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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07
A Bath of Blood for Illegal Voters.

A recently retold story of the manner
of the poet Poe's death has revived i'll the
recollection of men who lived in Balti-
more at the time the scoop" was feature
in the political contests i'll that city some
interesting incidents. The ''coops" were
established a few days before the day set
for an election. Cellars were preferred
because they were more convenient To
get victim into an upstairs room was
difficult, but to stop man on the street
and invite him to saw and split load Of
wood, get him to carry in log and then
turn the lock on him was simple. The
wood was taken to another house and a
watchman waited for new victim to
take his only log iuto prison with him.
On election day these prisoners We're
piled with liquor, and sometimes with
opium and liquor, us Poe was, and were
then carried from polling place
to polling place, voting at as
many as they visited. Mr. Loughran
and Mr.. Roose, two former Baltimoreans
who have lived in Washington for twen-
ty-five years, say that the system, which
was practised by both parties, was still
i'll vogue thirty years ago. They both
recalled some facts concerning a name
that was long attached to Baltimore. and
that has undoubtedly given the city the
reputation, in the North, of being one OF
the "tough' ones of the continent. One
part of Baltimore, considerably elevated,
and inhabited largely by butchers, was
known as slaughter House Hill" The
butchers were sensitive about the intru-
sion upon their hill of repeating voters,
and they resolved upon attemptinga he
roic cure of the evil. They set up, near
the polling places, a number of half hogs
heads, which they filled with blood.
Upon the appearance of the first sus-
pected intruder from the lower level,
as soon as he had voted, he was seized by
q half dozen stalwart butchers and
ducked in one of the ''blood tubs" With
his face and figure recking with gore he
was permitted to go, and i'll that CHASTITY
condition he was driven down into the
city to tell his story and furnish warm
ing for would-be intruders who contem-
plated visiting Slaughter House Hill.
The blood tubs served the purpose of the
butchers, but the name of "blood-tub"
left the hill and attached itself to the
whole body of Baltimore roughs. There
has not been blood tub set up for pre-
venting repeating for thirty years or
more, but when the Massachusetts,
troops were attacked i'll passing through
Baltimore i'll April, 1861, the reports of
the Northern papers generally spoke OF
the assault as having been instigated
and supported by the Baltimore Blood
Tubs.-Neoo York. Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07

Nevada Bank. His son, James l..
Flood, was appointed a director, and
also received a general power of attorney
for his father, who feared that he would
never return alive.
Personally Mr.. Flood was of stout
build, ruddy complexion, with bullet
head set on thick, powerful neck. His
manner with friends was cordial, but
those having business relations with
him were in the habit of calling him
''cold-blooded. He performed many
acts of charity, of which the most nota-
bic was the sending of S25,000 to the
suffering people of Ireland.
With all his immense fortune Mr..
Floods head was not turned, and for
many years after becoming a millionaire
he continued to live in q modest way in
plain house in Eddy street, San Fran
cisco. But when his fellow -millionaires
began building palatial residences he
followed their example, and purchased
a tract of land in the town of San Mateo,
where the wealth of San Francisco was
congregating. Here he built one of the
most magnificent residences that can be
found on the Pacific coast. The build
ing is pure white, with fine veranda,
capped by a blue roof, situated in the
midst of a large, beautifully-kept gar
den, with fountains, rare plants, and
fine driveways. His house in San Fran
cisco, on the Summit of Mob Hill, is the
only one built of Connecticut brown
stone in that city. 1t is 100 by 80 feet
in dimensions, Roman classic in archi-
lecture, without any pretentions to
beauty, This building. with the decor
ations, cost him nearly 81, 10000 He
left wife, an massuming, good-heart-
ed woman, one son, James L., and
Cora Jane, who inherit his
great wealth.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07
Trusts and Combines are not New.

In 483, A. D., the Emperor Zeno is
sued the following edict to the Pretori-
an Projects of Constantinople Code iv.,
59):
"We command that no one may pre-
sume to exercise monopoly of any kind
of clothing or of fish, or of any other
thing serving for food, or for any other
use, whatever its nature may be,
either of his own authority, OF under
rescriptof an Emperor already procured,
or that may hereafter be procured, or
under an imperial decree, or under a re-
scrips signed by Our Majesty; nor may
any persons combine or agree in unlaw-
full meetings that different kinds of mer-
chandise may not be sold at a less price
than they may have agreed upon among
themselves. Workmen and contractors
for buildings, and all who practice other
professions, and contractors for baths are
entirely prohibited from agreeing tOgeth-
er that no one may complete work con-
tracted for by another, OF that a person
may prevent one who has contracted for
a work from finishing it; full liberty is
given to any one to finish a work begun
and abandoned by another without ap-
prehensiOn of loss, and to denounce all
acts of this kind without fear and with
out costs. And if any one shall presume
to practice q monopoly, let his property
be forfeited and himself condemned to
perpetual exile. And in regard to the
principals of other professions, if they
shall venture i'll the future to fix price
upon their merchandise, and to bind
themselves by agreements not to sell at
lower price, let them be condemned to
pay forty pounds of gold. Your court
shall be condemned to pay fifty pounds
of gold. If it shall happen
through avarice, negligence, Or any
other misconduct, the provisions of this
salutary constitution for the prohibition
of monopolies and agreements among
the different bodies Of merchants shall
not be carried into effect"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07
Animal Training.

Probably one of the most expert as
well as the oldest of animal trainers in
this country is George Conklin, who for
twcnty-fv yearsan more has been with
Barnum, Bailey, Forepaugh or Robin
son. He is tall, slender man, with
broad shoulders and deep chest, and is
all Drawn and muscle. His complexion is
dark, and his hair and eye brows jet
black. As he leaned against the news
stand in the Hoffman House corridor he
talked in this fashion about his work:
"When the training of animals was be-
gun it was confined todo9s and horses, it
being thought impossible to bring under
sulbjection the wild animals, such as the
hyena, panther, leopard, rhinoceros, hip
popotamus, etc. But we have gone ON
from step to step, until to-day only the
black panther has not been tanned. The
two qualities requisite for animal train
ing are patience and sef-possession.
SIN tanning graminvOrous animals we
hold out the hope of reward more than
we seek to inspire fear in the pupils.
With carnivorous animals it is the re-
verse. Animals are like human beings
IN that they are subject to moods, and
the tamest of them will sometimes have
cranky spells, and the most ferocioas
their peaceful and even affectionate
moods. The worst time is in the spring
OF the year. Then the rhinoceros leads
IN wlckedness and becomes an incarnata
devil The wickedcst animals in the
world are rogue elephants, and the best,
Drown bears, ~, J, StaF,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07
Feats of Noted steeplechaser.

One of the most enthusiastic of the
German steeplechasers was Lieutenant
General Rosenberg. He is now fifty-five
years old, but, up to ten years ago, he
had no superior as q rider on the Con-
tinent. Nearly every bone in his body
has been broken at one time or another,
and last year he rode in n race, came n
cropper and broke his arm. Among tho
friends of his younger days was Count
Fritz Metternich of Austria, with whom
he had many hot contest over fence
and wall and ditch. One day, III 1866,
General Rosenberg, then captain, was
out on patrol with three or four men,
when he met an Austrian patrol, and
recognized its leader as his old friend
Metternich. The latter wheeled about,
and, putting spurs to his horse, galloped
off at racing speed. Rosenberg followed,
and after hot chase overlook the fugi-
tive, but instead of taking him prisoner
or putting him down, he increased tho
speed of the Austrian's horse by prod
ding him in the flank with the point Of
his sword until he got tired, when he
turned and rode jbaRk to his regiment.
The incident creatfdsn laugh among the
racing men in both-armies, and is still
told in the clubs of Germany for the ed
ifcation of the rising generation. In
1865 the General was at Breslau, in ST.
lesia, and made bet one night that he
would leave that city on horseback at
the same time that the express train left
and arrive in Berlin, 400 miles away,
before it. Relays of horses were station
ed along the route, and he won the bet,
arriving some time ahead of the train.
That evening he attended the circus,
where he was recognized by the people
and received with cyclone of cheers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07
How Birds Sow Seed Broadcast.

1t is well known, as stated by Darwin,
that fresh-water mussels and other ami
mails may, by adhering to the feet of
aquatic birds, such as ducks and wading
birds, be transferred from one stream or
pond to others. Thus may be partly, mt
least, explained the similarity of the
fauna i'll widely separated inland basins.
But, except the isolated observations of
Darwin and few others, little has been
done to find out definitely what animals
might be thus distributed. NJ. Jules
de Guerne has lately made a careful eX-
animation of the organisms found in the
particle of slime sadhering to the feath-
ers, bills and feet of wild ducks. The
webbed feet were washed with especial
care, and microscopic examination of
the water revealed the presence of little
nematode worms, rotifers, rhizopods,
diatoms, desmids, numerous encysted
isolated eggs Of cladocerous
crustacea, pieces of polyzoon statoblasts
and the shell of an astracod. Spores
and cysts were also found in slime parti-
cles taken from the feathers. York
Independent.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07
Horses on Snow-shoes.

Nevada stage-men are getting the
snow-shoes for their horses in condition
for use, as they may be needed almost
any time within the next few weeks.
They are used every winteron the Grant
vile Ridge and also on the Mountain
House section of the Downieville and
Nevada City Road. 1t would be impos-
sible for horses to travel over the deep
SHOWS without their aid. One that is ac-
customed to wearing them will travel
four or five milesan hour where it would
be impossible to go that distance in a
week without them. The shoes are made
of thin, steel plate, about nine by eleven
inches, fastened ON the hoofs with
clamps. The horses are shod with long
heel calks, which go through the snow
shoes, and prevent their Slipping going
up and down hill.-NeUadG Transcript.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07
Crimes Peculiar to Certain Localities.

Among the facts of curious interest
are those denoting the prevalence of
particular offences in special localities.
Thus it is shown that the largest num-
Der of forgers is in prison in Pennsylva-
mia; of counterfeiters, in New York; of
mail robbers, in Texas; OF illicit distil-
lers, in North Carolina and Tennessee; !;
of saloon keepers, in Maine and Massa-
chusetts; of drrlnkards, in New York,
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania; of
disorderly persons, in New York; of
vagrants, in Pennsylvania; of murder
ers, in Texas and California. Taking
the entire prison population together,
the offence of most frequent occurrence
is larceny; next ON the list is burglary.
Assaults and affrays of all sorts are third.
Then follow drunkenness and disorder,
murder and manslaughter, in the nu-
merical order indicated. The amount
of punishment inflicted for certain Of
fences is surprisingly small: there were
but eleven persons III prison for illegal
voting, and only twelve for smuggling.
The male criminals outnumber the fe-
male nearly twelve to one. Most of the
offences committed by women are not of
a serious character. More than two
thirds of those in prison, it is stated,
are merely degraded and vicious rather
than criminal. The ratio of foreign
born prisoners to the foreign born popu-
lation is very nearly double that of
native prisoners to the native popula-
ton. Foreign disregard for laws shows
itself far more in immortality and dis
order than it does in dishonesty or
violence. The percentage of the colored
population in prison is two and half
times as great as that of the whites
NeU York O5SerU6r.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07
Romance of Spool of Thread.

The engagement between young Mr..
Coates, the son of the famous Coates, of
Paisley, Scotland, the big cotton manu-
facturer, to Miss Clark, daughter of the
equally wealthy and famous American
manufacturer, of Newark, n. j.. has a
charming bit of romance about 1t. For
years the houses of Coates and Clark have
been at bitter loggerheads, and q COM
mercial warfore of considerable dimen-
sions has ragged constantly between
them. Some little time since it entered
the head of the Coates pere that little
diplomacy might possibly put stop to
the absurd and bitter feeling existing
between himself and his rival in Ameri-
ca, and so he sent his son to this coun-
try, armed with an olive branch and full
powers to patch up the difference be-
tween them. How well young Mr..
Coates has played his part it is not
necessary to say. The immediate out
come of the engagement is, however, a
little unfortunate for the public, as the
price of thread has been advanced, ''to
meet the expenses of the wedding," as
Mr.. Coates himself facetiously put it.
Truth
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07
Food Fishes VS.. Predatory.

A Western Journal truly observes hat
the attempts to stock rivers and ponds
with valuable fishes for food are in many
cases rendered nugatory by the number
and voracity of the predatory varieties.
The Missouri Fish Commissioners are
now engaged in successful warfare on
predatory fishes ON Lake Creve CPur,
situated about thirty miles from st.
Louis. They have seine 800 feet
long and eight or ten feet wide, with
which the lake is dredged daily. The
ga1s, cat, buffalo fish, drum fish and tur-
Ties are destroyed, while the food fishes
are returned to the lake. Nearly 100000
predatory fish have been destroyed, and
when these arl thinned out sufficiently,
young and valuable food fishes will be
inGodnced,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07
Artificial Milk.

Milk being SO necessary to our domes.
tic requirements, attempts have been
made to produce it artiticially, by what
chemists call synthcsis--j. c. combining
its constituents. Thus NJ Dubrufaut
suggests that by combining water, cane
sugar, white of egg, carbonate of soda
and gelatine, with the addition of about
twenty per cent. of the finest olive oil or
other pure fat, substance could be pro-
duced almost identical with cows milk
in its chemical constituents and in it's
Appearance. But in its flavor it differs
materially, and is but poor apology for
cows milk prepared in the laboratory Of
nature, e,--Ne1g Yerk Herald,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07
Wild Coffee.

The leaves of the wild coffee bush,
which grows profusely in this section of
the country, are stated TO be far superior
to the mulberry or other trees upon
which the silkworm feeds for the pro-
duction of silk, it being of frmer tex
hTe and more lasting quality. The
matter is being investigated by the State
Silk Association, and ii found rs repro
sented, may de elop another new indus
try for this pagt Of the eouptry.--!Saata
Rosa (Cu!,l Republican,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-07

1t is n worry unfortunate thing for tho poets
that the best kuowf rhyme for Cupid Is
stupid,
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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-01-11

Newton COn1nJOner: S. K. Davis,
of Burton, has been quite successful
in fruit raising of late years. Eight
years ago he planted three dozen ap-
pie trees which yielded this fall 100
bushels Of select fruit. He marketed
1856 baskets Of strawberries, with
raspberries, gOoseberries, plums, ETC.,
in like proportion. Mr.. Davis having
lived in seventeen different states, has
settled down to the conviction that
Kansas is about as good a place to
live in as can be found this side of
the ''big river"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-01-11
$3.50 IN ADVANCE
The Phonogranb

1t IS somewhat remarkable that the
English, whose conversation we
Americans are wont to deery. have
taken up and made practical use of
Edison's newly perfected phoA6graph
which IS still merely a toy or curios-
ity in America. So extensive has be-
come its use in England, that it has
already become q question for the
post Office authorities to determine.
whether the wax rolls upon which
the photographic messages are i'm
pressed are to pay letter, or book
postage.
1t is more than possible that the de
lay in bringing the phonograph into
general use in this country, is due to
the fact that the machines are not
sold but rented. Though the phono-
graph is but a small detached bit Of
mechanism, needing little more atten-
ton than typewriter and costing far
less to manufacture, no individual Is
to be allowed to gain a title to one,
but the machines are to be owned by
stock companies who rent them out
to subscribers at an annual rental
which nearly approaches, if it does
not exceed the total cost of the ma
chine. How oppressive a monopoly
may thus be built up the history of
the telephone shows, and so long as
typewriters are to be had at reason
able prices people are little likely to
put themselves into the power of an
other such a monopoly.
1t is one Of the unfortunate stains
upon the fame of the wizard of MEMO
Park, that his inventions, wonderful
though they may be. have invariably
been used to reinforce the most OPP
pressive monopolies with which this
country is cursed. Kansas CitH
Ne7yc
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-01-11

Mrs. o. @. CO lverse, of Waterbury,
Conn, now nearly eighty years of age,
IS remarkably proud of the fact that
years ago when a school teacher in
the west, she had two pupils who have
become famous. In South Bend, Ind.
she taught little Benny Harrison his
letters. One fall, in Ohio, a sudden
cold snap frOze a canal near her
school house, and some boats We're
caught aud held there for several
weeks. A boy who drove for one of
the beats came to her school. He was
fourteen years old and the boys call
ed him Jim Garfield.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-01-11

COMMENTING on the results of the
Boston election and the prominent
part taken by women in voting for
the school board, John G. Whittier,
the Quaker poet, says in a published
interview: ''Why in the name of
common sense should we permit a
scalawag who wears trousers to vote,
and deny the privilege to women?"
The whole matter of woman suffrage
was never more efectually put. Why
have not women as much right to
vote in municipal elections which
affect local government, and schools
and public order, as tramps and va
grants?
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-01-11
A Meade Center dispatcb sav

A Meade Center dispatch says: A
surveying corps is being fitted out
with teams, ETC., in this city and, it is
understood, will start to-day for the
present terminus of the Rock Island,
there to commence operations leading
to the extension Of the road toward
Ell Paso. It is rumored that the O..
B. & Q. is backing an enterprise that
is pushing in the same direction,
hence the present movement of the
Rock Island.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-01-11

1t begins to look like the Central
Branch would be bought either by
the .. P. and pushed westward from
Stockton to Colby, or by the Rock
Island and pushed on from Lenora
to connect with the new line to Colo
RADIO. One or the other Of these lines
will doubtless gObble up this present
stub line and make it worth some
thing to the country through which
it runs. Concordia will hail with de-
light western connection via the
Central Branch line.-COmcordia
Times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-01-11

In speaking Of the election frauds
IN Indiana, Judge Gresham says:
Unless the state takes steps to stop
the corruption at the polls, a condi-
ton OF affairs viii be produced to
which the rebellion wiz not be a cir
cumstance. It is the Pharasees who
are doing this. It is men of promi-
hence and responsibility who raise
these large sums Of money, knowing
tho use they viii be put to-men who
deal openly in corruption one day
and go to church the next. 1t is
these men who bring disgrace upon
the state. You may convict a hun
dred-yes even a thousand-obscure
voters for bribery, but the effect upon
a community would be as nothing
compared with that which would fol-
low the conviction of one prominent
man"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-01-11

LeayenWorth Times; 'Inever saw
such a season as this in Kansas before
but once, and that was eight or nine
years ago" said w. n. Carr, Of Fair
mount township, to the Times. ''That
year I plOWed every month called
winter" rs not this weather too dry
for wheat2" asked the Times. mo.
The snow and rain directly after the
election soaked the soil thoroughly,
and it is now in good condition and
wheat IS doing nicely. The warm
winter to which I referred was fol
lowed by one Of the best wheat crops
T ever saw
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-01-11
The Deadly Cigarette.

The young man who died Wednes-
day in Omaha, from the effects of ex-
cessive cigarette smoking demon
strates the evils of that vice, the al
most certainty with which the victim,
sooner or later, pays the penalty Of
his indiscretion The case of the
cigarett victim is essentially different
from that of the ordinary smoker.
His use of tobacco is much more
constant. There is always time
enough to consume one of the little
rolls, and he does not hesitate to light
one at any time or on any occasion.
The man with a pipe or cigar requires
considerable time for his indulgence,
and hence he smokes much less fre-
quently than the other.
Then, for some unaccountable rea-
son, the cigarette smoker inhales
portion Of his smoke, a thing that the
patron of the pipe or cigar never
does. The vicious nicotine is drawn
into the lnfnitesimal chambers Of the
lungs, where the air and the blood
meet for OxygenatiOn. The purifcia-
ton Of the blood is thus interfered
with, and when the blood is not oxy-
genized the body to that extent
ceases to live. This is the worst
charge against the cigarette, and is
enough to condemn it, whether it be
composed Of pure material or not.
The victim Of the cigarette mania may
not drop off suddenly, as this young
man did, but he is being slowly poi
sOned to death, and his whole system
is weakened and deteriOrated. Elk.