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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
AFTER SODA TOO.
Latest Scheme of Engli,h Capitalists
in America.
Soda Water Beverage Industry to be Cob
bled Up.

Negotiations are now being made by syn
dictate of English capitalists for the purch Sc
of al the large works carrying on another
great industry; one that is of much import
ance to BostOnians, as controlling interest in
that line is held by Boston firms.
The English capitalists, while not satisfied
with buying up our breweries and other in
dustries, are noN scheming, and have entered
into active preparations for the purchase of
the four firms of the United States, two of
which are located in Boston, now practically
controlling the manufacture and sale of soda
and beer apparatus and the manufacture and
supplying OF extracts, syrups and everything
pertaining to the manufacture and production
of soda water beverages.
The amount of capital involved in the affair
is said to be between $S,000,000 and S0,000,
900.
The houses with which negotiations have
been entered into are j. w. Tufts & Co. and
the A. D. Puffer 4 Sons Manufacturing Co.
of Boston, John X. Matthews II Son of New
York and G. 5. Lippincott of Philadelphia.
Representatives of these firms and of the
syndicate when approached on the subject
have acknowledged that propositions for a
change of ownership have been made and
while ii is denied by all that any transactions
have been made as yet all acknowledge that
each manufacturer has submitted to an eX-
animation of his books ar affairs, named his
price and feels confident that within short
time he will be succeeded in business by the
English stock company.
Notw outstanding the fact that it is denied
that the sale of any of the companies has as
yet been made, it is authoritatvey stated
that the purchase of the Puffer and Matthews
companies has been already consummated.
The above four named companies in effect
control the in Austry throughout the entire
world in the manufacture of soda water APP
paratus, and everything pertaining to the
manufacture and sale of soda, and Putfer &
Co. also do an enormous business in the
manufacture and sale of apparatus for draw
inc beers and NleS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
Talking Dolls and Talking Clocks.

A cable despatch from Vienna says
that Thomas a. Edison has presented
Princess Elizabeth, granddaughter Of
Emperor Francis Joseph, with talk
ing doll, the first ever made. Mr..
Edison is now in Akron. o., but John
OFT, superintendent in his laboratory
at Llewellyn, described yesterday the
precious creatures which they are
about to turn out at a startling birth
rate. Mr.. OFT said six talking dolls
had just been sent to Europe, possibly
all of them intended as presents, and
one of these had p obably been pre-
sented to the Princess, although he
didn't know about it personally. They
were sent to Mr.. Ellyon, who is fitting
up store in New York to be devoted
entirely to the sale of talking dolls and
Other toys.
The six that were sent abroad, and
almost all the others, for that matter,
are patterned after the French jointed
dolls as far as outward appearance and
size go. They are from fifteen to
eighteen inches long. The head is
made of china like ordinary dolls, and
the arms of papicr mache The pecu-
liar part is the body, which is made of
tin. Tin is used because it allows
room for the miniature photograph
placed inside. The doll may repeat
everything that may be recorded by
photograph.
For several weeks they have had
Orange children at the laboratory,
talking, laughing, crying, and singing
in all sorts of ways to the photograph,
i'll order that their chatter may be re-
produced by the dolls.
Another novelty which Mr.. Edison
will soon bring out is clock to talk
the time. Instead of a blank sound,
it will say, "one," ''two," &C., at the
proper hours. For an alarm it will
say in so many words, ''Get up!" in a
stentorian and commanding voice.
Mr.. Edison thinks that he has nearly
perfected the photograph, and his i'm
proved instrument will gradually be
substituted for all the old ones. He
has simplified it considerably, having
now one diaphragm instead of two
and a simpler arm. There are no adj
lustments, the recording needle being
and acting upon the wax
by gravity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

The New York Sun, which has long
been in state of mind about the hue
of the two-cent postage stamp, well
comes the new issue with characteristic
fervor. 1t really grows eloquent on
the subject-and the Sun, like cynical
people generally, can be eloqucn mt
when it tries-and breaE forth as fol-
lows:
Life will be more cheerful, and conse-
quently better worth living, from this time
on. Business letters, the missives of friend
ship, the tender epistles of affection and con-
jugsl love will proceed on their way hereafter
undisfgVred by mOuldy green blotch at the
northeast corner of the envelope. The grow
ing belief in the minds of the rising genera
ton that George Washington died of arsenic
poisoning will soon disappear. In few
DAYS or weeks, as soon as the stock on hand
is exhaustel, there will be no reminder, save
in the cabinets of collectors with a morbid
taste for historical horrors, of the abomina-
ton devised by Green Arsenic HOward-a
name probably printed here for the last time
in these columns. The sickly green postage
stamp has gone.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
CIVILIZATION has produced nothing

CIVILIZATION has produced nothing
more remarkable than an invention
introduced by shirt-vender of Brus-
sells. To every undergarment which
he sells is attached a musical instru-
ment which can be secretly played by
the wearer. Thus do the fashionable
men of Brussels go about in an atmos-
phere of harmony. The device which
enables them so TO do is likely to prove
popular in all civilized centres. 1t is
all well enough to have music in the
air, but if a man can have it in his
clothes he takes long step towards
ideal happiness. Of course under
such circumstances one of the most
popular tunes will be ''The Song of
the Shirt
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
Startling Facts.

The following is the text of the adj
dress submitted by the School Con-
ference to the Cooper Union, New
York mass meeting, Feb. -:
FELLOW CITIZENS =
The School Conference of New York
City, after careful investigation pre-
sents to the consideration of the people
of New York the following report on
the
STATE OF THE SCHOOLS:
I'm point of accommodations
New York ranks lowest among the
cities of the Union.
2-The cost of the machinery of re-
preston, (armories, police, courts,
asylulns, etc. far exceeds the expendi-
ture for schools.
3-The appropriations for education
have borne no proportion to the in
crease in wealth or population.
4-The number of children receiving
no school training in the present year
must exceed one hundred thousand,
though the authorities decline to fur
nish the exact figure and, having made
no registration, do not, themselves,
know how many children should be
under their care.
s5-It is, however, known that 90
600 children actually applying were
refused admission to the public schools
during last year; that $500 children
actually admitted were turned ont be-
cause in excess of accommodations.
while the daily average attendance was
less than in the preceding year.
6-There is fragrant discrimination
against the primary children and in
favor of the children who attend the
higher grades.
despite the efficient work done
by the primary teachers their salaries
are the lowest paid, and none of the
te cheers have pension such as is
granted to the police and fire depart
ments.
8-The compulsory education law,
of little value if enforced, is a dead
letter and must remain so until we
have adequate school accommodation
and a complete registration of chill
dren. The bill pending before the
legislature is practica ly worthless.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
RECENT NEW ENGLAND FIRES.

The two and one-half story wooden cottage
on Beach street, Crescent Beach, Revere,
owned by A. NJ Pendleton, partially Destroy
ed. Loss $500.
Fire caused a damage Of 5000 to the resi-
dence Of William Cushing, WATERFOWL.
At Monument Beach Mass, the house
owned and occupied by 4. I'll. Burgess was
partially burned. Loss $1,000.
Fire partially destroyed house in East
Gloucester owned and occupied by Thomas
Gard.
House of DR.. L. w. Royce, at Wales, Mass =,
burned with two large barns. Loss $4,000.
The house of w. II. Stickney at Campton,
n. II. Contents saved.
A house in Ware, Mass, owned by William
Buckley. The interior was Quilted; insur-
ance 5000; loss about the same.
Claremont. n. H., dry rooms of the Free
man e O'Neil Co. destroyed 20,0C0 feet of
lumber. Damage $1,000; insured.
Wentworth, N. H., the store of Eaton,
Davis Il Co., an old hotel and two dwellings
were burned. Eaton, Davis & Co.'s loss on
stock is $4,000; insured, $4,000. G. E. Mason,
jeweller, loses $500. All the town records
were destroyed.
John Howie's house and ell, with all the
furniture, in Mortified, Me-, the family
barely escaping. Loss, $500.
Yacht Club house in Chelsea, Mass.
$4,000
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
RECENT NEW ENGLAND DEATHS.

j. o. Curtis, one of the oldest and most re-
spected citizens Of MedfOrd, Sc.
CIV. Lewis, formerly in the boot and shoe
trade in Boston, but lately OF st. Louis, 6S.
G. D. Sargent, paying teller of the Atlas
National Bank, Boston, 6S.
Mrs. Benjamin Bruce, Brookline, a resi-
dent of the town for 50 years, y.
Nathaniel Hanscom, Is, one of the Oldest
and best-known shipwrights in Portsmouth,
Me.
S. B. Swan, superintendent of lights at
Providence.
Hiram d. Smith, who had been Alderman
and Assessor of Someryille, 90.
Mr.. S. II. Richardson died in Boston of
consumption, after brief illness, aged As
years. He was a native of Chester, VT, but
came to this city when a child. He was a
member of the Suffolk Bar and served three
years in the war with the First Massachusetts
Regiment.
DIR. John J. Crane, prominent citizen of
New Haven, died on Tuesday, aged 20. For
many years he was in charge of one of the
largest hospitals in New York city.
Mr.. George w. Howard, father of George
W. Howard, well-known member of Henry
E. DiXey's company, died at his home in
South Boston, aged IA.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

David r. Pierce of Gre1t Falls will be
orator on Memorial Day in Concord.
The entire production of the two large peg
mills in Lisbon is to sent to Germany.
The necessary capital has been subscribed
for the building of modern hotel at Clare
mont.
There are IS students in the State Normal
School at Plymouth, the largest number for
some years.
The increasing freight business on the
Cheshire Railroad has necessitated the pur-
chase of several new locomotives.
The Plymouth Sacred and Secular and
Chorus Society will hold their annual bien-
NAL festival in the fourth week in May.
The Pike MILESTONE Manufacturing Com
pany of Haverhill will rebuild one of its
mills recently burned at Evansville, Vt.
J. Fl. Hamilton, yardmaster of the Con-
cord Railroad, has been appointed car agent
of the Concord and Montreal Corporation.
A semi-annual session of the Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows will be held in Concord. for
the eXemplification of degree work, on the
evening of April IS.
The old shoe factory formerly occupied BY
Austin II Chandler promises to be medium
through which Plymouth will secure new
industry. Parties are negotiating for it at
present with view of starting a box factory
similar to the one now run by the Eaton Co.
The Camphor works at Rumney, which
have been shut down nearly all the time
since March, 1889, are once more in opera
ton.
The loss ny the burning of the Edes flannel
mill at Newport was $13,9S7 and the insur-
ance $4,000. The mill will probably be re-
built on larger scale.
The improvement in the track and roadbed
of the White Mountain Division of the Con-
cord and Montreal Railroad will soon be re-
sumed. The work will include the laying of
5000 tons of new 72-pound steel rails.
High Sheriff Healey has several bills in
equity against over 40 property owners in
Manchester restraining them from allowing
their premises to be used for the sale of liquor
under the prov fsions OF the nuisance act.
This action has caused much excitement
Rev. W. A. Nealley, who has rendered his
resignation as pastor of the Freewill Baptist
Church at Bristol, n. ii :, will, after regain
ing his health, enter upon work as an evan
gelist.
The West Manchester, n. H., Congrega-
tiOnal Church has chosen as its pastor, Rev.
Charles b, Wathen of Chelmsford, Mass.
Rev. Fl. B. Huntoon of Bow Lake, N. H.,
has resigned.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
ICEBERGS IN DROVES.
An Incoming Steamer Experiences q
Doa

An Incoming Steamer Experiences a Per-
jlous Passage.
The British steamer Tynedale arrived in
Boston from Hamburg with cargo of beet
sugar.
Capt. Love states that he left Hamburg
Feb. and had moderate weather until Feb.
IL, when succession of gales lasting to the
goth were encountered. One the 22d in lat.
1862, long. At, encountered heavy field ice in
which the steamer was imprisoned three
days. 1t was found impossible TO force the
steamer through the ice in a westerly direc-
ton, as her bow plates had been started,
causing the forepaTt of the collision bulkhead
to fill with water.
Thereupon the steamers course was
changed to sOutherIy, in which direction she
steamed until reaching lat. Al, long. 80. The
ice field extended the whole length of the
Grand Banks and to the northern edge of the
gulf stream, a distance of over 400 miles,
While the steamer was in the ice from so to
60 icebergs of various sizes were seen. The
crew of the steamer suffered great deal from
cold.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
MASSACHUSETTS.

The returns from 50 town meetings in
Massachusetts show that 26 voted :. =. license.
The United States Supreme Court has af-
iirmcd the decision of the Circuit Court in
ard to the Pacific Bank of Boston.
Judge Field of the Supreme Court decides
1t the petition OF the Suburban Electric
E. int aud Power Company of Boston to
umpel the Aldermen to permit the erection
of poles and wires i'll certain streets.
Mr.. Aaron Burnham of Essex has Just eel
ebrated his ninty-thi~d birth ay.
Steps have been made to organize Board
of Trade in Springfield.
Herbert p. Cummings of Ware has been
awarded the contract for building the new
Stevens Library at Ashburnham, to cost
$Il 900.
The family of the late George ii. COrliss,
builder of the centennial engine, are to erect
a 5000 Y. NJ. G. A. memorial building in
NewburypOrt, with gymnasium and amateur
photograph gallery.
Mr. j. Ii. CrOssman of Washington has
made liberal offer to East Bridgewater, of
which town lis wife was a native, and of
which he was a citizen between 1850 and
1860. He will establish $4,000 fund to be
known as the "Crossman and Whitman
fund.-" the income of which is 10 be per-
petualy used for repairing and improving a
specified portion of Bedford street.
The baptism of an entire family, consisting
of father mother and four adult children,
was an interesting scene in the Methodist
Episcopal Church last Sunday.
BY the will Of the late II. J.. Warner, for
merly of Harvard, the town receives $4,000,
the interest of which is to be used for u
yearly course of free lectures.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
Tho Autbor Of /" Looking Backward"


Miss Willard sends TO Our Day an
account of Edward Bethany, the author
of "Looking Backward" vi gooo
old New England stock, son Oh d
Baptist pastor, journalist ana author
both born and made,-such, IN Word,
is Edward Bellamy. In figure or
medium height, in forehead full and
broad. with thoughtful dark-blue eyes,
rodiating good will; with mobile lips,
parenthesiZed by dark-brown nous
tache, the cheeks covered by stubDy
beard: and the dress little careless
! this he is 10 look upon.
He said: 81 am married man with
a bov four and a girl three years old.
I believe a man must have daughter
of his own before he really learns how
TO svmpathise with women In their
difficnIt relations of life. 1t would
make Won en- absolutely independent
of men to the extent that material
values are concerned. Under my sys-
fem men will be chosen OH their lndl-
vidual merit, AMI not because they can
Support wife" The present mis-
understandings and jealousies OF the
sexes toward each other will be
largely eliminated by this perfect in
dependence each of the other in finan-
cial matters. The vast change must
come by evolution rather than revolu-
ton. Little by little changes Will be
wrought out, as for instance the
naturalization of railways, not by
confiscating stocks, as some have ignor-
antly supposed, but by the United
States becoming the great receiver
alike of solvent and insolvent, and
paying dividends Oh a reasonable
valuation.
sin like manner, coal mines would be
turned over, paying suitable interest
to the present owners, and doing away
with artificial rates. They now have
artificial rates because they shut down
in order to raise the price of coal; we
would open the mines to lower it. The
telegraph and telephone naturally be-
long to the national service, and we
would make them part and parcel of it.
Municipalities are now lighted, heated,
and the means Of transportation fur
nished by great corporations. But why
not let the municipality be itself that
corporation? But the working people
are confederating: knights of Labor,
Locomotive engineers, Trainsmen, etc,
are going to work together after little,
and thus condcnse their power. We
who believe in nationalism are forming
clubs in all centres. Women are very
friendly to our movement. Howells is
strongly sympathetic, as his recent story
of 'Annie Kilbuln" proves.
"Mark Twain is looking our way with
great interest. The clergy are sympa-
thetic too This NOV, mcnt will bring
tie common people back TO the church;
they always heard Christ gladly. Sub
stantiaIly His sermons were on the
unity and brotherhood of man. A
resume of the Ten Commandments
contains all we are working for,-that
and the socialism of the early church,
as stated in the accounts of Pentecost.
Christians form the best class in
society, but they have lacked a praoti-
cal working plan, and our movement
supplies that lack. The partnership
principle is the backbone of our phil
osophy. Some say we do not need
new religion, l think we need the old
sort, only we night well talk about it
less, and live it out more"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
THE SEASONS DELEGATES.
ONE Attractive Displays of Fruit and
Vegetables in the Market.

Some Attractive Displays of Fruit and
Vegetables in the Market.
At present the Boston market affords an
excellent opportunity to the connoiSseur of
delicate fruits and vegetables. Every con-
ceyabie of these articles is obtainable.
Some are rather costly, owing to their rarity.
1t can be vertically said that such a collection
of choice fruits and vegetables has not been
seen in the market as early as March for a
number of years. Among this rare collec-
ton are a number worthy of special notice.
Almeria grapes, an imported grape of a
pretty pinkish tint, selling at 90 to 10 cents a
pound.
Malaga grapes, frequently termed white
grapes, are in liberal supply, Obtainable from
% TO 80 cents pound.
Strawberries of South Carolina and Flori-
ia cultivation are very plentiful for this time
of year, though many do not have very de-
sirable color. Good bright reds will sell
from 80 to 40 cents quart.
Oranges are plentiful, good Floridas bring
ing from 35 to 90 cents dozen.
Pears, of which there is not a great
amount about, are worth from 90 cents to
S1.00 a dozen.
Mandarines of good quality are noted to
sell at from 50 to - cents do zen.
French artichokes are Obtainable at 81 to
40 cents apiece.
Brussel sprouts, imported from France
and Germany, can be bought at 40 cents
quart.
Peas are selling at 81 80 peck.
Tomatoes, Southern stock, at % cents per
pound. Native hot house tomatoes can be
purchased at S1.O0 pound.
Lettuce of fair quality can be purchased
for Zoe Il bunch.
Cucumbers, native, are selling at 10 to 25c
apiece.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
CONNECTICUT.

The "reality" that was so confidently re-
ported for a new bolt company project at
Southington has proved to be only an iu-
sion. Ex-senator Clark and others inter-
ested seem to have lost their interest, at any
rate, the idea of organizing joint stock COM
pny, using the new Hitchcock process of
bolt making, has been given up for an indefi-
mite period.
The postal-card factory at Shelton has been
closed owing to the refusal of the govern
ment to accept its product because of the
poor quality of the paper The last two car
loads sent away were condemned as unfit for
use, but the contractors say that the govern
menT had no right, under the contract, to
condemn the cards, rs they had been a.
cepted by the inspector stationed at the fac
tory. The factory was turning out an aver
age of 100000 a day and 80 employees were
kept at work.
The consolidated railroad is making sur
veys with the idea of laying spur track at
Wallingford. This will prove of much ad-
vantage TO several industries along the con-
templated line.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

THE ease with which millions ar
talked about nowadays is illustra
ted by the widely varying estimates of
the late John Jacob Astor's wealth.
The New York papers set his fortune
all the way from S75, 100000 to $780,
600, 900, and no two of these authori-
ties agree by several tens of millions.
The confusion is pardonable, how
ever, in view of the fact that the Astors
h We never been willing to let the di-
mansions of their wealth be known to
the world, if, indeed, they have known
its exact proportions themselves.
When the fortune of a family or of a
man gets into the tens and hundreds
of millions it staggers the average
mind, which runs riot among the big
figures. The millions of the Wander
bilts, of Mr.. Gould, and of other
Crnsuses have occasioned a similar
confusion. 1t is perhaps sufficient to
know that their heirs will be able to
keep the wolf from the door.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
A BISCUIT N A POEM!

Zen housewives the most thrifty unawares
At times are taken, wien the varied cares
OF life upon their SOW as heavy sit
As did the ghosts OIL richards. Then most
fit
For all who can their troubled state to cheer,
And change to jocund smiles the starting tear.
stranger unexpected may come
When literally there is not a crumb
Prepared to eat. Then it is well to know
A recipe like this give below.
Take one pint of flour, (and salt do not for
get)
With teaspoon baking-rowder, dry, not wet,
Mixed well within the flour. And then you
take
A tea-spoon-ful beside of lard. And make
Your dough, with milk administered. to be
y mush good mush), the same consistency
Then drop (small quantities. into the pan,
And have your oven just the heat (you CAM
TO make the biscuit crisp. Try it. pray do /!
And you will say, l know, 'Our thanks to
you"
C. Fl Thavar
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
marlborough After the Worlds Fair.

Why did not New York cease its
faction fights about the Worlds Fair
and listen to the calm, persuasive
voice of marlborough, Tenn, which
is near Cumberland Gap? Middle
borough, which is the newest city of
the New South, was anxious to have the
Worlds Fair in 1892, and set forth lis
claim in circular which should be
rea by all who would inform Them
seves as to Dillwyn Springs, Cumber-
land Gap and the rich mineral regions
adjoining. Cumberland Gap is the
centre of a "circle" which takes in
Illinois and Florida and other S ates
besides, ami 28,000,0O0 people. We
know this TO be a fact, for the Cum
bcrland Ga pers have sent us a map
with this circle drawn on it. Doubt
less consideration for eflete centres of
civilization like New York and Chicago
has alone prevented them from print
ing circle compromising st. Peters
burg and Yokohama.