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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16
The Locomotive in Winter.

A locomotive cab in winter is q dreary
place. 1t is bad in daytime, but on e
winter night, when the snow flies fast,
the locomotive cab is good place to
keep out of. Even in the day it is i'm
possible to see anything if a snowstorm
prevails. The rails run right up into
the air. Nothing can be seen ahead but
jumping-of place. The windows are
frozen up or covered with snow, and
from innumerabIe cracks and crevices
around the floor where it Joins the
boiler come draughts that bite and
sting. The engine caws like a crow
haugh, haugh, now fast, now slow, ac-
cording as the drifts cover the track or
uncover it for brief space, and when it
strikes a drift it throws the snow in
binding clouds all over itself, Just as
the spray flies over vessel shipping a
sea. The track is rough, for. the frost
has disturbed it, and the engine lurches
ahead, staggering to and fro like a
drunken man.
There are few more impressive spec
tacles in this world than a powerful To-
connective laboring through a heavy snow
storm. To the observer beside the
track it looms up through the gloom
tremendous and awful. The locomotive
seems the embodiment of the Death
Angel, moving swiftly and noiselessly.
The snow has muf1sd the whir of the
rolling friction of the wheels on the
rails, and the train glides by like the I'M
substantial pageant of dream. With
its black breath, its snorts of fire, its
hoarse voice, it is truly ApollYon, the
destroying angel, and the man must be
unimpressionable indeed who does not
feel a shriIl at its advent. Mechanical
En1ineer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16
How they Work Together.
A SUCCESSFUL COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY
IN FRANCE.

The st. James's Gazette says: People
who are interested in the reform OF the
relations that exist between capital and
labor will do we'll to procure a copy of
the recently issued report of M. Godln's
cooperative community at Guise, IN the
Department of Aisne. The association,
which was founded in 1860, and at pres
ent consists of about fourteen hundred
persons, carries on an iron foundry. The
people live together in a group of spe-
cialIy constructed buildings, and, during
the last twenty-five years, there has not
been single case of serious crime among
them. The capital employed in the
business is entitled to a preferential in
terest at the rate of five per cent. per
annum, and all further profits are divid-
ed among the workingmen. In 1888 the
dividends payable to the holders of the
capital amounted to 1883, 600 francs,
but the earnings of the workingmen are
not entirely paid in cash.
A certain portion of them is devoted to
the gradual buying up, by the workers,
of shares in the undertaking. Every
worker thus in time becomes a capital
ist, his share steadily increasing as years
go on, and provision being laid up against
his old age or disablement. In this fash
ion the proprietorship of the business
passes down from generation to genera
ton, although at present M. Godin's in
terest has not been entirely bought out.
The proportion OF profit due to each
workman is dependent upon his abilities,
conduct and seniority. The members Of
the community are divided into five
classes-associes (68), soc;etaires (95),
participants (573), auxiliares (25S), and
interesses (286), the associes sharing at
the highest and the interesses at the
lowest rates. The average remuneration
of each worker in 1888 was about 20s.
Cd. per week-a wage which is far
higher than that earned by foundry
hands in ordinary establishments in
England.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16
A New Kind of Cruiser.

The Glasgow Herald says: The new
belted cruisers, or, as they have been
called in Parliament, the ''new Mer-
Beys," for which certain shipbuilders
have Just been invited to tender, differ
from their more recent predecessors in
having 10 feet more beam, being 300
feet by Sc feet, and in having an in
crease of i, 300 tons in the displacement,
making them up to 5000 tons. The
protective deck has been replaced by an
armor belt 200 feet long, formed of TO-
inch steel-faced armor of 6-inch of back
ing. The ends are protected by an IN
derwater belt similar to the Mersey's.
AS the ends of the belted cruisers are
very fine, the part of the water-line not
actually protected by armor, is proper
tionately very small. The engines of
these vessels are to be 7,500-horse
power, to be obtained by the use of
forced draught in a closed stokehole.
There are four boilers, double-ended,
having total crate surface of about 500
square feet, and working at a pressure
of 100 pounds. Their total weight is
not to exceed 100 tons. They are of
similar type to those supplied to the
Leander class by Messrs. Robert Napier
hollow steel shafting throughout.
The armament consists of two 13-ton
guns, arranged, one forward, to fire all
round the bow to about fifty degrees
abaft the beam, and one aft, to fire
through a similar sweep round the stern.
In addition to these, there are twelve
Atom guns and six machine guns. A
torpedo armament will also be provided
above and under water. The construc-
ton of the hulls does not materially
differ from that of the smaller and ear
lier ironclads of her Majesty's navy,
such as the Hydra, Nelson and Con
queror, but they are OF steel throughout.
These belted cruisers will each be
manned by crew of from $50 to $50
officers and men, for whom very. good
accommodation is found on the second
deck above the water line. All the
usual refinements of cruiser have to be
provided in their most modern form.
When completed these vessels will be
works of modern engineering second to
none. AS vessels of war, they cannot
fail to be formidable Their weak point
appears to be their speed, which is not
to be more than eighteen knots.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16
Head-Gear for the SOudan.

At the japanese village, London,
there is now being made, by order of
the English Government, an ingenious
contrivance which will elfectually pro-
tect the soldiers in the Soudau from the
rays of the burning sun and render an
attack of sunstroke almost impossible.
It is formed of light bamboo and paper
and may thus be described: On each
shoulder is fixed piece of bamboo,
bent in the form of an arch; in the CEN
ire of each arch piece of bamboo,
somewhat resembling an umbrella stick,
IS inches in hight, is securely fixed,
and these sticks support a light awning
2 feet in length by 18 inches in
breadth; the frame of the awning is
composed of bamboo and the covering
of paper painted green inside. The
weight will scarcely be felt and the
wearer will thus enjoy all the comforts
of large umbrella. without experien.
cling the Inconvenience of holding it up,
and his hands will be left entirely free
to carry his rifle OF other articles.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16
GENERAL GRANTS DISEASE.
The Terrible Cancer, and What Medicai
Authorities say About Ii.


The suddenness with which General
Grants health is being undermined by
a cancer at the root of the tongue, will
direct attention to this disease.
Cancer in Massachusetts is one OF the
twelve most destructive diseases. In
1882 it was the tenth most destructive,
in 1873 the fifteenth. Taking the NOR
tality from cancer for the entire decade
1971-80, while the deaths from con-
sumption averaged annually 1926 per-
sons for 1000 population, those from
cancer were 40, or one death for every
2 500 people. Hampden county, by the
way, has the least mortality from can
Ger, 30. while Dukes and Nantucket
rise to .98, and Suffolk to A. Hampton
also has only about half as much con-
sumption as the island and coast coun-
ties. The number of deaths from can
Ger in 1882 in Massachusetts, was 9S7, OF
whom GAL were of women, while the
deaths from consumption were 5 500.
The decedents from cancer are from
forty to seventy years of age mostly.
Cancer seems to be increasing, and Percy
Dunn, writer in the Pal Mall
Gazette, whose article is quoted in the
Il OlDNCCF bCtfC1tCC 4hOHtfttJ 1OA 4hhiSAJ
claims that there is marked increase IN
Great Britain, and that it is due to good
living, inasmuch as the disease prevails
among the rich rather than among the
poor A French writer states the pro-
portion among the rich as 106 cases per
1000, and among the poor seventy-two
per 1000. These statements appar-
emily indicate far greater prevalence of
the disease abroad than here 1t is said
also that the disease exists among do
nestle animals, but not among wild. 1t
is most prevalent in England and CEN
trail Europe, while in northern countries
it seldom appears. The article referred
to regards it as remarkable that in Ice
land so, 900 people suffered only thirty
seven deaths from cancer IN one year,
but this rate was considerably higher
than that of Hampden county for 1882,
when there were but forty-nine deaths
from this cause to 104, 400 population.
Cancer is not contagious, although it is
sometimes thought to be. It seems to
battle all remedies but the knife, not
withstanding periodical announcements
of the discovery of curative drugs. 1t
begins as a local disease, spreads and in
fects and destroys the nearest glands and
blood vessels. That General Grant is a
good subject for the disease seems not
improbable. Since his return from Eu-
rope he has presented the appearance of
man of good living. full habit, and
very little exercise, still attached TO his
cigar. He has been abstemious in the
use of wines, but his face has become
ford and heavy, his form stout and his
gait soft and without elasticity of car
rage. His head, always carried for
ward, has hung more heavily bowed, and
it has been apparent that he would not
see old age. Had it not been for the
crushing reverses of the past year, how
ever, he might have been spared to en-
Joy the fulflment of the Scriptural al
lotment of life. He will be sixty-three
on the 9th of April.-Spri'eaJ3eld Re
publican.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16
Action of Alcohol on the Heart.

DIR. n. B. Richardson, of London.
says he was recently able to convey a
| considerable amount of conviction to
an intelligent scholar by simple ex-
pertinent. The scholar was singing the
praises of the ''ruddy bumper, and
saying he would not get through the
day without it, when DIR. Richardson
said to him: "'Will you be good
enough to feel my pulse as [ stand
here?' He did SO. L said, Count it
carefully; what does it say Your
pulse says "a / then sat down in q
chair, and asked him to count it again.
He did so, and said, Your pulse has
gone down to TO- L then lay down on
the lounge, and said, will you take it
again ? He replied, why, it is only
81; what an extraordinary thing 7 [
then said, when you lie down at night
that is the way nature gives your heart
rest. You know nothing about it, but
that beating organ is resting to that ex-
tent, and if you reckon it up it is
great deal of rest, because in lying
down the heart is doing ten strokes less
a minute. Multiply that by sixty, and
it is six hundred; multiply it by eight
hours, and within fraction it is five
thousand strokes different; and as the
heart is throwing six ounces Of blood
at every stroke, it makes difference Of
thirty thousand ounces of lifting during
the night. When / lie down at night
without any alcohol, that is the rest my
heart gets. But when you take your
wine or grog, you do not allow that rest,
for the influence of alcohol is 30 in-
crease the number of strokes, and the
result SIS, you rise up very seedy, and
unfit for the next days work till you
have taken little more Of the rudy
bumper, which you say is the soul Of
man below. "-SeLected.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16
Where the Best HOLSTERS Are Taken.

The best Holsters in the world are
taken off Monhegan in the winter.
They thrive better in the deep water
out to sea than on the shores of the bays
where most OF the Maine lobstermen
set their traps. The Monhegan fisher
men are getting splendid prices for their
Holsters this winter-S1O to $1,000 per
hundred. Think of that, you people
who think you pay high prices for lob
sters The jobber and the retailer have
to make profits on these figures. But
you probably do not get taste Of the
big Monhegau lobster bnt eat shH i fish
which are caught at Bristol or BoG6hbay
or somewhere along there, for which
81. so per hundred is paid. The Monhe-
gan Holsters are shipped to New York
and Boston. I saw 10, 900 of them in a
car in Portland Harbor the other day.
The Holsters are kept alive in the great
cars, tied to the docks, from the time
they are taken out of the smacks till
they can be shipped. A lobster car
looks like a cattle Car fattened out. 1t
is huge box sufficiently open to let the
water in and keep the Holsters in. Lob
sters are sociabIe fellows. 1t is sport to
see them rub each others backs and
embrace each other, as if bidding their
good byes, when they are dipped out of
the car and leave their brine for good.
They squirm as ii they had Fremont
tons of hot water. -LeaUiStOaOR Journal
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16
An incident of a Strike.
THE PITIFUL FUNERAL OF A POOR ME-
CHANCES YOUNGEST CHILD.

A pitiful scene was witnessed on the
road leading to Calvary Cemetery. A
funeral procession was passing. It con-
sisted of man with q careworn face
and shabby clothes, who bore on his
shoulder small coffin of the cheapest
description, and woman and girl who
followed him hand-and-hand and cry
ing.
The man was mechanic who had left
his work because a strike had been Or
dered. The question at issue was a
trivial one, in which only one or two
men out of dozen or more were inter-
ested, but neither side would give in.
The man found it impossible to obtain
employment elsewhere because of the
prevailing dizziness in trade.
Slowly but surely his little hoard,
amassed for a rainy day, disappeared,
until when his youngest child died there
was nothing in the house to pay the eX-
penses of funeral. Enough was scraped
together to purchase a common ''shell, !"
which the sad mother lined with loving
care, although her eyes were dim with
tears, and the heartbroken father Shout
dered it to carry it to the cemetery.
AS the sorrowful little party Of father,
mother and sister trudged along Meeker
avenue from Brooklyn, E. D., to the
cemetery, the many passers by ex-
pressed sympathy with them. Finally
a big hearted, red faced hackman, re-
turning from that city of the dead, came
along. With glance he guessed the
story indicated by the rude coffin on the
mans shoulder, and drawing up his
coach he gruffiy ordered the party to get
in, saying that he would convey them
the rest of their mournful journey.
There was brief struggle between
pride and their desire to accept the
generous offer, but the hackman was
imperious and won the day. They got
in and were driven to the little mortu-
airy chapel. After the final and brief
service the little one found a grave in
the public ground, which is always
ready to receive such treasures without
fee or price. --NeoO York Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16
The Boss of Venezuela.

Guzman-Blanco, the uncrowned king
OF Venezuela, is one of the most remark
able men of the age. the only ruler the
republic has ever had who has kept his
power more than three or four years.
Since 1872, when he overturned the
xistlng Government, he has been as
absolute an autocrat as ever swayed q
sceptre or wore a crown. Every two
years q President is elected, and, the
Constitution prohibiting the same man
occupying the office two successive
terms, Guzman-BIanco has been COM
PEELED to content himself with being de
jure ruler every odd term, while a pup
during the intervals.
He confiscated all church property
and established an excellent system of
unsectarian, free public schools, with a
university at its head; he erected public
buildings of magnificent character, in
troduced call modern improvements"
including railroads, telegraphs, gas,
telephones, aud other conveniences for
commerce. He has taken good care that
his countrymen shall not forget the ben
etits he has conferred upon them, for
upon every improvement he has intro
duced appears the announcement that
this ''was erected by that Illustrious
American, Gen. Guzman-B lanco, the
Pacificator and Regeneration of Venezu-
ela." He has also raised three bronze
statues in his own honor, his portrait
hangs i'll every Government office, and a
State of the republic as we'll as a town
bears his name. He is accused of all
the crimes in the calendar by his enc
mics, but the good he has done the re-
pubic ought to cover multitude of
sins.
1t is unfortunate that he is educating
one OF his sons to succeed him. The boy
is only IA years of age now and Guzman
IS over GO. He had a nephew who was
his pet and pride and was made Com
mander-in- Chief of the army by his au-
ttoeratic uncle, but happening to m try
IN defiance to the dictator's wishes. the
young man was dismissed in disgrace
from the army and is now an exporter of
chocolate at Caracas.
Guzman-Bianco admires the United
Sfatna
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16
HE KISSED THEM ALL.
Ex-GOy, Underwood, of Kentucky, Relates
Stamping "Reminiscences.

"Kentucky is great State" said the
Ex-Governor to reporter. 1--WE nave
the handsomest women in the world; we
make the best whisky, have the most
fertile lands, raise the best horses, and
have the purest air. What more could
be asked? In addition to that our peo-
pie pull together, but they don't Ike
snobbishness. I remember one time
was stamping one of the mountain coun-
ties, l bought S25 worth of nickels
and put them in my saddle bags. Every
log cabin | would come to l would ride
ND and ask for a drink of water. Well,
out would come little boy or girl with
a gourd dipper of VAIN water. would
take a swallow, then drop nickel
in the dipper. The little one would run
in and I would go on. The child's
mother would come and have the fat
gentleman pointed out. The conse-
Guence was that I got the vote out of
the house. Well, one morning l rode
up to a house, and little girl brought
me out dipper of water. l felt in my
pocket and discovered that l hadn't
copper. Little girl, said I, L generally
have a nickel somewhere about me, but
l haven't to-day, so I'll give you what's
the next best thing for girl, and that's
a kiss So got down off my horse and
kissed her for. my own little blue-eyed
girl at home.
"Another little black-eyed girl here
showed up, and / had to kiss her for
niece of mine whom she looked like.
By this time another showed up half a
head taller than the rest, and not to be
impartial / kissed her, when 1 found
that four or five other girls had gathered
and I saw was in for it. So commence
ing with the smallest kissed every one.
The change in stature was SO gradual
that didn't notice that the last one was
full-grown woman, and right hand
some at that, until I had kissed her.
Looking up I saw that there were two
or three old ladies laughing at me, and
thinking that l had made bad break |
lifted my hat to the young lady and
begged her pardon and explained how it
was. She didn't seem to mind it much,
but the old ladies kept laughing, and
tried to explain it, when one OF them
said, wy, durn it, Jedge. she's Bills
WIFE, Well, I thought, I'm in for it.
That knocks out all my votes IN this
neighborhood. Well, [ inquired IN the
next house who bill was and was told
that it was Buck Holmes, the hardest
citizen in Garter county. Next day l
had to speak at the Court House, and
when 1 came up [ noticed gang of
about % rough-looking fellows off at
one side, and big six-foot fellow was
talking to them and gesticUlating with
both hands. Who's that 2 inquired.
That's Buck Holmes and his gang, was
the reply. The cold chills commenced
running up my back, and shifted my
revolver around where I could reach it
without trouble, and then lounged up to
hear what he was as, saying 9gy, and get the lay
heard him say: IF ther Jedge don't
ketch my vote. No snob thar, gentle
men. Jest as soon kiss a poor mans
wife as a rich ones That settled it. l
got $50 more votes in that county than
any other man on the ticket"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16
MARKET NOTES.

NEW 4OhA MhIEhEIs
The Wholesale New York market quotations
show:
BEANs-Prime. S1.9O@s2O 90; fair to good,
S1.70@$1.75 per busheL
BUTTER = New York sold at 2702Sc. for
choice in pals, and 240D26c. common to good.
Western Creamery sold at 16@l8c., and the
common Western at Go.
CHEEsE-Factory fancy, 12@l214c; do. fair
TO good, 7d812c.
EaGs-Quotations ranged from 1Sc. for or
binary, to 1870. for New York. New jersey and
Pennsylvania
S385(a$5 5O extra New York, 50. 500$4 %.
HAY Shipping, 60(970c.; clover, 70@75c. /;
salt. Coo; straw, 70@75c.
Hops-New York, 15@16c. Eastern, 13@14ci
yearlings, 9G0l4c; ODDS, S@9c.
PoRK-Clear Back. $14 259$15. 20; dressed
Wheat ~ Spring No. 2, -@9OHc.; Mil
waukee No. 2, 500. amber, 500
white, &C. t090c. ,o,<
Steamer Mixed, 40 S@4913c. in elevator, 5OS4c.
delivered; No. 2, 1873 9491 O. in elevator, $3.50
5G4c., delivered White Southern, Coo de-
hvered.
RYE-state. 7115@7415o.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET
UR-Statefamily So. e. 3 9$3. rs; rye -four
S3.6215@S3.75; wheat State, $-.-(994c.;
amber 5000; corn, yellow, 1885,; mixed States
i9c
PETRoLEUnI-Refined. 1890: crude. $40.
WooL-State and Western Xxx, 46@5Oc.i X,
47@48c. medium, 50@5Ic.; coarse, 45o
BOSTON MARKET
FLOUR - From $2.S5@$3.1 10 for low and
medium. to $4.100SL65 for choice Minnesota
Corn, 5+055I5c. for mixed and yellow.
BUTTER - Common, 1Oc @l4c Vermont
dairy 20D22c. choice creamery, 22Q30c.
CHEEsE-11J%0l2c.
BEAHs-$ .650S1.7O
HAY-Choice, 17.5O0S18.
CATTLE MARKETS.
BUFFALO Cattle good quality, 81 259
"a 6li hogs, fair to good, $475@$4S5; best,
1886
East LIBERTY. PFNE.-Best CATTLE 80
10 fair Sos 50: Hogs, Workers. 81. 7OI
$50; Ihiiadelphias, $5.10Q$5.I5. Sheep,
$5.25@$5.5O. IL
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-16
Where They Take Life Easy.

A Victoria CV. I. } letter says:-The
people up here take life very easy, and
most emphatically are not in the habit
of rising before dawn and working away
hammer and tongs till midnight. Such
action would stamp you as crank Or
an American. Here the merchant strolls
down to his business about nine o'clock
and gets fairly under way by ten. At
noon he takes an hour or an hour and n
half for his lunch, and then struggles
through the afternoon till four or six
o'clock, when he shuts up aud goes home
to his dinner ard does not open shop
again till next morning. When the
stranger within his gates demonstrates at
this method, he is reminded, with true
British courtesy, that the Victorians
just live as long, digest their food better
and enjoy far more pleasure than the
American, who is slave to his counting.
house and an anxious student of his
ledger.