News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-10
NOTES.

An exchange says when a town
ceases to grow it commences to die
and if the people try to kill each 9th
err in business and good names. all
the more rapidly will utter ruin come
to all. Stand together for the adj
vancement of every citizen. If IL man
shows ability to prosper, do not pull
him back through jealousy, or weigh
him down with cold indifference.
Would-be funny papers can perpe-
trate as many alleged jokes on Wan
amaker and his Sunday school as
they choose, but the fact that the
postmaster generals sagacity and
vigilance have effected for the next
four years a saving of 1852, 900 in a
single item of the contract for stamp
ed envelopes proves that he can run a
great department of the government
as successfully as a Sunday school.
The Louisiana lottery company
has gained a victory in the legisla
ture of Louisiana, the senate having
passed the lottery bill to renew the
charter of the company after increas-
ing the amount to be paid the State
for lottery privileges to 81 ,250,OOO
per annum. The bill as it passed the
lower house placed the amount at 81
100000. The governor hasno power
of veto, but the bill will probably be
presented to him for his signature.
Before it becomes operative, however,
it will be submitted to the popular
vote in April, 1892.
Illinois in 1880 led all of the States
of the Union in her State indebted
ness. Now she holds second place.
Her bonded debt is $11 ,467, 1856, and
her gross debt $11, $50, 1868. The
first place in amount of indebtedness
has been yielded to Kansas. Her
bonded debt is now $14, 229,674.SO,
and her gross debt $14,S17,7S1. 20
an increase from S6,SS5, OFT, ofbond- |
ed debt, and frem Sa, rs ofgross
debt, in 1880. Missouri in 1880 was
the second State in the Union in
amount of Indebtedness. She is now
third. The bonded debt is 1884,
174.7S, and the gross debt $9,974 |
1880. Texas has increased her |
debt. She was the fifteenth State in
ten years ago. She is
now the seventh, with bonded debt |
of 81, 1860 40, and a gross debt
of So, 67S, 563.59.
Just at present the newspapers are
telling of another case of cigarette
A lad of sixteen years died !
last week in Brooklyn as a victim of
this vice. He was an exemplary lad,
his only marked fault lying in his Gig
When brought to
the hospital his very fingers were
jaundiced with the tobacco smoke he
had taken into his system. His suf-
ferings were eXcruciating. Just be-
fore he died he said pitifully: Il wish
that all the boys who smoke cigar
cites could see me now" These
words could well be repeated
by parents, guardians and teachers
in our village, to boys whom they
know to be in danger of similar ruin.
The law is violated, and the trans
gressOrs should bepunished who abet
this dangerous vice.
Advertising should be to the bust
ness what fertilizers are to the farm.
A year may pass without any great
results but in the end the soil will be-
come so rich that the value of the
arm will be largely enhanced. The
fertilizer is apparentlylost. So is the
Advertising, but thevalue of the farm
and the value of the business is raised
to make the investment in
or fertilizers good ones.
Dur merchants should use a little
more printers ink. A casual glance
1T "a newspaper will show list of men
n town who help to build it up. If
you see good, live advertisements in
he paper from each of the principal
and a card each from the
smaller ones you need not inquire as
% the prosperity of the town. 1t is
old. But if you find the most eX-
ensive merchants mot advertising
IoTn a og set @ s2n d 1et try
o push their businlss and the town
With it have harp time and an up
ill journey all the year round.
Helena, the Montana metropolis,
mas some comfortable features which
would be appreciated further East,
The city is built mainly in the cele-
DRAFTED Last Chance Gulch," which
Welded in years past more than thirty
million dollars in gold dust. The
of the precious metal led
the miners into shiftless ways, and
the washing of the dirt was carelessly
done, leaving considerable yellow
dust in the ground, When eXcavat-
ing for house now the soil removed
is again treated, with the result usu
ally of finding enough gold to mater
tally help pay for the walls. 1t is said
that a gentleman, a resident, with an
eye to thrift, has provided the foot
scraper at his dwellings, with a recep-
tacle to catch the droppings, and
once month he has ''clean up"
which about pays his rent. Such OPP
portunities would excite attention in
other cities, but the vast output of
the neighboring mines, constantly
pouring into Helena. so gorges the
town with gold and silver that they
have become almost a drug on the
market.
The following is said to be the
shortest sentence which contains all
the letters in the alphabet: Pack my