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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
At the Close of the War.

was chatting recently with H. c.
Parsons, of Natural Bridge, Va, about
the colored men in the South, when he
said to me: ''You know how the dark
eys all f1ocked to the villages and cities
at the close of the war. They seemed
to think that all they had to do was to
get to city, in order to be sumptuously
taken care of. They became a burden
to many communities. | knew of one
place where the people managed to get
rid of them through the wit of an old
storekeeper. The darkeys had swarmed
around his town, which was in South
Carolina, until it wasn't safe for
chicken to be out in the day time or on
a roost at night. One night five or SIX
of the colored men at the instance of
this long headed old storekeeper were
quietly taken in custody and put away
where they could not communicate
with their fellows. There was some
little stir over their disappearance and
the next day the old man sent for five
took them INTO a back room and said to
them that he had matter of stipend
GUS moment to relate to them. He told
them that the disappearance of several
of their number coupled with vision
which had appeared to him the night
before had troubled him greatly. 4
was aroused from my sleep by noise
as of some one calling, he explained to
them, while their eyes and mouths hung
open as he proceeded. 4 went out
into the street and found an enormous
man on a horse larger than any | ever
saw. He said to me that he wanted a
drink of water and asked me to bring
him pail full. l brought the bucket
from the well and he took it up and
emptied it at one drink. 1t went down
with sissing sound. He asked me for
another drink and got it for him. He
wanted another, and before l got it
mustered up courage to ask him his
name. He said he was Old Nick. l
asked him if he had been around long
and he said for twenty-four hours.
asked him what he lived on and he said
nigger hams. Then he rode off In
smell of brimstone.' The second day
after this relation there were not above
twenty darkeys in the place. They had
all gone back to the plantations or
skipped to other places. "--Neao York
Tribune.
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A Close Call.

The case of Horizon Smith was called
up before the Lime Kiln Club. A po-
liceman had arrested him with a
chicken in a bag, and although he had
been discharged when taken to the sta
tion, it was considered an occurrence
that ought to be investigated.
The Chairman of the Committee on
Agriculture reported that he had made
faithful investigation OF this case.
While it was fact that Brother Smith
had a chicken in a bag, and was going
home at late hour, his assertion that
the fowl came up to him on the street
and was taken home to preserve its life
could not be disproved. Nobody had
reported the loss of chicken to the
police, and the committee must there
fore report that Brother Smith was an
innocent man.
"De report of de committee am ac-
cepted, " remarked the President, "but
| want Brudder Smith to understan' dat
he will neber hev cluser call. De mex
time he happens to be walkin' long de
street wild a bag on his arm, an fat
chicken happens to come up an asks to
be adopted an it happen dat de owner
doan' show up, de name of Horizon
Smith will be scratched off our books so
quick dat he will think hisself hit by
lightning"
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PaSteu. s Russian Patients.

A Paris letter says: l was with NJ.
Pasteur at Hotel Dieu to see the Russian
patients there. The woman who had
given cause for uneasiness was going on
well. She is the sweetest tempered
being Imaginable. One of the four
men, Peter Ivanoff, was a cause of un-
easiness. He seems threatened with
erysipelas. This man is the only one of
the Russians at the Hotel Dieu whose
face is not dreadfully mutilated, but his
hand was gnawed. 1t and his arm form
continuous sore. The other three were
asleep when we entered the ward, and
ON being awakened sat up with alacrity
and apolOgized for having been doing.
One of them is without a nose or eye
brows. Another had lost a whole up
per lip He is a priest and is unable to
eat. The third has lost half of his up
per and under lip, and the fourth the
upper part OF his left cheek. They are
all in jured in the hands, arms and body,
NJ. Pasteur, when | was repeating to
him the symptoms which the Irishman
Garvey described to me, and which he
said he began to feel after he had been
three weeks bitten, but which he does
not now feel, said they were the crea-
tions of q nervous state of mind. Garvey
he looked upon as safe whether inocu-
lated or not, because he was bitten
through thick trousers and thick stock
mgs. Terror of rabies often broke down
the nervous system and induced symp-
toms mistaken sometimes for rabies
During incubation there were never bad
symptoms until the disease burst out
like tempest,
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Furnishing a Burglar.

1t was now the cx-printer's turn, and
he began: "The most generous man l
ever knew edits paper in southwest
Georgia. He is so noted for his deeds
of charity that he is often imposed upon
by the unworthy, but there was one
time he did thing that few men would
have done. About eleven o'clock at
night he was awakened from a sound
sleep by some one stumbling over chair
in an adjoining room. He grabbed his
pistol and ran in there, for he is as
brave as lion, and soon had burglar
by the collar. Holding him fast he
struck a light, and the features of a
young man were disclosed.
"'What do you wantY asked the edi
tor, but the fellow was so frightened
that he could only stammer out the fact
that he had been driven to desperation
by hunger.
"'Why did you not go to work1'
"T could get no work, sir
"'What is your occupationp
'T am a mechanic
"'Would you work if you had jobP
"'Yes, | would. l never attempted
to steal anything before in my life. l
was so hungry l had to do something
Making the fellow sit down, the
editor looked at him few moments.
and remarked:
"T believe you are-telling me the
truth. Here is a half dollar. Go to
some restaurant and get something to
eat, and come here tomorrow and
will find you job But don't you try
stealing any more
THE fellow broke down completely,
and next day, true to his word, he came
to the office, the boss got him a job, and
he afterward became an honest, hard
working citizen of the town. n."-Atlanta
COnStitntiOn
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His Natural Atmosphere.

The theory that the human system can
be fortified against any particular poison
by accustoming person to its use begin
ming with small doses and gradually in
crcasing them was illustrated in n some
what peculiar manner in Western hotel
the other day Gas was found to be es-
Gaping in one of the rooms, and it was
con iectured that guest had blown out
the light instead of turning it off The
door of the room was forced, and a man
sprang from the bed demanding what
was the matter.
'How is it you amt suffocatcd?' asked
the astonished c'erE. "Did you blow out
the gas last night"
81 did"
"And you are alive and apparently un-
injured?"
"What would injure me?'
''The gls."
"Humph" (contcmptuously) "Gas!
Why, I'm bootblack in a shop where there
are seven BARRIERS working all the time,
and my natural atmosphere is gas."-
Boston Courier.
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A BOTTOMLESS CRATER.
Sitting by a Fiery Lake Just Before IL
Disappeared.

A letter from Charles NJ. Rowlew, of
Poughkeepsie, now visiting the Sand
wich Islands, says: Mrs. Rowley, my
son Charles, and myself, with seven
other ladies and gentlemen from Aus
tralia, visited the great volcano known
as Kilauea, on the Island of Hawaii,
five hundred miles from Honolulu, and
nearly three thousand miles from San
Francisco. We left Honolulu by
steamer, and after a stormy voyage of
two days landed in Hawaii and thence
went on mules over thirty miles of lava
beds until we reached the crater of
Kilauea, now seven thousand feet above
the sea. We descended at night into
the crater and walked a distance of
three miles over lava until we reached
the burning lake This was very active
and we sat for hours on the brink of the
great lake of fire, which was at least
three miles long by one@-1'i,-a half IaNcs
wide. The waves of fire were running
very high, often one hundred feet, while
eruptiOns were of frequent occurrence,
throwing molten lava into the air hun
drcds of feet with a noise that was deaf
ening.
Now for our narrow escape. This
entire lava area, including miles around
the lakes, the very spot where we sat
down and passed hours, the three miles
of pathway across the lava beds upon
which we walk, within forty-eight
hours after we left was completely de-
the whole having fallen in and
leaving an open crater, miles in extent
and apparently fathomless. This was
followed by forty-three distinct shocks
of earthquake, lasting for period of
fourteen hours. The whole party felt
thankful at their narrow escape from an
awful doom and will remember the rest
of their days how near they came to a
journey to the centre of the earth"
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Dignity at a Discount.

Among other traditions of the Gov
ernment Printing Office at Washington,
is story told of boy sent with some
proof slips of an important decision to
Chief Justice Taney. He appeared at
the Office of the chief justice and asked
him: SIS Taney in"
81 presume, was the dignifed re-
ply, 'you wish to see the chief justice
of the United States?"
81 don't care cuss about him. I've
got some proofs for Taney."
81 am the Honorable Roger D. Ia
ney."
''You're Taney; aren't you2"
81 am not, fellow. l am the Honor,
able Roger B Taney."
"Then the proofs are not for you, -
and the unceremonious messenger would
haYe gone off with them if the Judge
had not admitted himself to be fancy
simply,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-29

the boat behind him by the mist of
spray that was thrown up by his rush
inc. Twas like the approach of con-
tinueus roll of thunder, the notes deep
ening and deepening with tremendous
rapidity, caused by the crushing of the
water and the raging of it, and the
mighty striking of the tail sweeping
over an arc of thirty feet from side to
side, with dreadful rage and spite in its
smitpgs. Twas a hairbreadth thing
and a perfect miracle; for when l could
have sworn the beast was into US, and
was standing, as | remember, gripping
the rail till dare say my veins stood up
black upon the back of my hands, he
shot past us under our stern, and in a
second or two fash went by the boat
that he was towing, the foam up to her
gunwales, the harpooner crouching, tho
steerer like figure of iron, and not
stir in the other four.
81 tell Se, it was a revelation of cour-
age, of quiet, steel-llike pluck patience,
alerthess and marvellous stasdfastpess as
l can never think OF TO this day without
feeling how such men as them enoble
the race they belong to. They were all
whites. l see now their shining eyes,
their rigid faces, the longish hair of one
of 'em, and the ends of shawl round
the neck of another tluttering to the
wind raised by their speed. The thing
went by like thunderstorm, and the
Julia gave long roll upon the swell
that was left by the whale. Her sails
tapped, and a hudder seemed to come
down from aloft, with a thrill meeting
it out of the heart of the startled little
barkey.
"Three minutes after the CALLED fish
sounded, and then came up. stopping
dead. They hauled line, and was soon
after FIN out, with the creature, as you
would know must have been the case
when you saw the fountain of red blood
GO up, and make space of crimson
light for whale and boat to lie in as
though the sun were setting, and glare
of him when he was ruddiest had
touched the ocean where they lay.
''That's the yarn, sir, and l hope
haven't been intrudiug. No; I'm
obliged to you, nothing afore dinner,
thanking you kindly. It's the fashion
to consider whisky good for rheuma-
tism, but 1 know better, and so tell
vCr "
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Salvation Army Clothes

A certain very stylish young lady of
Boston, who drives a good deal, got
into horse car in the exclusive suburb
where she lives the other day wearing her
new coachman jacket of rather gay red
cloth, trimmed effectively with brass
buttons. She was going to make a
morning call on a friend only few
streets away, and as she wished to show
the young lady her new accoutrements
she wore her gay jacket and rather
striking hat which goes with it.
Scarcely had she seated herself in the
car when an eager-voiced old woman
sitting near said sociably:
"'You belong to the Salvation Army,
don't you?"
The swell young lady was a little
startled, but she ''Naow" coldly and
turned little away from her neighbor.
but you must" persisted the old
lady; 'them's Salvation Army clothes ~
Fortunately by this time the car was
at her friends corner, and stopping it.
the prosecuted wearer of spring fashions
hurried out and into the house and into
her friends arms, where, after "good
cry" she rose to a sense of the essential.
ly funny nature of the situation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
Expected on the Train.

If you are standing around a railroad
depot about the time some train is ex-
pected in you needn't look twice to
identify the man who is down there to
welcome his wife. She has been away
three weeks, but the time seems like
three months to him. He was never so
glad in his life as at the thought that
she is rolling towards him as fast as
steam can travel.
There was such a man at the foot of
Brush street Saturday. He expected his
wife on the Michigan Southern train.
He rushed up and down to see if the
train was on time. Then he rushed out
and engaged n hack. Then he prone
naded up and down and wiped his brow,
and he was still at it when a man who
mad been across the road to wet his
whistle with old rum came slouching
back and inquired:
Expecting some one, chi"
eyes, sir"
Wife, probably3"
''Bin away long"
"Ovcr two weeks"
Coming on this train2'
eyes"
"'Wall, l dunno" continued the man
as he rubbed his back against the ticket
window shelf 81 wouldn't be too
enthusiastic about it. Wimen are mighty
onsartin. I've had two of 'em run away
from me. Is your wife any hand to
make acquaintances while traveling2"
"No, sir"
Couldn't be induced to elope?"
'Sirl Do you intend to insult me2"
. "Gosh no. | wouldn't insult nobody
nor nothing. Could your wife be car
ried away by good looks aud lots of
moneym
'If you wasn't an old man I'd thump
you for your impudencey' exclaimed the
husband as he grew red all over.
Yen would! wcn. mont talk to
you. If your wife comes in on the train,
all right; if she doesn't you needn't
blame me-"
He went into the sitting-room, and
presently the train came in. The hus-
band lodged about as if he was walking
on glass, and the passengers came out
one by one until the coaches were empty
There was no wife. 1t was ten minutes
before the husband could give up, and
when he did and started out doors the
old man lounged out and said:
Il told him! I've lost two wimen just
that way, and knew what l was talk.
ing about !"-Detr0it Free Press.
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ALL GooD.-A young married lady,
who moved into the country from city
home, considered keeping hens pleas
ant and profitable duty. As she be-
came more absorbed in the pursuit her
enthusiasm increased, and "hens" made
favorite subject of her thoughts and
conversation. During one Other ami
mated descriptions of success friend
inquired: ''Are your hens good hens2"
"Oh, yes she replied, in "A delighted
tone; they haven't laid o bad egg
yet. y CatskW Nal.
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THE N0CKLNG BIRD IN WINTER

Thou art the chiefest chorister of spring,
Yet dost thou bring
Thy voice OF gladness from the Southlands
blest;
Ere froward March hath sobbed herself tc
rest, -.s
Or April cen unfuried'her sheeny wing.
Oh, magic minstrel breathe thy rarest strain
Impsradise my soul in song
Sweep me along
Upon, the golden wings Of melody,
Beyond the shivering landscape blank and
cold,
Beyond the hoary mist and frostseared wold,
Tell me of vernsl days,
Bright with the suns sntrancing haze,
Where spring fades never from. the smiling
plain,
Nor ever falls the blossom from the tree.
Sing and thou will create
Around sie the immortal May,
Forever young aud fresh and gay.
Bearing tbs flowers thai lost but late.
Sing and see again
The gray-haired forest wake from winters
dream,
Through the wind d-haunted wood and by the
stream,
The honeysuckle weaves its rosy bower,
And soft-winged breezes fly
Around the tawny jasmine flower,
The passionate sun, full fain,
STOPPING from out his height,
Kisses awake the violet's azure eve,
Now bourgeons every covert with delight
Now blooms each flower that crowns the year
divine;
Meek innocence once more is seen
And snake-root with it gems of dew
In fairy cups Of rose and blue,
Set twixt the pointed leaves of green,
Starts forth in every nook,
And timid mouse-ear, small and fine
That loves to dwell beside running brook.
Poet Of songssers sure, thou dost bewitch
The tones Of all thy comrades, and enrich
1ven the pickering sparrow's husky note,
That breaks in liquid music from thy throat.
And melts in harmony away,
The querulous chatter Of the jay
The thrush's five sharp notes of pain,
When windy April in the fields appears,
Fall gently on mine ears;
And 70 bins plsintive cry for rain
Doth sweetly sing the praise of tears.
They have dull ears who say
Thou dost but echo thy transcende mt Law,
Nay, nay It's false-thou makest all thine
own,
In every cadence, every softened tone,
As we one day. grown angels, may repeat
The words and songs of life, and make them
sweet.
JULIE X. WETHERILL
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A Good Excuse.

'Isn't this train about two hours late?"
asked a passenger of the conductor on a
branch Dakota road.
''Yes, recon bout that much"
''Well, what's the trOuble"
ooh, it's Monday"
''What's that got to do with it!'
"Why, you see Ican't never get as good
a start Monday morning-havo to tend
the baby while my wife gets out the
washing, you know. Just you wait till
tomorrow morning and I'll pull out be-
fore sunrise. '-Estoliliae (Dakoto) Bell.
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WANTED "THEM GUNS. AS illustra.
tive of the peculiar discipline which pre-
vailed in one of the East Tennessee
Union regiments, the story is told that,
when preparing for the charge on the
redoubts that resulted so gloriously, the
Colonel stepped to the front, and point
ing toward the enemy's works, said:
Boys, the old man says we've got to get
them guns" A tall and lank mountai-
nccr-a private In the ranks-who had
hunted and fshed and drank home-dis-
titled corn whiskey with the Colonel,
after contemplating for a moment the
desperate undertaking, turned to his
commander and asked, "Say, Jim, if the
old man wants them guns, why can't we
fling in and buy 'eml'
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Memories.


gave him a rose last night at the ball,
AS we sat on the stlirS in the dim-lighted
hall,
Where one shaded lamp made soft, dreamy
glow,
And the music, like incense, breathed up
from below.
For his love-lighted eyes looked so deep into
mine,
That hadn't the power, nor the wish, TO de-
cline.
She gave me a blool-rcd rose last night,
As we sat on the stairs in the mystic half
light.
| remember how soft were her eyes, and how
fair
Was her beautiful face, with its crown of
bright hair,
And her round, dainty throat, with its neck
la~e of pearl
But. hang it, Who under the sun, wa the
--EawGrd q, Fcilowes. in LIE.
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The Following is Partial List or my
OFFERINGS OF REAL ESTATE

One s5OAcre with dwelling barns Sheds etc., suiab, d.
pasture, timber place apple orchard runninv
house and barn. school house the farm
within Onerd productive farm would be r
s.rded worth s selling 81 oooo down. b.
800 year.
One 5OAcro fair buildings. water good .o p. $3.50 aso
down, balance so year.
village suitable for Ishor,ra ~
who wishes vegetabe price s5Oo15o down
balance 80 per year.
Dwelling Hyde village location good building. new
good price down. so per year.
just Hyde Park village. choice Desirable
meadow oneha good; price $50 Der ,c m
Will sell part all
Several Good Building Lots village nepsng
industrious who 200 dollars labor
viii furnish the timber lumber glass; shne
and wherewt build payment
be made s5 semi annual payments Land parcels of two and three
by
Price Of lott, s75. $780, sl25 and $3.50 each.
Hyde village Store" "Pages
Block" years hundred dollars
probably Price
s20O0-S5O0 down, balance 500 year.
Sixty in
eos subject rental of s12 Will sell
FOR sl2 Inever saw the lot but am informed that is within two miles OF
awm bad hills between mill and lot
for desiring job Terms. $50
two two dollars NJ stumpaga reserved until am paid
of acres lying
pond supplies
800 Two dollars NJ sumpage reserved till lot
paid
One Building Belmont and
Fohburg Wavey down.
property placed
alton below what judges would appase it, but determined
at the earliest moment practicable
Parties desiring investments will find this property well worth
either of the parcels real
CHEAP Of the above
described
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My Calf Skin Business is absorbing my capital, time and
attention. and having decided to close out all of my other
branches of business well my miscellaneous personal
property and real estate offer for sale all the land own
except that occupied in my business and my dwelling and will
dispose of at very low figures and easy terms of
payment
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IN January, 1885, his big scholars
gave a Wilson county school teacher
ducking. He has just received SO, 600
damages. This was in Kansas.
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young boy. When they reached the
maiden's door the boy, in true rustic
style offered to kiss her. She declined !;
whereupon he exclaimed: "ThIs is the
first time girl ever refused to let me
kiss her, and you can't think how flat
it makes me feel"
WESTERN BOYS LAMENT.
wished 1 lived away down East, where cod
fish salt the sea,
And where the folks have pumpkin pie and
appesass for tea;
Us boys who's livin' here out West don't get
morn half a show
We don't have nothin' else to do but Jest to
sort O. grow.
Oh, if wuz bird I'd fly. million miles
away,
To where they feed their boys on pork and
beans three times day;
To where the place they cal the Hub gives out
its shiny spokes,
And where the folks so father says--is mos
Is women folks.
Chicago Ne,Os.
SHE LOVED.
He tod me that he loved me,
That with me he'd never part,
All at once he changed his mind,
And tramples on my heart.
If should live a thousand years
OF course none Of US can
I'd never forget those broken VOWS,
Nor love another man.
The Colorado Poetess.
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CARROLL 8. PAGE.

Hyde Park. VT, Feb 2. 1885,