two
thirds. On the top of the eggs lay a
board and on this place an iron or
! earthen vessel in which to burn sulphur.
A pound of sulphur is sufficient for II
| barrel filed two-thirds with eggs. Set
| the sulphur on fire and cover tightly to
confine the fumes and let it stand for an
hour. The sulphur fumes being heavier
| than the air, will sink to the bottom and
envelop every egg in the lot. In another
box, keg, or barrel place about an equal
quantity of oats, or rather more, and
treat IL the same wsy. Than pacE. the
eggs in the oats, fill the receptacle full
and head or nail up, and turn upside
down every day to prevent the yokes
from adhering to the shells, and it is
claimed that they will keep perfectly
sweet and good for year.
A simple method recommended by the
Scientific american consists in the i'm
mersion of the eggs in solution of
salicylic acid, prepared as follows: Dis
solve salicyIie acid (Which costs about $3
o pound) at the rate of a teaspoonful to
a gallon of boiling water. 1t is not
necessary to boil all the water; larger
amount of the acid can be dissolved in q
gallon of water and then added to the
cold water, but the whole mixture should
be at the rate of teaspoonful of acid
to O gallon. This solution must in nc
case come in contact with any metal
The eggs are kept immersed in the
liquor.
The Poultry Il ard says that solution
of one pint of salt and one quart of fresh
lime to four gallons of water, the cleal
liquor of the settling being drawn off,
has kept eggs fresh for year wher
stored in a cool place.
The Boston Globe claims that packing
fresh eggs in earth that has been baked
small ends down, has kept eggs good fo
six months.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
ARCTIC WHALING.
How Wounded Whales Take Refuge in Ice
Pncks-Pfofts of the Catch.


According to a San Francisco paper
while men who have been from child
hood on terms of familiarity with har-
poons, bomb lances and other parapher-
MALTA with which leviathans are hunted,
say that the present whaling season is
uncertain. Whales appear to have been
plenty in the ice, but many of them were
where the ships could not go. Hundreds
are said to have been seen spouting and
slashing around, a sight suggestive of in
terest to landsmen, though barren in a
commercial way.
The exasperating fact to the whalemen
in the present season is that about as
many whales are reported to have been
lost after being ''struck" as found their
way to the try pots. Why this should
be particularly exasperating is this:
Whales average a yield Of about one
hundred barrels of oil each and not far
from 800 pounds of bone. With bone
quoted at 81 per pound, and likely to go
higher if the season fails, the loss of one
whale means the loss of several thousand
dollars in bone alone.
One vessel reports having seen many
dead whales. The explanation of this is
that the whales were ''struck" but the
boat steerer's harpoon, and perhaps a
bomb, were not fatal. When a whale
starts for the ice with boat dragging
after him, the speed being something
terrific. it becomes necessary to cut loose
when the sharp-pointed boat comes too
near the pack. The leviathan keeps on
under the ice, perhaps taking the iron
and lines with him. When he dies and
drifts out again the whaler will take him
SO long as there is blubber, but the oil
is not so good There is little of the
character of woodchuck hunting in Arc
tic whaling, which the present season
well illustrates. The whale runs into
the ice, as the woodchuck into hole,
and the whaler has to wait for the game
to come out.
A steam whaler can go through four
or FIVE feet of pack ice, but when it
grows thicker the obstacle becomes Sc
rious. ''The fact is" said mariner,
speaking of the Arctic feet, ''that sail
ing vessels can generally do as well as
the steamers in the early part of the
season. But late in the season the
steamers have the advantage for they
can wait and yet get out. !"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
The Fire Record.
ORIGIN OF THE FIRE AT CLEVELAND.

ORIGIN OF THE FIRE AT CLEVELAND.
Tt has come to be the generally ac-
cepted theory, that the disastrous fire In
Cleveland, Ohio was the work of an IN
cendiary. The deed is charged to va
rious classes of citizens. A letter from
| cleveland says: A short time ago
number of tramps were arrested by an
officer. on complaint of the watchman.
who found them camping in one OF the
alleys. Revenge for this may have ex-
cited some of the craft to fire the lum-
ber. A theory has gained ground among
a few interested persons, laying the
deed at the door of one or more OF the
employees of Wood, Perry & Co. 1t has
been reported that on Saturday night
the firm gave notice of a reduction in
wages to 80 cents in the cases of por-
tion of their force. The men were con-
siderably stirred up in consequence, and
one of them, it is stated, said ina de-
termined manner "Well, if you won't
pay 81 a day you shar't pay 80 cents,
and he lefs. The fire occurred the mex
night. There are not wanting plenty OF
men who believe some of the workmen
were engaged in it, as the flames were
discovered on the north side of @ .rter
street, and they argue that this place
| was fired first because the men knew
that the firm had no insurance on that
part of the lumber and it being also
near the river and the bridge, too, il
would be easy to get away. A reporter
? called at the Office of the firm and in
quired if the report that they had re-
, duced the wages of the employees to
: 80 cents was true. The answer was
that they desired to say nothing abou
{ the matter at present. Those who dc
not entertain these theories contend tha
I q spark from one of the tugs plying OF
a the river woul dquickly fire the lumbe
r which had an excellent chance to DIR,
under the hot sun of the past two weeks
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09

IF the United States ever gets another
navy, they should be more careful with
it, and keep it away from sloops and
scows, and other dangerous vessels
Puck.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09

A MILWAUKEE druggist advertlses
that the way porous plaster acts Is TO
retain the back firmly in place while the
pain crawls out between the holes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09

MORAL of the TalIapoosa Disaster
Never undertake TO run down a schooner.
Very likely you will meet your beer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09
Small, Desirable VILLAGE Lots

in Hyde Park village. The demand for
labor in Hyde Park is good, and any
intelligent and thrifty laborer, who car
pay for the building lot, will be furnished
with the lumber, lime, nails, glass,
shingle, doors, sash and stone, With
which to build respectable building.
and the party building, allowed to re.
pay same IN installments of $50 per an
mum and interest. Land within one
quarter mile of dwelling, will be sold in
lots of 1, 2, or acres to suit pur-
chaser, at low prices and on liberal terms
of payment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09

Life's endless toll and endeavor;
And tonight long for rest.
''Read from some humber poet,
Whose songs gushed from his heart
AS showers from the clouds of summer
Or tears from the eyelids start;
"Who, through long days of labor
And nights devoid of ease,
Still heard in his soul The music
OF wonderful melodies.
''Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.
"Then read the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend TO the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
"And the nights shall be filed with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away"
LoNGFELLow.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-09

EDUCATION begins the gentleman, but
reading, good company and rehectlon
must finish him.