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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
Fossils for BalIasting.

Some years ago most interesting
"fnd' of fossils was made at the Port,
land, Conn.,, stone quarries. They were
of high scientific value, and it was de-
cided to send them to Yale College for
preservation and study. They We're &C
cordingly loaded upon fiat car at Mid
dletown and sent on their way via Ber-
hn-a carload of them. It was at that
time that the fine stone bridge of the
Consolidated Road was being built across
the Pennington River at Windsor. After
the arch of the bridge was set, the space
was filled in on top with quantities of
broken trap rock from the company's
quarries in Meriden. This broken stone
at just this time was being drawn to
Windsor by the cars for this purpose.
The conductor of one train discovered
the carload of fossils side-tracked at
Berlin, and felt sure at once that it was
a lot of ballast for the Windsor bridge.
which had been accidentally left behind.
With commendable zeal he fastened to
it at once and drew it on to the bridge.
There the rare fossils were dumped with
the other stones, and there to-day they
lie in the solid flooring of the massive
bridge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
Why the Organ was Locked.

The other day Rockland household
WIS made proud and happy by the in
PRODUCTION of cabinet organ. The
mother could play little, and as there
was popular collection of music"
included in the purchase, she lost no
time in getting every note and stop into
e2saltlsl Lilo organ groaned and
wheezed and complained with the most
astonishing of music, night and day,
day and night, for week. Then one
morning there was knock at the door,
and little girl from the next house
shrilly said:
"Please, marin, mother wants to
know if you won't lend her your music
book ?'
This was surprising request. mas
much as the woman next door was
known to be organizes. After gasping
once or twice the amateur organist
asked %
"What does she want of it."
The child hadn't been loaded for this
question, SO she straightforwardly re-
piled:
81 don't know, m sure, only I heard
mother tell father that if she had hold
of the book for day or two mebbe
somebody could get rest"
The woman softly shut the door in
the little girls face, and went and care
fully locked the cabinet organ with the
brass key.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
A Dakota Town Besieged.
A THOUSAND AR MED MEN MARCH Up TO
REDFIELD AND ARE REFUSED BY A
JUDICIAL MANDATE.

The adjoining towns of Ashton, Frank
fort and Redfeld, D. T., were contest
ants in 1880 for the position of county
seat, the records being at Ashton:
The people of Redfield claim that at that
election their town secured majority OF
all the votes cast and was entitled to the
possession of the county records, but
that the returns being in the hands of
the hostile towns, the result was not de-
clared till few days ago. Thereupon
the citizens of Redfeld determined to
take possession of the records.
On Saturday night a body of men
from Redfeld went to Ashton, took all
the county records from the Recorders
office, conveyed them to Redfeld and
deposited them under guard in the Town
Hall. On Sunday evening the Sheriff
and posse came from Ashton and de-
manded the records. The demand was
refused. They retired, threatening to
come in stronger force. Redfeld pre-
pared for resistance. The people barri-
caded the Town Hall, placed a company
of armed men inside and threw out
line of defence around the town, the ru-
mors being that the town would be
burned.
Monday morning about one o'clock
thousand armed men from Ashton and
Frankfort invested Redfeld and de-
manded the delivery of the records. At
this point the Court stepped in with an
order which forbade the removal of the
records from Redfeld, but commanded
their delivery to the Sheriff and County
Commissioners. The order was obeyed,
and the forces on both sides drawn off.
The matter is not yet settled. It is the
intention to wait few days and then
proceed with all the force which can be
raised, if the Court refuses to grant the
request of the people for the return OF
the records. All county business has
been suspended, and intense excitement
prevails in every portion of the county.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
In the Nile.

Among the latest stories told of the
English invasion of Egypt, is the follow
mg:-General Gordon recently sent a
defiant message to Ell Mahdi inviting
him, if he be the real Prophet, to dry up
the Nile and come and take him (Gor-
dom. The latest advices report that Ell
Mahdi accepted this challenge, and di-
rected his forces to cross the river as if
1t were dry land, while he remained on
the bank and invoked the aid of Allah.
The result was that 5000 men were
drowned. The disaster has greatly les
sened Ell Mahdi's influence. His follow
ers are rapidly deserving him. He re-
tired to the southwark after his discom-
future,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
The Two JeffersOnS.

The Washington Post says: Not many
years ago an old man of this city, poor
at the time, but previously prosperous,
and even wealthy, yet through all vicis.
STUDIES of fortune universally respected,
sat one winter evening by the light of
tallow candle in a small and somewhat
cherries room, examining and arrang-
ing the papers contained in his antique
desk. A young friend kept him COM
pany. The old gentleman's dog was also
present, somnolently extended on the
hearth before the low wood fire. Paper
after paper was drawn forth from the
dusty pigeon-holes and quaint recesses
of the desk, generally with some brief
remark concerning each, and now and
then some pleasant or pathetic little
story. That night the old man was liv-
ing his past life over again, and all its
animation and color seemed to be re-
stored by the magical notes and letters.
"Here's one from Joseph Jefferson
Dear old Joe the best friend 1 even
had Let me see"-taking up the can.
die to help his sight, and readjusting his
spectacles -"Yes-the money / lent him
once, in his theatrical trouble"
sis that the actor of whom heard
you speak Z?
"The same"
"And the man equally famous in our
day, bearing a like name"
"Grandson of Old joe"
81 have seen his Rip Van Wrinkle; it
is wonderful. Will you give me that
letter p
Certainly. 1t is interesting and val
liable as the writing of so great genius
noble, too, and just, as well as great.
His debt to mel know he would have
paid it, but misfortune overpowered
him, and then came death. He died
the very month-in- which this letter was
written-forty-one years ago." a week
later the young man was again with the
old. He presented him letter-a let
ter from the grandson of his ancient
friend, warmly expressing gratitude and
inclosing a check for the sum due, with
interest. That amount, carefully en-
ployed, rendered my old friend com.
Portable, at least, till the day he event
home"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
LIVING LIKE WILD BEASTS.
A Strange Family Discovered In the Pine
Ridge Woods.

1 w Ouuss
Two miles back from the village Of
Pine Ridge, N. Y, and piece of dense
forest bordering the hills that extend for
miles along the Hudson, is rude cabin
and pit. In this lives man, his sister,
six filthy children, chickens and nearly
a half dozen ours.
An accurate description of the chill
dren could not be given. Their faces
were devoid of all expression, and In its
place was a covering of dirt of several
weeks accumulation. Their long mat
ted hair hung about their faces and
neck, and covering resembling a cross
between a Mother Hubbard dress and
crazy quilt was the only article that hid
their little bodies. They were all dressed
alike. At the reporters reprosch they
eyed him curiously for a moment; then
all started for the hut like frightened
rabbits. Once inside, they assumed suf-
ficient courage to stick their heads
through the only opening in the side of
the pile OF sods, that serves as door and
window and the only means of exit or
entrance.
Finally three heads suddenly disap-
peared, and in their stead appeared the
face of woman about 40 years of age.
SIS your husband in 2" asked the re-
porter.
"Ain't got none," replied the face in
the hole, as it tried to find the part in
the hair on its head.
"No But these are your children,
are they not ?"
"Well, I guess SO; they belongs to me
ny, II lDr1Ahou L
ooh that's it. Well. Is he in ?"
''No; he's down in the woods chop
ping"
After considerable strategy the re-
porter entered. The only furniture in
the hut was a small table, in each of the
four corners was a pallet of straw, and
on these the family slept, while over
head were roosts fitted up for the chick
ems. A hole had been cut in one corner
of the roof, and through this protruded
a barrel which served as chimney to
let out the smoke from a small fire
burning on the floor of the hut The
filth and the stencil was indescri6able.
During his stay he learned that a
brother and sister were living together
as man and wife, and were the father
and mother of six children. The man
was employed as charcoal burner, the
woman was his companion. They did
not know what a paper was. Neither
did they know who was President, and,
in fact, were in total ignorance of any
thing except rum, tobacco and charcoal.
They had lived together in the hut for
fifteen years, and during that time the
had not once been beyond the
OF the woods.-N. Y. Star.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
Sightseeing Abroad.

The way some people see Europe Is
exemplifed in the following dialogue,
which actually took place: "Ah, Bogler,
glad to see you back. When did you
get home ?" ''Arrived in the steamer
Castoria last week." "WelI, l suppose
you have enjoyed yourself and seen ev-
erything." "Oh, yes; went with an ex-
cursion party; went everywhere" "In-
deed. What places did you visit ?"
"Well, we went to London, and then we
went over to France-yes, to Paris. 3"
Anywhere else?" "Well-eh-lem-e
--see;- es;-well, we went (thought-
fully)-where was it? forget the place
now. Switzerland ?" ''Oh, yes, we went
there" "Well, what other country or
city did you visit ?" "Wel, you see [
don't exactly remember the names of
those foreign places we went to, but l
saw all of 'em-went everywhere the
party did. "-BOStOn Commercial Bltlle.
tim
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
Loss and Gain.
ftI was taken sick a year ago
With billions fever, y

With bilious fevern
f'My doctor pronounced me cured, but got
sick again, with terrible pains in my back and
sides, and got so bad l
Could not novel
| shrunkl
From 22S lbs to 1901 had been doctoring
for my liver, but it did me no good. | did
not expect to live more than three months
began to use Hop Bitters.
Directly my appetite returned, my pains left
me- nv entire system seemed renewed as if
by magic and after using several bottles, l
am not only as sound as a sovereign, but weigh
more than did before. To HOP Hop Bi nte
owe my life" Il. fITZPATRICK'
Dublin, June 6, 'S1.
CHAPTER IL
'Malden, Mass, Feb l, 1880. Gentlemen,
I suffered with attacks of sick headache.
Neuralgia, female trouble, for years in the
most terrible and excruciating manner.
No medicine or doctor could give me relief
or cure. until used Hop Bitters.
''The first bottle
Nearly cured me-"
The second made me as well and strong as
when child,
TAnd have been so to this day"
Nv husband was an invalid for twenty
years with q serious
kidney, liver and urinary complaint,
pronounced by Boston's best physicians
'Incurable"
Seven bottles of your Bitters cured him and
know of the
Olives of eight persons"
In my neighborhood that have been saved
by your bitters,
And many more are using them with great
benefit.
'They almost
Do miracles 2" MRS. E. ID. SLACK.
How TO GET S1cK.-Expose yourself day
and night; eat too much without exercise;
work too hard without rest; doctor all the
time; take all the vile nostrums advertised,
and then YOU will want to know ho1C to get
qUeU, which is answered in three words--Take
Hop Bitters
r5sg@ None genuine without bunch of green
Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile,
poisonous stuff with Shop" or Chops" in their
name.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
Tell 7ourEi1e

Advice is cheap, you know, and men
of all created beings, like it least. But
what if it prove a matter of dollar and
ssrrss7hts !? You all like money, and appre-
its importance as factor of the
= tjpy home. So if we tell you how
every man of you who has never tried
the experiment can save from fifteen to
twenty-five per cent. of his expenses
during the coming year you will prob
ably listen. Now, that is just what we
mean to do. 1t is simple and easy and
sure to work. Just tell your wife all
about your business affairs. Show her
your balance sheet, let her study it, and
if she doesn't know how, Just teach her.
You think it will make her feel badly,
that it will make her blue. Well, that
will depend entirely on the way in which
you do it. If you begin by declaring
that there is not another family in town
runs such bills as yours, and that there
is more money spent for the least show
about that house than any other place
you can find, she will feel hurt, and if
she has not had all the spirit taken out
OF her by your unfair treatment, she will
resent it dozen times day, till you
confess that you have played the bully
and the fool.
But, on the other hand, if you ap-
proach her as if she were an intelligent
being, with soul and sense and self-re-
spect equal to your own, you will find an
interested listener, willing and anxious
to learn ali you can teach her on the
subject of family finances, and although
she may do a little quiet weeping before
the interview is ended, they will be
tears of Joy she sheds, that at last,
after years of waiting and hoping, you
have come to realize that she is your
friend, and may be your helper, instead
Of the child, like which you have treated
her by shutting up like an oyster when
she ventured to ask question anyways
relevant to business matters. and studi-
ously avoiding in conversation every
thing connected with that great mys-
tery.-BurlingtOn HaeOkeye.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
HAPPY ENDING,
Long Suffering of One of the Best Men OF
Pleasant Valley, Duchess Co., n. w.
His Final and Complete Recovery from
Gravel.

Long Suffering of One of the Best Men of
Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., n. "
His Final and Complete Recovery from
Gravel.
Plain words are best. Mr.. Edward s.
Hicks, of Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N.
Y, had suffered long from stones in the
Kidneys. He sought relief, of course. Who
would notl What are time and money to
health? Mr. Hicks consulted the best physi-
clans of his village and, also, of Poughkeep-
sie-and none better can be found anywhere
but unhappily, without good result. A
friend in Rondout advised Mr.. Hicks to go
to Rondout and see DR.. David Kennedy about
his trouble. This Mr.. Hicks finally did. DR..
Kennedy saw at once what the suffering
mans difficulty was, and that " Fdrortte
Remedljn was the medicine he needed. The
Doctor prescribed it, and Mr.. Hicks went
home without much confidence in the power
of % Favorite Remedy to do him mere good
than other medicines had done before. But
hope clings to straws, and he thought there
might be one chance out of many in his ia
vor He followed the directions and was both
surprised and delighted to find himself pres
entity improving. To-day Mr.. Hicks is a well
man.
While DR. Kennedy is interested in intro
ddcing " Favorite Remedy" he continues to
practice his profession and performs all the
capital and minor operations in surgery.
State your case. Letters promptly answered
Address DIR. DdUid Kennedy, Rondout, N.
Y. CDR. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy" for
sale nv all dTuooiStS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01

The Swiss Government is fighting the
Mormon missionaries, who are making
converts among the peasantry.
The emancipation laws of Brazil are
poorly enforced, and thousands entitled
to freedom remain in bondage.
THE Wesleyan Female College of
Georgia, created in 1888, was the first
college for women in this country.
A SENSIBLE colored editor in the
South warns his brethren that whisky is
the great stakeholder of these days.
IT is estimated that the losses by fire
in the United States during the current
year will amount to about $40, 200.
ENOUGH liquor was consumed in Great
Britain last year to make lake mile
long, mile wide and thirty-five feet
deep.
THE Catholic Church in America has
now 6,835 priests and 7,763 churches.
Within 30 years it has built 1852
schools.
IT is estimated that at least one-half
of the exhibits displayed at the London
Health Show will find their way to New
Orleans.
a BEE keeper at O5hawa, Ont, makes
the cells himself. and thus enables his
bees to produce honey in one-tenth of
the usual time.
LETTERS to the San Francisco news
papers complain that the missionaries in
Alaska are, in many instances, unprin-
cipled adventurers.
DRUNKENNESS and theft have become
very common in the interior of Africa,
Before the advent of white men they
were almost unknown.
1T is said that of the nineteen men who
persisted in the Greedy expedition all
but one used tobacco, and of those saved
none used the weed in any way.
LARD cheese, which up to a recent
date was the latest adulteration of that
food, is now rivalled by cheese made
chiefly from cottonseed or peanut oil.
The Common Council of Bronson,
Mich, posts in ten public places the
names of men to whom, in consequence
OF their habitual drunkenness, rum is
not TO be sold.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
Hoods SarsapariIla
100 Doses One Dollar

I'D by all druggists- 81; six for s5. Made enly by
L HOOD 4 co AnothacRriaA- IoMaIl. MAsR.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAUD 8. goes barefoot all winter.

MAUD 8. goes barefoot all winter.
HE sun dial was the first time-meas.
urer.
= A ST.. Louis company is canning
eggs.
The Romans used water clocks in 16O
B. @.
WORTH, the French dressmaker, is an
Englishman.
The hardest clock to keep wound is
an elght-day one.
PORTUGAL has 10000 soldiers-big
army, little country.
SOME energetic Boston ladies are
working for six fairs.
GoPHERs are esteemed delieacy for
the table in Georgia.
BACHELOR apartment houses are
failure in New York.
= THERE are $3.50 post offices in the
State of Pennsylvania.
BRUNETTEs as rule look older than
blondes of the same age.
THOMAS HARRISON, the ''boy"
preacher, is 43 years old.
Mr.. GLADSTONE receives salaries which
aggregate $37, 800 year.
TwENTY-oNE thousand houses were
built in London last year.
MANY of the hack drivers of Boston
now wear handsome livery.
ASBESTOS cloth is now used in Europe
for freproof theatrical scenery.
A SCHOOL for printers apprentices has
been opened in st. Petersburg.
PTTsToN, Pa, pastors have united in
a card against Sunday funerals.
MAJOR GENERAL Hancock will retire
from the army in February, 1888.
THERE are five persons of foreign
birth in the United States Senate.
KANSAS boasts post Office named
Plowboy and another called Cowboy.
A NUMBER of western farmers are try
ing to organize gigantic potato pool
DURING the last week of October Lon
don had SO, 221 paupers on the books.
CLEVELAND will have the appointment
of two majors and six brigadier-gener-
ais.
Grows HAVE twenty-seven different
cries, each referable to a different ac-
ton.
The increasing number of Jewish IN |
der-graduates is much remarked at Ok |
ford.
Do LEWIS reaches the conclusion |
that consumption is found in every eli
mate.
IT is said that there were never so
many impecunious Americans in London
as now.
IT is believed that within the next few
years ten new States will be added to
the Union.
SQUARE dances viii be performed
by eight couples in a set
this winter.
The foreign papers announce an Irish
opera by Mrs. Parnell, mother of the
Irish leader.
An Englishman married his aunt in
to evade the laws of their
own country.
CANNED salmon from Oregon and to-
matoes from New York are now shipped
to the Congo.
A REMARKABLE migration of crows
from New England to the South has
been noticed.
The new Capitol at Bismarck, OAK,
IS said to be the finest Territorial Capt.
tol IN the West.
Boston is believed to have more
music teachers than any other city in
the United States.
DURING the dry season now about to
begin $4,000 men will be employed on
the Panama Canal.
Mr.. DORSEY says he gave Robert In
gersoll 100000 for defending him in
the star route trials.
MAY AGNES FLEMING has been dead
for years, but the succession of her
novels does not stop.
A BRITIsHER has discovered that
Nth America. was at one time colon
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01

BLAINE's LIBEL SUIT.--Blaine's fa-
nous libel suit against the indianapolis
Sentinel is reported to be practically
ended by sort of technicality. 1t
seems that when the Sentinel filed its
second lot of interrogatories to Blaine in
the case, it asked that upon refusal to
answer he be- enjoined from further
prosecuting the suit. He never answered,
and it is said that the Judges action up
on the interrogatories amounts to grant
lug the injunction. So says the Spring
field, Mass, Republican.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01
He Left the House.

Senator John A. Stein, of Indiana, is
a great friend of Bob Ingersoll's, or
rather he was up to few days ago.
Ingersoll lectured at indianapolis on
Orthodoxy" The audience was not
large. When the speaker was most We
hement in his denunciations Stein arose
in the audience and said : Colonel, 1
protest against such blasphemyl I can
not remain and listen to it." Ingersoll
babe him go out, and as he did not
start quickly, repeated his remark.
Col. Stein is an old friend and admirer
of Ingersoll. The episode created mo-
mentary excitement. When everything
was as quiet as before, Stein left the
house.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01

MEssRs. MASON & HAMLIN bid fair to be-
come as famous for their Upright Pianos as
they have long been for their world-renowned
Cabinet Organs. Having experimental sew
eral years at great expense, and with the as
sistance of probably as able corps of experts
as can be found in any factory in the world,
they have succeeded in producing piano
which has elected the warmest encomiums
from the best judges The distinguishing
feature about it is an important improve
ment in the method of 'stringing" the
piano, which originated in their own
factory The strings are secured by
metallic fastenings, instead of the friction of
pins set in wood, as has been the case, and the
advantages resulting are numerous and highly
important; among them are the following:
wonderful beauty and musical quality Of
tone, far less liability of getting out Of tune,
greater reliability in trying climates, and
greater solidity of construction and dura-
bility. Mason & Hamlin have made $50, 900
organs, They can hardly expect to make as
many pianos, but they will doubtless be called
upon to make very large number.-BoAon
Traveller.
PARIS is to have three lines of underground
railway
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01

ASHow WRECKED. steamboatW,
P. Thompson, which collided recently
with the Capt. Miller below st. Joseph
La, and sank on the bar, had on board
Buffalo Bills Wild West Show. The
buffalo mountain sheep and other ami
mails, except the horses, were all lost,
the boat sinking so quickly that it was
q narrow escape for the passengers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-01

Best Goods are Put in Smallest Parcels
The old proverb is certainly true in the
case of Dr.. Pierce's g Pleasant Purgative Pei
let's, which are little, sugar wrapped parcels.
scarcely larger than mustard seeds, contain
ing IS much cathartic power as is done up in
the biggest, most repulsive-looking pill TN
like the big pills, however, they are mild and
pleasant in their operation-do not produce
gripping pains, nor render the bowels costive
after using.
The number of idle actors is said to be in