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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
After Capt. KIdd'S Money.

By fits and starts men with leisure
time on their hands, aud of imaginative
temperaments have dug here and there
along the Hudson's shores for treasures
which tradition says Pirate Kidd buried
deeply and securely i'll the days of long
ago. For several years the favorite Dig
cling ground has been near secluded
coves, in the town of Es0pus, that can
be seen from the passenger coaches of
the West Shore Railroad.
1t is a very unsatisfactory summer for
the oldest inhabitants who live near the
home of John Burroughs, when they are
not able to relate how at night they saw
a rakish looking schooner heave to, and
then later on men come to the shore in
row boats, and then how still later on
the sound of pick and shovel could be
heard, likewise strange Oaths, and also
the glitter of lanterns could be seen.
Skeptics could go and look at the holes
dug in the hillsides. This sprin2 the
craze has broken out in High Falls,
where Benny Havens, o. long sold to
West Point cadets beverages that inc
briated and cigars that we're rank in the
extreme.
The new discoverer of Capt. Kidd's
treasures Is one JhcpD DlhnCIl, Ol Inb
Falls, and he means to begin active
operations at once. Mr.. Blanch has
known of the actual location of the gold
and silver and precious stones for years,
but, presumably, has been too busy to
attend to digging up the treasures. In
an unguarded moment, recently, Mr..
Blanch confided to ga man," supposed
to be a "New Yorker" where the plant
was located, and he, not Mr.. Blanch, on
Thursday of last week, visited the spot
and dug up and took away exactly $l5,-
900 and 80 cents in gold.
It is stated that Mr.. Blanch has form
ed party to dig up the remainder of
the estate of the late Mr.. Kidd. The
arrival long shore of the party or its
agents or the "New Yorker" with the
$500 and 50 cents is anxieusly looked
for by men who are out of Job just at
present in Newburg and vicinity
RinqstOn Freeman.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
Jack Tar's Medicine Chest.

One of the principal Elections of sea-
men on long voyages used to be sea
scurvy. This was particularly the case
on sailing vessels, or those bound on
voyages in the polar seas. As a general
rule the malady is to be attributed to the
deprivation of fresh vegetables any con-
use of salt meat in lieu of fresh also con-
duces to the disease. Under existing
marine laws relating to the general COM
fort of poor Jack it is not nearly so
prevalent as in former years.
Every vessel sailing under the United
States flag, bound from any port in this
country to any foreign port, is bound by
law to have a well stocked medicine chest
aboard. The same rule holds good if
the vessel be bound from a port on the
the Atlantic to one on the Pacific, or vice
versa.
In the medicine chest there must be a
sufficient quantity of lime or lemon
Juice, sugar and vinegar for the use of
the crew.
As soon as the fresh provisions and
vegetables give out and salt food has to
be regularly used the anti-scorbutics
must be given to the men. Ten days
after the salt provisions have to be used
exclusively is the time when the master
of the vessel is required to resort to
these remedies. The lime or lemon
Juice and sugar is served out at the rate
of half an ounce per day each man. and
hat pint of vinegar for each, weekly.
If the vessel should sail without these
things in her medicine chest, the master
is liable to fine of $500. Should he
not use them at the time required re may
/ be fined 800, but if it can be shown that
the owners of the vessel are either by
neglect or otherwise in fault for its not
being on board, then the master may
legally recover from them the fines and
costs which had been inflicted on him.
Vessels leaving a port on the Atlantic
for one on the Pacific side, or a vessel
crossing the Atlantic, is obliged to carry
in secure place under deck sixty gallons
of water, 100 pounds of sailed flesh
meat and 100 pounds of wholesale ship
bread for each person on board,
If Jack Tar's stipulated allowance has
been reduced during the voyage, without
sufficient cause he may recover damages
amounting from fifty cents to 81 per day
for the time he suffered such deprivation
and according to the amount and quality
of the food withheld from him.-Neto
York Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
A Negro who has Turned White.

There is a colored man in Paducah
who has undergone a complete transfer
nation within five years from a dark
copper color to complexion fully as
white as the average Caucasian. The
fiat nose, the thick lips, and the redness
of skin denotes disease, but a casual
glance would indicate that he was white
man.
His name is Erasmus Corbett, and he
is a carpenter. He is &c years old and
has wife and two children.
A reporter met Uncle Rasmus day or
two ago and questioned him concerning
the strange freak.
81 was born in North Carolina" said
Uncle Rasmus, in answer to question,
con Jan. 10, 1922, and was the slave of
Mr.. Lewis Corbett, a cousin of the Hon.
Thomas Corbett, the present Register of
the Land Office.
CATER the war came to Kentucky
and worked for a long time in Princeton,
Caldwell county. 1 was engaged for a
long time in the woollen mills of Miles
& LOngshaw.
''About five years ago noticed white
spots coming on my hands. These
spots widened and spread all over my
body and limbs with great rapidity. 1t
has left me almost white, as you see.
This place on my arm Che rolled up his
sleeve and displayed a spot about the
size of ones hand) will show my original
color"
''Was the change attended by sick
ness or queer felingsl" the reporter
asked.
cat first it made me very sick. There
was an itching, burning sensation all the
time, attended by severe pains in the
stomach and head. This lasted for two
years, during which time the change
in my color was going ON very rapidly
During the past three years the change
has been more gradual and my health
has been about as good as most men of
my age.
81 was never very black, as you will
see from the spot on my arm, nor was I
as light as mUlatto. was of dark
copper color"
''How do you account for it," he was
asked.
81 am an uneducated man." Uncle
Rasmus replied, ''and I cannot explain
the cause of the change. The poison in
the dyes used in the woollen mill pois-
oned my skin and first started it. Why
it spread I cannot tell"
Corbett is rather an intelligent man,
though he cannot read and write. His
skin is gradually assuming a healthy
color, and in a short while he will be IN
fact white man.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
Affecting to the Brokers.

Nearly all the 5000 members of the
New York Produce Exchage are sub
scribers to gratuity fund. When
member dies each subscriber is assessed
50 to make up the sum due the widow
or other surviving relative.
The deaths have become so frequent of
late that the assessments are very heavy.
If a black boarded notice appears on the
official bulletin board the subscribers
sigh and excaim.
"Oh, Lord Another So all around. p'
One evening Messrs. A. E. Orr, +. IL.
Parker, Duncan Norvell, David Bows,
L. H. Russell, f. S. Whitman and a
dozen other brokers attended an amateur
theatrical ente tainment up town. In
the play was a death scene. The actor
who was to be the corpse had just
"breathed his last, and at atmosphere of
deep solemnity pervaded the audience.
Suddenly one of the Produce Exchange
men exclaimed aloud:
"Another S. all around"
The laughter which followed sadly dis
concerted the actors and nearly broke up
the performance. -Neac York 1elegrant
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
Changed the Programme.

Speaking of bull fights" said the
man. At this remark everybody drew up
higher and listened. Speaking of bull
fights reminds me of 1858 in Columbia,
Cal. It was mining there week days
and resting on Sundays. Most of the
other fellows mined on week days and
fought bulls or bulls and bears on Sun
day. One pleasant Sunday lay in my
cabin up on the hill side, where I could
look down on the country below and
particularly upon the big amphitheatre
where they were to have fight that day
between a big bear and a bull. The
crowd at tho fight was sumner. Sud
denly heard shots and then more shots,
and finally perfect volley and an awful
screaming, and then men, women and
children began to pour over the big
fence and drop about thirty feet to the
ground. went down in a hurry.
"When I got there it was all over.
The big bear had broken his shackles
and had climbed over the central en-
closure up in the seats among the people.
Like flash, in every part of the huge
audience, pistols were drawn and shots
poured in. The bear dashed right and
left, and was stung by the bullets.
Finally, he approached one old miner,
who waited until the bear got within six
feet, when he plunked him in the eye
and he dropped dead. Lots of women
were killed and injured by jumping
from the enclosure-fence."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
POverty'S Turkey Dinner.

Some years ago the good sisters OF
-- Church determined in the kindness
of their hearts, to get up a contribution
for the poor of the community. Gather
ing a considerable quantity of the neces-
sarics and comforts of life, they put the
goods into horse cart and sailed forth
upon their merciful mission. It was a
plentiful section of country, where it was
hard to find any cases OF poverty ap-
preaching starvation, but they all agreed
that if anybody was suffering it must be
Sister Hutton; and so to Sister Hutten's
they went They found the old Lady
Just about to sit down to dinner. On
the table was fine roast turkey, done
to n turn, and diffusing its appetizing
odor. The visiting committee gazed
with some wonder at this unexpected
Phenomenon; and the sPokeswoman of
we heard you were very poor, and SO we
came here to relieve your necessities
but here you have fine roast turkey for
dinner, which does not look much like
restitution" "Pshaw!" said the old
lady, looking at the turkey with much
contempt, "I'd like to know what roast
turkey is, anyhow, when body's got no
cranberry sass!" Another benevolent
lady is reported to have visited family
who were understood to be ON the verge
of starvation and she found them ex-
tremely destitute. They were half clad,
cold, and had not a morsel of food of
any description in the house. Touched
with pity, the visitor asked: "What do
you need most? What shall I get for
you 2" The mother replied: ''Well, I
did want headdress most, they are so
becoming Christian Inquirer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
Such Chewing Gum.

The use of chewing gum has come to
be quite the fashion in a quiet way, and
is almost as difficult to break away from
as the tobacco habit. A pretty young
lady artist at New York sauntered In
upon her intimate friends with her
mouth working over her favOrite gum,
and explained how she formed the
habit:
''You see I was invited to a swell
lunch given by some friends of mine,
and everything was novel, artistic and
delicious. After everything else had
been served, there were brought in some
lovely-loOking CONNECTIONS. Each guest
received but one, ON a dainty little bon
bon dish 1t was the creamiest, most
delicious CONNECTION I ever tasted, and
as it slowly melted there was a spicy,
aromatic flavor, and a substance that did
not dissolve. 1t still retains a peculiar,
flavor, and l wouldn't give it up
for the world. [ live in constant terror
for fear 1 shall lose it and not be able to
get any more. Sorry [ can't offer you
some. Tt was made by the young la
dies themselves, who had the recipe
from an old Indian servant when they
lived in Calcutta. Their father was a
British officer, you know. They won't
tell how it's made. They say its the
only novelty they can be sure of, and
they would like it to last them two sea
sons"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07

Two young men and two young ladies
attended the theatre together in St.
Louis few evenings ago. At the end
of the first act the young men rose and
crowded their way out of the row in
which they sat and disappeared in the
refreshment room. Their lady friends
were displeased by the maneuvre, and
one of them proposed that they should
also leave and go home. The other
thought it better to give the young men
another chance. The Glove eaters re-
turned, pushed their way back to their
seats, and the play went on, but the
young ladies showed less interest in their
attentions. When the curtain rang
down on the second act the young men
again went out for more breath The
young ladies quickly left the theatre,
took a cab and went home. The young
men on discovering the empty seats,
flushed in the face and straightway took
their departure. 1t was good lesson
for them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
HELL1S HALF ACRE.
The appropriate Name Given to One
of the Boiling Lakes.

A Yellowstone letter says:-We were
now in the region of wonders, for when
we looked about in the cool morning air,
not yet warmed by the bright rays of
the sun, the whole country seemed to be
sending up columns of steam from hun
dreds of warm springs. Our driver fore
warned us that the air was too cool to see
the Half Acre ut its best, for the steam
was 30 dense as to hide the pool from
view. After a short drive we came to
the white and barren formation that
surrounded half dozen or more enor-
nous boiling springs. A few dead trees
here and there were evidence that the
formation of geyserite had been growing
outward from year to year, and had fin
ally caught up with and destroyed these
stragglers of the forest. A walk of a
hundred yards or so brought US to the
brink of the first of these boiling lakes.
The steam, as our driver had predicted,
WAS SO dense that we could see very
little; but l will describe it as I saw it a
day or two later, on our return from
Upper Geyser Basin.
The Half Acre is the name applied to
one of the boiling lakes, whose waters,
like great cauldron, are ever boiling
and bubbling and giving off dense vol
umes of steam. In it's middle column
of ten feet in diameter is thrown into
the air to a height of fifteen feet at short
intervals, and about its sides, from time
to time since the discovery of the park,
pieces of the formation which here APP
pears to be about eight feet in thickness,
have tumbled in. Itwould be impossible
to ascertain the depth of this natural
cauldron, but the water is as clear as
crystal, and when the vision is not OBJ
scured by the steam, one can look down
in its blue depth and see the rocks far,
far below. On one side a stream as
large as an ordinary country mill race
flows out and rolls, a boiling cascade,
into the Fire Hole River. Some of the
most wonderful effects of color are pro-
duced by the sun shining through these
clouds of steam upon the tinted sulphur
formations in the bottoms of these
lakes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
st. Paul's First Families,

The Minneapolis Journal declares il
to be fact that two of the best known
bank presidents of st. Paul welded wo-
men with Indian blood in their veins,
and lived with them honorably and low.
ingly, and the children of these unions
are among the esteemed people of the
capital. Given a sufficient lapse of time
and there would seem to be no reason
why some of Minnesota's first families
should not look back to Sioux ances
tress with as much pride as the F. F.
VS. feel in Pochahontas. Such mar
riages were not uncommon in the early
days among the pioneers before white
women began to come to the frontier.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
Farm and Garden Notes.

Secure good seed corn early. g.. .
Starving hens make lean egg basket
Baby lambs and calves need good care.
Succulent food makes succulent milk.
Stables should certainly be cleaned
daily.
Pears do well where the land is half in
grass.
A good tree well set needs no tying to
stakes.
Add scalded milk to oatmeal for gov
ing calves.
IT is not well to allow cattle and swine
to run together.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07

In TROUBLE Indiana man, fear
ing grave robbers, put a lot of dynamite
into the coffin containing the body o
his daughter, and the fact was vel
known. The other day his wife died
and the gravediggers had a dangerou.
Job digging grave beside that of the
daughter, and many persons would not
go to the cemetery, fearing an explo
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07

:, In another part of this paper will be found
the advertisement Of prominent Soap Manu-
featuring Firm Of Buffalo. The offer is pecu-
Ilar one from the fact that this firm will send
70 any subscriber of this paper who will send
sorted Family and Toilet Soap on 30 days
Lrlai. Inc Soa is probably as fine as can be
In each case, for a limited time a great ARA
OF presents, premiums, extras, etc, for which
no charge is made. You cannot well afford to
once to ]. d. Larkin & Co., Buffalo n. Y.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07

Dear Bell: I'll write you a short letter
To say I'm wonderfully better;
How much that means you ought to know
', no saw me just one month ago
Thin, nervous, fretful, white as chalk,
Almost too weak to breathe or talk;
Head throbbing, as If fit for breaking,
A weary, ever-present aching.
But now life seems different thing:
Ifeel as glad as bird on wingl
] say, and fear no contradict n,
That Pierce's Favorite Prescription
Is grandi Why, I'd have died without i'll
Ma thinks there's no mistake about it.
It's driven all my ills away:
Just come and see. Yours ever, MAY.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07

suffered with fever hot head and foul breath,
With a stomach disordered-was sick unto
death.
I bore it a week-surely was Ounce
Then took few "Pellets"-they cured me at
once.
What a Ounce, indeed to neglect such n rem
edy and suffer n week, when quick relief could
have been found in DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pur-
gative Pellets.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07

STEPHEN MILES, Y years old, blind of
one eye, infrm and parish charge, who
had never before been charged with any
offence, was sent to jail for seven days
by an English magistrate, in default of
II shillings fine, because he had been
seen with a net, beating the furze on a
common, searching for rabbit.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07


From an Ectte's Sketch in the June Century,
built to accommodate 500, where, at the time
of Mr.. Remnants visit, 1741 men and women
were imprisoned. In rooms built to accom-
modate forty men, 100 were sleeping. Il
breathed as little as l could while [ was
there" says Mr.. KEENAN,, "but every respr-
alton seemed to pollute my very soul, and
became faint from nausea and lack Of oxy-
gen. 1t was like trying to breathe in an
underground hospitaldrain."
Mr.. Remnants articles are torn out of the
copies Of The Century which enter Russia;
they, as well as Mr.. Kennan himself, being
now on the Russian blacklist But other
countries are reading what Mr.. KEENAN,
writes. The articles are being translated into
Polish, and they are appearing also in the
organ of the Russian liberals at Geneva.
Even Dutch newspaper published on the
Island OF Java is reprnting them in four
page supplements.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
MERCHANTS, BUTCHERS .s :s:5Sii5
We want GOOD MAN in your locality to pick up
CALF SKINS

for us. Cash Furnished on satisfactory GUAR
anty. Address, C. S. PAGE, Hyde Park, Yer
mont, U. s.
~, me ohOe &C Ledtner reporter, N. Y, and
Shoe 6 Leather ReUiet1, Chicago, the Ieadinp
trade papers of the u. S. in the Hide line have
sent their reProsent"ti~e- - $500 E,aso nir.
Pages business, and after thorough exami-
ination and comparison tho Reporter gives
him this endorsement:
We believe that in ertent Of hght-treight rdg ma.
tertdt collected and carried Mr. Page holds the cad
eJdny competitor and that his present stock is the
largest held bu any house in this cOttntry"
And the ReuielU says:
after most thorough intestfgdtfon OF Mr. P11e',
business compared iCtth others in same ife tca
hare become fully satisfied that his spccidltl Iihf
toeighf stock ne Is uqueStfondbly the largest dealer
IN nus counry ohtte ~ superiority OF quality he ia
QUERY: If Mr. Pages business is the largest
in its line in the United States, is it not the
best possible proof of his ability to pay highest
prices! II he did not do so, would he naturally
get more Skins than any of his competitors
in the same linel
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07
Modern Improvement in Farming

Among the many helps to make farm
ing easier in the last few years, says a
| farmer in the New York World, the
windmill should not be forgotten. 1t is
one of the greatest boons to the stock
ralsers that has ever been in use. Where
fifty or seventy-fve head of cattle are
kept-and this is not an unusual num-
ber-to water them for one day sutfi-
GENTLY, would require the time and
strength of one man at the pump for two
hours, and nothing is more fatiguing,
whereas with wind power it is easily
| done. Ten years ago a windmill was
quite an unusual sight, now the Western
prairies are dotted over with them.
Wherever practice has shown their i'm
projections they have been improved.
Some are made so that when the wind is
too strong the fans that compose the
wheel, close together, so that it must
needs go slowly. Some wheels are made
so that they turn edgewise to the wind
when not pumping, thus being safer
from damage. A lever keeps them in
gear when the wind would otherwise
throw them out.
The tower, in whose top the large
wheel is fixed must needs be higher
than any adjacent tree tops or they will
intercept the wind when it is desirable
10 turn the MILL unless the tower ex-
ceeds the gable in height, the wind when
in some quarters, will come whirling
around the building to the risk of dam
age to the wheel. Many dig the large
stock well, over which the mill is reared,
IN front of the barn, and with iron pipes
conduct the water underground, after it
hopn 70 he Io 4
terent yards where the cattle are kept.
This plan gives the cattle purer waite to
drink than if the well were sunk in the
yards.
One of the greatest inconvenience at
tending the use of windmills are the ice
storms which occasionally occur.
The ice adheres to the fans in the
wheel, obstructIng the working of il,
and nothing can be done to remo,e it.
but wait until it thaws, which is usually
but few hours
The wheel at intervals needs oiling,
and it needs a cool head to mount the
ladder, which is always part of the
frame, and oil the works.
Sometimes a gale will strike the wheel,
which is usually about ten feet across,
with such force that it falls to the ground
and is demolished, when it must be re-
placed by new one. 1t is found that
the higher the tower on which the wheel
rests, the less it is likely to be in iured
by high winds, as a gale expends its
force for mischief nearer the earth than
is supposed.
Wlndmills wear much faster on ac-
count of the wind power which runs
them,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07

1t is the current report about town that
Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs is
making some remarkable cures with people
who are troubled with Coughs, Asthma, Bron-
chitis and Consumption. Any druggist will
give you a trial bottle free Of cost. 1t is guar
anteed to relieve and Gu Q. Large bottles 50
cents and 81.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-07

Use after each m al SCOTr's EMULSION with
HypophOsphites. II is palatable milk,
and easily dig sted. The rapidity with which
delicate people improve with it's use is won
derful. Use it and try your weight. AS a
remedy for Consumption, Throat affections
and Bronchitis, It is unequaled Please read:
! Il used Scott's Emulsion in a child eight
months old with god re ,ults. He game four
pounds IN a very short time."-THO. PRUM, NJ.
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