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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
Annie Louise Cary's Kindness.

One little story out of numberless ones
to which 1 listened l will repeat, feeling
sure it has never been in print, and illus
trative of Miss Cary's NOW Mrs. Ray
mond) character.
One summer, as was her custom, she
spent some little time in her fathers old
home, short distance from Portland,
which she made her own during her
vacation 1t was after she had been
feted at home and abroad. had sung be-
fore crowned heads and nobility, and
diamonds had been but one of profusion
of gifts showered upon her. One morn
ing she ran into a neighbours kitchen as
if 90 she were not Miss Cary" as the girl
said, where girl of eighteen or twenty
stood ironing. Like many bright New
England girls she longed to get away
from her small surroundings and try a
larger sphere. " Why, Ihave my trials, "
said Miss Cary, "and you could not un-
derstand them"
ooh, D." answered the girl, "what are
troubles to you2 You can do as you
please with the world, instead of wait
ing to see what the world is going to do
with you"
g You are tired; let me iron awhile, "
said the famous songstress.
The girl protested. Miss Gary. insist
ed, and carried her point. AS her iron
moved to and fro, she entertained the
weary girl with stories of her own life,
showing with what labor she had
achieved her present success, and the
trials incident to a public life. When
she, too, became weary, she changed
places with the girl, who had become
rested and contented, and saying, "Now
I'll sing for you, the voice which had
held hundreds entranced now filed the
little kitchen. For long time she held
the girl entranced by the spell of that
charming voice, and when she went
home left her happy, where she had
found her restless and discouraged.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
MAN VS.. HORSE.
Mervine Thompson Pulls against n Big Bay.
From the Minneapolis Tribune.I

From the Minneapolis Tribune.I
a large crowd witnessed the feat of
strength at Minnehaha, between Mervine
Thompson, the Cleveland whirlwind"
pugilist, and Treherne & Broderick's
bay horse, weighing /, 800 pounds. The
match was for 800 side and the gate
receipts, and the articles of agreement
allowed of any hitch which the owners
of the horse preferred, the horse to pull
Thompson OFF the ladder in three trials
They brought along with them rope and
tackle. and when it was learned that
they proposed to use this Thompson
kicked. Finally it was agreed to allow
the use of the tackle. A small, stout
iron-bound ladder, about six feet long,
was used. One end of this ladder was
tied to tree. Thompson with his huge
leather harness buckled about his shout
ders and body, stretched himself out at
full length upon the ladder, which was
elevated about eighteen inches. Thomp-
son then took hold of the heavy round
nearest the tree to which the ladder was
fastened, with his feet toward the horse
The rope and tackle was hitched to a
triangular and iron fastening at the end
of wide, heavy strip connecting with
Thompson's harness.
Time was called, and the horse was
arged to his utmost. After several I'M
successful attempts the rope broke, and
the referee declared that the horse had
been given fully three trials. The own
srs OF the horse took exceptions to this
decision, however, and commended that
the triangular iron to Thompson's har-
ness could not possibly be drawn through
staple-like arrangement which had
been placed at the foot of the ladder to
prevent the ropes from swaying from
one side to the other. 1t was claimed
that when the triangle caught in this
staple the rope broke.
The referee afterward decided in
Thompson's favor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
Seized Counterfeit Money.
TIE MANNER IN WHICH IT Is COLLECTED
TO BE DEsToYED.

"What becomes of the counterfeit
money that is surrendered or seized from
counterfeiters 2" was the question put to
Chief Drummond of the U. S. Treasury
Secret Service. The question was
prompted by the story of the two errand
boys, Johnny Sharratts and Harry Kelly
of West New Brighton, Staten Island,
one of whom was tempted few days
ago to steal $515 of counterfeit national
bank notes which he saw lying in desk
drawer of his employer, United States
Commissioner, and supposed was good,
and which he and his companion subse-
quently passed On tradesmen in this city
and at Coney Island.
Chief Drumm0nd said that it was I'M
usual for any one to have possession OF
counterfeit money in large or small sums
except counteneiters and the lawful
United States eustodians Tradesmen
and others might have possession of one
or two bills OF coins, which has been
passed ON them and which they retained
as curioslties, but if they kept collec-
ton of spurious money in their drawer
their motives would be apt to be mis-
trusted. Tha law and the Treasury re-
gulatlons are very strict about the pos
session OF counterfeit money when the
possessor knows it to be such. When
curiosity collectors keep the money in
scrap books Or in other ways they are
liable to arrest on the charge of having
counterfeit money il their possession.
So strlngenth the law that even imita-
lions OF Uncle Sans notes or coins for
the purpose Of advertising are forbidden.
The secretservice officers collect once
a month all tie counterfeit money from
the United States officials who have
temporary charge of it as evidence. The
money is Locked Gp in safe, and every
SIX nfetftfis, ~iCso longer needed as evil
dence against cdinterfeiters, is forward
ed, along with What is seized in bulk, to
Custodian Rock of the Treasury Depart
ment for destruction The money is in
ventoried and described, and receipts
are kept of allthat Is surrendered. The
bills are macerated and the coin is
melted down in the Treasury mill at
Washington.
The secret service was not aware of
the existence of the $515 in the office of
the United States Commissioner who
was robbed of it would have confscated
it. In the past eight years the officers
have sent about $500, 900 counterfeit
money of all descriptions to Washington.
The biggest amount was captured in the
Brockway case.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
Taking the Acquaintance.

The Mobile (Ala.) Register tells this
little story:
The last of the Summer nights con-
| certs took place at Frascati. A dance
followed in which many participated. A
reporter sat near couple from the coun-
try. The young lady desired to dance.
but the lank youth had not acquired the
art. He had an acquaintance present.
however, and he sought him out for pre-
sentation to the girl The Importance
of the occasion made profound impress
sion upon the rural gentleman. He
marched his friend in front of the lady
and was about to proceed when he no
ticed that the two were too near to-
gether. So he moved his friend back
about yard. The lady was seated.
With great precision and a wave of the
hand the young man said:
introduction.
Then he motioned to his city friend
and said:
'Miss Brown, take the acquaintance
of Mr.. Styles
Next, with another flourish:
''Mr. Styles, take the acquaintance of
Miss Brown
Finally, with an even grander salaam
than before, he said:
'.All take acquaintance
And with that he turned upon his heel
and left the acquaintance" to ripen as
best it might.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
Pennsylvania Marriage Law.

Getting married in Pennsylvania after
eight o'clock will require some careful
deliberation to answer the searching
questions under oath, as required by the
new law. The questions to be answered
are as follows:
1. Full name of man. 2. Full name
of woman. 3. Relationship of the par
ties, either by blood or marriage. 4. Age
of the man. 5. Age of the woman
6. Residence of the man. T. Residence
of the woman. 8. Parents name-man.
9. Parents's name-woman. TO- Guard
ians' name-man. II. Guardians name
woman. IL. Consent of parents or
guardian. 49, Date of death of mans
former wife, if any. H. Date of death
of woman's former husband, if any.
Is. Date of divorce of man at any time.
16 Date of divorce of woman at any
time. II. Color of parties IS. Occu-
patton of man. 49, Occupation of
woman.
Some of the interrogatories will be
embarrassing in SIP AL cases, but the
law is memorable and they must be an
swered The clerk of The court will be
liable to fine if he fails to enforce the
law to the letter, and parties answering
falsely win be subject to the penalty of
perjury.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
The Daughter of the Regiment.

A real Daughter of lie Regiment" is
said to live at 81. Petersburg, whose fate
shows that the Russian soldiers are not
at all as stony-hearted as they are some
times painted. In 1877 a Russian regi-
ment, after a hard struggle, took and in-
vaded the Turkish town Hermanly. The
inhabitants had mostly fled, but one of
the husslan soldiers, in searching among
the RUNS Tor booty came upon beauti-
1ul young girt about five years old, who
looked at the soldier with tears in her
large black eyes. The soldier pitied
the child, took 1t dong and showed it
10 the o1f1ctrs, who soon raised sub
scrlptlon OF 1900 foubles, and sent the
chlid 10 81 petersburg to school for
young girls. She is now a charming
Oriental beauty Of thirteen. and it Is
surmised that out Of Gratitude she will
marry one OF the officers who provided
for her. Recently a. a special festival
occasion she sent teleGram-' con
graduate my dear Wcles heartily"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
The Yacht America.

One of the intimate friends of General
B. F. Butler said: edo you know how
Butler came into possession of the yacht
America No, of course you don't,
for it has never been told l had it from
Butler himself. A man came into his
office in Washington one day, and said:
My name is Lamar. I've got a cotton
claim against the Government for 5000,
600. It'sas straight as string. But 1
need your help to collect it Leave the
papers and call tomorrow said the
General. Lamar was a relative of the
present Secretary of the Interior. He
called next day. You have clear case,
said Butler, I'll collect it for 90 per
cent That is 8 per cent less than I
expected to pay, said Lamar. so I
shall be liberal. I'll tell you what pll
do. l owned ayacht, which the govern
ment seized. It's over at the Navy Yard.
| can't get possession of it without a
more expensive fight than it is worth.
If you win this claim, I'll give you bill
of sale of that yacht, in addition to 20
per cent The claim was duly allowed,
Lamar got check for 5000, 900, Butler
got $40, 900 and4a bill of sale of the
yacht. He bid issn, finding $4OO more
lead in the yacht than the vessel cost
him - Neqr~P Fork. Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
The London Exhibition,

The American Exhibition in London
next summer promises to be success.
The site Is already engaged, and occu-
pies twenty acres near the West Bromp
ton station. The exhibits will have
for their aim the "showing to the Old
World what the resources, products,
manufactures, and arts of the United
States are at the present time" Per
haps one of the most interesting parts of
the exhibition will be the American
Garden, in which will be seen as com
plete flora of the United States, &C COS,
be collected The trees, shrubs and
plants are to be arranged according to
longitude and latitude In this way the
student may study local diversities in
systematic progression, and many flowers
and Towering shrubs will appear for the
first time away from their native habitat
a special newspaper, published monthly,
called the american Eagle, is issued to
promote and explain the objects OF the
Exhibition, which is expected to form a
leading attraction of the next season.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
Played the Fiddle.

One of the Justices of the Maine Su-
preme Court occasionally amuses him
self, when he is alone, by taking down
an old fiddle and playing on it, The
Judge used to be an expert performer of
ligs on the fiddle, but since his boyhood
has not devoted much time to the violin.
He was born and raised in poverty, and
the story of his life is almost romance.
His father was the fiddler of the village,
a nomadic and jovial soul. Said an old
neighbor, the other day, "When l went
to muster, sixty years ago, l used to see
the Judge and his father playing the
fiddle for dances at sixpence per tune
That was the regular price in those days.
None of the dancers ever supposed that
their little fiddler would become Judge
OF the Supreme Court. "-Leaoist0n (IHe.
Journal
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
THE NEW SONG.
Many times it has been told

Many times it has been told
That those British sailors bold
Gould fOg the tars of France SO neat and
handy, oh;
But they never found their match
Till the Yankees did them catch,
The Yankee boys for sailing are the dandy, oh.
The British cutter bold
On the foaming ocean rolled,
Commanded by bold Carter, oh, the grandee,
oh!
With as choice British crew
As ballard ever drew,
And they logged the tars OF France so neat
and handy, oh.
When tn Puritan hove in vlv
Says bold Carter to his crew
Come, clear the deck for action and be handy
oh;
But the Yankee through the brine
Swept ahead and crossed the line,
And kept the prize from British tars SO han dy
oh;
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
Acres Of SuntiOwers.

Very many of the spring chickens sold
in New York city are raised on sun
flower seed. At many points in New
Jersey there are chicken farms where
chickens are raised by the thousand
Many receive their first start in life from
the incubator, and when large enough
are put on diet of sunfower seeds.
The chickens are very fond of the seeds,
which are full of oil, and very fattening
The sunflower gives little trouble to the
farmer, as it is a hardy plant and grows
without cultivation. Some farmers plant
three and four acres of sunfowers, and
such fields have surprisingly gaudy APP
pearance. The perfume is sickening,
but when turned into spring chicken the
sunfower becomes pleasing table orna-
ment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
The Big Bank Note Worried Him.



Talking about finding money" said
Old Sport, would you believe me II L
told you found 81, 900 one timer 1t
was in Washington. The occasion was
the Inauguration of Grant, and there
were 200, 900 people in the streets. l
saw small green thing lying on the
pavement, and something prompted me
to pick it up. Ordinarily 1 wouldn't
stop to pick up things on the street, but
this time thought I'd Glance it. After
picking the green thing up l thought it
was a patent medicine advertisement,
and was on the point of throwing it
away, but l wasn't very busy just then,
so unrolled it, and when | saw it was
81. 900 bill | was scared to death. |
was dealing bank then, and didn't
know what to do with the find, because
l couldn't fake up any excuse for the
possession of so much of the filthy. The
main guy would swear that 1 was hold
ing out on him, and there would be the
devil to pay, and you can bet it would
take the whole of the thousand to pay
him. So Itook the bill to my boarding
house, and stuck it between the covering
of nv trunk and the outside. l looked
ut EJupci LUZ Ouo SONANA
see any advertisement for lost 81 900
bill I didn't dare get it changed In
Washington, because it would soon be
noised around that had big roll, and
the snap would be given away. Each
day / would reconnoiter around the old
trunk to see if the bill was safe, and I'd
change her from place to place. The
fact that the loss was not advertised led
me to suspect that the blooming bill
might be counterfeit, and I was in ter
rible stew. But I held on to it. One
day l went over to New York and took
the bill with me. At last l screwed up
my courage to slap the bill down on the
counter of bank asked to have it
changed. The dealer, or rather cashier
grabbed it up and squinted all over both
sides of it, and imagined every body in
the world was looking at me. Mind
you, this was three months after had
found the bill After cycling the bill for
few seconds the cashier laid it aside,
and l didn't know whether he was going
to set the dog on me or what but he
clinched on to a fist full of fifty dollar
bills and counted out twenty of them,
which he handed to me. So that was
all right. Well, felt pretty gay, and I
went down to Sand Hook and from there
to Long Branch, then back to New York,
over to Philadelphia, and once more to
Washington. That night 1 played faro
and got broke"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08

were not, though the bugs did look as If
they might go crawling off and up q
sleeve.
A woman applying for q divorce in
Washington, d. c., represents that she
married her husband Christmas Eve,
1880, when he was widower with one
child, and that Immediately after the
marriage she noticed that he was insane
on the subject of candy, keeping his
pockets full, "buying sometimes eight
or ten pounds month, sometimes Civ
ing it to the petitioner, although she
never asked for it, and sometimes eating
it himself" She further shows that In
May, 1882, he was sent to the asylum.
A BUDDHIST temple which will cost
So, 900, 600 is being built in Kioto,
Japan. 1t is said that more than ton
of large ropes, made of their own hair,
contributed by the women of Japan, will
be used to haul the timbers for the tenn
pie to their places. This temple is to
be Mecca for the faithful all over the
Empire.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
The Land of Fruit.

Florida is the land of fruit as well as
flowers. A paper of that State says:
" Commencing with January, we have
Strawberries then and until late in June.
Japan plums from February. Mulberries
are ripe in April aud last until August.
Pineapples ri pen in June and last nearly
all the year. We have guavas from July
until late the next spring. Of the vari-
Gus Observation-Disclosures, blackberries
and observation-disclosures any quantity
Peaches from May / until July. Melons
from June until late in the fall. Oranges
the best of the kind-from October
until the next June, with lemons and
lines, persimmons, pomegranates, grape
fruit, grapes, and shaddocks
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
He was Disguised.

A member of Congress, who was a
cavalry officer during the war, visited
the new Pension building the other day
for the first time and had to be taken
away in an ambulance He is said to
have made the discovery that every
cavalryman in the terra Gotta bas-relief
frieze around the building is holding the
horses reins in the right instead of the left
hand. The patriotic Congressman was
SO overcome by the discovery that 4
Congressional inquiry will be the only
means of relieving his distress. He says
man who don't know better than to
hold bride in the ri hit hand or sword
arm, shouldn't be allowed to draw a
-Pcrsi,rI, netf1iiSE5 Of draNSihi5
pension,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
At Her Own Funeral.

In Mrs. Langtry's new play, 1.-THE
Little Tramp" is peculiar scene. "Th6
Little Tramp" is the story of a country
yokel whose ambition is to become an
actor. If Mrs. Langtry accepts the
part she will personate the young tramp
in doublet and hose as yoke
One scene is rather peculiar. The
little tramp disappears. His supposed
corpse is found in a river He attends
his own funeral. The story is founded
on an actual adventure which happened
to Miss Ellen Terry, who disappeared
for few days without letting her
friends know where she had gone. The
body OF woman resembling her was
found In the Thames and was being duly
buried In her name when, to the aston
1shment of all, she burst in upon the
scene as gay and bright and full of life
as ever
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
Trying to Raise a Mole.

A young lady, quite society girl, in
Elmira, went into a drug store recently
and asked for something to make a
mole. She explained to me that an
other certain young lady had a mole on
her Wrist, right on the line of life" as
fortune teller had said, and that it in
dictated sunny disposition, good hus-
band, long life, happiness, riches, and
pretty nearly everything else on the cal
endar. The druggist says: 81 suppose
her rival had been making use of the in
formation, and therefore the young lady
applied to me for something to cause a
similar lucky sign to grow on her arm
gave her preparation to raise bis
ter, and l suppose she is now undergo
ing the ordeal. 1t cost her So bill,
and l hope it will bring her riches, hap
piness and husband"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
Jersey Cows at Auction.
OXFORD KATE, THE CHAMPION BUTTER.
MAKER, SELLS FOR $3.250.

An auction sale of Jersey cattle, all be-
longing to the Burnside Park Herd, took
place in Madison-Square Garden, n. Y.
The bidding was very spirited, and the
prices obtained good. The receipts on
the % animals sold aggregated nearly
10000 The first animal sold was
bull calf by Black Prince of Linden out
of Princess H. He has the blood of
Khedive and the Coomassies, and went
to o. Recklefsen, the agent of Mrs.
Shoemaker, of Baltimore, for So, 900.
This is the highest price paid for bull
calf in several years. Black Prince of
Linden, the sire of this calf, was next
sold. He is descended from Rioter,
Stoke Pogis, and the great Europa.
Several people at the sale wanted him,
but he was worth 81, $50 to J. Roth and
went to that gentleman's farm at Valen
tine, Penn.
Mr.. Recklefsen then ran Fillpall II, a
C { S.1 COW, dropped in January,
1881, up to $1,000, at which price he
got her. Westphalia, Khedive cow, 8
years old and imported from the Isle of
Jersey, sold for 81, 100 to J. S. Rogers,
of Paterson, N. J. The feature of the
day, however, was the sale of Oxford
Kate, light brown colored cow, drop
ped at st. Peters, Isle of Jersey, in 1879.
She was sired by Pilot, out of Verclut,
and has strains of blood from all the
great cows of the last century. Her
butter record is The highest of all living
COWS, 80 pounds IL ounces in seven days.
From 81, 900 her price ran rapidly up to
So, 800, and everybody in the Garden
seemed to want her at any price between
that and $4,000. Gen. R. S. Andrews,
of Richmond, Va, finally bid $3.50,
above which no one else would go.
Among the other animals sold were
Daisy Queen, an imported COW, years
old, to Frederick Loeser, of Brooklyn,
for $4O0; Queen of the Farm, to Mrs A.
N. Martin, of Summit, N. J., for $500;
bull calf by Black Prince of Linden,
1925; Claudine of St. Heller, 2-year
old heifer, $40, to Milton Chase, of
Va; Primrose of East View,
to Gen. Andrews, for 1915, and Melona,
by Khedive, to Mrs. Martin, for $3.50.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-10-08
A Pitiful Court Scene.
THE CURSE OF INTEMPERANCE WRECKS
ONCE HAPPY HOME.

"Forgive me, Judge. " piteously plead
ed Agnes Brown, aged thirty two, '.and
so help me God I'll never touch drop
of liquor again."
Five small children, the smallest three
years of age and the eldest twelve.
clustered about her at Essex Market,
crying that they wanted their mamma.
while the head of the family, Henry
Brown, made the following statement to
the Court:
II work at cloth-trimming at No. A
Hudson street, and every night when
go home from hard days work find
my wife drunk, nothing fit to eat in the
house, the children neglected, and very
frequently having been left the whole
day without anything to eat, though she
had plenty Of money, which she used TO
supply herself with liquor. She now
says she wants another chance. have
already tried her three times. but she
keeps sober for day or two and then
breaks out again. 3"
Justice Power committed the woman
to the workhouse for six months The
children were sent to Father Drumgoole's
Mission. There was pitiful scene when
the little ones were separated from the
mother. Their shrieks could olfnost be /
heard block away-Nesc York World. |