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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

It is well understood that President
Cleveland is each day trying to lower
his record in the number of pension
bill vetoes he can accomplish with one
hand tied behind him. Meanwhile
''Solid Citizen" presents, in the Chi
cago Mail, the following veto as a
preamble to the mightier one of 1888 :
To GROVER CLEvELAND:-I return
hereby without approval house bill
'steenth, entitled An act to pay the
president of the United States his sal
ary." You must certainly be aware that
the president in company with all de-
partment individuals, is only entitled to
receive pay while Quoting your remarks
in vetoing pension bills) in the line of
duty" 1t has been brought to my at
tentiOn that for several weeks during
the present year of your term of office
you have been absent on fishing and
other excursions, and quite lately you so
far forgot your duties as to participate
in wedding junket, taking up no small
share of your own time, but also that
another young man paid by me, one
Dan. Lamont, whom you enticed away
from his desk for the purpose of snug
Cling trunks ashore, bottle-holding and
chewing fish-bait for your own personal
qualification. Your salary is $50, 900 a
year, or S137 day. In the present state
of the president market this is a high
figure, as we know several parties who
would willingly do the work for less
wages. However, saying nothing about
this, you certainly do not expect to fitch
this money from the national treasury
money which you have not earned In
thn linn of 1Y1+rv - pnr5ch tho O
thought After you have fixed up a
proper account, with all necessary de-
auctions for time lost. come again and
l will give you an order ON the cashier.
SOLID CITIZEN.
Homes Of the People, June q, 'S6.
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The SIMPLE TRUTH.-The Ranney re
port on the Pan-Electric investigation
will undoubtedly be circulated by the
Republicans next fall as a campaign
document and it will make a very
strong campaign document, for it is full
OF facts leading to an inevitable conclu-
sion, and that conclusion is unfortunate
for the Administration. How much
better for the Democratic party it would
be, if when the disagreeable facts are
repeated by the Republican speakers and
Journals next fall, the Democrats could
reply: Yes, these things are so, and
the Democrats on the committee that
investigated them did not try to conceal
the facts or to palliate them, or to de-
lend the indefensible conduct of the
Democratic officials implicated, but told
the truth and nothing bnt the truth.
How much better it would be for the
democratic party next fall if it could
point TO such courageous, candid, and
manly action On the part of it's repre-
sentatIveS In Congress Then the tele-
phone scandal would rest upon a few
individual Democrats, and secondly upon
the Administration, which not only al
lowed 1t, but adopted it as its own; but
Gle Democratic party would have been
clear and clean. AS it is, the whole
party lncurs the reprOach, and the scan
Gal is all the greater because the Demo
erats ON the investigating committee
nave tried to cover it up and to evade
tne consequences of the truth.-N. Y.
Sun, (Dem.)
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

HEATED BOXES.-The heating of the
boxes of the reaper or mower frequently
occasions veXatious delay, and occurs
without any apparent cause. 1t is no
ticeable that box once heated is more
prone to heat again, and if the box hold
ing the shaft to which the sickle-driver
is attached is ever thoroughly heated,
future trouble can be avoided only by
the greatest care. If the box fits too
closely around the shaft it is apt to heat.
So, too, if it fit too loosely. The shaft
must have enough play but no more.
Too much play is more frequently the
cause than too little plat. Lack of
proper oiling will, of course, cause the
boxes to heat. Very few are so careless
as not to apply oil often enough, but the
oil may be inferior. 1t is well to buy oil
of only a reliable dealer, remembering
that poor oil may be sold at low price,
but good oil cannot. The rule for oil
ing mower or reaper should be, Lit
tie and often" The boxes in which the
sickle-driver works, should be oiled
every few moments. If too much oil is
applied, not only is the excess wasted,
but dust is gathered, and this is fire.
quent cause of the boxes heating. If
box heats, the first thing to do is to re-
move all dirt, if there be any in it {; and
this is the first measure of prevention us
well. 1t will also reduce the wearing of
the parts. If the ground is quite dry,
the dust will soon find its way into the
box and make trouble, unless removed.
grass or straw Will get
wound around the shaft in the box. He
who would never have hot box must
have a sharp eye and be of a careful
mind. -American AgriculturtSt.
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General Black, commissioner of
pensions, is becoming famous for his
gruffness to his superiors as well as
interiors. A few days ago Demo
cratic member of the House commit
tee on pensions called on the general
to inquire in regard to a certain law
in which his committee were to act.
He sent in his card and received the
answer to swat awhile and perhaps
the general could be SEEM" He wait
ed, but there was fire in his eye, and
he mentally resolved to give the
physical wreck" a piece of his mind.
After strolling about in the corridor
of the office and being numerically
guyed by the messengers and attend
ants generally for a couple of hours,
he was admitted through the iron
door to the august presence of the
commissioner of pensions and was
greeted with an assuming "What do
you want?" 81 wish to inquire your
opinion in regard to section" asked
the member of the committee on pen
sions. sob! don't bother me about
it, 60 to somebody else, I'm busy
now," "But, sir 1 am a member"
81 haven't time to talk to you, so
please don't bother me any longer"
And the general buried himself in the
surrounding papers, getting up evil
dence for the next batch of pension
vetoes. The member of Congress
went back to the Capitol and reported
his interview to his colleagues, and it
is needless to add that the commits
sioner and the committee do not speak
as they pass by. 1t is but fair to
presume that if Gen. Black had known
that his visitor was Congressman
and a member of committee of so
much Importance to him, he would
have treated him with greater de-
gree of respect. On the other hand,
if Gen. Black had been a gentleman
and disposed to render due courtesy
to another gentleman, he would not
have offended the member, though he
did not know him.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

FRANK LESLIE'S POPULAR MONTHLY.
=" Camping Out " is an attractive sub
ject in this weather, whether you try
the experiment yourself or visit more
heroic friends who tell you that it re-
wives Paradise. w. Z. Stephens's arti-
Gle in the Popular Monthly for July,
with its breezy pictures, certainly tempts
one to tryit. List, the great pianist and
composer, is so widely known that this
sketch of him comes in very aptly as an
introduction to the article by DR. Peace
on Modern Music Schools full of
notes of the past and suggestions for
the present. "a Turkish Dinner on the
Nile is pleasant travellers sketch. In
odd Wells" w. E. Mccain discourseth
like an olden essayist ON the charms of
pure water, though he censures poets
for preferring wine and ale. "A Tour
Through Normandy" is one of the home
like bits of travel just suited to the sea-
son. Ricaurte, South American hero.
finds a fitting niche. Higher Educa-
ton in Indiana" very interesting ac-
count of four great institutions in that
state, shows that 1t ranks high indeed in
It's University life: Ernest Ingersoll
takes us to the " Headwaters of the
James," and the charming series of
pictures tempts one to their cool and
breezy realities: = Weighing Machines"
by Abbott, will give much curious infor-
nation to most readers. The stories in
the July number of Frank Leslie's Pop
ular Monthly are like the articles
bright, breezy, just suited to reading in |
the Sultry days.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

There has been an inquiry made re-
Gently for the table upon which the ar
ticles Of surrender were written and
signed by Grant and Lee at Appom-
attox. This table is now on exhibition
at the rooms OF the w oman's DecoTaJ-
i've Art society in New York, and be-
longs to Mrs. Gen. Custer, to whom it
was presented by Gen. Sheridan, a
few hours after the surrender of the
Confederate army. Mrs. Custer has
been offered large sums of money for it
by would-be purchasers, and circus
and museum men have made repeated
efforts to secure it for exhibition, but
she will not part with it under any
or for any price, nor
will she permit it to go out other pos
session. 1t would not be on exhibition
where it is now, but for the fact that
Mrs. Custer is superintendent of the
Decorative Art society, and can keep
the table under her eye. She has
made will in which she bequea thes
this historical piece of furniture to the
museum of the West Point Military
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STATE ITEM S.


Henry, the 17-years-old son of Mel
vile Kent, was drowned while bathing
at Montpelier last Saturday. The
body was recovered by divers.
John Steedly was shot and killed at
Hunters Chapel church, last Sunday
by Emma Connolly, about whom ne
had circulated slanderous reports.
The old bank building in Rutland
is to be fitted up for the use of the
Herald Publishing Company, and will
give it one of the best newspaper Of
fees in the State.
The jury in the case of State VS..
Sarah Sloan, charged with killing her
Young child, which was recently tried
at Chester, rendered verdict of man
slaughter.
Rev. J. Fl. Rabbit, of Swanton, is
preparing a Sunday school statistical
report for Vermont.
At the recent French Canadian cele-
bration at Rutland, Father Caissey
had his pocket picked, being relieved
of 500. Quite a number of others
lost cash in the same way.
Lewis Cassavan, about 81 years
old, living with Edward Bird, about a
mile from Hortonville, committed SUI
icide last week by taking q dose OF
Paris green, and no cause can be as
signed for the act.
The Senate has confirmed J. W.
Pierce as postmaster at Springfield.
John Robinson has also been con-
firmed as United States Marshal for
Vermont.
While Sewell Phelps, of St. Johns
bury, was painting a building last
Wednesday afternoon the staging
broke, and, falling, he broke his neck,
dying instantly. He formerly lived
in Lancaster, n. III. He was 26 years
old.
Thursday afternoon about o'clock
several little boys were fishing at the
upper end of the bridge near the Ben
nington and Rutland railroad station.
They saw something in the water
lodged in bush. They pulled it out
and found it was baby. Some men
were sent for and they examined the
body. 1t was boy baby about two
years old. One of his arms had be-
come entangled in some brush in the
stream. On the child's head was the
mark of some implement with which
he had been killed. The body had not
been in the water but a few hours,
and was not at all bloated. Some of
the boys had been fishing at the very
spot where the baby was found few
hours before, and it was not there
then.
A woman named Mrs. William E..
Rowe, of Rutland, recently attempted
to take her own life by dose of NOR
phine, having become discouraged with
the struggle for existence. She has a
family of four children and for some
time has been in destitute circumstan-
ces. Doctors were called, and by the
aid of emetics promptly administered
succeeded in saving the woman's life.
Lille, the little daughter of Mr..
Lafarrar, of Swanton, was run over
last week Tuesday by the 5 p. m.
way freight from the east on the Bos-
ton and Lowell road. The child's left
arm and leg were taken off and she
was otherwise terribly mutilated, yet
she lived in great agony an hour and
20 minutes. She was less than two
years old. The farther had started
up the track, not noticing that his
baby was following. He stepped
aside to let the train pass, only to see
his little girl climbing the rails in
front of the engine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

In looking back over the past il
seems that farmers in olden time had
much more jolly times than now. De-
spite our labor saving machinery,
farmers work more days in the year
than they did forty or fifty years ago.
In new countries they did much work
in company, making pastime OF
corn husking, timber logging and
house or barn building. They did not
attempt nor accomplish so much work
as farmers expect to do now. Their
crops were less diversified, and this
gave them more leisure to go fishing.
These changes have not been wholly
for the better, and the growing dis
taste of American born young men
for farm life is largely due to its year.
ly increasing exactions. In many Sec
tons farming land is being mainly
bought up by citizens of foreign birth :,
to whom even farm life is an improve
ment on their condition before they
came to this country. But it will be
unfortunate for us if the day ever
comes when our agricultural classes
ever approximate the condition of
European farm laborers.
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Farm N Totes.

Poultry in orchards destroy insects
and keep the trees in good condition.
Places for roosting out of doors
may now be provided for the fowls to
good purpose.
A great reform is needed in the line
of farmers gardens. The average
farmer has too poor a garden.
1t is fact that those who make and
sell bogus butter never eat it them
selves. They think it is good enough
to sell, however.
A hand-hoe which is never ground
will wear much better than one which
frequently comes in contact with the
grindstone, but the extra amount of
labor that can be performed with the
sharp implement will be sufficient to
pay for new hoe every three days, to
say nothing of the saving of muscle.
1t is poor economy to work with a
dull axe, scythe or hoe.
If YOU have much grass to cut for
hay, begin in good time, even before
it is quite at its best. In this way it
will all come nearer the best average.
If you wait until the first cut is at its
best, that cut late will certainly be
much below it's best, and so will the
general average. Grass for hay should
not use up much of its substance in
making seed. Cut as soon as, or be-
fore, the seeds begin to form.
The drinking water of fowls is the
source through which all contagion is
spread, and should be changed at
least once day, though twice during
this season is better. The Douglas
mixture is excellent to use with the
water, teaspoonful Of the mixture
to every quart of drinking water being
sufficient; but if it is not convenient,
dissolve one pound of copperas in two
gallons of water and use it instead.
A teaspoonful of wood tar is also ex-
cellent at times, or few drops of car
bolic acid may be made serviceable in
the water.
Very often we notice reports of
egg records among our exchanges, in
which the hens have laid as high as
225 eggs in year, and recently
correspondent credited 302 eggs to
one hen. Without intending to deny
the truthfulness of the claims, yet,
for the benefit of our readers, we will
state that such occurrences are natur-
ally rare. In the first place, there are
only 365 days in year, and 100 days
are usually required for hen to mott,
during. which time they seldom lay.
This leaves only PCS laying days. and
if a hen lays an egg every alternate
day during the whole of the period
she cannot exceed 1873 eggs, and she
must not stop to sit, while her record
must be the same during the winter
months as during the summer. The
hens require some rest from laying,
and it is not within their ability to lay
so heavily without at some time sue
cumbing to the over-taxation of
strength and vitality. While the rec
ords claimed are within the bounds of
possibility, yet we would suggest that
flock of hens that will lay ten dozen
eggs per hen each year is doing we'll.
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Norman Camp tells us we are NJ

Norman Camp tells us we are not
right in reporting him as an anti-Ed-
munds man. He says he is in favor
of Mr.. Edmunds' reelection under the
present circumstances. Mr.. Camp
evidently belongs to that class of
men, which by no means is small,
who do not endorse Senator Edmunds'
course in the late campaign, but who
feel that Vermont cannot afford to
part with so able a servant because of
a single mistake. The number who
are arriving at this conclusion is daily
increasing.
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THE REBEL DEBT.-Strange as it may
seem, an effort is on foot to revive the
rebel debt-not to have the general gov
eminent assume it, but to have it pay
damage to the holders of the bonds for
unlawfully extinguishing them. Judge
William Fullerton has submitted brief
to the house committee on war claims
in which he holds that the several states
could lawfully create the debt and that
they could join each other in creating
it; therefore we had no right to pass a
constitutional amendment against it
and for having done so we must pay.
Since so many things that the war is
supposed to have settled are being re-
versed by the country's old enemies who
now rule it, perhaps this claim will be
held good. The next thing will be to
pension the rebel soldiers and then at
last Mr.. Cleveland will have a pension
bill that he will like to sign.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08
District Convention.

The Republican District Conveu-
ton for the first district, was held at
Burlington July 1st, about 100 dele
rates being present. The committee
ed Hon. L. D. Eldridge, of Mid
- ternror uArJ Rreeiaerts and c +.
= Forbts, of St. Adams, and E. D.
Bennett, of Bennington, temporary
Secretaries. Mr.. Eldridge was con-
Quoted to the chair by Gen. William
Wells and W. G. Doane, and adj
dressed the convention briefly. On
motion of G. M. WiIds, of Middle
bury, the temporary organization was
made tie permanent one. A commit
tee consisting of George Hammond,
of Middlebury, A. B. Conner, of
Manchester, W. W. Henry, of Bur-
lington, John E. Morrison, of Rut-
land, F. B. Livingston, of Morris
town, C. A. Converse, of St. Adams,
and L. S. Soule, of Alburgh, was ap-
pointed to nominate a district COM
mittee for two years. The following
committee on resolutions was appoint
ed: W. L. Burnap, of Chittenden
county, G. E. Graves, Of Bennington
county, A. B. Beeman, of Franklin
county, R. W, Darby, of Grand Isle,
Albert Chapman, of Addison, W. c.
Doane, of Lamoille, and A. A. Tut
tie, Of Rutland county. Hon John
W. Stewart, of Middlebury, was
placed in nomination as Representa-
tive in Congress, by G. M. Wilds.
The nomination was seconded by
w. L. Burnap, of Burlington, H. c.
Fisk, of Morristown, Warren Gibbs,
of st. Adams, E. M. Wright, of Or
well, A. B. Connor, of Manchester,
and A. II. futile, of Rutland, and
ne was unanimously nominated by &C.
clamation.
The committee to appoint district
committee recommended the following
and they were unanimously elected
A. FL. Tuttle, of Rutland county, G.
II. Houghton, of Bennington coun-
ty, FL. c. Fisk, of Lamoille, J. NJ.
Slade, of Addison, W. L. Burnap, of
Chittenden, W. T. Soule, of Grand
Isle, and Warren Gibbs, of Franklin
county. The district committee or
gained by electing A. III. Tuttle as
Chairman, and II. G. Fisk, Secretary.
The committee on resolutions report
ed the following, which was adopted
Resolved, That we ratify the resolutions passed
by the State convention of June 18th, 1886.
Resolved, That we commend the nominee of
this convention TO the support of the Republicans
of this district, and that recognizing the ability
industry and fidelity with which the representa-
tves of Vermont in Congress perform their pub
lie duties and the high distinction conferred upon
the State by men of such capacity and worth, we
congratulate the people of Vermont on the as
sured prospect that all of them will be retained
in the discharge of the duties they so ably and
faithfully perform.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

Articles of entertainment and of Sc
rious timely interest share equally the
space of the July CENTURY. In their
order the illustrated papers are double
article on "Cross-Country Riding in
America" by Theodore Roosevelt and
Henry Cabot Lodge, the former drawing
from his experience in riding to Hounds
on Long Island, and the latter describ-
ing the older hunt at Geneseo, Living
ston county, New York, and that of the
Myopia Club in Essex county, Massachu-
sets; "Homing Pigeons" a finely illus
trated account, by Mrs. E. S. Starr, of
the training and use of carrier pigeons;
"A Day in Surrey with William Norris"
the English poet, artist and socialist, by
Miss Emma Lazarus; and Mrs. Schuyler
van Rensselaer's third paper on Amer
lean Country Dwellings,"
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An American Exhibition in Eng
land.


- -is-f,roposed-to hold a great
American exhibition in London, next
year, from the months of May to No
vember, in honor of the completion of
the fiftieth year of Queen Victoria's
reign. The exhibition, if carried out
as its managers intend, will be the
finest and most complete ever inaug-
urated under American auspices, with
the possible exception of the centen-
NAL exposition at Philadelphia, it will
not only be magnificent compliment
on the part of the American people
to the English nation and it's gracious
Sovereign, but it will undoubtedly
tend to quicken American manufac-
lures and industries of many kinds.
The opportunity Of displaying our
manufactures and other products to
the English people and to the large
number Of England's colonial repre-
sentatives who will undoubtedly be in
the mother country at that time, is
one which the people of this country
cannot afford to forego.
Inc management or this American
exhibition in London appears to be in
excellent hands, and if American man
ufacturers second the efforts of those
who have it in charge, it's success
should be most gratifying. The Pres
ident of the board of managers is
Hon. E. B. Washburne, of Chicago,
and the chairman of the general coun-
Gil is Gen. A. T. Goshorn, of Cincin-
natl, who was director general of the
Centennial exhibition in 1876.
1t is to be hoped that the manufac-
turers of Vermont, who have aided so
materially the success of all recent ex-
hibitions in this country, and have
carried off so many prizes in competi-
ton with other sections, will make ar
rangements to have full and credit
able representation of the products
and the industries of the States at
this exhibition in London. Vermonters
have taken justifable pride in the
exhibits of the State at New Orleans
and elsewhere, and we hope that YER
mont will be represented at London
even more creditably than she has
been as yet in this country. The head
quarters OF the American exhibition
are at 702 Chestnut street, Philadel-
phia.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

The South has always been con-
sentative, and can become again the
balance wheel of the country; but,
in order that this shall be accom-
plished, and in order that this indis-
soluble union of indestructible States
shall be maintained, the people must
familiarize themselves with the consti-
tuition, as with their books of prayer,
and reverence it and be guided by it
in political matters as the one su-
preme authority, and as the only
guide in those paths which are to give
us liberty and security in the present,
and larger liberty and larger security
in the characterization, s. c.,
NeaUs and Courier
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-08

The Republicans of Kentucky do
not propose to let the Bourbon De-
mocracy of that State have things all
their own way in the coming Congress
sional elections. Candidates will be
nominated in every district in the
State, followed by lively campaign.
The 9th district is the only one at
present represented by Republican.