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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04

1t would be impossible for us to make
especial mention of any reader, so
we'll were all the parts rendered. The
Professor may we'll feel proud Of the
results. The attendance, we are sorry
to note was very small. Such an
entertainment was worthy of a full
house.
JoTTINGs. A. L. Lane of Under
hill, was in town over Sunday.-The
work of harvesting ice for the cream
cry commenced Monday.-The "owP'
train has been taken off, for want, it
is said, of business.-Camp Fire to-
night.-The posto6ice department has
fixed new rate on photographs,
whereby they may now be sent at the
same rate as books, or one cent for
each two ounces or fraction thereof
The first woman complained of having
nothing to wear, and her daughters
have kept it up ever since. -Smlles
are not only the most becoming OF all
adorrments, but also the least eX-
D ,nsive.- Belknap the creamery man
is in town.-Walker Browns assistant
in the livery business, is succeeded
by Magoon from Stowe.-Tuesday
was - Candlemas Day" and if the old
saying be true winter is only half
gone, as the day was clear and fair
Two weeks more of school.-WhenI
your pump freezes up pour little
alcohol into it. 1t will prove more
effective in thawing it out than good
deal of hot water. But don't try the
same remedy on yourself as too many
do.-Orrin Williams was considerably |
bruised about the shoulder one day
last week, by an iron bar accidentally
hitting him.-Work has been resumed
on the poplar job across the river
An UNUSUAL amount of job work has
deprived US from giving as much time
IS usual to newspaper work the pres
mt week.-The Shepard Family"
a large number of our
citizens Tuesday evening at the Town
Hall, to the satisfaction of all present. |
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
BOSTON MARKETS.

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 2, 1856.
BUTTER.-The butter market is frmer for al
good favored, wellkept goods: Job lots frest
creamery, 30 d36c; fresh westrn creamery in round
lots, 32ld33c; October and November 28GI30c; fal
creameries, 25d2Sc; June and July creameries
22d25c; new northern dairies, lS(G2lc; selections
% d25c; western diaries, l7a20c; June ladies
llGl3c; extra fresh, 2Od2lc, imitation creamery
22G23c.
OATs.-In oats the local market is very dull
stronger market West Is noted: No. white
and barley oats, 44o46c; No. white, AZ 1-2 d43c
No. white, Al 1-2d42c; No. mixed, 41{1 Al lie
No. mixed, 1910 1-2c.
Fourth flour a better trade is noted Some
dealers claim to have sold considerable flour the
past week at and at better prices. The millers
are firm: Fine, S2.65a2S5; super, $3.1Oa3.75i
common extra, $3.50 1885; medium extra, $4d4. 1C
choice extra, S4.l5d4.30; Minnesota bakers $40
(d4.75; New York roller, $4.65d490; Michigan,
$465a4.S5; Michigan roller, $4.76d5; st. Louis
and southern Illinois, Ohio and Indiana patents
$5.2595.4O; straights $5G5.4O; clears, S4.7594S5;
Wisconsin spring Wheat patents, $5.35956O;
Minnesota, $3.50G5.S5.
HAY, STRAW, &C.-There has been considera.
BILE sci ing at easier prices; Choice hay, $2Od
1880: goOdtO choice, $1,000; common, $l6alS;
eastern, fine, $l6G17; low grades $l3dl5; rye
straw, $2OG2l; bran, $lSG1S.5O; for spring, SIT
9l8; sack bran. $l9.50a2O.50; middlings, $l0a22
BEANs.-For beans the request is better for
small pea: Small hand-pcked pea, $l.7591.S0;
large pea, l.55gI60; medium. l55; yellow eye,
improved, 1.6O9l.65; common, l50Gl.60; red
kidney, 1902.
PoTATOEs.-The potato market markell is EASY
bear the market down: Houltou hebrUns, soc
Houlton rose, 75c; peerless, 65G7Oc; Maine anC
Vermont rose, 65d70c; prolifics, 75c; burbanks
6591Oc; chenangoes, 65dI0c.
POULTRY. = The poultry market is firm for
good fresh arrivals, with good refrigerator stock
steapy: Turkeys, good, 1894 1-2c; common IOd
u IL C; large northern chickens, Isc; good west
ern l4a16; fair to good chickens, u dl3; chickens
and fowls 9aIlc.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04

Vick's Floral Guide for 1886, the pio-
neer seed annual of America, comes to
us this year real gem, not dry list OF
hard botanical names, but over thirty
pages of reading matter, among which
are articles on roses, house plants, cheap
greenhouse, onion culture, mushrooms,
manures, young gardeners, and very in
teresting reading, followed by about l5O
pages containing illustrations, descrip-
tions and prices of seemingly everything
the heart could desire in the line of seeds,
plants, bulbs, potatoes, etc. 1t is mys-
terry how this firm can afford to publish,
and really give away, this beautiful work
of 200 pages of finest paper, with hum
dreds of illustrations and two fine col
ored plates, all enclosed in an elegant
cover. Any one desiring goods in this
line cannot do better than to send ten
cents for the Floral Guide to James Wick,
Seedsman, Rochester, n. Y. Deduct the
10 cents from first order sent for seeds.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
HAR DWICK,

The Shepard Family are to give con
cert at the Town Hall Friday evening
They come well recommended.
jimmie Collier lost his watch last Sat
urday near the steam mill. 1t was a
three ounce open face Waltham, marked
Ira A. Shattuck, Hardwick. The finder
will be suitably rewarded.
Rev. Mr.. Brigham exchanged with Rev
Mr.. Ryan last Sunday.
Mrs. G. w. Houston and daughter are
visiting friends in Chelsea.
Teams are in good demand for drawing
logs to the different mills.
Mrs. Judevine was quite sick last week
but is now better.
Mr.. Aiken had a chill on Thursday
last, and was quite sick, though now i'm
proving.
Frank ellis returned from Wfnoosk
Tuesday where he has been at work fol
Doubleday & Clement Bros.
McLoud and wife made trip to Mont
pelier and Barre this week. Mac" o.
course, called on Boss Atkins.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04

The Selectmen have had two rollers
built to be used in breaking winter roads
which is a great improvement over the
old way of blowing them out.
A. III. Dorman has received an increase
of pension of from four to eight dollars
per month.
A little daughter of F. J. Burnell re.
Gently fell onM hot stove and burned her
face quite badly.
William Miles has bought the Bert Sill
yer place and taken possession.
E. D. Corlis has bought the johnson
farm in the eastern part of Wolcott.
Frank Glidden informs us that he is
feeding ensilage with the very best re-
suits.
The house and barn of C. S. Parker
were burned on the night of the Goth ult.
with all their contents, including wag-
ons, sleds, harnesses and three cows,
The family barely escaped in their night
clothes. The loss was partially covered
by insurance.
A large number from this town attend.
ed the G. A. r. encampment at Burling-
ton, and all report good time.
DR.. o. A. Bemis has been confined to
his house the past week, but is now con-
valescent.
Porter Davis has secured the services
of Mr.. and Mrs. P. Day tor another wear.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
STATE ITEM S.

Woodstock is soon to have the Sal
walton army.
A new m arble deposit has been dis
covered in West Rutland.
A movement has started among the
women of Rutland for the establish
ment of free library there.
There are a great many cases of
measles in Barnard, and as a conse-
quence nearly all the schools are
closed.
The state board of agriculture will
hold meetings in Addison Tuesday
and Wednesday, February 16 and II.
The executive committee of the
Rutland Music Festival association
have voted to engage Carl Zerrahn to
conduct the festival.
Two barns, six COWS and 80 tons of
hay belonging to Harvey Foster of
Walden, were burned Tuesday night
by an incendiary fire. Loss $500.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
HYDE PARK.

1t is poor economy to save money
by doing without your local news
paper. To attempt it, may lead to
the bad habit of borrowing of your
wiser and more liberal neighbor.
An exchange remarks with more
truth than poetry that the right thing
for farmer to do when a stranger
asks him to sign anything is to hunt
up substantial fence rail and write
it all over the stranger in words that
burn.
The largest amount of mail ever
sent from this pOstoffice (and without
doubt from any office in the county,
was sent out Saturday night. About
$500 pieces were marked to various
parts of the y nited States and Canada.
1t made Postmaster Noyes smile,
however, as his salary is made up from
the amount of stamps cancelled. OF
course the bulk of it was "Calf Skin"
business.
The fiftieth anniversary Of the mar
rage of Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander
Slicer was observed at their residence
in this place, Monday evening. About
sixty neighbors and friends called in
and paid their respects to the worthy
couple. The evening was pleasantly
passed in social intercourse. A hand
some easy chair and a nice rocker,
together with silverware, gold pieces
and other useful articles, were pre-
sented to the happy couple. That Gun
Gle Alex" and his wife may be spared
to enjoy their wedding anniversaries
many years to come, is doubtless the
wish of many.
A very pleasant entertainment was
that given by the Reading Class of the
Academy at the Town Hall, Friday
night. 1t consisted of readings from
SCOTS "Lady of the Lake" The
selections were all finely rendered and
showed much work and preparation
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
NORTH WOLCO1T.

Miss Flora Boynton has been stopping
at home for a few days.
D. NJ. Holton was in the place over
Sunday.
Mrs. Andrew Campbell, of Hyde Park,
is stopping with her sister-in-law, Mrs.
A. G. Andrews.
Miss Anna Powers and her scholars
were invited up to A. r. Monkeys on
Friday evening to candy-pull, and all
report first class time.
Charles Stone is on the sick list, and
has symptoms of canker-rash.
Noah Boypspn received a letter last
Friday, dat frfA Nashua, N. H, April Q,
1875. Said sei,ter was found ia George
Taylor's horse-barn, in a barrel of old
papers that accumulated while j. A.
Graves was Postmaster. The letter was
in good condition. The seal had not
been broken. viii Jim. please explain
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
Probate court-LamoiIIe District

The following business was trans
acted at the Probate Office in Hyde
Park, during the week ending Jan
80, 1886:
JAN. 25th.-Robert Slater's estate
Belvidere Lorin E. Dunlap appointed
Administrator Thomas Potter and r.
w. Bailey, Commissioners. Laura D.
Parmelee's estate, Elmore; Will proved
and approved AMI Wilson, executor.
Rebecca w. Bailey's estate, Stowe; set
Element continued to Feb. 18th. 1856.
JAN. 26th.-H. B. Cakes estate, Stowe
Appraisers make report.
JAN. 27th.-F. A. Peterson's estate
Stowe; Commissioners make report.
JAN. 2Sth.-Alonzo Cobleigh's estate,
Hyde Park; Commissioners make re-
port.
JAN. 29th.-M. p. Kimball's estate
Stowe; settlement continued to Feb
ruary 18th, 1886.
JAN. 30th.-Abiah Miles estate, Nor
ristown; Commissioners make report.
IN INSOLVENCY.
JAN. 30th.--S. H. Tiff, Insolvent debt
or, Morristown End and 3rd meetings OF
creditors held and continued to Feb
ruary Sth, 1886.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
WoLCOTT.

Rev. F. E. HeaIey will preach at the
Universalist church on Sunday next, and
will take for his subject 1.-The coming O.
Christ and the end of the world
The Universalist fair Melted the society
sixty-tive dollars.
There are several cases of scarlet fever
in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Hunguford, OF
Phillipsburg, P. O., are visiting at M. S
BurnelPs,
The lumbermen are very busy logging
nowadays.
The school here is to close on Friday
night, with an exhibition of speaking and
drama.
G. Fl. Reed has sold his mills at Pot
terville, together with all his real estate
in town, to Messrs. Page & Noyes, OF
Hyde Park. Mr.. Reed has done quite d
large lumber business in town and en-
ployed many hands. Mr.. and Mrs. Reed
have also made many warm friends, who
will miss them, and wish them success
wherever they may go.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04

The girls will cut this out. A young
married man and his wife near Weav-
erville, Cal, recently made visit to
that town. Before they started ev-
erything was got in readiness, and the
invoice showed forty packages. On
arriving at Weaverville and checking
the baggage it was discovered that the
thirty-nine parcels belonging to his
wife had arrived all right, but the one
package of which the husband had
special charge was forgotten and left
at home. "Women can never think of
anything"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
NORTH HYDE PARK.
Bert Bullard is in Worcester, Mass.

Bert Billiard is IN worcester, Mass.
L. E. Harrington was called to Berlin
as witness in case Smith & Ladd VS.. Frank
Laraway.
"Sam weaE.SSsa smiling face. His
pension has. been decreased from 81 to SIS
per month.
Mrs. Cobb who has been sick for seve-
raj weeks, is slowly recovering.
Hudson Wilson and Judson Mason, are
in town.
Simeon ingalls, who has been laid up
for the past two months with rheumatism,
went to Morrisville to see the Indian doc
tors, returned with medicine and rheu-
matism.
There will be concert by the young
peoples singing class on Saturday eve.,
Feb. 9th, at the Congregational church.
Admission cents. Object-to pay eX-
penses of singing school.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04

by Thomas B. Downer, Cambridge by
Sol. Walbridge, johnson by Arunah
Waterman, Eden by Jeduthan Stone:
Morristown by Elisha Boardman and
Wolcott by Thomas Taylor. At that
time no minister was reported as settled
within the present limits of Lamoille Co.,
and the only attorneys were Elias Fassett
ard Isaac Warren, of Cambridge. Stowe
had Riverus Camp for Town Clerk and
Nathaniel Robinson for Constable. Post
age on every letter composed of one
piece of paper, for distance of over 500
miles, 25 cents, and for two, three or four
pieces of paper, as the case was. double,
triple or quldrupIe rates.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04

Frank Lesle's Popular Monthly for
February is all that its patrons can de-
sire. The articles vary in character and
treatment, are interesting and timely.
and all well illustrated. Mr.. Croffut's
article on the late William II. Wander
bilt gives striking picture of the career
and life of the great American million
aire, and the reader can Judge for himself
of the man, his palace, his gallery, his
stables and his tomb. Mrs. Lew Wal
lace, the talented wife of our general and
diplomatist. contributes a very striking
romance. "A Fair Clients Story" The
well-known novelist, Christian Reid,
gives one of her striking stories, IA
Passing Idyl." The Home of the Noted
Indian Chief, Cornplanter," is very pleas
antly described and beautifully illustrat-
ed by Mrs. Calista Ingersoll Cara. In
''The Story of the Man who Wrote Rob
inson Crusoe," Noel Ruthven takes us
back to England in the time of De Foe.
The illustrations of this number are all
striking and good.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
NORTH CAMBRIDGE.

On Friday evening next the last session
of the reading club under the present or
ganization. On Saturday evening Rev
Nelson Hurlbut will address the club on
the subject of WAR"
The desk here will be occupied next
Sunday forenoon by Rev. Mr.. Hurlbut,
and in the afternoon by Elder Morgan
assisted by Rev. Fl. A. Bushnell. 1t Is
the last quarterly meeting for the year.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
EAST ELM ORE.

H. S. Whiting has bought out Alvin
Cameron, and Cameron has the Western
fever.
G. A. Morse is pretty well stocked
with logs, and is doing good business
this winter.
E. E. and Fred Silloway come out with
bran new sleighs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04

KNOW THYsELF by reading the "Sci
ence of Life" thebest medical work evel
published, for young and middle-ageC
Men. S2y1
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04

Light colors are again becoming
fashionable in New York.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
Pure Blood HOlStGin Stock F.!

Until farther notice my Holstein bull "Fido'
mile west of Hyde Park street. in charge of Mr..
V. H. Boyd, who will cheeriully answer all in
quiries that may be made by parties interested in
regard to pedigree, records, &c. AL bargains
relating to the of said property should be
made with said Boyd, and his receipt for payment
of same will be good to the holder thereof. Con-
ditlOns will be uniform and impartial.
Hyde Park, Jan. Is. 1886. II. S. PAGE.
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ELM ORE,
CRAFTS BURY.

There will be social dance at tn
Pond House on the evening of the 10th.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
DIED.

DIED-In Westford, VT, Jan. IS, Mr.. Beriat
howard in his SD year.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04
Boston & Lowell Railroad,
Burlingt0n&L am0iIIe R.R,

A Mixed train leaves Hyde Park at 4.30 a. m
and arrives at St. Johnsbury at 900 O'Clock.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-04

Read doWn TRAINS N geaS u East
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-03

Although the relations between the
United States and Canada are strained, they
don't seem to be very Burlington
Free Press.
The anarchists are claiming that they
still hold their own" Nobody will OBJ
iect to this. 1t is only when they attempt
to hold some other fellows own that we
rise to Philadelphia Gait.
Smiles are said to date from Eden days,
when Adam smiled because Eve stubbed
her toe (6guratiyely speaking), resulting in
her dismissal from the garden, but because
Adam had to go too, is really where the
laugh comes in.
A young married couple who have lived
very happily together for four years have
two children, whom they have named AL
pha and Omega. Judging from the name
they have given the last one, we are led to
believe they mediate dissolution of copart-
nership.
The man who makes it business to say
every time he meets you, Its awful
warm. isn't it," still lives, but a wrathful
Providence has an eye on him, and when
he least expects it his heels will be tripped
from under him and he will land in eli
mate good deal hotter than this.-N. O.
| States.
A little black boy stood with his small
sister at the edge of water-lily pond in
Florida. Ephium," said the girl, what
makes so many cat-tails grow in dis
heah POM" g oan you know?n in
quired Ephium why dey grow up from
kittens that people hez drowned in de pom
of course
Professor Willis, the physiognomist,
says: Beware of the girl that has black
eyes, shun the girl with blue, and run from
the girl with gray eyes" This practically
restricts the choice OF the foolish young
man to the Grcassian girl with pink eyes,
who is not warranted genuine outside of
the dime museum.
A robber met coal-dealer on lonely
road and stopped him. Your money or
your life" said the robber Who are
| your" asked the coal-dealer I'm a high
wayman," replied the man. "Good
enough" continued the coal-dealer; I'm
a low-weigh man. Shake. We should be
| friends" And they were.-FOrt Pain Free
| Pres.
Lawyer" May it please the Court, the
defense does not care to cross-examine the
witness, as testimony coming from him is
not worthy of belief Judge" Has the
witness ever been convicted of any crimi-
nal otiense?" Lawyer" Not that l know
of, your Honor" Judge" Has he the
reputation of being falsifier?" LAWYER
| " Not exactly that, your Honor, but he has
| been employed two seasons as baseball
umpire" Judge ALI To the witness)
You can step down, sir. TO the clerk
| Call the next witness. boston Transcript.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-03
Uncle Esek's Wisdom.

All political parties are made up of foxes
and geese about five thousand geese
to one fox.
The great beauty of charity is privacy
there is sweet force even in an anony-
| nous penny.
/ am an uncompromising Radical up to
date, but when l reach the other world
can be Conservative, if it is the best thing
to do.
Men of great genius should not forget
that their failings, or vices, are more apt
to be noticed, and even admired, than their
virtues.
All Conservatives have once been Rad
icals, and their virtue consists in having
found out that half loaf is better than no
bread.
Ny friend, if you must keep pet, let it
be one of the serene kind "a rattlesnake- or
swapping turtle, for instance); this will ex-
ercise your caution and strengthen your
genius.
know of nothing that will test mans
true inwardness better than to feel like the
devil, and be obliged to act like saint.
My dear boy, if you must part your hair
in the middle, get it even, if you have to
split a hair to do it.
independence is name for what no man
possesses; nothing in the animate or IMAM
innate world is more dependent than man.
1t isn't so much what man has that
makes him happy, as it is what he doesn't
want.
There are many comfortable people in
the world, but to call any man perfectly
happy is an insult.
There is nothing so valuable, and yet so
| cheap, as civility-you can almost buy
land with it.
The great mass of mankind can only
gaze and worder; if they undertake to
think, they grow listless, and soon tire out.
Tie Century for J,tLu.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-03

and roaring so as to be heard many miles
away. There are hot pools and lakes and
lce-cold pools and streams, boiling lakes
and frigid ones, and at one point a geyser
is to be seen throwing up a column OF hot
water some seven feet, which rises in spray
and broken streams twenty-five or thirty
feet moro.
THE CLEAR LAKE REGION
Should not be overlooked by the tourist.
1t is reached by the Napa valley route or
by the Northern Railway route, described
in referring to the many Lake county heal
ing springs. Clear Lake is a gem in the
mountains, sheet of pure water nearly
thirty miles in length, irregular in shape
and at places from ten 10 twelve miles in
width. Its environment is that of mount
airs and hills. Several towns are
on its borders, two of which
are large and of business i'm
portance and high promise. Steamers
navigate the lake. The Blue lakes are in
Lake county, twelve miles from Lakeport,
are three in number, at an altitude of $500
| feet, between mountains Of 1900 and 5000
feet, and invested with glorious charms OF
scenery. There is good hotel a. the upper
lake. Fine fishing and good hunting are
afforded visitors. The atmosphere of the
region Is t2ldt Ol perleCI purity. ana the
climate all but that of paradise. Finally
i the tourist will find no lovelier spots than a
score or more along the coarse of the uppcI
American river and its forks The waters
are pure and the fishing unsurpassed; the
canyons deep and the mountain nights I'M
posing; springs are numerous, cataracts
and waterfalls of wondFous beauty are fire.
| quent For hunting, the tourist can take
no better route than that leading by the
waters of the American up into the deeps
and solitudes of that torrential river II
emptes into the Sacramento at this city, and
its forks may be explored from number
of points on the Central Pacific Railroad
or by saddle from Folsom or Placer vile.