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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
WHY VILLAGE PAPERS ARE DRY.
An Editor Takes DecidedIy Curious View
OF the NIatter.

From the Dansville, n. Y, Breeze.1
So you are kicking about your village
paper being SO dry are you2 Well,
who's to blame for 1t? Can you think
of anything that has happened within a
week that was not in the paper? N-n-no
you don't know as you can, but then it
is not your business to watch out for
locals. That is the editors business, he
gets paid for it. Ha, ha, ha! That's
good one, isn't it p You got away the
best of the editor that time, didn't you2
Ha. ha! Can't get over it, can you?
Good joke on the editor. Guess he'll
be careful how he gets into an argu-
ment with you in the future. But say,
friend, did you ever stop to think that
the village paper is Just as lively and
interesting as you VIII let it be2 You
buy new lot, and put up house, and
see how quickly the Issnar will say you
are the stuff, and yoSs-sss1Io on haw to fix
things up around yh in good shape.
Buy a lot on Main street and put up a
three story brick block with some nice
stores, and plate glass fronts ON the
ground floor, and Offices, electra, on the
second and third. Before you get the
rubbish cleared off, the paper will tell
the world what an enterprising man
you are, and how far seeing you are,
to place YOUR money where it will not
only bring you big interest, but prove
a grand ornament to the town. Build
a factory that will employ 800 men, and
see if the paper don't call you public
spirited philanthropist, who not only
has money, but puts it where it will do
his fellowmen some good. o, you
haven't got any capital, eh2 Well,
then use the means you have at hand
You have q shot gun, start out some
morning and shoot the sun-of-a gun
who beat you in horse trade yesterday.
There is stinker across the way who
owes ou thirteen dollars, go over and
plug him once or twice on the snoot,
and tell him if he puts the law on you,
you'll kill HIM the next time That
old skinfiint next door, poisoned your
favorite pointer last week you know he
did, for he said he would the next time
he howled SO in the night. Just go and
fire his barn, or ham string his horses,
or shoot his chickens, or Paris green his
cattle, and see it the village paper don't
fairly bristle with interest. The newsy
items will stick out all over it like quilts
on the fretful porcupine. Fly around
and do something yourself. That will
cause your neighbors to do something.
Remember, friends, that it is the duty
of an editor merely 20 chronicle events,
not make them, and the paper will be
just as hot and interesting as you will
make it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
THE NEWPORT GIRL.
A Compound of Energy, Beauty and Grace
Cri riticaIIy Considered.

The girl seats herself comfortably in
the hammock, and, swinging gently
to and fro the while, proceeds to give
us the latest news and the social surmises
of the day. She keeps us all amused fer
half an hour, and then, pleading an en-
gagement to play tennis, drives away in
her smart mail phaeton, smiling farewell
from beneath her astonishing hat, whose
shape and size surpass any effort in
modern millinery that | have ever met
We saw her at the beach this morning.
She stayed in the water fully half an
hour, and most of that time she was
swimming a race with my dude, who
had set aside his prejudices against surf
bathing for the nonce in order to accept
her challenge to swim race. She has
told us that she rode nine miles before 8
o'clock to day, and that she plays
tennis match this afternoon, goes to
dinner to night, and little dance after
ward. She is 10 years old, and is pos
sessed of strong, straight figure, we'll
developed and muscular, but graceful in
every curve and movement a comely
enough face, with large eyes, too heavy
features, clear tanned skin, and small
white teeth. She looks men in the eyes
sqrarely, little too hardly perhaps,
and can handle catboat and crochet
needle with equal skill
She tells you frankly that she has no
accomplishments, and it is easy to see
that when she talks on any subjects save
those of people, horses, dogs or tennis,
she has got up her conversation out of
the Century, that salvation of dull male
diners out and bright women who have
no time to read books. She is as strong
as young Amazon, and comes of race
of women who have always ruled in
their social circle. Her mother and
grandmother were great bellies before
her. They are both here, and one some
times meets the three driving together.
The two elder women, each of whom
married at 18, have the air of comman
that woman who has ruled by her
birthright of beauty never quite loses,
but it is gentle and gracious imperlous-
ness that one reads in their delicate
faces, wonderfully alike in their setting
of iron gray and silver-white hair.
Will this scion of the rising genera
tion, with her athletics and her know
ledge of horses, her robust health, and
her splendid appetite, carry on the
traditions of her house A year will
show. Sh9 is every different" and in
her physique shows great advance over
the delicate mother and more fragile
bonnie mdm0n, intellectually and spirit
ualIy fear there is a distinct retrogres-
sion and this is, take it, quite in ac-
cordance with Darwinian science. e.-B0s-
ton Transcript.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
DOWN THE STREAM

maiden stood upon a shore,
And heard ightly-dipping oar.
The morning light was flushing clear,
A thrush was loudly warbling near.
A boat came gliding down the stream,
With ripple soft and splash and gleanl.
She ne'er had seen the youth before,
He ne'er had touched upon that shore;
But when she saw him up the stream,
Fresh from the mountains early CLEAN,
The old, old woodworking spell
Around them both like magic fell,
And ere his boat had drifted by
A change came over wood and sky;
The old, familiar stream and shore
Took on hue unknown before.
He lightly drew his boat to land,
He lightly reached to her his hand.
And, leaving all that they had known,
The two went down the stream alone.
The boatman's arm was good and strong,
The boatman's oar was tough and long.
The maiden's face was sweet and fair;
She felt no faintest fear or care.
She smiled upon her boatman true,
And said, 81 trust my life to you"
The thrush sang on the bank alone;
The maiden down the stream had gone.
Ellen W. Carey.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
Facts About Rivers.
TWO RIVERS LARGER THAN THE ANA
ZoN-soUTH AMERICAN STREAMS.

The explorations of recent years have
considerably changed our notions Cf the
comparative rank of the great rivers of
the world. If we class rivers according
to their length, both the Nile and the
Yangtse- Kiang must be named before
the Amazon. The Niles four thousand
miles of waterway from its headwaters
sou'h of Lake Victoria to the MediterTa-
mean make it the largest river in the
world, nearly as long as the Mississippi
and Missouri together. and about one
thousand miles longer than the Anna
zun. The Amazon is the greatest river
in the world, because il has immense
tributaries, some of them larger than
the Danube or the Rhine, by means of
which the Amazon basin covers an area
of about one million square miles great
er than that of any other river. The
Congo River is the fourth largest river
in the world, but in the volume of wa
ter that it pours into the ocean it is sec
ond only to the Amazon.
A very curious thing has been discov.
cred about the three greatest river ba-
sins in South America-the Orinoco,
the Amazon, and the Plate BASINS. 1t
has been 1Ounu IndJ the traveller can
pass in steamboats, or canoes from one
river system into another. He can as.
ascend the Orinoco River for hundreds
of miles until he cones to the Casa
ouiary, on which he can travel for about
two hundred miles to the Rio Negro,
one of the largest tributaries of the
Amazon. Floating down to the Anna
zon, and then descending that river for
some distance, he can ascend the great
Madeira tributary. In its upper course
he can turn into the Mamore then into
the Guapore, then into the little Allegro
River. Here, as Is often done, he can
haul his canoe over low grassy fiat
about two miles wide and launch it into
the Rio Agoapehy, and then descend by
the Jaurn and Paraguay to Buenos Ayres
and the Plate River. The Allegro and
A9oapehy Rivers, head streams of two
mighty systems, flow side by side for
twenty or thirty miles, and many OF
their branches are separated by few
hundred yards.
MIR Wells, the engineer whom Brazil
has employed for years in its railroad
surveys, says that in many places the
basin of the Amazon could easily be con
nectyd with that of the Plate River by
canals, and communications Ivy water
could thus be rendered complete from
one system to the other.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
Dead at His Post.

A visit to the scene of the sad acci-
dent at West River bridge, Vt, local
paper says, shows most terrible wreck.
The river at this point is about one
hundred and fifty feet wide. and was
spanned by an iron and wooden struc-
ture resting upon sto abutments, to
the nor h side OF which extended a
trestle wofiF--t-f --=SS3at ffty feet in
length, one end resting on the north
stone pier and the other upon the south
bank. Below this trestle which is about
thirty feet high, there is at present no
wa er, while between those OF the main
bridge. which must be fifty high, the
water is from eight to fifteen feet deep,
and under this lies seven cars and the
engine of the Inflated train. The en-
gine lies upon the rocks at the east
side, covered by only about two feet OF
water through which at an early hour
this morning could be seen the ghastly
face of engineer Smith, though dead,
still at his post. He was so thoroughly
held by the wreck that his body could
not be secured till power was obtained
for its removal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
The Lost Cabin.

Almost every region on the Pacific
Coast has its "Lost CABIN, where mill
lions in glitterlng gold lie undisturbed,
but it is strange that treasure of this
description has never yet been stumbled
upon, with the one exception of the
discovery of such cabin in The great
Wind River canon of Colorado. Ira
dition has it that treasure mine of i'm
mense wealth lies hidden somewhere in
the wild, rolling region between Fall
River and Mt. Shasta, but present re-
collections are SO dim and misty that
nothing can be CLEANED in regard to it.
OF course it is in deso,ate canon where
the sun is scarcely ever visible and no
human foot has trod for years. Tangled
vines and broken volcanic debris OBJ
scure the spot from sight, but the old
skeleton of o hut still stands on the
rock a few rods away, the spectral
homes of bats and owls. Great, fat rat
tlesnakes sun themselves on the rotten
threshold, kissing a weird warning to
all corners. Pack in the fireplace, in
nest of quive ing vipers. great fascinat-
ing nuggets of pure gold lie untouched
since mined by former owners, and
which it is almost certain death to APP
proach. In another corner a half eaten
pair of leather boots are lying, while in
a rudely-cons ructed couch, almost rot
ted away, under a pane!ess window. a
couple of CHASTITY grinning skulls lie
mouldering in the dust and debris of
score of years, etc. That's about the
way it runs and always will as long as
remembered
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
Tie Mustang.

Mustangs are not in so much favor as
two or three weeks ago, when the big
sombreroed and bespurred lasso throw
ers from Texas were rushing about the
town of Westlield with their drove of
untamed steeds and lots OF people were
eager to exchange shekels for the useless
animals. Not few men and boys have
learned new.lessons in natural history
from owning these beasts. One IS that
horse and mustang are two different
things, and that mustang has all the
bad qualities of the mule with none of
the mules good ones Another dis ov-
cry is that mustangs have liking Tor
human flesh, and would rather nip OF a
good bite from the top OF the head, or n
choice morsel from the shoulder of the
unfortunate individ lal attending them
than to feed on the choicest hay or
grain. Then, toD, after time, one
gets tired of exhibiting h hmself on the
back of these stubborn, bucking ami
mails for the amusement and diversion
of the spectators. Any would-be buyer
of these beasts left in these parts OF the
country can make good bargains In
Westtield.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
BOUND TO SEE THE ASTORS.
The Successful Ruse of n Stranger TO Sec
Two Great Men.

Tie Successful Rnse of n Stranger TO See
Two Great Men.
/ know a man who desired to get an
audience with the present heads of the
Astor family, says a correspondent of
The Albany Journal. They are not cas-
lily accessible for strangers. Every caller
is required to state his, business to a
clerk, who communicates with one of
the great millionaires, If necessary, but
more than likely refers the matter to
competent subordinate. But my friend
was bound to see the Astors, Just. to
gratify his curiosity, for he had no bust
ness with them. their Offices are in
bank-iike structure, in side street close
to broadway. On one front door is the
name "John Jacob Astor, and on the
other " William w. Astor"
He entered an interior that was fitted
up with high rails and inclosed desks,
so that the visitor had to make his ap-
plication to a face that appeared behind
an aperture in wired fence. The curl
osity y-seeker comprehended that he
would fail unless he resorted to some
winning device.
81 have an appointment with the old
gentlemen, - he said, drawing his watch
after the manner of hurried man, 81
suppose they are In2"
81 will see," replied the clerk; shall
| take in your card7"
elf you please" and the impostor
produced one, land say to them that
am sorry to be five minutes late"
The ingenuity of the attack brought
victory. He was shown promptly into
the presence of the two Astors. They
were old-fashioned, grey of hair and
whiskers, and not in any way remark
able to look at. The apartment was the
private Office of John Jacob Astor, but
William was there and seemingly domi-
nant with his larger statue, fuller face
and more emphatic manner. The fuT9i-
ture was very heavy, but plain, and the
place suggested the presidents room in
bank of N odern pretences. William
still held the card in his hand, and was
evidently trying to recall the name as
that. of somebody who had made an
appointment.
''What is it, sir2" he said inquiringly.
81 called to see whether it would be
of any use to make an offer for some
real estate that belongs to you," re
sponded the caller, cody. He knew
that he was safe, because the Astors sell
no property under any circumstances.
Said William:
81 hardly think so. What piece had
you in mind2"
''The Astor House. There is a pro-
ject to buy that, and y
"Quite impracticable. No offer in any
amount would be considered"
But he had seen the Astors all the
same.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16

YELLOW ROSES.

"Tis the told old story of youth and maid,
Thro' memorys chasms, re-echoing low,
Of rich yellow roses, a cluster he sent,
In the long ago-in the long ago.
A wee dainty note in its heart lay hid,
Mong the buds concealed, like fairy sprite,
At the ball, it read, sc if with me you'll wed,
Wear rose to-night-wear rose tonight" b"
Bewildered by light, by sound and sight,
With nsscent hope his spirit glows,
Now the heart beats for she comes at last !,
But alas no rose-alas, no rose!
Without one word unseen, unheard,
With smothered sigh and downcast eye;
With cheek that burns and heart that
breaks,
He passes by-he passes by.
With breast that throbs and a brain on fire
With bated breath and sudden start
Her lovers "good-night," to the host she
hears,
Like kneu at her heart-like knen at her
heart.
Years many have flown -o,er oceans unknown,
Tho roaming he ever remembers that day
'Lang Syne" is sweet, once more they meet,
Their locks are gray-their locks are gray.
s''Tis fancy inferred in the tomb of our
years,
Youth has ever" he muses., ''for age
charm"
So he tells her at last, for the tempest is past,
And his heart is calm-his heart is calm.
ssGolden roses, as rich as the orioles wing,
That day ON my heart is engrayen," cries
she;
''But the note 'mong the roses, so carefully
hid,
Was ne'er seen by me-ne'er seen by me-"
Then she lifts with care, from casket rare"
Oft summed by smiles, oft bedewed by tears,
The, yellow roses, still treasured by love,
Thro' those weary years-thro' those weary
years.
silken cord of tine skys. Ightest blue she
unties,
Like gem in the earth at the clusters core
Rests the dainty, triangular, sweet-scented
note,
Never found before-never found before.
All there's many wreck on times rough sea,
That the world knows not-shall never know,
And there's many heart guards its faded rose
Of the long ago-of the long ago.
j. Hooker HdnlerSley.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
MOun'ain Meadow Massacre.

The "Mountain Meadow Massacre"
is, in brief, as follows: In the summer
of 1857, one of the finest cmigrant trains
that ever crossed the Western prairies
stopped at Mountain Meadow. short
distance lie Ond Salt Lake City, for re-
frCshment before proceeding on their
tlresome journey to Los Angeles, Cal.
For long time no trace of the missing
train was found. The last stopping
place was Mountain Meadows, that was
all that was known. Years afterward
the "Sains of the Latter Day Church"
declared that being "inspired by Al
mighty God" they had sought the aid of
their Indian allies and had mercilessly
slaughtered every soul on the train, eX-
cept several young children, whom they
took to Salt Lake with them. Some of
these children, thought TO be too young
to be impressed by the massacre, testi.
fed against the saints The Federal
authorities sought to bring the guilty to
justice, but the Mormon jury refused to
act. Their Bishop, Klingen Smith, es-
capped and made public confession in
Nevada. In 1871 John ID. Lee, known
TO be the leader of the murderers, and
several ac2omplices, were eXcommuni-
Gated from the Mormon church and fed
to the Indian erritory. Lee was for
merly a Bishop of the Mormon Church,
and was shot on the scene of the atroci-
Gus massacre. in March, 1878. Other
accomplices in this affair are said to have
become MANAGES and destroyed them
selves The process of investigation
covered period of twenty years.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16

"DocToR, my son William is not well
He has not got any appetite and he com
plains of headache and general debil-
ity." "My dear madame, the best thing
is to try a simple household remedy" "
''What household remedy do you sug-
gest, Doctor" Deprive him of mis-
latch key SO he will be obliged to stay
at home after dark. "
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16

WHILE A CIRCUS was parading in
Kingston. Canada, recently, a wagon
containing a den of hons was overturned
and the top of the den knocked of. A
fire was built around the cage to keep
the lions in until repairs were made,
and then the wagon was raised by the
aid of two elephants
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16

IT is told in st. Paul that the child
rem in Minneapolis, its near by and
hated rival, have refused to read the
bible in the public schools because it is
''filled full of talk about St. Paul, !"
while from Genesis to Revelation there
is no mention made of Minneapolis.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16
A FIGHT.

Uncle Sam Well, now, what's the
matter with youl
TeAas-I want to fight Mexico.
I'nc.e Sam-Well I'm not doing any
thing to prevent it.
Texas ST hats just what I'm scolding
about Why don't you come and hold
me?- OmJkG H0rid.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16

ALL the cannon foundries of EuI ope
are overrun with orders and working
day and night. While they make guns
abroad we make plows and work to
raise the food that must support the
luxury OF war.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16

TEN YEARS AGO apaper box maker died
in New Orleans, leaving his widow with
nothing but knowledge OF his trade She
went to work in her attic room making
boxes, and was so successful in getting
orders that she soon had more than she
could do. She hired help, added room
after room, and now employs thirty-ti,e Q
hands She travels for her own house,
taking long drumming tours through
Texas and Louisiana, and is getting
rich fast.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16

"IT's a wife's duty to be pleasant,
says an exchange. Yes, and it's the
husbands duty to make her duty easy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16

Inqulsitive Son -"Papa, what does
the word alleged mean, whi h l see
used so muchl" Editor ''Well, it
means, hem reported pretended
supposed to be, and the like" ''But
l don't understand. papa. Now. what
Is an alleged business man, for in
stancel" IAN alleged business man,
my son, is man who doesn't advertise.
fAiIadeLuhiM CME
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-09-16

The illustrious traveller looked con
temptuously at the mountains. Moth
ing very steep about here" he said
scornfully make out this BILL said
the noble landlord turning to the gal
liant clerk. pronounced Clark And
a great hush of measureless awe came
into the office and sat down on a trunk
listening to the rcmorseless scratch Of
the busy pen that was laying a grade of
about four feet to the yard.-Burde te.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-23
WHOLE NO 1924

ST. Paul and Omaha, 4s4 Texas-Pacific,
III; Union Pacific, 574 Wells-Fargo Ex-
press, l30; Western Union, 635.
Miners on Strike.
PITTsBuRG, June 22d-President Cos
tello, of the Miners Association, returned
yesterday from tour of the coal mines
along the Baltimore and Ohio road, and
reports the men at all the mines except one
are on strike for the Columbus scale Of
wages.
Attempt at Bribery.
ALBANY IN. ", June 22d.-Judge Mott
announced in the Albany County Court to-
day that he was approached by Superin-
tendent McEwen, of the Albany Peniten-
tiary, with an offer of $50 apiece for each
long term prisoner sent to that institution.
This attempt at bribery created profound
sensation.
Delaware Prohibitionists.
WILMINGToE, June 22d.-The State Tenn
perance Convention met at Dover to-day.
James r. Hoffmecker, of Middletown, was
nominated for Governor, and Richard NJ.
Cooper, OF Mooretown, for Congress.
Pennsylvania Greenbaclsers.
MEADvILLE, June 22d.-The Greenback
Convention, in session here to-day, nonl-
mated John Hall, ofthis city, for Congress-
Debtors Released.
New YORK, June 23d-A M-Justice
Donahue, in the Supreme Court chambers.
yesterday released Augustine r. Melon
aid, Terrence Menett and Julie Chattilon,
from Ludlow-street Jail, on writ of ha-
beas corpus, under provision of the
amended debt law The Justice decided
the law unconstitutional, holding that a
creditor had no vestige of right in the body
of his debtor, and that the new law merely
alters the method of enforcing the decree
of the Court for the payment of a debt.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-23

MINERAL WAX SLEEPERs.-On the Trans
caspian Railroad in Russia, now approach
ing Merv, it is claimed that about $500 per
mile is being saved by the use of ozokerite,
or mineral wax, for ties. When puri-
fed, melted and mixed with lime
stone and gravel. the ozokerite, which
is abundant in the vicinity of the rail-
road, produces a very good asphalt
This is pressed into shape in boxes, and
gives ties which retain their form and
hardness even in the hottest weather.