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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
OBITUARY


In Morrisvile Aug ., 1890, passed on to IA
higher state of existence Mrs. Lydia Thomas,
aged 81 years, widow of the late David s.
Thomas, who preceded her to the better home
fifteen years. She had lived in Morristown
sIXty-fve years, coming here with her hus-
pand when greater part of the town was an
unbroken forest. They settled on the farm
now owned by Luther Adams. giving theroad
running through the farm the name of Ran
dolph road, in honor of the town from whence
they had removed. That road, now running
through fruitful farms and dotted by pleas
ant homes, was then dense forest, with only
1oot path and marked trees to guide the Oc-
caslonnl traveller on his lonely way. There,
with nclghbOrs one mile and Il half on either
side OF them, they made their home where in
dustry soon drove back the forest, and in it's
place rose up fruitful fields, surrounding a
nome where love made all burdens light and
labor pleasure. Six children were born to
them, four of whom are now living to bless
the memory of kind and loving parents. For
the last twenty-seven years she, and her hus-
band until he died, lived with her son, A. D.
Thomas, at Morrisvie, from whose home
her mortal remains were carried by her low
ing children.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
present time:
Death of John Bowie O'ReIIIv.

John Boyle O'Reilly, the poet and
editor of the Boston Pilot, died sud-
denly of heart failure at his summer
residence in Hull, Mass, Sunday.
Mr.. O'Reilly had been sufferer from
an affection of the heart for several
years, and for some time past had
been afflicted with insomnia. Mrs.
O'Reilly has been an invalid for years
and is completely Frustrated by her
bereavement. Mr.. O'Reilly left four
daughters. His remains were con-
veyed to his late winter home i'm
CharlestOwn.
John Boyle O'Reilly was born at
DOwth Castle, Meath county, Ire
land, in 1874. He received a good
education from his father, and i'm
early life learned typesetting at Dro-
gheda. After serving some time as a
stenographer in England he returned
to his native land, where he assisted
the Fenian movement, then active.
He enlisted in a cavaly regiment of
the British army, and before long was
condemned to be shot for treason.
His sentence was committed to twenty
years Punishment to Australia. He
arrived in western Australia in 1868.
a year after his imprisonment began
he gave his Overseer the slip. and af-
ter several weeks had elapsed from
the time of his escape, was picked I'D
in an open boat at sea by an Ameri-
can ship of New Bedford He landed
at Philadelphia in 1869. Finding
employment at Boston he made his
residence in that city. In1S76 he Sc
cured an interest in the Pilot a news
paper with which he has been con-
nected from the beginning of his work
in America. He has written much
good poetry, and is a successful edit
or. He was one of the best known
writer's in America, and as a poet,
journalist and lecturer he was well
and widely known.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
Result of the Census In Vermont.

An erroneous impression of the re-
suit in this State of the census of 1890,
not authorized by anything given
out by the Supervisor, was drawn
from the publication of the pOpula-
ton of the larger towns, iii many of
which greater gains had been made
than i'll any previous census decade.
1t was announced in some of the city
papers that Vermont had made Il
substantial increase in population.
The official count will be likely to
show the same population in round
thousands as in 1880.
The gain in Burlington, Rutland,
Barre. BrattleborO and in all the
large towns and villages generally, is
offset by the loss in the agricutur-
al districts. In no other decade of
the census has the loss in the farming
towns been SO great. About SO
towns will show gain of population
and about 1874 towns a loss OF the
gaining towns Addison county has
three, Bennington county two, Gale
donia county five. Chittenden county
five, Essex county eight, Franklin
county five, Grand Isle county two,
Lamoille county three, Orange coun-
ty two, Orleans county five, Rutland
county seven, Washington county
six, Windham county three, Windsor
county two. Six counties gain and
eight counties lose; the loss in one,
however, Orleans, is so small that it
may possibly disappear in the official
count. The gain is nearly all in four
Washington, Rutland, Els
sex and Observation-Disclosures
county making the largest gain, and
the others in the following order:
Chittenden, and Essex.
The counties suffering the heaviest
losses are Orange and Windsor on
the east side of the mountains, and
Addison and Bennington on the west
side. Orange and Windsor counties
each lose from 5000 to 1000. The
losses are almost entirely in the agri-
cultural districts, there being hardly
any large villages that do not show
ut least a small gain.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
Assessment Insurance.

The States Attorney at st. Johns
bury issued body writs Wednesday of
last week for the organizers of vari-
Gus fraternal insurance orders on the
ground that they were violating the
State law by soliciting insurance
without a license from the Secretary
of State. The agent of the "Order of
the Solid Rock" was called home by
the Massachusetts Supreme Lodge
before the writ was served. WedneS-
day the organizer OF the "Order of
Unity, was found and he was put
under arrest.
Justice Nichols rendered his decision
in the case of the State VS.. George S.
Hall, which is quite a blow to the
Massachusetts assessment insurance
companies, who are trying to obtain
a foOt-hOld in Vermont. Mr.. Hall was
trying to establish a lodge of the
"Order of Unity" a secret fraternal
and benefit society, chartered in
Massachusetts last June. The order
gives certificates of 81 900 maturing
in seven years, with sick benefits at
the rate of $50 a week, the certificates
costing members about $500. The
organizer was interrupted in his pro-
ceedings by a body writ, issued by the
States Attorney, on the ground that
he was foreign insurance agent and
soliciting business without q license
from the Secretary of State. At the
trial the question of law involved was
whether the respondent was soliciting
insurance or simply canvassing for IA
fraternal society of the Knights of
Pythias or any similar order. JUS
tice Nichols ruled that he was engag-
ed in insurance business, and bound
him over to the higher court under
$50 bonds which were furnished,
Justice Nichols decision has been
widely commented on through the
State; and the Burlington Free Press
expresses the general verdict when it
says: 1.-The st. Johnsbury Justice
merits the thanks of an organiza-
tiOn-ridden public, and we trust that
his action will bear fruit in stopping
the further increase of clubs and
lodges which promise, upon the con-
tributiOn of comparatively insig-
niticant amount in assessments, the
payment at the end of u term varying
from one to ten years, of large en-
dOWment.'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
The Merits of Wood Ashes.

In an essay read before the Ameri-
can Horticultural Society at the
Cleveland (Ohio) meeting a few days
ago, Mr.. J. n. Smith gave an account
of the means employed for the pre-
ventiOn of the evil effects of a pro-
lOnged drought, Among these means
a free use of wood ashes was named
as one of the simplest and most effec-
tive.
Recently Mr.. Smith has made q
comparative test of the effects of
wood ashes and barnyard manure on
a scale large enough to show results
that are more than Indication. )"
Two acres lying side by side were
treated exactly alike in every respect
except that one was MANFRED with
leached wood ashes and the other
with stable manure, Mr. Smith re-
ports the results of the trial to the
Prairie Farmer as follows:
The acre fortified with ashes yield
ed fifty-One bushels the most, and if
there was any difference in quality it
was in favor of those that had the
ashes. Now, the fair inference would
be that the ashes We're much the best
manure for potatoes. Let us look a
little further. The last of May and
the first half of June We're wet and
cold, and so far the two acres seemed
to keep about even. After June Is
the weather became very dry and
there was little rain upon the plants
until they were ripe, Very soon after
the ground began to get dry it could
be plainly seen that those MANFRED
from the compost heap were suffering
from want Of rain, while those man
ured with ashes were growing very
rapidly. This continued until they
were ripe,
The simple fact is, potatoes or
Strawberries MANFRED with ashes
stand drought that would be ruinous
to crops fortified with any manure
have ever tried To this fact | at
tribute the failure of the compost
heap acre to hold it's own with the
acre upon which ashes were used. /
have tried the experiment many
times, always with precisely the same
result, provided we had a dry season
during the growth of the crop. | do
not know but the rule will hold good
with all farm and garden crops, but
with the above there is no doubt |
do not underate ashes as manure | |
have used them in preference to any
other fertilizer | could get for pota-
toes many yeaPs.-POpuLar Garden
ing
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14

DO you ask, :" Where can do this and
have my money absolutely safe 7" Let
us give you some facts. The Lamollle
County Savings Bank and Trust Co. OF
Hyde Park is an institution run on the
following principles -
LIST. 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 a home institution
Every dollar is loaned in 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 i'll preference
to other 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-State security. We
might perhaps pay our depositOrs one
half of one per cent. per annum more
interest by mourning little additional
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. Iii needed for
the building up and fostering home in
stitutions. 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 Or
phans 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 neighbors
| who prefer to occupy western fields we
offer to the depositing public the La
noble County Savings Bank and Trust
| Co. as an institution organized to meet
the demand for strictly home Investment
Savings Bank. That such demand eX-
lists, and that the people are ready to be-
stow their confidence and encourage
ment upon such an institution, is evil
denced by the fact that the aggregate of
the small deposits alone i'll this bank
not counting any in excess of $1,000
were at the end of the first six months
of its business, $57, 1860, a record
without parallel, we believe, i'll the
history of Vermont Savings Banks.
4th. Under no circumstances does
this Bank take over 6pGr cent. ItwOuld
not, knowingly, make an investment
which would pay over per cent. The
safest class of loans and securities viii
command money at per cent. The
Bank pays the State tax of sixteenth!
of per cent. on deposits in lieu of al
taxes to the depositors. 1t must then b.
evident that per cent. per annum is al
that the Bank can SAFELY PAY. Thi
rate it will pay. 1t is guaranteed ant
rests on no contingency. Interest viii
be compounded semi-annually if no
withdrawn.
The Lamoille County Savings Banl
and Trust Co., Hyde Park, vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14

The New York Tribune has high
ly commendatory as well as a Just
view of the attractions of base ball.
" Long observation" it says, of nu-
meroqs popular amusements, has
convinced us that scarcely any other
possesses SO many excellent features
and so few that are to he regretted
The game is played under sanitary
conditions; it is as free as any public
competition can be from the defile-
ment OF gambling, and it has no
other harmful accessories, Except
at occasional critical or brilliant mo-
ments, it is not even wildly exciting,
but only Il refreshing stimulant. 1t
has nothing to do with unhOly pas
sions, but appeals to the better quail
tiles Of mankind.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
12S34 1864 80 800
Gain over 1850, $50.


Gain over 1880, $50.
An analysis of these returns show
that Belvidere and Waterville,
towns dependent for their prosperity
largely upon the numbering interests,
have made gains-the former nearly
% per cent. MOrristOwn, by reason
of the large increase in population OF
the village of Morrisville, shows an
increase of Is per cent. Every other
town shows an absolute loss. The
losses, however, in the aggregate are
less than the gains, leaving LamOille
one of the six counties in the State
which show a net gain over 1880.
MorristOwn has especial reason to
congratulate herself upon this fact !;
for outside of the 316 gain in her
population, the net balance is on the
wrong side. We know of no village
in Northern Vermont where growth
has been more substantial than in
Morrisville, and but few in which the
per cent of gain has been larger, and
from present indications her growth
seems likely to continue. 1t should
be borne in mind that the growth of
the village is more than 316 which
the census shows the town to have
gained. for we have no reason to be-
lieve, that the agricultural districts
remote from the village do not show
the same proportional loss in Morris
town that is shown in the other ag-
ricultural districts of the county
There is little doubt that the increase
in the village proper has been fully
33h per cent in the last decade.
1t is probably true that with the
exception of Eden, EImore and posi-
bly, Stowe, the other villages in the
county have all shown a greater or
less increase. But the young men from
the hillsides have graduated from the
farms and gone to make the blood
and brain of the wonderfully thrifty
cities of the West. 1t is true that the
best element OfKansas City, st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Denver, and other cities
of the trans-Mississippi region have
no better personal element of pro-
gress, enterprise and push than the
boys whom we have sent from these
districts which show a loss of popu-
latiOn. The country has not lost
them, although we have, and if they
90 forth and become the lever of pro-
gress elsewhere who dares say it is
not all for the best? We wish it might
be otherwise, and we have great faith
that the time is coming, and that not
in the distant future, when the tide
will again set eastward.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
s @, Sale : J
II a r M
Timber Lots, and Personal
Property.

One farm of SO acres, 21a miles from North
Hyde Park village. with good buildings and
orchard, and cuts about ten tons of hay. One
lot of timber land of so acres, small portion
cleared, cuts five tons hay. One lot of So acres
partially cleared cuts 10 tons of hay. One mare
eight years old, weighs $50 pounds One work
horse ten years old, weighs 1850 pounds. One
colt. two years old. One sucking colt. A one.
horse power and saw rig (neaTly new, manufac-
tured by Samson & Co. Two hundred cords dry
wood. One 2-hOrse lumber wagon. One buggy
wagon. One sleigh, nearly new. Three pair
2-horse sleds. One 1-horse lumber wagon. One
cow. Five calves. One pair work harnesses
One pair driving harnesses. One side-hill plow'
One cultivator. Ten tons good hay. Any one
wishing any of the above property will find it to
their advantage to call on or address A. F.
Bowen, North Hyde Park; or s. 3. Waite, Hyde
Park, for the next 80 days.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14

The approval by the President of
the original package" bill disposes
of this much moOted question. By
the bill allliquors sent into any State,
in original packages or otherwise are
subject to the same laws as liquors
manufactured within the State. BY
this bill confiction with prohibitory
laws is disposed of.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14

The FIRST STEP-PerhaTs you are run
down, cant eat, can't sleep, cant think, cam
do anything to your satisfaction, and you
wonder what ails you. You should heed the
warning, YOU are taking the first step into
nervous prostration. You need nerve tonic
and in Electric Bitters you will find the exact
remedy for restoring your nervous system tC
it's normal healthy condition. Surprising re
suits follow the use of this great nerve tome
and Alternative. Your appetite returns, good
digestion is restored, and the liver and kid,
neys resume healthy action. Try bottle
Price so cents at A. o. Gates drugstore.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14

The presentation of a stand of col
ors from Gov. Smith to the Vermont
Veterans Association at Boston Mon
day evening will be recorded as one of
the pleasant events of the Encamp-
ment. Coming as it does from the
old war Governor, the gift is exceed
ingly appropriate, and again testifies
the high regard the Governor has for
the Green Mountain veterans.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
estate of caIista N ewcity.


COMMISSIONERS NVIIOI'
-r,,, ,,,dorsiopad having been appointed by
Tho Hopnrable Probate Court for the DlslIlct 81
Iamoile, Commissioners to receive, I'm e nersons
and adjust all claims and demaGS oL ~ late of
a MRorristow4 in said district deceased and all
claims exhibited in offset t ere gTs
sf0resaid at r. L. Fairbanks, on inc
5r rd' day day of sept. and 10th day Of January
next from O'Clock p. m. until oclocf6 from ,,
the 18th day of July. A. d. 1890. IS the tl, me
limited by said Court for said credlt9rS 10 10 az
sent their claims to us for examination an" a.
II" Dated atI at Cadys Falls this 4th day of August
A II tsoo s. c. TOWN
a. ~ lo'O' w O. MAXFIELD.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
Country Merchants, Butch

ers, Peddlers, Produce Dealers,
Tinmen, Marketmen and trad
ers generally will often find
the collecting of Calf Skins a
profitable addition to their
other business.
| desire to arrange with
some good man or firm in
every village in the United
States and Canadas to take in
and ship to me the Calf Skins
taken off in their vicinity.
Cash furnished on satisfac-
tory guaranty. For particulars
address, mentioning this paper,
CARROLL S. PAGE,
Hyde Park, VT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
Estate of Joseph Burke.
LICENSE TO SELL.

LICENSE TO bELL'
State of Vermont District of Lamoille, Ss.Lin
Probate Court, held at Hyde PARK III saIu DISt. >
on the 25th day of July, A. ID. 1870. e r.oo,,
A. NJ Burke Admr of the estate OF Joseph
Burke late of MorrIstown, in said dlsiIlei'
cenSe To sell All of the real estate of said deceased
representing that the sale is necessary for the
purpose of paying the debts of said deceased anu
expenses OF administration. WhereupOn II Is or
dered by said Court that said application pc REFER
red to a session thereof to be held at the Probate
4 d 1880 for bearinga and decision thereon and 1t
is further ordered, that all persons interested be
notified hereof by publication of notice OF SAID ap-
nIication and order thereon three weeks success
Sively in the News and Citizen, printed at MOTIFS
Vile and hyde Park before said time OF hearing;
that they may appear at said time ana place. ana
if they see cause object thereto
By tile Court-Attest.
2ov3 r. s. PAGE, Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
Estate of Edwin Richmond.
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned. having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District Oh
Lamoile Commissioners, to receive, examine,
and adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate of Edwin Richmond, late ot
MorristOwn, in said district deceased ana all
claims exhibited in Offset thereto, hereby give
notice that we will meet for the purposes atore-
said at the residence of Eugene Hadley in Nor
risville on the 25th day of Oct 1890, and 18TH DAY
of ian. 1891 next, from 10 O'Clock a. m. until
O'Clock D. IN. each of said days, and that six
months from the 18th day of July, A. D. 1890, is
the time limited by said Court for said creditors
to present their claims to us for examination and
allowance.
Dated at Morrisvile, VT. this 2sth day Of
,July. A. ID. 1890 W. S. CHENEY,
A. ID. THOMAS,
20 Commissioners.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14

Ifthe weekly payment" question
does not receive consideration by the
next Legislature it will not be the
fault of NJ. HI. Davis of Island Pond,
who has sent a letter to every news
paper in the State regarding weekly
payments. 1t is an important Ques-
ton and We believe it should not only
be considered, but a law passed by
thecoming Legislature. The labor
er is worthy of his hire and the best
results are always attained where
the cash comes round once a week
We note with pleasure that almost
every paper has published the letter
and many of them strongly advocate
the adoption of the proposed law.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
Probate Notice.

Until further notice the Probate C41 Ill., i3 Tonrt
DStrict of Lamoille, will be held at ITn e S'
liousJ III dii and on Saturday. from 1880 A. NJ
Oh S ca ond from 1 r. NJ to $50 =. NJ
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-14
Directors and Advisory Board :

F. s. Thomas, Banker and Capitalist, Topeka
Ka.; y. j. Sibley, Capitalist. Montpelier; AleA
Cochran, Director of Wells River National Bank
Willis Norton, President Citizens Bank Topeka
Ka.; I. j. Deavitt, Lawyer and Pension Agent
Montpelier; j. \. LOcklin, Merchant, MOntpel
Ter; L. E. Blakely, formerly with Montpelier
Savings Bank; ID. A. Clements, Clements & Chat.
fee, Topeka, Ka.; q. +. Sibley, Manufacturer
North Montpelier; f. E. Smith, President Yer
mont Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Montpelier.
Notice is here given that the coupons on $50,
600 of and per cent. bonds and certificates are
due July 1st, and will be paid on presentation at
its office or at the First National Bank in Mont.
peler.
The bonds can be ordered at any bank. oil
checks can be sent to the Company, and bond
will be returned by registered mail. Interest
and principal is guaranteed, so the investor
takes no risk. Five per cent. interest is allowed
for six months or longer. Six per cent interest
is allowed ON five year bonds.
Z. E, BLAkELY, Treasurer.
OFFICE HoURs:-1O a. m. to p. IN.
Send for circular.
Opposite POst-OHce. Montpelier. VT.
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estate of Mary K. Brown.
co,,,,rssroNFRs' NOTICE

COAMISST ONERS NOIl'r'
rho ,,ndarsioned having been appointed Dy
tI,a lion Probate Court for the District OF Id
uoilIr "reminiscences to receive, examine. anu
adjust all claims and demands p pL az liz nf
SFagc in said dist, deceased. and all claims , tA
hibed in Offset thereto hereby eve nHIG If Tie he
we VIZ II, Moscow On the Gth day of Scptcln-
L L@S'a and srd OF January next from one pc
o'clock p N. until four o'clock o'clock from f de md
SUI S e. l,,oIst A. d. 1880. is the time llInlteu
Gy said Court for said creditors to present 'c'
Claims to us for examination ana alsoWM na,,st
DdLe o "t '''"o' j. w. SMITH,
~ leVV' j. u. HYDE,
Commissioners.