News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-16

OCillINI CuCCSSS Is IOU
half so much a question of geogra-
ply as of personality. If man has
force of character he can make him
self felt in the Green Mountain State,
and if he has none, Alabama or Kan
sas will not be likely to bolster him
up. Brethren, boom your own State.
Boom your own county. Boom your
own town.-LudlOW Tribune.
The excellent map of the State,
showing the towns in which unoccu-
pied lands are located, just issued by
the Commissioner of Agriculture and
Manufactures, is an excellent thing
and a new evidence of the untiring
practical work being done by Com
missioner NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Falls |
Times.
If the gulf stream has moved up
nearer us to cause the remarkably
mild winter, the weather department
ought to reveal the secret, and thus
give Vermont a chance to compete
with Florida as a summer resort
Burlington Clipper
Instead of ice palaces, the present
winter appears better adapted to the
building of mud hovels.-RutLand
Telegram.
E. FL. Webster, printer, has been
appointed postmaster at Barton.
This administration evidently knows
the value of printers ink Well, that
is all right. We will warrant every
printer appointed to the office will
perform the duties of the Office well
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Journal.
Some of the papers continue to
agitate the matter of State politics
and some have gone so far as to sug-
gest a candidatefort the United States
Senate to be elected by the Legisla-
ture next fall. This seems to be
useless waste of ink From present
indications, if the candidate lives and
is in his usual health, Senator Morrill,
will be his own successor. And there
is no particular reason why this
should not be so. Senator Morrill, is
probably as useful a man in the Sem
ate and reflects as much honor upon |
Vermont as any man the State could |
elect. Let him die in the harness. -
st. JohnsbuIy Caledonian.
The business man who did not adj |
vertise in 1889, now tackles the in
ventory in a frame of mind that is |
anything but benign, and as he fails
to count the gains he calls himself a |
chump; and straightway concludes
to advertise in a way to make the |
other fellow hump, who gets more
trade than he does in the year 1890, |
I,or hot hoe -, or
Use and assurance of plenty.-Fair
Haven Era.
Something about Commissioner
Valentines map of the Vermont I'M
occupied lands is printed on our last |
page to-day. Truth compels us to |
say that Windham county is painted |
the reddest of all the counties, but |
this does not mean that this county
has more deserted or unoccupied land
than any other 1t simply means
that the Windham county listers were
more faithful in reporting such land
than those of any other county
BrattIeboro Phoenix.
Nine-tenths of the talk about this
grip" business is the rankest non
sense. We have some respect for a
good old-fashioned cold, but when
the world invents new disease and
goes crazy over it, the fool killer has
work on hand. We believe the pre-
vailing influenza solely attributable
to the unreasonable and malarious
weather -HardWick Gazette.
Commissioner Valentine has lust
issued a map of Vermont, with head
ing printed in Swedish, for general
circulation among the Swedish people.
Every town that has over 1000 acres
of land in it for sale at the price of |
from So to So per acre is colored red. |
The capital of Vermont is marked as
abandoned - land, so are more than
half the towns in the State.-Bur-
ingtOn Independent.
The State Agricultural Society hav-
ing decided that if suitable grounds
can be found, its fair shall be held on
the East and West sides of the State |
alternately, a locating committee |
has, with President Hooker, visited |
several towns on the eastern side of |
the mountains to learn what adj
vantages can be offered and deter
mine at what place the next fair shall
be held if held on this side of the
State. They find that White River
Junction offers the best location and
that the business people are wide
awake and ready to do all that is
asked of them.-White River June
ton Landmark.
1t is asserted that Virginia's new
(1nvrofT1 -alaaf |
smokes, never chews and never touch
es drop of liquor-and never did.
There must be some mistake about
this. Either the statement is basely
false, or else they've elected a Yer
monter by mistake.-Rutland Herald. |
To what base uses have we come? |
The Greensboro correspondent of the |
Barton Monitor says that Babbitt & |
Crane have just shipped largelot of |
maple sugar to Richmond, Va, to be |
used in the manufacture of tobacco. |
1t is a new departure, the using of
maple sugar, for that purpose, and is
said to be grand success, making a
tobacco superior to that made in the
old way.-BurlingtOn Free Press.
The people of Franklin county will
thank Mr.. Valentine for his map,
from which may be learned the lesson
OF the general prosperity of the coun-
tty. For years the Springfield Repub-
ican joined in the cry that this re-
glon was on the "road to ruin" for
other reasons, which the man dis
proves. Notwithstanding this coun-
ty, except Grand Isle, is the furthest
away from market of any county in
the State, its condition is shown to
be of the best. And it has been of
the most desirable all these years if
the facts could only have been known
and correctly stated. And it will
also be discovered that the commu-
mites in which the State papers hay-
ing pitched into this locality and it's
business men the severest, are located,
make the poorest showing The map
furnishes a good object lesson.-St.
Adams Messenger,