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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22

There are two markets opposite each
other in Gibraltar, the Spanish market
and the Moorish market, for nothing of
any account is produced in Gibraltar. In
the Moorish market are all kinds of
fruits, chickens and eggs, brought over
from Morocco. The eggs come in large
hampers made of grass and willow, and
holding 5000. Eggs sell about one hun
dred for from five 70 six francs Ono
can buy 500 juicy oranges for 81. 80. The
sellers sit in their narrow stalls in front of
thousands of live chickens that keep up
continual clstter.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22
The English Royal Family.

1t costs good deal to support Queen
Victoria and her family. Here is list
of the amounts as near as they can be got
at in dollars: The Queen receives annually
about So, 100, 600; the Prince of Wales,
$6OO,OOO; Prince Alfred, $3.50, 900; /;
Prince Arthur, $145, 900; Princess Royal,
$50, 700; Princess Helena, $50, 900 /;
Princess Louise, $50, 900; Princess
Beatrice, $4,000 Duchess of Albany,
$50, 900; Duchess of Cambridge, $50, 900 (;
Princess Augusta, $15, 600; Duke of Cam
bridge, $4,000 Duke OF Edinburgh,
$13O, 900; Princess Mary, S25, 600 /;
Prince Edward of Saxe-W eimar, $16,-
900; Prince Leiningen, $4,000; Prince
Victor of Hohenlohe, $40, 900.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22

FISH OR CUT BA1T.-1f the Canadians
won't permit our fishermen to buy bait
in their ports, why don't the latter dig
enough worms before starting out on a
fishing expedition We know how diff
cult it i to find worm when 1t Is
wanted for fish-bait, but if our Ameri-
can fishermen will circulate around
among men who are digging garden,
they will find enough bait TO last them
all summer.-Norrtst0Wn HsTGLd,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22

THAT SETTLED IT. - George W.
Vaughan, of Buffalo, has big Confed-
crate flag that floated over the Richmond
Dispatch office until Richmond fell.
Some time ago he wrote to the Dispatch
people, telling them that he had their
old flag, and offering to exchange it for
a Union flag. The answer came prompt
ly and politely that they had had all
they wanted of the rebel flag, and that
Mr.. Vaughan was quite welcome to it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22
ExpENs1vE.-John Burkey, of Henry

EXPENSIVE. John Burkey, OF Henry-
Vile, Ind, has an extremely comical
laugh. Benjamin jerks, of New Alba
nv, heard one of his risibles the other
day and Immediately offered him 81 a
day If he would go to New Albany and
sit around his place for the benefit of his
patrons. Burkey accepted the offer,
but after three days of amusement for
the guests bought him off with ten
dollar note. He was funny, but expen-
siYe,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22

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
payment
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22
The Following Is Partial List or my
OFFERINGS OF REAL ESTATE

One e5O-Acre dwelling barns sheds etc. suitably
vded age PASTURE TIMBER apple running
formerly
sawmi strong productive
sded selling Will down.
per year.
buildings good water good soil; price s75o25o
down, balance so per year.
Hyde village laboring man
vegetables price down.
balance so per year.
Dwelling good building.
good size; price balance
Hyde desirable
meadow price $50 per acre by
Will sell part or all
Several Good Building village enterprsing
industrious young
nails DOORS sash,
build respectable houses and allow payment therefor
payments parcels two and three
those who land with
lots, S75 srOO. s125 and $3.50 EACH
One Store Hyde village Pagea
five at two hundred dollars per year. but ar
probably vacated desired Price,
s2.OOO-s5OO down, 500 year.
Sixty This lot land not sub
ject taxation Will sell
within two miles of
mill and lot and represented be cheap
desiring $50 s5 and s25 in
dollars reserved until am paid
the banks OF the
pond supplies Fl mill Park Price $500
down. year. Two dollars umpge reserved till lot is
paid
Building within rods Of both the vt and
Fohburg Price s4OO1O0 down. balance 50
that vau
apprase but am determined te
of earliest
will find this property well worth
either the parcels real
AS CHEAP one OF the ABOVE
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22
How to Disinrect Carpets.

If any article of household furniturs
requires disinfecting occasionally, it is a
carpet; especially If it has been used
considerable time. The following is a
method recommended by lady house
keeper, both as disinfectant and pre-
ventive of moths: Add three tablespoon
fuls of turpentine to three quarts of
water. Saturate large sponge with this
mixture, squeeze it about two-thirds
dry, and 60 over the carpet carefully.
AS often as the sponge becomes dirty,
cleanse it and take in fresh supply of
water
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22
HOME AFFAIRS.

The fashioned slippers, worked in
wool and silk on canvas, are coming in
again, but they are improved upon in
the designs. Tulips and other flowers
are worked in embroidery stitch, the
ground only in cross stitch. Griffins and
heraldic devices, as well as crests, are also
placed on the front, while some of the
groundworks are shot with silver. Quito
the newest have large pieces of plush tied
on the canvas, forming part of the pat
tern.
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SIZE WAS THERE.

Bob lngersoll recently was talking
with an old colOred woman in Wash
ington upon religious matters. "Do
you really believe, Aunty," said he,
that people are made out of dust 2"
Eyes, sab; the Bible says dey is, an so
b'lieves it" "But what is done in wet
weather, when there is nothing but
mud 2" ''Den l s'pects dey make in
tiduls an sich truck. PUCK,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22
CARROLL S. PAGE.

Hyde Park. VT, Feb 2, 1885.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22

Mr.. Hopeful Ito young Hopeful, home
from Harvard Thomas, may l ask
how much your cigars cost you ~ Tom
Twelve dollars a hundred, Governor.
usually get a thousand at time and
geS them somewhat cheaper" Mr.. H
''Wha-what 2 Twelve dollars Why,
I've got TO be satisfied with tobies my
SELF" Tom-"That's business, Cover
nor If had as many children to edu.
cate as you have, l wouldn't smoke at
all. - PittsLLrn IeLnrnnh
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-22

eyes" said Mrs. Hendricks to the
minister, who was dining with the fam
lily, ''Bobby says his prayers every
night, like good little boy"
'Ah, indeed" replied the minister
very much pleased, "and do you pray
for papa and mamma, Bobby2"
ooh, yes, for both of 'em, although
I've often heard ma tell pa that he is
past praying for"
The National tribune., 1886-04-08
FLOWER SEEDS FREE
FOR A NEW SUBSCRIBER,

The cultivation of flowers is the fine art
of the farm. Nothing else contributes so
much TO the pleasure and c0ntentment of
country life. Many are deferred from en-
joying in this pleasurable pursuit by a
fancied difficulty in the way of the success of
an amateur. The fact is, tulips are as easily
raised as turnips.
We have made an arrangement to put
within reach of all who wish them choice
collection of seeds Oftlowers that are fayorites
the world over. We do this without cost to
the recipient, and at the same time give
warranted fresh and sure growing seeds from
the warehouse of Messrs. W. Atlee Burpee
& Co, of Philadelphia, who assure us that
the collection will give satisfaction to all
lovers of flowers.
The collection is to consist of the follow
ing 10 fayorites, there being an ample pack
age of each variety, viz: ASters BaIsamS,
Paa$y, Mignonette, Petunia, Palor Drum
moRdii, Yerbena HgJrida, Double Zinia, S,reet
Peas, and Canary Bird FlOwer.
We will send this splendid collection free
of all charge to every ReW subscriber to THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE, who asks for it, up to
May l; and also to every present subscriber
who will send us recruit-that is, the name
of new subscriber for one year, accompanied
by the price of the paper alone, nothing at
ali being charged for the flower seeds.
We trust that our friends will appreciate
this offer, and avail themselves of it freely.
The National tribune., 1886-04-08

French pork growers are going to be any less
greedy of profits at some time in the future
than they now are? If it does, what an
innocent, giuleless old State Department it
must be! Continuing, Mr. Porter says:
The opposition of the German Government to
American pork is pronounced at present that it
was not thought advisable to open negotiations.
All these foreign Governments claim that our pork
is dangerous to the health of consumers. can say
more than that i believe it to be the best pork
in the world.
Of course it is the best pork in the world,
for the American hog is the cleanest, health
lest, best-fed pork animal in the world, and
is no more to be compared to the swill and
offal-fed swine of Europe than the milk from
clover pasture dairy is to the product OF
the stump-tai COWS that feed on distillery
slops.
The German Legation in this country
says:
American pork is not prohibited in Germany be-
cause it is American pork but because it is dam
gerous article of food. Americans do not cure and
much of that formerly sold in German markets
spoiled. This and the discovery of trchine
caused the prohibition. In Germany the local pro-
duct is inspected and TO permit uninspected Ameri-
can pork to be sold in our markets. while requir-
ing inspection for the home article would be man.
festly unjust, If American pork would be hon
estly inspected before expectation think it would
find no obstacle to entering Germany.
This is simply untrue. American pork
''Gs diseriminaa against because it was
American pork, for it was specified by name
in the edict of exclusion, while Austrian
and Russian pork was admitted without re-
striction. The pretext that American pork
was more likely to be infected with trichi-
na was denounced as an absurd sham by
prominent German scientists at the time,
and this has since been demonstrated con-
clusively by the ravages of the trichine
since the exclusion of American pork. There
was never case of trichine traced to the
use Of American pork, and now, when there
is scarcely n pound of it eaten in all Ger
many, fatal cases of trichina are more nu-
merous than ever.
1t is clear that argument will have no
effect toward removing this most injurious
and insulting discrimination against our
products, and the only course left for us is
sharp retaliation. We must hurt them
worse than they hurt us to bring them to a
sense of decency and justice. We can do
this by an exclusion of the products which
they sell us, and make the highest profit
on, and Congress will be grossly derelict in
its duty toward our farmers if it does not
at once adopt this course.
The National tribune., 1886-04-08
WHO COMPLAIN.

1t is not the middle-class people or the
poor men who complain of the amounts
paid out for pensions. 1t is the rich whose
luxuries are taxed. The men and women
who can take their yearly tours to Yurrup,"
and squander thousands of dollars that
should be spent at home, are the ones who
make the most complaint about a broken
down soldier receiving pittance of 81 or S4
month
Yet had it not been for the devoted cour-
age and selfsacrifice of these soldiers these
men and women would not now be rolling
in wealth. They would not now be able to
visit "Yurrup" and stuff the pockets of
landlords, couriers, purveyors of luxuries
and keepers of gambling houses with Ameri-
can gold.
If the men to whom few dollars a month
are now doled out had not stood like wall
of fire before Pickett's charge-had not
struggled through the swamps about Vicks-
burg, and had not swept irresistibly up the
slopes of Mission Ridge-there would have
been no great, boundless country for these
people to draw their wealth from, and
instead of not knowing they are taxed-as
now-the taxgatherer would be familiar
visitor at every mans door.
The National tribune., 1886-04-08
SAMPLE COPIES.

We send out this week number of sam
pie copies. We ask those non-subscribers
into whose hands such may come, TO give
them careful examination. If they will
they Will find the paper 10 be such a one as
they ought by all means to have for them
selves and for their children. 1t contains
vast anout Of matter Of a class that can
not be found IN any other paper 1t is the
representative of the men who fought the
war OF The rebellion through to glorious
success, and made this Government what il is.
Their courage, devotion, and selfsacrifce
bought for US all the prosperity and happi-
ness which we as a people enjoy. The story
OF how they did this is told in THE Ma
TIoHAL TRIBUNE as In no other paper. To
the men and women who lived during the
days Of the great struggle, its columns have
a vivid and neyer-failing interest. II is the
best paper TO put into the hands of children
These hunger for stories Of daring, advent
nre, and heroic achievement If they do
not find them in healthy, well-written pa
peTs and books, they are going TO seek them
In the trashy, vicious and sensational publi-
cations expressly designed 10 catch their in
experienced young minds. THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE is clean and truth-telling In every
sentence. It's value to the children in Civ
ing them wholesome and interesting read
ing, and in teaching them the true history
of the country is seyenty-foid the trifiing
cost of the paper.
No man can afford to do without the pa
per for himself, and still less can he afford
to do without il for his children
We are sure that every one viii come to
this conclusion who will make careful ex-
animation Of the paper. If be does so, then
the next step is to send us 81 for years
subscription, and we will promise him that
he shall never regret it.
The National tribune., 1886-04-08
HANCOCK AT GETTYSBURG
By Gen. Francis A. Walker.

We have to congratulate the readers of
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE upon the fact
that we have secured a promise of several
contributions from Gen. Francis a. Walker,
a solttier Of brilliant record, and scholar
and statistician of the highest rank. In 1861
Gen. Walker was in the law Office of Deveus
s. Ho&r, of Boston, and at the first call for
troops, enlisted in the 18th Mass OF which
Mr. Deyens was Colonel. He was soon ap-
pointed Sergeant-Major, and by good con-
duct reached the grade of Major the follow
ing year. In 1863 he was appointed Assist
ant AdjutaGt General, with the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel, and assigned TO the Sec
oad Corps. He served in this capacity on
the stats OF Couch, Warren, and Hancock,
suecessively, until 1866, when he was mus
tered out with the rank of Brevet Brigadier-
General, having the reputation of being one
Of the most efficient staff officers in the entire
army. He was wounded at Charlottesville !;
was captured at Reams Station and confined
in Libby Prison until October, 1868.
Ii 1869 he w8s made Chief of the National
Bureau of Statistics, and in 1870 appointed
Superintendent Of the Ninth Census. Finish
lug up this great work in a manner that won
him applause from statis,icians all over the
world, he accepted in 1873 the Chair of
Political Economy and History IN the Shelf
field Scientific School, and in 1880 he was
appointed Superintendent of the Tenth
Census. He has been for some years Presi-
dent Of tie Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology. The title OF his first article
will be
HANCOCK AT GETTYsBURGn
No man now living is so well qualified to
write o. this theme as Gen. Walker, and our
readers may expect an article of unusual
merit and interest
The National tribune., 1886-04-08
AN ABSURD DEVICE

A new device has been invented by the
enemies of pensions to accomplish their ends
Col Morrison, of Illinois, is credited with
being the author. 1t comes in the shape of
new rule in the House, and makes it in
order when bill to increase pensions or to
grant new pensions is under discussion to
offer an amendment TO the bill to provide by
taxation for meeting the increase Of expendi-
ture to be incurred. That is, if the rule had
been in existence when the widows pension
bill was passed, it would have been in order
TO add an amendment increasing taxation by
the amount requisite to produce the addi-
tional $5,0O0000 which it is reported the
increase will cost the country.
OF course, a measure like this will have
little effect other than to make ridiculous
those who try to employ it. The country
will see nothing but laughable absurdity
in some Members moving to increase the
taxes to provide for pension-appropria ton
while he smusgles through without any,
such rider his own little bill to appropriate
100000 to make Catfish Creek navigable for
an-going ships, Or $4,000 to put up a
suitable custom-house at Dobson's Cross
roads.
We anticipate more trouble to Col Morri-
son on account of the ridicule that will
descend upon this invention than will be
given any pension legislation by its applica-
ton.
The National tribune., 1886-04-08
SOLDIERS CONGRESS.
HON. TRUMAN ADAMS MERRIMAN.

Hon. Truman Adams Merriman was born in
Auburn, n. Y, Sept. 5, 1889. He graduated from
Hobart College, Geneva, n. Y, in June, 1861.
in the Peninsular Campaign of 1862 in Palmers
Brigade, Casey's Division, Fourth Corps, par
ticipating in the battles of Williamsburg, Seven
Pines and Malvern Hill. Later he was at Suf-
folk, Va, and in the Department of North
Carolina, where he was promoted to Major for
gallant and meritorious conduct.
In 1864 he was transferred to the Army Of the
James, where he served in the Eighteenth Corps
under Badly" Smith. With this corps he
joined the Army of the Potomac at Cold Harbor,
The National tribune., 1886-04-08
NOW is THE TIME.

If Congress proposes to do anything for
the soldier, now, if ever is the time to do it.
If relief is to be given those who are Ian
gushing in the bitterness of want for lack OF
it, now is the time to give it.
A pension given next year or two or three
years hence will not ease the present misery
of the broken-down man who is in actual
need of bread and fuel and medicines.
The delay of Congress to pass proper
pension law at IFS last session was meas
ureless cruelty. The defeat of the amend
ments to the Mexican pension bill by trick
cry and filibustering deprived all the veter-
ans who sank under disease and want dur
ing the past year of comforts that were
richly their due, and which would have
cheered their last days. 1t has made thou
sands of others linger another year in want
and sorrow.
The one fact that dominates all others is
that the veterans are, as rule, on the down
ward grade of life. The youngest man who
served in the army is now passing the me-
ridian of life, and the great majority are
where the shadows ON their dial Iengthen
rapidly. IF anything is to be done for them
while they still live, it must be done speed
lily.
This is fact that Congress never seems to
take account of 1t acts as if the veterans
were like any other class of creditors of the
Government, -immortal,- and it were of lit
tie consequence whether the debt due them
were discharged this year or five years hence,
whereas the injury inflicted by withholding
till next year payments that should be made
in this can never be repaired, even though
10 times the amount be given in the future
payment. Plenty next year will not COM
pensate the veteran for starving this year.
The National tribune., 1886-04-08
THREE SOLDIERS
Who Have Just Been Promoted in the
United States Army
MAI. GEN. OLIVER o. HOWARD.

Gen. Howard is well-k known to the soldiers
of both East and West, as he served conspic-
uously during the war in the armies of the
Potomac, Cumberland and Tennessee. Gen.
Howard entered the Military Academy at
West Point as a cadet in 1850 graduating July
l, 1854. He was commissioned a Second Lieu
tenant of Ordnance Feb. 10, 1856, and First
Lieutenant in the same branch Of the SERVICE
July /, 1857. He resigned early in 1861, but
June 4th of that year he entered the volunteer
service as Colonel of the Sd Me. He went i'm
mediately to the front, and led brigade at the
first battle of Bull Run. He was appointed a
Brigadier General of Volunteers, Sept g. 1861
He was an active participant in the Peniusular
campaign in the Summer of 1862, under
The National tribune., 1886-04-08

with Hooker. and served through the Atlanta
campaign with the Army of the Cumberland.
During the Tennessee campaign against Hood,
after the fall of Atlanta he was placed
in command of division Of Gen. Schoield's
Twenty-third Corps. In this capacity he dis
played marked courage and ability at Franklin
aud Nashville. For gallantry at Franklin he
was brevetted Major General, dating from Nov.
80, 1864 After the rOut Of Hoods army he
went with the Twenty third Corps to North
Carolina, and was at the final surrender of
Johnston's army. He was mustered out of the
volunteer service June i5 1866 and July % of
that year was commissioned Colonel, 33d u. S.
Inf. In 1869 he was transferred to the 18th
Inf, of which regiment he remained Colonel
until his promotion. After the war he was
stationed for some years at Chattanooga and
Atlanta, serving for few months in 1868 as
Provisional Governor of Georgia. From 1871
to 1876 he was Superintendent of the Military
Academy at West Point. He rejoincd his regi-
ment, and since that time has served in the
West. chiefly in Montana, commanding that
District. For year past he has been Post
Commander at Fort LeavenWOrth and in charge
of the cavalry and infantry school of instruc-
tion there. He was last week nominated by
the President to be Brigadier-General, rice
Terry promoted to Maj General.
BRIG.-GEN. JOSEPH II. POTTER
will fill the place made vacant by the promo
ton of Gen. Howard. He is considerably older
than the other officers already given. He en-
tered the Military Academy in 1889, graduating
in 1851 years earlier than Howard and
Ruger. He was commissioned Second Lieuten-
ant Oct. 81 1915. He was actively engaged in
the Mexican war, and was brevetted First Lieu
tenant for gallautry at Monterey, where lie was
severely wounded. He was promoted to First
Lieutenant, 7th Inf, in 1917 and Captain in
1856. Before the late war he served in the
West, being engaged in the Utah and other i'm
portant campaigns. He was commissioned Colo
mel, 18th N. H., Sept 81, 1862, and was made a
Brigadier- General of Volunteers May 1, 1864,
having been in the meantime brevetted Lieu
tenant Colonel and Colonel in the Regular Army
for gallant and meritorious services at Fred
ericksburg lwhere he led brigade) and Chan
cellorsville. In the last named battle he fell
into the hands of the enemy, and remained
prisoner of war until October, 1868, when he
was paroied. During the campaign of 1864 in
Virginia, he commanded a brigade in the Eight
eenth Corps, Army of the James. He partici-
pated in many of the engagements around |
Petersburg, in the pursuit of Lees 1eeing army |