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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12
The Story of "Annie Laurie"

The famous song that is sung by M
singers of the present day, anl inform
ed, is mystery as to the author. was
raised on the next farm to James Laurie,
Annie Laurie's father, was personally
acquainted with both her and her father,
and also with the author of the song.
Knowing these facts. have been re-
quested by my friends to give the public
the benefit of my knowledge, which ]
have consented to do. Annie Laurie
was born in 1927, and was about seven
teen years old when the incident occur
red which gave rise to the song bearing
her name. James Laurie, Annie's
father, was a farmer, who lived and
owned very large farm called Thragles-
town, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He
hired great deal OF help, and among
those he employed was a man by the
name of Wallace to act as foreman. Mr..
Wallace fell in love with Annie Laurie,
which fact her father soon learned, and
forthwith discharged him. He went to
his home, which was in Maxwelton, and
was taken sick the very night he reached
there, and the next morning, when
Annie Laurie heard of it, she came to
his bedside and waited on him until he
died, and on his deathbed he composed
the song entitled "Annie Laurie.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12
The Farmer BOY.

Bless the farmer boy! Under his
slouched hat is ten times more wood lore
than any of us possess. lie can tell you
as the warm spring days come where the
pheasant is building her nest; how many
eggs the quail hid yesterday down in
the tangled weeds in the old pasture
lot; he cannot tell you the name, but
knows that brown bird with spotted
breast sitting yonder. In the deep
shadows of the woods it sings a swee5
song that softly echoes among the
great trees like the tinkling of silver
bells, while he sits on the moss covered
rock and listens until the shadows
turn to darkness; down the old log road
he hastens home to dream of the dark
woods and green meadows, of the foam
ing waters that rush by the great rocks
of the deep, quiet pool, barred over
with the shadows of the alders, and
where the trout hide away. Bless the
farmer boy y,-Forest anil Stream.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

The Spanish and Indian Californians
were passionately fond of music. All
the men could make shoes and play the
guitar and every woman could sing
Spanish songs to her own accompani-
ment Bancroft, in his "California
Pastoral, " tells how the people, after the
conquest of the country by the United
States, were rcconciled to the new rule
by music.
The Californians were invited to re-
turn to their homes and resume their
usual occupations. Proclamations which
promised protection of their persons and
property were placarded in the towns.
but they would not come out of their
hiding places.
The commodore, whose naval force
had helped to conquer the country, was
at Los Angeles, and, meeting Captain
Phelps, an old Trader on the coast, re-
que ted his help.
Commodore, ," replied the captain,
'you have a fine band on your ship, and
such thing was never before in this
county. Let it play one hour in the
plaza each day at sunset, and | assure
you it will do more toward reconciling
the people than all your proclamations,
which few of them can read"
The captains suggestion was adopted.
At first the children came forth and
peeped round the corners of the houses.
A few lively tunes brought out the vivas
of the older ones, and before the band
ceased playing they were surrounded by
delighted natives.
The next afternoon the plaza was
thronged with the people OF the town
and with ranchmen from a distance, who,
having heard of the wonderful band, had
ridden in The old priest of the mission
of an Gabriel, as he sat by the church
door opposite the plaza, listening to the
music, was introduced to several of the
noval officers.
Il have not heard band," said the
old man, ''since I left Spain over fifty
years ago. All! that music will dc
more service in the conquest of Cali
fornia than a thousand bayoHets. D
| YcUth'S Com dli0n
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12
INVADED BY BEES.
A Long Island Residence Turned
into q Bee Hive.

While the family of ex-Internal Rev.
enue Collector Samuel s. Brown were at
lunch in their summer residence at
Northport, l.. l., the dining room was
invaded by a surprise party. It did not
come unheralded, for there was first
peculiar noise resembling somewhat the
roar of storm, and the windows were
darkened by the dense aggregation of
visitors. They came in battalions. They
were bees, presumably on q journey,
that had taken a notion to swarm ut that
spot. They entered the house through
the doors and the windows they found
open and down the capacious chimney.
| They made themselves welcome on
the furniture and bric-a-brac, and in
spected at leisure the food on the table
Mr.. Brown, his two daughters and ;
friend from New York, who had preci
pitately retreated from the house, rallie,
sem 11na9 1 OF the neigh bors and returned
| session, n counsel of held.
Some wanted to attack them with
noise and some with birthstone, while
others argued that birthstone would
make fearful odors and terrible muss
with dead bees. Loud shouts, pounding
on pans and kettles and all that sort OF
thing, would possibly result in the en-
envy making bayonet charge that would
be disastrous.
1t was decided to give them little
more time, and the family found refuge
in an adjacent building. Some of tho
neighbors finally got tired of this, and,
with Mr.. W. Spriggs as their leader,
they put coverings on their faces and
hands, built fires in the CRATES, covered
the chimneys and smoked out the yisl-
tors.
The buzzing began to increase again,
and the bees migrated. 1t has not been
ascertained where they came from or
where they went to. The walls, cell
ings and curtains of Mr.. Browns resi-
dence were considerably soiled by the
insects. The number of bees is esti-
mated to have been between four and
five thousand.-N. Y. Herald.
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A Change in His Appearance.

Ethel-Papa, who is that happy
looking young man whom we just passed,
with the light Derby hat on!
Father-That, my child, is n young
man who keeps books for the insurance
company.
Ethel-But do bookkeepers always
appear so happy and contented!
Father-No, Ethel but he has been
buying baseball pools, and is now going
to the rooms to see what kind of show
he stands for winning.
Ethel five minutes later)-Oh, papa,
who is that sad-faced young man with
his Derby pulled over his eyes? He
looks as though he had lost some near
and dear relative.
Father-That, Ethel, is the Same
young man whom we saw few moments
since. He is out just a weeks salary
and is two weeks behind with his board
bill. .-Peck'S Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12
WON LOVE AND MONEY.
The Romance of Printer Who
Worked Years 10 Redeem Himself

Seven years ago in n quiet little coun-
try seat in Northwestern Iowa n young
man about twenty five years of age was
employed as foreman in the Office of the
only village paper. He was a man of
fine education, good printer, q ready
and pleasing writer, q leader Of the tenn
perance society, a church member and a
Sunday school superintendent. He had
resided here several years and came to
have the full confidence of the people.
He was elected school treasurer of the
district and had at one time in his pos
session over 81, 900.
set of polished scOundrels set to
work to ruin the printer and rake in the
pot, says Frank Farrell in the st. Paul
! Globe. They made their approaches
| gradually, and before the young man
fairly knew what he was about he was
drinking and gambling. He won over
$lOO, became excited, went in heavy,
staked the -, 600 of school funds, lost
1t, was carried home dead drunk and
woke up next morning q ruined man,
with the Iowa penitentiary staring him
in the face and tormented with unavail-
ing remorse and bad headache.
Some days after he was missing. Tt
was thought at first he had been mur-
dered; search was made far and near,
but his body was not discovered. A
month after he left his books were ex-
amlned and inquiries made that showed
a shortage of about 81, 900. The sheriff
rushed West, got on the trail of an i'm
aglnary fugitive and followed him TO
Texas, only to find that he was chasing
the wrong man.
The printer had gone straight East
and never stopped travelling nor looked
back until he landed in the State of
Maine. He sought out an inland town
Off the line of railroad went to work
again as foreman Of country printing
office at so week, gave an assumed
name and commenced q new life.
He saved every dollar possible for over
five years and then wrote back to his old
Iowa employer promising to pay up
every dollar if he were not molested.
The bondsmen who had been left in the
lurch by his unceremonious departure
readily consented and by return mail
there came 81, 900 from Maine to pay
back the lost money.
In less than seven years from the timo
he left Iowa he had paid back every dol
lar with interest. Then he told the man
he had worked for all these years tho
story in full, begged his forgiveness for
the deception he had been compelled to
practice, and further asked his daugh-
ter's hand i'll marriage. The request was
granted-the girl had several thousand
dollars in her own right which she in
trusted, as well as her own happiness, to
the man who had proved his integrity by
working seven years to redeem himself
from dishonor.
They were married, and Immediately
pulled out for Dakota, where the once
honored man and fugitive from Justice
has recently bought and is to-day editing
md publishing under his own name ono
OF the best weekly papers in all South
Dakota.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Rice is the emblem of fruitfulness.
The average age of parrot is thirty
years.
England raises the greatest hogs in the
world
A ray of light travels II, 160, 900 miles
in a minute.
Californians boast of strawberries nine
inches in circumference.
Daniel Webster's old hair trunk is now
on exhibition at Concord, n. H.
Juan Choc died last month in Guate-
mala, South America, at the age of 120
years.
In the United States the telephone is
used 595 times, the telegraph 136 times
in minute.
A tornado that left bugs an inch deep
all over the face of the earth is the latest
wonder in the South
A young fellow named Miller has been
sentenced to two months of imprison-
ment at Harrisburg, Penn, for kissing
! his best girl in the street.
Tea cultivation, it is said, is to be
tried by rancher at Elko, New, who
proposes employing Indian women and
! children to gather the leaves.
Elias J. Hall, the Town Clerk of Fox
croft, Me, is now serving his fortieth
term, and at ea2h of the forty elections
h has had walk-over, no one running
against him.
A Carbon Township penn hen laid
an egg upon the shell of which was clearly
and plainly raised the figure of snake
about three inches long, with head
poised for blow.
Bananas have become so cheap in
Queensland, Australia, that their culti-
vation is no longer profitable Only a
shilling per bunch of twenty dozen is
paid for the fruit
aptain Benjamin Baker, of Key
West Fla, has brought from Key Largo
quite curiosity in the shape of sweet
potato, which has the almost complete
form of coied snake. :
A new fruit called the blood plum, of
California, is about to be introduced
into lorida. 1t is said to be much
superior to the Kelsey both in size and
favor, smallness of pit and color. :,
John ]. Carman, of Bay Shore, Long
Island, is the proud possestor of hen
Whlch, 1t IS alleged, has laid an egg nine
inches long. Half the width was we'll
proportioned, while the rest tapered to
Il point like a handle
Surprising are the antics of lightning
at times. In Murphysboro, Ill, it
wrested knife from the hand of a
cook working in hotel, whose chimney
the lightning wrecked, and knocked
down newspaper reporter. Neither of
the persons were injured.
Thomas Eggleston has died at Spur
lockVille, w. Va, at the advanced age
o. one hundred and twelve years. There
was never a day since he was sixteen
years old that he was without his pipe,
and he said he fully believed that his life
was prolonged by the use of tobacco.
A turtle has been discovered in New
Haven, Conn, that has two distinct
heads and perfectly form I'd neck. At |
will the reptile can elongatc one neck |
and retain the other between its shells.
f fly is placed in the mouth of enc |
head the other immediately tries to seiza /
the fly At times 1t walks about with |
ease, but generally struggles, making |
little progress. This is probably owing
to the fact that one head is possessed
with an idea to go forward. while the
other has desire to travel in the oppo-
site direction.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

The New York Press says: "Judge
Thurman himself tells how his name be-
came associated with the red bandana.
In 1880 he strolled into the Senate at
Washington, and saw all the blue
swallow tail and brass button Senators
taking snuff. There was a pound box Of
snuff at each end of the clerks desks.
They were great snulfers in those days,
said the Judge and all the Senators
used bandana handkerchiefs. We
seldom see a real bandana now. The
original ones were brown or chocolate
colored, with white spots in the body.
We'll, as every man must have his vice,
l took to snuff, and got to be as big a
snulfer as any of them when entered
Congress in 1874. No, my bandana was
10 larger than anybody else's, but Thur
mans bandana interested bright news
parer man, and he continually referred
to it. The gentle spirits only know why
lam called the 'noblest Roman of them
all I suspect that it is an inheritance
from old Uncle Bill Allen, who first bore
the title.n
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12
A writer in French journal eitimates

A writer in French journal eitimates
the total loss to France from the ravages
of the phylloxera since 1875, when this
scourge of the French vineyards first
made its appearance, at the enormous
sum of 10, 900, 600, 900 of francs, or about
$500, 900, 600. This estimate is based
upon French official statistics giving
the aggregate area of vineyards destroyed
in the country at about 2, 500, 900 acres !;
and on the assumption that, in addition
to the acreage of vines thus utterly
destroyed, the extent of vineyards more
or less infected with the phylloxera
amounts to about 500, 600 acres, making
thus together J, 900, 600 acres.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

A SHORT time ago a young woman in
Gardiner, Me-, but II years old, tooksit
into her head to black her face, 50 no
one would know her, dress up as n smart
negro boy, and go out for a promenade.
What amusement she expected to get
out of the escapade it is hard to tell, but
evidently she did not expect what did
happen. She was arrested for one thing,
but when the police officers learned that
she was not young colorcd man bent
on burglary they let her go home. Since
then, Judging from the local papers, tho
one theme i'll Gardiner has been her eX-
plot, and the Que question asked, ''Who
was she l'' After everybody had fully
made up their minds that fifty or sixty
different young women were each the
one i'll question, the masquerader, in
order to relieve the innocent from sus,
piclon, told the whole story.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

Trades Unions in China are very con
servatiye, declares James Payn in the
IaGepcndeqt, and those who break their
unwritten laws are treated with greater
severity than even with US. Instead of
being boycotted, or blown up with gun.
powder, the offenders, it seems, are
bitten to death. At Soochow, read,
this punishment was inflicted the other
day on a member of the gold-leaf craft,
for taking more than one apprentice at a
time One hundred and twenty three
members had a bite at him. These
institutions boast, not without reason,
that none of the brethren" ever conn il
a second offense; from which c.rcum-
stance it IS supposed the proverb has
arisen: tOnce bit, twice shy"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Moro Room.

When every nook and corner seems
full, consider the walls. A great many
things may be hung on a strip of wood
running across your bed room or kitchen
wall, covered from dust by a calico cur
tain. Envelope bags straightened by
ropes or lath strips, may hang anywhere
to hold aprons, collars, hats, newspa-
pers, everything. Packing boxes may
be placed one above another and shelved
and curtained, or small ones may be
padded like ottomans and used for seats
and cases to hold bed linen or under
clothing A few yards of bright chintz
adorns a room wonderfully in the way
of curtaias, chair covers and scrap bags
-NelO Orleans Picayuae.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

The rabbit pest in New zealand is
said TO be constantly increasing in Sc
riousness in spite of thepersistent efforts
made by the Government and the farm
ers to eradicate it. They reduce, it is
said. the feeding capacity of the land
one-third, while the feeces of the sheep
have decreased from so to 40 per cent.
1t is hoped that the increase in the pop
ulation and the Gu tivation of the coun-
try will drive out the pests in time.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

The late Henry Ware, of Boston, was
once in a curious predicament. In the
middle of a sermon his memory failed
him and he stopped abruptly. The pause
seemed long to the preacher before he
regained his thought, and he imagined
the sermon to be Il failure in consequence ;
but as he walked quietly up the aisle, a
fferent impression was given to him.
''How did you like the sermon" asked
one hcarer Of another alike it! 1t is
the best sermon Mr.. Ware has ever
preached That pause was sublime"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12
A Ship Sails form London to Chicago.

The new steamship Rosedale, which
left London for Chicago direct, has ar
rived at her far Western destination,
Her coming is regarded as an opening of
a new era in navigation, for although
sailing vessels have cleared with car
goes from lake ports for Great Britain
and vice versa, and several steamships
have passed through in divisions for
Western ports, the Roscdale is the first
iron ocean going steamship TO take
cargo from British port to the center
of the American continent = Chicago
IpraH
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

Every one has noticed, while driving,
how rarely a horse steps on stone even
when going very rapidly. A writer IN
Go5icn Days quotes an old cavalry man
as saying that Il horse never steps on
man Intentionally. 1t is standing or
der with cavalry that should man be
come dismounted, he must lie down and
be perfectly still. If he does so, the
entire company will pass over h IN, and
he will not be injured. y horse notices
where he is going, and is on the lookout
for a firm foundation to put his foot on.
1t is an instinct with him, therefore, tc
step over PROSTATE man. The injuries
caused by runaway horse arc nearly al
wavs inflicted by the animal knocking
people down, and not by his stepping
on them
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

Rev. Edward Judson, pastor of the
Berean Baptist Church, New YORK City,
is endeavoring to raise funds for the
erection of memorial church in that
city to the late Adoniram Judson, first
foreign missionary and founder OF
Christianity in Burmah. The sum re-
ouired IS 5000, 600.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12
EnninA Surgery.

A Sacramento (Cal.) paper says that
on the ranch of Mrs. Davis, near Lincoln,
a few days since it was discovered that
a valuable horse in some unaccountable
way had sustained frightful injury.
There was deep wound almost directly
between the horses eyes and it was at
first thought that he had been shot. The
animal was brought to this city, how
ever, and put in charge of veterinary
surgeon, who probed the wound and as
certained that the opening was closed by
some hard substance When the horses
mouth was opened it was found that the
object producing the injury had penc-
trated so deep that it formed lump in
the roof of the upper jaw. The surgeon
proceeded to cut an incision at the sur
face of the wound and then inserted a
pair of iorceps, with which he took a
firm hold on the hard object. By exert
ing all his strength, the surgeon was able
to extract a piece of wood, over six
inches in length, and nearly an inch in
thickness. 1t was deemed certained
that the injury would prove fatal, but it
was decided to make an effort to save
the animal The piece of wood the sur
geOn says, did rot miss the animals
brain the sixteenth of an inch. The
wound was opened in the horses mouth,
that all the puss might flow therefrom,
and the wound is washed out regularly
and is healing nicely. The horse sub
mltted to the treatment without obiec-
ton, and with almost human intelli-
gence. 1t was assured that the animal
would recover with no further damage
than the loss of one eye-a result re
garded as extremely remarkable by
horsemen. 1t is not known how the in
jury was received, but it is believed that
the horse, while playing, ran violently
against a projecting board
The greatest hard ships in the world
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

The French are acknowledged to have
the finest guns and prOjectiles in Europe.
Their Ferminy shell has been shot
through an armor plate twenty inches
thick, and come out with its steel point
unin iured.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

An experimental cattle farm is to be
started in France by the French Govern
ment. A commission, consisting of the
directors of agriculture, horse breeding
and other experts, has secured 500 acres
to be operated on.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

Max O'Reil the French satirist, on
ge ting back to England, declared that
in the higher classes of American So
ciety there is more culture and amiability
than in any other country in the world. -"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

More cut flowers are now used in this
country than in any other, and there are
probably more flowers used in New York
than in London, with population four
times as creat.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

The Rev. Father ToIten, of Quincy,
ILL.,, is the only co,ored Catholic priest in
the United States. He was born in
sla~ery. He speaks several languages
and is highly regarded by the clergy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

4 youthful applicant for graduation
at Lexington, Ky, being asked the other
day: ''What does history teach?" an
swered: 'That the United States never
has been whipped and never will be-"
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TERMS $3.50.
BE BRAVE, MY HEART.

BE brave, my heart, through every ill
That cruel Fate to thee doth senl,
To every struggle comes an end,
And so to thine there surely will.
Be brave, my heart, remember all
The brave hearts that have lived before
Their hard fought combats now are DER
No more they start at trumpet call.
Be brave, my heartily battles fight
With steady nerve, unfa!tIing hand,
And hope that thou the promised land
May one day view from some far height.
Be brave, my heart and shoulds't thou know
Thyself defeated-done to death
Be brave-be brave til thy last breath
And die-thy face tuI ned toward the foe.
-Eiith Sessions Tupper
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-07-12

The Chicago Meas has established
fund of SO, 600, the income of which is
to be given yearly Gn medals) to the
pupils in the several public schools OF
the town writing the best composition
on patriotism"