davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
The Largest Broil on Record.

A letter from Bridgeport, Conn.,, says:
An experiment, which showed every
evidence of resulting in success, was be-
gun here last autumn by young man
from the island of Nova Scotia, named
George O'Brien. He came here with
capital and erected large buildings In
the western part of the town. These
structures looked so much like green
houses that people in the vicinity sup
posed new florist was about to try ms
fortunes in Bridgeport. Inquiry estab-
Iished the fact that Mr.. O'Brien's mission
had far different character, and that,
foreseeing q possible demand in market
for spring chickens raised in the usual
way, he was about to produce them by
artificial means. By the use of patent
incubators he had early in winter large
family of chicks, and the number was
periodically added to it until it reached
thousands. Eggs were obtained from
reliable sources, the greatest care was
bestowed, and with the arrival of sum-
mer Mr.. O'Brien had what promised to
be the nucleus for fortune. At two
o'clock the other morning a fire broke
out from spontaneous combustion in one
of the larger incubators, and the tiamss
spread with such rapidity that even the
aid of an active fire department could
not quench them. The scene when the
fire was at its height, with five thousand
fowls frightened and vainly striving to
gain liberty, was heartrending. The
hennery was totally destroyed, at a loss
of nearly $4,000. There were burned
two thousand chicks, three thousand
broilers and five hundred laying hens.
On the building there was insurance of
So, 400 and on stock and fixtures 81, 900.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
He was 'Scused.

Down in the woods of the Chickamau-
ga battlefelds rabbits skurry from one
brush heap to another, and the squirrels
chatter as they look down from their
perches at men wandering from point to
point in the openings We were skirt
ing Snodgrass Hill when we heard a gun
whoops. Pushing Tito the woods few
rods we came upon an old darkey seated
on log with one pant-leg rolled up.
There were four or five tiny streams of
blood running down, and it was plain
enough that some scattering shot had
struck him.
As we reached him a colored boy
about sixteen years old came out of the
brush with light shotgun in his hands,
and the old man looked up and said:
Julius, look heah! You has dun shot
your fadder in de legm
"Why, pap, dun 'sposed you was a
rabbit. l seed sunthin' movin' in de
brush, an blazed away"
"'Zactly, Julius 1 correspond. You
took an ole niger wcighin' 1870 pounds
fur little rabbit bout foot long an
jist big huff to make soup fur one
julius, lie gwine to show you de differ
ence between a rabbit an your fadder ~
He had been cutting a green limb as
he talked, and when he had finished he
took the boy by the collar and played
the "bud" to him until the young man
jumped two feet high and sung out like
a Salvation Army band. By and by we
gently interfered to prevent further pun
ishment and the old man held the boy
off and asked:
Julius, does you see me 2"
eyes, ladder"
"Does you know me frum a rabbit p
Eyes"
''Den you start fur hum an pick up
dat hoe an make dat co'nfeld ache, an
de mex time you 20 huntin' you holler
off yer mouf befo' you sh OF off yer gun
Gem'len, good mawnin', an please 'scuse
dis leetle disrupshun."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
WISE WORDS.

Shallow waters make most din.
1t is better to do well than to say
well.
Let not your tongue cut your own
throat.
An enemy is teacher who costs us
nothing.
character can be blackened by shrug
of the shoulders.
The most manifest sign of wisdom is
continued cheerfulness
Be brief in thy discourse, for what is
prolix cannot be pleasing.
Persistent people begin their success
where others end in failure.
1t matters not whether home is clothed
in blue and purple, if it is only brimful
of love, smiles and gladness.
Never get discouraged because things
get on slowly here, and never fail to do
daily that good which lies next to your
hand.
Patience and strength are what we
have now; and all the time an earnest
discomfort until we come to what we
ought to be-
There are some people who never have
q cheering word for the struggler. They
make life Just as hard as possible for all
who are striving to do right.
The mind rights itself with anything
reflected on in gross, and at distance;
things thus offered to the mind carry the
show of nothing but difficulty.
So the doctrine be wholesome and
edifying, though there should be want
of exactness in the manner of speaking
or reasoning, it may be overlooked.
He that provides for this life, but takes
no care for eternity,is wise for moment,
but fool forever, and acts rs untowardiy
and Grossly to the reason of things as can
be imagined.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
Washington b ,arding Houses.

The Boston Herald says the boarding
house women of Washington are num-
bered by thousands. There are two
classes of these. The first merely rent
rooms, and the second give board as
well. 1t is great business at Wash
in ton for women to take large houses,
paying from $75 to $500 per month for
them, and then to sublet the rooms to
single gentlemen or to families. as the
case may be. They receive, as a rule,
as much for their ground floor rooms as
they pay for the whole house, and there
have been instances in which women
have made themselves Independent by
room renting One hundred dollars
and more is not an uncommon rent there
for couple of furnished rooms in
good location. and $50 to SO are often
gotten for two rooms on the second
floor A good third floor front room
will bring S25, and house that rents
for 800 month, unfinished, will often
bring in 5000 or $3.50 if furnished and
sublet, besides giving room for the
landladv. A number of landladies make
money there keeping i oarding houses,
and the one who entertained w ID.
Howclls during his last sojourn in Wash
ington has been able to buy the house
in which she lives, which is worth about
$40, 900, and is now stating q new
hotel near the Treasury.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
Mcclellan and Burnside.

Among the accounts from various
points of view of the battle of Fred.
Ell icksburg, in the August Century, is
one by General d. N Couch, from which
we quote as follows: Toward even
ing, on the eighth of November, 1862,
at Warrenton, Mcclellan rode up to
Burnside's headquarters to say that he
had been relieved of the command of
the army. Burnside replied:
6 Il am afraid it is bad policy; very,
very, veryn
at was just at dark. I had dis
mounted, and, standing there in the
snow, was experimenting the camp ar
engagements OF my troops, while McClel-
Ian came up with his staff, accompanied
by General Burnside. Mcclellan drew
in his horse, and the first thing he said
was:
"'Couch, l am relieved from the com
mand of the army, and Burnside is my
successor
81 stepped up to him and took hold
of his hand, and said, General McClel-
Ian, l am sorry for It, Then. going
around the head of his horse to Burn
side, l said, General Burnside, l con-
graduate YOU
Burnside heard what | said to Cen
eral Mcclellan; he turned awaT his
head and made broad gesture as he
exclaimed:
" Couch, don't you say a word about
it
ellis manner indicated that he did
not wish TO talk about the change; that
he thought 1t wasn't good poli v to do
so, nor the place to do it. He told me
afterwards that he did not like TO take
the command, but that he did SO to keen
it from gong to somebody manifestly
unfit for 1t. | assumed that he meant
Hooker. Those of us who were well ac-
quainted with Burnside knew that he
was brave, loyal man, but we did not
think he had the military ability to
command the Army of the Potomac.
"McClellan took leave on the 10th.
Fitz John Porter sent notes to the corps
commanders, informing them that Nc
Clellan was going away, and suggesting
that we ride around with him. Such n
scene as that leave taking had never
been known in our army. Men shed
tears and there was great excitement
among the troops.
Il think the soldiers had an idea that
Mcclellan would take care of them
wouldn't put them in places where thew
would be unnecessarily cut un. and if a
general has the confidence of his men he
Is pretty strong. But officers and men
were determined to serve Burnside low.
ally"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
THE WASHINGTON FAMILY.
Ben: PerIey Pooro Tells Us What He Has
Learned About Them.

At the dedication of the Washington
National Monument, invitations were
sent to nearly 800 members of the Wash
ington family by direct descent or by
collateral marriages. Thirteen gentle
men bearing the name of Washington
sat together on the floor of the House
of Representatives on the occasion of
the dedicatory services, and besides, in
the galleries there were 30 ladies who
claimed kindred with the family. Wash
ington, of course, had no direct de-
scendants, but he had two half brothers
and one half sister, as well as two full
brothers and one full sister. all of whom
had families. His sister Betty married
and left a large family. His two broth
ers, Charles and Samuel, both married
and settled in the Valley of Virginia on
large and most productive farms.
Charlestown, the county seat of Jetfer-
son county, West Virginia, was named
after Charles Washington. His brother
Samuel owned an adjoining plantation
OF nearly 1900 acres of land. Samuel
was married five times though he died
at the age OF As. The send6nts of
Samuel are very numerous. Those of
few. The Washington families are most
numerous in Virginia, Tennessee, and
Kentucky, but a considerable number
of them reside IN Ohio, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, California, and Georgia,
where they have usually settled on the
most productive farm lands. AS an
other characteristic it may be stated
that they are unambitious for public
position, but whenever they have filed
places of trust they have discharged
their duties with fidelity. The ability
of Judge Bushrod Washington, a mem
Der of the Supreme Court, and his able
reports, will suggest themselves to the
minds of every one. George G. Wash
ington, who represented a Maryland
district, was a man of fair ability. 1t
was his son, Louis A Washington, who
was captured by John Brown. taken to
Harpcr's Ferry. and shut up with him
when he was besieged by the United
States Marines and taken. A few other
Washingtons have studied law, and
some medicine, but the greater number
of them take to mathematics, survey ing,
and farming. When they have engaged
in merchandising it has usually been in
their estates. Both the full brothers of
Washington were deceased before the
General. The General died possessed
of large amounts of excellent land in
Virginia West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, and devised these lands to his
nephews, who were, in cpnsequen. es
put in possess on of considerable estate,
that made them independent, inhuen-
tial, and prosperous citizens in the
neighborhoods where they lived. They
nearly all married young and left fam
lilies The Washingtons have always
been fond of the gun, and the most no.
ted horsemen of the sections in which
they lived. Their personal appearance,
as class, has been characterized by
tall, large boned frames, and strong,
well-cut features. In their habits they
are social and hospitable to a degree of
extravaganza. They have all been free,
good livers, and OCCASIONALLY some have
INDUCED too freely in spirits, but cases
of inebriates among them are exc p
tions.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19

Nor since the lady dropped her glove
to prove his love and he leaped among
the lions wild and recovered it has a
meaner task been set for a lover than
that laid out for young man in Caron-
delet, Mo, whose sweetheart requested
him to drown the large and vicious fam
lily dog. He entIced the brute to prec-
ipice overhanging the river and tied a
chunk of iron about his neck. A des-
perate struggle ensued and at its close
the dog trotted home with the iron. A
few hours later the young mans body
was recovered from the river and a
lvnching party started in hot pursuit of
the family dog.
THE movement of the Paris popula-
ton from within the walls to the sub
urban communes, is shown by the late
census, which complete the re-
suits for the whole OF the department
of the Seine. While with a total of
2. $50, 900 in Paris proper, the increase
was only about 16, 600 in five years, the
numbers in the suburbs rose from 522,-
609to COZ, 712, an augmentation of 49,
103.
LIGHTNING struck an oak in Tippeca-
noe county, Indiana, and tore it into
splinters. 1t is said that each years
layer of the growth of the tree seemed
to have been separated from the other
and split into strips about half an inch
wide. After completing its work on
the oak, the lightning ran thirty rods
along wire fence, melting the wire in
many places and tearing each post out
of the ground.
COMPARATIVELY few people know
what gold dollar or silver dollar is
composed of. Neither coin is perfectly
pure metal. The gold dollar 500 parts
fine and 100 parts alloy. ! he alloy is
ninety parts silver and ten parts copper.
The silver dollar is also 900 parts fine
and 100 parts alloy, the alloy being
copper.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19

Consumptives should use food nourIshini
as can be had, and in a shape that will bes
agree with the stomach and taste of the pa
tient.
Outdoor exercise Is earnestly recommended.
II you are unable to take such exercise oil
horseback or on foot, that should furnish nc
excuse for shutting yourself indoors, but you
should take exercise in a carriage, or in some
other way bring yourself in contact with the
open air.
Medicines which cause expectoration must
be avoided. For FIVE hundred years ply.
sicians have tried to cure Consumption by
using them, and have failed Where there Is
great arrangement of the secretions, with
engorgemepf of air-cells, there Is always
profuse expectoration. Now Piso's Cure re-
moves the engagement and the arrangement
of the secretions, and consequently iand In
this way only diminishss the amount Of mat
ter expectorated. This medicine does not dry
up a cough, but removes the cause of it.
When it is impossible from debility or ether
causes to exercise freely in the open air, apart
ments occupied by the patient should be 50
ventilated as to ensure the constant accession
of fresh air in abundance.
The surface of the body should be sponged
as 5G Grteh little I'll This is preferable to
any other) After thoroughly drying, use
friction with the hand moistened with oil,
Cod-IIver or Olive is the best. This keeps the
pores of the skin in soft. pliable condition.,
which contributes materially to the unloading
of waste matter from the system through this
organ. You will please recollec we cure this
d sease by ena bling the organs of the sys EN-
10 perform their tuncti ms in normal way,
or in other wolds, we remove distraction,
while the recuperative powers OF the system
s&.re the disease.
SSe will here say a word in regard to a cough
3 kSe rming stage where there is no con-
.HRntional or noticeable disease. A cough
may or may not foreshadow serious evil take
il in its mi dest form, to say the least, 1t 10
nu sance, and should be abated.
A cough is unlike any other symptom of dis
ease. 1t stands a conspirator wtLa esfSfSen-
ing voice. menacing tho health d exHVsaIe
OF q vital organ. Its first approao n is in wiIRs
e@rs unintelligib.e, and at first 900 often un-
hss1ed, but in tin > it never fails to ma g itself
understood-never fails to claim the attention
Of those on whom it calls.
If YOU have a cough without disease Of the
lungs or serious constitutional disturbance, so
much the better, as a few do es Of Piso's Cure
will be all you may need, while If you 70 far
advanced In Consumption, DC scral bottles may
ba require l to effect a permanent cure.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19

The high waters throughout North
Carolina were the cause of romantic
marriage in Rockingham county, North
Carolina. Mr.. James Madison Stout and
Miss Polly Mickle, one of the most beau
tiful young ladies in the county, started
to get married. They were accompanied
by small wedding party. When they
reached Jones Creek they found that the
water was so high that they could not
cross. They were going to the parsons
on the other side.
"rll swim across" said Tony Bush,
the groom's best man, land bring the
preacher to the other bank, and he can
marry you from there"
he soon had Parson HazIett on the
opposite shore. He gave him Jim's
license and told him to proceed.
Join hands, my friends" shouted
the parson, and from across the stream
he made them man and wife.
Three cheers for the American eagler'
cried the groom, as he swung his hat in
the air. PEARSON, here's to the weather
and here's to the tide, and here's kiss
to the bonny bride! Tony, hand the
parson that fve-dollar bill, and be on
hand tonight to the tlolic at Mamma
Stout's."
"God bless you both!" cried the par
son, cheerily, waving one hand and
stutfing the money in his trousers pocket
with the other.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
A Tale of Two Continents.
CHARMING DENoUEMENT OF A DUBLIN
ELoPEMENT OF FORTY YEARS AGO.


A remarkable romance has just been
brought to light in Monroe county,
Mich. Forty years ago Leonard Crotty,
a young Irish policeman at Phoenix Park,
Dublin, secretly married the only daugh-
ter of Rev. DR.. Howlitt, popular pas
tor of that city. They ran away and
settled in this country. Young Crotties
brothers, John and Thomas, arrived in
Dublin, the former from plantation in
the West Indies, the latter from the
Irish homestead, just too late to ex-
change farewells. Leonard settled at
Schuylkill, Pa, and became the princi-
pal of school there and his accom-
plished wife an assistant. John re-
turned to the West Indies, and after
searching for his brother in vain, died
three years ago at New Orleans. When
his parents died Thomas started in search
of his brother. He drifted over New
York and New England and out West.
Finally, he settled on little farm at
Lambertville, Mich, where he has lived
for more than twenty years. All this
time Leonard Crottie was advertising in
Eastern papers for the missing Thomas.
Ho visited Monroe county in search of
his brother and remained a long time in
this city, but missed the trail, and after
leaving a standing offer of G100 for any
information which would lead to his dis
covery he returned East.
A short time ago, by accident, young
man who had been working for Crottie,
at Lambertville, went to work for
friends of his brother. kilograms were
exchanged, and Thomas Crottie will
leave at once for Middletown, N. Y,
where Leonard Crottie, having pur-
chased large farm, has settled. BY
the death of Rev. DR.. Howlitt few
years ago, Leonard Crottie came into
possession of an estate, valued at many
thousand pounds. But he prefers to
remain in this country, all the relatives
of the family in Ireland being dead.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19

MENsMAN's PEPToNIzED BEEF TONIC, the onl,
preparation of beef containing its entire ntstri-
ttOuS properties. 1t contains blood-making
force generating and DEMONSTRATING properties;
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms of general debility:
also, in all enfeebled conditions whether the
result OF exhaustion, nervous prostration, over.
work or acute disease, particularly If resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell Hazard q
Co., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
A Scotchman Crosses China.

A Bhamo Rurmah) letter in the
Tins of India says: | think | may
mention that a few days ago, while the
band of the Twenty sixth Regiment
Puniab In fantry were playing IN the
evening outside the north gate, a stranger
appeared on the scene dressed like a
Chinese. Who was he? One of the
ubiquitous Scots, missionary and one
of the few who have ever succeeded in
crossing from China in this direction.
He took two months on the way, nearly
one of which was passed as a prisoner
in the hands of some wild chief. He is
q fine, weil-set Scotchman from elias
Cow, and my heart warmed to him. He
had not seen white face for ages, had
dimly heard in his remote corner of
China that we had taken Bhamo. Tie
first ocular demonstration he had of the
fact was the band aforementioned, as he
rode on his ragged pony over the brow
of the hill on which the band was play
ing. AS he joined the o.tiC ers who were
listening to the band, his first eXclama-
ton was Are you English?" and burst
into tears. He has since become quite
a chum of the writer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19

On the appearance of the first symptoms, as
sensations followed by night sweats and
cough-prompt measures for relief should
be taken. Consumption is scrofulous disease
scrofula, or blood purifier and strength-re-
storer-Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry" Superior to cod liver oil as a nutritive,
lungs, splitting of blood, and kindred affections
1t has no equal. Sold by druggists the world
over. For DR.. Pierce's treatise on consump-
ton, send 10 cents in stamps to Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association, $50 Main street,
Buffalo, n. Y.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19

BARTENDERs who keep their money
on the shelf behind the bar should be-
ware of young men carrying canes. Two
such young men have been arrested In
Boston, where they were stealing money
by means of very sticky substance on
the ends of their canes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
If your corns have grown full size
A Strange Combination.

1t was a very curious and almost I'M
precedented chain of causes, we imagine,
which brought about the death of little
boy at Birmingham the otter day. The
poor child ate during the day a quantity
of sorrel which he found near his father s
house In the night, feeling thirsty he
drank freely of some soapy water which
stood near his bedside. Next day he
lied, and an inquest being held, the
medical evidence was to the effect that
he alkali of the soap acting upon the
,orrel had formed oxalic acid, poison
Gus compound, by which the child had
been killed -L0ndoH (Eng) Globe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19

A CITIZEN of Albany, Me-, who had a
hundred gallons of hard cider in his
cellar, was rather surprised when he re-
turned home and found his wife had
turned the spigot to every SIX and let
it all run out in the cellar drain. TAX
ing a sober second thought, he said he
was glad of it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19

AN exchange thinks that the Chinese
way of removing dandruff with sand
paper Is the most effectual. Perhaps it
is; but the common North American In
dian has q plan which, though quite
abrupt, is SAID to be reasonably sure.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19

THOMAS MILLER, a twelve-year, old
boy, of Troy, N. Y, got piece OF wire
and threw it over the arm of an electric
light Ito get shock" as he said. lie
got it He was knocked down, arose.
fell again and again, and died.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19

The true secret of success is merit. This Is
SO with Red Star Cough Cure, purely vege-
table compound, entirely free from opiates,
poisons and narcotics, and which has received
the public endorsement of physicisns and
chemists everywhere. Twenty-hve cents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-19
ELY'S
Cream Balm.

We hare neDer
handed a cdtdrrh
remedy that has in
creased so rapidly
in sales as Eiy's
Cream Balm or that
has gioen such uni
UerSdL satisfaction.
C. N. CritteJltOn,
115 Fulton Street,
Nelp York CitU.