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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
Prete nded to be O Detective.

The cashier of the Bank of Well,
man, Iowa, is % years of age. He
carries the keys of the bank, and with
its President is the only person who
knows the combination of the vaults. A
few nights ago, while Mr.. Moore, the
cashier, was spending the evening with
his prospective bride, "A stranger knocked
at the door. He demanded to see young
Moore, and said: "You are my prison
er."
The cashier was much astonished, but
he was informed that he was forger and
that the stranger was a Pinkerton detec-
tive. Said the alleged officer: eff you
want to go to the bank to get any money
or papers that you need 1 will go with
you" Moore said he would not go to
the bank, but he had friend he would
like to see to borrow some money. A
friend of Moore asked to see the papers
on which the latter had been arrested,
but the bogus detective said: 81 am q
Pinkerton man and don't have to show
my papers"
Then Moore was taken to the friend
he wanted to see, who proved to be the
President of the bank, Mr.. Nichols, who
finally said that it would be best for
Moore to go with the officer. The pre-
tended detective started to take his pris-
oner to Iowa City. The arrest aroused
some hal a dozen people and the detec-
tive hurried to get off. A little way from
the village he gave Moore something to
drink which made him violently i'll.
When Iowa City was reached the man
told Moore he was sorry, but he had
made mistake and that he was the
wrong Moore. The men then separated,
Moore going home.
From Investigations made, it is pretty
certain that Moore was in the custody
of burglar. 1t is believed that had
the bogus detective succeeded in getting
his man off without arousing so many
citizens he would have taken him to the
bank and forced him to tell the rest of
the gang the combinations of the vaults
which then held over $25, 900.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
Fiction to Suit.

"Give me a ten-cent love story with a
blond heroine and Indians in it. Dom
give me detective story" she said.
We were both in a newsdealer's store
on Hudson avenue. L looked up and
saw the really intelligent face of a lady
perhaps 80 years old. She was hand
somely dressed. She scanned all the
yellow covered literature, but threw
them aside, saying she had read them
all.
''Here's just what you want" the
dealer said, and then he threw down q
ten cent book, entitled: "Snaky Snod-
grass, the Scout and Lover of Blind
Mans Gulch." She hadn't read that,
and off she went with it.
"Do you sell many of such books" I
asked.
ooh, yes" he said, 'and I have sold
no less than fifty of them to the married
lady you saw leave the store just now.
But she hangs on pretty we'll"
"What do you mean by hanging on q
"Well, after married women read
about twenty-five of such books there is
generally a row in the family, and the
wife leaves the husband to look for the
kind of hero she has often read about in
books, and, of course, these separations
hurt my business. / estimate that
twenty-five of such books will make a
romantic woman leave her husband and
go hero searching. The married woman
who has just bought 'Snaky Snodgrass'
hangs on pretty well. Perhaps she
hasn't struck the right book yet. These
books break up more families than any,
thing | know Of
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
The Curse of the TELEPHONE.

"Have You got telephone?" said one
man in the car to another.
eyes, and [ wouldn't be without it for
anything. It's the most useful, most"
"Hold on. Got any family-sm al
family mp at your housei"
ono"
"Well I'm going down to tell them to
take mine out right away
"Whyl"
Cant get away from it. My wife has
succee led in getting at me everywhere
I've been. AMI Two always had to go
home. l have wanted to have q quiet
evening with the hoys for some weeks,
but every time ting gazing ling-that
COMPOUNDED telephone. Always some
message. You see, I'm too honest, l
always did tell her where I'm going and
she catches me every time. She has
used every possible experiment n tele-
phone could possibly carry, but she has
overdoDe it and no more telephone.
"What has she dOne?"
"Well, last night made up my mind
I'd take holiday from the family, so to
speak, and when the telephone rang l
went to it prepared to face every argu-
ment she could make. But she got me
she got me. had to go home"
GLOW did she get youl"
Chang it, she put the baby up to the
telephone and pinched it till it yelled
blue murder over the wire. San Fran
cisco EEdmincr,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

Birds can more easily escape any ter
restrial disturbance iIKely 10 overwhelm
animals without such capabilities of
fleeing from the mischief at hand; so
that it is by no means a safe inference
to consider the spot in which a birds
skeleton is found that in or about which
its owner was in the habit of disporting
itself. Moreover, in former ages, as in
ours, birds were no doubt migratory;
indeed, there is reason to believe that
the routes at present taken by certain
species in removing from and to their
summer and winter quarters were those
adopted by them when the physical
geography of the world was very differ
ent from what it is at the present. We
also know that when birds are drowned
and often after boisterous winter the
Northern coasts are strewn with the
bodies of aquatic species-they lnvarl-
ably float on the surface, owing to their
light skeletons and water-reslstlng
plumage. Hence, when they reach the
strand their oarcasses are usually so
macerated that their bones are scattered
far and wide, or they fall O prey to the
animals who prowl along the shore in
tent on picking up such fiotsam and
jetsam of the ocean.
Other large animals, on the contrary,
sink to the bottom when they die, and
if the sediment is favorable for their
fossilization, they are soon slted over,
and their harder parts preserved more
or less intact for all succeeding time.
These facts, which to a certain extent
apply to all animals, are in an especial
degree worthy of consideration when the
rarity OF ornithic remains
comes TO be explained.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
CLEAN TOWELS IN THE OFFICE.
Rise of A New Industry-Business
Men Escape the Washer
Woman's Tyranny.

1t is not often that Chicago teaches
New-York anything worth the learning.
Says letter in the n. Y Tribune. Yet
the metropolis is indebted to the Windy
City of the West for the idea of q COM
pany supplying offices, stores, barber
shops, restaurants, bar-rooms, etc, with
clean towels or table napkins. The plan
started there, it is said, with a poor
washer-woman, who saved enough mon
ey to purchase q few score towels and
persuaded the husbands of the families
she had long worked for to rent them
from her for use in their offices. She
got few customers at first, moved more
by charity than by any idea of the util-
ity of the scheme, but soon the conven-
fence of constant supply of clean tow
els without the accustomed bother of
getting them washed began to take hold
and from these small beginnings the
business grew torespectable proportions.
Like all other avenues to making
money, it quickly became crowded; com
petition brought down the prices and in
creased the patronage; other cities be-
gan to notice it, and NewYork, quick
to appreciate anything new, adopted it
and, OF course, improved upon it. There
are now several companies engaged in
the business here, one of which furnish
es to offices a mirror, a comb, and a
brush, toilet soap and four towels a
week for seventy five cents a month.
How the thing could be done cheaper
than this it is difficult to see.
The capital required is not large, of
course, and two men with one delivery
wagon, delivering a weeks supply of
clean towels and removing at the same
visit last weeks soiled stock, can serve
q great many customers in a day. The
towels cost little, and if lost by the Gus
toner must be paid for; a laundry at
tached to the concern does the washing
at q minimum of expense, toilet soap
bought at wholesale figures is cheap;
the mirror will last for ever almost, AMI
the brush and comb are easily cleaned
from time to time and will not wear out
with ordinary usage in a twelvemOnth.
Many patrons take from twelve to
eighteen towels week, none less than
six, and many big houses where num-
bers of hands are employed take as
many as ten or a dozen daily.
The economy of the system for the
customer comes in in the saving which
is made in the cost of towels, which
otherwise are constantly being lost in
the wash. The advantage on the side
of cleanliness is also of no small account
The chronic dirtiness of office towels
has long furnished the funny man with
themes for witticisms and some Western
humorist is authority for the widely
held opinion that the towel in printing
houses attains such consistency from
Iona divorce from yVot tor that II &c mead
occasionally to stab the spring poet with
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
Dead Wild Animals.

Any one who has observed nature
closely must have remarked how ex-
ceedingly rare it is to find the body of
any wild animal, says writer in orr
Earth and It's Story. Millions die every
year; yet, unless after heavy storm OF
a severe frost, the sharpest-e ranger
of the woods and fields will seldom
come upon a corpse. The wildlings
seem to crawl into holes when they feel
their end approaching, or their bodies
are devoured by other animals, or con-
ce led by their kindred. In the first
and last cases their skeletons will. OF
course, be preserved in the earth's crust
all the same as if they had been buried
in aquatic mud; but if they are eaten,
then it is only in rare instances that we
can identify the component portions of
their bony structure. This may be the
reason why some animals are never
found except in the shape of few teeth,
and it may also explain the absence of
birds from formations in which they
might presumah- be found.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
WAS POOR TOM COLD
n Remarkable Story Told by a Soldi-
er at the Stone Creek Battle.

The night of Dec 81, 1868, was ex-
ceedingly cold in the vicinity of Muir
freesboro. Tenn. The first days battle
at Stone River had been fought, result
ing IN disaster to the Federal army
which had been driven from its original
ground at every point except its extreme
left. The weary troops at that point
lay behind railway embanllment,
which had served them during the last
hours OF the fight as breastwork to re-
peated charges of the enemy. Behind
the line OF ground was open and rocky.
Great powders lay about everywhere,
and among them lay many of the Federal
dead, where they had been carried out
of the way. Before the embankment
the dead of both armies lay greatly
thicker, but they We're not molested.
1t was not very dark night, being
clear.
Among the dead in the powders lay
one whom nobody knew-a Federal ser
geant, shot directly in the centre of the
forehead. One of our surgeons, from idle
curiosity, or possibly with view to the
amusement of group of officers during
lull in the engagement 1--WE needed
something to divert our minds), had
dropped his probe clean through the
head. The body lay on it's back, its chin
in the air. and with Strengthened limbs
as rigid as steel frost on its white face
and its beard and hair. Some Christ
ian soul had covered it with blanket,
but when the night became pretty sharp
q companion of the writer removed this,
and we lay beneath it ourselves.
With the exception of our pickets,
which had been posted well in front
of the embankment, every man lay
silent. Conversation was forbidden; to
have made fire or even struck match
to light pipe would have been q grave
offence. Stamping horses, moaning
wounded-every thing that made noise
had been sent to the rear; the silence
was absolute. Those whom the chill
prevented from sleeping, nevertheless,
reclined as they shivered, or sat with
their heads on their arms, suffering, but
making no sign. Everyone had lost
friends and all expected death on the
morrow. These matters are mentioned
to show the improbability of anyone
going about during those solemn hours
to commit CHASTITY practical joke.
When the dawn broke the sky was still
clear owe shall have warm day." the
writer's companion whispered as we rose
in the gray light; "let's give back the
poor devil his blanket" The Sergeant s
body lay in the same place, two yards
away. But not in the same attitude. 1t
was upon its right side. The knees
were drawn up nearly to the breast, both
hands thrust to the wrist between the
buttons OF the jacket, the col ar of which
was turned up, concealing the ears. The
shoulders were elevated, the head was
retracted, the chin rested on the collar
bone. The posture was that OF one suff-
ering from intense cold.
But for what had been previously obs
erved-but for the CHASTITY evidence of
the button hole-one would have sworn
the man had frozen to death.
Francisco Examiner.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
Mss FAMpRoUeH Of souu Shoals

Miss FAMBRoUGH, of SOUL Shoals
Fla, is a young woman of nerve and
presence of mind. The other day hel
fathers Jersey bull attacked him, and
was in fair way to kill him. His wife
saw him fall and ran toward him, but
the daughter, more thoughtful, first got
the axe, and running up bit the bull such
tremendous whack that it stunned
him, so that the father had chance tc
get up, grab the axe, and bury its head
in the skull of the brute.
A DENTIST of alleged skill and reputa
ton, former president of State denta-
association, was recently sued by New
Bedford man for pulling the wrong
tooth and a piece of jaw with it, and the
jury gave the plaintiff $500 damages.
A WESTERN brute in the form of q
man, who was recently fined for abusing
his horse, attempted to ''get satisfac-
ton" out of the animal when alone with
it in the stable. Bya we'll directed kick
the mans jaw was broken.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

all ober er shirt dat cos me fifty-fi' cents
las fall. Twas gwine say suthin right
dar-yas, wuz gwine say suthin' right
dar if it hadn't er been fur ole Brudder
Pete Welsh"
''What did he do2" the Governor
asked
"W'y he hit me wild err cabbage stalk,
dat's what he done. did think dat l
neber seed vegetables so plentiful in my
bon days. Hit me side de head wild er
cabbage stalk, an it wuz heavy too:
Bout dis time I got 'gusted, an lowed
ter merse'f dat wuz gwine ter quit dat
church, caize eff KANT git erlong wild
folks widout habin' ter put up wild dem
'sultin sinywations, Wy Is done dat
all; vas, an rs mighty glad to know dat
| ken go ober an 'sociate wild dem Bap-
It's widout bringin de law down on me.
Much erbleeged ter yer fer yer kindness;
Good mawnin', mars, good mawin', sab. J"
-ArkanSaoO Traceler,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
yOUDOO RITES IN GEORGIA.
A Miraculous TaIisman Used to De
termine who Had COnjured
Negro Woman.
From the sandersville (Ga.) Progress.]

From the Sandersville (Ga.) Progress.]
The superstitious nature of the negro
race has found marked illustration in
the recent voudooism charged to have
been practised upon the wife of Tom
| Thomas, one of the most religious negro
men in Washington County. Tom was
in the city Yesterday, and gave detailed
account TO the PROGRESS of the peculiar
affection of his wife and her miraculous
cure, as we'll as the wonderful manner
in which the evil perpetrator was dis
covered.
About a month ago Ton s wife felt
peculiar misery in her limbs, which
gradually enveloped the entire body,
and, instead of yielding to ordinary
physic, each dose administered seemed
to add to her ailment and augment her
suffering. Finally it dawned upon Tom
that his wife was con ured, and he
sought the aid of old man Gus Cheevers,
an Old half breed Indian, noted for his
| herb remedies and knowledge of the
occult science. The old doctor, as soon
as approached, told Tom his wife had
been poisoned with rattlesnake poison
by neighbor, and had three days more
delay been made she would have been
dead. He could save her, though, and
for the sum of eighteen dollars under
took to antidote the poison.
His medicines would at u o'clock on
q certain day make her sick almost unto
death, but after that she would get we'll.
The poison under his treatment eXuded
from the pores of her skin in thread-like
sprays of mucous. Finally the woman
recovered and is now at work hoeing
cotton. Sunday last the old Voudoo
doctor went to Toms cabin to find out
the poisoner. This he accomplished
with talismanic ball pendent from
string. The neighbOrs assembled, and
the ball was held up in front of each as
his name was called until Boston May
was reached, when the ball flew towards
him, and the guilty man, though deny
ing it, stood accused.
Old man Jerrys well, on q lot adjoin-
ing Toms, began boiling up last Mon
day, and whenever a bucket of water is
drawn it begins to foam and run over,
la seidlitz powder, until the bucket is
empty. The wondrous little ball also
lays this devilment to Boston, and the
old doctor says the cause is little bottle
of poison placed in the bottom Of the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

Not until one day when the two tyros
were seen going in through the window
we're the true facts suspected. The two
tramps were watched, and would have
been arrested but for the fact that they
suddenly skipped out.
Many of the farmers had noticed that
their supply of eggs was decreasing, and
traps we're set to catch the animals that
were supposed to have stolen certain
missing chickens. Madison women say
that the number of tramps who called
for food the past month was unusually
large, but that they were all compare
lively we'll dressed.
AS Mr. Umberfeld has not yet arrived
it is not known whether anything of
value was taken, but examination by
neighbors shows that the tramps made
themselves very much at home, and
must have had very gay time. Not a
little damage was done.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

SEVERAL YEARS ago negro was run
over on q Georgia railroad and his foot
cut off. Some lawyers sued for dam
ages for him, with the understanding
that they were to have half the sum re-
covered. The negro became discouraged
at the laws delays and wens off looking
for work. The case was carried from
court to court, and recently the Supreme
Court affirmed the decision Of the lowt L
court giving the negro $4,000 damages.
Now the lawyers are looking for him
anxious to turn over the $4,000 which
belongs to him.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
RECALLING A TRAGEDY.
Strange Manifestations of Which
Pond Cove Harbor Is the Scene.

Pond Cove Harbor, Maine, SO some
fishermen aver, is the scene of q curious
manifestation that recalls q long-agO
tragedy that might else have been for
gotten by the general public. AS the
Kennebec Journal tells the story, man
named Jack WEIGH, who had been at
work all day on new boat, mysterious
ly disappeared during the night. All
search was unavailing, and the excite
ment over the affair had Gained down,
when, just a year from the disappear
ance, some boys coming home from q
fishing trip, saw q small, bright light,
about O mile in the bay, that moved
slowly to the place where Jack built his
boat, a year before. The boys story
was not fully believed, but year later
a watch was kept, when the same light
appeared. Each year witnessed the same
phenomenon. On the tenth anniversary
boat, containing Joe Hanson, Tom
Wright and John WEIGH, was hurrying
up the bay, hoping to reach the wharf
before the light appeared. Everything
was enveloped in a dense fog, and the
men were Just making the boat fast to
the wharf, when suddenly, with a flash
like lightning, and buzzing sound, the
ISu1 MeAG IuLOuSu bHG IlSSIuS VI JiIe
boat and out into the water. The fright
ened men took to their heels, but one
more courageous than the rest saw the
light return and go to Tom Wright's
house. His story kept the villagers up
all night, too nervous to sleep, and
when, the next morning, Tom was miss
ing, excitement reached high pitch.
Twenty years later letter from the
missing Tom to his wife solved the mys-
terry. Toms wife had been Jacks
sweetheart, and in order to get the girl
Tom had killed Jack and thrown the
body overheard. He wrote the letter
on his deathbed, declaring that he had
been haunted by Jacks ghost till he
could live no longer. The ghost is said
to yet haunt the harbor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

DO you know, Mary, once actually con-
tt5emIR plate suicide?' You horrify me, Mrs.
chronic weakness. l believed myself the
most unhappy woman in the world. 1 looked
ten years older than l really was, and | fel t
twenty. Life seemed to have nothing in it
worth living for" II have experienced all
those symptoms myself. WelIf'' "Wen, |
mission of deed which | shudder to think Of
A friend advised me to take Dr. Pierce's Fa-
yorite Prescription. did so. In an incredibly
short time felt like new b ing. The Pre-
scription' cured M, and | owe Dr. Pierce a
debt OF gratitude which / can never repay"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
SHE WAS LEFT.

"Please, sir, have you seen a gentle
man without a little girl 2"
"Well, and what if L have, little
one?"
''My Uncle John has lost me, an I
thought il. you'd seen a gentleman with
ont little girl you could tell me where
he was. "-Aec0 Noon.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

AS well as the handsomest, and others are
invited to call on any druggist and get free q
trial bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat
and Lungs, remedy that is selling entirely
upon its merits and is guaranteed to cure and
relieve all Chronic and Acute Coughs, Asthma
Bronchitis and Consumption. Large bottles
50 cents and 81.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
From tho EN-President of tho New York
state Senate,

STATE OF NEW YORK, SENATE CHAMBER,
ALABNY, March IL, 1856.
have used ALLCOCK's Porous PLAsTERs in
my family for the past five years, and can
truthfully say they are a valuable remedy and
effect great cures. would not be without
them. have in several instances given some
to friends suffering with weak and lame backs
and they have invariably afforded certain and
speedy relief. They cannot be too highly COM
mended. EDMUND l. PITTS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTABLE EVENTS WORTHY OF
a PASSING RECORD.

Love is Blind-A Surgeons Story
John Browns Presents-A We'd
ding JeSt--A Novel Story. &c,
&c,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

The crow very rarely leaves place without
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
THEY ABE IN SEASON.

No this years apples yet are found
In the New England States,
But every night fresh pairs abound
On cottage garden gates.
Boston Courier.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

If all so-called remedies have failed, DIR.
Sage'5 Catarrh Remedy cures.