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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21

large enough for the gator to get
through, the presumption is that it
crawled in when quite young and lived
on other animals and reptiles that
sought shelter in the same tree.
The San Francisco Celestials turned
out en- maSse to attend the funeral of an
almond-eyed nabob, who at his special
request was buried in his gala dress,
clean-shaven, with his eyes wide open,
and with the following assortment of
travelling outfit to the far beyond: Two
silk shawls, a bottle of cosmetics, canned
meats and preserves, nuts, figs, two pis-
tolls and long dirk-knife.
In Ware, N. H., a big six-pound cat
saw an owl in tree and decided to eat
it. So it scrambled up the tree, and,
after short, sharp fight, fell to the
ground dead. The owls big claws had
been too much for it. The bird was
captured and was found to measure six
feet from tip to tip of its extended
wings.
JACOB PERCH, tax collector of Mt.
Pleasant, Penn, was taken with a fit of
sneez1ng one day a short time since He
sneezed violently at short intervals of
fifteen minutes. When the paroxysms
were finally Quilted it was found that
four of Perch's ribs had been broken, so
violently was the shock to his frame
from the commissions.
Two English servants, Ann Warde
and Eliza Wylde, went to a Salvation
Army meeting on Il Sunday evening,
overstayed the time when they should
have been home, and for fear of n scold-
ing, tied themselves together with a
woollen scarf and drowned themselves
IN q canal.
IT is told in Indiana that in 1880 a
dinner was given in Madison county,
and thirteen men sat at the table. Gov
ernor Williams, who was one of the
thirteen, called attention to the fatal
number, and there was considerable fun
made of the superstitious. To day but
three of the thirteen are alive.
THE Empress of Austria carries a
travelling basket fitted up so that she is
able to make soup ON the cars. 1t has
silver sauce pans with gold handles, and
the Empress declares that she can make
in it better broth than any chief can
cOncoct.
A PONY is being daily sent up in
balloon, and being let down by a para
chute, in London, and the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is
being agitated by anxiety to know
whether the pony is scared or not.
AN oyster dredged mp in English
waters measured Z inches in length, the
same in breadth, and 20 IL inches
around the outside edge. and weighed
3 IL pounds.
Mrs. PAULINA KING, of Springfield,
ILL.,, has recently completed a fast of
forty days and forty nights.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21
Ducks in a Cyclone Pit.

Captain Ingraham is well known cit
izen of thriving little town on the
Huntsville branch of the Birmingham
Mineral. Conductor Smith, OF the Viii
lage Springs accommodation, tells in the
Birmingham, Ala, Neoos the following
story on the captain:
Tiao captain has n deep cyclone pit as
a place of refuge in time of dangerou:
storms. The pit has trap door which
opens when touched, and closes itself.
Three weeks ago the captain purclmscd
seven ducks and two chickens and placed
them in his yard. The next day they
were nowhere to he found. careful
search for the missing fowls failed to
give any clew as to their whereabouts,
and, thinking they had been stolen,
nothing more was thought about the
matter.
just nineteen days after the fowls dis
appeared the captain had occasion to
open his cyclone pit. The first thing
that met his gaxc were the seven ducks
and two hens. They had stepped on tho
trap door and had been dumped into the
pit. the door closing behind them.
The wonderful fact of it is that al
though they had been in the pit nine
teen days without food or water they
were alive. After the fowls were re-
moved from the pit it was noticed that
they walked very awkwardly. A careful
examination revealed the fact that they
were all as blind as bats.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21
The Manufacture of Brushes.

s'The manufacture of brushes" says
q gentlemen who is interested in pro-
viding employment for ex-convicts,
seems to have been especially destined
by Providence to aid us in our branch
of charitable work. With probably but
one or two exceptions this industry pos
sesses the unique feature of being left
behind in the great race of mechanical
improvement. The ingenious inventor
and his almost human machinery have
never circumvented the task of sticking
the bristles in the holes prepared for
them in any other satisfactory way than
by hand. As the knack of doing this
by hand IS easily learned, and as the de-
mand for brushes is pretty constant
quantity, chance is offered rs to sup
ply work to men who have just been
released from Jail until they can get
better-paying jobs. Machinery, of
course, is brought into use in turning
out the backs and handles of the
brushes, but first-class durable brush
is otherwise all handmade. ."-ErdRqel-
,.nt
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21
A Great Explorers Wrath.

"On one occasion" says Mr.. Brad
ford, 81 was sitting at great banquet
of the British Association at Brighton.
1t was in the evening after the African
afternoon, SO called. Stanley had been
down for a speech late in the afternoon,
after several English geogIaphers had
spoken. But / noticed during the
second speech, by Mr.. G. r. Markham.
of the Royal Geographical Society, tt at
Stanley's wrath was rising. The speaker,
in alluding to Livingstone, had just
said word rejecting upon him. AS
soon as Markham was done, Stanley, at
two bounds, was in the centre of the
platform, aud leaning forward and
stretching ont his forefinger with con-
contrated scorn toward Markham, be-
gan: you easy-chair geographers, sit
ting on your cushioned velvet carpets,
what do you know about it9 Living
stone, after long, arduous, perilous
march, says: 81 think have found the
source of the Nile" But you, from the
seclusion of your libraries, declare
"We know that he has not" What
right have you to decide such a ques-
tion2' And then he gave it to them
hot. And yet i'll fifteen minutes he had
them all, ladies and gentlemen on their
feet crying "Hear, hear, hear The
Baroness Burdett Coutts waved her
handkerchief, and even the Emperor
Napoleon, who was present with the
Empress Eugene, arose and banded
Stanley their card. / tell you, Stanley
was the most scathing man [ ever list
ened to when he was mad over Living
stone.
$50, in the evening, before going to
the banquet, 1 said to him, Now,
Stanley, keep your temper. Don't dis
grace yourself. Don't say word to-
night For I knew this very Markham
was going to preside. Well, Stanley
promised that he wouldn't say one
word But they placed him at Mark
hams right hand. 1 sat across the
table where l could see him. Pretty
soon I noticed that he and Markham
were talking earnestly. Then the bull
dog look came into Stanley's face. And
then he jumped up and off he went.
cit seems that Markham had urged
him to speak, but Stanley had declined,
when the following conversation ensued:
But, Mr.. Stanley, you must speak.
That is the purpose for which they in
vited you here Is that the reason
they invited me here2' Certainly, Mr..
Stanley we expect you to favor us with
speech Well, won't. But -
thrusting his hand deep into his pocket
there's a guinea for my dinner. And
off he stalked in towering rage. -
Christian Union.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21

it was Splay-Foot Hartnett's turn. Tt
was then asserted that ScarFace Mosley
and Humpy Jack we're lying dead in
their shack near Glendive, shot to death
by the "Stranglers, as they had already
come to be known. Investigation
showed that the two men were alive and
and apparently as ready to steal horses
as ever. The next day they were killed
in exactly the manner rumor had already
disposed of them. Rumor had preceded
reality in q manner dramatic enough to
put a tension on the strongest nerve
The man who had started the false re-
port was searched for in vain. Every
man who had helped spread it had heard
it from some other man. Nothing could
have so we'll advertised the work of the
"Stranglers.' It showed cOnclusively
that they were not an unauthorized gang
of murderers whose mission 1T was to
kill every man they met. IDey had
undoubtedly been hired to do their
work
No one in the country had enough
money to do this except the cattlemen:
Then, for the first time, it was noticed
that every man killed so far was noto-
rious horse thief From high-handed
lawbreakers, the S'Rustlers, who heard
4af.=tl4zzavsxssetions of The ssS.ranglers,
became the most abject of towards.
Many sought safety in immediate flight,
never more to be seen in the cattle coun-
try. A few, foolhardy enough to brave
the approach of their Nemesis, paid the
Western penalty for their crimes, and
others in their flight rushed into the
very arms of the ''Stranglers. After
the beginning of the reign of terror
caused by the death of Scar-Face Mosley
and Humpy Jack, the ''Stranglers" had
divided into seven parties, each under
the leadership of trusty Montana COW,
boy, and, striking out in as many differ
ent directions, worked with the energy
of fends to gain the $1,000 prize which
was chung up as 'added money" tc
the most successful party in this terrible
man hunt.
The end was not long in coming. In
less than two months every man known
or suspected of being horse thief was
either dead or driven from the country
The ''Strang,ers" appeared to melt into
thin air as mysteriously as they had
come into being, and to this day it is not
known, except by the members them.
selves, the eleven cattlemen, and foul
outsiders, who composed the famous
band of men that freed Montana and
Western Dakota from cattle thieves by
killing 63 of them and running 10C
others out of the country.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21
More Free Fireworks.

Mount Pelado, in the Mexican State
of Tolaseo (some eighty miles southeast
of Vera CRUZ, has become an active vol
cano, and on the night of January II,
'89, emitted storm of flames that itlu-
minated the horizon of long line OF
coast-hills on the Gulf of Honduras
clear across the uplands of the peninsula
of Yucatan. Cinder-drifts still cloud
the atmosphere of the neighborhood,
and streams of "curious crimson fluid
(possibly solution of ferruginous clay
have colored the waters of the Grijalva
River for many miles. The highlands
of Western Talasco are undoubtedlS ot
volcanic origin, but up to last December
only the abundance of hot springs be
trayed the activity of n subterranean
furnace. brakes Magazine
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21

head to stake, hitch q team of horses
to the hide and jerk it off. No one will
ever know what immense numbers of
bison were killed by these hide hunters,
but to my certain knowledge 100000
hides were shipped from the banks of
the Frenchman River in one winter.
The hide hunters, by system of fires,
kept the bison from the streams until
many of them perished and thousands
of others We're easily killed. At the
close of that winter a man could go
along the banks of the Frenchman for
fifty miles by simply jumping from the
carcass of one bison to that of another.
Considering facts of this kind, it is not
surprising that a small tame herd and a
few old circus animals represent the
great herds which, less than quarter Of
century ago, blackened miles of prai-
ries as thunder cloud darkens the sky.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21

ed to Prince of Wales Island, or Prllo
Penang, with cargo of prisoners.
Three of these prisoners, leaders of the
pirates and desperate fellows, were iron
ed and placed on deck, securely chained
to small anchor hanging over the bow
of the vessel. The next morning the
Danish captain discovered all three of
the desperate prisoners at work on their
irons with poniards of peculiar make
-snake-shaped, and of very fine steel.
The second officer was summoned, and,
without any preliminaries whatever, the
order was given to cut the lashings by
which the anchor swung, and down it
dropped into unknown depths, dragging
with it the three Malay pirates. There
was no trouble with the rest of the
prisoners. s.-Gl0be Democrat.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21
The Lord and the Nirnble Gossoon

Here is a scene which I witnessed,
saws writer in the Brooklyn Citizen,
when was boy, in Phenix Park,
Dublin. There was q grand review,
and Lord Cardigan and his dragons
were there. In those days the old
maskQa. known as Brown Bess was in
use, and it used to kick so that it was a
very common practice for the soldiers at
a review not to fire. They pretended
to load, but instead of doing SO, dropped
the cartridges on the grass. After the
review was over the young fellows went
round and gathered up the cartridges.
On tho day l refer to the review was
partly over, and Lord Cardigan was
walking up and down, lashing his boot
with riding whip. The brother of the
old lady you have just seen was then a
stalwart young chap, and he was hunt
ing for cartridges. Walking along with
his head down, looking for the cartridges,
he went unwittingly in the direction
from which Lord Cardigan was approach
ing. He saw cartridge on the grass.
At the same moment Lord Cardigan
espied it, made a quick step toward 1t,
and picked it up with his left hand Just
as the young fellow was preparing to
grab it. Lord Cardigan smiled. The
boy was somewhat taken aback, but
when Lord Cardigan held out the cart
ridge toward him his countenance
frightened, and he reached out his hand
to take it. At that moment Lord Car
digan brought his whip down upon the
hand of the boy, who doubled himself
up and howled with pain. Lord C;trdi-
gan passed on. Vengeance was burn
ing in the boys soul, and, quickly
turning. he raised his foot and admins
tered terrific kick to his lordship.
Utterly astonished, Lord Cardigan
wheeled round, but the boy was dozen
yards away, with his thumb to his nose.
His lordship started in pursuit, but the
boy was ready, and yelling out, "who
stole the ladyG" he started on gallop:
Lord Cardigan called a dragoon and
bade him follow and capture the often
der. The dragoon put spurs to his
horse, but the boy nimbly scaled a
fence, and, before disappearing from
view, again placed his thumb to his
nose and twirled his fingers insultingly
at the dragoon as he drew rein at the
fence
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21
The Letl argic Sleep cf Swallow.

At recent meeting of the SoeieSy of
Naturalists, says In Nature, Mr.. Lc-
roux made very curious communic1-
tion upon subject that has many
times been discussed, that is, the posi-
bility of swallows and martins passing
the entire winter in deep sleep com.
parable with that of alternating ami
mals. Mr.. Leroux exhibited to the So
c:esy live swallow, and told its history.
The bird had been knocked down by
coachman's whip last October, had fall
lon into the mud, and was unable TO re.
sumo its flight. 1t was picked up by
child, washed, and wrapped up in roll
of wadding, which was pat into a drawer
and forgotten, A few days before Mr.
Ieroux made this statement, the roll was
taken out By accident and the bird wa;
found alive, but plunged into lethagiC
,leep. The bird was awakened in the
presence of the society and set at lib
crty.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21
Dog Bites at Two Cents Each.

When John Plunkett was delivering
groceries on the premises of Karl Schu-
ler on Saratoga street, East Boston, i'll
the latter part of last March, dog be-
longing to the latter bit the groceryman.
Plunkett brought suit to recover from
Schuler 81 900 damages for the personal
injuries alleged to have bee: inflicted by
the dog, and the case was tried in the
first session of the Superior Civil Court
before Judge Blodgett. The jury re-
turned verdict of two cents for the
plaintiff --Boytoa IrdrsUcr.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21
A Child's Prattle at n Funeral

While the friends and relatives of Mr.
Thomas Reynolds, of the STANDARD
Theatre, were assembled at his home
awaiting the beginning of the funera
services over his wife, his four-year-olt
daughter Maggie tiptoed to the coffin
and bending over it whispered:
"Mamma, dere's lots of nice people
here. Dit mp and see them. "
No answer coming to her, she turned
and said to the listeners:
'My mamma is very sleepy, ard
know she's sorry not to see yon all, bn
I'll tell her"
Then, wondering that they too made
no answer, and alarmed by the tears sh'
saw ON every cheek, she ran to he
! father. .-Ntu Yo'k Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21
People Dependent on Electricity.

It was stated at the meeting of the
British Association that these now num-
Der no fewer than five millions. Scarce
ly week passes without some fresh
practical application of its principles,
and we seem to be only on the shore of
that sea of economy and benehcence
which expands with every new discovery
of the properties of electricity, and
spreads already beyond the mental grasp
Of any one single worker.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-21
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE.
Funny Episodes and Thrilling Ad.
ventures Which Show That Truth
is Stranger Than Fiction.

RAT and a cat
may be seen playing
together almost any
day at De Wits
livery stable in Lou
isville. The cat is a
big black Tom, with
; slong whiskers, a
short tail, and yellow
eyes. The rat is a
sleek and fat speci-
men of the genus ro-
dent, and has a cum
ming but prosperous
and contented look.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-11

workmen to put their ideas into practical
shape. If We suppose a hundred men
graduated from college and admitted to
the bar, and hundred others thoroughly
skilled in the electricians art, it would be
fair to predict that of the first class ninety
would within year starve to death if
they depended on their business to sup
port them, while every man of the second
class would at once step into living COM
potency and thereafter be practically indie
pendent of all worry about bread winning.
We do not hear that the Learned profess
sions are languishing for lack of recruits. but
skilled laborers are wanted in many
branches of enterprising industry. The
young gentlemen who are not quite de-
cided whether they will give their talents
to the Supreme bench or to some rich city
church viii do well to think on these
things.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-11
CARD.

DEFERRlNG To A REPORT IN THE "BEEr
LII (of May lOthl OF suit in the Supreme
Court, desire to say that am not interested
In said suit either directly or indirectly, so far
as know.
Probably as between Mr.. Glide and Mr..
Dwyer some question turned upon how title to
Ger am lands passed at the foreclosure sale
under ceriain mortgage.
several years after this mortgage was made
Daniel Flint and myself were made Trustees for
creditors of Gwynn and Holmes, and there was
conveyed to us any surplus yalue in said lands
which might be found Ter the payment OF
said mortgage thereon existing
II was well known at the time that / became
the owner OF said mortgage, practically,
although made the investment for the late
Mrs. dnah Miller, my wife. The lands were
hooded few months after the deed OF trust
and became of little value, yet, finally had
the good fortune to receive back from the fore.
closure sale the amount of investment and in
terest.
Flint and Miller, as Trustees, never sold any
lands and never received cent of money lex
cept moderate commission), and therefore the
creditors represented by them never received
| any dividend.
/ think no one charges me with wrongino
anybody; it seems that there is maxim in Law
that Trustee cannot buy claims against the
estate managed by him.
Certainly the mortgage only got what was lis
due. and the estate was not damaged.
Mr.. Catlin. gave NE the impression, in con
versation this evening, that he intended no re
fiection on my honor, and read to me the printed
transcripts which show that my status as Trus
tee and as executor was fully narrated anc
that there was no concealment.
1t lB. c. FRANK MILLER
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-11
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed kilograms From All Quartz
nf fla Gyal<a


of the Globe.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, is reported
dying.
G. A. Hogan dropped dead at Salem,
Oregon.
Pat Killen draws the color line on Pete
Jackson.
Two deaths from sunstroke at Milwaukee
yesterday.
Consul General John c. New has arrived
az London.
Helena sports won $4,000 on the Ken.
lucky Derby.
Two horse-thieves were killed by their
pursuers in Arizona.
At Saratoga, Thursday. the thermometer
registered $50 in the shade.
DR.. Casoin, French physician at Abb,
France, was assassinated yesterday.
The San Joaquin Valley Union Veteran
Association has been formed at Fresno.
John Pender Salisbury. Secretary OF
State of Delaware, died yesterday at Dover.
Parmee & Co.'S No. coal-breaker was
burned at Hazleton, Pa, yesterday. Loss,
s125, 600.
The funeral of Count Tostoi took place
at ST. Petersburg yesterday. The Car was
in attendance.
The saloon keepers of Petaluma will
make vigorous fight against the high
license ordinance.
W. r. Edmis,on & Co., New York. i'm
poriers and manufacturers of ribbons, have
made an assignment.
Chinese, Mexicans and Italians have
been fighting on Santa Rosa island, and
several men are badly injured.
Fannie Seymour, at one time an author
ess of considerable note, is an invalid and
living in poverty IN San Francisco
The San Francisco Harbor Commission
employs collectors TO collect less sum OF
money than their salaries amount to.
The farmers are now surveying the field
after the deluge OF rain, and they think the
benefit is greatly in excess of the loss.
Seattle is excited over the discovery OF
galena silver lodges on the line of the Sc
attic, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad
A bitter feud has broken ont between
two large Chinese clans in Chicago and
one of them has invoked the assistance OF
highbinders.
A series of discussions between Charles
Watts, of London, and Rev. DR. Driver, OF
Portland. Or. on Secuiarism and Chris
tianity," is going on at Chicago.
A special meeting of the National Demo-
cratic Committee has been called for June
18th, at the Ffth-avenre Hotel. New York.
for the purpose OF eitcting Chairman and