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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
CHICAGO 0 YARDS.
Receiving and Killing Cattle-Old
and New Methods.

In all seasons of the year,, in all hours
of the day and night, q stream of live
stock is flowing over a score OF roads to
Chicago. Arrived at the yards the cattle
are consigned to their pens and the hogs
to theirs, where they wait with lndit1er-
ence to fate for an Eastern buyer Or n
Chicago butterine or lard maker. If the
cattle are purchased for killing here they
are driven through the narrow streets of
that busiest of marts and into an entry,
where they stand with heads all n
way, closely pressed side by side. just
over their backs runs o flooring which
supports q stalwart executioner armed
with a sledge. He picks out the beast
he wants to kill, marks the spot in tho
forehead Just below his feet, where the
blow must fall, and hen strikes easily
and quickly and shoulders his hammer
again.
1t is probable that politicians Dor
rowed the phrase "dull thud" from the
slaughter house, for nothing else de-
scribes the stroke that ends all bovine
s~ensibility. In an instant q man who
has lowered on the flank of the herd
prisons the heel of the fallen steer in a
clamp. and the power of steam is in
voked to lift the carcass high in the mir.
Hanging there, head downward, still al
most m~otionless from the stunning eff
fects of that blow, q sharp knife is
drawn across the throat. plunged a little
way into that dark recess which the
rude anatomist there knows best. and
red blood spouts out in a torrent. Very
short striving, indeed, the beef gets, for
as you stand and watch a moment the
hide is stripped off, the head and feet
go into retirement and two nicely dressed
halves, carefully cleaned, are pushed
along on the only elevated railroad Chi
cago can DO of, aud into the dark
chambers " the low temperature
prepares them for further carving.
But if the beef animals do go without
complaint to their fate, the hogs feel
under no obligation to follow the exam
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

SOME savage tribes think books
speak to the readers. Caribs and
Guiana Indians so believed, and some
Esquimaux, seeing q priest read from
the Evangelists, thought that he
heard the voice of the book and repeat
ed it to them. Tribes in Africa, South
America and Oceanica thought the
reader was conversing with the book,
and Weddell said q Fueyian put the
book to his ear in order TO h2ar the
sound of the voice that spoke to the
reader. In West Australia books and
letters are thought to reveal hidden
secrets, and are called speaking
papers" 1t was inexplicable to them
that the person receiving a letter an
nouncing the sending of a number OF
sheep should be able by it to detect
a lost one. Some Cochin China Baum
ois were likewise astoniahed at finding
That a demand for double fees for car
rying a letter was defeated by the let
ter itself, the writer having announced
the payment of the sum-. A California
Indian, being detected in the theft of
one out of a number of loaves of bread
which he was carrying to a missionary,
adopted the pan of hiding the note
under a stone the next time so that it
should not sec him cat the bread.
Canadian Indians, Brazili1ns and
Peruvians thought books and lett rs
were spirits of live Leings.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
Scenes In Samoa.

The unfortunate King of Samoa, NAL
ietoa, who wal abducted by the Ger
mans last year, seems tt be destined
never to return to his native land, and
one cannot refrain from extending SYM
pathy to this broken-hearted monarch,
thus despoiled of his kingdom, and
doomed to perpetual exile.
The natives of Samoa are n frank, SIM
pie race of people, possessed of undoubt-
ed courage and ''grit." They go to war
in their long canoes, always with q song,
the melody of which is not unlike some
of our old plantation songs, and it serves
to time their paddles, oil of which seek
the water with methodical precision. In
complexion they are mostly of n light
copper color, though some are shades
darker and a few nearly white. Their
features are expressive, and are lllum-
ined by dark lustrous eyes, that laugh
and talk in o language OF their own.
Their diet is almost purely vegetarian,
and fruitsform the principal part. The
women are usually handsome and well
developed, and are possessed of q natural
grace that would be the envy of the girls
of our land. They are, as a class, viz
tuous and retiring. OF course the eli
mate prohibits the use of superhuous
clothing, and the Samoan belle is not
usally clothed rs extensively as she might
be, but nevertheless the 'lava-lava," or
coIored scarf, which most women wear
is hastily drawn around the form when
fereiga eyes aEe-neaEs-Tley-aTe SeHoE-
Gus, and affectionate in disposition, and,
it is said, make good wives and mothers.
Many of them are married to white set
tiers, and are regular attendants at the
pretty Catholic church on Sunday.a
Natives houses are usually circular in
form, with pointed, matched roofs, and
unprotected sides, except in cases where
the industry and ingenuity of the wife
has caused mats to be woven from the
leaves of the cocoa palm. The mats are
suspended around the hut during the
day to ward off the rays of the sun, and
are rolled up at night to allow the cool
breezes of the Grades" to enter.
These islands are of growing CONNER
ciaI Importance to the United States,
and it is to be hoped that some speedy
effort will be made to establish II form
of governmenttha will promote the hap
piness land prosperity of the country.
With Mataafa on the throne as the
choice of the people, and unmolested by
foreign interference, such q condition is
likely to be realized, and the autonomy
of tho islands preserved Washington
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

The following true story of Artemus
Ward is now printed for the first time.
While Ward was a reporter on a CIeye-
land newspaper, and some time before
he had begun to make a reputation as a
humorist, he was, one evening, sent out
to write up q Swell" entertainment to be
given by the leading club of the city.
On his way to the hall Ward met a
friend.
(Which way, Charles?"
"Going to write up a sort of fly shin
dig"
3Let's go in and take a bowl. I'm
going down that way pretty soon."
Q They went into q beer hall. Il must
60" said Ward, after he had spent half
an hour in the place.
"Oh, no.; sit down. Let's have an
other bowl. Say, you can write up that
affair lust as well from the program
as you can by seeing the performance.
Got a program, haven't your"
Eyes"
"Well, write it up and then let's make
a little round"
Ward surrendered. He wrote up the
performance, took the article to the
Office, and, after having received the
praise of the city editor for the grace
fulness of the work, went out with his
friend. The next morning he read his
report" and was much pleased with his
own ingenuity, but his complacency was
of short life, for, taking up another
paper, he read the following announce
ment:
"The performance of the A club,
in consequence of the sudden illness OF
q leading feature did not take place
last night"
Ward had not tho courage to go to
Office, but boarded the first outgoing
train. Three months later he returned
toCleveland md was walking lazily along
a street whom he met the managing editor
of the paper for which he had worked.
"Why, hello, Browne" the editor ex-
claimed.
Good morning"
"Wherc have you been?"
"Sequestered."
"Why didn't you come back t. the
Office after making your bad break?"
"Conscious-stricken.
ooh, that was all right"
at might have been all right for you"
Ward replied, "but not for me. You see
1 suddenly discovered that ! could not
afford to work on so unreliable a paper.
The paper that makes use of my services
must be above reproach. Your sheet
does not pay enough attention to telling
the truth. / nave decided to go to work
on in afternoon contemporary paper
that never tells anything. FAREWELL
ArkGnSnU Traveller.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

pie, and protest with q most vigorous
chrous of squeals at every step of the
way. But their native stubbornness is
finally conquered when they are crowded
upon the last floor their reluctant feet
will ever press, and they focl one leg
caught by n hook which resists all tl,oir
kicking. Steam power here, as in the
beef slaughter house, raises the animal
high in the air, and he starts on his last
ride-squealing and struggling to the
last. One after another is caught, lifted,
and showed along head downward in
procession past as mild a hammered man
as ever cut a throat, and swing on, still
struggling and squealing, but now
bleeding, to the hot-water vat. If a pig
is right lively he can die by the time his
shackles loosen and he drops into the
scalding fluid, but no time is wasted on
his account, and if he doesn't want to
die he doesn't need to, but is given a
header and poled down stream to the
scraper.
Do you remember butchering time on
the farm? Can you recollect the scat
fold the men rigge1 up on the bob-sleds,
with a barrel of hot water at the side2
Can you see again the picture of that
sousing-that heaving out and sousing
again-the hog was treated to? And
then do the violent scrapings with the
old iron candle-sticks come back to you :?
How proud the family were when they
had swung up nine hogs in a day, and
how painfully weary every one was; and
how delightfully."- greasy everything was,
from the front gate to the bars of the
woods pasture.
Well, the hog that falls into the hands
of these modern butchers gets rnpid
transit that would ~paralyze his rural
ancestor, and floats from the scaldlng
vat out upon a revolving street-sweeplng
sort of O machine that takes off his stub
born coat OF hair in q moment and sends
him naked into the world for the first
time. From here to the table where he
is delivered in convenient pieces of
shoulder, ham, and side meat, the hog
travels faster than he ever did on foot,
and is at last deposited in q great re-
fr~igerator, neatly corded up with q
thousand more like him, ready for sale.
But the man who has brought the
mixed train of cattle and hogs has no
interest in the fate of his shipment be-
yond the office of the commission house
that handles his goods, and after settle
ment with them, he gathers his helpers
and his guests about him and plunges
boldly downtown. Here the merchant
lays in his stock of goods, and all ride
home together in g parlor car, quite
satisfied that the mysteries of h great
city have been solved. Humble as they
are, they and their kind brought to
Chicago in 1883 a total of owe two and
o half million cattle and four and three
quarter million head of hogs. Besides
and one and a half million sheep
Chicago Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
A BANNER in Lille, France, had the

A BANNER in Lille, France, had the
misfortune to wet eighteen bills of the
Bank of France, and in order to dry
them he placed them on a board at an
open window where the sun shone upon
them. They dried more rapidly than
was anticipated. A gust of wind car
ried them into the street, where, I'M
fortunately, a goat picking up odds
and ends at once captured the bank
bills and swallowed them. The goat
was purchased and the bills secured in
a very dilapidated condition, but the
Bank of France recognized its obligA-
tons and redeemed them,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
a r0uueIruI u uudnIsGaIempIe.

A missionary who settled in the prov
ince of Sz-Chuan, Central China, and
visited the great Buddhist peak Mount
Omel, describes the temple as still
showing many wonderful works of art,
Notwithstanding confiagrations, devasta-
ting wars, and rebellions. Near the foot
OF the mountain is a pagoda of bronze,
thirty feet high, in fifteen stories, COW
cred with an immense number of ig-
ures delicately cast. Of figures of
Buddha there are no less than 400,
some of which have been mutilated by
collectors of relics. -Chicago Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

JOHN BARLOW, once American Min
lister to France, died in the early part
of this century at Wilma, Poland, where
he was buried, and Senator Plat is
now taking an interest in a measure
before the Senate which provides that
his remains be exhumed and brought
back to his native land. In his young
manhood Mr.. Barlow fought in the
Revolution of 1776 and he proved his
yalor at the battle of White Plains.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

AN enormous number OF ANIMALS are
killed in Siberia yearly for their fur.
At the last summer fair of Irbit, which
is a market for only a Fart of the furs
exported from Siberia, no less than
3 $3.50, 600 skins of squirrels were Of
fered for sale. OF other varieties there
were II, 900 blue fox, 14O, ZOO marmot,
&c, 200 rolecat, 10000 badger, 1,3OO,-
900 hare, and 1000 fox.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
&O-afhInn Now.

A new and very effective thing which is TAX
ing hold on the market is a valuable discovery
Co, Baltimore, Nd, proprietors of the re;
nowned St. Jacobs Oil, and known as Diamond
Indigestion and ali stomach troubles arising
therefrom. If not found in the stock of drug
gist or dealer, it will be sent by mail on receipt
of % cents q boxes 81 in stamps. Sample sent
on receipt of two-cent stamp. 1t has been
found on trial to be a specific for sour stomach,
heartburn, nausea, giddiness, constipation,
nervousness and low spirits, and it is spoken of
and recommended by hundreds who have used
1t and have found lasting benefits.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

A WASHINGTON man, Major HI. Stein :,
is making a collection of branches from
trees that grew on the great battleields
in the late war. He has just received
from a Virginia friend pieces of pine
from Charlottesville, cedar from
Slaughter's Mountains and from Han
cocks winter quarters in 1S63-'64.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

To the Editor-Please inform your readers
that have a positive remedy for the above
named disease which j warrant to cure the
worst cases. So strong is my faith in its vir-
tues that | will send free a sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give
me his 2 o. and Express address. Resp'y,
II. G.. ROOT. NJ. c.. 1S3 Pearl st.. New York.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

A NORWEGIAN wood-chopper near
Carson City, New, made an ingenious
use of an accident. He discovered a
leak in one of the mains of the water
company, where a jet was forced out
under enormous pressure. After ex-
p~erimenting he found that this would
cut wood equal to q fine saw, so he set
10 work, and now makes handsome
brackets of choice woods, which find a
ready sale.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

PRESIDENT CARNoT. of France, re-
ceived upward of q thousand Christ
mas presents from his admiring fellow
citizens of the republic.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
Cutnrrh Cured.

A clergyman, after years of suffering from
that loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainly
trying every known remedy, at last found a
prescription which completely cured and saved
him from death. Any sufferer from this dread
envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 8S WARREN
St., n. Y, will receive the recipe free of charge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

A LONDON paper says there arc
still twenty-three islands in the Pa
cifc Ocean which no nation has set up
O. claim to.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

AN unusual IegaI proceeding Is at-
tracing the Hebrew circles of Ron
dout. n. Y. The action is brought by
Rev. Mr.. Wolfberger, pastor of one of
the synagogues, against Isaac and
Jacob Kingsburg to $50 fer
services rendered as rabbi in saying
prayers for the repose of the soul Of
the father of the defendants, who died
a few months ago; for teaching the
Kingsburg brothers the Hebrew prayer
for the dead, and for preparing an in
scription to be placed on the tomb
stone of their deceased parent. The
elder Kingsburg was a devout believer
in the orthodox Jewish faith. The
sons are not strict r~eligionists, and
were unfamiliar with the prayers and
rites; hence it became necessary to re-
ceive instructions after their fathers
death. The defendants claim that the
services were of no value.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

low contains 55.275 square miles; was
settled in 1888 at Burlington, and was ad-
mitted into the Union December %, 1916.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

MALCOLM MCMILLAN, of Chtalone,
Cape Breton, a native of Lockmaddy
North Uist, Scotland, is now 101 years
of age and all his senses are as good as
when he was in his teens. A few
months ago he cut and sewed q pair of
mill-cloth trousers for himself. Last
autumn he moved hay on the same
field with his son, his grandson, and
his great-grandson, and his days work
was equal, it is said, to the best of
them. He has never lost a tooth and
does not know what a headache or q
toothache is.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

JAMES T. MAFFIT, member of Con-
gress from the Twenty-fifth Pennsyl-
vania District, is in an insane asylum.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

Michigan contains s ,430square miles; was
settled in 1870 at Detroit, and was admitted
into the Union January 90, 1887.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

Missouri contains IS, 735 square miles; was
settled in 1764 at st. Louis, and was admit
ted into the Union August 10, 1921.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
ELY'S
CREAM BALM

I suffered iron
catGrrh II gears
The d~ropptngs int.
the throat nere a
seating. My nos
6led almost daily
Since first days US
ofEly'sC Cream BAN
hare had no bleed
ing, soreness is en-
tirely gone. d. G
Ddutdson, aoiM BoS
ton Bu6Get.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

No OPIUM in Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Cures where other remedies fail. 25c.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

In various parts of the body, more particularly in
the back, shoulders, and joints, are the unwelcoIne
tndicat ons that rheumatism has gained a foothold,
and you are in for il" for a longer or shorter period
Rheumatism is caused by Tactic acid in the blood
and Is cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla. which neutral
lies the acidity, and eradicates every impurity from
The blood.
II sutfered from an acute attack OF rheumatism
induced by a severe spra.n of a once dislocat d ankle
joint, which caused great swelling and intense pain.
One bottle of Hoods SarsaParilla restored circula-
ton, cleansed the blood and relieved the pain. III
HUNT. Springfield, Mo.
Hoods
Sold by all DRUGGISTS. 81: six for IS. Prepared only
by c. L HOOD h co, Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
Pains and Aches

FOR SPECIAL Rates for Advertising in THIS paper
apply to the publisher of the paper. u 3.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
SONS Eye-Mater. DrngEists sell CSC. per hottie
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
Cord of

If the proprietor of Kemp's Balsnm snoula
,1tIisb = card of thanks, containing exprgS-
sions of gratitude which come to him SS,.y.
from those who have been cured ol"muo
throat and lung troubles by the usssflssmps
Balsam, it would fill a fair-stzsa@b ook' TOW
much better to invite sif-ee ean on any lug
test for yourself its power. Large bottles So
and 81.
Nevada contains 100, 740square miles was
settled in 1860 at Washoe, and was admitted
into the Union Octohnr 81. 1861.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
Welcome. sweet day of rest;
That saw the Lord arise;
Welcome to this revivno brea,

Again I remark, we ought to nave in the
Fab. atl the Joy Of domestic reunion and
conservation. There are some very good pa
rents who have the faculty of making the
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-24
The Cross-Tides Improvement.

Editor Morning NelUS | see that Lieut..
Carter demands an investigation by govern
ment authorities into his conduct as engi-
neer in charge of the Savannah river i'm
provement.
An inquiry was instituted by the United
States Senate last winter as to this work
and its effects on the rice lands along the
river, and in his report, in reply to said in
quiry, he, abiding to the Gowrie planta-
ton among other things, makes this re-
markabe statement, to wit: eff the banks
were repaired, no damage would ensue
from the dam at cross-tides." And now he
demands an investigation. | trust it will
be had. | am one of those crushed by the
strong and resstless hand of the govern
ment. /, who planted along the banks of
the river above said work. who know to
my financial sorrow the workings and
results of this Improvement specific
ally deny the correctness of Lieut.. Carters
report.
In the investigation now probable, 1
proffer to produce evidence before the court
of inquiry, proving:
l. That Lieut.. Carriers various trips of
inspection up the Back river were mere
pleasure trips at long intervals, and never
at such times when, the river being in one
of its abnormal conditions, he could def
nitely learn something about the effect of the
work at cross-tides elsewhere than what
had been planned by the engineer corps.
2. That there was more work done on
the exact 200 yards of bank which Lieut..
Carriers report condemns as being in bad
order since the stoppage of cross-tides com
menced than had been found necessary dur
ing an entire preceding period OF profitable
holding between 1885 and 1875.
No one questions the decided benefit to
the navigable facilities of the river by the
governmental work of cross-tides, nor the
desirability of it. The benefit to the city of
Savannah has been immense, even il the
increased depth has as yet only been OBJ
tanned by piling up of the water; but that is
no good reason why, by just such inaccu-
rate statements of men in Office, the rights
of citizens should be trampled upon and
their property contiscated by the govern
ment, and when complaint is made the only
answer is such as Lieut.. Carter makes to
the government.
Let an investigation by all means be had,
and let the court of inquiry hear the facts.
JAMES b. HEYwARD.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-24

Argo (Norl, Arentsen. Santos, sid April 5.
felx Mendelssohn Ger. Fretwurst, at Buenos
Ayres April ..
Elba- Tilton, New York, sid June IS.
Azaoei PORT, arrange, oporto via Rio Janeiro.
Minerva CNor), Johannesen, Shields, sid about
Blrgtte Nor, Gregersen, Rosario. sid May Is.
washington 0taD Cafero, Girgenti, sid June s.
Aida tNorl, Bodtker, Buenos Ayres, sid May IL
Marsino Cllento Utah. Ametrano, Buenos Ayres,
Mozart Ger, Butler, Hamburg sid June IL
Mlda tNor), Hubert, Santos, sid MAY 23
Buenos Ayres Ger, Alters, at Goole May Il
OSseo CBrl. Davies, at Swansea May II via st
Paul de Loando.
Victoria (Br), Davis, Newport E, sid June via
Montevideo.
Robert Dillon, Leighton, New York. up June 81.
sCHooNERs.
Chas A Coulombe, Magee, Philadelphia, sid
May 49,
Robt H Parker, Steelman, Philadelphia, sid
June4
Fannie Wolston, Mean, Richmond. sid May %.
harry Ritter, Peterson, Philadelphia, sid
June s.
Eta NJ Barter, Barter, Philadelphia via vii.
mlngton. Del. cid June TO-
Charmer, Daboll. Perth Amboy, sid June 6.
lda Lawrence, Young, Baltimore, up June q,
via Norfolk
Island City, Voorhees,, Baltimore. up June %.