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Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
A We'll That Gave Forth Mea,

from tne AnteFtCbS ludsl H6DWCttcnns
A country gentleman owned a hundred
head OF as lively and deVilish goats as
ever annoyed a neighbOrhOod, and they
were pest to the community. He daily
received complaints of their depredations
but paid no attention, saying they annoy
ed him too. One of his neighbOrs had a
field with dry well in it, and on the side
OF the we'll was stump. Knowing the
peculiarly OF the goat 10 climb, he fixed
plank on the stump just long enough to
tilt when anything got on the upper end
and then fall back into position. The
goats saw the plank, ran TO the top TO
'.vlew the landscape DER" and went into
the bottom OF the sixty-foot well. The
owner missed the goats and when thirty
or forty were all that remained OF them
watched the herd. He saw one mount the
plank and 90 into the well, another and
then another followed. He ran TO the
place, looked down and found it packed
over half full OF goat flesh, all dead. He
said not word 10 his neighbOr, but sold
of his few remaining goats and Is per-
haps a wiser man in what it takes to make
a good neiQhbOr.
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
Paving an old Debt.
from No Washington CGa.l GaseIl

From tho Washington (Ga.) Gasette.
An old debt of 10 years standing, long
since forgotten by the creditor, was called
to mind on Tuesday by the man who
owed 1t, and paid. In 1871 W. l.. Keough
bought some tobacco on credit from the
father of the Lowe brothers, In this place
Mr.. Keough was unable to pay the debt,
and soon after removed 10 Texas. Mr..
Lowe died, and his accounts passed into
the hands OF his sons. They col
lected what they could, and long
since gave up all idea Of collecting
any more. Mr.. KeOugh returned 10
Washington short while since, and on
Tuesday he stepped in 10 see Mr.. q. Y.
Lowe and insisted be owed his fathers es-
tate $50. Mr.. Lowe rummaged among
some old dusty books and found a memo
randum OF a debt Of $23 10, but Mr..
Keough insisted that IL was $50, and
would settle for this amount. A man
with a conscience which thus keeps him
up to his obligations is made Of the
right kind OF material.
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
Tackled the Wrong Man.

DR.. Henry Collier, dentist in Echols
county, Sunday was walking on the rail-
road track near Huckleberry station, he
was suddenly attacked by four negro
men, who came out of the woods and
boldly demanded his money. DIR. Collier,
putting his hand In his pocket, said I:
"Well, II you demand IL, suppose Pll
have 70 give II 10 you" But instead OF
the money, he drew a pistol and COM
menced firing upon his would-be robbers.
He killed One, wounded another, captured
one, and came very near getting the
fourth man. DIR. Collier marched his
prisoner TO the station and told his start
ling adventure TO his astonished audi
ouNa
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
Roth Girl and AnReI.


WON Wf InINId FtH.J IFfDIHes
A friend sends US the following: 81 had
dream; a silver wire stretched from
heaven 10 earth. A former earthly assO-
clate Of mine communicated the follow
ing through the heavenly telephone: st.
Peter sat Bodaing beside the golden gates,
when a maiden with a timid knock sought
admission. "What claim have you on
heavenT asked the saint, dropping her
head until her bangs pointed eartbwards,
she answered: 4 am from Florida and
Just sweet sixteen Enter said the
saint; ENTER and be threw wide open the
gates, for when girl in Florida Is sixteen
she Is both girl and angelv
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
Porkers on wings.


From me Amerions fGa.l Republican.
A gentleman living a few miles from
town had file litter OF Berkshire pigs on
his iarm aud took much delight in watch
ing them. One day he missed one, and
they were all gone but three. He was
surprised 10 hear one squealing. he looked
all around but could not End where the
pig was. At last he looked up and saw a
huge buzzard With bis favorite rooter
making for a dead tree half a mile or.
He got his gun, followed and shot the
buzzard and the pig fell 70 the ground
dead.
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
Wind He Wanted.


HTVHt OHto y IVHHV IUUsI MsWt"W1s
The other day a cOlored man was en-
pl0yed to cut up a load OF wood for a
lady. He could not cut IL until night.
About dark another negro came along
and asked for the job. He was informed
that such man was engaged 10 cut It.
Going TO him the second applicant al
most begged him TO turn over the Job to
him, but he refused TO do so. After plead
ing in vain for transfer Of the work he
SAID:
well, il you won't let me cut de wood,
gimme a stick % your wood TO take home
wild me-"
That explained why he was 80 anxious
TO cut up the load Of wood.
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08

From ne 0reeapi1e tGa.l Yindfcasor.
A little boy came IN one Of our stores
the other day and called for a gallon OF
syrup. Just ms the dealer touched the
faucet to draw the liquid. the boy said,
Daddy says he will pay you for the
syrup the hfet time Be comes % town.
Now. "daddY' ~ rather q hard case. The
grocer worked &C tho faucet a liftle while
medIlatInT. and said. 'tltIs 90 cold to-day
toe Iaueet WON'T work. so daddy got
20 4Fttp ifcm thai house.
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
Gnttrmra RrmrOies.
HEMORRHOIDS,
Blind, Bleeding and Itching Positive.
ly Cured by Cutlcura.

warm bath with CUTtCURA SOAR, an ex-
guslte skin Beautiier, and single apnhca-
uon OF CuTiCURA, the great Skin Cure will
instantly allay the intense itching Of the most
aggravated case OF Itching Piles This treat
ment, combined with small doses OF CuTICUR
hEsoLVENr, the new b OOd Purifier three
times per day. TO regulate and strengthen the
ooWeis' overcome constipation and remove
the caase' viii cure b ind, Bleeding and Itch
ing Piles when all other remedies and eyeB
phYsicians fail.
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
ITCHING PILES.

! was taken, for the Grst time In nv life.
with Blind Piles, so severe that could hardl y
keep on my feet. used various remedies for
three weeks, when the disease took the form
of Itching Piles, and growing worse By sd-
vice Of an old gentleman / tried the Curl
cURA. one application reIieoed tie itoAsn0
and was soon cured. / wish to tell the world
that in cases of Itching Piles the price OF tho.
CUTICURA is of no account. From an unso-
hcited quarter. o. @, KIBBY.
CONCORD, N. ii,
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
Hurled Treasure,


From ho Adrtetta t6a.) J0Wrndl.
The colOred folks have a great PEN
chant for burying their hard earned
money. Doubtless this feeling was
superinduced by the Freedman's Bank
swindle, In which so many colored people
lost their all. An industrious old colored
man who lived in this place a few years
ago, named Lem Mathis, before his death
buried 5000 90 In Hunts woods. The
money was In a tin box. He died without
revealing the place or deposit,
and his children, one OF
whom still lives here, and another
one IN Atlanta, were thus deprived OF this
money. Another negro man named Joe
Cook, who formerly belonged 10 Rev. DR..
Cook, was a brickmason and hired his
own time, and BY this means had accu-
mulated a half bushol 4 silver. The FAM
ily left here for lower Georgia, and old
joe buried his money and be died without
telling the exact spot where it was bid
den. A cOlOred man died here about a
month ago who bad considerable money
and his children have been unable % ind
IL. Il ~ presumed be buried u.
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
ITCHINGpII.Es

began the use of your CUTIoURA REMEDIES
when you hrst put them on the market, aud
know Of two cases of Itching Piles that have
been cured by the use, at my suggestion, OF
these remedies. r. n, MARTIN.
VIRDUN, ILL.
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
ALL THAT YOU CLAIM.

have tried your CUTToURA REMEDIES antf
hnd them all that you claim, and the demand
for them in this section is great.
AUGUSTUS W. COLLINS.
HIGGsTON, GA.
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08

over the environs of the town, and to his
young friend, J. ID. Galloway, Georgia
boy, and his good mother for many cour-
tesies received from them.
EXPORTS.
Besides Sea Island cotton Lake City
makes considerable shipments annually
Of lumber, syrup, cotton seed, black moss,
hides, vegetables and fruit. The total
value Of these products toots up hand
somely. The orange trees have suffered
severely from the cold, but are beginning
TO bud out again quite generally.
THE PRESS.
Three weekly papers devote their ener-
gies to building up the town, tO-wit: The
Lake City RepOrttl, Z. A. Finley, editor
Lake City GUIDE, under the management
Of w. II. Wilson and G. w. Cline, and
the VdtchnldN, a colored sheet edited by
by ID. W. Cuip. They all deserve to
succeed.
A NEW BOOM.
The railroad from Fort Hin. on the line
of the Savannah, Florida and Western
road below Live Oak, is about flushed
aud will be opened in few days. IL was
built by the latter organization, and be-
sides rendering tributary TO Lake City, an
important and fertile section of the State,
will be great saving OF time and dis
lance TO ths travelling community. Inn
mediate steps should be taken to secure a
daily mail from Savannah over this route,
which Will bring your city within eight
hours communication, and prove OF meal
culable benefit to all concerned.
H.H.J.
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
SPLENDID sATTsFACTION


CUTlCuRA REMEDIES have gwen splendid
satisfaction to those Of my customers vino
have had occasion TO use them
OUFAfny
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08

m@HTM@A TIRED MUSCLES Strength.
CAM llened, Pain Annihilated, Inhamma-
| Wsy A. ion subdued, and Malarial and
Nr-%I Epidemic Diseases Prevented bFi
nllfsNN IA I'M that infalible antidOto 90 pain and
~ i-Aksr'innammatiOn. the CUTI0URAl
ANTt-PAIN PLASTER. 25c.
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08

CuTICURA REMEDIES are positive curesGoK
every form Of SKIN and Blood Diseases, from
Pimples 70 Serofua. Sold everywhere. Pricesi
CuFIcURA. Doc; SOAP, 25c.; REsoLVENT. ST..
Prepared by the PorTERDRUG AND CHEMICAL.
Co., BOSTON, MASS.
Sendfor" How to Cure Skin Diseases -
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
sourH CAROLINA.

SOUTH CAROLINA.
There Is an epidemic Of pneumonia at
Graniteyille.
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08

NHRE Blemishes. Pimplea, Blackheads,
- NkhW and Baby Humors, use CUTIGURA
Savannah morning news., 1886-03-08
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

4 Deputy United states Marshal Shot
and Killed at Lula-Desth of an I'm
fortunate x-COnfederate Soldier at
Augusta-Etheridge Acquitted of MUIR
der at Eastman.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
He Broke In His Successor.

A story they tell about Andrew Jeck,
the veteran railway mail clerk, comes
in well at this time, when they arc maxi
ing so many changes in the postal ser
vice. Jeck is the oldest railway nah
clerk in Maine, and there are few, II
any, on the postal cars anywhere, as old
as he; yet he is active, efficient, and as
sharp as letter of removal fIom Villas.
Years ago another fellow succeeded In
getting himself appointed to fill DECKS
place. OF course Jeck consented TO
make one or two trips with him to show
him the ropes. 1t happened that on tho
first trip they made together there was
an accident and the car was thrown
from the track. Jeck caught firmly
hold of his table when he felt the first
Jar, and came out of the accident un-
scathed and the least disconnected.
The novice was flung in heap into one
corner and badly bruised.
"Does this sort of thing happen very
often2" he asked Jeck.
ooh yes," said Jeck. "And / forgot
to tell you that we all have place to
cling to, when it comes. You must
have holding place purposely fixed to
get stiff grip on with your hands"
The top of the car was much battered
by time and the new man asked, before
they had gone much further on the
route:
''NIr. Jeck, what has made all those
scars in the top of this carr"
"That's nothing" said Jeck. "It's
only where my heels have struck when
I've been tossed into the air by acci-
dents such as we have had this morn
ing"
When they finished their run, the new
appoiutee said he had enough of it, and
would go back to selling groceries for a
living; and Jeck stayed in the railway
III all service then and ever after,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Defining Marital Duress.

There was. recently published the de-
tails of suit brought by Samuel Wal
ZACH against his niece, Mrs. Fannie
Strauss Hoexter, to foreclose two mort
cages for $15, 200 upon her house in
New York. She claimed that she
signed the mortgage papers under the
duress of her husband, August HoeXter,
and the suit was resisted on the ground
that for this reason the mortgages were
void.
The case was tried before Judge Van
Worst at Special Term of the New York
Supreme Court. In his opinion the
Judge Gays: GSe defendant, Fanny
Strauss Hou smarried woman,
being seized Of separate estate, at the
instance and upon the urgency of her
husband, mortgaged the same to the
plaintiff. In this. action, which is
brought for its foreclosure, she seeks to
avoid the mortgage upon the ground
that she executed the same under tho
duress of her husband, she naming no
consideration therefor. The evidence
does not justify the conclusion that the
mortgage was executed uuder circum-
stances of oOnstraint amounting to
duress. That the defendant executed
the mortgage through tho persuasion of
her husband and for his benefit, and
through threats on his part that if she
did not do so, he would stay away from
her at nights and would not hold
speech with her, admits of no denial
There was no duress. or illegal restraint
exercised sufficient to impeach the
mortgage. There is no defense to this
mortgage, and there must be Judgment
of foreclosure and sale.n
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Tree Planting in the United States.

From paper on the woods of the
United States and their destruction, In the
Century, Mr.. J. E Chamberlain sums up
as follows: 'sThe reasonable conclusion
of the whole matter would seem 10 he
that while there Is no serious menace to
the eastern half of the United States
through the IoSs of forests there IS good
reason 30 urge the preservation of as
much as possible and the encouragement
of new plantations; while in the western
half of The country the immediate with
drawal from sale of the whole body of
forests belonging 60 tho government is
highly desirable There should be an
exhaustive inquiry ut the hands of q
competent government commission, into
the subject OF the eXbent of forests be-
longing 10 the government their loca-
ton, value, chIYacteF, etc., the proper
ton of private lands now wooded, and
the apporent dependence or Independence,
as the case may ha, OF all soctious of the
country upon the modifying effect of
forests Exact information Is now need
ed, which could scarcely be obtained ex-
cept through the efforts of such com
mission.
Sentimental considerations, Isuppose,
are to be held secondary to the practical
in the matter; but they are powerful, and
should be aroused in behalf of no object
more readily than tho woods, which have
occupied 80 large place in the senti-
meatal life of man from the earliest
times"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
4 RESOLVE.


As the dead year is clasped by dead Decem-
Der,
So let your dead sins with your dead days
lie.
A new life Is yours, and new hope2 Remem-
Der
We build our own ladders to climb to the
sky.
Stand out in the sunlight of promise, forget
ting
Whatever your past held Of sorrow or
wrong;
We waste half our strength in useless re-
gretting;
Wo sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
Have you missed in your aim ? well, the mark
Is still shining;
Did you faint in the race well take breath
for the next.
Did the clouds drive you back2 but see yonder
their lining.
We're you tempted and fell? let 1t serve for
text
AS each year hurries by lot il Join that pro-
cession
OF skeleton shapes that march down to the
past,
While you take your place in the line Of pro-
gression,
With your eyes on the heavens, your face to
the blast.
tell you the future con hold no terrors
For any sad soul while the stars revolve,
If he will but stand firm on the grave of his
errors
And instead Of rogretting, resolve, reso}vel
1t is never too late to begin rebuilding,
Though all into ruins your life seems hurled.
For look how the light Of the new year is
gliding
The worn, wan face Of the bruised old
world
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
To Satisfy Relatives.

The work of drilling hole through
the hill directly over where the lost
Nanticoke miners are supposed to be is
progressing fast. On Saturday night
11O feet cf 6-inch pipe had been put
down. Then there remained 1876 feet to
be drilled. The superintendent thought
bottom would be reached in about ten
days. When bottom is reached it will
be ascertained for the first time whether
that portion of the mino is filed with
debris. If it is, there will be no other
way but to clean out the gangways.
Asked if he had any idea of finding any
Of the twenty six men alive, the super
intendent said: ooh, no; those men are
dead long ago; we only put down this
pipe to satisfy the relatives of the poor
unfortunates. would be only too glad
if the men were alive; but, under the
circumstances, the drilling of hole is
only useless task"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-04

happy girl, and It is all your doing,
Grandma" Quite lgte Mary came, her
face all radiant. "Just one minute,
mother, to tell you how. delighted
Robert was. He said the supper was
delicious, and my smiling face as young
as Clare's. You good mother-to make
me look so"
And Grandma Drew, as she closed
her eyes, prayed silent prayer to the
Lord to let her live yet little longer,
for she had found out that all her work
was not yet hed.-Arthur's Homo
1{11uzi1ls
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
A Brave Bride.

When the Apaches attacked the Black
Rock rancho Of William johnson, week
ago last Sunday, only johnson and his
young bride were on the premises. They
took refuge in a chicken house, from
which the fight was kept up for an hour,
the husband doing the shooting and the
wife loading the guns. johnson was
shot through the body and thigh and had
one arm broken. When the rcd fiends
gave up the fight and, ic4t Mrs. johnson
hitched up team, placed her wounded
husband in the wagon and drove twenty
miles to Fort Thomas. .--.Nca0 McrioO
Paper.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-04

My Calf Skin Business is absorbing my capital time and
attention. and having decided to close out all of my other
branches of business we'll 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 very low figures and easy terms of
payment
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
The Following is Partial List or my
OFFERINGS OF REAL ESTATE

dwelling barns Sheds etc. suitably d.
g PASTURE wood timber apple running
school formerly part of farm
productive
garded selling Will
800 per
Farm buildings good water good SOIL price $3.50 $50
down, year.
village a laborng man
wishes keep his vegetables; down.
balance per year.
Dwelling village good buildings new
good price per year.
Hyde vilage-a choice desirable
meadow gso price $50 per acre y
rneasur VIII sell all
enterpring
young
will timber lumber glass;
hwh to build respectable houses and allow therefor to
$25 payments
Price of lots s75 500, s125 and $3.50 EACH
"COrner Store" '0ge
Block" rented two hundred dollars but
probably made the lease vacated desired Price,
s2,OOO-$5Oo down. balance 800 yeaE
Sixty Acres in
ct to taxation but subject to annual rental of sl2 Will sell my equity
for s126 that it within two miles of
sawm represented to to be cheap
for desiring logging job Terms $50 downs6 in one and $5 in
sumpage reserved until am paid
One Timber lying OF
FL Hkins mill Hyde Park Price $500
stOo down. per year. reserved till lot is
paid
in within few rods Of both the Vt
Fohburg Price $4O01OO
placed
judges determined tc
practicable
desiring well worth
their of real
Iconfdeny AS CHEAP the above
describe
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-04

He that shows q passion tells his enemy
where hs NAY hit him..
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
CARROLL S. PAGE.

Hyde Park. VT, Feb 2, 1886.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-07-26

The Mexican rumOrs of war nj Paso del Norte
are beginning 10 swell into quite martial cho-
rus. and the two governments are i'll active cor
respondence on the subject. Another war with
Mexico Is scarcely probable, especially on the
basis OF one editor calling another liar Ii
this should be accepted sss proper pretext for
international hostiiities, the whole civilized
globe would be soon drenched with blood.
Editor Cutting meanwhile carries himself
under his seli-imposed imprisonment most
nobly, being buoyed up, doubtless, by the refiec-
ton that his newspaper is receiving magnih-
cent amount OF free advertising. If We should
go 10 war with Mexico, by the way, what would
become of that proposed pan-American confer
epce?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-07-26

It is not necessary TO Jump to the conclusion
that man has been lynched in Connecticut be-
cause the body of Lockwood was found hanging
from a tree yesterday. The probability is that
IL was a case of suicide. The villanous MUIR
derer OF poor Matte Randall was surrounded
by an army of indignant avengers. He could
see and hear them on all sides, and must have
known that escape was impossible. The fact
that he had taken away rope from Mr. Ran
dalPs barn shows clearly that he contemplated
ending his own miserable lie If driven into q
corner. But, on the other hand. IL not actually
guilty OF lynching, the Litchfeid county yeo-
manry have proved themselves morally guilty
oft. If they had caught Lockwood they would
have killed him at once, without judge or jury.
There is no occasion, however, for the people of
the south and west TO make a sectional issue
of this affair, as some of them seem disposed to
do. Human nature is pretty much the same,
the world over, and when peculiarly atrocious
crime is committed il is just as likely provoke
popular resentment in Connecticut as in Mis-
sissippi or New Mexico. Bat lynch law IS al
ways uujuStifabie. at least where there are
organic "a courts. And so, taking taking every
thing into consideration, ii is perhaps a matter
for congratuIation that LOCKWOOD death hap
pened as il seems To have happened although
some one has said that even Judas Iscariot
could have done something better than hang
himself.