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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
THE INDIAN SCHOOL.
How the Sons of the Red Man are Taught
the Lessons.

In Hampton, Va, there is a school in
which colored youth, both Indians and
negroes, receive the foundation of an
English education, and are also trained
in some craft or industry by which they
can support themselves. A gentleman
who had just made thorough exami-
nation of the school lately II lated several
incidents of interest to those who are
laboring to civilize the red man.
The negro scholars, he asserts, as
rule, learn their lessons more rapidly
than the Indians, but are liable to forget
them more quickly. When an Indian
once compreheEds an idea, he never lets
it go.
Many persons profess doubt of the
ultimate advantage to the Indians Of the
education given at such schools as those
at Philadelphia, Hampton and Carlisle.
They fear that the pupils, after two or
three years training, will, On returning
to their tribe, forget it, and lapse into
savagery again. There is, however, too
eager an anxiety among the Indian
tribes to learn white mans ways to
permit such result.
Last summer, two or three sons of
Dakota and Apache chiefs returned
home for visit. ALI the young people
of the tribes crowded around them to
'Iearn English" They had regular
classes OF from sixty to seventy scholars,
and spent their holidays in teaching.
A young Sioux who left the school
a year ago returned last September, and
presented himself before the Superin-
tendent.
"Why, il You here? What do
you want ?"
f'I have tn-1rrht nv loaor,Ia all knew
he replied, smiling. "Oome for two |
years more, to learn something else |
TO teach them"
A young Indian, the son of one of the
head men, appeared at an agency in the
Indian Territory, begging to be sent to |
Hampton to ''learn to be like the white |
men," The lad had wen or tumor
growing on his neck.
"My poor boy" said the agent, SIT
will be impossible for you to go. You
could not work or study in that con-
dition."
But the boy pleaded SO earnestly that
the agent sent for physician. who pro-
nounced the disease likely to prove
fatal, and that long journey could not
be accomplished without great imme-
diate danger. Still the boy persisted.
'Iet me have the chance while I |
live," he said.
He was sent to Hampton, and is now
one of the most successful pupils. Let |
Us hope that he may live long, to show
to whittier boys how little true manliness
depends on the color of the skin.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
George Gaines Long Stem Pipe.

'Here's a good piece of advice" said
Captain Quibley, putting aside news
paper and turning to his wife. ''A
pssltts5rapn mere says tnau "a should
never smoke a pipe while going down
stairs. In case he should fall, he would
be likely to drive the stem through the
roof of his mouth and out at the top of
his head"
"I never heard of such a thing" re-
piled Mrs. Qaibley.
"It's not by any means improbable, "
rejoiued the Captain. "There's our old
friend George Gaines. He is a great
smoker, you know"
eyes," with interest.
"Well, the other day. forgot to
mention it, by the way-he was coming
down stairs and his foot slipped and
down he went. He always smoked a
long pipe, you know"
"Great goodness, Captain ~
eyes, he had passion for long stem
pipes. One day while we were out
hunting, he found cane root about five
feet long. He took it home with him
and had it bored out. Beats any -
"But when he fell did he drive it
through his head?"
'Oh, no. You see he had TO stop
smoking on account of his health, but 1
was going to say for example,"
"Quibley, you are the biggest fool I
ever saw. Go on now and split up some
wood. You ought to be ashamed of
yourself to disappoint any one that ay.' -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
SiIas SaTage's Romance.
DEATH IN AN ALMsHoUsE, ALTHOUGH A
CLAIMANT FOR MILLIONS.

A Hartford, Conn, letter says: The
interest in the Spoliation bill in Con.
gress recalls the romantic career OF
"Uncle' Silas Savage, who was buried
at the towns expense on the very day
that the .. s. Senate passed the bill
referring the spoliation matter to the
Court of Claims. Mr.. Savage, who
died in his eighty-ninth year, was one
OF Connecticut's French spoliatioD
claimants, and for more than half a
century lived in constant hope of having
his claim against the government ad-
iusted.
His father, who was an arms manu-.
facturer in Middletown, that State, had
considerable inoney invested iii the naer-
chant marine. When the nations Of
Europe formed the embargo against
Napoleon, four of Mr.. Savage's vessels
the Daphne, Triton, Juno and Polly
happened in at West Indian port and
were confscated. Silas Savage, by in
heritance and purchase, secured the en-
tire interest of his father in the spolia-
ton claim, amounting without interest
to $175, 900, and, with interest at low
rate, to two or three millions of dollars.
Very often Mr.. Savage was solicited to
dispose of his claim against the United
States Government, but he never con-
sidered any of the propositions made
him.
In early life he was bank Teller and
man prominent in business affairs.
But his fortunes varied, and Is years
ago he was obliged to apply at the Hart
ford Almshouse for a home. He re-
mained in that establishment until his
death. He consulted President after
President about his claim, and from his
home at the almshouse he penned letters
TO many of the leading officials at Wash
ington. Several Connecticut Repre-
sentatives in Congress exerted them
selves from timesto time in his behalf,
but to no avail. A year ago the old man
said to COur0nt reporter:
'1'm going to have my lawful posses
sions before I die, but the United States
Government will never.outlive the curse
that it has brought upon itself by fore
ing me to this terrible life of poverty"
A decimal part of his claim would have
kept him in affiuence during his old age.
He kept his documents in safe in the
office of a prominent business house, to-
gether with his correspondence with the
Presidents of the United States from Van
Buren to Arthur.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
The New State.

Mr.. Vest, of Missouri, spoke in the
United States Senate against the bill to
admit a part of Dakota as State.
There was no need, he said, for the ad
mission of new States in o-d-r to
strengthen the Union, and there was no
need to rush this Territory into the con-
dition of State. The population was
not enough to entitle it to a Representa-
tive in Congress, and it would to GER
tain extent be Acknowledgement of the
States already in the Union to give the
present population OF Dakota two Rep
resentatives in the United States Senate,
as well as Representative in the lower
House of Congress. The demands said
to have been made since 1870 for the ad-
mission of the Territory had been the
demands of ambitious politicians. Gen.
Grant had been credited with the state
ment, while President, that Dakota gave
him more trouble than all the other
Territories put together; that the
trouble there was that there were two
streets in Yankton, and when one street
did anything or got anything done the
other street rebelled, and it would re-
auire almost all the civil and military
power of the United States to keep the
peace between the factions. The trouble
was that there were too many statesmen
n Dakota.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
Cranks in Washington.

Speaking of cranks hanging about
Washington, the World correspondent
says: Any one would laugh at the idea
of the Lettre de cachet under our institu-
tions. But some of the incarcerations
here in the Government Asylum have
had the look of the most arbitrary
tyranny. There was the case of Big
gins, who had the idea that Grant had
destroyed his domestic happiness by Sc
ducing his wife. He was sane upon
every point but that, and he was thought
to be sane upon that point until he az
peared before House committee and
said his wife had been seduced in spirit,
One day Biggins disappeared. 1t was
afterward found that he was first shut
up in the asylum and after time taken
to Europe in charge of two Government
agents. He was left in England and
freed upon his promise never to return.
This was the strangest part of the per-
formance, to release an insane man upon
his word. After a time Biggins came
home and is now carrying on a success
full grocery business in the northwestern
part of the city.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
LIVING UP IN A TREE.
The C0Zy House Built and Occupied by /
Clerk in the Washington Department.


Clerk in the Washington Department.
Joaquin Miller's log-house in Wash.
ington, out Fifteenth street, is beaten iu
bizarre architecture by the house which
a clerk named Haywood has built in
tree-top. / visited this odd structure
recently, says newspaper correspond.
ent. 1t consists of board platform more
than forty feet FROM the ground in two
enormous oaks, sustained mainly by the
trunks and branches. This platform
measures 40 feet by 25, and on it are the
other structures which comprise the
bachelor home. The largest of these is
an octagonal house about ten feet in di-
ameter, with a double slanting roof OF
one thickness of sail cloth, I stopped
little to get into the door. 1t is foored
with patchwork rug made up of twenty
bits of new Brussels carpeting sewed to-
gether higgledy-piggledy. Prints and
photographs decorate the low board sid
ing. There are some closets. Also books,
magazines, papers. Along the side
stretches cot bed. A big gray squir-
rel is whirling a wheel. The architect
and builder, who showed me the prem
ises, said: Haywood lets him out
nights; he scampers up the tree and
runs around till tired, then comes back
and curls up in his nest" Out on the
open platform is another structure as
large as a hogshead- ''the pantry" /
was told. An adjacent trap-door was
lifted and / went down half dozen
steps into little wooden cave, cingipg
beneath the platform like wasp-nest-
box eight feet square, perhaps. The
descent is interrupted by large limb of
the tree that runs through the box two
feet above the stairs, and one must
either step over this every time in de-
This is the kitchen and dining room
for it contains an oil stove, table, and
half a ham hanging on one ofsthe limbs.
The trunk of one of the oaks runs
through it. On the platform, near the
octagonal house, is another object-a
fantastic looking bird cage, four or five
feet square, and capable of sheltering a
hundred songsters. "He's going to fill
that up next spring" said the carpenter.
In this aerial concern Haywood is going
to stay all winter, unless the wind shakes
him down, and next spring, if one Of
! Cleveland's officers comes to levy on
him writ of ejectment from his clerk
ship, / suppose he will cut away the
fight of seventy-fiye crazy steps that
goes down to the ground, and bid de.
iance / shouldn't think it would be
warm or healthy, but no doubt the ven.
tilation and drainage are just perfect
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
Dealing with Barbarians.

The Covington Commonwealth in
advocating the whipping post says: A
man of brutal instincts gets drunk, and
failing to provide the necessaries of life
for his family, knocks down his wife be-
cause she has not got hot supper ready
for him, and then turns his children into
the street on winter night. He is ar
rested, possibly fined, which he does
not pay, or committed to the Jail or
workhouse, where he is more comforta-
bly, provided for than he would provide
for himself.
Just such case is reported in Louis
vile. Just such cases are reported here
or there nearly every day in the year.
Is the punishment adequate to the Of
fense Does it have the slightest eff
feet upon the brutal offender?
The lash would make the wretch
squilm. He would remember it with a
shudder. He would not be apt to re-
peat his festive spree.
But we may be told that ''the lash is
a relic of barbarism." When the law has
to deal with barbarian, TO be effect
i've its methods must be adapted to the
aoaa
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
Gen. Grants Sufferings.

"My father has certainly had a dread
ful experience physically since his un-
fortunate fall," said Fred Grant the
other day. "He never was really i'll be-
fore and therefore the tedious and pain
full results of the accident have been all
the more difficult for him to bear. for
he had not learned patience under suffer
ing"
'Did he break his thigh ?" / asked.
"No," replied Colonel Grant; "If
he had it would have been much easier
healed. He broke a muscle in the thigh.
and since then he has had all sorts of
dreadful sequele. In the first place he
was confined to his bed so lorg that his
body was covered with most painful
bed-sores. AS soon as these were cured
he was tormented with boiIs, which
came in battalions and were very
exhausting.
''These were followed by neuralgia.
My father fancied his teeth were the
cause of the neuralgia and accordingly
Weu1 lAIoitSA hhO uCIiSA1S Vi udNlHS u
number extracted. Next he had rbeu-
matism and is now being treated for
that by a method which is heroic
enough, if that be all that is requisite
to cure. The physician says his sys-
tenn is saturated with nicotine, which
he is endeavoring to draw out of his
body by system of baths and sweats.
OF course, smoking is prohibited.
Does the General obey this rule r.
"Well, singularly enough" answered
Colonel Grant, "although an inveterate
smoker for so many years, my father,
who was never without a cigar in his
mouth, now smokes, at the outside,
three or four week."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08

Mp. BLAIR's MEASURE IN THE U. S. SEN
ATE TO PROMOTE ITS INTERESTS.
A bill introduced in the United States
Senate by Mr.. Blair to promote the
Worlds Colored Peoples Exposition, to
be held in Chicago, recites that:
Whereas, in the opinion of the Gov
ernment of the United States, the ex-
position of arts, mechanics and prod
ucts of the colored races of the world, to
be held in Chicago, in September, 1885,
is of national importance. aud is intend
ed MS one of the means of cultivating a
thorough knowledge of arts ard trades
among the colored people, and to creatsf
among them stimulus to industry N..d
show the results of the colored peoples
progress in agriculture, manufactures
and the science of forestry and horticul-
ture, and introduce among them i'm
proved machinery, and furnish to the
government information as to the wis
dom of liberty and enfranchisement OF
its colorel citizens. Therefore be it en-
acted. ETC., that the sum of $500, 600 be
appropriated in aid of said exposition.
1t is also provided that j. W. d,
Thomas, of Illinois Daniel johnson, OF
Mississippi; Philip Joseph, OF Alabama;
W. Wyatt Henderson, of Illinois
Joseph w. Moore, of Tennessee, aud L.
Thomas Fortune, of New York, be Gre
ated Board of Commissioners for the
disbursement of this amount, and that
they shall give bond of $500, 900 con-
ditioned upon the faithful performance
of their duties. Part of their duty, The
bill further provides, shall be to aucit
the accounts of the exposition, and turn
into the United States Treasury within
sixty days after the close OF the eXposi-
ton the $500, 900 appropriated by Con-
eress, or the portion of that sum wi'eh
shall remain in the exposition treasury
after its indebtedness is paid. Tue
Board is also to report on the numoer
,S exhibitors, etc. at the exposition.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
LOVES PROMISE.

VI win come back Love cried; 81 will come
back
And there where hs hal passed lay one
bright track,
Dreamlike and golden as the moonlit sea,
Between the pine woods shadow, tall and
black.
81 will come back, Love cried. All, me
Love will come back.
He will come back. Yet, Love. wait, wait;
Though it is evening now, and cold and late,
And 1 am weary watching here so long,
A pale, sad watcher at silent gate
For Love who is SO fair and swift and
strong
wait, wait.
He will come backbone back, though he
delays;
He will come back-for in old years and days
He was my playmate He will not forget,
Though he may linger long amid new ways
He will bring back, with barren sweet
regret,
Old years and days.
Hush on the lonely hills Love comes again;
But his young feet are marked with many a
stain,
The golden haze has passed from his fair
brow
And round him cImgs the blood-red robe of
pain;
And it IS night. Oh Love-Loye-enter
now
Remain remain
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08

Drowned. This corn coffee was divided
into three portions, put in three quart
kettles, and boiled.
SAT last our dinner was ready. The
gCnboat was put on the ground in the
center of the shebang, and we sat
around it. Two of us had small tin
pans, and one flat piece of sheet-iron
for plates, and each had spoon. Not
one of us would have been called re-
ligious man, but we hesitated, looked at
one another. bowed our heads. and were
still. But it was only for moment.
and then the Kentuckian volunteered to
act as host, and helped us and him
self.
''When that dinner was over the con.
tents of the gunboat aud quart cups had
vanished, and it was Just noon. After
such unusual exertion we lay down, drew
our blankets over rs, and slept. We
were awakened near night by neigh
Dor, who called US that'we might get
our rations. After returning to the She
bang, the Iowa man said : Boys, I'll
think of that dinner as long as | live.
Why, I amt hungry yet.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
Manufacturing Interests.

From careful compilation of the re.
ports received, the Iron Trade ReUieO
computes that within the past four
weeks % iron establishments have
started up, giving employment TO IL, IT'S
men. In four establishments the force
has been increased by 1850 men; in 16
establishments the working time has
been reduced to an average of eight
hours; in 80 establishments the wages
have been reduced to an average of 12A
per cent, affecting about 10000 men,
and 81 establishments have closed down
entirely, throwing out of work II, ,275
men. These figures relate only to the
iron and steel industries.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
Life on the Ocean Wave.
A SAILORS SUPERSTITION, AND WHAT
CAME OF IT.

Writes a correspondent: "I remember
once having the whole crew about my
ears because / had got bunny on
board. We were on our passage from
Sulina to Antwerp, and we called at
Malta for Goals. Having an hour or so
to spare, I went on shore, and during
my walk I bought rabbit for one of my
boys. took it on board, and gave it
to one of the firemen to take care of,
and he made q hutch for it in one of the
empty bunkers. Now none of the
sailors knew about it then, for you must
know there is not much love lost be-
tween the sailors and firemen on
steamer. Hitherto, however, we had
had exceptionally fine weather. But
an hour or SO after leaving Malta it
came OF to asgs haas5s -ssassess- l5saEily and
strong sea got up for few days. L
noticed the men looking askance at me
very much. At last it came out; the
sailors had found out that there was
rabbit on board, and that it belonged to
me. 1 argued with them, but to no
avail. l pointed out another steamer
which was making worse weather then
we were. Iasked them if they could tell
me for certain that she had rabbit on
board. That was not it, they said.
One of them had been wrecked three
times; another twice; one had been run
into and lost everything; and on these
cases there had always been rabbit on
board the vessel. 1 referred them to
the steward, who was bit of an oracle
among them. l explained the case to
him. Tommy-for that was his name
took it very seriously, weighed 1t very
carefully and thoughtfully in his mind
Tor few moments, then looked at me
with one eye. and at the men with the
other, and asked is it white one p
L could not help laughing, but 1 was
told instanter that it was no laughing
matter; it was something serious. /
told him that it was a gray rabbit.
Well, he said, tt is not so bad; but it is
bad enough At last 1 gave in. l
handed poor bunny to one of the fire.
men to kill and make pie of. He
killed it after eight bells at night, and
when / turned out in the morning. it was
as fine weather as one could wish for;
and smile and sort of expression
were on the tars' countenances which
said plainly to me, 'Didn t 1 tell you it
was the rabbit p -
MRS. LAHGTRY is chillINgly polite to
her former friends in london, because
Eshe believes that they have talked un'
Oharitably about her.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
A SINGULAR CASE.
The Strange FATE of n Man whose Muscles
Have All Become Absolutely Rigid.

In 1849 while resident of Lockport,
n. Y, then IS years old, was going to
a pasture, now built upon in that city,
he felt a severe pain in his right foot.
He has never been able to discover what
caused the pain. He became lame, and
tried in every way to get cured, doing
little light work in one place or another
until 1857. Then, one joint after another
having became affected until all were
diseased, he was at last put on an in
since left it. Until 1865 he managed to
feed himself, but since then he has been
fed by others. All his joints are firmly
set and immovable. and though he can
not move any part of his body and, of
course, cannot chew at all, his appetite
is vigorous, and heseats great deal OF
meat by sucking it into his throat in
long slices.
He can talk as we'll as ever, and is an
intelligent and welI-read man. He read
so constantly when he was first bedrid-
den that he blinded himself, and has not
been able to see since 1869. His body is
in such singular condition that it seems
as if it was all one solid bone. The
flesh has wasted away, and his arms and
legs are very little thicker than the bones
beneath the skin. Yet the bones of the
fingers of the right hand have disap-
peared. and so have all the bones of the
left hand and of all the toes. He weighs
only 70 or 80 pounds, and any one who
can raise that weight can lift him by
putting one hand under his head and
one under bis heels, his body being as
rigid as if it were log. His muscles
are said to be unaffected, though USE
less, his heart and all his other vital Or
gans perfectly sound, and his condition
otherwise such as to lead the doctors to
believe he will live many years longer.
He does not suffer pain now, as he used
to do early in his affiiction.