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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

Charge of the First Vermont Brigade
The Sabbath morn dawned bright and clear upon
the Third of May
AS underneath st, Mary's Heights the Corps OF
Sedgwick lay,
A silence omn0us and deep was on the hillside
then,
Though on the top and at the foot lay hordes of
hostile men.
The thunder of tho rebel guns the solemn still
ness broke.
And echo answered back as one by one they
awOke;
But soon our rifed PARROTS spoke in tones we
knew so well,
And poured upon the rebel hOrdes q re1ulgent
storm of shell.
In quick response our well served guns their
deadly missiles poured,
Which through the scarp and parapet of their
entertainments bored;
But grape and shell and solid shot though SHOW
To drive the gray-backs from their holes proved
impotent and vain.
Green Mountain Boys! We heroes of a dozen
bloody fights!
The call is now for men who dare to scale the
And seel advancing on the plain their serried
Unbroken by the storm of shell, unparalleled by
fear.
The Twenty sixth New Jersey, then attached to
our brigade
Supported by the Second boys, master stroke
eSSayed;
But struggling through a miry bog that stretched
across the way,
They broke in wild confusion and went hope
lessly astray.
Then came the long-tri Second up, and passed
them on the run,
vermont might well be proud that day of every
martial SOM
With volley answering volley, as they climbed
the shelving track,
And shouting forth their battle-cry they drove
the rebels back.
Upon our right the "L1ght Brigade" dismay and
carnage spread,
Far on our left our own brave Brooks his troops
triumphant led;
Each proudly envious of each, were deeds of
valor done.
And on the crest laid down to rest, St. Mary's
Heights were won;
All honor to the brave who fell, ner shed their
blood in vain,
They rested with us, but alas! no more to rise
again.
By Rappahannocks turbid stream their verdant
graves were made,
The dying shed new lustre on the old "Vermont
Brigade"
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Two Pension Cases.

Among the pension bills approved
by the President the other day, was
one for the benefit of a widow whose
husband was killed by the rebels in
Kentucky. He was not in the army,
but was a farmer in good circum-
stances. One day squad of Union
soldiers stopped at his house to get
something to eat. While they were
at the table a detachment of rebel
soldiers appeared. The Union SOL
diers escaped, but the unarmed civ
lllan was shot dead in his own house.
The bill to give his widow pension
the President has approved, but among
the veto messages sent to the House
was one relating to bill to pension a
widow whose two sons died in the
Union service, and whose husband,
after serving through the war, after
ward died from disease contracted
while in the military service of his
country. The veto is based upon the
ground that the evidence does not
clearly prove that the disease from
which the man died was contracted in
the military service, or resulted from
exposure in said service. The briefs
of these two cases must have, been
prepared for the Presidents inspec-
ton by different clerks in the pension
office. Mr.. Plumb, in the Senate.
presented the petition of John A.
Kirkpatrick, pension bill in whose
favor has been vetoed. He asked the
Senate to do him a small act of JUS
tice and pass the bill over the veto.
1t was evident, said Mr.. Plumb, that
in vetoing this bill, the President had
relinquished his office and made him
self ''merely themouth-piece of some
quill-driving slave of that circumlocu-
ton shop-the pension Office" ''If
the President had read the papers he
never would have been so silly" 1t
was referred to the committee on pen
siOns.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

CONGRESSMAN GROUT.-Referring to
the advocacy of Fitz John POrter's case
by Col Weber, one of the Buffalo con
gressmen, Emma James, the Washing
ton correspondent of the Albany Arqus
writes Another ex-soldier congress
man, OF equally brave record and
equally conscientious, is just as firm in
believing that Gen. Porter should have
been shot. | refer to Gen. William w
GrOut. one of VermOnt's two represent
tatives, whose speech in the same de-
bate i'll support of his convictions is one
of the most terrible arraignments of
this unfortunate man of all that have
been called out, and was the result of
days and nights of close examination of
the evidence. He is strong chamnion
of whatever he undertakes. and has
gained as much eclat in Vermont for
recently defending the interests of nnre
butter as have Senator Miller and Messrs
Hiscock and Parker in New York, II
is said that he will have a walk-Over >
for the nomination this summer. and
his brother members of congress saw he
is well entitled to it. Next Tuesday
Mrs. and Miss Edmunds go north. and
Senator Edmunds has prevailed on Gen,
GrOut to come and keep bachelors hall
with him, at his west end mansion the
rest of the session.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

The enhancement of our credit has
kept pace with our debt paying capacity,
until it has become better than that of
any other nation in the world. The
bonds that could with difficulty be
fioated at six and seven per cent. TWEEN
ty odd years ago have been refunded at
half those rates, and the new issues
command a considerable premium.
Thus the interest charge has been re-
duced In proportion greater than that
of the debt payment, and the nations
credit stands on basis of unexampled
solidity. We enjoy exemption from
debt producing causes, also, and in that
respect are in enviable contrast with
other great powers, especially those of
Europe. There are five nations which
have heavier debts than the United
States. They are: Great Britain, So
7O1 ,653, go; France, So, no, 900, 900: Rus
SIa, s., 414 ,S66, 210; AuStrO-Hungary. So. :
Ao-1-@oA, 9oO 1lotlJ, %-,-ol ,0Oo, 400. 'ElIvy
only other nation whose debt runs up
into billions is Spain, 81 100 OOO. 900.
The revenues of Austro-Hungary Italy.
Russia and Spain do not equal their ex-
penditures, hence their debts are CON
increasing. These are facts
and figures full of consolation. promise
and pride to the patriotic American
Troy Times.
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THE JUDGE IS USED TO Tiff |
were a member of Congress" said
vote against the bill taxing Oleomarga-
rine."
= And why?" queried an auditor.
" Because the only legitimate reason
for laying tax is to increase the reve-
nue.. There is no pretence that the
treasury is i'll need of the funds that
will come from this tax; and all it
amounts to is an unjust discrimination
against one industry in favor of another
And as to the argument that oleomarga-
rine ought to be branded, for the pro
lection of consumers, congress has
nothing whatever to do with that 1t is
the business of the states"
Well" suggested a nearer, IF you
were to vote against the bill you would
make yourself mighty unpopular with
your constituents"
q am used to that" replied the
Judge with smile.-,St. Johnsbury Re
publican.
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A Public Benefaction.

How to laundry linen as it is done in
Troy, n. y. has been kept Il secret long
enough; it can and should be done in
every family. The Elastic Starchthat is
only starch in the United States is the
put up by men who have practical
knowledge of the laundry profession. 1t
requires no cooking, keeps the iron from
sticking and linen from blistering while
ironing, and gives shirts. cuffs and coll
ars that stiffness and beautiful polish
they have when new, which. everybody
knows, keeps them clean twice as long.
Beware of limitations. See that the name
ofJ. C. Hubinger e Bro, New Haven,
Conn, is on every package. 225m3
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STATE ITEMS

A horse ran away one evening at
Newport with two daughters of Ben
Jamin Page and the hired man. The
occupants were thrown out, one ofthe
girls had her right arm broken and the
other had her head badly bruised and
one leg badly broken.
Mrs. Peter Collins, of Rutland, is
circulating petition about town to
have her husband pardoned from the
State Prison at Windsor. About two
years ago he got a two years sentence
for burglary.
WOolsOn Brothers, of Montpelier,
tender to their employees brief vaca-
ton and complimentary excursion to
Highgate Springs every year. The
party Will leave Montpelier Friday
morning of this week and return on
the following Monday.
The valuation made four years ago
OF all the taxable real estate in the
town Of Rutland up to April l, 1886
was S7,033, 136. The new appraisal,
which has just been made, amounts to
S|,399 ,l35, an increase of S566 ,499.
A singular accident happened to
freight train on the Passumpsic rail-
road near st. Johnsbury last week.
A platform car loaded with wood
caught fire from a spark from the To-
connective, and sped on like new sort
of comet. At South Newburv the
car was switched off and burned to
the ground.
Elhanen ingalls,, of Pittsford, who
has been a great sufferer from his in
juries which he received at the ore
mines at Meneville, N. Y, died We'd
nesday Of last week in his 10th year.
Some boys, while fooling with a
pistol Friday at Woodstock, managed
to fire it, and the bullet went through
Clarence Boyce's finger and then into
the right breast Of George McCane,
going through the lungs. McCane
will recover.
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What are Suppositories

A. G. Rose, from New London. Conn,
writes: Send me two boxes Of your
kemy's Pile Suppositories by mail. Our
druggist is out. They are for friend. L
tried everything without help, but the
Suppositories cured me-" The treatment
is new and within the reach of all. and
would advise the afflicted to give them
trial. For pamphlets on Piles, address
Box 265, Leroy, N. Y. For sale in
Morrisvlle by Geo. E. Woodward. at 90
cents a box. mar25y1
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

Mr.. Vanhorne, manager of the Can
adian Pacific railway, has issued a
circular in regard to the adoption of
the twenty-four hour system of time
adopted on that road. He says that
a majority of the railroad managers
of Canada and the States have ex-
pressed themselves in favor of the
system, and that it will be an honor
to Canada to be the first to adopt it.
1t will first be tried on the section
west of Lake Superior. The com
pany will supply to the public, free of
charge, paper dials, for both clocks
and watches, adapted for twenty-four
hour time.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
The attention of Selectmen is called
to the following law adopted by the
I.eoislature of 1884

No. 60, SEC. 2.-Section sixty-five of the Re
yised Laws is hereby amended so as to read as
follows; The selectmen in each town SHALL at
least thirty days before freemen'S meeting,
make an alphabetical list of the persons quail
fed to vote in such freemen's meeting and Shall
Immediately cause copies of such list to be
posted in two OF more public places in such
town, and copy to be filed in the town clerk
Office. Upon such check list shall be stated
against the name of each voter, the street and
number of his residence, and where the streets
are not named and numbered, the school dis
trict in which he resides and against the name
OF each person on the list who has not resided
in the town for which the list is made three
months next previous to the freemen's meeting
for which the list is made, shall be stated that
such person is disqualified to vote for town rep
resentativeS and justices.
SEC. 3.-SectlOn SeVenty-One of the Revised
Laws is hereby amended so as to read as fol
lows: No person shall vote at a freemen's meet
ing in town, for any of the officers to be elected
at such meeting, unless his name is on the
cheek list prepared in such town for use at such
meeting And the vote of no person whose
name is on the list shall be rejected except that
-
resentative or justices who is designated on the
check lists as disqualified to vote for these
officers.
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CrumblY Butter.

An expert butter maker, the gilt
edged product of whose dairy finds
regular customers in Boston at more
than fifty cents per pound, one week
last spring was notified by his sales
man that his butter was inferior in
quality, falling far below his usual
high standard. An investigation of
the cause proved that, running short
of his regular stock of early cut hay,
he had bought several tons of hav of
a neighbor, which hay proved to be
of crop cut long after it was ripe, a
dry, stalky grass, full of woody fibre
and lacking in those palatable and nu-
tritious qualities pertaining to sweet,
early-cut, well cured grass. Again,
his COWS, usually bedded with dry saw
dust were bedded with bright, we'll
cured straw. The COWS, dissatisfied
with the late cut hay, had made part
of their ration of the straw in use for
bedding. Note the result. Prime but
ter should break or cut like wax.
The knife cuts smoothly through the
print or lump, leaving but a slight
dampness on the blade. Such is the
result of judicious ration of grain
and early cut hay. The substitution
of over-ripe hay and straw in the ra-
ton Of the COW at once changes the
character of butter to crumbly mass.
lacking the waxy consistency Of choice
butter. Such butter when cut by the
knife rolls down both sides in a crum-
bly, condition. 1t lacks the flavor and
character so essential to the makeup
of gilt-edged butter, and sells at
very ordinary price. Causes so APP
insignificant as the change
in feeding late cut and over-ripe hay,
where previously the aromatic, succu-
lent, soft, early cut grass formed the
principal part of the ration, reduce
the quality of the product from gilt
edge to ordinary. The successful
1airyman watches and guards against
such changes in the cows rations.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

The official announcement at an
early day of Mr.. GarIand's retire
ment from the Cabinet need not be a
surprise. There is good reason for
saying that his resignation would have
been acceptable to the President at
any time since his relations to the
Pan-electric speculation were exposed.
There was time last winter when
Mr.. Cleveland had determined to ask
Mr.. Garland to resign. But he was
prevailed upon to reconsider his de-
termination, and so the Attorney gen.
eral has been allowed to remain. But
there is reason to believe that Mr..
Garland has not enjoyed the Presi-
dents confidence since that time.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
Senator MorriIl's appearance is thus


described by Washington correspond
ent: He is twenty years older than Ed
munds; still his hair is not as white as
that of Senator Edmunds, and he does
not look to be older. Picture to
yourself tall. rather well-filled-out
man, with STOPPING shoulders and a
great shock of iron-gray hair coming
out Just above his collar. Take a face
of a dark complexion and bright eyes,
looking out from very heavybrOws; add
to these features strong jaw, a rather
large mouth and large, straight nose :;
pull the chin of this man down upon his
chest, and let him sit in lounging man
ner in one of those big senate chairs,
looking out of those bright eyes from
under the heavy brows, and you have
Justin S. Morrill, as he has appeared day
after day in the United States senate
chamber.
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National Debts.

The public debt statement for June is
clusion of a fiscal year. 1t shows that
the national debt at the present time
amounts to S1,769, $40, al. The progress
i'll paying off the Indebtedness entailed
by our great war has been phenomenal
The highest point reached was in 1866
when it amounted to S2,773, 236, 173. So
Thus it will be seen, during the twenty
years that have since elapsed, the debt
has been reduced, in round numbers
one billion dollars. The following fig
ures, taken from official records, show
the debt as it has stood at the beginning
of each recurring fiscal year:
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The n omeIIest MANN orristown.

As well as the nandsomrst. and others.
are invited to call on Geo. Z. Woodward
and get free trial bottle OF Kemp's Bal
sam for the throat and lungs, remedy
that is selling entirely upon its merits
and IS guaranteed to cure and relieve all
CHROME and Acute Coughs. Asthma.
Bronchitis and CONSUMPTION. Price 20
cents and ST. lnar35vI
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

The convention for the Second Dis
trict will be held at Montpelier Aug.
4th. In one respect at least it will
be like that recently held in the First
District, in that Gen. Grout will be
unanimously re-nominated. Indica-
tons point strongly that way. YER
mont has a good delegation in Con-
gress and will keep it there.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

The PENSION VETOEs. will the
pension yetoes be passed over the
Presidents head, is now the question
of the hour. In the Senate it is ex-
pected there will be little or no oppo-
sition to meritorioas cases. Some Of
the Democratic Senators themselves
say that the President is wrong in
this matter and they propose to help
in overriding the vetoes. In the
House, however, is where the fight
will come. The Southern members,
with few exceptions, will vote sol
idly "nay." The Northern Demo-
Gratis cannot afford to do so, as there
are among their constituents too
many soldiers who risked their life
for their country. Mr.. Taulbee, a
Democratic member from Kentucky,
openly criticises the President severe
ly. The day set for the final adjourn
ment of both Houses of Congress is
said to be the 10Th.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

The Democratic State and District
Conventions will be held at Montpe-
ier, Tuesday, July 22nd at 10 80 A.
NJ. Lamoille County will be entitled
to representation as follows: Belvi-
dere l Cambridge, 3; Eden, 2; Ell
more, 2; Hyde Park 4; Johnson, 2;
Morristown, 3; Stowe, 2; Water
vile, l !; Wolcott. 2.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

Secretary of the Treasury Hon.
Daniel Manning, has returned to AL
bany from the Hot Springs of Vir-
ginia. He is in greatly improved
health, but said to reporter that he
did not think he should resume his
duties as secretary.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
Estate of Daniel Watts.
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.


State of Vermont, LamOi!le District, IS. In Pro-
bate Court, held at Hyde Park, in said district
on the I'd day of July, A. ID. 1856.
A. c. Raymond, Administrator Of the estate OF
Daniel Watts, late of Stowe, in said dstdeceased,
presents his administration account for
animation and allowance, and makes applIca-
ton for decree of distribution and partition of
the estate OF SAID deceased. Whereupon, it is
said application be referred to session thereof,
to be held at the Probate Office in said Hyde
Park on the 23d day of July A. ID. 1856.
for hearing and decision thereon. And
it is further ordered, that notice hereof
be given to all persons interested, by pub
licatlOn of the same three weeks successfully in
the News Citizen, newspaper published a
Morrlsville and Hyde Park, previous to said time
appointed for hearing, that they may appear a t
SAID time and place, and show cause, If any they
may have, why said account should not be
allowed and such decree made.
By the Court-Attest,
4lW3 u. 5. PAGE, Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

In secret session of the Senate on
Thursday afternoon an adverse report
was made upon the nomination of
Herbert Beecher, as collector at Port
Townsend. Washington Territory.
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Republican County Convention.
Democratic County Convention.

The Democrats of Lamoille County and all
others who sustain the administration of Grover
Cleveland are requested to meet in mass conven-
ton, at the Town Hall in Hyde Park, on Thurs
day, the 9Th day of August, 1856. at 10
O'Clock in the forenoon for the purpose ofnomina-
ting county ticket, town and county commit
tees, and to transact any other business thought
proper when met.
AL. MOVES, Democratic
III. B. BUNDY, County
T. J. BoYNToN, Committee.
HYDE rARK, July 10th, 1886.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

There is fair prospect that the
oleomargarine bill will become a law
at the present session of congress.
The bill has been reported to the SEN
ate by its committee on agriculture,
of which Senator Miller of this state,
is chairman, exactly as it was passed
by the house. Unless some of the
Democratic Senators carry out their
threat to talk the measure to death, it
is likely to be passed by the senate by
good majority. Several of the men,
bers, including Mr.. Edmunds, who
voted to refer the bill to the finance
instead of to the agriculture commit
tee, have given assurance that they
are not opposed to it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

PROHIBITION CoNyENIIoN.-The pro-
hibitioniSts Will hold a convention for
the nomination Of state officers at Bur
lington, Wednesday, July p. J. b.
Finch, chairman of the national pro-
hibitiOnary committee, is expected to be
present and to address the convention.
and a. A. Hopkins, a member of the
prOhibitOry bureau, will also be there
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

The Hindoos say that chess is the
invention of an astrologer who lived
more than 5000 years ago, and was
possessed of supernatural knowledge
and acuteness, while the Greeks say
that the game was devised by Pala-
medes to beguile the tedium of the
siege of Troy,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

LOCATING THE SOLDIERS HOME
Gov. Proctor and Gen. Wells of Bur-
u eston on the 18th inspected the Park
place, OF 200 acres, at Bennington,
which has been suggested as an availa-
BILE location for the Vermont state SOL
diers' home. The premises were decided
to corporation known as the = Park
Home" and originally cost SIS, 900. AS
the home, which it was intended should
be retreat for aged women, was never
endowed, Major Valentine proposes
that the place be given for soldiers
home, without expense to the state. On
the land is building that can be made
to accommodate fifty inmates by an
outlay of about $1,000 of the $4,000
already appropriated by the state 1t is
suggested that the premises be also used
as permanent camp for the Vermont
militia. 1t is thought the Park place
will be accepted, if the next legislature
will provide for the maintenance of the
home in Bennington.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

CANADIAN MEANNEss. Of the
most peculiar results of the present
strained relations between the United
States and Canada on account of the
fisheries matter, is the imposition of
heretofore unknown dues upon vessels
putting into Dominion harbors. Capt.
David A. Doughty, of the fishing
schooner John H. Kennedy, who re-
turned to Portland, Me-, on the morn
ing of the 9Th, from a successful trip
to the Banks, reports that on his re-
turn trip he put into Boone Harbor,
and while there, was informed by the
Collector of Customs that he must
pay lighthouse dues to the amount of
twenty-four cents ton for his vessel.
AS there is not a lighthouse for a
hundred or more miles along the coast
from that harbor, Capt. Doughty nat
urally objected to such an uEwarrant-
ed tax, but was informed that he
could either pay the tax or allow his
vessel to remain in port, so he yield
ed. In order to get his draft cashed,
he also had to submit to an extortion
by the Collector of one-fifth of one
per cent. of its face value. Captain
Doughty has high opinion of that
Collector as Jew broker, but believes
if vessels have got to pay lighthouse
taxes, some equivalent should be re-
turned for the same. The John Ii.
Kennedy is a schooner of fifty tons
net measurement.