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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
LONG CHASE FOR A MURDERER.
Captured by His Victims Brothers After
Twenty-One Years.

A letter from Rome, Ga says: John
and Lafayette Hardwick, having in
charge Corroll McBee, who killed their
brother 81 years ago, passed through
here this morning and are now at their
home in Cedar Bluff, Ala. In 1865,
McBees father moved from Tennessee TO
Cedar Bluff with his son Carroll, The
latter always estimated himself the best
man in the community, and ON reaching
his new h me and learning that one OF
the Hardwicks was the bully of the
place, was anxious to fight him He
boosted of his ability to throw Hardwick
in a wrestle. The boys urged him on
and went to the village store, where
young Hardwick and his brother Joe
were found. McBee here repeated his
boast, but Hardwick declined to enter
such test. Then McBee, turning to
Joe Hardwick, who was sitting on the
counter, said, ''If l cannot get Hard
wick to wrestle with me, l can throw
his brother" In the attempt McBee
was thrown to the ground. Crestfallen,
but still anxious to show his strength,
he attacked Joe again with the same re-
suit. McBee then went out, and, put
ting ms open pocket KNIFE up ms sleeve,
returned a1-r-7saftf, You may be able to
throw me, but you can't whip me-" ac-
companyiag the words with what APP
peared to be blow of the fist, but really
leaving behind fatal knife stab. Nc
Bee ran to his horse, mounted it and
rode off. The other Hardwicks gave
pursuit, following him into Indian Ter
ritory and all over the West, finally, af-
ter 81 years, capturing him and bringing
him back to the scene of his crime. The
prisoner now admits his identity with
the McBee who killed Joe Hardwick.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
How It Almost LynchPd an Innocent Man
Accused of Murder.


lA4Onl tAtS L1ttsDuIS 1ItSs-
In the early days when the greater
part of money in circulation consisted
of notes issued by the State banks, the
people of our State seldom accepted
notes issued by banks in another State
and a good deal of business was done
by men exchanging the notes, charging
a small commission for so doing, lust as
man wanting to travel in Europe has
his money exchanged to that of the
country in W ich he is going to travel
John Burnsides left Pittsburg for Wheel
ing, intending to cross the river and
hny some land he heard was for sale in
Ohio. When he got to Wheeling he
had his Pennsylvania money exchanged
for that of Ohio at one of the banks and
he then crossed the river and went to
the house Of his brother-in-law, a con-
siderable distance awav. Having in
vestigated the land he thought of buy
ing he returned to his brother-in laws
place and said he would like to have
gone back to Pennsylvania by another
route, but would have to 90 to Wheel
ing to get his money changed
The brother-in-law said he had
good deal of Pennsylvania money which
he had gradually accumulated by his
having frequently exchanged small
quantities for travellers. He made the
exchange, receiving the identical pack
ages of Ohio money given by the bank
at Wheeling. Burnsides bought horse
and intended riding home across the
country.
Have you got any weapons?" said
his bTOther-in-law.
id
carry any arms"
well, your road is a lonely one, so
take this pistol. 1t may come handy.
You can send it back with some traveller
after you get into a more thicBly settled
country
The revolver had the owners name
cut on the handle. Burnsides started,
and the next day travellers reported the
finding of his dead body. Examinat on
showed that there had been a struggle,
and in searching the bushes near the
spot the pistol was found. he owners
name being cut on it, Burnsides' broth
er in-law was arres ed. The packages
of Ohio money were found and these
were positively identified by the bank
officers at Wheeling. There was not
the slightest doubt entertained as to the
prisoners guilt, and he was locked up
In Jail to await his trial, although the
case seemed so plain that there was some
talk of lynching him. The court did
not meet till some months after that,
but before the trial came off the author
tiles received, from some obscure town
in Indiana, the confession of man who
had just died of consumption that he
had killed Burnsides. In this case
there were only a few links in the chain
of circumstances, but they were very
strong, and undoubtedly would have
convicted the poor man but for that
confession.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
BEST DICk SONS SUICIDE.
The Prince of Buffalo Dudes Ends his
Life by Taking n Dose of Poison.

Hamilton Best Dickson, the prince of
local dudes in Buffalo, ended his life on
the first anniversary of his wedding to
pretty Ida Stiles, the daughter of a
policeman in the Sixth precinct.
"Best was arrayed in all his glory when
he visited his usual resorts early in the
day, and no one suspected that he
would celebrate his wedding with a
tragedy. He went to his mothers pala-
tial home on Delaware avenue just be-
fore dinner and sent the butler for a
glass of sherry. He had procured a
bottle of cyanide of potassium, and he
emptied a fatal dose into the wine. He
died on the dining room floor where he
fell. His mother said be had COM
planned OF feeling unwell. He called
for a glass of wine to take with some
medicine that he had purchased, and
drank the dose. The Coroner found a
verdict of suicide.
Best Dickson's marriage was the
climax of a romantic courtship. He
met Ida Stiles, a belle at Cold Springs,
two years ago, and fell desperately In
love. Her parents were poor and he
was the pet Of a proud and wealthy
mother, whose father, Mr. II. Best, is a
prominent man in the American Express
Company. Mrs. Dickson could not
bring herself to think of receiving Ida
as a daughter in-law, and used every
persuasive means to get Best to give
her up. When autumn came Best's
familiar face and dudish dress were
missed from the streets. He had been
sent out to the State Asylum for the In
sane, it was reported, to recover from
the effects of cigarette smoking, bill
lizards and lemonade. The real object,
however, is said to have been to cure
him of his love for Ida Stiles. After
eight weeks incarceration he was re-
leased as "cured," and went straight
back to his inamorata.
On the night OF November 81 1885,
Policeman Stiles's house on Ferry street
was raided by other policemen from his
station house. Mrs. Stiles was ill, but
she was arrested, together with Ida and
her four friends who were visiting
there. In the morning Justice DAYTON
fined Miss Stiles So, which she paid
under protest, for 'Fbeing in house and
doing what she ought not to do" She
consulted City Clerk Delaney, who took
an appeal to the Court of Sessions, to
''vindicate her character and clear it of
the stain" Miss Stiles was ignorant of
her legal rights, and denied that she had
ever been guilty of what the police
charged. Mr.. Delaney at the time felt
satisfied that the raid was the result of
a conspiracy. 1t did not have the effect
of breaking up the match The we'd
ding followed, but the couple lived to-
gether few weeks only. "Best" de-
serted his bride, and went to Niagara,
where he was arrested for support,
but was afterward released. A suit
against the mother-in- law for alternating
Best's affections is pending.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
A. T. Stewards Bones.

W. A. Crufut tells the following
of the late A. T. Stewart He says he
had the story from a member of the
Hilton family at a dinner party. He
says: ''It was a couple of years anterior
to that, think my informant said, that
the bones were finally ransomed. Judge
Hilton persistently refused to consent
to it, and at last, when Mrs. Stewart
declared herself unable any longer to
carry the burden of the CHASTITY thought
that the remains of her husband were
being carted around the country by
gang of thieves, she defed her lawyers
scruples and concluded negotiations.
'Mrs. Stewart gave $25, 900 instead
of the $50, 900 at first demanded. The
bargain was made through a lawyer
who seemed to have no other briefs,
and who probably got good fraction
of the 'swag" The ghouls insisted that
the money should be delivered to them
on a lonely nil in Westminster County
at dead of night. Thither, in accord
ance with their directions, a relative of
Mrs. Stewards journeyed alone in
wagon, which he drove himself. At
spot in the country road which had not
been designated or described, the driver
was suddenly halted by masked horse
man. The mysterious messenger led
him through by-lane to the hilltop,
where, after certain precautions to in
sure their safety, they received the $685.,
coo, examined it, and then dragged
bag of bones from another buggy near
by and surrendered it to the keeping of
the solitary traveller. Before they dis
appeared down the side of the hill they
commanded him, on the peril of his
life, to turn about and descend the
other slope.
1.-THE next night the bones were com.
mitted to the vault under the great
cathedral at Garden City, which had
already been connected by a secret wire
with chime of bells sure to ring and
alarm the town if it was disturbed. So
now the mortal remains of the great
merchant millionaire and those of his
patient, enduring, frugal and affection
ate wife of sixty years lie side by side"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
The Baby'S Bank Account.

1t is not to baby millionaire wish
| to call your attention, nor even to any
baby, but to the finances of your baby,
reader of Babyhood.
You, of course, know all about what
the little fellow has cost, and know
what he is likely to cost, not only in
dollars and cents, but in wakeful, watch
full hours and anxietics innumerable.
But, after awhile, the now costly baby
will require not only schooling, but
business education, and foundation
upon which to stand in the great money
getting world.
There are so many ups and downs
with prosperous people that the child
of wealth to day may twenty years hence
be elling out scanty living as clerk,
and, on the other hand, the little fellow
whose baby wardrobe is plain and limit
ed, by the same time be on the broad
road to fortune.
While you sit by the darling's cradle
is the time to thoughtfully mature your
plans for the future There are so many
little trifes bought for baby that might
be dispensed with and the money allow
ed to accumulate for future use. 1t is
wonderful how nice sum may repose in
one of the many savings fund institu-
tions by Just a little forethought and
economy. A mayor in a Southern city
gave on Saturday evenings to his four
little daughters all the dimes he hap
pened to have in his pocket. A lady of
my acquaintance saved all her gold
pieces for her son, depositing them in
bank to his credit, she acting as trustee.
Another lady, having a small house
renting for IS month, put the sum to
her children's account in the savings
fund, and carefully refrained from using
any of it.
know of many Instances of well-to-
do parents who are, faithfully laying up
for the children, and that in a small,
matter Of fact way which would astonish
many with whom they mingle in society.
A pencil and paper and a half hour or
less spent in calculating the possible &C
emulation OF even $40 year for twenty
years will show what can be done.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
A Sad Story.
THE DISTRESS CAUSED BY IMPRIsoNISG
A DEBTOR.


DEBTOR.
A distressing case of imprisonment for
debt Is at present interesting many resi-
dents of Camden, n. J., and some prom
inent members of the Masonic fraternity
in Philadelphia. Six months ago Henry
H. Barry was imprisoned among Grim
inals and roughs as an Ascending debt
or, and there he still remains, though
his family is suffering for the necessaries
of life. A few months ago Mr.. Barry
was a wealthy citizen. He purchased
the Eagle Glass Works, at Port Eliza
beth, N. j., and began the manufacture
of ware that was a necessity in the
community. The works were greatly
out of repair, and he was at great eX-
pense in repairing them. This ate up
his funds. Then a stock company was
to be started. In the meantime Mr.
Barry says he had been getting groceries
of firm in Philadelphia for his work
men. He paid up all but $11O, which
he says he promised 10 pay as soon as
possible Then he was about to 90 to
look after some property in Ohio, when
he was locked up in the Camden Jail as
an absconding debtor.
! his was six months ago, and there
he has remained ever since. His wife
and child were compelled to leave their
comfortable home at No. 917 North
Second street, Camden, and remove to
two rooms in an alley. She pawned all
her valuables and took in work. Now
she is i'll and in want of the necessaries
of life. Mr.. Barry says he was told that
if he would swear that he was not worth
$40 he would be released from Jail.
This he refused to do, as he valued his
stock at nearly 100000. Then he
make an assignment of all this amount
to Edward w. Perot, of No. 238 North
Front street, Philadelphia, but even yet
he cannot be released, though it is said
that Mr.. Perot will secure his liberty in
few days by paying off the debt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
He was Lift.

He was a masher. She was a woman
who was spelling $14 hat i'll the rain.
He raised his umbrella, hurried along and
overlook her, and began:
Madam, permit me to offer the use
ooh! thank you ever so much" she
interrupted, as she took it from his hand
and walked on, leaving him to skip for
a doorway.
A newsboy who had noted the per
Torrance from his position under an
awning, looked from one to the other
several times and then approached the
masher and quericd:
Under the circumstances, you don't
want to buy newspaper, do you"
And the answer was such a melan-
choy shake of the head that the boy
recommended cnange Of climate, De
rot free 4rfss,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
A Useful PRESENT

pat Sheedy won't want for anything
while he is in San Francisco" museC
an old sport. "Years ago, when Parti
co was flying high, he met Buckley
the blind millionaire OF the slope
Sheedy carried a peculiar, new-fangled
watch In those days. By pressing
spring the ticker would strike the exac
hour of the day or night. AS it was
always night to the millionaire the value
he set on the watch could not be com
puted by dollars and cents. Pat saw
that the old man had set his sightless
eyes on the timepiece, and was deter
mined to possess it even though it cost
him a good round sum. Desiring tc
take Buckley by storm, as it were, the
gay Chicagoan pres nted the watch tc
him in neat little speech. The old
man has never forgotten this generous
act. Whenever Sheedy goes to the
slope Buckley trots out the wine and
food, and they have high time together
The old fellow still keeps the timepiece,
which he carries in chamois skin case
IT is one of the few comforts of his
dreary life"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
THE GIANT OF MEDICINES.
The Most Effective and Popular
Remedy Ever Discovered.
WHY rs TT SO EFFECTIVE IN SO MANY
DIFFERENT DISEASES?


a
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because if o
donotoe sgongo il
the Now then KIDNEY DISEASE produces Any of thefOL-
tolCing Common and unsupported
to
and and Pneumonia Dr Swen Red White brick dust otbmen and
81 FE Cure" the
precisely indicated
yin the
MOST EF'
MEDICINE DISCOVERED
greatest possiote
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
Few Dishonest Men.

A undetermined merchant of world wide
acquaintance, long years of experience,
and vast wealth honorably accumulated,
was asked how many dishonest men il
mercantile life he had met with during
his long and varied career. Said he
81 have traded with most all the civil
lied races of the earth, and in all my
long and varied commercial experience,
in which more often than otherwise the
honor of the man was my only protec
ton, l found but two or three men
whom l considered inately dishonest,
These men would have remained the
same in principle had they been engaged
in any other vocation of life. DRY
G00ds Chronicle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
UNDER THE ROLLYBOUGH
BY CHARLES ALACKAY.

Ye who have scorned each other,
Or injured friend or brother,
In this fast fading year;
Ye, who by word or deed,
Have made a kind heart bleed,
Come gather here.
Let sinned against and shining
Forget their strife's beginning,
Aud join in friendship now;
Be links no longer broken,
Be sweet forgiveness spoken
Under the holly-bough.
Ye who haxe loved each other,
Sister and friend and brother,
In this fast-fading year;
Mother and sire and child,
Young man and maiden mild,
Come gather here.
And let your hearts grow fonder,
As memory shall ponder
Each past unbroken VOW;
Old loves and younger wooins
Are sweet in the renewing
Under the holly-bouSh.
Ye who have nourished sadness,
Estranged from hope and gladness,
In this fast-fading year:
Ne with O'erburdened mind,
Made aliens from your kind,
Come gather here.
Let not the useless sorrow
Pursue your night and morrow;
If e'er you hoped, hope now
Take heart, uncloud your faces,
And join in our embraces
Under the holly-bough.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

LAST SPRING workman in a shop
fixed a very fine wire so that his fellow
workmen would run against it and be
brought up standing. He thought it
was funny. One of his fellows was
caught across the eyes by the wire One
eye was destroyed, the other injured,
and the pain and shock resulted in a
stroke of paralysis, and the man is now
likely to die.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

The agent of chemical fire extingllisherw
put IN the shade few days ago. After exhibit
ing his pump and twice putting out large
bonfire he called for an attempt with water. A
pailful was skillfuly thrown, and the record of
the chemical machine was beaten some seconds.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

and we might also say-time and pain as well,
IN our advice 10 good housekeeper5 and ladies
generally. The great neces 5ity existing al
wayst to have perfectly safe remedy conven-
lent for the relief and prompt cure of the all
ments peculiar to woman-functio-a al irregu-
larlty, constant pains, and all the symptoms
attendant upon uterine Observation-Disclosures us
to reco nmend strongly and unqualifedly DR..
P.erces Favorite Prescript,on"-Wom
best friend. II will save mnneY
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
Loss of Flesh and Strength,

with poor appetite, and perhaps slig It cough
IN IN morning, or on first lying down at nj ut,
Sn4ala De LOOKED to IN time. Persons atiio ed
scious OF their real state. Most cases com
mence with d sordered liver, leading to bad
digestion and imp 2rfeCt assimilation of food
hence the ema iJtiOn or wasting of the flesh
1t IS form of scrofulous disease and is cura-
Bile by the use of that greatest of all blood
cleansing, anti-biliOus AMI inYgorating com.
pounds, known a DR.. Pierce's Golden Medi
cal Discovery
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

Nor DAMAGED "A small and reckless
boy of Ann Arbor, Mich, tried to mount
the footboard of a moving locomotive,
and fell directly in front of it. He had
sense enough to JIG perfectly i'll, and
the locomotive passed over him without
doing any damage.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

of being unable to tell her mince pies from
her apple pies without testing, was advised to
mark them. She did so, and complacently an
nounced: ''This I've marked II. NJ. Ills Mince,
an that I've marked II. Militant Mince.'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

In the United States Senate, during a recent
debate, Senator Vest, of Missouri, paid high
tribute to the merits of st. Jacobs Oil. Other
prominent men have also found it prompt in
its cure otrheum tism and neuralgia. Price,
fifty cents bottle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
A Sleeper.

A sleeper is one who sleeps. A sleep
er is that in which the sleeper sleeps. A
sleeper is that on which the sleeper which
carries the sleeper while he sleeps runs.
Therefore, the sleeper sleeps in the
sleeper the sleeper carries the sleeper
over the sleeper under the sleeper until
the sleeper which carries the sleeper
jumps of, the sleeper and wakes the
sleeper in the sleeper by striking the
sleeper under the sleeper, and there is
no longer any sleeper sleeping in the
sleeper ON the sleeper. San Diego Union.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

Throat troub es yield promptly 20 Red Star
Cough Cure as vo:ched for by U. s. Architect
Clark. It's ingredients are purely vegetable
and free from opiates. Is cents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

A glass bottle factory is to be established il
Atlanta Ga. There is a large local demand il
the South which this enterprise expects to sup
ply.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

Original, prompt, clean, sure and effective fol
pain and soreness. Hop Porous Pldsters.
The best is the cheapest. Hop Pjdsters coz
tain active medicinal agents for the cure of pair
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
How Sovo NToro

Hotel proprietor-''W don't allow any games
of chance here" Gambler-'This isn't a
game of chance. My friend here has no chance
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

Stranger-Does Mr.. Jones live on this floor?
Musical young lady-No, sir, his room is an
octave higher, in the next fiat
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

If people who mean to begin to read should
read all the advice to readers about reading,
they wouldn't have time to read anything else.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

Is one preparation, and produces permanent
color. Buckingham Dye for the Whskers.
A safe and certain remedy Tor throat and
lung diseases. Ayers Cherry PectOral.
Ruth was not designing woman, and yet
she managed to get as good Boaz any of the
ntb ri 1,o hot L.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp,
sons Eye water. Druggists sell at 5c. per bottle
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

- Many imftatqrs, but no equal, has DR.. sage's
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

LYONS PatenG Metallic Heel Stiffeners
keep new boots and shoes from running over
Sold by shoe and hardware dealers.
PIso's REMEDY for Cauarrh Is agreeable to
use. 1t is not liquid or a snuff. 6Oc.
FOR SPECIAL RATES for ad TertiSing in this naDec
apply to the publisher of the paper. U50
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30

VI ( WANT YOUI Sliy ssraa ts.5 man IAN
Es profitable employment to represent in every
county. Salary $40 per month and expenses, or a
largo commission on sales II preferred. Goods staple,
livery one buys Outfit and particulars Free,
STANDARD SILVERWARE co. BOSTON MASS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
STOMACH DISORDERS.

orders: Dyspepsia Indigestion, Waterbrash heat
frequent aches, want of appetite, lack of energy
that will be produced in the stomach lCheH the bl
People dose themselves with all sorts of stomach rel
get better until they give their attention to thor
hN the maanS of the only srlacific-.. " nrnerS SA
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-30
WARMERS SAFE CURE"

thorough treatment with Warmers SAFE
heavy, blotched, irritable skin have disappeared
poison la the blood thickens 1t. 1t is not I
is the impurities come out of the surface of the b.
al the badness tn the blood seems to coll
the statement that Warmers SAFE Cure"
treatment must be very thOrouCh