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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
A Call on A. I. Stewart.

Gov. Proctor Knott of Kentucky was
IN Cincinnati last week, and told this
story
"Wen, l had to run down to New
York for few days, and while there l
met four friends from the old common
wealth who had come to see me. They
were all majors and colonies, and had
never been out of the State before. They
insisted that l go around with them to
call on A. t. Stewart. the noted mer-
chant who was then alive. explained
to them that my presence could do them
no good, that / didn't care for Stewart,
and was pretty certain that he didn't
care anything for me. The truth of the
matter was didn't want 10 give the old
gentleman chance to humiliate me in
any way, as had heard good deal of
his gruffness. But my friends said they
would go anyhow. That night went
to one of the theatres, and had a nice
seat in the parquet. CHANGING to the
right,I saw my constituents in box
nodding and smiling to me. returned
the salutation, and an acquaintance near
me remarked that my friends must be
very intimate with A. T. Stewart.
"Why sol" l inquired in astonish-
ment.
because they are in his private box,
which he engages by the year, and to
which only his most intimate friends are
invited
When the curtain went down after
the first act | strOlled around to inquire
into the matter. They had called on
Mr. Stewart at his counting room. The
merchant looked up grimly, and Col.
Boone stepped forward as spokesman
and unbosomed an avalanche of native
eloquence Mr.. Stewart, said he, we
are party of Kentuckians seeing the
sights. We have been to Washington,
sir, and called upon the President, upon
Gen. Sherman, the members of the Cab
net and the most distinguished states
men of the national capital, and now, sir,
we feel that our trip would not be COM
plete should we 90 home without seeing
the Napoleon of merchants who has
made for himself name that is cele-
brated the world over, and who has
more talent in his line. than the states
men and generals we have called on
have in theirs. Now, Mr.. Stewart we
will not detain you a moment; we have
paid our respects and will 60 Mr..
Stewart would not allow it though. He
threw down his pen and conducted them
through his establishment personally.
After they had made the rounds they
found an elegant collation. awaiting
them, including champagne and old
Kentucky bourbon. AS they were de-
parting the great merchant shook each
of them by the hand and gave them cards
admitting them to his private box dur
ing their stay in the city. That's how
they came to be in Stewards box at the
theatre"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
Helped Out by Squirrel Hunting.

One of the most wonderful men in
Georgia Is Senator joe Brown. There
are still hundreds who remember him as
a barefooted boy, his hickory shirt
plainly visible through a rent in his
trousers, blowing with a bull tongue
and mule on his fathers mountain
clearing.
"Joe's" father was q disciplanarian.
When "Joc" was about 10 years old, his
father would hand him his long squir-
rel rife, a horn of powder and twelve
bullets. Joe" he would say, ''go
and get twelve squirrels, and remem-
Der, if every one is not shot through the
head you'll get a licking"
Little Joe would sally forth and never
failed to bring a squirrel for every bull
let, and every squirrel with a hole
through the head. To. day Joe Brown
is considered the ablest lawyer, the
shrewdest financier, the most cunning
railroad manager, the most astute poll
tician and the most pious Christian in
Georgia. He made good Governor, an
able Judge, and as United States Sena-
tor is not by any means below the stand
ard.
Several years ago he added to his
reputation by proving himself a good
fighter. The State desired to lease the
Atlantic and Western Railroad which
she owns. Bids were asked for and Joe
Browns bid accepted. The unsuccess-
full bidders were indignant and claimed
that Browns bid was $4,000 less than
the highest made.
They accordingly employed Bob
Toombs to examine into the matter.
Toombs went to Atlanta, made an in
vestigation and then published card,
saying that Joe Brown had obtained the
lease through bribery. Brown imme-
diately came out with card, saying
that Bob Toombs was "a liar, a coward
and a scoundrel.n
Toombs sent friend to Brown to
know if his (Browns) religious scruples
would prevent him from accepting a
challenge. Brown answered in the neg
ative and sent for a second. Toombs'
friend returned with challenge, asking
Brown to name the weapons. squirrel
rifles, said Brown coolly, with signi-
ficant smile.
That was the last heard from Toombs
and in few days he returned home
His friends had probably told him of
Browns marvellous shooting as boy
Boston Trareler.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
A Victim OF the Riot.

Nels Hansen, the Chicago policeman
who was so severely injured in the Hay.
market riot, and who has been waver-
ing between life and death at the coun-
ty hospital for several weeks past, had
his left leg amputated ON Saturday, and
it was believed that the strain on his en-
feebled system was too great. 1t was
then decided by the hospital staff that the
only means of saving his life or even
prolonging it for short time, was the
infusion into his veins of a quantity OF
fresh blood from healthy, robust man.
Erick Egeries, the policeman's brother.
in-law, offered himself for the operation,
and an incision was made in the princi.
pal artery of his left arm and four
ounces of blood was allowed to flow ont
An inciSiOn was then made in Hansen's
right arm, and the process of transfer
ring his brother in laws blood into the
patient was in progress. He moved
restlessly to and fro, and after time a
slight tinge of color came into his face
and lips. The operation was success
fully performed, but after suffering
greatly for about two hours he died
He belonged to tho Fourth precinct.
and was wounded in the arms, BODY
and legs. He leaves a wife and six
children.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
Short Sermons We're Best.

The widow of clergyman writes to
the Albany Journal: "When /, with my
husband, was living in a city not far
from here l noticed that o member
of our church, q poor woman, was not
regular in her attendance, and finally
did not attend at all. / called upon
her, and she said to me with the utmost
frankness that her husband was inclined
to be hard with her, that he did not go
to church, and that if she was not home
on Sunday to have his dinner for him
very nearly IL o'clock. he was abusive.
She said that my husband preached such
long sermons that she could seldom get
home until II o'clock, and that rather
than have unpleasantness at home she
had refrained from going to church any
more. She said that she would not
have spoken of the matter but for the
fact that three other women of her
acquaintance were also kept from at
tendance by similar circumstances. She
gave me the names of the women and /
called upon them and found her story
exactly true. | laid the facts before my
husband and he determined to make a
change in his programme. Instead of
reading all the hymns he merely read
the first verse of each, and he began the
service precisely at 1890 whether the
congregation were on hand or not. He
shortened his prayer to minutes instead
of Is. His sermons were commenced
by ii, never later than 10 minutes after,
and always concluded by II As. Within
three months after he had made this
change there was revival in the church,
and one of the first persons brought in
was the husband of the woman whom
first met
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
Pasteur's HydrOphObia Statistics.

Whatever may be thought by scepti-
cal people of M. Pasteur's anti-rabic
NEGOTIATIONS, the last report of the dis
coverer himself, as given in the Paris
letter If the New York Medical Record,
leaves no doubt of his success. NJ Pas
teur reports to the Academies of
Sciences and Medicine that the number
of persons inoculated for hydrophobla
up to April was $50, of whom 912
were bitten by mad dogs and thirty
three by wolves, and the patients of the
first category, with the single exception
of little girl, were doing well. Six
deaths have occurred among those who
have been inoculated, without incIud-
ing this little girl. OF these six cases,
five ere Russians bitten by wolves and
the other a woman bitten by mad dog,
all of whom died of hydrophobia, and
in whom also the wounds were of a
grave nature.
OF course some critics will seize on
the exceptional cases to controvert the
efficacy of the NEGOTIATIONS. But no
candid and intelligent man can question
that the above statistics powerfully cor
-roborate NJ. Pasteur's theory and prove
that his method of dealing with rabies
is practically decided success. M Y.
Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
He Got the Table.

A little story is told about one Of
Sheriff Brackets deputies, which
shows how necessary it is fol those off
cials to have plents of nerve. A short
time ago one of them went to the ton
story rf the Lumberman's Exchange to
levy on table there. Arriving in the
room, he found a big, square shouldered
slx-footer, who glared at him In an un
Pheasant manner. $50 you want that
table, do yo," exclaimed he, when the
Deputy Sheriff explained the object of
his visit. well, you just try to take
l. and will throw YOU from the WIN
dow" The Deputy Sheriff went to the
window, looked out, and then came back.
That would be a great distance to fall, !"
cooily said he, looking the six-footer
square In the face. 1T would be long
distance, but before you throw me out
you had better give me that table" He
got 1t without another word. st. Paul
Globe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
Forestry and Cyclones.

The only means of which we can
conceive within human power for the
prevention, or at best the rendering
less frequent, of cyclones, is in the
covering of the face of the country as
much as possible with trees and YER
dure. Let there be ascending moisture
instead of ascending currents of heated
air. In the great timber valleys of the
Amazon cyclones are unknown, yet
when we look at the formation of the
land it is probably one of the most
monotonously level regions on the face
of the earth. In the vast area drained
by the Amazon in its tributaries might
be packed the whole United States and
not one of its boundaries would any
where be touched. Seen from any of
the eastern spires of the Andes, this
whole region is sea of verdure. The
boundless and unbroken forests give it
the appearance of an illimitable mead g.
ow. From the grassy steppes of Vene
Zuela to the treeless pampas of Buenos
Ayres expands this sea of verdure. In it
might AT almost any point draw q
circle of eleven hundred mites in diam
eter, within which all would be an I'M
broken evergreen forest. And so mat
ted, corded and festooned with vines
are all the trees of this forest, and such
is the exuberance of the underground,
that a ''macheta" must be used with
which to hew way into the wall of
vegetation the moment the voyager on
one of the rivers puts foot ashore from
his canoe. Such is the steaming moist
urc within these great forests that salt
soon becomes brine, the best refined
sugar becomes syrup, epson salts and
many other kinds of medicine deli
quesce, and the best gunpowder be-
comes liquid in few days, even when
iuclosed in canister.
Take away the forests and verdure
and leave this region a vast desert
plain, and it would no doubt at once
become very play ground of cyclon es.
Salt Lake Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
The Doctors Telephone.

A Boston physician was called out OF
q sound slumber the other night to an
swer the telephone.
"Hellol what is it?" he asked, little
pleased at the idea of leaving his COM
Portable bed.
''Baby is crying, doctor. What shall
l do?" came across the wire.
'Ohl perhaps it's pin," sugges
ted the doctor, recognizing the voice
of a young mother, and one of his pa
tients.
No" was the reply; '1'm sure it
can't he that"
perhaps he has the colic," re-
turned the doctor, with well simulated
solicitude.
"No, l don't tn nix so" replied" the
anxious mother; che doesn't act in that
way"
Then perhaps he's hungry" said the
doctor, as last resort
''Oh, I'll see, came across the wire,
and then all was still. The doctor went
back to bed, and was soon asleep again.
About half an hour afterward, he was
again awakened by the violent ringing
of the telepho bell. Jumping out Of
bed and placing the receiver to his ear,
he was cheered by the following mes.
sage:
''You are right, doctor; baby was
hungry"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
r. stored from the Grave.

A most remarkable case of suspended
animation has just been brought to
light. Two years ago Hugh Mcintyre,
a young man living in Detroit, married
a daughter of Mrs. Cunningham, who
resides in Toledo, Ohio. A few days
ago he died. His remains were placed
in vault temporarily at Detroit.
Eight days after his death an uncle
visited the vault with the intention of
removing the body to the cemetery, and
was Mortified to see the young man sit
ting up in his coffin, the glass broken.
Young Mcintyre was very weak and
bleeding, but he was still alive. He
was taken at once to Toledo. HIS wife
was terribly frightened, but was de-
lighted to see him after having mourned
him as dead. The family are supersti-
tious, and have kept the case quiet, al,
though they admitted the truth of the
report,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
sCALPED BY THE APACHEs,
The Terrible Experience of a Young Cali
fornia Scout.

A sick and sorry looking specimen of
humanity stepped from the passenger
train, and rushed into a waiting wagon
and was driven to the country. HIS
name was Samuel Neff. He is man
of about thirty years OF age, and his
parents reside in Pine Creek. Young
Neff is just from Arizona, where he has
been prospecting in the mines and act
ing as a scout on the hunt for Indians.
Unfortunately for him he found the
murderous red men, and they almost
made mince meat of him. One day,
while riding through a canyon, he was
shot through the shoulder and fell from
his horse. His assailants, finding that
he was not dead, tortured him outra-
geously. They cut gashes in his face
and over his body, and applied fire to
his feet and hands, and ended their
brutal assaults by scalping him. He
suffered untold agonies, and prayed that
death might relieve him. Finally he
fell into fairt, and on awakening he
found himself being kindly cared for in
a miners cabin. The miner had picked
him up and carried him long distance
on horseback. Neff suffered weeks of
circulating pain and raved with fever,
and as soon as he was able to travel he
took the road Tor home.
A Chronicle reporter asked Neff how
he felt to have his hair Ii ted.
'It is a dreadful sensation" he said.
zone thinks, as the skin is being torn
from the skull, that his feet are coming
right up through his body to the top of
his head. Oh, it is terrible. 1t is so
painful that you cannot utter cry, and
thousands of stars dance before your
eyes. You imagine red hot needles are
darting in and out of your flesh, and
you clasp your hands so clio ely that the
finger nails cut into the flesh. l would
rather be run through threshing ma
chine, ground up in sausage machine
or thrown under a locomotive than to
ever undergo such another ordeal. 1t
makes me shudder to think of the tor
lures l have gone through with, and l
never want to look upon the face of an
ether Indian"
''Do many persons survive the opera
tlon2" inquired the reporter.
"No, | have only heard of two or
three men besides myself who have lost
their hair by the scalping-knife and
then lived to tell of it"
"Mr. Neff, do you think the hair will
ever grow out againW
"Oh, no; shall always have bald
spot up there The skin was torn off
for space of four inches square, and
I'm afraid it will never heal entirely.
Even if it does heal over, the bare place
will always be so painful that 1 cannot
touch it. I keep my head tied up in
cotton and sweet oil. You can see that
my beauty has been considerably marred.
These frightful gashes across my face
will go with ma to the grave. "-Chico
(Cal) Chronicle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
Disastrous SOmnambulIsm.

A rather amusing incident occurred
recently in Hog mountain district of
Georgia. A local paper says; A gen
tleman who is in the habit of walking
in his sleep had dream. He dreamed
that he saw a fine covey of cartridges
running along toward an old house and
then go in. Thinking this a good op.
portunity to capture them, he quietly
slipped along until he got to the door,
when he suddenly jumped inside and
closed the door. What was his aston
ishment to discover mad dog in there,
which rushed at him at nee. His only
chance of escape was to jump through
the window, and through he went with
a bound. When he awoke he was lying
outside of the house on the ground,
having jumped through a window in
his bedroom and carried the sash with
him. He was badly bruised and his leg
severely cut by the glass as he broke
through.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
Turkish Street Sweepers.

The street sweepers of Constantinople,
not having any pay during the last
eighteen months, recently went on
strike, the authorities having told the
men that before the new loan was made
there was no money to be had. About
a fortnight ago the men had become so
destitute that they assembled, armed
themselves with brooms and spades,
went to the Government offices, and de-
manded pay in loud and threatening
words. Shortly after their arrival a
high official drove up in his open ca =
rage, and was at once stopped by the
rioters, who politely demanded their
due. The answer, that having waited
eighteen months they might as well wait
a little longer, raised fearful tumult,
and the life of the officer was in serious
danger till a regiment of soldiers arrived
on the spot and dispersed the men, not,
however, until they had received one
months wages and the assurance that as
soon as the new loan was made they
should all be paid. Then the weapons
were laid down, the noise ceased, and
the street sweepers' strike came to an
end.-PaU Mall Gazette.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

THE Adiutant- General of the Con-
federate army estimated that during the
late war 600, 900 men were enlisted on
the Confederate side. OF these not more
than 400, 900, he says, were enrolled at
any one time, and but 200, 900 were en-
gagged in active field duty. Federal
estimates have put the number as high
as 1, 100000.
A PROFESSIONAL beggar died recently
in Rio JaneirO and left fortune of
5000, 900. A Rio journal remarks that
the discovery should occasion no sur
prise, as it is well known that many of
the beggars in that city are worth more
than those who bestow aims on them.
The same may be said of beggars else
where.
THE distance from New York to San
Francisco by land is 3,O3S miles, by wa
ter Is, S5S.
CHICAGO has 500 policemen and New
York 1880, exclusive of officers and
doormen.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
The Man Who Laughs.
From the Lewiston CMe , Journal

viz -'S''-'NSA NhAo' JOiEDtI.
The man whose ha-ha! reaches from
one end of the street to the other nav
be the same fellow who scolded his wife
and spanked the baby before he got his
breakfast, but his laughter is only the
crackle or thorns under the pot. The
man who spreads his laughter through
his life, before late breakfast, when he
misses the train, when his wife goes
visiting and he has to eat cold supper,
the man who can laugh when he finds
button off his shirt, when the furnace
fire goes out in the night and both of
the twins come down with the measles
at the same time; he's the fellow that's
needed. He never tells his neiehbor to
have faith; somehow he puts faith into
LIN. He delivers no homiies; the
sight of his beaming face, the sound of
his happy voice and the sight of his
blessed daily life carry convection that
words have no power to give. The
blues flee before him as the fog before
the west wind; he comes into his own
home like flood of sunshine over a
meadow of blooming buttercups, and
his wife and children blossom in his
presence like June roses. His home is
redolent with sympathy and love. The
neighborhood is far better for his life
and somebody will learn of him that
laughter is far better than tears. The
world needs this man; why are there so
few of them? Can he be created9 Can
he be eyolved3 Why is he not in every
house. turning rain into shine and win
ter into summer all round the year, until
life is q perpetual season of joyi
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
Very Much OF a Joke.
From The Arkansaw Traveller.1

From The Arkansaw Traveler.1
Extract from letter to the Governor
of Arkansaw:
81 send you by John Cobbletree, one
of nv neighbors, a quarter of mutton
this Just because | like the course you
have always took. killed the squirrels
yistiday an know they air fresh. Thar
amt nothin' nicer than young squirrels.
l eat 'em sometimes until | am fit to
pop. Now let me say something about
the mutton. 1t is fresh an fat an
hope you will enjov it. One of my
neighbors lost sheep the other day an
he has accused me of stealin it. He
has had me arrested an l am now in
Jail. He come to my house an grabbed
holt of sheep had jest killed, but l
managed to keep enough to send to you.
l am mighty fond of sheep meat an when
/ am right hungry ken eat 1t till l am
fit to pop. My trial will come off in a
day or two, an the way things are
shapin' I am afeerd they Will put it to
me jes fur Joke. These folks out here
air the prankinist set of people lever seen.
They air allus happy when they ken git
joke on prominent man like me. l
wouldn't be surprised if they carry the
joke so far as to want to send me to the
penitentiary. This would hurt my
chances for the Legislature. 1 don't
want to be beat, but if they keep me
shut up very long the other fellow will
git ahead of me. After you eat your
mutton wisht you would write a note
to the sheriff an tell him to let me out
Say, forgot to tell you that the Gran
Jury has been let into the joke an they
have brought in joke of an indictment
ag'in' me. They may try an pass the
joke of a sentence on me before your
note gifts here, so I wish you would
write out a pardon after you eat your
mutton an tell the judge that am free.
1 know the joke will tickle you and you
may make the pardon read just as
amusin' as you please"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
The Difference.

The young men in the departments at
Washington, local correspondent says,
care for, and if you ask them why they
are not married, they will tell you that
their salary is not large enough forythem
to support wives. Nearly all of the
single women in the departments have
others depending upon them. Many of
them send their sisters or brothers to
school, and many of them are widows,
who In this way support and educate
their families,