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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
Torture at Sing Sing.

Blakely Hall in the San Francisco dr.
gOnaut says:-
At this moment the attention of every
body was attracted by the keeper, who
was actually smiling. 1t was the first
time his features had relaxed during the
day, and the crowd gathered around
him.
I'm going to show you little inven-
! ton of my own," he said, pleasantly,
(Which has been adopted all over the
country. l suppose you know that the
criminals often get ugly. The place
that harbors more than fifteen hundred
of New York's worst scum must neces-
sarily have number of hard characters
to deal with. Men here get rebellious,
ill-tempered, and unmanagable pretty
often. In former years they used the
lash, the paddle, the douche, and often
Gained men by putting them into the
blaek-rooms. The fiercest spirits are
quelled by imprisonment in a dungeon.
The widest case we ever had turned to
lamb after twenty-five days imprison-
ment, without CLEAN of light, in a
black-cell. All that is settled now.
however, by my little invention. We
N'OAA = nav y W doC biAC OluOh-CCllS VI any
thing else, and the men are so thorough
ly scared by what l call my weighing
machine that they no longer fight and
rebel" He then showed it to US. If
convict becomes desperate at ill-treat-
-ment,- eVeF-sVerlx,- reeIizatiora of tho
awful duration of a twenty years SEN
tence, he is dragged into the keepers
room and pair of iron handouts are
screwed tightly about his wrists. Then
the chain which connects the two hand
cuffs is hooked to pulley and the mans
hands are drawn up until he is almost
lifted from the floor Here he hangs
against the wall until his spirit is sub
dued. The wall was smeared with the
stains of blood from the wrists of the
poor wretches who had hung there.
''It's daisy, said the keeper radiant
ly: 'the toughest man in the whole Jail
has never been able to stand it more than
three-quarters of a minute. 1t cures
rheumatism, blindness and all the other
ills that criminals are heir tor
cit must be torture"
"Well, rather. 1t stops the circulation
of the blood, yon know"
And he still smiled as he stood with
his hand on the pulley, while the crowd
wandered away. It's q great thing to
have clear idea of the humorous.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
POking Fun at Prince Henry.

There was considerable amusement in
the English House of Commons over the
bill to naturalize Prince Henry of Bat
tenberg, who has just married Princess
Beatrice. Sir Wilfred Lawson, the Rad
ical member for Carlisle, protested
against bestowing upon this lucky
youngster the additional honor of being
a British subject, and asked what good
it would do the Prince, any way. He
proceeded, amid cheers from the Radi-
calls and laughter from both sides, say
ing he thought the young man should
be satisfied He had got the only royal
English bride it was possible for any
one to have, a snug fortune of $50, 900 a
year, the title of Royal Highness, and
the Garter The young man was already
subject to her Majesty as her son-in-law,
and Sir Wilfred did not see why he
should care to be her subject in a politi-
cal as well as domestic sense.
Mr.. Arthur O'Connor, Home Rule
member for Queens county, asked if the
object of this bill was to fit the Prince,
who had shown his military capacity by
rising in his own country to the exalted
rank of junior Lieutenant, with a
salary of $3.50 year, for a high post in
the British army, over the heads of Brit
ish veterans.
The Government declined to notice
this question, but it is generally under
stood that Mr. O'Connor has OWNED
very accurately the reason why the
young bridegroom is seeking naturdliza-
zion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27

! have the circus in under the tree.
finally realized the fact that it was not
the bears that were keeping my life in
the balance, but my own dog was the
animal that was responsible for the peril
If l had had a revolver I'd have put d
hole through him, but 1 hadn't, so my
only hope of escape was that the bears
would eventually capture Bruce and
make short shrift of him.
''The fifth time that the dog started
on the trail of the bear they had reached
the edge of the woods. They disap,
peared among the trees, and Bruce
dashed in after them. l waited ten
minutes. The dog did not appear.
Hope grew so strong within me that
let myself down out of the tree and took
to my heels. As Bruce hasn't turned
I'D vet, dare say he is either following
the bears yet, by easy stages, or has
served as refreshments for them.
'sUnder the circumstances, " said the
Doctor, as he packed his trunk on Fri.
day. 81 am afraid that this neighborhood
is not as pastoral in its quietude nor as
lotus-like in the influence of its sylvan
charms as my nature requires"
| Since the Doctor went away three
hunters have been out after the bears,
but at last accounts they had failed to
run them down, something that the
bears have evidently not failed to dc
with the Doctors contumacious collie.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
The Skin.

The following rhymes were written by
Sir Alfred Power, who, during long
official career, was the main instrument
in establishing the present poor law sys.
tenn in Ireland. His name, says an Eng
lish paper. deserves to be held in honor
as that of one of the strong officials to
whom Ireland owes whatever good gov
ernment it has had in the last two gen
erations. 1t may fairly be classed with
those of Sir Thomas Larcom, Sir Alex
ander mcdonnell, and Sir Richard Grit
fifth, all of whom in their different de-
partments devoted long and laborious
lives to the detail of Irish Administration.
Sir Alfred Power Is now an octogenarian,
and lives in retirement at Dublin:
There's skin without and skin within,
A covering skin and lining skim
But the skin within is the skin without
Doubled inwards and carried completely
throughout
The palate, the nostrils, the windpipe and
throat
Are all of them lined with this inner coat,
Which through every part is made to extend,
Lungs, liver, and bowels from end to end.
The outside skin is marvellous plan
For exuding the dregs of the flesh of man,
While the inner extracts from the food and
the air
What is needed the waste of the flesh to re-
pair.
Too much brandy, whiskey or gin
Is apt to disorder the skin within,
While if dirty and dry, the skin without
Refuses to let the sweat come out
Good people all, have care of your skin,
Both that without and that within,
To the first give plenty of water and soap,
To the last, little else but water, we hope
But always be very particular where
You get your water, your food, and your
air,
For if these be tainted or rendered impure,
1t Will have its effect on the blood, be sure.
The food which will ever for you be the
best
Is that you like most, and can soonest digest.
All unripe fruit and decaying flesh
Beware of, and fish that is not very fresh.
Your water, transparent and pure as you
drink it,
Had better be filtered and boiled before you
drinkit,
Unless you know surely that nothing I'M
Can have got to it over or under the ground.
But of all things the most would have you
beware
OF breathing the poison of once breathed air;
When in bed, whether out or at home you
may be,
Always open the windows and let it go Free
With clothing and exercise keep yourself
warm,
And change your clothes quickly if caught in
q storm,
For cold caught by chilling the outside
skin
Flies at once to the delicate lining within
All you who thus kindly take care of your
skin
And attend to its wants without and within,
Need never Of cholera feel any fears,
And your skin may last you hundred
years
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
They Soon Learn.

The Quitman, Ga, Free Press says
When Northern man comes among u:
about the first thing that attracts hi
attention is the fact that our people have
apparently been born tired and are not
yet entirely rested. He is astonished al
the leisurely and apparently Indifferent
manner in which the native takes life.
He wants to see everybody hustling
bustling and busy. Wait till the spring
time comes, however, and the genia
sun begins to cast its effulgent ray:
diagonally upon the head of him. Their
what fun it is to sit in the shade with (
palmetto fan and watch the "Yanket
man catch it." His pace slackens, hi:
anxious and excited manner changes
little by little. At the end of two
months he generally falls into the ranks,
and if he wouldn't call COW "keow'
he might be taken for person to the
manner born.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
A Long Poker Game.

Senator Nesmith. of Oregon, Fecently
deceased, may be included within the
category of the poker kings, says a
Washington correspondent. 1t is re-
lated that he played in game of poker
on one occasion at Portland, Ore, con-
tinuously for six weeks. Ben Holiday
and Rufe Ingalls, were in the same game.
At the commencement of the seventh
week it incidentally occurred to Nesmith
that he had left home for only a few
days sojourn at Portland, and had not
provided his wife with sufficient money
to last longer. Perhaps she was starry
ing or had been forced to beg food from
neighbors. The thought was madden
ing, and the longer he dwelt upon the
possible condition in which his deserted
family might be placed through his in
fatuation for poker play ing the more
moody he became. He could stand the
narrowing reflection no longer, and, ris-
ing from his seat, exclaimed:
''Gentlemen, you must excuse me. I
am going straight home, possibly to find
Mrs. Nesmith starved to death. | left
her only $40 when l went away, expect
ing to return in week. Here | have
been playing poker for six long weeks
and forgot all about her This is cruel
l am too wretched to play longer, and
must go home at once. | am few hun
dreds winner, it is true, but heaven
grant that Mrs. Nesmith is not cold
corpse. If she is, it is my fault, and
you are partly responsible.
Ben Holiday, who would rather PLAY
poker than eat, being loser in the game
became angry because his friend Mes
NTH insisted upon returning home. He
at once blurted out:
''Nesmith, l don't believe word of
your internal wife story. Your ahead
and want to jump the game Why don't
you say SO, like man, and not lay it on
your wife. You must take us for idiots. u
"Great God," rejoined Nesmith,
Jump the game! jump the game! when
we have been playing night and day for
six long weeks, adjouning only for a
few hours sleep. How long do you ex-
pect a man to play before he may de-
Gently jump the game2 Curse me if
ever play with such poker hog as you
again-yOu never know when YOU have
got enough, and your wife might die and
be buried a hundred times over before
you would jump the game to attend her
funeral
Away went Nesmith in a towering
passion, while Rufe Ingalls,, who knew
Nesmith was sincere in the matter, came
near strangling himself with suppressed
laughter at Ben Holidays impotent
rage. The six weeks game, therefore,
broke up, and Ben Holiday swore that
he would get even with Nesmith some
day for jumping that game.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
The Bones OF Columbus.

An attempt is about to be made to set
tie the vexed question as to whether the
bones of Columbus rest in Cuba or San
Domingo. Until 1877 no one ventured
to doubt that the bones of the great
navigator were removed from the cathe-
dral of San Domingo, where they had
lain for two centuries and a half, and
transferred to the cathedal of Havana
In that year. however, it was announced
that the people of San Domingo had
uisooyoIod, TO thcir great tyrati6c"tion,
that the bones supposed TO be those of
Columbus. which had been conveyed to
Havana with great pomp, were spurious
bones, and that the genuine bones still
lay in Dominican soil. These bones, al
legged to be authentic, were accordingly
inferred at San Domingo on the 10th of
of September, 1877, and a considerable
sum of money was raised to erect a
monument over them. The Spanish
government, nevertheless, and the his
torical academy of Madrid still decline
to admit the authenticity of the Dcmini-
can relics, and declare that The veritable
bones lie in the Havana cathedral. With
the view of settling this point in dis
pute, the government of san Domingo,
it is stated, has invited large number
of savants to attend an International
congress in the capital of that republic.
The government will submit to the jndg
ment of this congress proofs that San
Domingo possesses the only real bones in
existence of Columbus. The reopening
of the question seems to be mistake.
Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to lie
wise; and as both cathedrals claim the
honor of possessing the veritable bones,
double enjoyment is, under existing
circumstances, extracted from the relics.
ST. Lan2es' Gazette.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
THE HOME DOCTOR.
A Imminent for Earache.

DR.. Carlos Payesi, in Spanish jour-
nal, recommends liniment composed OF
camphorated chloral, two and half
parts: pure glycerine, sixteen and half
parts. and oil of sweet almonds, ten
parts. This is to be well mixed, and
preserved in an Theoretically closed
bottle. A pledget of very soft cotton is
to be soaked in the Imminent, and then
introduced as far as possible into the
affected ear, two applications being made
daily. Frictions may also be made each
day with the preparation behind the ear.
1t is claimed that the pain is almost i'm
mediately relieved, and in many cases
even the Inflammation is subdued.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
Treasurer Jordan as a Typo.

United States Treasurer Jordan
amazed the government printing office
the other day by taking off his CO t,
stationing himself before an unoccupied
case and beginning to set type with IA
pidity and accuracy. He had ordered a
Job done within four hours, and they
had exclaimed 'impossible?n "There, y
said Jordan, after he had worked awhile
''that is the way L want work done fol
this government when | so order it.
What l asked of you could have been
accomplished in fifteen minutes, barring
the unnecessary delays and red tape o.
this Office. Hereafter when l want q
thing done within a specified time, re
member that l know what l am talking
about. "--Ne1O orleans Picayune
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
" Mothers ShOuId Vote This. -

Under this caption an old physician
writes to a Cincinnati Medical Journal,
that in view of the fact that people living
at distance from cities are frequently
obliged to resort to cough mixtures al
ready put up for use, they should provide
themselves with only such remedies as are
known to be free from opiates, poisons
and narcotics; thus avoiding not only
danger, but even fatal results He recon-
mends the recently discovered Rcd Star
Cough Cure which analyses and tests by
various Boards of Health proved to be
purely vegetable as well as prompt, effec-
tive and entirely harmless.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
THE ANSWER.

letter sent to my lady fair;
Its words were burning with loves true fire
Telling to her my hearts desire,
Breathing lovers prayer.
Oh, lady, open your easement wide,
And bid the whispering breeze
The answer bear to your lovers side,
And set his heart at ease.
My letter she holds in her milk-white hand;
The bushes are chasing across her cheek;
Her soft blue eyes demurely seek
Where in fear and hope l stand.
Ny lady open her easement throws;
tremble with ecstacy;
She waves her hand, let's fall rose;
IT'S answer enough for me.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
IN CASE OF FIRE!

The following is posted on the doors il
the bedrooms of one of the largest hotels
IN CASE OF FIRE.
First-Notify the clerk at once. HI
will be asleep in the room back of thu
office.
Second Notify the proprietor He
will be found in Room A, on the frs
floor.
Third-Notify the night Waterman
He will be asleep, as usual, somewhere
on the premises.
Fourth-Return to your room and
throw your trash and clothes out of the
window. You can repack on the piazza
or in the backyard.
Fifth-Now try to discover where the
fire is; in ninety-nine times out of hun
dred it will be in some neighborine
building, not ours. Don't forget to
shrek and halloa all the time; by that
means you will wake up sound sleepers,
also it will be very soothing to nervous
people.
Another list of rules ends with this adj
monition:
If there is anything that does not suit
you, don't go about growing, but come
to me,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
French Treatment of Children,

We English are not cruel race. But
public opinion in France in regard to
the treatment of children is far sounde1
than it is with us. In France it is sci.
dom indeed that a child is subjected to
cruelty. If a mother or father were tC
be supposed, even in the worst sIums of
Paris, to illtIeat child, the whole
neighborhood would be up in arms.
Even what would pass with us as legiti.
mate parental discipline, would be re-
garded there as gross cruelty. In the
reign of Louis Philippe there was a
French woman called Doucet, who had
lived as a governess in several English
families, and who was residing in Paris
in charge of some English children.
She adopted what she termed the Eng
lish system with them The neighbors
protested, the public prosecutor was
written to, and the woman, having been
tried, was sentenced to a long term of
mprisonment. -LO7adOn Truth
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
ONE OF THE SALEM MARTYRS.
dwelling n Monument to Rebecca Nurse,
who was Hanged as a Witch.

Rebecca Nurse was hanged as witch
in Salem Village, now Danvers, on July
80, 1899. Not one of the descendants
of any of her accusers, or of the wit
nesses against her can be found in Sa-
lem. They are scattered all over the
country, and many are in misfortune.
The Nurse family, descendants of Re-
becca, are numerous, prosperous, and
they lately held their third annual re-
union, and in appropriate ceremonies
400 of them took part in the dedication
of a monument to her memory over the
grave containing her remains, which
were rescued in the dark from the cleft
in the ledge where they were thrown by
order of the authorities
The charge against her was that she
had bewitched the children of the Rev
Mr.. Paris, pastor of the church of
which she was member, and she was
brought into the church with clanking
chains to hear the terrible curse contained
in the sentence of accommodation. She
then declared that God would prove her
innocence, and to-day the ceremonies in
her honor took place in the same church,
and the principal address was made by
us pastor, the ReV. Z. b. R1ce, while
the Rev. Fielder Israel of the First
Church in Salem, which the martyr first
joined after her early conversion, de-
livered a eulogy, and the Rev. G. Sperry
of the Old South Church offered prayer
A lunch was provided at the close of the
ceremonies, after which a procession
was formed, and marched to the bury
ing ground on the old Nurse homestead,
where the monument had been erected.
Mr.. W. P. Upham, member of the
Monument Committee, unveiled it. The
Hon. Benjamin Nurse of Boston, Presi-
dent of the Nurse Association, accepted
the monument. The structure is a
granite shaft, 1-2 feet in height, and
is on a grassy mound 2 1-2 feet in height
The base is of Rockport stone, with a
die of polished granite. The front
bears this inscription
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27

An Only Daughter Cured of Consumption
When death was hourly expected from Col
sumption. all RENE les having failed and d.
81. james was experimenting. he accidental
made preparation of In han Hemp whic
cured his only child, an now gives this recil
on receipt of stamps to pay expenses. Hem
also cures night sweats, nausea at the ston
sch, and will break fresh cold in "a hours
Address Craddock & Co., 1882 Race stree
Philadelphia Pa. naming this paper.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
Liver COMPLAINT Is declared by maj

LIVER COMPLAINT Is declared by many
old sufferers, after years of medical ex-
pertinent, to be incurablo, and yet VINE
GAR BTTTERs has effected innumerable
permanent and perfect cures OF chronic
cases. Invalids, do not suffer longer,
but purchase bottle of the Bitters and
judge for yourselves.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
Cured.

suffered for more than five years with indigestion
scarcely able to retain the simplest food on my stom
ach. declined in flesh, and suffered all the usua,
depression attendant upon this terrible disease Al
last. failing to find relief in ANYTHING else / com
menced the use of Swft's Specific, The medicine
toned up the stomach strengthened The digestive or
gans, and soon all that burning ceased and could
retain food without difficulty. Now my health /,
good, and can eat anything the shape of food and
digest 1t without difficulty Take The prescribed dos
after eating. JAMES MANN M a w g
For sale by all druggists - ~
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases paTlad fraa
N. Y, 1877 w. sd St Drawsr . tt AZ ~;
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What Everybody Says

Must be true. And the unanimous praise which people
who have used give Hoods Sarsaparlla, should CON
vince those who have tried this medicine of its
great curative powers If you suffer from impure
blood that tired feeling depressed spirits dyspepsia
" kidney and liver complaints give Hoods Sarsapara
tair trial and you will be greatly benefited.
- My wife has had very poor health for long time.
suffering from Indigestion, poor appetite and constant
lesdache. She found relief till she tried Hoods
) aparila She is taking the third bottle. an
felt better in her life. We feel it duty to re-
commend it to every ono we know" G. SoMERvILLE
iCrelsn J, Cook o.. Ill.
g cannot find words strong enough to express my
ceiling in fav of Hooi's Sar3aparlls 1t has done
,1er thilg for ms curing of dyspepsia with which
ai suffered many years." Mrs. S. NJ. BEEDE, Mar
behead, Mass.
''I suffered with boils five years. Hoods Sarsapa
lila curod me-" r. NJ. LANE. Pittsburg. Pa.
Hoods SaFSapariila
Sold by all druggists. 81; sr for s.. Prepared oaly
y &. ]. HOOD Il CO., Apothocares. Lowell, Mass.
100 nnGaS TSnA Dollar
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27
MENsMAN's PEPToNIZED BEEF

MENsMAN's PEPToNIZED BEEF TONIC, the only
preparation of beef containing its entire nlttri
NOuS properties. It contains blood making,
orcc generating and life sustaining properties
Invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prosn alton. and all forms Of general debility:
also. in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result Of exhaustion. nervous prostitution; over
work or 8cu c disease, particularly il resulting
rom pulmonary complaints Caswen, Hazard
Co., Projectors, New York. Sold by druggists.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27

COME OUT.--J. B. Tanning, of New
ton county, Miss, was wounded in the
face in 1868. Last week the bullet fell
into his mouth, having been twenty-five
years working an inch downward.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27

There are eighty-two glue factories in
this country, and with the present de
preston in all kinds of manufacturing il
would not surprise US if one or more Of
them gets stuck. --L0toeU Citizen.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-08-27

When visit leave New York city, save baggage
xpressags and So CARR hire and stop at the Grand
Union H0, 81, opposite Grand Central depot.
6J slogan rooms, fitted up al cost of one mIllioA
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Vator Restaurant supplied With the bsst. Horse cars,
stages and elevated railroad t. all dsp0s. Famtes
can live better for less nancy at the Grand Union
Hotel than at any other hrstclass hotel in the CITY
FoR SPECIAL RATES for advertising in this paner.
apply to the publisher OF the paper. U32.