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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
RAILROAD AND FINANCIAL TIPS.

1t is reported on inside authority that the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy statement for
January will show an increase of about $780,
900 in earnings. Passenger earnings de-
creased somewhat, owing to the prevalence
of the grippe" but freight earnings were
largely ahead of last years
The Maine Shipbuilding & Navigation Com
pany has been organized at Wiscasset, Me-,
with the following officers: President, A. H.
Lennox; clerk, Edwin Amsden; general
manager and treasurer, r. T. Rundlett; at
torney, Henry ingalls,; directors, A I'll. Len
nox. Henry ingalls,, r. I. Rundlett, L. w.
Gibbs, r. Il. II. TAYLOR and Gus avus Rund-
lett. Capital stock, 100000; paid in, $780,
900. Two vessels will be constructed as soon
as a charter is secured.
From a competent authority 1t Is learned
that 2,OO0. 900 tons of steel rails wi be needed
by the railroads of the United States during
1890. Orders for more than 1000, 900 tons
have already been placed on the books of
manufacturers for immediate delivery. Last
year the total amount OF rails used was
l 300 900 tons. The cost OF the rails for 1890,
delivered, is estimated at from S66,OOO, 600 to
81, 0O0, 600. Only a small percentage of the
rails will be used on entirely new roads. The
bulk will go into betterments.
The President of the Chicago & Alton adj
voeates In his annual report the purchase of
all railways in America by the Government.
Waltham's (NIass.) municipal estimates for
1880 foot up S2l4.5lo, a net lncrease ol SlIJ-
768 over 1885.
The total cost of the construction of the
Cochituate Water Works to Jan. l, 1890, has
been $40, 432, 974.
A prominent buyer of Eastern, lately bet
$1,000 in the Boston Stock Exchange, that
Eastern would sell at s175 this year.
The Bell Telephones output Of instruments
for the month ending Feb. 20 shows: Gross
output of 429S; increase, 81; returned, 226l (;
increase, 40; net 2037: increase, Is. Since
Dec. 81: Gross, 1910; decrease, 43S; re-
turned, 1902; increase, S73; net, S13S; de-
crease, S11.
Western roads, and particularly those In
the Southwest, are doing an enormous traffic
In grain. Receipts Of corn at st. Louis in
one forenoon were 1900 cars; at Chicago,
600 cars
The showing Of our foreign trade Is quite
satisfactory. We exported more and inn
ported less In January than we did In JAN
uary Of the last year, and we also gained on
the specie balance. Taking the two together,
there is a gain for us of more than six mil
lions. This is important, for during the past
seven months it has gone against us at the
average rate Of nearly eight millions.
Apr,s~rsrr-esi indicate tls~t acknowledgements
in the Phillips and Rangeley Railroad, Me-,
"mean business" and will push the work Of
construction as soon as spring opens.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
Fashion Notes.

The new woollen materials are sold
in broader widths than of yore, and
are consequently cut to greater advan-
tage.
Bonnets are trimmed with velvet
flowers of several tints, or with clus-
tiers of three or four feathers IF differ
ent colors.
Hats are larger, while bonnets are
smaller; the brims of the former come
mostly to the front, diminishing to
nothing at the back.
No jewels are worn with the tea
gown; the elegance of the neglige is to
be found in its suggestion of restful
simplicity and flowing ease of line.
Young girls wear jackets for full
dress, but for young women, unless
they form part of costume, they be-
long to the fatigue or morning toilette.
Black is in high favor of every
form of gown, and for almost every
occasion. For ceremonious wear the
black is in combination with soma
color, SO that it may not have the effect
of mourning.
For the theatre a dressy waist of
silk or satin in any color is worn,
making pretty effect when the wrap
is reversed. Almost any shirt may be
worn with these jackets, but one of
black silk Is the incest and in the best
TASTE
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
What EXcites Washington.

Washington is a thermometer of
political excitement, says correspon-
dent. The quick silver rises and falls
in proportion to the heat of the debates
of the Capitol. When Congress is ex-
cited the city is excited. Nearly every
body in the city depends upon the
Government for a living, and as Con-
gress furnishes the supplies for the
Government everybody is interested.
AS high noon approaches, hundreds of
vehicles dash through the streets on
their way to the Capitol. The horse
cars are filled to overlooking, and there
omnibuses climbing the Capitol Hill.
The esplanade in front of the great
building is alive with carriages.
There are lines of coaches and Ian
daus, each awaiting its turn to deposit
passengers beneath the arches at each
wing of the building. Thousands of
eager visitors climb the magnificent
steps in the front and rear. The huge
rotunda and the hall of statuary are
filled with swirling tide of humanity.
1t eddies to and fro, and steady
SIFeaIIlS VI hel anu women pour
through the corridors and climb the
marble stairs to the galleries. All are
eager to witness the scenes of excite
ment in the chamber of the House of
the Senate.
At the beginning of the fight about
the quorum, on the second day, a mob
fairly besieged The House. The gal
leries wee packed to repletion. Hun
dreds of well dressed ladies with es-
corts struggled in the corridors and
valnly applied for admission. The
main gallery fronts the Speaker. 1t
is reserved for men. The blacks had
learned that something of importance
to them was going on. They connect
ed the fight in some way with the al
legged intention of the Republicans to
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
MASSACHUSETTS.

John Nolan, a Ho.yoke young man, fell
down flight Of stairs and died from the in
| juries received.
1t is now definitely settled that Plymouth
Is to have an early morning and late afternoon
mail train. 1t will begin running March 1.
Worcester is agitating for cheaper street
| lights. The present price Is 30 cents per
lamp-electric, of course.
Edward P. Carter, Town Clerk, Secretary
of School Committee and Bail Commissioner
at Webster, was seriously burned on both
legs above the knee, left side of the body, hip
and shoulder. He was sitting in chair,
holding kerosene lamp in his right hand,
reading, when he fell asleep and the lamp
was overturned in his lap. When he awoke
his newspaper was burned and his clothing
was on fire. He threw water upon himself
and also put out the fire that was destroying
a rug, chair cushion and chair.
At meeting of the citizens of Ware it was
decided to buy the plot of land opposite the
Boston & Albany station, and at an expense
of about 900 to erect buildings thereon
suitable for electric light and steam power
plants, iron foundry and machine shops. One
Of the latter is to cost 3 10 900, and as soon as
completed will be occupied by j. F. Porter of
Hatfield, manufacturer of lathes.
The Cape Cod Historical Society has elect
ed these officers: President Charles +.
Swift of Yarmouth; Vice Presidents, Thomas
P. Howes of Dennis, Sylvanus b. Phinney of
Barnstable, AlonZo Trip of Harwich, Eben-
ezer S. Whittemore of Sandwich, James
Clifford of Provincetown; Secretary, Josiah
Pain of Harwich: Treasurer, Samuel Snow
of BarnstabIe; Executive Committee, the
President, Secretary, Treasurer, Joshua O.
Howes, Eben B. Croker.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
French Newspapers.

French newspapers are very differ
ent from American ones; in the first
place they are smaller and contain less
news of general order. The average
F'renchman cares first to know what is
going on in Paris; his interest is de-
cidedly on the wane if you talk to him
of the provinces, and it is gone if you
make him cross the frontier. He
wishes to know all about the leaders
of fashion in Paris, but cares very
little whether the President of the
United States is called Harrison or
Cleveland, and does not know what
Democrat, a Republican or a mug
wump is. Newspaper men, of course,
write for their readers, and serve them
according to their taste. But the
French nan cares about form; he
wishes his articles written in the most
approved style; hence we find acade-
micians among the newspaper men and
articles on the theatres or poems and
romances which, collected make mag
nificent books in critical literature.
Reviews and monthlies partake of
that character. do not know in any
other literature such a succession of
articles as that offered for years in the
Revue DIES Deux Moynes. French
journalism was born in the time of
the Restoration of the Bourbons. The
press had then obtained a certain
amount of liberty which was necessary
for its development. This first period
was one of struggle the like of which
has never been known for earnestness
and devotion to the cause of the peo-
pie. Then under the Orleans dynasty
the battle went on raging iercely;
Emile de Girardin, Theirs, Montalam-
bert, Lacordaire and many others
wrote for the people.
1t was then that the feuilleton, that
institution for long time peculiar to
French journalism, originated. The
feuilleton is part of novel or the
atrical or literary review, generally oc-
cupying the lower part of the first
page. Eugene Sue wrote thus. his
"Mysteres de Paris" and his "Wander-
ing jew" 1t was for the columns of
a newspaper that Sainte-Beuve wrote
his immortal ''Causeries du Lundi."
And during the dark days of the second
empire French journalists kept up an
incessant firing at the Government,
even if it could not be done openly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
Phillips Brooks and His Portrait.

at is we'll known" says a writer in
the Bos on Advertiser, "that the Rev.
Phillips Brooks has great aversion to
having his portrait placed on exhibit
ton, OF published in the newspapers,
and invariably checks all overtures
looking toward thai end. When he
was in attendance, however, upon the
recent session of the general conven-
ton of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, held in New York, he was
taken unawares, and a lead-pencil
sketch of his features was made by an
enterprising newspaper sketch artist.
A very fair likeness of the doctor it
was, too. 1t was published in a New
York paper-the World, L think.
Thence it was copied into one or two
other papers, and then the boiler-plate
people got hold of it, and it went into
all the syndicate papers throughout the
land, from Dan to Beersheba, and
from John O'Groat's house to Lands
End. The picture, as l have said, is
really a very fair likeness, and repre-
sents DIR. Brooks wearing his familiar
eyeglasses and looking slightly down
ward, as is his habit when seated in q
convention" - ,-r-~-r-@
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06

cried with "Little Women" who has
admired Joe's bravery, Meg's sweet
ness, Beth's patience and Amy's beau
ty, must read the life of Louisa Alcott
by her friend, Mrs. Cheney. 1t is a
book that, while it is interesting,
teaches the lesson of life-duty, and
not only shows what duty is, but
makes it beautiful. Louisa Alcott, the
originator of Joe, not only wrote har-
rowing tales, sewed, taught, and
washed and ironed, because it had to
be done, but did it for those of her
own blood and who were near to her,
and did it with smile. Most of us
can do the work that lies before us,
but to do it with a merry heart and a
bright face, makes that which is right,
sublime. Whether it was to get a new
gown for Meg, to buy some delicacy
for Beth, to send Amy to the drawing
school, to help father out of debt, or
best of all, to straighten something for
Marmee, the brain and hands of the
devoted sister and daughter were
ready.
AlAO bCCuo 1uu VI ROOuu6S5 dIU6I1
reading how this one life was lived and
as the willing worker achieved what
she desired, to see them out Of debt
and Marmee in comfort, one is better
for knowing that there are noble wo.
men enough to work and give for dear
loves sake. Today your daughter and
mine will gain by the life of Louisa
Alcott-good daughter and good sister,
deeming no work too small and valu+
ing at its worth each bit of money, for
it meant help for the helpless. 1t is
wonderful story, this life-it teaches in
the way we would wish, that the child
who honors the father and mother will
have long days in the land of God.
Joe's days here lasted half century,
and then she joined Marmee, Beth,
Amy and John in the land where there
is no more night and God shall wipe
away all tears. I
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
MORMONs MOBBED.
East Londoners Make 1t Lively For q Par
of Mormon Missionaries.

East Londoners Make 1t Lively For q Party
of Mormon Missionaries.
party of Mormon missionaries, who are
at present engaged in a PROSECUTING campaign
In London and other parts OF Great Britain,
had lively time of it in East London the
other day. The missionaries; three In num-
Der, began q meeting or service, and IN q
short time a large crowd had collected. The
Mormons were listened to with attention for
g time, but presently irreyerent remarks be-
gan to be heard, several persons In the crowd
being particularly anxious to know how
many wives were possessed by one OF the
hair. These interrogatOries Disconnected
elders, venerable individual with long white
the Mormons and excited much laughter and
ieering among the crowd. Presently MEM
Der of the anti-Mormon League appeared on
the scene, to offer opposition to the Latter
Day Saints.
He reminded the crowd that not very long
ago a young woman. one of their numper,
who had been induced to emigrate by Nor
mon missionaries, had returned to her moth
er's home, shoeless and starving, with Two
little children, having tramped the whole as
lance from Liverpool. He concluded by pro-
ducino the Young woman in question, and
asking il they wanted more of their sisters 10
be served as she had been. This excited the
crowd, who groaned and hooted. Mud and
other refuse were thrown at the unlucKy
Mormons. who now prepared TO make
hasty exit from the scene. Ihey We're
chased by the mob, however. Thelr ciothing
was torn their hats were knocked IN, anu
thew were otherwise maltreated. Flnaliy
they sought refuge in a cab, and were uFlNeh
rapidly away, still followed for some distance
by number Of people, who; however, soon
gave M the chase. This is the second expe-
rienee of the kind that Mormon missionaries
here have had in the East End within the last
six months.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
come vegetarian, but has given up in

come vegetarian, but has given up in
despair.
The Queen of Sweden delights in
force-meat balls fried in sweet olive
oil, and served with poached eggs.
This sounds pretty good; and always
the national dish of raw salmon, pre-
served in the ground and smoked to
perfection, as the great feature.
French wines figure on the royal table.
The Prince of Wales prefers pale ale
to the best champagne, and the prin-
cess bothers not a bit about her bill of
fare, and half the time at San,lring-
ham the kitchen-maid is ordered to
prepare the family meal instead of the
pompous French chef, who is request
ed to keep his science for the coming
Ouagts
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-06
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Rev. F. c. Coolbough of Holderness will
be orator on Memorial Day at Plymouth.
The annual fair and festival Of the Ladies
| Union Aid Society of Claremont had receipts
of more than 1926.
The town of Monroe has sued the Connec-
necticut River Lumber Company for $4,000
for alleged damages to highways.
The Music Hall Building at the Weirs will
be removed to more convenient locality,
probably on the west side of the railway.
The new Tost Office at Lake View, Sunapee
Lake. has been named Burke Haven, In honor
Of the late ex-Congressman Burke of New
port.
The sum of $25, 900 has been raised in
Weare In the hope OF securing the removal OF
the Everett Hosiery Works from Manchester
to that town.
John W. Crosby, a veteran soldier and a
Republican, who has been reappointed post
master at Milford has held the position for
about 20 consecutive years.
The Exeter Coal Company has received its
first consignment of all-rail coal from the
mines in Pennsylvania, it arriving without
transfer by way of the Poughkeepsie Bridge.
The Mascomo Fire Insurance Company of
Lebanon has sold all its securities and paid
its stockholders $3.50 share of par value of
800, and there will be one more dividend.
II. W. Green of Hopkinton, n. H., admin
h,
was recently found frozen to death in his
house in that town, states that he has discoy-
cred evidence of an undisputed character
showing that Calvin II. Beck, Perley's broth
er, who mysteriously disappeared eight years
since, was murdered. Mr.. Green found in
Perley's house Calvin's best clothing and
other property which he would have taken
had he started on any journey or visit. Cal
wins body, Mr.. Green thinks, may never be
found, on account of the great length of time
that has elapsed since his disappearance.
At the annual town meeting Rochester will
vote on the question of authorizing the Sc
leetmen to hire on town notes a sum not ex-
ceeding 100000, for the purpose of pur-
chasing the franchise of the Rochester AQne-
duct and Water Company.
John Dinsmore of Keene, aged 80 years,
committed suicide by taking paris green.
Will Cowen, an inmate of the county farm
at Dover, has fallen heir to an estate Of about
$4,000.
Rev. Lucius Waterman has been elected
President of the Littleton Musical Associa-
ton. The association is in prosperous con-
dition.
The bakery team of G.. Robbs of Newport,
containing Burton Bartlett and John III.
Bartlett, drove into hole In Lake Sunapee
and the horses were both drowned, with the
narrow escape Of the men.
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new ENGLAND NEWS.
MAINE.

solomon K. Patterson of South Bhdeford
aged 10 years, killed by falling tree.
The Rockland Courier-Gazette will here
AFTER be published twice a week, on Tues
days and Saturdays.
Rev. Newman Matthews will deliver the
ADDRESS before Cushman Post, Phillips
Memorial Day.
La grippe still has more or less victims in
FRANKLIN county, but it has been in much
liSnter form there than in many places.
The statement made in some places that
there are not 1000 barrels of apples in the
State of Maine is all fiction. LARGE ouanti
ties vet remain unsold.
James 81. Oak of Presque Isle is getting
out this winter 10000 telegraph poles and
100000 sleepers. The business gives EN-.
ployment TO $50 men and pays out about
$1,000 per week.
Carroll kehoe, an eccentric man who has
lived as hermit in a hut about eight miles
from Eastport for the past 40 wears, found
frozen to death in the hut.
There are now residing in the town OF
Addison, Washington county, tn rteen mar
ried couples who have been married fifty
years and over. The eldest is Mr.. and Mrs
John Emerson, who have been married sixty
years.
Daniel Long of Auburn cut open huge
squash which he has had on exhibition in his
store window during the winter and, a most
surprising circumstance, found that the seeds
had commenced to sprout inside and there
were number of well-formed leaves.
The flag presented to the Pennington Nor
NAL School by the class of SO hoisted the 21st,
with exercises appropriate to the occasion
and to the National holiday, Washington's
birthday. The programme consisted of ad-
dresses by trustees and principal, and music
and recitations by the pupils.
A Portland physician has a patient under
his care, young man, aged about II, who
presents a curious malformation existing
since birth. On the left side three ribs are
absent, and the heart is set against the chest
walls. The young man is at present under
going treatment for some trouble of the
lungs, which is probably due more or less to
the curious defect In the osseous formation
of the chest.
The Pennington Chronicle gives an inter-
esting account of the family of Jonathan
Scott Ellis of that town. The head of the
household, MIR. Ellis, is In his 9th year, and
reads without glasses, does not little farm
work In the season and is as well preserved
mentally as physically. The other members
of the family are two sisters of his deceased
wife, Misses Lydia and Hannah Ballard, aged
respectively 90 and SO years. Mrs. Ellis died
about three years ago at the age of 50 years,
and up to the time of her death, almost, was
as well preserved as any member of this re-
markable household.
DR.. J. W. Dearborn of Parsonsfeld will
deliver the Memorial Day address for n. W.
Mitchell Post, G.. A. R., West Newfeld.
Rev. William G. Wade of Wakefield has
accepted the invitation of John Brown Post,
g. A. R., South WATERFORD, to deliver the
Memorial Day address.
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Quickest Trip Across Africa.

The twelfth journey across Africa
from sea to sea has been made by Cap
tain Trivier. His journey is note
worthy as the quickest trip yet made
across Africa. Starting from the west
coast above the Congo he struck the
river at Stanley Pool, and by means of
steamers to Stanley Falls, and on Lake
Nyassa and the Shire River, he short
ened his land march by about fourteen
hundred miles. Reaching Quillimane
in the last days of November he COM
pleted his transcontinental journey in
few days less than year, which in
cluded stops of some length at Stanley
Falls and Kassonge.
The earliest travellers in equatorial
Africa occupied about the same time
in making the distance from Zanzibar
to Lake Tanganyika, which is not half
way across the continent. The ex-
plorers who most nearly approach
Trivier in the celebrity of their journey
are Capello and Ivens, who in 1S84-85
crossed from Mosamedes to Quill
name, along the water parting be-
tween the Congo and the Zambesi, in
fourteen months. DR.. LEM, who in
1896 made practically the same jour
ney that Trivier has just completed,
was seventeen months on the way.
Livingstone was twenty-five months
on his journey from Loando to Quill
name, and all the other transcontinen-
tai travellers, Stanley, Cameron, Man
tencci, Arnot. Wissman, Gleerup and
Serpa Pinto were from six months to
more than three years.
Trivier's journey demonstrates not
only the improved facilities for travel
ling in inner Africa, but also the fact
that man may now sgoss the continent,
without losing touch with civilization.
From every important point along the
French travellers route he was able to
send letters home, and his progress for
more than two-thirds of the journey
was known in Europe before he him
self emerged on the shores of the In
dian Ocean.-New York Sun.
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MILITARY, NAVAL AND G.. A. r.

Secretary of the Navy Tracy Is q member
Of Brooklyn G. A. r. post, and a member
Of the Loyal Legion.
All the presidents Of the Woman's Relief
Corps of Massachusetts have been added to
the general committee of arrangement for the
national convention which meets in Boston
next August.
Hereafter the names Of battles In which
organizations of the regular service shall
have borne meritorious part, will be en-
graved upon sive- rings, which will be fas-
tened on the slaves Of the colors, guidons or
standards.
The Amoskeag Veterans of Manchester,
N. H., have elected these officers: Com
mander, Hon. Charles III. Bartlett; Captain
of Company A, Benjamin F. Clark; First
Lieutenant, Sebastian Christophe; Second
Lieutenant, Charles Howard; Captain Of
Company B, George Fl. Wilson; First Lieu
tenant, Frank P. Kimball; Second Lieuten-
ant, c. FL. Moore; Clerk, B. F. Clark; Treas
urer, Charles L. Harmon.