News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-08

be described as this unpleasant duty
1t consists of a proclamation to all whom
it may concern, that any one who is SC
foolish as to supply the soldiers with
goods on credit to the amount of more
than single days pay does 80 at his
own risk"
The q. S. House Committee on Mill
tary Affairs has shown its gallantry on
bill which has been before it and
which has brought out strange episode
of the war. 1t appears that at the break
ing out of the rebellion a young woman
donned trousers, coat and vest and en-
listed as a private in Company F,
Second Michigan Volunteers. Her dis
guise was successful for more than two
years and she participated in number
OF battles. Her sex WAS finally discov-
cred while she was sick in a hospital.
She never returned to her regiment, and
as its officers did not know the reason
the name of Franklin Thompson, her
assumed one, had marked opposite it
on the muster roll, Deserted" The
bill removes the charge of desertion and
has been favorably reported by the com
mlttee. Her real name was Miss Seelye
CHARLES WNDowMAKER, PennsyI-
vania convict, is in hard luck. Ten
years ago he was sentenced for a crime
which he did not commit and for several
other crimes to which he pleaded gull
ty. Lately the proof that he did not
commit the original crime has been
brought to light and the board of par
dons recommended pardon. Then it
was discovered that Windowmaker had
completed the term imposed for that
crime and had lately entered on a term
imposed for something that he actually
did. As he has been in Jail for ten
years and will have ten years more to
serve if not pardoned over again the
TACT that he served nine years for an Of
tense OF which he was innocent will
probably operate to gain executive
clemency for him, and so it should.
An examination of a map of the Unit
ed States will show strip of land sew
eral millions of acres in extent, marked
''public land" lying between the States
of Kansas and Colorado and Texas.
This strip of country was left out by
mistake in the original surveys, and is
not included in any State or Territorial
jurisdiction. Neither is it reached by
United States law 1t is wholly with
out Judicial authority, and is, conse-
quently, the abode of the very worst
classes in the country. Cattle thieves
and criminals of all kinds resort to it as
refuge, and lately cattlemen have part
ly taken possession of it to evade the
action of the President, excluding them
from the Indian Territory. There they
have established their ranches without
molestation
THE Bradford (Eng.) Observer tells of
q case where farm servant was sum- |
moned for leaving service without leave
1t came out that the complainant told /
defendant he must either 90 10 church /
or chapel, and on the defendant declin- +
ing he was informed that he would not |
have any dinner. Defendant did NOT /
go to church or chapel, and on return
ing to the house for dinner was told
there was no dinner for him. In conse.
quence he took his box and went AWAY
The Bench held that the boy had no
ground for leaving, and they ordered
him to pay 60 damages and 12s. Cd
costs, and to return to his work.
A CLEAR head and clean heart en-
able one to preserve his serenity, as did
Jonathan Davenport, who won name
in American history by it, on the Dark
Day of the last century, when some of
his fellow-legislators. in terror. proposed
to adjourn, but the sturdy Christian.
with an admirable admixture of com
mon sense and religion, said: sEither
the day of judgment has come or it has
not. If it has not there is no occasion
for alarm. If it has, l wish to be found
doing my duty. move that candles be
brought" Keep clear head and a
clean heart and keep-cool.
A GOOSE farm IS one of the curiosities /
OF agriculture on the eastern shore of |
Virginia. Within an area of about
5000 acres live 5000 geese, of several /
varieties. attended by herders and regu-
lsFly fed with corn, etc. The object is
the collecting of down for quilts and !