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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
He Went Into Politics.

"Good gracious" said the grocery
man to the bad boy, 81 am sorry for
your pa, if he has got his head set on
going into politics. 1 was in politics
one year myself, and it has taken me
five to get out and pay my debts, and
now every ward politician owes me for
groceries. You see, they come to me
and wanted me to run for supervisor.
They said 1 was just the man they
wanted, man with large head, one
who was business man, and who would
not kick at the expenditure of few
dollars when he could make barrel of
money. They said if was on the board
of supervisors could be placed on a
committee that handled the funds, and
I could make the purchase of groceries
and provisions for all the county institu-
tions, the poor house, house of correc-
tion, insane asylum, hospitals, and
everything, and could buy them at
my own store at my own price. and in
two years 1 could be ricn as any man in
town. Well, / never had a proposition
strike me so fayorably, and 1 went in
head over appetite. For a month went
around our ward night and day, spend-
ing money, and the politicians came to
the store and traded when was out, and
had it charged, and when the caucus was
held only got one vote for supervisor,
and / voted that myself. Well, the
politicians tried TO explain to me, but
bought revolver, and they kept away.
Do you know, the next day after the eau
Gus didn't have twenty dollars worth of
groceries in the store, and the clerk was
dying of lonesomeness ?'-Peck's SIM.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
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The NiserO's Captive Crew.

The captain of the steamer Nisero has
arrived in London, and will have an an
dience with Earl Granville. The Raiab
of Tenom asks e62, 900 ransom for the
crew, the banishment of the rival Raiabs
and the declaration that Tenom Is fraa
from the Dutch. The Nisero woo
wrecked on the west coast of Acbeen
Sumatra, on Nov. II, while on vovaoe
from Sourobaya to Singapore. The
vessel was looted by the subjects of the
Ralah OF Tenom, and the crew, consist
ing Of twenty-five men, among whom
was an American, were taken cantivo
Late In November the British gunbeat
Pegasus visited the Acheen coast tn o;vo
aid to the captive crew. but it Withdraw
when the Rajah announced that bo
would put all the captives to death -
the gunboat fired single shot Tn Do-
cember the Dutch sent out an exnadi-
ton from Padang to rescue the crew
The expedition effected a Iandino -
Tenom on Jan. z, and the land and naval
forces bombarded and burned the Raiab,s
capital and destroyed several VILLAGES
But the captives had been removed n
the interior, and the Rajah refused
all the proffers of ransom made by the
Dutch. There was believed to be- littla
prospect that the lives of the crew would
be spared; but it seems the Raiab has
been holding them with the hone Of
exacting an exorbitant ransom,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
1t was a Tough Job.

A dozen men gathered around a
cracker barrel in grocery store and
watched a cooper eat crackers. The
cooper had bet a new hat with carpen-
ter that he could eat 10 butter crackers
about one and one-half inches in dame
ter in 10 minutes without drinking any
water or other liquid. The cooper be-
gan his fourth cracker at the end of two
minutes, and seemed to enjoy it. 1t was
minute later when he started on his
fifth. "Well, they are pretty dry" he
remarked huskily. 1t took him two
minutes to get the cracker down, and
when he began on the sixth he looked
as if he didn't care very much for crack
ers anyway. His eyes were red and there
was an uncomfortable working of the
muscles of the throat Exactly eight
minutes from the start he put the
seventh cracker in his mouth and chewed
slowly upon it. By hard work he man.
aged to swallow it and began on the
eighth. "Time's up" said the time
keeper before the cooper had begun to
swallow again. "Well, I'll be hanged,
said the cooper, "that's a tough job. :"
"I never yet saw a man do it, observed
the carpenter. "In England we used to
pit man eating 10 of those biscuits
YOU call 'em crackers-against man
drinking glass of water by the tea
spoonful, and the water-drinker always
came out ahead. Seven and a quarter is
my size."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
Not a Laughing Matter.

A woman stood at the front gate watch
ing her neighbor's dog coming down the
street with a kettle tied to its tail. 1t
amused her vastly.
Presently the owner OF the dog sour
ried by in hot pursuit, whereupon the
woman at the gate laughed a agleeful, I'M
neighborly laugh.
Then little boy rounded the corner
with bright, innocent look upon his
face, as who should say: "I-am-on-
-errand-for- -my-dear- so
n't-detain-me
He stopped and said to the woman at
the gate:
"What are you laughin' at P''
She replied with hilarity: '1'm laugh
in at old Bullrag's dog with kettle tied
to his tall
SITS awful funny, amt it P' the little
boy said, as he hurried on. f'The kettle
is yourn.
Then the woman at the gate suddenly
stopped laughing. .-Phtia. EVe. Cal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
A Drunkard'S Wife.

The Supreme Court of Iowa doesn't
take sympathetic view of ''the drunk
ards poor wife," who so often figures
pathetically before the public and the
courts, Judging from the following re-
cent opinion rendered by that body:
"She chose a drunkard for hus band,
and she ought to discharge the duties of
a drunkard's wife. She does not show
that her personal safety or even her
well-being requires her to leave him.
She doubtless would have lived more
comfortably in the society of sober
man, but she ought to have considered,
and doubtless did consider, the discom-
forts of drunken husband when she
married the defendant. But, she urges,
he promised reformation before mar
riage. His failure to keep his promise
did not justify her in deserting him. All
the world knows that such promises
made by a drunken man, are always
broken. In few words, as she know
ingly married a drunkard, she must be
content to be a drunkard's wife"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
A Sad Story Of Wall Street.

This morning, says newspaper re-
porter, there stood behind one Of these
hall doors so frequent in Wall street,
a man who, five years ago, vanished;
to-day he has appeared in rags. Many
who played cards and drank champagne
with him in the halcyon days recognized
him and turned away. Others more kindly
disposed stopped to speak to him, and
left him with a greenback bill in his
hand. Wall street is filled with the
meanest of men, and also with the most
generous and kind hearted men in the
world. "Where have you been, Jack ?''
asked broker, kindly. "Where you
would die" he replied; ''thirteen months
in Bloomingdale Not so bad, either;
good set of fellows, all little wrong
here" said he, pointing to his head;
'full of fun. We played billiards all
day, no charge; or whist, no charge;
plenty of fresh air, no creditors and
plenty to eat. At nine o'clock key
turned in door, 'all to bed, gentlemen,
and the day is over. All !' he said,
with a sigh, 81 would that I was back.
Hundreds ask me to drink, but none to
eat" Jack is a fair average of many
who came into Wall street rich and left
it poor and hopelessly in debt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
LIFE ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
The Former King of Wall Street Fails For
Four Hundred Dollars.

The vicissitudes of life on Wall street
are very clearly illustrated in the failure
of noted former king of the stock
board who has just gone under for the
paltry sum of S400.
Alden B. Stockwell was one of the
biggest operators in the Stock Exchange
fifteen years ago, and was called one OF
the kings of Wall street. His career was
as brilliant as it was brief. His history
is rather romantic. Twenty years ago
he is only about forty-fve now-Mr.
Stockwell was a clerk on passenger
steamboat plying on Lake Erie. He
hailed from Cleveland. On one of his
trips he fell in with Elias Howe, the in
ventor of the sewing machine, and then
very wealthy man, owning large sew
ing machine works at Bridgeport, Conn.,,
and elsewhere. Mr.. Howe was a pas
senger on the boat and was accompanied
by his daughter, beautiful young girl.
Young Stockwell happened to have it in
his power to do favor for Mr.. Howe
and his daughter, and made their ac-
quaintance. Stockweu was smart,
persevering fellow and followed up the
acquaintance, fell in love with Miss Howe
and married her.
When Mr.. Howe died, not long after,
the former steamboat clerk found him
self, through his wife, millionaire, with
an income of 100000. He showed
considerable business talent in charge of
the great Howe sewing machine factor
les, and soon increased his fortune to
50, 100000. Then, about 1866, Mr..
Stockwell went into Wall street with his
millions. He was dubbed ''tbe sewing
machine operator" and went into stock
speculations on a gigantic scale. He
evidently concentrated his attention
upon Pacific Mail, then an active and
favorite speculative fancy. Stockwell OBJ
tanned entire control of the steamship COM
pany made himself director, then presi-
dent of the company, and put his friends
into all the offices. He also secured the
Panama Railroad Company. About 1870
Stockwell organized the famous deal
which ran up the price of Pacific Mail
from 40 to 102. He had lost much of
his two millions, but he got great deal
back by this coup. He made great dis
play in society as an amateur sportsman
with fast horses and his yacht.
His reckless management of the Pacific
Mail Company ended in his sudden
downfall. He disappeared from New
York city comparatively poor man,
and was next heard from as bookmaker
on the English turf, where fortune
smiled on him for time. Recently Mr..
StockwelI has been seen in Wall street.
a broken man, with nothing left of his
days of prosperity but his Stock Ex-
change membership. He shuffled
through the crowd unnOticed, where
once the mere rrmor that Stockwen was
on the floor would have played the mis-
chief with the market.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
How to Make Orleans Pudding.

Miss Parloa at her school of instruc-
ton gave advice for the preparation of
Orleans pudding. She took the juice of
one lemon and one orange, and, mixing
it with half cup of pale sherry, poured
the whole over pint and half of stale
sponge-cake crumbs. To pint of boil
ing milk was added half cup of sugar
and half box of gelatine, which had
been soaked in a gill of water two hours.
When the gelatine was dissolved it
was put in basin of ice water to cool.
Then quart of cream, whipped to a
stiff froth, was added. Upon a melon
mould with some candied fruit was
poured little of the cream and gelatine,
the remainder being to the cake. The
mixture was then poured in the mould
over the cream and fruit and covered,
and packed i'll salt and ice for two hours.
Lady-fnger sponge cakes were next
prepared. The yolks of four eggs were
beaten with half cup of sugar to a
froth, and the white of the eggs beaten
stiff and dry were added. Three-quar-
ters of cup of flour was stirred into
this mixture quickly. With pastry
bag the cakes were shaped on sheet of
creased letter paper, and they were
baked in a slow oven for fifteen minutes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
An Iceberg Panorama.

The officers of the steamship Abys-
slnia, from Europe, report fine display
of icebergs. Early on the morning of
March I'd, while it was yet dark, the
drop in the temperature showed that ice
bergs were in the neighborhood. Extra
men were placed on watch and the speed
of the steamer reduced. Before daylight
the ice came in sight, and during the
entire day the passengers were treated
to magnificent ice panorama. The sun
was bright and clear from an unclouded
sky, and shone on the sides of the mas
sive bergs with fine effect. The course
of the ship lay to the south of the ice
mountains, and the reflection of the suns
rays from the trickling walls of ice made
a spectacle matchless in many respects.
About the ship were many broken frag-
ments of ice, small in comparison with
the main bergs from which they had
broken, but big enough in themselves
to form floating islands, over which the
steamship was carefully guided.
At one time on the forenoon ON the I'd
careful count showed as many as sew
enty icebergs within sight. They were
Of every conceivable shape, and on some
were great peaks rising far above the
mastheads of the steamer A great
crowd of gulls and sea birds of various
sorts were flying from crag to crag of
the icy islands, and their cries and calls
could be distinctly heard. Great swashes
could be heard now and then, as some
of the bergs, growing top heavy from
the melting of the subaqueous portions,
turned over and rearranged its
centre of gravity. In doing this it
would perhaps strike another berg, and
fragments of ice hundreds of tons in
weight were broken off and foated away
among the mass of frozen debris sur
the main cluster of bergs.
These sounds were kept up during the
night of the I'd, but on the Sd the vessel
came out again into clear water.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
The Ruling Passion.

During the recent visit of the Illinois
Press Association to Washington, among
the other places of interest visited by
them was the Treasury Department,
where, after securing the necessary per-
NIT from the Secretary, they were taken
by their guide down into the vaults
where is stored the millions of surplus
revenue that have been so steadily ac-
cumulating for the past years. The
group of editors were particularly struck
with the packages of bonds, which had
the value of the contents printed in
plain letters on the outside of each.
Noticing the interest taken in this direc-
ton, the guide picked up a package
marked SIC, 900, 900, and handed it to an
editor, saying: Put that under your
arm and you can say that you have had
ten millions in your hands all at once. "
The scribe hugged the bundle up to his
chest convulsively and a twelve-inch
smile split his countenaDce into two
good-natured hemispheres.
"What would you do with it if it were
all yours ?" asked one of his friends.
The journalist turned ipale, the cold
sweat gathered on his brow, and his eyes
stuck out like the knobs on hat racF
at the bare thought of possessing SC
much wealth.
"Pd-er-I'd-go down to Aurora,
he at last managed to gasp out, "and-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
The Assassin.

The recent discoveries of dynamite
stores and laboratories in Vienna show
that it is not England alone that is mem
aced with becoming San exploded insti-
tuition" At this rate all Europe will
soon be one enormous mine, though it is
noteworthy how constantly unsuccessful
this peculiar form of murder has been,
and how often the would-be assassin
blows up the wrong person. Guy
Fawkes's plan was betrayed before it
could be even attempted. The furious
driving of half-drunken coachman
saved Napoleon from the powder-cask of
St. Regent. Louis Philippe's life was
in greater peril from indigestion than
from Fieschis "infernal machine" Or
sini's bombs hurt every one (himself in
eluded) except the Emperor at whom
they were aimed. The blowing up OF
Clerkenwell prison, in London, all but
killed the very men whom it was In
tended to liberate. Three abortive at
tempts to blow up Alexander II. pre-
ceded that which slew him.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
A VERY SAD STORY,
Showing What Rum will do to Degrade
and Destroy Men.

John B. Cough tells the following
ga minister of the gospel told me one
of the most thrilling incidents I have
heard in my life. A member of his con-
gregation came home for the first time
in his life intoxicated, and his boy met
him upon the doorstep, clapping his
hands and exclaiming, Papa has come
home 7 He seized the boy by the
shoulder, swung him around, staggered
and fell in the hall. That minister said
to me, Il spent the night in that house.
L went out, barred my brow that the
night air might fall upon it and cool it.
was the child, dead there was his wife
in strong commissions, and he asleep
A man about thirty years of age asleep,
with dead child in the house, having
a mark upon his temple where the cor
ner of the marble steps had come in
contact with the head as he swung him
around, and wife upon the bring of the
grave MIR. Cough said my friend,
that I must remain until he awoke, and
I did, When he awoke he passed his
hand over his face and exclaimed, What
is the matter? where am I p? where is my
boy?' you cannot see him. Stand
out of my way, I will see my boy To
prevent confusion 1 took him to the
child's bed, and as I turned down the
the sheet and showed him the corpse he
uttered wild shrek, 'Ah, my child !
That minister said further to me, 'One
year after that he was brought from the
lunatic asylum to lie beside his wife in
the grave, and I attended his funeral.
The minister of the gospel who told me
that fact is to-day drunken hostler in
a stable in Boston. Now, tell me what
rum will not do. It will debase, de-
grade, imbrute and damn everything
that is noble, bright, glorious and God
like in a human being. There is moth
ing drink will not do that is vile, bastard
ly, cowardly, sneaking or hellish. Why
are we not to fight till the day of our
death ?"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
PARTING.

Weep not that we must part;
Partings are short; eternity Is long;
Life is but one brief stage.
And they that say love ends with l1e are "ioAie
List to thine own hearts cry
Love cannot die.
What though so far away 49,
Thy thoughts are still with me, and WIN 'nee
mine,
And absence has no power
To lessen what by nature is DIVINE
List to thine own hearts cry
Love cannot die.
Then grieve no more, my love;
Grieving but shows thy trust in me is small.
Faith is by calmness proved,
For know this truth-thou caust not love at all
Unless thine own heart cry
Love cannot die.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
Blown Up.

Apassenger on the train on the Colorado
Central which was blown bodily from
the track by the wind thus describes the
event: "We had gone but short dis
tance say four or five blocks--when
the wind bore down on us with tremen-
dous force. The cars began to rock and
L told the conductor, who was standing
beside me, that we were going over. firm
ygrasped the seat, when I felt the car rise
In the air and then turn over. We came
down SO hard that 1 lost my grip and I
found myself somewhere in the roofing,
with several others. The car took fire, but
all made their escape by scrambling out
of windows and doors, and the flames
were speedily extinguished. There
were fifteen passengers ON the train and
all were hurt, but none we're killed.
THE Chilian army is enough to make
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03

How TO Try OUT LARD.-Choose
fresh fat from pork lately killed; see
that it looks clean and white, and is free
from kernels; cut the fat in pieces about
an inch square, carefully removing
every particle of lean; put quart OF
water into an iron kettle, then put IN the
fat, place the kettle over gentle hre
and boil the fat for about three hours
or until II no longer bubbles; then strain
it through cloth and put it into stone
ware lars: when the lard is cold tie
waxed paper or cloth over the jars, and
keep them in a cool, dry place.
The scraps are to be dralned' sea-
soned with salt, pepper and powdered
sage, and served with hot baked or
boiled potatoes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03

IT is all well enough to advise a
young man to overcome all obstacles by
staking the bull by the horns;" but
when the youth is in the middle of a
field and the bull is coming toward him
with his head down and its tail lashing
the air the young man prefers to take the
fence. 1t would be decidedly unwhole-
some to take the bull by the horns un-
der those circumstances. .--NorristoeO
Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03

A KNOWING HEN.-At Bethany, Pa,
recently, Thos. Avery, while shoveling
snow out of his yard, discovered buried
in the snow hen which had been
missed for ten days. She had packed
the snow down and made a room the
size of bushel basket. Beyond the
loss of flesh incident to the long fast the
hen was unharmed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03

AN American girl frequently wears oil
she is worth on her back, according to
the Lowell Courier. She often wears
all her husband is worth, too.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03

CANNOT TALK.-Lieu tenant Rhodes
the Gay Head disaster hero, says he
would rather do his work over again
than make a speech about it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03

THE VALUE.-It was a Belgravian
mother who said: "No woman knows
the value of man until she has case
of breach of promise OF marriage against
him"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WE FIND IN THEM TO SMILE
OVER THIS WEEK.

The Amende Honorable Why He Lett -
Looking ont for Number One-BOund to
Collect SOmethinG-A Few "Eyening
Calls,o ETC., Etc.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
THE AMENDE HONORABLE.

A stranger travelling on horseback
through the backwoods of Arkansas was
very much impressed with the familiar
ity that existed between the pigs and
the natives. The swine had free pass
to the privileges of the house, and
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03

THE Chilian army is enough to make
the Peruvian bark.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-03
A NEW VERSION.

A NEW VERSION.
There is little boy in this city whose
mother has been reading to him lately
Charles Follen Adams's poem entitled
"Leedle Yawcob Strauss" the conclud-
ing lines of which are:
"Iprays der Lord dake anydings,
But leave dot Yawcob Strauss"
The other night while saying his
prayers the little boy rendered them as
follows
"Now 1 lay me down to sleep;
1 pray the Lord my soul to keep;
If l should die before wake
I pray der Lord dake anydings,
But leave dot Yawcob Strauss"
-.SO317er7,iIe ,TO2sr1nL
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-01

New YoRK, January sl.-Cotton quiet; FUTURES
dull and steady: February l069c; March l0sjc;
April ll.02e May rll.lsc Jnns 1l.29c, July u.4lc;
August II 49c: September u.l6c; October l0.SOc;
November l0.70c. .a