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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

If the Clerk of the House shall
make up the roll Of the next House in
the manner indicated, so as to give
the Democrats a majority of one, con-
sentative Republicans, who are every
where known as moderate men, say
that the House will not be organized
upon any such basis. They will in
sist that the certificate has been i'm
properly awarded to Bacon, if it has
been awarded that all of the Demo-
cratic candidates for Congress in West
Virginia are not entitled to certif-
Gates. and THAT, manifestly, Evans,
the Republican, with the certificate of
the Governor of Tennessee, is enti-
tied to go upon the roll. Should the
Clerk, however, proceed in this man
ner, there a he no doubt that the
Republicans would dispute his au-
thority, and that they would organize
a House without the cooperation of
the Clerk. But it is hardly probable
that any such contingency will arise.
The latest news from West Virginia
is that the Democrats will not succeed
in securing all of the certificates from
the State, and every one of them is
necessary to give the Democrats a
majority of one in the House, even
by the most strained construction.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

A congressional investigation will
be the outcome of the recent discov-
cries of gross error in the journal of
the House for last session. A reso-
luton for the investigation has been
prepared, and will be presented soon.
Speaker Carlisle is the victim Of one
of the errors and is such an ineXcus-
able and annoying one that he is said
to be quite exercised over 1t. Last
December Mr.. Carlisle's seat was con
tested. The speaker therefore de-
clined to perform the duty Of ap-
pointing the committee on elections,
who were to sit as judges upon his
case, and following an old precedent,
the committee was chosen by the
House. The journal Of last session,
just printed, fails to make any note
of this action, however, but states
that the speaker appointed all the
committees. This is a very grave
mistake, as the precedent adopted by
Mr.. Carlisle is a most important one
and the journal is the legal evidence
Of all congressional action. This err
o is said to be but a sample of many
to be found in the published journal
of the last session.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
4 Noble and Efficient Worker.

Under the above heading the New
York Mail g. Express gives the fol
lowing well earned endorsement to
Hon. Albert Griffin, who as chairman
of the National Anti-Saloon Republi-
can committee has devoted the past
three years of his life to the upbuild-
ing of such a healthy temperance
sentiment in the Republican party as
should induce it to take advanced
grounds in its antagonism to the
saloon -
W. have taken great pleasure in referring to
the services of the Republicans who have had
most to do in the management of the late
campaign, National and State. There was,
however, one most efficient worker whose
claims to recognition are as great as his de-
votion to a great cause has been phenomenal
and who deserves the gratitude, not only of
all Republicans, but of all the good citizens
of the country, regardless of party lines, and
whose work was so substantial and so perma-
nent that he could afford to wait until people
had time to study the causes of Gen. Harri-
sons success.
This able, patient, courageous and unselfish
worker was Mr.. Albert Griffin, the organizer
and Chairman of the National Anti-SaloOn
Republican COMMITTEES, whofoT years past has
given all his time and energies to the task of
so guiding the temperance element of the
Republican party that they would rule its
policy and put it in such an attitude as would
preclude any excuse for the growth of political
Prohibitionism. Month after month and
year after year Mr.. Griffin has brought to his
work the faith of a prophet, the enthusiasm
of a zealot, the sagaeity of a statesman. His
Iabors have been incessant. His earnestness
has been phenomenal and Infectious. His
steadiness of purpose has been rewarded by
success in this State especially, where Warner
Miller brought to the cause for which Mr..
Griffin had been working the added force of a
new and powerful leadership.
Mr.. Griffin deserves the gratitude of every
temperance man and woman in the land, and
especially of the Republicans who are so Dobly
represented by Warner Miller.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

1t IS not a year since Grover Cleve-
land rushed into the house of repre-
sentatives a message, calling attention
to an enormous surplus which he
said existed, and threatened, if not
reduced, to imperh the country. 1t is
now claimed that the fiscal year is
likely to show a deficit instead of a
surplus. This suggests the question
to the Boston ZIa0eAer whether Presi-
dent Cleveland really knew the condi-
ton of the country at the time his
message was written. Facts indicate
that he was ignorant of the true state
of our receipts and expenditures. 1t
is also plain that great-deception
has been Prlctised in Keeping the pub
lie informed On our treasury balance.
When reported surplus of one hun
dred and forty millions becomes in a
year a deficit of eleven millions it is
that other fnanciers are
hereafter to overhaul the books and
tell the truth about our debt and
credit.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
SCR!BhER'S MAGAZINE
Q 1889.

The publishers of Scribner'S Magazine aim to
make it the most popular and enterprising of
periodicals, while at all ines preserving its high
literary character. 25, 900 new readers have been
drawn to it during the past six months by the
increased excellence of its contents notably the
railway articles, and it closes its second year
with a new impetus and all assured success.
The illuStI ationS will show som new effects, and
nothing to make Scri6ner's Magazine attractive
and interesting will be neglected.
TIL Railroad Articles will be continued by
several very striking papers; one especially in
%tereSting by EX-POetmaSter-Genera Thomas l..
James on The Railway Postal Service" Illus
trated.
Mr.. Robert Louis Stevenson's serial novel,
The Master of BollanJrae,' will run through
Der.
Correspondence and collection of manuscript
memoirs relating to j. +. Millet and a famous
group of modern French Painters will furnish
the substance of several articles. Illustrated.
The brief end papers written last year by Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson, will be replaced by equally
interesting contribution by different famous
authors. MIR. Thomas Bailey Aldrich will write
the first of them for the January number.
Many valuable literary articles will appear; a
paper on Walter Scott's Methods of Work, illus
trated from original MSS, a second "Shelf of
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Articles on Art Subjects will be a feature.
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Among the most Interestingly in the list of scien-
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A class of articles which has proved of special
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

BURDETTE's ADvICE.-Mr. Wander
bilt pays his cook S10,0 900 a year, my
boy, which is a great deal more than
you and l earn-or at least it is a
great deal more than we get-because
he is a cook. That is all. Presuma-
bly, because he can cook better than
any other man in America, That is
all. If Monster Sauceangravi could
cook tolerably we'll, and shoot a little,
and speak three languages tolerably
well, and keep books fairly, and sing
some, and could preach a fair sort of
a sermon, and knew something about
horses, and could telegraph a little,
and could do light porter's work and
could read proof t~olerably, could do
plain house and sign painting and
could help on a threshing machine,
and knew enough about law to prac-
tice in the justices courts of Kickapoo
Township, and had once run for the
Legislature, and knew how to weigh
hay, he wouldn't get $4,000 a year
for it. He gets that just because he
knows how to cook, and it wouldn't
make a cents difference in his salary
if he thought the world was fiat and
that it went around its orbit on
wheels. There's nothing like know
ing your business clear through, my
boy, whether You know anything else
or not.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

Judge Powers is presiding at the
Windsor County Court, which opened
its session at Windsor last week. The
Journal of that place speaks as fol
lows concerning the Judges charge
TO the Grand Jury
Judge Powers delivered a learned and care
fully prepared charge to the Grand Jury, set
ting forth their duties, the rules of evidence
in criminal cases, and the general principles
of the criminal laws. This charge was among
the ablest ever delivered in this court. The
attention of the jurors was called to the en-
forcement of the law providing for the sup
preston of the traffic in Intoxicating liquors.
He said that from his own experience as a
Judge, three-fourths of all the crimes COM
mitted have been the result of the improper
use of intoxicating liquors. Our taxes are in
creased by this cause to an extent little
thought of. One-half of the expenditures for
paupeFism, one-half of the divorces, and one
half of the disturbances in civil life are the re-
suit of this traffic. 1t is wrong that society
should thus suffer and the public thus be taxed
so that one man in any community may make
money out of this traffic. If a community
should thus be taxed to support a mill or
factory, there would be a rebellion on the part
of the citizens and taxpayers. Why then
should this traffic be continued?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
Lamoille County Court.

Judge Royce went home Friday
night leaving the court in charge of
the assistant Judges. A recess was
taken Saturday morning till two
o'clock Monday afternoon. Practi-
cally the work of the session was
completed last week, the recess hay
ing been taken to give the Grand Jury
time to complete their work. The
Petit Jury was dismissed and paid off
Wednesday afternoon, they not being
called upon to act in any case. The
only case on the jury calendar, Fan
cher VS.. Stearns, of which there was
any prospect of a trial, was nipped in
the bud by a plea to the jurisdiction,
the Court holding that Geo. E. Mon
teith, the Justice before whom the
case was brought, acted without
authority, in that he was an alien at
the time of signing the original writ.
Several other appealed cases in
which Mr.. Monteith had acted as JUS
tice were continued to await the de-
cision of Supreme Court in case
Stearns VS.. Fancher. In case State
VS.. Bundy, respondent pleaded guilty
to two first offences and was fined $50
and costs amounting to S42.So. In
case State VS.. Fisk, respondent plead
guilty to simple assault and was fined
SIS and costs of prosecution amount
ing to S6o.Io.
Divorce was granted in case Harri-
ct M. WEIGH VS.. James c. WEIGH for
desertion, and custody of minor child
was granted to petitioner. The libel
and cross libel for divorce in cases
Clara E. Bailey VS.. Charles Bailey,
and Charles Bailey VS.. Clara E. Bailey
resulted in quite an extended hearing.
Both sides proved considerable do
mestic infelicity, but the intolerable
'harshness was so evenly balanced
between the parties, that the Court
dismissed both petitions.
The Chancery docket contains
twenty-three new entries, eight of
which are petitions for divorce and
six are appealed State cases. The
Grand will probably complete its la
bors Wednesday. About seventy-fve
witnesses have been called on the part
of the State. Eight true bills have
been found.
The Grand Jury made the following
reports =
To the Hon. County Court, Dec. term, 1883:
The Grand Jury having given attention to
the county jail, as charged by our eminent
Chief Justice Royce, would most respectfully
report, viz.-That in view of the present con-
ditiOn of the building, and finances in certain
towns in the county, it is quite inadvisable to
expend any attended amount upon the pre-
sent structure. Whenever advisable a new
and modern building better fitted for the
safety and convenience of criminals, would be
consistent. E. p. MUDGETT, Foreman.
Hyde Park, Dec. Sth, 1888.
To whom it ma concern:
TIL new and elegant rooms devoted to the
use of the Grand Jury and witnesses in at
tendance, are such a decided improvement
over the old bleak and dismal hall formerly
occupied that it seems only consistent hat
some recognition be made through the county
paper. 1t gives great delight to express our
qualification for the considerable manner in
which our ~enjoyments nave been considered
by those in authority.
E. p. MUDGETT, Foreman.
Hyde Park, Dec. 10th, 1888.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

Judge Shepard has rendered an
opinion at Chicago on the application
of creditors of the Traders bank, to
have money, checks and drafts, to the
amount of nearly $4,000, returned
to them because they were deposited
with the bank when it was known to
its officers to be insolvent. The court
denies the petitions in all cases in
which the checks were deposited, and
the money collected before the actual
failure of the bank but grants the re-
quests for restitution in cases wherein
the checks were deposited before
failure, but payment was stopped
before collection, but wherein the
collections were made by the receiver
after the bank had closed it's doors.
The ruling, in effect, is that a bank is
not a trustee for the depositor for the
collection of checks, and that, tran
sactions of this character which re-
main uncompleted at the time of the
act of insolvency cannot be COM
pleted for the benefit of The defunct
corporation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

At a temperance meeting held in
New York recently, Sam Small spoke
against political temperance and in
favor of practical temperance. He
said when Sam Small goes into a fight
hereafter, he is going to do something.
Some one is goingto get hit, and some
one is going to get hurt. L don't be-
lieve in national prohibition politics.
Hereafter | am going 10 have some
thing practical about my principles
about my vote and about what L DO:
Principle is worth more to me than all
the parties that ever tramped the
globe. The liquor dealers don't care
for party. They elect the men that
will favor their cause, of whatever
party they may be. | don't believe
in letting the devils crowd get ahead
of me on a proposition of common
sense.
We prohibitionists have held the
balance Of power in 1fty-two congress
sional districts, and we might have
used our power to have them put into
office favorable to prohibition. But
the prohibition party has constantly
run independent tickets, instead Of
joining with some other party and as
consequence we have no representa-
ton. We have also held the balance
of power in several of the States, but
we have lost our opportunity because
we placed party above principles.
When we begin to do something the
newspapers will be talking about it,
the politicians will be hustling on ac-
count of it, and we will be getting
some victories. Nationally, l think
all the lowery roseate ideas of having
a prohibition President, and u
marching up to the White House and
drinking his health in pure cold water
will not be realized for a long time.
Economic questions, such as .immi-
grafton, monopolies, strikes and labor,
/ believe are to be imminent questions
for the next dozen years. The pulpit
and the press are waking up to the
fact that the government must kill the
saloon, or the saloon will kill the gov
eminent. The country is becoming
Germanized and beerized. If, as pro-
hibitionists, you a join with other
parties, Join them and God will bless
the combination. 1t is better that the
saloon should go than that the prohi-
bition party should come.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
Estate of r. A. Leland.

The undersigned, having been appointed by the
Hon. Probate Court for the District OF Lamoille,
Commissioners, to receive, examine, and adjust
all claims and demands of all persons against the
estate of +. A. Leland, late of johnson, in
SAID District, deceased, and ali claims exhibit
ed in Offset thereto, hereby give notice that we
will meet for the purposes Aforesaid, at the resi-
dence of the la3e +. A Leland, in Johnson, afore-
said on the 18th day of Jan. and 10th day of May
next,trom 10 =. m. until 4 p. m. each of said days
and that six months from the 10th day of Nov, A.
d. 1885, is the time limited by said Court for said
creditors to present their claims to us for exami-
nation and allowance.
Dated at johnson this 9TH day of Dec, A.
d. 1888. NATHAN MCFARLAND,
G. L. MONrEITH,
44w3 commissioners
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
[. C. StearnS of Bradford Is maki1

]. =. OF BTdQfOrQ IS making
a strong push for the Office of pension
agent for the district of Vermont and
New Hampshire. Ex-Gov. Pingree
of Hartford is also a candidate fol-
the place. If a Vermonter secures
the Office an effort will be made tc
have the pension office, which is now
located at Concord, N. H, removed
to some place in Wermont-eithel
White River Junction or Montpelier
probably.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
Estate of Joseph Clair.

COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned having been appointed by the
Honorable Probate Court for the District Of La.
noble, Commissioners, to receive, examine and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate of Joseph Clair, late of Stowe,
in said district deceased, and all claims exhibited
in offset thereto, hereby give notice that we will
meet for the purposes aforesaid nj the dwelling
Of the late Joseph Clair in stowe on the 21st day
of January and 23d day of May next, from
one O'Clock P. n. until four O'Clock p. NJ. each
OF said days, an ! that six months from the 2sth
day of November, A. ID. 1883, is the time limited
by said Court for said creditors to present their
claims to us for examination and allowance.
Dated at Stowe this 8th day OF Dec, A d.
1888. j. SMITH,
o. A. BARROWS,
44w3 Commissioners.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13
TATE SPRINGS, Tenn. July 4. 1893.

--N-NH e1 ~
The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ca:
During the spring of 1871, while working
In the field at my home in Morgan county,
Ca, / pulled off my shoes to give my feet a
rest. Unfortunately, 1 walked into a c1ump
of poison oak, and in a few DAYS my feet
were in a terrible condition, and | could not
put on a shoe because of the soreness and
swelling. l was treated as poison oak cases
usually are, and everything was healed up.
About the same time the following spring,
1872, my feet became sore again, as at first,
and every succeeding spring for five years
brought back the same condition of the dis
ease, only each time it became more dis
tress1ng, because | began to think it was a
lifetime trouble. Finally, / was induced to
try Swifts Specific. 1 took six bottles, and
to-day am entirely well. My improvement
was gradual from the first, and no evidence
of the disease remains. 1 shall take pleas
ure in testifying as to its curative proper
ties. 1t is the greatest blood purifier in ex.
istence. Yours truly, J. L. MORGAN.
The foregoing certificate is taken al
random from thousands of letters in possess
sion of the Swift Specific Co., and presented
simply as a sample. 1t is a voluntary
statement, giving facts and results of the
case. Its accuracy and genuineness are
beyond question.
A valuable Treatise on Blood and Skin
Diseases mailed free. Address
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-12-13

Ten sheets Of paper, each contain
ing four notes of the denomination OF
s., representing 5000 in all, have been
stolen while in transmission from the
treasurer to the sealing division for
completion They were probably alb
stracted by some one thoroughly IA
mlliar with the methods of handling
them. The notes will readily pass for
money, for they lack only the treas
ury seal to be legal tender.
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