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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

Sam Hodgson of Meredith has purchased a
controlling interest in the Abel Machine Com
pany of Laconia, n. ii.
The Taunton (Iass.) Brick Company has
elected these officers: President, 5. G. Ben
net: Vice-President, John 4. Sanford: Trea-
surer. Charles F. Johnson; Directors, S. c..
Bennett, John E.. ,nford, A. H. Williams,
c. F. johnson, S. W. Eddy, H. H. Robinson.
The Kezar Falls (NIe.) Wooden Manufac-
turing Company are running Il full force, en-
ploving 20 hands, wi monthly pay roll of
$4,000.
Thomas J. Tiffany, eX-postmaSter of Ben
nington, VT, has just been released from Il e
house of correction, where he has served
five years misunderstanding 255 days for
good behaVior-for certain official irregulari-
ties. He was a National prisoner and there
fore did not work, but WIS employed as q
bookkeeper.
Warren, r. l., is to have a new town hal
of brick, with granite trimmings.
The Schoolmasters' Club of Vermont has
been organized with these officers: Presi-
dent. Z. A. Bishop, Montpelier; secretary
and treasurer, L. II. butcher, Brandon.
| Three regular meetings will lie held yearly
for the discussion of educational subjects and
for social purposes.
An enormous crowd assembled Feb. II in
the Pace Dom Pedro, Lisbon. Portugal, and
Republican orators endeavored to harapgue
various groups. But the police and cavalry
charged the mass which was dispersed after
some fighting. Twenty-eight persons were
arrested.
Col William T. Nicholson, Jr., of Provi-
! dence, r. l., member of Governor II. W.
Ladd's personal staff, died, aged 26.
| Mr.. Edward Newman of Portsmouth, n
H., died Feb. IL, aged nearly II.
| German glass manufacturers have formed
a convention to advance prices.
| The Russian Government has perfected a
| scheme for a Siberian railway. 1t will be
4775 miles in length and is expected to cost
| $4,000, 900.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

lives with her mother and sister, IN
Evanston. the most aristocratlc suburb
of Chicago, in a tiny house that she
calls Rest Cottage.
The place is like pay house, ana
as full of gifts, flowers, potted plants
singing birds and new books as though
a wedding were in progress. ohe mas
the heaviest mail that goes to the
Evanston Post Office. the Northwest
ern University excepted, and every
thing in her home and about II Is
Gift. She never carries pocketpook
because she never has any money sne
can call her own, and her wardrobe Is
represented in full by the clothes she
has on her back. 1t is regular occur
renee for the hostess at whose enter
tainment she consents TO drop In 10
delegate some one to receive MISS " II
lard when she comes, and "nx her up
as much as she will stand' from her
own wardrobe. There is always
corps of young women interested IN
the work who live with her and 90
clerical work. On them she depends
for car-fare, gloves, PACKAGES ''the
things that must be remembered.
Like all leaders this little woman
has made enemies and lost friends, out
in the sixteen years that she has LED
the great army of white ribbons, not
so much as postage-stamp has ever
stuck to her fingers. All her salary
over and above household expenses,
has been devoted to the Union. She
never wears an expensive garment.
All her clothes are three years or more
behind the fashion, AM her only Jewel
is little ring, worn almost to thread.
She has fine laIy's love for fine lace,
and her most cherished frills are about
two inches wide. Miss Willard may
be working for glory, and she ought to
have it, too, since there has been no
pecuniary profit for herself or friends.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20
The WAY Americans Sit.

Kate Field saws, referring. to the day
Chief Justice Fuller delivered in the
House of Represent tives his Grafton
on century of Constitutional Gov
ernment: 'In marched the Presi-
dent and Mr.. Blaine, followed by the
other Secretaries, and sat down in the
first row of the amphithaatre. Sat?
Yes, sitting is what il is called.
Within five minutes every mothers
son of them, with perhaps one excep-
ton, had slid down so ttat his body
was supported by his shoulder blades
and the small of his beck. The Jus
tic of the Sup eme Court followed,
and down they went in The same way.
So did the rest of the dignitaries, as
bevy after bevy filed in. In con-
trast with them, there sat the fore On
Ministers and the delegates to the Two
international Conferences, as upright
as ramrcds.
What made the contrast 40 disagree
able was the fact that our own great
men were by far the best-looking per-
sons on the floor, as rule. 1t seemed
a pity that they should spoil their fine
effect by such an attitude. But it is
the common fault of Americans in
public places. Congress sits on its 400
and odd spines when it amt making
speeches or writing letters. Our
magistrates do it on the Bench. Our
State legislators do it. Everybody
does it when he hasn't hi2 hands or his
brain or both, too busily occupied to
admit of such thing. And why,
Drav2n
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20
After Dangers of the HGrin. -

Boston papers facetiously remark that ''La
Grippe is seldom fatal unless you use all the
remedies recommended for it, They are
correct. The writer fully believes that the
end of the poor ''grip" victim, if he tried all
the patent medicines that have adorned(O
the pages of our leading newspapers as "sure
cures for La Grippe" would be like Mark
Twain, who for his famous cold tried eS cry
remedy advised by friends, until his stomach
became so weak he began to vOmit, and con-
tinued so until, as he AYERS, she was like to
throw up his immortal SOUL We notice one
of the leading advertisers of the day has been
conspicuous at this opportune time by the
absence of any claim to cure the grip"
They certainly deserve ''chrOmo" and we
feel like giving them a free "ad' for their
compassion upon our readers. The more so
for the reason that probably more people
have used their remedy, that good old
family medicine, Johnson's Anodyne Lini-
ment. for this foreign influenza, than all
Others combined. And why nOtY Certainly
no other will relieve catarrhal colds, coughs,
bronchial troubles, or neuralgia pains, as
promptly as that same old AnOdyne Lini-
ment, and the above are all symptoms or re-
suits of La Grippe. Herein lies the real after
dangers from the epidemic of influenza; it
leaves the mueus membrane Innings of the
nose, throat and bronchial tubes tender and
very susceptible to the catarrh, bronchial
troubles and pneumonia, which come with
February and March in our Northern climate.
We shall still pin our faith to Il remedy for
this after danger which acts promptly to
allay Inflammation; for therein lies the chief
danger from throat and lung troubles. And
surely 4 remedy that has the friends that
5olaasosa-s -%raod.uo Imminent has, aIter
eighty years trial by critical public, and has
been used for tie grip" more extensively
than all the advertised remedies, deserves,
as we said, medal, and has before it we
hope prosperous yer as an octogenarian.
/. S. johnson & Co., Boston, Mass, the man
ufacturers, will send a valuable pamphlet
free.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20
YOltaire'S TheiSm.

IL would be difficult, if not iu.possi
Bile, to extract from Voltaire'G volumi.
nous writings any definition of the at
tributes of the Deity to whom he was
in the habit of appealing from the in
humanity of man, and especially from
the inhumanity of the religious insti-
tutions of his day. But he was not an
atheist. Many quotations might be
given, but this-'.the sublimest of po-
etc figures"-may be taken as an cx-
ample:
O''ui, dams lie sein de Dieu, loin de ce corps
mortel,
L'esprit semble ecouter la voix PEterncl."
Mr.. John Morley, in his keenly
critical essay, says: awe search in
vain for a positive creed which logic
may hold in coherent bonds, or social
philosophy accept as religious force.
Voltaire never went so far
in the direction of assertion as Rous-
seau, and he never went so far in the
direction of denial as Holback.
We do not know how far he ever seri-
ously approached the question, so
much debated since the overthrow OF
the old order in France, whether a
society can exist without a religion.
He says in one place that to believe
God and spirits corporeal is an old
metaphysical error, but absolutely not
to believe in any god would be an
error incompatible with wise govern
ment."
Mr.. Morse's reference to Voltaire's
belief in the necessity of inventing a
god is misleading. Voltaire said: Isl
Dieu n'existait pas, il fraudroit Fin
venter f God did not exist, it would
be necessary to invent HIM." Arch
bishop Tillotson had said something
ike it before Voltaire was born: "If
God were not necessary being Himself,
He might almost seem to be made for
the use and benefit of men. Atlantic
Mon hlY
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20
Names of REPRESENTATIVES.

Speaking of the new House of Rep
resentatives, correspondent says:
"There are no Blacks, and, strange to
say, there are no Whites or Grays, and
what is more remarkable, there is not
a single Jones. There is Mr.. Abbott
and also Mr.. Cowles. There is a
Mr.. Flood and a Mr.. Raines. There
is Grain, Parrett, a Hare aud a
Bullock. There is Flower, a
Spooner, Post and Stump. There
is Knapp and Goodnight. Bland,
Wiley and Frank ale good friends"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20
AGRICULTURE COMMISSION.
Provisions of the Bill Introduced IN Co
gress BY Senator Pearce,

Provisions of the Bill Introduced IN Con-
gress By Senator Pearce.
Senator Pearce's bill to create an agricult
ure commission to investigate the causes o
the present depressed condition of the ayr
culture interests, authorizes the President
appoint seven commissioners, at least four
whom shall be practical farmers, together
with a secretary, to be paid each at the rate
of so day when engaged in active duty.
1t shall be the duty of the commission to take
into consideration and thoroughly investi-
gate the causes Of the depressed condition of
farmers interests, including the laws relating
to the inspection of grain, the regulations
governing warehouses used for the storage
of farm products, and the feasibility of pro-
viding for interstate inspection of cereals ;
also the relation of railway and transportat on
rates to the prices of the product, the intiu-
ence of the tariff on the prices of necessaries
of life, its effect on the agriculture interests,
and generally such consideration of the sub
ject matter of this inquiry as, in the judgment
of the commission, should best secure its OBJ
ject. The commission shall make report to
Congress not Later than at the beginning of
the next session on the result of its invcsti-
cations, and submit also all the testimony
taken by it.
The main building of the n. II. State Sol
diers' Home, to be erected early in the spring
at TiltOn. will be 60 feet long by So deep, and
two and half stories in height.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

Do you ask, "Where can do this and
have my money absolutely safe?" Let
US give you some facts. The Lamoille
County Savings Bank and Trust Co. or
Hyde Park is an institution run on tho
following principles -
Isl. Not dollar is loaned without
the personal knowledge of some one OF
the Board of Directors that the loan Is
safe beyond question.
I'd. 1t is run as home institution.
Every dollar is loaned i'll Lamoille and
adjacent counties, and every worthy en-
terpriSe in the vicinity of the towns
whence the deposits of the Bank come,
is fostered and encouraged in preference
to ether investments. so far as it can be
done with absolute safety.
Sd. Under no circumstances is dol
lar invested in any western mortgage or
other out-of-the-stat security. we
might perhaps pay our depositors one
half of one per cent. per annum more
interest by mourning little addition
al risk, if no loss should come, but we
believe there is to-day a ''lOng-felt
want" in Vermont for a savings institu'
ton which will loan its funds at home.
1t is needed that Vermont may not
become impoverished. 1t is needed for
the building up and fostering home in
sttutions. Vermont towns will not
boom without money any more than
towns beyond the Mississippi and in
Alabama. 1t is needed for the greater
safety of the savings of widows and
orphans as well as of all those who look
rather to the absolute security Of the
principal than to high rates Of interest.
With no disparagement to our neigh
bors who prefer to occupy western
fields we offer to the depositing public
the Lamoille County Savings Bank and
Trust Co. as an institution organized to
meet the demand for strictly home in
uestment Savings Bank. That such a
demand exists, and that the people are
ready to bestow their confidence and
encouragement upon such an institu-
ton, is evidenced by the fact that the
aggregate of the small deposits alone in
this Bank-not counting any in excess
of Sl000-were at the end of the first six
months of its business, S57, 1890, q
record without parallel, we believe, in
tue history of Vermont Savings Banks.
4th. Under no circumstances does
this Bank take over per cent. II would
not, knowingly, make all investment
which would pay over 8 per cent. The
safest class of loans and securities will
command money at 6 per cent. The
Bank pays the State tax of six tenths
Of per cent. on deposits in lieu of all
taxes to the depositor. 1t must then
be evident that per cent. per annum is
all that the Bank can sAFELYPAY. This
rate it will pay. 1t is guaranteed and
rests on no contingency. Interest will
be compounded semi annually if not
Withdrawn.
The Iamoii1a CO. SAVINGS Bank
ind Trust Co., Eyae Park, 1T.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

CRIMES against commerce merit
heavy punishment The time has
gone when they can be regarded
lightly. Overissues OF stock, conven-
lent failures. chicane of any kind
ought to be drastically treated. The
community will be the better for the
experience. There will be fewer fail
ures and more honesty in commercial
intercourse.
A MOUNTAIN of clam shells has been
discovered about three miles east OF
Mount Vernon. 1t is over 600 feet
high and has surface of soil nearly
a foot thick. Underneath this clam
shells abound to the level depth. There
are trees growing on the mountain
which show an age, judging by the
rings about the heart OF from $50 to
200 years.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

Miss Mary Howe, the gifted Vermont sing
er, made her debut before an Ameri an audi
ence Mt Bratteboro, VT, February IL, after
a years absence in Europe. where she was a
pupil of the Paris tutor, Marchesi. The re-
turn home of Miss Howe was made the occa-
sion of a testimonial in her honor by the citi-
zens of BrAttIeboro', who filled the town hall
this evening md gave her handsome bene-
fit. The music-loving people for many miles
around cme to Brattleboro', TO hear the
young singer, including prominent citizens
of Springfield, Greenfield and Northampton,
Mass, Keene, n. H., and Bellows Falls and
other Vermont points. Miss Howe shows a
marked improvement in her vocal powers
since she last appeared before an American
public.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

The weapons of torture belonging to
the toilet table, while not as numerous
as they were, are by no means extinct.
That there is positive demand for
them is shown in the growing industry
of a toilet mask factory. In Neil
Gwym's time the beauties on the
boards and in the stalls buckled their
faces in plaster mask and went TO
bed to perspire away their defects as
long as they could without getting
suffocated or wink of sleep. Now
face glove has been designed which
leaves the mouth, nose and eyes I'M
covered. but fits the face like an extra
piece of ep dermis and is held In place
by elastic bands that reach about the
head. The lining is treated with
chemicals that draw like an old fashion
mustard plaster, and if given sufficient
time is warranted to draw up freckles,
blotches and kindred blemishes, roots
and all. The wearer is advised to put
on the glove during the day. More
benefits are claimed for this torturous
implement than have been proved.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

"When you hear peopl: talk about
getting Gobelin tapestry says c. r..
Clifford, of the Upholsterer, 'they
usually don't know what they are
talking about. The Gobelin works are
in France, and are subsidized by the
Government. They turn out goods
assigned for State gifts, and the same
goods are not made in Philadelphia, al
though as the manufacturer of tapes
tries she is the metropolis of the world.
1t is not that we cannot make tapestries
as valuable as the Gobelin, but who
would buy them? No one could make
them without immense subsidy. Che
vruel. the great centenarian chemist.
used 10 be the chemist of the Gobelin
works. They spent year turning
out a much of the articles as could be
n1adp in day or two at onr rate of
working. People frequently talk about
Gobelin tapestry, but they apply the
word to some fancy work done by the
women. There is no manufacturer of
it here. Philadelphia Inquirer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, in
the preface to book on visions, says
with all scientists conservatism that
once, watching by death bed, the i'm
preston was conveyed to him that
something-that is the word used by
him-passed from the body into space.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20
STORE, ETC.

NV Calf Skin Business is absorbing my
CAPITAL, time and attention, and, having de-
cided to close out all of my other branches
of business, as we'll as my miscellaneous
personal property and real estate, ofer
for sale all the land own except that oc-
cupied in my business and my dwelling
and will dispose of same at very low figures
and on easy terms of payment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20
FOR WOMEN FOLK.
News and Gossip from Far and
Near for the Fair Sex.

Among the buyers of fine things in
town is the ex-mist ess of the White
House. Mrs. Cleveland. She purchase |
a watch. Fancy beautiful miniature
in delicate enamel, oval in shape and
representing fair Phyllis and her swain
sitting beside brook and the reverse
depicting rural scene i'll ancient
Greece. This little bauble was one of
the most admired ornaments in an up
town jewellers showcase until Mrs
Cleveland took it. 1t was valued st
$3.50 and its rice was far from ex-
orbitant when its manifold uses are
explained. The enamelled sides close
over remarkably fine watch. On one
of the edges is spring. When this
spring is touched tiny silver bell rings
out the hour and minutes of the day or
night. Ii is one of the latest styles in
ladies' watches, and it has no exact
duplicate in New York.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

The officers OF the New Hampshire
militia complain of"the indiscriminate
bestowaI OF military titles by secret
organizations, and they are going to
take the matter before the legislature.
But If military titles are good thing.
how can there be TOO much Of good
thing? How are you going 70 prevent
any American citizen from giving him
self any military rank he tarcies?
Give the Colonels who never colonel
led chance to enjoy themselves
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

1T Is a matter of current belief in
Brooklyn that hardly a public contract
is awarded there upon which the con-
tractor must not divide his profits with
the ring which controls the entire gov
eminent of Brooklyn aud Kings coun-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

Last winter, so the story is whis-
pered around the circles of upper ten
dom, reception was held at the home
Of one of society's local queens. When
gentlemen in coats of stee pen cut and
ladies clad in fashions triumphs were
courtesying and bowling to the we'll
marked measures f quadrille, 10, q
garter was seen lying upon the floor
among the feet of the light-hearted
dancers. OF course, some Chevalier
Bayard of the ballroom stopped and
picked up the dainty circlet, to keep
until claimed by its fair owner, re-
how king bent down to
regain the Countess of Salisbury's gar
ter, and made it the badge of England's
highest order. But no; they politely
while ladies blushed, until the
hostess, discovering the cause, sent a
who removed the shocking
article upon a dustpan. Yc gods, such
is the nineteenth century, that the
young men would hold themselves pol
luted by the touch of silken circlet.
Once men went forth to battle, trust
ing in the talisman of little ribbon or
a fragment of maiden's samite dress.
st. Paul Pioneer-Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

AN attempt has been made during
the past two years to acclimatize rein
deer brought from Sweden on the es-
tates of Count Stolberg- Wernigerode,
which extends several miles over the
HAITI Mountains, but it has not succeed
ed, most of the animals having died
during the hot summer weather.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

The project OF a grand longitudinal
railroad for the two American CONT
nents and the connecting isthmus is
beginning to take definite shape. 1t
has been the subject of more or less
remark, often derisive. ever since it
first emenated from the fertile brain
of Hinton Rowan Helper. Mr.. Helpers
Impending crisis" came. and his in
tercontinental spinal-column railroad
may yet emerge from dreamland. into
the world OF realities
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

Ii is fact not generally known that
il requires from ten to fifteen wears
for an orange tree to develop. A
grove does not attain perfection la less
time than that, the land spectators 70
the contrary notwithstanding. 1t is
true that an orange tree will bear a
few oranges within few years after
planting, but tree has to bear not
only few, but a great many oranges
to make the industry pay.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

just how the fashionable women
who appear night after night in the
Metropolitan Opera House in New
York clad in a tulle dress, kid gloves
and slippers and pearl necklace man
age TO escape pneumonia must ever
remain problem TO vex and bother
the doctor and philosopher. These
lovely creatures are certainly endowed
with great endurance, whatever may
be said of their sense. Perhaps, as
Carlyle said, '.Vanity is warmer than
down, and pride rivals the robe of err
mine." But to get at facts put the
question TO a pretty little creature who
never read line of the sage. 81 don't
feel cold at ALL" she said, sin evening
dress. just before DIRE sing | battle
my neck, arms and shoulders in gly-
cerine and rose water, and after dry
ing with a coarse towel, have my
maid rub me down with alcohol.
don't need this at all, but L do it to
please papa. | think, however, it is a
good idea, for my flesh never gets
goosev, and this is my second season,
and haven't had cold yet. Then i
always wear very warm wrap in the
carriage, and when | get home ! take
a warm bath and go to bed"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

SPANIARDs are predicting that Spain
would soon be republic if the baby
king would die. The people of that
country seem TO stand in awe of one
little sickly royal infant 1t is hard to
get away from old traditional notions.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

SOME people. suggestively remarks
a sharp critic. are so busy meddhng
with other peoples business that it
would not be surprising at the general
resurrection to find some of these ever
lasting snoops getting out OF somebody
else's grave
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-20

WHEN man says he docs aes ear.e
a course" he means that he does not
care cress. the lingual metothesis
here being similar in that which makes
''gooseberriesn out of gorseberries.
''axen out of ask, and .'wapse" out OF
Wasp