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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19
CHRONOLOGICAL BAROMETERS.
An Appropriation from the Govern
ment Asked to Provide Them.

DoYLEsrowN, Penn" What the
United States authorities want to do is
to make big appropriation for ground
hog fat and make some old-fashioned
but reliable barometers."
So said Eli j. Moses, of PerkaSie,
Bucks County, to reporter who had
for over quarter of an hour been study
ing a home made weather indicator in
the speakers barnyard.
81 tell you, sir, these here bulletins
that are sent out every day by the
Weather Department and posted up in
the railroad stations are not to be relied
upon. I've watched them now for five
or six years, and always got left My
old father, and they'll tell you all over
Bucks County that he was reliable, al
ways kept a good-size bottle of ground
hog fat hung up where the sun and the
air could get at it.
The horny handed hayseeder took the
Lottlo from the reporter, wiped it off
with Il red bandanna and held it up to
the light.
"You see how clear that fat ISL Well,
that proves we will have clear weather
for several days to come. When the air
is filled with moisture and rain is threat
encd it gets exceedingly cloudy. During
the recent wet spells, when northeasters
were continuous, ali this fat became
very stringy and resembled thinly- sliced
tripe."
GLOW often do you have to renew the
fat 2" was the innocent inquiry.
''Not often; every ten years will do.
That is, if you select q good old hog and
kill it carefully. You know the longer
a hog lives the more he knows about the
weather. That is all ground hog is
good for. He Is always u safe weather
prophet, and you know he predicted SIX
weeks of bad weather to perfection ut
the close Of the last winter, and us farm
ers can certainly testify That we got all
we wanted Of it.
Then the farmer led the way TO the
rear of the barn, where, on the panels of
an old mill WAGON, was the weather
record for ten years in cipher chalk
marks.
"I'm wiIln,', Il Congress will make q
good appropriation to raise good lot of
these Usefil Creatures and have the Gov
ornmcnt build experiment stations all
over tho country 70 make up their
weather predictions from the signs shown
by Mr. Ground Hog It will be cheaper
and more satisfactory, 1T may strike
YOU rs funny, but it's true all the same
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19

| tention to work. He soon made the
acquaintance of a charming lady on the
/ Virginia side, and the acquaintance
ripened into love, and the two were
married, the lady being of one of the
finest families of Southwest Virginia.
Young Denton soon became widely
known as a brick mason. He was EN-
ploved on important works in Bristol,
Knoxville, Cleveland and in Chatta-
nooga.
While at work here he took up quar-
rel in which another man spoke dispar-
agingly of a lady, and gave the traducer
O trouncing. This was not relished, and
the party knowing something of the
South Carolina affair, informed the
authorities of that State where Denton
could be found. The record of the prison
showed that he had escaped, conse-
quently writ was issuel, eXtradition
papers were obtained, and on the 18th
of April, sixteen years after the South
Carolina incident, he was taken back to
that State and again imprisoned, leaving
his wife almost heartbroken. He was
employed on the building of the new
water-works station when arrested.
But he had made hosts of friends
throughout East Tennessee, and hun
dreds of letters were sent to the Governor
of South Carolina through Altamont
Moses, member of the South Carolina
Legislature, petitioning Denton's par
don.
The Governor extended his clemency,
and telegram received by Mrs. Denton
from her husband announced that he
was at Augusta, on his way home, free
man.
He subsequently arrived on Western
and Atlantic train, and there was great
rejoicing at his residence on Flynn
street He will at once secure employ
ment, as he is considered one of the
most efficient workmen in the city.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19
IN THE SHADOW OF A CRIME.
The Strange Story of a Man Who
Recently Died in Hot Springs.

From the Atlanta constitutional
A few days ago q Georgian died in
Hot Springs, Ark.-died and was buried
there, He had been for some years q
trusted and honored citizen of that
place. He had married there, had be-
come rich, holding various positions Of
honor and trust, and enjoyed the con-
fidence and esteem of all that knew him.
Yet that man was living in the shadow
of a crime-was an outlaw from the
State of his birth. 1t was Charles Gin
! ton Ambrose.
The mention of his name will recall
to the older citizens of Georgia, and
especially Gwinnett County, the parti-
culars of a sensational tragedy.
1t was in the winter of '64-65 that Bill
Orr, prosperous farmer near Lawrence
vile, was shot and killed by Charles
Ambrose. Both stood high in the com
munity, and the killing aroused a strong
feeling. The cause of the killing was
understood to be an insult-offered by
Orr to Ambrose's sister, and this, of
course, tended to counterbalance the
fact that the shooting was in cold blood.
Orr had been shot down in the streets
of Lawrenceville in broad daylight
The weapon was gun heavily loaded
with buckshot, found subsequently Just
where it had been fired, and leaning
against tree.
Ambrose, then young man of IS or
20, Immediately fled the State. The
story goes that the young man went i'm
mediately after the shooting to friend
and hurriedly explained to him what
had been done.
81 need money" he said, "and have
not time to go by home after it. Will
you let me have money now and risk the
chances"
A minute later the young man, already
mounted on fleet horse, was handed
cloth bag containing $1,000 i'll gold.
With last backward glance toward the
old homestead, the young man dashed
off and from that day to this he never
saw Lawrenceville again.
At least so everybody thought.
A reward was offered by the Governor,
and this supplemented by rewards from
other sources. Search was made far and
near but no trace was ever found. The
story of the shooting became war time
tradition and descended as such to a
new generation.
Eighteen or twenty months after the
killing the father of the boy left for Lou
isville, KY, carrying his wife with him,
on business trip.
Six months after another trip was
made and four months later another
Upon these visits the father and mother
saw their son and the son returned the
visits. At least the story goes that he
had made frequent visits to his old home
visits of which none but his immediate
family were aware.
But the visits have ended. A few
days ago Charles Clinton, a wealthy and
highly respected citizen of Hot Springs,
breathed his last He died surrounded J
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19
Choosing a Trade.

First of all, make sure of what you
will be best fitted for in the long run.
Remember that some kind of Work may
be in demand now, and in q few years
the demand may die out. Don't choose
trade Of this sort if you can help it.
You may spend years learning to make
something by hand, and as soon as you
have learned, machine may be invent
ed that can make it better, and thus
throw you out of employment, unless
you have learned a great deal about the
whole business connected with your
work.
Again, think of where you want to be-
gin. Don't learn trade that is overrun
with workmen i'll your own state unless
you are willing to go to another state to
work. In New York state there is q
machinist to every 800 of the popula-
ton; while in Texas, Georgia and Ala
bama there is only one machinist to over
1000 people. Iowa has II 900 carpen-
ters and ioincrs, while Georgia has less
than 5000.
Choose what you can do and what you
have q taste for. If you are a weakling
don't try to be a blacksmith; and don't
try to be painter if you are color blind.
you are IOllCl VI iI4ttO ID SoCOtt
reason to become printer, provided
there is no other good reason against it.
If you have a natural mechanical turn
and inventive genius you may make
good machinist. Resolve to make your
self thorough master of your trade,
and all the machinery and tools used in
and about it. Then don't be afraid of
learning too much. You will be better
painter for being able to handle the saw;
better joiner for knowing how to use a
brush; better machinist by acquiring
the use of the pencil.
Be willing to plod and work hard for
time, for the sake of learning your
business thoroughly. If you start as a
carpenter, have in mind to become a
builder; if you start as a machinist ex-
pect to become a manufacturer; if you
begin as type-setter aim to become a
printer and publisher. Or, if you are
willing to be always a workman employ
ed by someone else, make up your mind
to become so very expert in your lines
as to command high price.
Start with the idea of getting to the
top. Be ambitious; all American boys
ought to be. Don't be contented, but
aim to be better and better, improving
yourself and your position every year
Tna1c3yro T7yoro
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WILLIAM DowE1L, a soldier of the

WILLIAM DowELL, soldier of the
late war, was rendered speeches. during
his term of service, in which condition
he remained, with but short interval,
until recently. He is brick mason, and
the other day, while working on build
ing, in Cincinnati, he was seized with
strangling sensation, and a fellOwwOrk-
man gave him smart slap on the back.
The shock seemed to dislOdge an OBJ
struction in his throat, and Immediately
| he coughed up q strengthening sub
stance, and this was followed with
return of his powers of speech IN all
their old-time fulness.
WHILE shearing sheep at Chesterfield,
| Mimi, a son of d. Hisey noticed some
| thing peculiar about the appearance of
a sleeps tongue, and calling his fathers
attention to the fact, the sheep was
caught and examined. Upon opening its
mouth it was seen that ring of some
kind was around the sleeps tongue.
After few moments it was taken off and
found to be solid gold ring, with a
handsome set, valued at about 81. How
the ring came on the sleeps tongue will
probably remain q mystery, as it had
been there some time, being deeply en-
bedded in the flesh.
The SEXTON of the Union Methodist
Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del,
has frequently found in the pews arti-
Giles left there. On Sunday last, while
examining some of them, he discovered
a sheath knife disguised as fan. The
blade was fully seven inches in length.
1t is supposed to have belonged to
young man who, in company with two
or three others, had been behaving quite
badly at the church services on different
occasions.
Or the late Fred Vokes the 81. Jamles's
Budget, of London, says: SIN his own
line Mr.. Yokes, who may be said to
have belonged to the better order Of
pantomimists, was extremely clever; in
deed he was the only man on the Eng
lish stage who could equal the French
pantomimists in form of entertain
ment which in this country is generally
done clumsily.
How women can manage to sit bolt
upright and not change q position,
looking neither to the right nor left,
during a sermon in church passes the |
understanding. A man will sit on the |
picket fence all the afternoon to see a |
ball match, but put him in church |
pew for three quarters of an hour and |
he Will wobble all over the seat
The Archduke John of Austria, the
cleverest member of the Hapsburg fam
lily, has been restored to Imperial favor.
He has been travelling about Europe for
a year in the strictest tBc0gnit0. He
awakened Emperor Francis Joseph
nntagonism, it will be remembered, by
the Austrian Army in public
KING KALAKAUA, the versatile mon
arch of the Sandwich Islands, has writ
Ten learned treatise on the Diametri-
cal Physiognomy of the Earth. The
article is based on observations of the
volcanic phenomena for which the Ha-
gaiian group is noted.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19
FATE WAS AGAINST HIM.
Torn from His Wife and Sent Back
to Prison Sixteen Years After Es-
cape.
From the Chattanooga Times


a most interesting story of how an
unprote ted boy was arrested for a crime
which he did not commit, sentenced to
imprisonment for term of years, allow
ed to escape on account of his tender
years, rearrested after sixteen years as
an escaped convict, and finally discharg-
ed and acquitted free and honorable
man, came to light recently. The de-
tails of this story furnish ample pointers
for novel founded on facts, and will
doubtless some time be used by some
enterprising fiction writer proftably.
During the late war a Confederate
soldier named Denton died in prison.
He left a widow and several children
living at Bristol, Tenn. Denton was a
working man and his family was left in
INDECENT circumstances. Among the
children thus left was Scam" as he was
called. Being a sprightly boy he at
tracted the attention of a contractor
who lived in South Carolina, and finally,
on the promise of the contractor to do
good part by the boy, the mother con-
sented for him to go to South Carolina.
He went and remained with the con-
tractor for two years, during which
time he was very badly treated, and at
the end Of the time was thrown out of
his employment. A lad, with no friends,
hundreds of miles away from home, the
poor boy didn't know what to do.
Finally he got employment and
promises of wages from a liveryman
He remained in this place for o month
or two, and on asking for pay he was
kicked and cuffed and cursed out. The
poor fellow, becoming desperate, got up
one night and, going into the stable,
'hOoked' a horse and started for home.
He rode the horse some distance and
then turned him loose and started on
afoot.
In the meantime the livery stable
man found that a horse WAS missing
and at once took out warrant charging
him with DEMONSTRATING and put an
officer on the track of the fleeing boy
As a matter of course it was not long be-
fore he was Overtaken. He was arrested,
hauled back, indicted in the courts and
brought to trial, none of his friends or
family being informed of his needs or his
trouble He was convicted and sentenc-
ed to five years in the State Peniten-
tiary. Owing to his tender years the
Judge committed his sentence to two
years.
The boy went to the penitentiary, and
there, by his bright ways and attractive
manners, he Won the hearts of all, and
after he had been there about six months
he was given to understand that he
might get out of the way, and he did,
making his escape and going back home
to Bristol He at once apprenticed him
self to | arm the brick masons trade,
and in short time he became a pro.
ficient workman, and gained many
ri ends by Ais industry and careful at
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19
Calmly Rowing to his Death.

The Holyoke Democrat says: The cool
est and most determined suicide this
city can remember was that Of Walter
P. Hamberry's by drowning. Some few
minutes past o'clock last evening the
visitors to Prospect Park, who were en-
Toying the refreshing GOODNESS of this
delightful spot, saw boat floating to-
ward the dam. 1t was dusky at the
time, and in the dim light was scarcely
discernible. Naturally the sight of q
boat about to go over the dam caused
more or less excitement, when closer
look revealed the fact that q man was in
it. It was also evident that he was much
cooler than any OF the spectators as he
rowed q full, regular, sweeping stroke
which sent his skiff through the calm
waters as clearly as if cut with knife,
and leaving in its wake Just few bub-
bles, whose rapid collapse seemed to
remind the would be-suicide of the rap
id approach Of his earthly career. His
last stroke was taken almost on the
brink of the dam; the force of it sent the
bow of his boat couple of feet over the
edge, where it seemed to poise for Sec
ond, and then glided gracefully into the
seething, fOaming surf, beneath which
its occupant found rest from the cares
and troubles of this world, which had
not many pleasures for him.
The spectators of this CHASTITY scene,
made still more terrible both by the cool
ness of the man and their utter help
lessness to avert his awful doom, gave
sigh of mingled horror and relief when
the dread event was over and watched
eagerly for any trace of him, but moth
ing was again seen. The boat was
tossed about like feather, and appeared
to be badly wrecked, but the rapidly
approaching darkness soon hid even
this reminder of the death scene from
sight, and as the park had lost its
pleasures for the visitors for that occa-
sion at least, it was soon deserted.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19

When anything stands test of fifty years
among q discriminating peop'e, it is pretty.
good evidence that there is meri somewhere.
Few, if any, medicines have met with such
continued success and pOpu arity as has
ma, ked the pr gress of BRANDRETH's PILLS,
which, af er trial of over fifty years, are con-
coded to be the safest and most elfectual blood
purifier, tonic and alternative ever introdu ell
to the publ C.
That this is the result of inert, and that
BRANDRETHS PILLS perform all that is elaine
for them, is conclusvely prov d by the f ret
that those who regard them with the greatest
favor are those who have ed them the
longest.
BRANDRETHs PILLS are sold in every drus;
and medicine store, either plain or sugar
coated.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19

IT WAS early in March, long years ago,
when one of the pioneer settlers of Ok
ford County, Maine, made up his mind
to move his family from Massachusetts
to that favorite region. He had seven
little oaes, and feared they could not
endure so long journey and the pierre
ing cold. How 10 you think he took
care Of them! The father obtained from
a neighbor a great basket, u feet by 6
and 1 feet high. 1t was fitted on IN OK
sled, and was made for the purpose OF
transporting grass seed. The seven little
ones were packed i'll straw in this basket,
like 50 many kittens or pigs, and made
the Journey safe and warm. The BASKET
is yet preserved by the pioneers de-
scendants.
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ALIVE IN HER COFFIN.
Restoration of Young Woman Who
Was Supposed to Be Dead.

| a MemphIS despatch says:
Mrs. Dicie Webb keeps q grocery on
Beale street, and is known to hundreds
of people. Two years ago John Webb,
a son of Mrs. Webb, married Sarah
Kelly,a remarkably pretty girl, to whom
the mother-in-law became greatly at
tached. Before the first year of their
married life had passed, Mrs. Webb, Jr.
became stricken with consumption.
About month ago the young lady be-
came anxious to visit her parents in
Henderson County. Two weeks ago last
Tuesday, a telegram announced her
death, and the husband started for the
remains. Three days later he returned
with the corpse. The mother-in-law
pleaded so hard for a sight of the dead
woman it was decided to open the coffin.
While looking at the placid face Mrs.
Webb became almost paralyzed with
! fright at beholding the eyelids of the
dead woman slowly open. Mrs. Webb
was unable to utter sound. Finally she
fell upon a chair near by, but her horror
was only increased when the supposed
corpse slowly sat upright and in an al
most inaudible voice said: ooh, where
am Il" At this the weeping woman
screamed.
Friends who rushed into the room
were almost paralyzed at the sight. One,
holder than the others, returned and
spoke to the woman who asked to be laid
on the bed. Hastily she was taken from
the coffin and tenderly cared for. The
day following she related, as her strength
permitted, a wonderful story. She was
conscious of all that occurred, and did
not lose consciousness until she was mt
aboard q train at Memphis.
Soon after being placed in her mother
in-law's home, she regained conscious
ness. A supreme effort was made to
speak while her mother-in- law was look
ing at her, and in that instant, while re-
turning to life she again lost track of her
surroundings, which caused her to ask
where she was. Mrs. Webb lived num-
Der of days, when she again apparently
died. The Doctor pronounced her dead,
and she was once more placed in the
coffin from which she had been taken,
and last Saturday was buried.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19

by loving family. This was Charles
Clinton Ambrose.
The Arkansas side of the story is
briefly told. A young man of excellent
address, young and energetic, came to
Hot Springs at the close of the war. He
developed into q highly successful
citizen, acquired property and after a
nseful life, died at the age of AZ leaving
to his wife and children snug fortune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19
Destruction by Insects in America.

The annual loss to productive indus
tries in the United States caused by in
sects is estimated at $3.50, 600, 900. Here
is fair battle between man and another
sort of earth oc;upiers. They are small
er, but if they can whip us, have I'M
doubtedly as good right to the world
as we have. As civilization advances,
new insects make their appearance,
marching sometimes eastward, but gen
orally westward. There are few, if any,
forms of vegetation that have no para
sites that devour either foliage or fruit
The loss to the cotton crop is estimated
at 5l5, coo, 600 year, white that to the
apple crop is not much less, and that to
the potato crop at least one-half as much.
But the estimate is not fair one until
into the loss is counted the time spent
in fighting to secure the proportion
that is saved,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19

"Yes, had very narrow escape" said a
prominent citizen to a friend. 81 was con-
fined to my bed for year and my friends gave
me up for a consumptive's grave, until began
using Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and
Lungs, and here l am, sound and hearty"
You will find it for sale by all druggists
Price SOC and 81. Sample Bottle Free.
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odds and Ends.
A writ of attachment-.A love letter.

Il VIII OF UIIdCLIIItIIU II IUFb IUVItIs
A stringed instrument-The clothes-line.
Failure in the yarn trade-Writing unsuc-
cessful novels.
The fellow that is hard up is apt to become
man Of note.
Many a widows weeds are wilted by the SIM
pie phrase, "Wilt thou?"
The cockroach is always wrong when he at
tempts to argue with a chicken.
She Chappily)-"Aren't the oysters delicious,
George" He pprehensively) Eyes; and SO
are the crackers. Best l ever ate ~
Beer is not generally considered an expen-
sive drink, but little porter on a drawing
room car will often cost you half dollar.
As the man in the moon gets full he shines
larger adm brighter. The man on earth who
gets. full simply gets red in the face, and
foolish
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-19

For constipation, liver complaint" or bill
fOusness, sick headache and all diseases aris-
ing from a disOrdered condition of the liver
and stomach, take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pur-
Eatlyc Pellets-a &c tie laxative or active
cathartic, according to size Of dose.