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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
AN OHIO MAN AND A CHAIN SNAKE.
Curious Reptile that was Found Floating
About.

"While hunting on Stone Mountain,
twenty miles from Atlanta, an Ohio
man" declares writer in the Dayton
Journal, met with chain snake as
it is called by the natives of that region,
and is believed to be found in that State
only. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
as he was coming down the mountain,
and as he was about to step over a small
stream which came tumbling down the
mountain, his foot came in contact with
what he supposed to be dead branch
of tree. The supposed twig at once
flew into dozen pieces, and one among
the number across the little stream. Up
to this point there was nothing that dis
tinguished it from a dead twig. 1t
looked like stick, acted like stick,
and had no perceivable characteristic to
distinguish it from a stick. However,
while standing still moment looking
for the most desirable point to step over
the stream, he soon discovered what he
supposed to be dead stick showed that
it possessed the power of self-movement.
1t slowly entered into his mind that
there were queer things in the Empire
State of the South, and that this was
one of them.
''Each of the half dozen pieces showed
signs of life and began slowly to move
about. Some stood on end; others
moved about, and as they came in con-
tact fastened themselves together, COM
mencing at what he afterward found to
be the tail. The tail piece erected it
self, the next piece came Waiting to 1t,
and so on till the thing was about three
feet long, each piece jumping to its
proper place and adjusting itself with a
click and snap. 1t now began to as
sumo the form of a common snake.
1t had no head, but other
wise looked and acted like a snake,
wriggling around among the broken
rocks, standing on end, and acting as
though it was ON the hunt for some
thing.
Casting his eyes on the other side of
the stream he beheld another section,
which proved to be part of the same
reptile, acting in the same strange man
ner-dancing around, approaching the
edge of the water, then returning and
acting as though it was looking for
something. The gentleman, after en-,
joying the strange war dance or scalp
dance, or whatever it Is called in snake
dialect, perceived that the part on one
side was the head section, and looked as
though it would exactly fit on the larger
part on the opposite side. After view
ing the spectacle for some time he took
his gun from his shoulder, approaching
the larger part, and tossed it over the
brook. Immediately on striking the
ground the head strutted in the most
dignitled manner and attached itself to
the larger part, forming a complete
snake, perfect in symmetry. gaudy in
color and about four feet in length.
Kissing and wriggling, it soon disap-
peared among the rocks and underbrush
The snake is called the chain snake
and is perfectly harmless
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
Very Costly Cars.

Our railway system is confessedly in
advance of any other in the world. Our
mileage is as large as that of all Europe
combined. Some of the English and
continental roads arc more soiidly built :;
but for comfort and luxury there is
nothing comparable to our sleeping and
saloon cars. The private cars in which
our railway magnates travel are in point
of luxury and costliness far ahead of
anything of the kind in the Old World.
All our leading railway men habitually
use cars superior in elegance to those
occupied by monarchs in other parts of
the world. William X. Vanderbilt,
Robert Garrett, Milton II. Smith, Hugh
j. Jewett, and some twenty other of
our railway people use cars costing from
$4,000 to $4,000 each There are
about one hundred and ninety very
costly cars in use, representing $4,000,
900 in cash. Of these some sixty cost
$50, 900 each. A Mr.. Talbot, editor of
railway newspaper, was presented with
a car recently, made by Herr Krupp,
the famous gun founder. 1t is of hard
wood, eastlake finish, with a great deal
of aesthetic drapery. The observation
room IN the end OF the car is finished IN
oak, with French plate glass windows,
extending from the ceiling to the floor,
velvet curtains, Wilton carpets, and
embossed leather furniture, Including
divans. The bedroom is in maple and
amaranth, and opening from it is the
parlor, the most elegant apartment of
the car 1t is finished in solid mahog-
any, with rich inlaid panels and carv-
ings of rare and costly woods from the
Holy Land. The buffers room, pantry
and kitchen, are models. 1t would cost
at least $4,000 to duplicate this car.
Famous actresses have had private cars
very luxurious in their apartments.
Madame Patti had such a one, while
Mrs. Langtry actually lived in her car
while filling her engagements outside
of New York.-Dcm0rCst'S Monthly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
Tending the Oyster Beds.

Oysters planted in the waters of Long
Island Sound are now getting ready to
spawn, and growers who desire to have
the bivalves first in market are shifting
them about from one bed to another to
make them spawn earlier. Oysters in
deep water discharge their spawn early
i'll August, at which time they are poor
and unfit to eat. BY transferring them
to shallow water the sun induces them
to ripen in July, and consequently two
or three weeks are gained.
Land from which oysters have been
taken for shipping purposes is now
being covered with shells and stones, to
which the young animals after Matching
will attach themselves Not until some
object is found to which 1t may cling
does the oyster commence to form its
shell. Planters are using every effort to
keep in subsection the principal enemy
of their crop, the star fish. Small steam
ers with drcd9es are constantly taking
up the oysters, and, after culling out
the stars, spiders and periwinkles, the
cleaned oysters are shOvelled overheard
on ground where no enemy exist. The
stars soon find their way to the new
beds, however, and the operation of
dredging and culling has constantly to
be repeated.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
StOpping q Ball.

al remember said q physician,
'that one of the most daring and
strongest willed men in our regiment
was much given to laughing at the poor
fellows who went down under disease
or who complained much of what we
called mere scratches of wounds. For
two Years it seemed that he was proof
u l%gs..sS--
life, but one d " as he stood in line Of
battle, rs fine Il specimen of soldierly
spirit and courage as | ever saw, there
came bounding and rolling toward the
line a heavy cannon ball fired from one
of the large guns of the enemy. The
temptation to stop a spinning ball of
this kind was SO strong that most sol
diers nervcd themselves UP to the point
of resisting the ~ 'IEation to give the
apparently harmless ball Il kick. The
only man to yield to the temptation
was my superb soldier lie put out his
foot with smile on his face and went
down Il shattered manned, and helpless
man. Ills foot was cut eff as by an ak,
and the shock made 1im on the instant
as HELPLESS as L babe y ChjcagO Inter-
ocean.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
THE OLD HOME.
1t stands upon the hillside, with the tall elms

IL stands upon the hillside, with the tall elms
bending DER it,
The homestead, with the lilacs by the door,
And the quaint, old-fashioned garden, gently
sloping down before it,
see it Just as in the days of yore,
remember how the sunshine fell across the
golden meadows,
Beyond the wooden doorstep, old and worn;
And how the summer cloudlets cast til ir quick
ly fieeting shadows
On the distant fields OF rustling, ripening
corn.
In the pleasant, roomy kitchen see my father
sitting,
With leather-covered Bible opened wide;
While my sweet faced mother listens as she
lays away her knitting,
And rocks the old red cradle by her side.
Three brown-eyed little children, with tangled
golden tresses,
When evening prayer in simple words is
said,
Come cinging round her neck with loving,
soft cares es
Then merrily go tripping OFF to bed.
Oh, happy years Of childhood, with thoughts
SO true and loving,
And sweet and guileless days 80 full Of rest
Our old hearts love to inger. after all our
years Of rowing,
And clasp fond mem'ry's pictures to our
breast.
Shall We ever In that country, the bright and
glorious heaven,
Win back the simple innocence and bliss
We knew when, in our childhood in the dear
old home at even,
We received our angel mothers goodnight
kiss?
EMILY G. WETHERBEE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
An Old Fable.

"Can we not compromise this thing?"
said dispirited Labor, firing a brick at
passing deputy sheriff. Can we not
agree upon an equitable division of the
game which we hunt together? | admit
that l am hungry " Certainly" re
piled Capital, graciously handing the
deputy a Winchester. "And you may
have your choice Yon may have the
buzzard, and 1 will take the turkey.
Or, / will take the turkey, and you
NAV have all the buzzard. | will take
what you leave" ''But," says Labor,
"that does not suit me at all l want
some of the turkey" "Greedy villain, p"
replied Capital, call of the buzzard and
some of the turkey Am to DC robbed
by the very men feed? Away, and be
grateful that do not take away your
buzzardl" Labor goes away and trades
away all his buzzard for a pound of dy
Mantle.
Moral-A too long continued diet Of
buzzard is apt to create an tnconqncr
able and raven taste for turkcy.-BUR-
DETTE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
A Poker Players Device.

Col. Walbridge. of the Second Yer.
mont, in an address on Decoration Day
said While on the Peninsula some of
the weary soldiers discovered that it
was necessary to encourage the game of
draw poker in order to kill time and re-
lieve the ennui of camp life; but owing
to the scarcity of small bills, which the
Government had neglected to furnish,
it was found extremely embarrassing to
run the poker game satisfactorily. For
instance, the usual stake was 81, and
the rule was, in poker parlance, "Ante
and pass the buck" Now, as the
smallest money was five dollar bill,
the party had to put one up, and if he
lost the stake the winner owned 81 in
the same, and so on till there might be
five partners in the bill Not all the
boys were versed in the higher mathe-
MATES, so it required much effort of
mind to keep track of each interest, and
much valuable time was lost in figuring
out the matter of ownership. But the
accepted rule that Necessity is the
mother of invention" held good in this
particular case, and it remained for a
Company A boy to devise a scheme for
ihhdtlhS IllC CuIIcuCy 10 meet the Qc-
mands of the times. He remembered
that in the garnet of his fathers house
was quite a quantity of new bills of the
defunct Bank of Bennington, and hay
ing them sent to hun soon, with the
ready hand of a comrade, had affixed to
the new bills the names of President
and Cashier. To use the phrase of one
of the boys, ''They went like hot
cakes" and seemed to fill long felt
want. Suffers grabbed for them eager
ly, and for time ''all went merry as n
marriage bell" They even sold for 80
cents on the dollar in the camp of the
Second Vermont, where their real
worthlessness was known The plan
was to go out among suffers, buy some
tobacco, and get the change in good
money. But the final collapse came.
One chap invested So in a ten dollar
bill, and, going four or five miles to a
Pennsylvania sutler, purchased dol
lars worth of tobacco and quietly
waited for the 80 in change. The suit
Ter took the bill and inquired if it was
good money. The Vermonter replied
that it was "First class; none better" "
"GIad to hear i repAedi, the n r On
hand, r "shd deliberately proceeded to
to count out TO the paralyzed Vcrmontcr
nine one-dollar bills on the Bank of
Bennington.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
4 Mandnrin's Pala ce.
THE CHINESE MINISTER TO BUILD A PALA-
TIAL LEGATION BUILDING IN wksHINd-
TON.

Considerable interest is developing in
diplomatic circles in Washington over
the announcement that has been MADE
to a select number that the new Chinese
Minister is intending to construct
mansion for the legation ard residence
of the representatives of the Celestfst
empire in Washington. There are
about twenty-six persons connected with
the legation here, besides servants. The
building will be erected in the fashion
able northwest portion of the city, ana
whole block will be purchased at an
expense of not less than $3.50, 600. The
building will be after the exact fashion
of a mandarin's palace, and will cost q
quarter of million or more. The whole
block will be surrounded by wall, ana
carpenters and masons will be imported
from China to do the work. The build
ing will be only one-story high, but that
story will be higher than the ordinary
American story. The expenses and
board of all the people connected with
the Chinese legation here are paid by
that Government, and the Minister is
paid $50, 900 year besides, making his
entire compensation as much as $50, 600
annually. The construction of this pa
latial legation building settles the fact
that the Chinese Government intends to
make Washington the headquarters for
all the diplomatic business of this part
of the world. 1t is already the head
quarters for Spain and Peru, as well as
the United States.
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
A Boston Boy.

One evening in the mountains, just as
the sun was setting, the San Francisco
lawyer, when about mile from his
ranch, had dismounted TO get drink
from a stream that rushed down the hill
alongside the trail. He was stopping
over, holding his horse by the bride,
when a mounted ranger came tearing
down the trail, and refining up in front
of the lawyer presented pistol straight
IN front of his eyes and shouted:
"Drop that bride and skip out o.
here, or the gun goes off,
The lawyer, who had no weapon moro
! formidable than PcnI>niro in h,a pos
session. remained rs cool rs if he were
cross questioning a witness in san Fran
cisco. He held on to the bride too.
"Blaze away, said he.
The ranger held the pistol where it
was, only moving it little nearer and a
| little nearer to the lawyers glittcring
! black ewes. The lawyer never IiInched,
or trembled, or paled. The ranger
meant business. The muscles of his lin
ger upon the trigger tightened-and
then he dropped his arm, as If he had
suddenly recognized a stronger will than
his own.
"Well, hev yer own way about it,
stranger" said he, but that's Il ia I
sort of boss you've got there"
The lawyer had in the meantime
glanced at the rangers animal. 1t was
a clean cut, strong limbed american, "
as good as his own.
How'll you swap ?" he asked.
The ranger laughed.
''Well," he said, seein' it's you, how
| would about even do 2"
''That suits me-" said the Yankee.
So the ranger dismountcd; the lawyer
got upon the horse of the man who five
minutes before rode up to rob him, an
unarmed man; the ranger, mountin :
the other animal, gave him good night
with the cowboy counter cit of mill
tary salute, and rode off through the
fast falling darkness.
Will that serve for California story
of a Boston boy The strongest point
of it is its truth. The lawyer not long
ago visited his brother in Boston, and
never told him a word of the story about
the hfghwayman, for he never relates
his own exploits unless pressed to
do so. But some time afterward a Cal
ifornia neighbor of his in the mountains
he lives only fifteen miles away from
the lawyers ranch-came to Boston on
his travels, with an introduction to the
doctor, and told him the story. -Bostoh
Record,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

Two H1GHwAYMEN recently stopped
the British Columbia Express Company's
coach on the Cache Creek route. They
told Driver Tate to get down from the
box; but he said that it wasn't safe to
leave the horses. ''It's safer than to
sit there" said one of the robbers.
'Get down" He got down, and one
of the bandits stood in front of the
the team with his rifle cooked and
pointed at Tate, while the other went
through the treasure bag, which they
robbed of its contents, with the excep-
ton, as the report SAYS, "of one small
package of $1,000, which they over
ooked."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
The Making of Bricks,

Next, let us consider very simnlp
article, which most people would hardly
deem worthy of notice as an invention
and yet which occupies most imnort
ant place in the history of the human
race. | allude to bricks. WhocvcI
first pressed clay into the form of a mar
allelogram, and dried it in the SUI, was
a genius. 1t looks simple enough now
One might say, "a child would think
of that but many generations of mon
lived and died on the face of the globe
without thinking of it. Consider tLo
millions of millions of bricks comnosl
ing our dwe.lings and factories and
churches; think of the inestimoIIo
benefits conferred upon mankind Inv
this simple invention, and of the load
OF gratitude due to the memory of the
great disoDverer But again the ones
ton arises Who was he? Where did
he live, aid in what age of the world 2
Alas! thee is no answer to those ouoo
tons; siencc covers up his history
Let us hoe that he lived long en- ugh
after his nvention to build himself n
comfortable brick dwelling in which to
end his usful life. May we not hone
that in sole other sphere he is rcapinr
the rewaT3 of his inestimable Gift to
his felloy creatures? While he has
passed awy from the world-dust 70
dust, asEet0 ashes-the benefits of his
invention pill continue as lone rs tbo
world last and all generations should
call him lfssed. Let us, as soon as the
Grant Mopment Fund is completed,
open a rNH subscription, to raise a
brick co,in whose head "shaII reach
even into eaven," in honor of the great
benefactor- Outing.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

HERMAN REEDLE was digging well
at McAllister, l. T. He arranged a
charge for blasting, lighted the fuse,
and was hoisted toward the surface
f1,-ts- f~~4 49,. N1-f's,, rs'>'r - ''P
the rope broke, and he fell to the bot
tom. lie tried to grasp aud eXtinguish
the fuse, but was too late. The charge
exploded, Herman was blown nearly to
the top of the well, and fell back dead
with every bone in his body broken.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

A MONITOR SToRY.-Samuel Driscoll
saws he was a fireman on the Monitor.
He impaired bit of news concerning
the iron-clad. He SAID that Immediately
after the engagement the Monitor broke
the rod of her eccentric, and was laid up
off the Rip Raps for nearly two weeks IN
an entirely deienceless condition. She
might at any time during that period
have been destroyed by the Gcrrimac,
but shs deceived her enemy by keeping
UP steam.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15
Remarkable Escnpe.

John Kuhn, of Lafayette, Ind, had very
narroW escape from DEATH ThiH Is his own
aooIy. one year ago was in the last stages
of Consumption. Our best physicians gave
my case up. l finally got so low that our doc
tor said | could not live twenty four hours.
My friend then purchased bottle of DIR. VIM
HALLS BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS, which bSne-
flied me. | continued until / am now in per.
feet health, having used no other medicine"
BRONCHITIS is cureo by frequent small
doses of Piso'S Cure for Consumption,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

A KINGSTON family moved from their
house a month ago, and recently, says
the Fire man, the little girl of the fam
lily and her mother went to cali on the
lady who occupied the house they had
vacated. While there the child saw a
very small baby that had arrived but
few days before. She looked at it
carefully and then said: Mamma, we
moved too soon; we'd have got that
baby if we stayed here"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

the great Scotch author, suffered all his life
with dyspepsia, which made his own life mis-
era bic and caused his best friends not little
pain because of his fretfulness. Dyspepsia
Generally arises from disease of tho liver, and
rs DR. Picrcc's "Go'dcu Medical Discovery
cures all diseases of this great gland, it follow.
dyspepsia, all can be FRO from the malady,
while emulatipg his virtues.
A dentist is no CHI jcken. He is always pull,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

In CoNFIDENCE.-At tramp has con-
fded to an Omaha reporter that in order
that his hands may be calloused like
those of workingman, he carries a
hickory stick which he grasps and
twists as he walks, thus keeping his
hands in a condition to. deceive any
justice before whom he may be arraigned
as a vagrant
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

SHEER grit saved the life of Charles
Malone one day last week at La Crosse,
Wis. He was thrown under a railway
car. but managed to catch the axle and
hold on until the train was stopped.
Notwithstanding his ankles were pulled
out of joint and badly bruised. Chicago
IjmeS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

KNEW IA Maine farmer was drag
ging stones and lost his fid or stick to
put through the links of the chain to
hold its grip. The story goes that he
absent .mindedly used his finger as fid,
that when the chain frightened up of
course his finger snapped off, and that
he gravely remarked to friend, az saw
my mistake the minute l did it,
LeWistOH J0uyna.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

For DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, depression OF
spirits, general debility in their various forms
also as preventive against fever and ague and
other Intermittent fevers, the "Ferro- Phosphor.
ated Elixir of Calisaya, made by Caswell, Haz
ard d Co, New York and sold by all Druggists
is the best tonic; and for patients recovering
from fever or other sickness it has no equal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

To see ourselves, as lthers SEQ us "
Few womel want to appear sick, and yet
how many We see with pain written on every
feature. who have been suffering for months
from female weakness, and who could easily
cure themselves by the use of DIR. Picrce's
"Favorite Prescription" to be found Mt any
drug store. This remedy is a specific for weak
backs, nervous or neuralgia pains, aud all that
class of diseases known female com
plants" Illustrated, large treatise on diseases
of women, with most successful courses of self
treatment, sent for 10 cents in stamps. Ad-
dress, Worlds Dispensary Medical ASsocia-
ton 66Y Main Street, Buffalo, n. Y.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

STOr that Cough that tickling in the throat
STOP that COnsumptive Condition.
You can be cured You cart afford TO wait F.!
Dr.. Killmer's Cough Cure Consumption on
will do it quickly and permanently. % cents.