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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
A Guarantee of Good Faith.

A story is told concerning the court
ship of a young couple whose wedding
occurred recently In Washington. The
young man has been in this country
something less than year, and has for
some time been in the employ of the
lady's father, and receiving the extrava-
giant compensation of SIS per month.
When lie had summed up courage
enough to ''ask papa" he was met by
the busiuess-ike GLOW much money
have You - He informed pater-familias
that lie had 81 900, whereupon the prop
osition was accepted that the young man
give the father the 81, 600 and the father
give the young man the daughter, and at
the expiration of two years, if she was
we'll red for, the young man was to re-
ceiye back the money; but if djscord
arose between the couple, or he failed to
support her during the two years, then
the father would reclaim his daughter
and ret8in the ducats. The Buptials
were celebrated with great ponlp, flow
ers streNn With prodigal hand, and the
perfumes of rare exotics that filled the
sacred edifice with an atmosphere of
sweetness gave the place the appearance
Of temple of Flora. Two years from
NOW. Tie ownership of my daughter and
my dU6ats" will be finally decided, -
.Bosost Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
Prices in Idaho.

A copy of the Ceur d'Alene Weekly
Nugget before us is printed at Eagle
City, which, it claims, is the metropolis
of the new mining district. 1t is not a
very large paper, but it sells for $12 a
year. 1t gives list of prices of articles
of common household necessity at the
mines. The list is made up by an Eagle
City grocer, who appends the intima-
ton that these prices may fiuctuate, ac-
cording to the condition Of the trails :
Flour is $50 per barrel; sugar, 80 cents
per pound; tea, $1.25; coffee, 30 cents;
candles, so cents; bacon, 40 cents; pota-
toes, per pound, 25 cents; beans, per
pound, so cents; tobacco, 81; soap, 25
cents; yeast powders, rs cents; cheese,
25 cents; salt, 25 cents; syrup, per gal
Ion, 81 so; coal oil, per can, 81. so;
cigars, per thousand, $40 to $3.50;
liquors, per gallon. So; cook stoves, $40
to $3.50; brooms, 81. %; oyer-shirts, So. so;
boots, ST to $12. The Nugget estimates
thai there are now 5000 people at the
mines, and others are coming in on all
trails,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
Germany and Russia.

A recent revival or extension of friend
ly relations between Germany and Rus
STA has probably not been recorded in
any formal document. Official and semi
official journals discontinue for the time
their notices of concentrations of troops
on the western frontier of Russia. and
they rather hint than assert that Russia
has explicitly or practically joined the
alliance to which Germany, Austria, and
to certain extent Italy, are parties. It
is not yet known whether the new COM
bination is heartily approved at Vienna;
but there is no doubt that cordial IN
derstanding with Austria is an essential
element in Prince Bismarck's foreign
policy. His main object is the main
tenance of peace, which is only liable to
be disturbed by concert between France
and either Austria or Russia. The great
est diplomatic triumph of his life was the
naturalization of one of the two Imperial
Powers by the aid of the other during
the French war of 1870. Austria, which
was then held in check by fear of a Rus
sian attack, is now united with Germany
by ties of friendship founded originally
on q common distrust of Russia. It was
only when Prince Gortchakoff openly
courted a French alliance that Prince
Bismarck formed close union with
Austria. As long as it lasts Germany
has little need to fear French war of
retaliation, while Austria is guaranteed
against Panslavonic intrigues and
secured in the possession of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. 1t was a master-stroke
of policy to find in the Austrian jealousy
of Russia security against the danger
of French resentment NeaO York
HOlhr
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
A Congressional Tradition.


There is a Congressional tradition, says
a Washington correspondent, that if q
Representative succeeds in getting q
postoffice building for the chief town in
his district, his calling and reelection
are sure, although experienced members
say this method of electioneering is de-
fusion and a snare.
A Congressman who went to Maine in
1878 to help the Republicans in their
campaign, says he found great opposi-
ton to Hale, even among Republicans,
in Bangor. "What's the matter % he
inquired; 'hasn't Hale got a nice public
building for you?"
"That's the trouble" was the reply.
"Every teamster, every carpenter, every
stone mason, every bricklayer, every
plumber in town, with one exception in
each trade, is mad because he didn't get
the contract on the government building,
and blames Hale for it. J"
On election day Hale was beaten !, 300
votes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
How He Lost His Free Pass.

Some time ago Judge O., of Nashville,
was pressing a suit before a Stewart
county jury against the railroad in an
action for damages for killing his clients
COW. "What is that thing, gentlemen
of the jury, what is the name of that III
strument of death fastened on in front of
the engine?" asked the Judge, with we'll
feigned ignorance. cts the COW
catcher" replied one of the Jurors.
tAh thought So" continued Judge
O.; 81 thought so. And yet Judge
Lurton, with more cheek than any young
man ever knew, tells you that the
railroads do not intend to destroy your
stock, even while they carry a COW
catcher, put there to run your COWS
down and catch 'em and k11l 'em, as the
the name of the fearful engine of destruc-
ton implies-even while the roads
fasten this cow-catcher ON in front of
the train--yes, gentlemen, it is fastened
on to chase your COWS around and catch
the poor things and crush the very life
out of them"
The Judge got his SIS verdict for
S15 COW; and what's more he got his free
pass "tuck up ON the way home, and
has been paying the usual per mile-em
ever since.-NashViLle World.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
An Easter Sermon.

DIR. Talmage's text on Easter Sunday
was from John, Xxx, 15-"She suppos-
ing him to be the gardener" For forty
! centuries, he said, grim and ghastlv
tyrant had been killing people and drag
ging them into his cold palace filled
with SOULS. No one disputed his right
until mighty stranger seized the two
| pillars of that palace and rocked them
till it fell, and marched forth crying, 81
am the resurrection y That event we
celebrate this morning. There are two
or three things which the world and the
church have not noticed in regard to the
resurrection of Christ. First, He was
IN gardeners attire. That means that
we have an everyday Christ for every
day work in everyday apparel. If
He had appeared with crown upon
His head that would have seemed to
suggest sympathy for monarchs. But
In gardeners attire / spell it out that He
has hearty and pathetic understanding
with everyday work. Pass along this
gardeners coat to all nations, that they
may feel the thrill of q Christly brother
hood
Christ made His first appearance to
one who had been the seven-deuled
Mary Magdalen. What capitol OF de-
monology she must have been Yet
these are extirpated, and now Christ
honors her with His first posthumous
appearance. That means for those low
est down that they shall come highest
up, that the grace of God is seven times
stronger than sin. Mary Magdalen, the
seven-deviled, became Mary Magdalen,
the seven-angeled. Some on meeting
her would have id:-''Let me see, how
many devils did you used to have?
What terrible piece you were when I
first met you p Most of the women of
our day would have nothing to do with
Mary Magdalen. But Christ accosted
her. That means mercy for the chief of
sinners. God can take all the devils
away-sevep or seventy.
1t was i9ssthe morning twilight that
Christ appeared the evening
twilight that gets darker and darker, but
the morning twilight that gets brighter
and brighter until the perfect day.
Half-past five o'clock among the tombs
now, but soon to be the MONDAY of ex-
PLANTATION and beatitude.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
He Had Him.

have come to the conclusion that the
street car is an admirable school in which
to study human nature in all of its
phases. On one occasion / saw neat
return lesson in politeness administered
which was extremely amusing. The car
was full of passengers and side by side
sat negro and nervous, rather cross.
looking white man. Presently a lady
entered and stood for half minute OF
more, when the white man turned to the
negro and asked:
"Why don't you offer that lady your
seat ?"
"Sartainly, sab, sartainly, " replied the
negro, as he at once rose up. politely
offered her the seat and stepped TO the
front part of the car. Soon after a negro
woman entered the car and not motion
was made to give her seat. The negro
waited for a minute or two, and then
stepping to where his late instructor in
courtesy was sitting, took off mis- hat
and said:
"S'cuse me, sab, but why don't Won
offer dis lady yo' seat ?"
The man looked as if two or three
bolts of lightning had struck him. hest
tated moment and hurting out:
u will r left the car.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
The Richest Man in Congress,

The richest Senator is James G..
Fair, of Nevada, and he is an hishman.
He was born near Belfast fifty-three
years-ago, and when he was a boy of
twelve his parents moved to America.
Young Fair settled in Chicago and there
completed his education. When he was
eighteen the gold fever broke out and
Fair caught it. He went overland to
California in 1919, the caravan with
which he travelled using horses until
they reached Salt Lake, and there trad
ing them for oxen, with which they per-
formed the rest of the journey. In
California Senator Fair stayed for some
years, mining here and there along the
streams for pockets, but making no
great success at it. He then began
quartz mining, and studied the business
until he became an expert prospector
and took rank as a good judge of mines
and as a safe man to operate them. In
1855 he was managing the noted Ophir
mine, and in 1857 he got control of the
Hale and Norcross mine This gave him
his start, and he soon after struck the
big bonanza which made Flood, Mac
kay and himself millionaires. He is
now worth in the neighborhood of fifty
millions of dollars, is said to own
seventy acres of land in San Francisco,
and has a residence at MEMO Park which
must have cost a million at least.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
ODDS AND ENDS.

HERE are twenty-four Portlands il
tals country.
4, 732 BOOKS were published in Eng
land last year.
MoULDY and unventilated cellars vii
spoil butter or milk.
HE West is now supplying New Yorl
with hotel furniture.
ATHENS, GA. expects to become the
cottonopolis of the South.
CLAREMoNT, n. H, still rings "the
curfew' at o'clock.
In Chicago there are 8, TT saloons, Oh
L to every 35 families.
ROBINS with mushrooms is the latest
dish in Florida hotels.
BELL Telephone stock earned II per
cent. dividend last quarter.
A NARROW gauge railroad is being built
to the top of Pixies Peak.
THERE are $50 colleges and UNIVERSE
ties in the United States.
FENCE cutting has been made felony
by, the Texas Legislature.
In Australia people never boast of be-
longing to an ''old family"
DAKOTA has us post offices, an in
crease of 167 during the year.
ILLINOIS has 255, TAI farms, Ohio 247,-
1S9 and New York 241, O5S.
THE papers of Texas think that a di-
vision of the State is inevitable.
THERE are now residing in the United
States nearly thousand Japanese.
The manufacture of needles and pins
IS one of the industries in Germany.
The City Clerk of New York gets
about S75, 900 year out of his office.
HE Savannah. Ga, cotton exchange
does business of $50, 0OO,OO annually.
ARCHIBALD FORBES, the newspaper
correspondent, has been made an LII. d.
A WOMAN has been elected president
OF the Indiana Bee Keepers Association
DURING the Ohio Valley food eggs
retailed there as high as IS cents
dozen.
GERMANY has increased its beat crop
In ten years from 3,000,O COO to $500, 900 |
tons.
AN Englishman sold three Hereford |
cows to an American breeder for 50, 400 |
each.
In France there are now 1875 miles |
of navigable rivers and 1890 miles of
canals.
San Francisco viii put up buildings |
costing $1,000 1000 for her worlds fair in
1887.
sWMLIAM 81. VANDERBmT's art gallery
contains 176 oil paintings, Ill by French
artists.
EUROPE and British India consume
about $50, 600 gallons of toilet perfumes
annually.
LONDON policemen are not allowed to
carry revolvers lest they might use them
carelessly.
MEN aged 81 TO IS may be seen play
ing marbles in the streets of Angels
Camp, Cal.
5000 BOYS and 1000 girls under thir-
teen years of age are employed in Chi
cago factories.
A WOMAN of n years in Belfast, Me-,
is suing man of 70 for 50, 900 damages
for breach of promise.
A MECHANIC of Kittery, Me-, has dis
covered a process by which he YIELDS
copper as securely as iron.
The Kentucky House of Representa-
tives passed bill prohibiting bicyclists 6
from using the public roads. :
In nine years property valued at S77S,- q
642, 35S has been destroyed by fire in
the United States and Canada.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
Making a Reduction.

A life insurance agent who had beer
working up considerable business il
Fort Scott, KY, was one day approached
by tough-looking customer who want
ed to take out a $1,000 policy. He in.
CURED about the cost and other particu,
lars and finally remarked:
"Wel, stranger, when you kin put the
figgers down about one-haif you kin
send fur me-.
"Oh, / couldn't do that"
"Mebbe not, but them's my terms"
When the man bad departed the agent
went out to inquire who he was, and 6
citizen replied:
"Why, that's Bill Callahan. What
did he want ?"
"Wanted some insurance at half
rates"
"Give it to him p
"Ill see him hanged first Why
should [ make reduction to him ?"
because you have got insurance on
at least twenty of us here, and if you
don't come to Bills figures he'll kill q
full dozen of us before the year is out !
Better consult tine interests of the com.
pany and make reduction
The next day William had policy on
which shake-purse paid the first pre-
MUM. Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
Pay of Officers.

Senator Hawley reported favorably to
the q. S. Senate, from the Committee
on Military Affairs, the bill introduced
by him to provide that section of the
act approved March 3, 1865 making APP
preparations for the support of the
Army, which provided that all officers
of volunteers then in commission below
the rank of BrigadierGeneral, who
should continue in the military service
to the close of the war. should be en-
titled to receive, upon being mustered
out, three months pay proper, be so
construed so as to entitle the heirs or
legal representatives ofssuch officers who
were killed or died in the service be-
tween March 3, 1865, and April 10, of
the same year, to receive the three
months pay to which such officers
would have been entitled had they lived
and been mustered out at the close of
the war.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
MARKET NOTES
NEW YORK MARKET.

NEW YORK MARKET,
The Wholesale New York market quotations
show:
BEANs-Prime, 81 2O@s4. So; fair to good,
So. 55GD$2. 90 per bushel
BUTTER New York sold at 34036c. for
choice in pals, and 25GD2Sc. common to good
Western Creamery sold at 33@34c., and the
comsnon Western at 23025c.
CHEEsE-Factory fancy, 14O1416c; do fair
to good, 12013c.
transformations ranged from 27c. for Or
binary, to CSC. for New York, New Jersey and
Flour Superfne, S2.60@S3. 25; Western,
$3.G5@$6.60; extra New York, So. 50d0$6. 90.
HAY Shipping. 45050c. clover 40@50c.,
salt, 60c straw, 50@55c.
HoPs-New York. 2GCQ27c.; Eastern, 20@25c;
yearlings, ls@25c; ODDS, 49, O..
PETROLEUM Refined, 79Sc; crude, 66@79sc
IN bulk; in barrels S58c; naphtha, 694c. in
shipping order, and II 11a912c. in cases.
PoRK-Clear back. $1S.50@$19.25; dressed
hogs, 7150755c.
WHEAT Spring No. 8, s1.O2@s1. O6; Mil
waukee No. 2, S1.O5; amber. $1.32Q$2 40;
white, $l.03@$1.1034.
CoRN-Ungraded Western Mixed. 45@ 4Sc;
Steamer Mixed, 5616@5714c. in elevator, 5Sc.
delivered: No. 2, 56150573sc. in elevator. $50
ivered
RyE~state, 78@7816o.
WooL-OhiO, Pennsylvania and Virginia,
XXX, 45046c.; Xxx, 42GG44c.; x, 42943c.; No.
!, 40dl4Ic.; NO. z, 3SGd40c.; common, 33GD35c.;
New York and Western Xxx and X, 3904515c.;
No. l, 44G45c
PHILADELPHIA MARKET.
FLoUR-State family, S4500$4.7 rs; rye flour,
S5.4O@S3. 50 wheat, State, $.-(9S1. 1615
amber, $1.43; corn, yellow, 54115c. mixed States
SIC.
PETROLEUM. Refined, 79Sc. crude, GO.
WooL-State and Western Xxx, 46@50c.; x,
$40 4oc.; medium. 50@51c.; coarse, 45c.
BOSTON MARKET
FLOUR - From So. 75@$3.25 for low and
medium, to $4.25@5.50 for choice Minnesota
Corn, 6406Sc. for mixed and yellow.
BUTTER - Common, 1Sc @20c. Vermont
DAIRY, 23GD26c. choice creamery, 32@34c.
CHEEsE-14D1515c
BEANs-S3. 25O53. 80.
HAY-Choice, $150$16
CATTLE MARKETS.
BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality. S5.5)6
Sc. 20 O0''
EAST LIBERTY PENN.-Best cattle. sc. 25CS
600; medium to good, IS. 25C0$6. 90; common
TO fan, S5.00@$6.00: Hogs, Workers.. SIS. 756a
S6.00 Philadelphias, $6.4O@S6.5O. Sheep,
WATERFOWL, MAss.-Cattle choice. s.
@SlO.25; extra, $80O0$gO0; first quality,
S.o0@S7.5O second quality, $5.OO@S6. SO:
third quality, $40 C0Sl5O. Sheep and lambs
wool sheep, $2.5O@$45O; extra, $4,000
S g. spring lambs, 5000; Veal calves,
319c@713o. II
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
A French Scandal.
The Misfortune of n Young Girl who Tried
to Keep n store.

A French paper says that in the
year 1882 young girl who had small
dry goods store in the suburbs of Bor-
deaux was obliged tosuspend payment. A
creditor sued her and she was sum-
moned to the Office of the Procuruer. II
was more than a failure, it was bank.
ruptcy, for the young girl had kept hel
books very badly, if, indeed, she had
any. The Procureur was severe anc
menancing. He even spoke of sending
-Aer-te-t4fe- gsfffeys. This word cam
often on his lips. The unfortunate girl
overwhelmed, begged, duplicated by
Whaterer means, whatever sacrifices. tc
have the threatening fate averted. A
means was found on the spot. for the in
yest1gatlon already commenced was sud-
denly stopped and, instead of the severi-
ties she feared, she became the object of
special favors on the part of the Pro-
oureur. A correspondence which passed
between them proves that the unhappy
girl was obliged to purchase her liberty
at the price of her honor. In 1888 she
became mother and naturally de-
manded some assistance from the father
OF her child. Then began again the
eternal story of the poor girl lost and
abandoned. However, driven to ex-
tremIties by misery, the victim went to
lawyer, whom she told all.
On the 18th of March last the Procu-
reur was summoned by huissier to ap-
pear before the Justice of the Peace at
Monte-de-Marsau, in order if possible to
come to some amicable arrangement.
To avert the scandal the Procureur i'm
mediately began a criminal action
against the complainant and by pro-
ceedlng as new as it is illegal, implicated
the hussier who had brought him the
summons in the prosecution as an ac-
complice in the crime of blackmail. at
the hearing the magistrate of whom the
unhappy woman had demanded Justice
against the Procureur arose and pub
lcly declared that he could not examine
INTO the matter because the Procureur
had begun criminal proceedings against
the complainant.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
READ THE PAPERs.-Always read your

READ THE PAPERS. Always read your
newspaper carefully. There may be a
fortune in it for you. Joseph Cowherd,
a Tennessee printer and country news
paper publisher, while waiting in store
in Carthage, in that State. picked up a
scrap torn from Virginia newspaper,
on which he saw an advertisement ask
ing for information of his whereabouts.
He promptly answered it, and learned
that by the death of an uncle In south
ern Virginia he had fallen heir to a fine
plantation, much personal property and
several thousand dollars in cash.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
Where to see the Great TrOtters of
New York.
cincinnati Times-Star

No two men in America have had
more experience with fine trotting stock,
and none are better judges than Calvin
M. Priest, of the New York Club Stables,
28th street, near Fifth avenue, and Dan
Mace, of the Excelsior Stables, West
Goth street, New York, the champion
double-team driver of the United States.
Both of these gentlemen say, that for
painful ailments in horses, such as cuts,
bruises, swellings, lameness, stiffness,
st. Jacobs Oil is superior to anything
they have ever used or heard of. This
is also the opinion of Prof. David Ro-
barge, the celebrated horse-shoer of the
metropolis, and thousands of stock
owners throughout the country. As q
pain-cure for man and beast st. Jacobs
Oil has no equal. Mr.. Priest recites the
case of a valuable trotter, so stiff with
rheumatism that he could not move an
inch. By one thorough application Of
st Jacobs Oil at night, the animal was
completely cured, and was fit for the
race track the next day.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
How to shorten Life

Aoernethy, the great English surgeon, asked lad,
VINO told him she only had cough: what would
you nave Inc plague p Beware of only coughs p
Inc worst cases can, however. be cured by Dr. VIM
Halls Balsam for the Lungs, In Wboopino Coupb
and Group it Immediately allays inflammation and is
sure to prevent fatal termination of the disease
Sold by all druggists and dealers in medicine.
For SPECIAL RATES tor advertising IN this paper
apply TO the bliSher of the paper Ii7
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
Hard to Believe.

1t is hard to believe that man was cured OF
a Kidney disease after his body was swollen as
big as barrel and he had been given up as
incurable and lay at dea his door. Yet such a
cure was accomplished by Kidney-Wort in the
person of NJ. NJ. Devereaux, of Ionia, Mich,
who says: ''After thirteen of the best doctors
in Detroit bad given me up, was cured by
Ktdney-Wort. 1 want every one to know what
a boon ii is -"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08

THE PoLE.-The U. S. House passed
the bill offering reward of $25, 900 for
the rescue of the survivors of the Greedy
expedition. Some of these days, when
we become more practical. says the
World, we may offer reward of $780,
600 to anybody who will discover the
North Pole and locate it properly, and
save money by the operation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08
MENsMANs PEpToN1zED BEEF TONIC, the onl

preparation of beef containing its entire rlltt1l
tiotts properties. 1t contains blood-making
force generating and DEMONSTRATING properties
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms of general debility
also in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Csswell, Hazard d
Co., Proprietors, New York. Soldby druggists,
DRUGGISTS in malarial districts say that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is as
much the standard remedy for female weak
nesses as quiuine is for the prevailing chills and
fever
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-08

Is the Best Salve for Cuts, Bruises Ulcers Sal
Rheum, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Corn,
and all kinds of Skin Eruptions Freckles and PIN
pies Get Henrys Carbolic Salve as all others are
counterfeits. Price cts