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FOR SALE.

one Of the finest h mesteads in the ci y, one
lot 3O)xiA0
an elegant property on Twelfth street, lot
G0Xl25
Three buildings, VITA store rooms, on Market
street
Three fine dwelli Is OH Chapline street.
Three I'm All dsellings on Market street, easy
terms.
TWO good houses on Thirteenth street
Five bui dino lots on EOil
Two e ega't b lex houses on Jacob street
Good brick house, rooms. on Twenty second
street.
Three small houses on the Island
Three first class houses on Fifteenth sire [.
Three small houses OH Mccullough street.
Two small houses on EOh street.
Six Lots Oh Mccullough street.
Four good lots on tue Island,
Two houses aad seven lots on Charles street
A four room6d hOnse on Wood street.
some choice lots In lower end OF city.
Ony four lots LEFT Of n plat OF is put on the
market last week. a good Investment Tor the
early caller.
s2i0-a good live party with this amount can
make money-for particulars call early
ss-Money TO Loan.
ALWAYS insure your properly with the fhwniN
of Hartford. lime tried and fire lss'Cd
GEO. j. MATHISON,
pao1 Ectafa and fu.uraufa Apput
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NonlmI.sIoner-

We the undersigned Banks and Bankers vii
pAy ell Prizes drawn In The L0uifiAnA State lot
terios which may be presented At our counters.
Nm. WALMSLEY, Pree't LOuihianA Nat Bf
PIERRE LANAUN, Prcst State Natl ~
A. BALDWIN, Prest New Orleans Nat bf
Carl. hOHN. Prest Union National Bank
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BARGAINS N REAL ESTATE, MUST BE
ID sod at once two story brick house, fine
10, b 'cK to slley. shsde ees, vegetable garden,
between Thirty SIKH and Thlr y-seventh streets,
on Chapline street Price. 81 $50. l.. A. Rolf &
Co., Employment, Real Estate md Loans No.
1870 Market street decllet
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with only a fair sizsd crowd in attendance,
owing to the inclemency of the weather.
A brother of W. T. Duncan, who resides
in Bellaire, was 80 unfortunate as to grind
his thumb of on an emory wheel.
Lewis Haylhorp, of Portland, O., was
in the city yesterday, the guest of friends.
T. L Apple, master carpenter on the G.
x P. railroad. was in the city yesterday.
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srTlrF COPI IS OF DAILY OR WEEKLY 5
arrnbuies Of Respect and Obituary NOlees
DC per inch. -......--.
arCoRREsPOSDESCE CONrAlSiNe INFORMANT
.qru-s sotrcrrEn FR0N EvERY PART OF THIS SUB
aOuSnusG COUNTRY ,.
Ness soeOnpanied by Sufficient postage.
STAMPS OF the denomination OF two cents and
- accepted for amounts less than one dollar.
TIE REGISTER elioTncuig ns ,eteTfi elliots,
al, l,ie-sf IA fle Post0acs in saee.iHg, w. Va. a.
tfe0id cl0ss m1ter
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MISS BRACH,
Christian Science Healer,
"a Fourteenth Street
Deci1edra
K@NOTICE.

BENwooD W. Va, December 10th, lSS9.
An the debtors and creditors of the late firm a
Quinn & McGOugh are respectfully requested q
call at the old stand in Benwo7d and settle theii
accounts WILL QUINN,
Survivor firm OF
QUINN & MGOUGH
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&En Advertisements.

OST-RED MEMORANDUM BOOK, CON
l. tanning bills, &e. Finder will please return
to this oil &c or &c Thirteenth street, and receive
reward. dellq
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So Snnn Enrrntfen

= UtirON FItt Fflss
Mckinley is now the first figure in Ohio,
and people DO net even know where For
ker il buried
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DETAIL STORE FOR SALE

A nice retail business desirably located, with
an established paying trade stock amounts TO
about Sc 900. and is in good condition. Sat stac-
tory reasons for selling given For terms aud
further particulars address
a.. CO."
dseiCq Care REGISTER.
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litrn Registered lGIi.n Containing Clnmg %
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BAhh
New Orleans, La.
REMEMBER, that the payment of
Prizes Is QUA STEED BY FOUR hA'
TIONAL. BANKS Of New Orleans, aud Do
Tickets are signed by the President Of an lnsl
tuition, whose chartered rights are recognized y
the highest Courts: therefore, bewsru " al iml
tations or anonymous schcmes'
mt DOI iARistie price OF tho small I
mart or fraction N ticket ISSUED "
Ia any Drawing Anything IN our nAin' on
o. - than q Dollar e n sWfndls
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!

The incest AVID most acceptable presents at
Christina, Tor the HOlsekecper, will be found in
this department. just opened some very hand
some Dinner and Tsa s. o. fine TOws is, Newest
TaD Cover Chenille Tapesty aud Felt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-14
He Washed the Tiger.

When Pezon, the lion tanner, was at
Moscow with his menagerie, he had oc-
caslon to employ m0ujK, fine speci-
men of Cossack, to clean out the cages
of the wild beasts. The Cossack did
not understand word of French, and
the terms OF the contract were settled in
dumb show. By way OF instructing him
III his now duties, Pezon went through
sort of pantomime with the broom,
sponge and water bucket.
The moajik watched him closely, and
appeared fully to understand the details
of the lesson given. Next morning,
armed with a broom, a bucket aud a
sponge, he opened the first cage he came
to and quietly stepped in, as he hao
seen his master step, on the previous
1ny III to ~ - cages of harmless brutes;
but this one happened to be tenanted
by splendid but unframed tiger, that
lay stretched on the floor fast asleep.
At the noise made by opening and
closing the I COR tn '... raised lis
head and turned its green eyes full on
the man, who, all unc0uaoiors Jf his
danger, stood in corner dipping his
big sponge into the bucket
At that moment Pezon came out of
his caravan and was struck dumb by the
terrible sight that met his gaze. What
ger? A sound, movement on his part
might erirage the great beast, and hasten
its attack on the defenceless Cossack.
So Pezon stool, awaiting developments,
ready to rush to the scene when the
crisis came.
The moujik, sponge in hand, coolly
the tiger, and made ready
to rub him down with the stolidity of q
military bootblaek polishing his cap
tain's boots.
The sudden application of cold wa 'er
to it's hide evidently produced very
agreeable effect on the tiger, for it began
to purr, stretched out its paws, rolled
over on its back, and complacently Of
fered every part of its body to the vigor-
Gus treatment of the naoogik, who went
on scrubbing with might and main.
All the while Pezon stood there with
his eyes wide open as if he was nailed
to the spot.
When he had finishad his job, the
Cossack left the cage rs quietly as he
had entered it, and it required the most
energetic and expressive gestures on the
part of the lion tanner to prevent his re-
peating the experiment on second
wild beast.-LG France do N0rd.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-14
Suppressing BarberOus Cuban Society.

The secret association in Havana,
Cuba, "Los Nauigos," is being sup
pressed. This criminal association was
in earlier times composed of Africans
exclusively, but the Africans have disap-
peared, and the society now consists of
Cuban colored men and small num-
Der of whites. The Nanigos Association
is divided into many groups or parties.
Each wears and uses its own particular
signs, and there are no greater enemies
than two Nanigos who may belong to
different bands.
All these several bands hold regular
sessions. A new member must drink the
blood, while still warm, of cock whose
head has been cut off. The principal
purpose of the primitive Nanigos was
a simple union against the white race,
but that character has disappeared and
In later years the r efforts appear to be
confined mainly to an active warfare
among one another. Shots exchanged
in the streets of Havana by Nanigos of
different bands have frequently created
alarm and excitement. The police mr.
rested the leaders of some Mango
bands. These upon being released, de-
livered up all the apparatus used in
their ceremonies and promised to dis
solve. Later two other bands surren-
dered their paraphernalIa and prom
ised to go out of existence, The sur
render and dissolution of the remaining
bands is expected soon.-C Cincinnati In
Quiyery
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-14
BLIZZARD LAND.
A Little Talk About Shows and
Blows i'm North Dakota.

North Dakota, according to the tenn
perature maps, is the coldest part of the
United States. This is accounted for
by the fact that there are no mountains
to break the force of the storms origi-
mating in the Arctic regions. From
Manitoba they come rushing AMI howl
ing into our Territory with great force,
packing the sand-like snow SO firmly
that new formed drifts four or five feet
high will bear the weight of houses.
During one of these billiards it is i'm
possible to be comfortable out of doors,
even when the mercury does not fall be-
low zero. The snow packs into the
clothing so that no shaking will dislodge
it, and the sharp particles cut like glass
or steel. 1t is impossible to face such q
storm, and persons and horses naturally
turn their faces from the blast, and do,
ing so even in the slightest degree
causes them to lose their way on the
plains.
The snow looks exactly like granulated
sugar; we never see it fall in large, feath-
cry flakes, as it does in other parts OF
the country. When it SHOWS it invaria-
bly, blows, and every building, large or
small, has its circle of drifts.
Occasionally for two or three days al
n time the north wind will take the snow
flying past, and apparently not grain
OF it touches the ground. Straight
south it will go in such masses that you
cannot see an object few rods from
YOU then in few days the south wind
will hurl another mass back TO the
north.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-14
n Russian Belle.

| ri went down aud found my host,
who, in Paris was, ] have sail, the most
correct and proper of men, sitting n tho
breakfast table in a dressing gown that
was absolutely the drtiest and most re-
! pulsivo thing had ever seen. His wife
| was presiding over tea urn, and we had
J got about half through the breakfast
whom his daughter, girl OF about nlne-
teen years, came bouncing IN. She stop
ped when she was about half way across
the room-and what do you think she
did9 There is no good telling you for
you would not believe it and you would
certainly be very much shocked"
s'I think very likely can stand it. T"
swell, it is nice thing to say, and
certainly it is an unpleasant thing to
repeat, but the incilent goes to illus
trate what have Just said, that If novel
lists and writer's would tell the exact facts
about people they pretended to describe
they could convey a real idea of the ex-
listing condition of things. Yet no
writer would tell the incident that an
about to relate to you, and doubt
whether either you or L would dare to
put it in n book"
asked him what be referred to, and
he id slowly:
"Well, you must remember in the
first place that this was yOung lady
that moved in respectable, middle class
society in st. Petersburg, whose father
was an official in the czar's palace and
man of position and learning, anl who
was hers If young p rson OF many
attractions. She was pretty, spoke
French, German and little English,
beside her natl tongue, was nn admir-
abe musician, and jolly sort of girl
generally. She walkeJ halfway across
the floor that morni Mt breakfast, and
thel stopped and deliberately spat on
the carpet
"Her mother reprovel her y asking
her why she did not go to the hearth,
and the young lady replied that it was
too far of. Then l was pres sntel to
her and she sat down to breakfast.
Imagine such thing in tho house OF nm
English, American, French or German
gentlemanl That little incident VIII
give you n better idea of Russian life
than any other. / do not mean to say,
of course, that all Russian women arc
like this. A few of the upper classes,
Russian princesses, countesses and SO
on. are tremendously clever persons, but
they are not all so. There is lack OF
breeding among the women that ls
amazing. ."-P,ttsburJ Dispatch.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-14

being also a custom to shoot any of their
tribe that are mortllly wounded. They
after that set out with their dead and
wounded to mountain about mile
distant, where they deposited them in q
cave in the side of it. At eight in the
morning two of our party went out from
the fortifcation to the epcampment
where the Indians had lain the night
previous and counted forty eight bloody
spots on the grass where the dead and
wounded had been lying.
''Finding ourselves much cut up
having one man killed and three wound
ed, five horses killed and three wounded
we recommended strengthening our
little fort and continued our labors until
p. M, when the arrival of thii teen In
dians drew us into it again. AS soon as
thev discovered that we we're still there,
aud ready for action aud we'll fortified,
they put off. We after that remained
in our fort eight days" The company
then set out for San Antonio, where they
arrived safely with their wounded and
horses in twelve days.-Christian AdcO-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-14
An Economical Emperor.

Young Emperor William of Germany
is showing that he does uot lack the
proverbial frugality of the house OF Ho-
henzollern. He has given orders that
hereafter breakfasts at the big palace
Inter den Linden, shall not cost more
than sixty cents II roy,l head. The max
imum cost of dinners, according to tho
new imperial schedule, must not exceed
Sl.25. This m mute attention to the
small pecuniary details of housekeeping
will not make the Emperor less popular
among his subjects. The Berliners who
have seen the plainly furnished sleeping
rooms of the old Emperor William in
Potsdam will say, "Na-a-a, he is q chip
of the old block" and love him all the
more. They all have read i'll school how
nearly $50 years ago the great Kurfurst
often sent over to the Mavor aS the City
Hall to borrow five thalers for the pur-
pose of entertaining royal guests fitting
iy. They know, too, that Frt derrick the
Greats father packed off all the unnec-
essary servants and pa'ke up all the
superfuous silverware OF the first King
of Prussia rs soon as he came t. the
throne. With these recollections in his
mind, Beriner would regard a spend
thrift Hohenzolleru as no kind of n
Hohenzollern at all.-Ne'o York. San.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-14
A BETTER SYSTEM.
The Marvellous Song of the Solitaire.

Olive Thorne Miller tells us in the
Atlantic about bird called the solitaire
that she bought in New York bird
| store. Mrs. Miller had owned it three
years when it died. These solitaires are
described in their native land West
Indies and Mexico) as invisible, mys-
terious birds with the heavenly song. :"
As to the solitaire's s wonderful voice, the
author relates that, "during the first few
months of his residence with me, he
gave one song of perhaps twenty notes,
ending In n lovely tremolo. 1t was in
quality totally unlike any other bird
note ever heard, and thrilling in an ex-
traordinary degree, though it was utter
ed with the beak nearly closed. This
song alone placed the olarll at the head
of oil songsters, a., thds tItrce yep.- of his life
With me L often noted down, in n sort of
phonetic way, his songs, as he delivered
them. and 7 have six or tgeY9>l that are
perfecfly distinct aud aTyycrGnt. He
never mixed them together or united
them: he rarely sang two on the same
dav. All through, too, there seemed SO
mich reserve power that one could not
resist the conviction that he could so on
and on. and break ones heart with his
voice if he chose. 1t was reserved Tor
tho last week of his life for my bird to
give me the most genuine surprise. One
day sat quietly at my desk. The bird
stood on perch very near my head-so
noar could not turn to look at him,
when, without moments hesitation,
without an instant's preliminary prac-
ticc, he burst out inre n glorious,
heavenly, perfect song, that struck me
dumb and breathless. Not daring to
move hand or foot, yet wanting some
record of the wonderful aria, jotted
down, in the page was writing, few
of the opening notes; J. could re-write
my page, but I could not bear to lose
the music. Three times, at intervals of
perhaps one minute, he uttered the
same marvellous song, and then l never
heard it again. After all 1 had not q
record of it, for though it was deliberate
and distinct, at every repetition was
spell bound, and could not separate it
into tones. Though I should live to be
a thousand years old, and visit every
country un Ter heaven, / am sure l
should never hear such rapturous
burst of song again"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-14
The Monkey Gave the Alarm.

A pet monkey belonging to Mrs.
James Lewis, wife of Capt. Lewis of the
clipper ship Stephen d. Horton, possi-
bly, saved the lives OF nineteen persons.
Sailing along on smooth sea in the tro-
pics, 420 miles east of Pernambuco, aud
bound from Calcutta to New York, the
ship seemed perfectly secure at L :l5 a.
M, when then attention of Mrs. Lewis
was called to the monkey. With his
keen little nose stuck into the pump well,
be suffered and jumped about iu great
excitement till the Captain went there
and found an odor of smoke. The bales
of jute in the hold were on fire. All
hands were called, the after hatch broken
open, and and water placed on the burn
ing cargo. For two hours they fought
the smouldering fire, and then, rs nc
flames had appeared battened down the
matches, and crowded on sail for Per-
nambuco.
| At 81 D. III. there was an explosion,
caused, the Captain thought, by the fire
having reached part of the 100 tons of
| saltpetre slowed among the 900 tons of
iute. In few minutes the vessel was
enveloped in flames. Mrs. Lewis was
dragged from her cabin by her husband
and both succeeded in climbing into one
of the two boats that were hastily lower
ed Eight men jumped overheard and
one of these John Davis, was drowned
Another man, Henry Younger, went
back for some clothes and suffocated.
For three days and nights, after the ship
burnt up, the Captain, his wife, and
nine men in one boat, and ten men in
the other, lived on hard tack and gill
of water apiece under the fierce rays of o
tropical sun.
They were picked up by the bark Twi-
light, bound from Cardiff to Valparaiso.
The Captain took them within twelve
miles of Pernambuco, and then sent
them ashore i'll their own boats. The
sailors went to E gland by steamer, and
Capt. Lewis and wife, who told this
story, arrived in New York in the steamer
Advance. The monkey saved himself by
jumping into the boat, and is with them
now.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-14
TERMS s1.5O.

| But the North western winter is not
all storms and billiards.. There are so
many bright calm days that even when
1T is thirty-tive or forty degrees below
zero, if one is warmly clothed, he will
not suffer from the col l. the air is so
dry that it d. es not seem to effect one
as real cold day, down-to-zero day,
further south does.
But you must take care to cover ears
and tingertips and as much of your face
as you can, or Jack Frost will he sure to
bite you before you know it, and leave o
white, waxy-looklng spot. Children
play out OF doors on calm, bright days
through the co,d-st weather. Girls and
boys attend school regularly, though
some OF them have to walk two or three
miles across the prairie. A young,
rather delicate girl in the writer's family
has walked two miles when it was 80
degrees below zero, and did not appear
to mind the cold, although she was a
southern Pennsylvania girl before COM
ing here.
l wish the Times boys and girls could
see the amount of wraps itrequires when
one wants to make a call on cool even
ing; it's burden to carry them all. A
great many men and women, and even
children, through the county, wear
buffalo coats that cover them from head
to heels.
Ice three feet in thickness forms on
the Red River and its tributaries. The
ground freezes to depth of six or seven
feet, and snow is often foand under
straw or hay piles in June and July.
The houses arc mostly frame. A very
few brick once are built and those, un-
less painted, are light yellow in color,
owing to the clay from which they are
made. Early in the winter the houses
are banked, some of them to the win
dow-silis, with earth, straw or some
other material to keep the cold out.
Each window has storm sash screwed
oa outside the frame, leaving a space of
several inches between that and the in
ner sash.
Small sheds are built at outside doors,
and every crack and Granny through
which the wind or snow could penetrate
is closed.
When the snow melts in the spring
the ground is full of immense cracks,
stretching out in every direction, which
make it look like huge map.-PalI-
delpaia Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-14
Two Apiarian Freaks.

At meeting of the chronological
Society of France, Mr.. H. Lucas exhib-
itel two specimens of the honey-bec,
which were collected near Bordeaux,
and which were remarkable from tho
fact that in The one the left eye is small,
while the right eye, on the contrary, is
strongly developed and even extends
beyond the median part of the front.
With the other specimen the exact con-
trary occurs, and it is the left eye which
is more developed than that of the right
side, which is. plainly smaller. On "a
count of this extremely remarkable
anomaly, it could be sail that these
boes, from this character, belong upon
the one side to the male sex, and upon
the other to the neuter. .--IRsect life.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-02-14
Primitive Marriage Not so Easy.

In recent essay on the PHILOSOPHY
of Marriage" lady remarked that moth
ing could be easier and simpler than
marriage in primitive society. Now one
ventures to think that, as society ad-
vances, marriage becomes more instead
of less simple. The consequences are to
be found in what is called surplus pop
ulation" The savage makes things
more difficult. Before young brave of
the Kurnai can even firt he has to sub
NIT to having his little finger top joint
cut off, to having his front teeth knocked
ont, to being rudely shaved with sharp
stone, to being daubed all over with
mud, and to number of other horrors
neither simple nor easy. The young
rs slave for q whole year in the cabin
of his future father-in law. Moreover,
the rules about who might marry whom
were SO notoriously difficult and COM
plex that often it must hardly
have been possible to marry at all. Con-
slder likewise. that the 5ibes in which a
man may not marry unfess he can buy a
wife by Offering sister i'll exchange,
aud recollect that the older men were
wont to snap up all available sisters, and
eAA"S SAoeSAo NAAO oCCLiiCd OAO 1OO Illhu
if not two" were slain when they were
babies. Without entering into the ques-
ton of difficulties that surrounded the
bride, 1t is evident enough that mar
riage was not in primitive, or at least in
backward society, such plain sailing as
Mrs. Lynn Linton appears to believe.
To be sure it was easy enough i'll India,
where the Gandharva ceremony consist
ed merely in lady and her lover ex-
changing their wreaths qs flowers, while
the Minitaree rite of shooting arrows
over the heads of the happy pair was
picturesquely simple. But tho difficult
ties before they came to the ceremony
were much greater than in civilized So
| ciety, or SO one is led 10 suppose. In
fact, if people had set conscientiously to
work to make marriage difficult and I'M
attractive they could hanlly have sue
ceeded any better. Apparently "the
course of true love never did run
smooth" especially among the Zulus,
whom, as we all remember, Cetewayo
kept in a state of military celebacy.-
L0ngman's Magazine.