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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
Hindu Child Marriages.

It ia essential for the honor Of Hindu
family of good caste, says a writer in a
contemporary, that it soould contain no
unmarried daughter of mature years.
The existence of such daughter is not
only a social disgrace, but religious
crime. When, therefore, a female infant
is born, the first idea # her fathers
mind is not one of pleasure, nor perhaps
of very active regret, but simply how to
find husband for her. 1t is not neces-
sary that she should become a wife In
our sense of the word. 1t suffices that
she should be given in marriage, and
90 through the ceremony or the Seven
Steps, which completes the religious
rite. Aged Brahmans, of good family
still 10 about the country marrying for
a pecuniary consideration, female infants
whom they sometimes never see again.
Within the memory of men still living
this abominable practice was flourish
ing trade. A Kulin Brahman, perhaps
white haired, half blind, and decreplt,
went the round of his beat each spring,
going through the ceremony of marriage
with such female infants as were offered,
and pocketing his fee and perhaps never
returned to tie child's house So long
as he lived she could marry no other
man; when he died she became a widow
for life. The Hindu child widow is
looked upon as a thing apart ind &C
cursed, bearing the penalty in this world
for sins she has committed in a past
existence. Her hair is cut short, or her
head is shaved altogether; she exchanges
her pretty childish clothes for the widows
coarse and often squalid garment; she
is forbidden to take part in any village
festival or family gathering; the very
sight of her is regarded as an i'll omen.
l. er natural woman's instincts are starved
into hamilton by constant fasts sometimes
prolonged to seventy-tw hours. Amid
the genial and brightly-colored life of
the Hindu family she fits about dis
arrayed, silent, Stunned, disfgured -
in some parts of India, a hideously
bald object forbidden all JOY and all
hope. There are hundreds of thousands
of widows in India who have acquiesced
in their cruel lot. They accept with a
pathetic faith and resignation the priest
ly explanation which is given to them.
They penitently believe that they are
explating sins committed in past life,
and they humbly trust that their purify
ing sorrows here will win reward in
the life to come.-LOndOn st Grd0rd.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25

A CURIOUS law suit is in progress in a
small town in SaXony. A man caught
a rat, tied small bell around its neck,
and let 1t go again, as he had heard
that such rat would scare every other
rat out of the house. The plan sue
ceeded, and his house in few days
was clear of the plague. A few nights
later, however his neighbours family
were nearly frightened out of their wits
by hearing the mysterious sound of n
bell in various parts of the house. They
cam to the conclusion that the house
was haunted, until the servant girl &C
cidentally heard of their neighbours do
ings, who now is to be fined, if he
loses the suit, for creating nuisance.
A TwELvE-YEAR OLD Illinois girl and
a shotgun held tramp in a kitchen I'M
til the girls mother could walk mile
and get the help of some men. The
tramp had bundled up lot Of stuff to
take off. The child explained: 81 kind
O. wanted to shoot him, but he was so
quiet and civil that l didn't get a
chance to-"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
An Eagle In Md DC al.

When the steamship Polaria of the
! Union Direct Hamburg line, which ar
rived recently, was eight days out and
| nearly in mid-Ocean, First Mate TrauI-
sen was hit On the head by some hing
and knocked nearly off the bridge, on
which he stood smoking his pipe He
thought al first that some part of the
rigging had been blown loose, but a big
bird came tiuttering down on the ceck
exhausted. He ran down and seized
the bird, which proved to be large
eagle of kind seldom caught. The
bird was SO exhausted that it was easily
captured. Traulsen tied the bird to the
deck and gave it a piece of raw meat.
This the bird devoured as though it had
had nothing to eat for several DAYS.
The voracity of the bird indicated that
it would be an expensive boarder, but
the POlaria, like other merchant vessels.
carries good many rats, and the sailors
were set to catching them. A big fel-
low was thrown down in front of the
cage, which caught it and broke its neck
before it had time to sniff. The eapIe
stripped of the flesh, and in five min
utes not bone was left The bird ate
all the rats the sailors could catch that
day. The ship carpenter soon rugged
up neat and comfortable cage, and the
eagle wss put into it. The eagle is a
beautiful bird, delicately speckled with
brown and white feathers. Its head is
small, but its eyes are large, and in the
dark they glow like balls of fire. y hen
the mate puts his hand in it stands I'D
straight opens its crooked bills, and
misses like an owl. Now that the birds
appetite, after the long fast in mid ocean
has been satisfied, it eats only four rats
a day Trauisen says he will take it
back to Hamburg. ~. Y. .5aa.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
Affecting Scene in Court.
YOUNG EMBEZzLER TEARFULLY PLEAD
ING FOR FORGIvENE S, NOT LENITY.

&c. Cameron, handsomely dressed
young man, with long, flowing blond
moustache and intelligent face, trem5led
violently as he stood before Justice Lyon
in Chicago, charged with embezzlement.
Near him stood MIR Mortimer McRoberts
his employer With tears in his eyes
the prisoner pleaded to his employer for
forgiveness, but not leniency, for he i'm
mediately turned to his Honor, and, in
quivering voice, said:
q am guilty. Let me get through
and 90 to the penitentiary as soon as
possible. The strain upon me is too
much" And he hung his head and wept
like a child.
The scene was an effectinG one. Even
the magistrate, to whom such scenes
are not rare, seemed touched, for he
kindly told the penitent prisoner not TO
lose heart, take his punishment, and let
this experience be lesson to HIM. A
mittimus was made out, and IN three
minutes the self-confessed embeZzler
was on his way to Jail. AS he desired
to go to prison as soon as possible, he
was sentenced. The amount of Cam
eron's defalcation is $4,000, taken dur
ing the past three years.
His employer, was also greatly
affected. II raised that young man,
and trusted him implicitly" said he,
but of late his fast living began to be
noticed, and it finally came to my ears.
l ordered an investigation of his books,
and soon a shortage was discovered.
He was charged with dishonesty, and,
after weak denial, confessed his gullt,
Women and wine are the cause OF his
down fall. He seldom gambied.
Cameron is about twenty-el years
of age, and single man. He is an ex-
cellent business man, and fine book
keeper, his cleverness at the latter en-.
abling him to doctor the books beyond
detection.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
One of Herrmann'S Tricks.

Hermann, the famous slight of hand
performer, was summering at a foreign
watering place, and was constantly be-
sieged by the Countess Somebody to
perform some of his tricks lie pleaded
that he was on his vacation, and that he
desired to rest. Finally she cornered
him in a pavilion overlooking the sea,
and in the presence of a large company
entreated him to show them what he
could do You have beautiful neck
lace, he said at last; ''please let me
have it." The Countess complied, and
Hermann immediately threw the costly
chain of gems into the ocean. GLOW
dare YOU do that2" demanded the Count
augrily
Without replying, Hermann reached
forward and brought forth large bou-
quet from the inside of the gentleman's
coat. Handing it to the Countess, he
babe her open it. ''She did So" says
Hermann, laughingly, telling the story,
''and right in the bouquet she found her
necklace. Now that was real nice, wash t
it,"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
Brigandage in China.

The Courier de pEictrenae Orient gives
the following account of an act of
brigandage committed in the town of
Hu-Chang, in the province of Kiang- 81 I:
''Eerly on the morning Of the 18th (Au-
gust five men wearing the uniform of
the Chinese army, probably discharged
soldiers, came to one of the principal
pawnshops of HUI Chang, situated in one
of the suburbs. They offered their uni
forms, in pledge, but the clerk refused
to accept them, saying that they were
the property of the State. While the
discussion was going on five other SOL
d1ers entered, and then came twenty
seven more, whereupon the whole band
closed the doors and barricaded them,
producing their rms and threatening
to shoot the men in the shop if they of
fered any resistance. They gagged the
shopmen and proceeded to pillage the
establishment. Several passers by, hear.
ing a great noise within, gave the alarm,
and two or three companies of soldiers
were despatched from the nearest sta
ton. The mandarin In command of
the troops, not knowing the strength of
the brIgands within. hesitated to attack
the house, but merely surrounded it {;
seeing which the leader of the brigands
or cred his men to cut Off the heads of
the shOpmen and throw them out of the
window one by one among the crowd
collected in the street. Not until one
of the servants of the house, who had
been to market, returned and counted
the heads, numbering forty seven IN all,
which had been thrown out into the
street, did the commander of the troops
determine to attack the house, and
when he did so the brigands allowed
themselves to be captured without offer
ing the least resistance.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
Thanksgiving Day in 1888.

| Thanksgiving meant much in the
| early time of New England, when the
very life of the colony might depend
upon a shower of rain On ali the
| coast of New England there is pretty
| mer, and this dTouth caused the first
| corners extreme apprehension.
/ The soil was light, the sun was burn
ing hot, and the discouraged farmers
saw the corn upon which their existence
depended whitening day by day. One
of the old ministers of 1858 wrote in
the quaint manner of the period, and
not without q touch of Yankee humor
'The chiefest corn the people planted
before they had plows was Indian grain,
whose increase is very much beyond all
| other, to the great refreshing of the
poor servants of Christ in their low be-
ginnings. All kinds of garden fruits
grew very well, and let no man make a
Jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the
Lord was pleased &c feed His people, to
their good content, till corn and cattle
were increased"
But even pumpkins will not grow
without rain. In the summer of 1888
there was a dry time 50 prolonged and
so alarming that the people gathered to-
gether to pray for saving shower. AS
the wri er already quoted records, "they
fell down on their knees" and urged it
as "a chief argument that the malig-
nant adversary would rejoice in their
destruction"
Tie answer promptly came: GAS they
poured out water before the Lord, So
at that very instant, the Lord showered
down water on their gardens and fields,
and, as the drops from heaven fell
thicker and faster, so the tears from
their eyes, by reason OF the sudden
mixture of joy and sorrow"
TO crown their happiness, "whole
shiploads of mercies' arrived from be-
You'd the seas. In gratitude for this tor
rent Of blessing, the seven churches of
New England appointed the sixteenth
day of October as Day of Thanksgiv-
ing and Praise. Thanksgiving was no
mere form. "Ihey took up the cup of
thanksgiving, and paid their VOWS to
the Most High"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
Tie Ben FRANKLIN Trust Fund.

The Philadelphia Item says: "The
immortal Benjamin left by his will a
fund of $50, 600, which is administered
by the City Board of Trusts. The orig
inaI sum of $50, 600 has grown to $50 .
220. 1t is a significant fact that the en-
tire amount now loaned to artificers is
about 50, 600. Those who desire to ap.
ply for this fund must make their appii-
cation to Mr.. c. S. Roulon, 10 South
Twelfth street, between he hours of 10
A. NJ and l P NJ, who will furnish
them with a blank on which to make
application. They must have learned a
trade and have been indentured appren-
tees They must not be over 35 years
and be married. If they then furnish
two satisfactory securities that they will
return the money in ten annual install
me is, they can secure a loan of 5000 on
} per cent. interest. | is needless to
say that the are now but few men I'm
der 35 yea Of age who have been in
dentured apprentices.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
WOMEN AS HIGHWAY ROBBERS.
The Story Which Cansed the Arrest of
two Gay Females.

A dispatch from Rome, n. Y, says
A story of attempted highway robbery,
IN which two women were the actors, is
the sensation of the hour in this part of
the State. The persons implicated are
Mrs. Susan Scoville, a young widow,
who tends canal lock, eight miles
north of this city, and Miss Mary Jane
Dunn, a dashing girl, barely 20 years
old. The scene Of the all ged CRIME is
on road between here and BoonviIle,
the loneliest and most desolate public
highway in Oneida County The COM
plainants in the case are Hugh Dorritty,
Luther Jones and Miss Jones. Their
story is that, while driving from Hill
side, one dark night last month, to
their home in North Western, their
horse was suddenly halted at a point
about midway between the two villages
! in lonely spot on the west side of Pad
| docks Woods. A revolver, they say,
was presented at their heads and they
We're commanded at the peril of their
lives, to deliver up whatever money or
valuables they had on their persons.
Two mounted figures, apparently those
OF men, could be distinguished in the
/ darkness, one at the side of the car
| rage and the other standing directly
across the roadway at their horses head.
Dorrltty protested that he and his com
paniOns had neither money nor valua-
bles. He gave h S name to the seeming
highwaymen, and lighted match to
disclose his identity. The carriage was
finally allowed to pass on after the oc-
cupants had been warned to keep the
fact that they had been stopped on the
highway close secret. Dorritty claims
that when he lighted the match he got
a good look at the supposed highway
men, and that despit the fact that they
were dressed partly in male attire he
recognized them as Mrs. Scoville and
the Dunn girl.
After waiting more than month he
SwOre out a warrant for the arrest, and
they were taken into custody last Friday
evening. On being arraigned tn
pleaded not guilty, and gave bail in
81, 900 each to appear for examination
before Justice Haynes at North West,
ern, Both women make light of the
affair, and say it was simply "a little
lark Their story is that on the even
ing in question they got a couple of
horses in pasture, mounted them bare
pdCh, duu IOue from E1lllSlue 10 NOFCl
Western, distance of six miles. They
had no garment of mems wear, except
hats, they claim. On he home journey
they heard a carria c coming and con
suited as to the best means of passing
it and avoiding the ditch. Dorritty
must have heard their voices, as ne
called out: 'Is that you, Mary Jane?"
She then asked: ''Is that you Hugh
Dorritty9" Then, Mrs. Scoville says,
the Dunn girl refined her steed in front
of Dorritty's horse and stopped him,
while she rode up and demanded that
be li-ht a match so that she could dis
tlnguish him. Both women say they
had no revolvers, made no demand for
money or valuables, and meant no harm.
Their arrest has caused great excitement
all over the county.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
A Death at Sea.
THE LAST DAYS OF A MEMBER OF GREE
LY'S PARTY.

LY'S PARTY.
A doctor who had been with the Gree
~ Relief Expedition was speaking of
| poor Ellison, whose hands and feet wei
| frozen off amid the horrors of Cape Sa-
bine and who died aiterward on board
the Bear. He said: 1.-The night poor
Ellison died l sat by his bunk all night.
| lie was delirious, and rolled his head
necessarily to and fro on his pillow. He
muttered constantly, sometimes in Ger
man and sometimes in English. By
listening carefully could get the drift
of what was passing through his mind.
Sometimes he thought he was in Ger
many and saw the warm sunlight fall on
the cottages of his native village. 1t was
touching to hear this man, who every
minute drew ne irer to his death, CON
verse in his delirium with the friends of
his boYhood. But quickly always his
mind reverted to the suffering, the no =
rors and the glorious achievements of
| those who had struggled with him IN
der the midnight sun amid the eternal
ice and snow. 1t seemed that he and
Henry had been friends, and when he
learned that Henry had stolen the food
OF his starving companions 1t unnamed
him more than all his sufTerings Hen
rvs stern execution when he was shot
to death on the barren crags of Sabine
seemed to have been additional shock
to him. He would say: 'Henry-im-
possible no, no-dead, dead-I am
lucky and unlucky for ever ard ever
Captain Mares Lieutenant Greedy
North Pole South Pole-impOssible-
impossible forever and ever. / am hap
Ply and unhappy forever and ever And
with these words on his lips he died.
closed the sightless eyes of that poor
handless and footless body that had en-
dured and suffered so much, and vent
on deck. We were sailing along the
Greenland coast and the morning was
breaking over the icy cliffs of "a Stern
and barren shore. The CHASTITY ghost
of dead world seemed to be there, and
as | gazed at our black and solemn
feet, and thought that the ships bore
the dead and those who hung between
life and death back from that horrible
Cape Sabine, 1 felt as if all Nature sang
the De Protundss.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
Some Good Receipts.

Grape Catchup-Wild grapes make
make delicious catchup and jelly. Boil
grapes until soft, then press through 8
coarse sieve. To five pounds of grape
pu add three pounds of sugar, one
teaspOonful of CT namOn, ne teaspoon.
full each of cloves, pepper and allspice
one grated nutmeg, one quart of vine,
gar. Boil slowly until thick as coma
to catchup, then bottle.
Wild Grape Jelly-Stew wild grapes
until soft, then press through flame
jelly bag. Boil juice twenty five min
utes, if bright, clear day; If rainy OF
cloudy, it will take fifteen minute.
longer; then add sugar at the rate Of
one teacupful of sugar to four teacup
fuIs of juice, and boil until it iellIe,
when dropped on cold plate. Place
IN Jelly glasses and keep in a dry, COO
cellar.
Grape Jelly, or catchup IS a very fnt
accompaniment to roast mutton or veni
son, as we'll as with other roast meat.
The sea serDnDt and WiuoipC bov,o ,,o,,o II, +r
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
MYSTERIOUS PRACTICAL JOKING.
The Extraordinary Fun Unknown Parties
had with Farmer Car. er's Property.

Elias Carter, a farmer living near the
border of Potter county, Pa, got up
early on Friday morning to build his
fires in the house as usual, but on light
ing them was astonished to see the
smoke driven back into the rooms so
that the house was soon filled with Its
sulfocating volume. Investigating the
cause of the trouble, Carter found that
fiat stones had been laid over the tops
of all his chimneys, thus preventing the
escape of smoke. After removing the
stones from the chimneys the farmer
went out to his barn. On approaching
it he discovered a hay rigging, which
had been taken from the wheels of the
wagon near by, perched on the ridge
pole-e -tAa-basa-i from the
ground. In amazement at who could
have played these tricks upon him, as
his nearest neighbor is two miles away,
and there are not dozen people living
within ten miles of him, Carter en-
tered his barnyard. There he found
his eight cows huddled together in the
middle of the yard, being tied one to
another by a rope secured at the root of
each ones tail in a tight and immov-
dDlC huOG. NdIlSI, NJ" I1OIObSuIf
aroused, cut the rope, released his COWS,
and hurried into his barn to see if fur
ther mischief had been played with his
property there. His three horses were
gone. He found tracks outside leading
in three different directions. Summon
ing his two sons, Carter started on one
of the trails, and sent one of his sons on
each of the others The farmer fol-
lowed the track plainly through a rye
field to a back wood lot, half mile
away, where he found one of his horses
tied to tree. His sons found the
other horses tied in a similar manner in
out of he-way fields, one mile distant.
There is not the slightest clue to the
perpetrators of these extraordinary
practical Jokes. The nearest village is
nine miles distant, and the locality is
sparsely settled. There were no wagon
tracks to be found approaching or leav-
ing Carriers farm in any direction. AS
the raising of the hay rigging to the
peak OF the barn roof must have re-
CURED the work of at least SIX men, the
mystery is made still deeper.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25

THE SMALL BROTHER. young man
in the town of Lee, Me, is more strongly
impressed than ever with the incon-
venience of small brothers. He har-
messed up the old mare and went to a
dance. After the festivities he walked
home with his most fascinating partner,
spent blissful hour with her, and then
footed 1t to his own room After turn.
ing into bed with his younger brother,
at 1 or 2 in the morning, he remem.
bered that he had left the old mare
shivering in the cold two or three miles
away, and he offered the younger 81 to
go and get her and hold his tongue
The boy said $500 wouldn't induce HIM
to do either. Then the absent minded
fellow realized his mistake.-LeUiSt0a
lHe.) ,I07 rn0l
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25

A STORY IS told of a French Canadian
doctor in Montreal who had an account
against printer, which he could not
collect. he printer offered to work it
out, which the doctor agreed to. After
getting all the printing done he needed
there was still balance. The doctors
wife was sick at the time, and he &c
cordingIy decided to get some blank
funeral notices with her name on them.
These he locked in his desk The wife
recovered, and the funeral notices were
forgotten by the husband One day he
unguardcdly Lett his desk open Dis
covory was the result-and the wife
now talks Of suing for separation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
&1.GnO RanYnrd

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and upwards daily. Some have made over
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start YOU Capital not required. All ages
Both sexes; All particulars free. Those who
are wise will write at once and learn for them
selves. Snug little fortunes await every
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25

Mr.. Arthur Shurtleff, Parker, Dakota, writes
that lie suffered for two years with a lame
knee which was entirely cured by the use Of
st. Jacobs Oil. He considers 1t most Won
derfuI remedy. 1t conquers pain.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-25
G. ataFrh

Is a complaint which affects nearly everybody more
or less 1t originates in impure blood and is agra
waited by taking cold DL agreeable fow from the
nose, tickling In the throat Offensive breath pain
over and between the eyes, ringing and bursting
noises in the ears are the more common symptoms.
Catarrh is cured by Hoods sarsGparilla, which
strikes directly at the cause by removing ell impuri-
ties from the blood
81 had catarrh nine years, and suffered terribly
with it. Soon after began to take Hoods Sarsapa-
pari the catarrh troubled me less and after tax
ing three bottles was entirely cured "JANE HSEV,
Lumberton. Clinton County, Ohio.
81 have taken Hoods sarsaparil1a for catarrh and
think 1t has done great deal OF good. recon-
mend 1t to all within my reach. Hoods Sarsapsrila
has been worth everything to me."-LUTEEs D. BsB-
BINS. East Thompson, Ct