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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
Wealth Of Presidents.

Washington married rich widow and
left an estate worth $500, 900, but John
Adams was not worth one sixth of that
sum. Jefferson died so poor that il
Congress had not given him $25, 200
for his library he would have been
bankrupt. Madison was economical,
and yet left but a small estate. Mon
roe died poor. John Quincy Adams
left $50, 600, the result of prudence.
jackson left n large landed estate. Van
Buren, died worth $500, 900. 1t is said
that during his entire administration he
never drew any portion of his salary,
but on leaving tool, the whole 800, 900
in lump. Polk left $500 FIJI
more was always an economical man,
and added to his wealth by his last M T
riage. Pierce saved so, 200. Buchan
an left 100000, Lincoln $1,000, and
Johnson $4,000. Grant, notwithstand-
ing the losses to which he was subjected,
had q handsome support in the fund
provided for him by his friends, and the
sales of his book enrich the family.
Hayes is said to be in a handsome
financial condition, and the Garfields
enjoy liberal pension and income from
large fund contributed by the public.
Cleveland, will, no doubt, save $4,000
from his presidential salary.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
COnilding Financierlng in India.

The people of India are honest. They
have to be. The English prisons in thai
land are more dreadful than were the
fortunes of the bastile.
l had another chat with Mr.. Davis,
the gentleman who had conceived the
idea of abducting Arab Pasha from his
place of exile in Ceylon for the purpose
of showing him under tent to the Amer
leans. He said what have put in the
opening parag raph and the remark had
led him into his bureau of recollectlons.
81 was generally we'll supplied with
money" he said, ''but like the best Of
men occasionally got into financial
strait. L always had money in bank
somewhere in that country. AS rule
my employers kept large fund in En-
glish Golfers in the city of Bombay. But
was in the interior of the country most
of the time, and as gold is the circula-
ting medium could not carry much OF
it with me. A certified check is not
worth any more in India than the word
of the man who carries it.
con one occasion l made O purchase
which required the immediate output of
$1,000. l was 500 miles from Bombay.
called upon an East India merchant,
told him who l was and what wanted.
He never saw me before and 1 know he
had never heard OF me. But in less
time than 1 could get the same amount
on good collateral from any national
bank in Chicago the merchant handed
me the money. Then / gave him a
check on the bank in Bombay. But
mind You, this was an after considera-
ton. l had told him that there were
funds there to my credit, but nothing
had been said about check, nor had he
any evidence other than my word about
my finances. - Chicago Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
A Boy Routs His Fathers Murderers.

james Demumbrum and Zach Walkup
lived on adjoining farms about three
miles south of Edmonton, Kentucky.
They hal been fast friends until two
years ago, when they quarreled over q
line fence, and since then had been en-
emies. One day recently Uemumbrum
and his little son, eleven years old, star
ted across a field, when they met Wal
kup and his grown son. Walkup at
once pulled his pistol and shot Demum-
Drum in the stomach. The latter stag
gered, but recovered and grappled with
his assuiIant and the two men rolled on
the ground, The younger Walkup had
been standing by, but when he saw his
father gettitg the worst of it took a
hand. The little son of Demumbrum,
who had commenced to cry when he saw
his father was hurt, could not stand
this. His tears were dried in an instant.
In his pocket he had an old Barlow
lInief, and quickly drawing it opened
the blade. A second more and he was
by his PROSTATE fathers side. With
one of his tiny hands he grasped the
younger Walkup by the arm and with
the other he plunged the knife bla'le in
to the side of his face. The weapon was
too dull to do effe tive work, but a rag
ged wound was opened, extending from
the left eye down to the corner of the
mouth. Walkup attempted to shake the
child loos', but he chung on with the
strength of desperation, and made an
other wicked trust with his knife. This
time the blade cut the man just under
the left ear, and made fri9htful cash,
extending half way across his throat,
laying bare the jugar vein and wind
pipe The elder Walkup grabbed the
boy and threwc2iFn across the road.
The young hero A-sturned and picked up
a pistol that had been dropped by old
Walkup ahd tried to shoot but could
not. The Walkups seeing the boy with
the weapon ran away, leaving him mast
err of the situation. The elder Demum-
brum died from his wound. l. Chicago
UerdId
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
How to Get to Sleep.

The most celebrated and perhaps the
most efficacious method for procuring
sleep that has been devised was origina-
ted by a Mr.. Gardner, who, amongst
other things, had remedies for many
evils, such as for allaying thirst where
no liquid element could be procured,
for improving the eyesight by various
ingen1ousy contrived glasses, and for
appeasing hunger. His sleeplessness,
however-re from severe splnai
injury in being thrown from chalse-
had been almost intolerable Tor years.
until he discovered means, Whlch
never afterward failed him, of command
ing sleep at will. The discovery caused
some stir at the time, and many emlhe1G
persons adopted it and gave testimonies
as to its efficacy. Now, however, tna' ~
has dropped almost out OF existence IL
may be boon to have its formula re,
produced. The sufferer who has Wooed
sleep in vain is, according to Mr.. Gara-
ner, to lie on his right side, with MS
head comfortably placed on the pillow,
having the neck straight SO that res
piration may not be impeded. Tho lips
are then to be closed slightly and
rather full inspiration taken, breathing
through the nostrils rs much as possible.
The full inspiration taken, the lungs are
to be left to their own action. Attention
must now be fixed upon the respiration.
The person must imagine that he sees
the breath passing from his nostrlls IN
a continuous stream, and ut the instant
he brings his mind to conceive this apart
from all other ideas, consciousness leaves
him-or at least 80 says the reclpe-nnd
I I'll 4, bod HFN0G mot
at once succeed, it is to be persevered
in, and, if properly carried out, is be,
lieYed to be invaluable. It is founded
on the principles that monotony, or the
influence on the mind of single idea,
induces slumber; and as such, ls but
another form of different methods which
ara familiar to n great many.
Sir Thomas Brown found it most
effectual soperific to repeat some verses
on which the well known Evening Hymn
was founded. Rabelais tells us Of some
monks who, when wakeful, resolutely
set themselves to prayer, and who, be-
fore they had concluded half q dozen
ayes or pafernosters, fell asleep. Frank
lin took his air-bath, Sir John Sinclair
counted; whilst Sir John Rennie, when
engaged on public works, never went to
sleep without previously having his hair
combed at the back of his head with fine
tooth comb and rubbed gently with the
palm OF the hand. Combing the hair,
brushing the forehead with soft shaving
brush, or tanning, all are good as sleep-in-
ducers, and might we'll be tried on sleep
less children, although perhaps the Span
ish practice of getting babies to sleep by
rubbing the space between the cervical
and lumbar vertebrae-that is, between
the neck and waist-with the hand, as it
is reputed nevor to have failed, would
be a shorter road to the same GOAL
Chambers Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
A Massive Dam for a Reservoir.

A large dam has just been completed
by the Quincy Water Company in the
town of Braintree, Mass. It is thrown
across the valley of small brook, and
forms reservoir covering sixty acres of
land, and it is supplied by watershed
having an estimated annual capacity of
800, 600, coo gallons of water. The dam
is COO feet long, IS feet high for dis.
lance of $50 feet across the deepest por
ton of the valley, 1G0 feet thick at the
bottom and 20 feet thick at the top.
From end to end of the dam, in the CEN
ire, is a core wall. The wall is seven
feet thick at the bottom and tapers to
two feet Mt the top, and rests on mas.
sive concrete foundation, built between
two lines of sheet piling. The water
slope of the dam is paved with stone to
an average depth of eighteen inch IS.
The gate house is a massive granite
structure, forty nine feet high from the
top of the foundation to the top OF the
coping stone, and is twenty feet squnlH
at the bottom and fourteen feet square
at the top. There is now twenty -nne
feet depth of water at the gate-house. -
A. I, Yy{bune
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
A Famous Necklace.

In the latter part of the 10Th entu-
ry Messrs. Boehmer and Bassange, of
Paris, the most cele brated jewelers. OF
the world, resolved that they would
fashion a diamond necklace such as the
world never saw. They sent out their
agents in all lands to gather up the
most costly gems. They stopped not at
any expense. In the year 1882 the
necklace was done. There were in it
eight hundred diamonds, swinging
round IN nine rows waving up to the
throat, dropping over the chest and
shoulders, pendent in crosses and
crowns, and lilies, swing q very blaze
of loops festoons and clusters. Oh,
what a day it must have been whey
Louis XVI. presented that to the Queen
and in the presence of the Court Marie
Antoinette put on the necklace. But
the court could not pay for it, aud there
were other hands that ged for it.;
and before that diamond necklace had
done its work, it had disgraced one
countess, dishonored an ecclesiast,
branded with a red hot iron favorite
of the court, and blackened a page of
history already infamous.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
Murders in Poland for Paltry Sums.

Crime appears now to be very pre7a-
lent in Poland. A young girl IL years
old, made up her mind to go to Amer
lea, and started across the frontier with
two friends, peasants and neighbors,
who agreed to help her get out of Rus
STA. On the road they robbed her of
all her clothes, with the assistance of
some other friendly peasants took from
her her little fortune of $75, which she
had saved for her journey across the
ocean, and hanged her in sad plight to
a tree after cutting some veins in her
feet in order to make death more GER
tain. They then ran away. Luckily
the rope broke the girl lived, and her
peasant friends are in jail awaiting to
be sentenced. Numerous murders
have occurred simply for purposes of
robbery, in which the most wanton
cruelty has been displayed. An Old
man butchered in a little village proved
to have but Is cents, and the Disguised
murderer left upon his victim a card on
which was written
81 regret to say that this undertaking
has not realized my expectations. -
Nea0 Y0rG Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
An Epitaph from the Tropics.

Here is an epitaph on tombstone in
the island of Jamaica, West Indies
"Here lieth the body of Lewis Gladly,
esq.,, who died the Odd of September,
1889, age so years. He was born at
Montpelier, in France, which place he
left for his religion, and settled in this
island, where in the great earthquake
in the year 1892, he was swallowed up,
and by the great providence CT God,
hy second shock, was thrown out into
the sea, where he continued swimming
till he was taken mp by boat and
mirnculously preserved. He afterward
lived in great reputation and was uni
veTsRlly lamented."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

The rush on the druggists still continues and
daily scores of people call for a bottle OK
Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs for
the cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis
and Consumption. Kemp's Balsam, the STAN
dard family remedy,is sold on guarantee and
never fails to give entire satisfaction. Price
Zoe and 81. Trial size free.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

E. G. CARRlGAN, OF Boston, who diet,
lately, was Lo'ed amorg Dartmouth
men not only for his prominence in all
educational matters, but for his activ-
ity as an alumnus of the college. He
had an interesting college career. He
worked his way through, taking six
Gears TO complete his course. He was
manager of the Loating-club when
Dartmouth won second place az S .ra-
toSa. He received scholarship CT
$3.50 from the college, and last year
pail the money back. He was ono Of
a committee representing the alumni in
the mana cement of the college, and il
was through his efforts that the de-
gree of LII. d. was given TO General
=. T. Butler.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

PERSONAL points about Harrison
He wears a No. u hat. He wears g.
shoe and can wear a 6. He has one
bunion on the right foot and no corns
His Eeck measure is 161. He wears
open front shirts, and pays $27 dozer
for them. He seldom carries a sill
handkerchief usually carries com.
mon linen. He keeps one horse. He
IS a regular smoker, and smokes small
cigars "A clear Havana. He does not
smoke to excess, however. His whis-
kers are getting gray. He uses bay
rum on his hair and does not use oil.
He is fond of baseball. His chest
measure is 81 and his waist AZ. He has
a good deal of stomach" He weighs
about $50 pounds, and appears to be 5
feet u inches in height. He does not
fancy jCwelry. He usually wears a
high buttoned Gouble-breasted frock
Goa, anil seldom has a suit all off the
zane piece. He reads for recreation.
he is fond of Scott, Eliot, and Thack-
eraT. He goes to bed at 10 and gets mp
between 6 ard Z. The family cooking
is done by an old negro "aunty." lie
is Presbyterian Deacon.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

tn The Edtor-Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy LOT the aooye
Inrst cases So strong is my faith In us viz
tuns that | will send ice sample bottle and
Unable treatise TO any sufferer who will give
rna his p O and Express address. Respy,
ii q. ROOT. NJ. c, ls3 Pearl ST.. New York.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
rafnrrh CuFed.

A clergyman, after years Of suffering TON TON
that loathsome disease, Catarrh, hho nal1ily
nTrysscTintion which completely cured and saved
him from death Amy sufferer from tins dread dread
apyeioDe TO Prof j. A. Lawrence, 50 War; en-
ST NY, will receive the recipe free OF charge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

The buffalo bones so plentiful on
Western plains three or four years ago
have been picked up so closely and
shipped off that one may now ride oil
day and not see rib.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
EpPS'S COCOA
RREAKEAST

"By thorough knowledge Of the natural laws
which govern the operations f digestion and nutri
ton, and 10y careful application of tla fine proper
ties Of wcll-sclcCted Cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided
our breakfast tables with delicately avoured bev
eTagr hiCh may save IN many heavy doctors bills.
1t by the udicious Of such articles Of diet that
constitution mny be 81 aduay butt NJ until strong
enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hun
dTcds of subtle mAlrdes floating around us ready
to attack whercy- there - a week point. We may
escape many fHtai shaft ty leCping elves well
fortified with pure blood and properly nourished
frame n-CfIi S~rIicc GdE"ffe.
Made simply with loling water or m N. Sold
only in half round tins. by Groccrs. labelled TINS
IA MES EPPS & CO., Homeopathic Chemists
london England
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

Prince Haru seems to have nothing
of the old idea of the sacredness of the
imperial person, and plays and wrestles
with plehian boys, and gets handled by
them in return
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

An experiment recently made in Scotland
proves that the tortoise can walk mile in touT
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
.R,d,cnI Cure for EpiIeptIc Fits.

AS;oux scout, named Mahpeahwakosta, has
lust died of lockjaw, at the age Of nearly 100
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

Fon SPECIAL Rates for advertising in THIS paper
apply to the publisher Of the paper. u l.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

II afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp
son's Eye-Water. Druggists sell 25c per bottle
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso'
Remedy for Catarrh By druggists. SOC.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

A man may wear epaulets and be only
drummer in the band.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

Mrs. ELIZABETH COBB, of Marysville,
Ky, if reports be true. is en- many &C
counts q wonderful woman. Her age
is put down at 126 years; she has had
seventeen children, all of whom are
living, and together more than 800
descendants, of whom 175 came to-
gethCr lately at her home to celebrate
her birthday; and great-grandson re-
ports that she reads without glasses,
and went out and picked a basket of
apples and brought them in to the as
s2mblcd company without help or the
least semblance Of fatigne.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

The wave moor, which was begin
at Point Iobos about three years ago,
is nearly completel As described by
a san Francisco paper, at is a ma
chine for Utilizing the dashing in OF
the waves by Tuning their power into
practical use, slch as furnishing water
for sprinkling the streets, flushing the
sewers, and even drN ing cable cars.
Only one piston has been put in as yet.
This pumps at the rate cf three bar
res nat. TIe moor will run
from eighteen to twenty honrs per day,
and if the wind end tide ara favorable
ran be worl cl throughout the whole
twenty fur"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

Mn GLADSTONE was walking down
St Martins lane il London, the Other
day. whona street arab recognized him.
I,nr eliatcly The venerable stats nan
was aurro1n'lol ~ = troop of urchins.
who accompanied him on his wa fol-
bl3c&s. 1t is no uausuaI thing for him
to lie escorted l'y these improyiscd
body-guar Is a lbs features are famil
iGr to every Londonor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

GEN. T. Z. SPINNER, cx-United
States Treasurer, is nearly blind from
the effects of cancer in the face, and
as he is Sc years old his days may be
considered numbered.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10
The Plain Truth

Is that Hoods Sarsaparilla has cured thousands of
people who suffered severely with rheumatism. 1t
neutraizes the Tactic acid in the blood, which
causes those terrible pains and aches, and also
vitazes and enriches the blood thus preventing the
recurrence of the disease. These facts warrant us
in urging you, if you suffer with rheumatism to
give Hoods Sarsaparlla a trial
II had rheumatism so that when I sat or laid
down could hardly get up. Hoods sarsaparilla
has almost cured me"-P. CAREEs, Gallon, o.
N. b. If you make up your mind to try take Hood s
sarsaparilla, do not be induced to take any other
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for s5 Prepared only
by G. I. HOOD co, Apothecaries. Lowell, Mass
100 DoSes One Dollar
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

A NEW scheme for ha-bor de 'ense Is
soon to he tried. Perforated iron
pipes will he sunk in the water, anl
through th,m pat,o!eum will be
forced. In this way fierce stream OF
blazing oil could be sent down on the
enemy's feet to drive it away. Iron
vessels coull not pass through this
lake of fire, because it could be made
to extenl MANY mics alo lg a riyer
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-10

The Portland OregOnian has dis
covered the species of fish that swal-
lowed Jonah. A specimen was sent
over to Portland from Yagurah, which
was nearly all head. It's ears were stu
atcd at the back of its neck, and its
mouth extended from ear to ear 1t
was known as the Cutlus cod, and, ac-
cording to the Orego11ian, was evident
ly made to eat. rather than to be eaten.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1889-11-09
"a WCman's War Record"

"a Woman's War Record" is the
title of volume just published, from
the pen of Mrs. (GeneraD Charles H.
t. Coils, the wife of Federal Off.
Ger, who followed her husband into
the field. The most startling anec-
dote in the book, says the New York
Tribune, is intended to illustrate the
recklessness which took possession
OF men when every day brought them
face to face with death. 1t was at a
bail given during the winter at head
quarters. "Well do / remember"
writes Mrs. Coils, expressing my
sympathy to a very distinguished
cavalry General for the loss of his
only son, to which the gallant sabreur
responded: Yes, madame, very sad!
very sad. He nas the last of his
race! Do you wal:z?' and away lie
went TO the celebrating music of a
dashing caIop, leaving all melancholy
far behind him" Such utter caIlous-
ness lis this would have been impossi-
BILE with any Southern soldier, and
no one knows this better than Mrs.
Coils, who is herself Southern born,
tx.
Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1889-11-09
PERSONAL MENTION.

d. T. Chapman was in Rayville
on Friday of last week. Dan in
forms us that be has more cotton out
now than he made last year. Says
his place will average over a bale to
the acre this year. We have said
all along that Richland had made
an unusually large crop where there
was anything like cultivation.
We had the pleasure of meeting
Dir. Oscar NJ. Brown Or Friday of
last week. Oscar went down home
with 7. d. McLeroy.
L. n. Boies was in Rayyille last
Monday. We were sorry to learn
from him that F. G. Boics, who
now lives at RinggoItl, in Blcnvlllc
parish, had the sad misfortune to lose
his 2-year-old child. 1t appears the
child had gone to the swing and in
some way had the rope wound
around its neck and was dead when
found.
VIM. 7. Ivy came from Weather
ford, Texas, on Saturday last, so
our little Horace informs lis. We
did not see him.
w. II. Hallaek was in town on
Saturday last.
DR.. York was up here from Alto
on Tuesday.
John a. Hemlcr came in from
New Orleans on Tuesday.
b. F. Newbcrry was in town
eally Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Fannie Blcdsoc and Joe
Boughton returned home on Monday
after spending several days with
friends in Rayvillc.
Mcssrs. Noble Baskin and Ed.
Bcazlcy, from Alto, were in town
on last Sunday.
J. w. Simms went to the CITY on
Sunday and returned Tuesday. This
was quick trip, but when the Fort
Scott road is built it can bc made in
less time.
Mr.. Mansfield came in on last
Saturday evening from Meridian,
Mississippi.
We met the Hon. \. y. Gunbv
on "Wednesday who came out to our
town on some business. The Judge
said, from his knowledge of reports
of crops, Richland was one of the
best if not the best parishes in the
State.
Mr.. Waldrom, of our parish, and
Mr.. Thomas. of Bienvillc, called on
us last Thursday.
Mr.. Levy, of New Orleans, was
in our town on Friday.