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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
THE Big SNOW BLOCKADE.
Telegraph Wires Buried Ten Feet Deep
ON the Central Pacific.
Twenty-Five Hundred Extra Men EN-
ployed.

Senator Stanford received a long dispatch
from the General Superintendent of the Gen.
tral Pacific Railroad at San Francisco giving
an account of the terrific snow blockade in
the Sierra Nevada Mountains. On each side
OF the mountain the snow is piled up till it
Is from three to four feet higher than cabs of
the locomotives on each side of the track.
The dispatch states that a very heavy snow
and wind storm has prevailed in Eastern
Nevada and Utah, and that two engineers
and three firemen were killed by engines be-
coming derailed by the wind. Several trains
have been derailed by the ice on the tracks.
West of Summit the snow is piled up on the
sheds from 10 to 20 feet, and great danger Is
apprehended that the great weight will
crush them in. East of Summit the snow on
the sheds Is even greater, and the legraph
wires over the mountain at Cascade are
buried from ten to twelve feet, although the
tops of the poles stand . feet above the
ground. Several hundred men are digging
away the snow and rock slides.
Another dispatch from Vice President
Croker of the Central Pacific SAYS that he
hiss been blockaded in the snow ten days and
has just reached San Francisco. The storm.
ne says, has been the severest since the road
was constructed. Twenty-Five hundred extra
men have been employed to combat with the
elements and great difficulty is experienced
In provisioning them, as all supplies have to
be carried by means of a snow shoe service,
and at an enormous expense. The snow has
been falling from Ogden to ColfaX since De-
eember 20, and in Nevada has been heavier
than ever known Def re. In many places the
trains are covered out of sight, and no COM
munication can be had except on snow shoes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

TIE HousEs--Tan- 27--A farrSe number o
BIZ 8 were introduced and referred, incl@ding
the following:
By Mr. Wallace of Observation-Disclosures 4
public building in Fitchburg, Mass.
By Mr.. Russell of Concentration q pub
nc building at Norwich, Conn.
By Mr.. Kelly of Kansas--To pension the
widows and orphans of people killed for
political purposes since the close Of the late
war.
In the House Mr.. Morrill, Of Kansas, from
the Committee on Invalid Pensions. reported,
and the House passed bill, providing that in
cases of pension claims of dependent parents
1t shall be necessary only to show to the
pension Office that the parents are without
other means of support than manual labor.
Mr.. Dorsey of Nebraska. from the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency. reported
bill to provide for the issue of circulating
notes to national banking associations.
Mr.. Walker of Massachusetts, said that the
banking business was a legitimate and neces-
sary occupation, and that anything that would
strengthen the national banking act was in
the interest of the people. If this bill were
passed the Government would have q securi-
ty of % per cent, which would be an in
crease of 16 per cent. over the security which
IL had when the national banking system
was inaugurated.
The House, in Commit e of the Whole,
proceeded to consider the bill appropriating
81 900 for the erection of three United
States prisons, and f. r the imT rsonment of
United States prisoners.
A long discussion ensued, and then the
committee rose and reported the bill favora-
bly, to the House and it was passed-Yeas
III, NAYS 104. Zone of the prisons is to be
located north and another south of the thirty
ninth degree of North latitude and east of the
Rocky Mountains. The third is to be located
west Of the Rocky Mountains.)
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
NEW ENGLAND FIRES.

The grocery store OF Mr.. Van E. King at
North Beverly (bIass.) depot was burned on
saturday morning, Jan. %.
The alarm from box 81 in Lynn, Mass, at
40, afternoon of Jan. 81, was caused by the
burning of C.. L. Hathaway's cement factory,
taneous combustion. The loss is $1,000, about
$500 on stock and 800 on building; no insur-
ance.
st. Johns Episcopal church at Stamford,
Conn.,, was burned Friday afternoon, Jan. "a,
the fire originating from the heater; loss S25,-
600, insurance 5000, A new church VIII De
Immediately erected.
The largest fire that has ever occurred in
Kittery Navy Yard broke out Jan. 81, about
Sal The losses are as follows: The de-
partment yards and docks on building No.
10, according to appraisal taken recently,
were valued at S24, 900 and No. 46 at S26, 900,
making the total loss S50. 000 On the depart
ment of construction and repairs and the con-
tents of the futtoek mill the loss is 5000; on
machine shop $4,000. In the general store
keepers department the loss on stores is esti-
m ted from $1,000 to $4,000, besides the loss
on the furniture belonging to the Juniata and
Lancaster. There was no insurance on any
Of the property.
Fire, Jan. 81, in Geo. Fl. Knights bung
factory on Commercial street, Portland, Me-,
damaged stock and machinery $500; insured
for $1,000. The building owned by the
Brown estate, was damaged $500: insured
for 5000.
The Congregational Church at Danvers
Centre, Mass, was burned at 12.15, Jan. q.
The loss Ia So, 900 and he insurance $4,000.
The church ia "a historic one, being the sue
eessor of the ancient church in which the
witchcraft trouble began. The present build
ing was erected about 1885.
The four-story granite block of Charles A.
Call, the grocer, on State street, Springfield,
Mass, was damaged by fire Jan. IS. The
loss to the stock in the store will be about
$4,000, covered bv an insurance of $1,000
placed in the Commercial Union Company OF
London, and $1,000 in the Fire and Marine
Company of this city. The loss on the build
ing will be about $1,000, covered by an in
suranee of $1,000 in the 4Etna Of Hartford.
The Sawyer Carriage Works on Tanner
street, Worcester, Mass, were damaged by
fire apd water Jan. IS, from $4,000 to S10,0 900.
Considerable unfinished stock was destroyed.
Loss fully covered by insurance.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
Educating the Horse.

The man who undertakes to educate
a horse labors under some disadvan-
tages that do not arise In the educa-
ton OF child, says the Horseman. A
tutor is commonly supposed to be the
superior OF his pupil physically, men
tally and morally. and generally has
the immense advantage of using a
language common to both. The teach
err of the horse knows nothing OF his
language If he has one, while he has
to deal with an animal far surprising
him in physical power and whose
special senses are all more efficient
than his own. The err of a horse
catches sounds too flint or too distant
to be heard by man; his eye enables
him to gallop on track that his rider
could hardly see on his hands and
knees. or to travel safely in the dark
ness OF night His taste and smell di-
reefs him unerringly in the choice OF
heritage or in the rejection of water
from contaminated vessel, while his
sensitive muzzle is the oracle he APP
peals to as superior to all other pow
erful senses in deciding upon the dam
ger or safety OF any suspected object
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

Several veteran railroad men were
seated in the smoking com partment of
a Pullman car the other day. The
train was due in Detroit about two
hours later A discussion arose as to
the rate Of speed that they we travel
ing at One of the party guessed that
the train was going over AZ miles an
hour. Another estimated the speed at
40 miles, another at 80 and so on,
Finally one of the men took out his
watch, held it in his hand less than
half minute looking at it steadily all
the while.
1--WE are going 464 miles an hour"
he said, looking up from his watch.
One of the other men thereupon took
out his watch, held it in the palm of
his hand, and kept his eyes rivited up
on the dial, never once looking out of
the window. After the lapse of half
minute he looked up and said that they
were travelling at the rate OF forty
seven miles an hour
How can you tell the rate OF speed
by simply looking at your watch?" in
quired an interested, witness of these
proceedings.
"Why, easy enough replied the
railroad man. "You know every time
the car passes over rail joint there is
a distinct click. Just count the nu M
Der OF these clicks in twenty seconds
and you have the number of miles
the train is going per hour. This is a
simple matter OF arithmetic, as the
length of the rail is uniform"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

The coolest man l ever knew, "
said ex-Judge George NJ. Curtis, "was
a veteran newspaper reporter named
H. He was never known to be excited
under any circumstances, and his love
for the great game of poker was pro-
verbal. He would play you for a one
cent ante or $1,000, just as you
pleased. 1t was all the same to II.
IL know him i'll the army. He was
r. bravo soldier, but would rather play
poker than fight any day. One day he
was playing game in tent before
Petersburg. The enemy's fire grew
very warm, but II. paid no attention
to it. At last, so it is said, cannon
ball entered the tent and took on the
head of one of the players. Did ID.
blanch2 Not bit of it. He coolly
walked over, picked up the dead man 9
head and looked at it, then offered to
start the betting.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

her plate up, saying: please gimme
some more O. them cakes, pa"
Hereupn Philetus grew very angry
Rising he said, fercely:
GLORY Aun, pll take back that salt
cellar, and you don't come to Glen
ham"
AN you, Philetus, kin take your
salt an yourself-ye are both too fresh
for mean go to Glenham, or where
We will, for I'll tower to the Holler or
pll tower none"
And Glory Ann arose and passed
majestically upstairs. carrying a glass
of cider and "them cakes" with her.
After supper, Mr.. Carter said, turn
ing to his new son-in-law:
Seems to me, Phile. that if ye ain t
goin' to tower none, 'twould be as
we'll to onhetch the horses an get
ready for milkin'; it's arter s."
II low to tower TO Glenham yet
said the groom, as he arose and van
ished up the steps in the direction the
bride had disappeared.
Slowly the time passed. 1t was al
most dark when Philury, who had
outstayed all the guests, in order to
help Mrs. Carter, returned home tG
impatient Rhody Ann, who sat in the
kitchen waiting for her.
We'll" she exclaimed, "Philury,
where did they tower to, or amt they
towered?"
They lowered" said Philury; then
added: you see, it was this way
long bout half-past 3, after Phile had
been most half hour with her. a,
coaxin', the parson he went up an he
prayed with her; an Phile's ma went
up an exhorted her. an quoted from
the Bible to her, an at last she said
she'd go, as obeyin' seemed TO be the
heftiest part O. the marryfn', Then
we all went down to let her put on her
new brown alapacky, Well, in about
ten minutes she came down. with the
salt cellar in her hand, leanin' on
Phile's arm. a-smilin' like basket o.
chips; an he was a-grinnin' too Jest
as she passed out, very majestic like,
her purple feathers a-streamin' out
behind her, she paused an said: Its
Kings Holler.'
IAN it was, too" added Philury.
well, I guess Glory Ann will set
off them gilt hair pins if she amt so
fiery that they melt, " murmured Rhody
Ann.
well, she be skairful," said Phi
Jury.
''She be-" echoed Rhody Ann.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
WE AND THE WORLD.

The world is the same the whole world over,
In every country and every cline,
Men love beauty and bees love clover,
And will to the distant end of time.
The world is the same old world forever,
There's Joy in truth and there's pain In
vice;
The fruit forbidden we taste and sever
Our hold on the hearts pure paradise.
The worlds to-day is the worlds to-
morrow,
And both shall be it's yesterday;
Our JOY and grief, our love and sorrow,
Like our fathers thoughts, shall pass
away
There's nothing new and there's nothing
olden
Each day is born on the dawn's fresh
wings.
Our hearts have music sweet and golden,
Or dlscord, just as we touch life's strings
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
With Head to the North.

The superstitious belief that human
beings should sleep with their heads
toward the north is now believed to be
based upon scientific principle The
French academy OF sciences has made
experiments upon the body of a gull
lotined man, which go to prove that
each human body is in itself an electric
battery, one electrode being represent
ed by the head and the other by the
feet. The body of the subject upon
which experiments were made was
taken Immediately after death and
placed on pivot free to move in any
direction. After some vaciliation the
head portion turned toward the north,
the pivot board then remaining station
airy. One of the professors turned it
half way around, but it soon regained
a position with the head-piece to the
north, and the same results were re-
peatedly obtained until organic move
ment ceased. st. Louis Republic.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
LARGE DIVIDENDS.
A SuceesEfuI Business Year Among
Fail River Mills.

A Successful Business Year among tine
FAN River Mile.
A comparison of the dividends earned by
New England cotton mills, as shown by sta
tistics is very favorable TO Fall River mil s.
A noticeable feature of the statement is the
larger capital of outside corporations as COM
pared with those in Fall River. Only two
Fall River corporations, the Border City and
King Philip, have capital Of a million,
while out Of 45 mills in other parts of New
England 30 are backed 10y capital of mil
lion or more. But if the capital of the out
side mills is greater, those in Fall River make
the best showing in the average per cent. of
dividends and in the greatest per cent. paid
20 shareholders.
The Pacific Mills Of Lawrence paid 10 per
cent. in 1889 On d capital Of g, 300 900, but 8
per cent of this was a special dividend from
the sale Of goods held for seventeen years.
The Pepperell Company paid IA per cent on
81 200 900, while the Amoskeag paid 10 per
cent. on $4,000 900. Six Fall River Mills, not
including the Durtee, a private corporation,
psid more than 10 per cent. last year. The
Granite and the Troy each paid "a, the Union
20, the Seaconnett and Wampauoag II each
and The Bourne IS. The IS New England
corporations outside of Fall River averaged
8 ei-1O0 per cent. each, while the 80 Fall River
corporations averaged 0 s5-l0O, or nearly half
a. much sgain,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
A CANADIAN CABLE.
The Dominion VIII Soon Have a Line {
Its Own Acrnaa the Atlantic

The Dominion VIII Soon Have a Line of
Its Own Across the Atlantic
The Dominion will soon have a cable across
the Atlantic entirely Canadian. Jan. 81 in
the House of Commons Mr.. Curran, member
of Parliament for Montreal, presented a pc
tition for the incorporation of the company,
The petitioners represent capital of many
millions; therefore there Is no possible dan
ger of the scheme falling through. The ca
Bile will be laid from ireland to a point In
Quebec on the north shore of the Gulf of st.
Lawrence. 1t win run through the Straits
# Belle Isle. A special station will be erect
ed on the Canadian side, and direct commun-
ication made with the Canadian Pacific Tele-
graph Company. The company has already
made a contract with London firm for the
laying of the cable and the supplying of ma
terial. This has been accomplished at cost
of $3.50, 900 less than the Mackay-Bennett Ca
bic cost.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
Worcester Agricultural Society.
H.. a -

The trustees of the Worcester CMass.) Ag-
ricultural Society held their annual meeting
at Horticultural Hall Library Jan. %. Fully
seventy members attended, and there was
hveiy discussion as to whether the grounds
OF the society should be sold or not. IL was
finally voted, as the sense of the meeting.
that the present grounds should be retained,
and that the cOmmi tee of arrangements for
next years fair get rough estimates of the
cost OF a suitable and larger building to re-
place the burned hall. Resolutions OF respect
for the late General w. S. Lincoln were
passed. There was quite breeze created by
discussion of ex-Secretary Estabrook's
claim against the society occasioned by the
desire Of b: W. Potter, Esq, to retire from
service as the socety's referee.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
Foreign.

Advices from Bucnos Ayres state that q
hurricane has prevailed there and has done
much damage.
Advices from Astrabad report that Persian
Khorassan is ravaged by an intestinal dis
deaths are reported. At Moor in Meshed
there were 100 deaths daily. Owing to the
scarcity Of doctors the nature of the disease
is unknown. AS Western Persia was raw
aged with cholora through the autumn, and
as thousands of people fed to the eastward
in the hope to escape from the disease, 1t is
regarded as possible that they carried it with
them, and that this may account for the
trouble In Khorassan.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

Out OF ten leading women who have
written on 1.-THE Ideal Man" for a New
York paper no two agree as to his
points, and the matter is lett just
where it WAS before What pleases
one woman will displease anot her.
whether applied to men, landscapes or
cats and those who have had the strong
est ideals generally we'd some old bow
backed ANTIQUARIAN who sees more
beauty IN q squash than in any sunset.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
Changed His Text,

A few Sundays ago an Atlanta
preacher had selected as his text for
his morning discourse at is easier
for camel to go through the eye of a
needle than for rich man to enter
the kingdom Of heaven" He intend
ed to scotch EN-" When he entered
the pulpit he found note from the
richest member of his congregation
and it read as follows: "When the
collection for foreign missions is taken
up this morning put me down for
$500" The sermon was preached on
the text: Take heed that We do not
your aims before men to be seen Of
them"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
BANGOR GRAND ARMY BUILDING.
Hannibal HamIin Opens the Subscription
List With &45OO,

The subscription books for the Grand
Army Memorial Building Fund were opened
at Bangor, Me-, Jan. %. The list was
headed by ex-Vice President Hannibal
Hamlin with subscription of $4,000, subject
to two conditions, as follows: In case of
$1,000 being raised within two years, he will
pay $4,000; If $500 additional is secured In
that time. he will give $500 more, making In
all $4,000. With the amount realized by the
recent fair and this subscription, the post has
about $1,000 for nucleus for the building on
the proposed memorial building.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
A CHICAGO TRAGEDY.
One of the Witnesses In the Cronin Ca
Shot by Police Captain,

One of the witnesses for the defence in the
Cronin case, Robert Gibbons, was shot the
night of Jan. % by Police Captain Schuettler,
who has been prominent in the prosecution.
The shooting took place In a saloon, where
the two men met by accident at the bar
Gibbons is dangerously wounded, the bullet
having entered his left breast two inches
above the heart. Each of the men were &C
companied by several friends. Accounts of
the affair are conflicting. According to
Schuetter's friends the row started in some
uncomplimentary remarks by Alderman Nc
Cormick to the police captain, ending in the
alderman throwing lighted cigar In Schuet-
tiers face. The captain was about to resent
this act physically when he received a terrific
thump on the jaw from Gibbons, who Is of
herculean proportions. Gibbons was pro-
ceeding to repeat the blow when Schuettler
suddenly pulled revolver and fired.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

My 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, l offer
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, 1890-02-06

1t isn't often that a newspaper re-
porter is approached by those who
have a dead sure thing on q fortune
and given an opportunity to literally
swaller in wealth" but such an open
ing came to member of The Free
Press city staff few days ago. 1t was
a young man from Corunna who had
the scheme and, regarding the world
as his oyster, he was intent upon open
ing it without unnecessary delay.
'Do you want to make more money
in one day than you are now making
in a month";" he asked the reporter.
The reporter said, strictly in con-
fidence and not for publication, that
he did.
well, you can do it. Now, here in
my scheme, and I'll let you in. because
you're just the sort of a man want in
this thing. Here is a stick of DR..
Windgall's medicated candy-six sticks
coughs, colds, influenza. bronchitis,
laringitis, tonsilitis and all troubles of
the thorax, horax, and things of that
sort. That's your racket, and you'll
have to study up so you can jingle it
Ou anu AOfOE pip u SOS' Dde Was
candy is all right as ndy, the medi-
cation being extra. 1t costs US thir-
teen cents pound and we sell it for
thirty, or five cents a stick, with the
chances OF drawing gold or silver mon
ey, every seventh or eighth package
containing a S. gold piece or ten silver
dimes. Now our plan is to hire a va
cant store in some town wherever we
go, engage brass band and get
crowd. You've no idea how they
crowd around brass band in a country
town.
but how can we afford to give away
SIS gold piece every seven or eight
sales and pay rent and pay the band9p
asked the reporter.
~ EonlfiS % That, " nen the
band has finished its first piece you get
up behind the counter and begin to
MARBLE your little warb, and sell the
stuff.
"Oh. yes; l sell the stuff. And you
what do you dor'
why, Pm the young farmer that
finds gold piece in every package he
buys. seeP"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
While Making Scientific Experiment.
Twenty Persona Injured.

Twenty persons were injured in the High
School in Lexington, ILL.,, Jan. %, by ter
rife explosion which was heard all over the
city. While Prof. Jess, surrounded by
pupils and teachers, was conducting an eX-
pertinent I'm chemistry in which oxygen was
being generated in retOrt composed wholly
mr. IN mart of iron. with iron nine Connections
the retort suddenly flew to pieces and nearly
80 persons were hurled in all directions, and
20 of them more or less mangled. To add to
the horror of the scene a can of gasoline,
through which piece of hot iron had been
blown, took fire, and, for a few minutes, it
looked as though the building and some of
the wounded victims might be consumed.
The burning gasoline spread rapidly over
the floor and seats, but the flames were ex-
tinguished after hard fight, in which sew
sral of the students we're slightly scorchsd.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

A counterfeiter captured in Balti-
more stated that he had been in the
business for seventeen years. most of
the time making bogus coin, and as
near as he could figure his income had
averaged only ninety-threc cents per
day. He was clean discouraged and
willing to go to prison, where he would
at least be sure OF his board and
clothsA
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-02-06

The annual encampment Of the Massachu-
sets Department, Grand Army Of the Re
public, will be held at fremont Temple on
FEB. and 6. The guard will be furnished
by Samuel G. Lawrence Post, N. Sc, of Med
ford. After the encampment there will be a
banquet at Faneuil Hall, at which General
Alger, Governor Bracket and other gentle
men distinguished In military and civil life
will be present.