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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
Boys Leaving the Farm

Just at this season of the year is
the time when the farmer is or should
be busy and no doubt many a man
finds he has q son, or sons, who
wants to 90 to the city to try his for
tune there. Now, if therei is one farm
er who reads this, who has his farm
in good order, and has good build
ings and good stock on his place,
a good orchard, plenty of all kinds OF
fruit trees and plants, besides good
agricultural and horticultural books
and newspapers in his house, also
music, if any of the family have a
tasue or talent in that way, and
has a son who wants to leave his
home, l would like him to tell us oft.
| had fou~ brothers, one older and
three younger than myself, and as
our father was a well-to-do farmer he
would have sent any or all of US to
college The Oldest tried a high
school one winter, but that finished
him. | never had any inclination
that way; perhaps what | saw at
Dickinson college, at Carlisle, Pa,
had something to do with the AYERS
ion to them. Two cousins who were
there invited me to go with them
and have a look into the institution;
what | saw there and heard did not
impress me favorably as a place to
learn morals. These two cousins
used to come out to our house to
spend Saturday night and Sunday
and get plenty of choice fruit, which
they could not get in town. One
made horse doctor, one a skinfiint
of a lawyer; he is rich now, but l
would not exchange places with him.
The doctor died many years ago.
If men would once learn that their
sons are not too smart to farm, in
stead of going to college to make
great men, it would be a benefitto
the rural districts. After a young
man has common school education
he is fit to start out in almost any
line; and if his inclination or ambi-
ton leads him to some ofthe profess
ions, let him try it, | know three
farmers sons; two of them thought
farming too low an occupation, took
to merchandise; left that and went
into steambOating; lost money there
and now one has gone back to farm
ing, and the other has been recently
gathered in the harvest of death, |
while the third is at the high school |
to learn how to make money without !
1rudgery on the farm. Whether he J
will succeed time will tell. The idea |
chat farming or tilling the soil for a
living is low or not as respectable as
5he professional pursuits is serious
1t is the highest occupa-
ion a man can have, even if there
s considerable labor connected with
t. No one feels better than when
he has plenty of open air exercise. l
would not exchange my humble abode
ind it's surroundings for a palace
n city; if l had to be idle and
conform to the conventional rules
If city life.-Coleman's Rural.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

RAISING TOBACCO In VERMONT
Tobacco, says the Burlington Free
Press, has not been ranked as one of
Vermont's staple products, yet &C
cording to statement from the GEN.
sus office, cigar leaf to the extent of
79,51S pounds was produced in this
state in the year 1889. The falling
off in the acreage and total product
in Vermont, as well as New England
generally, has been very marked dur
ing the past 20 years. In 1879 the
acreage in Vermont was "a, and the
product 131 ,432 pounds, as compar-
ed with so acres and 7O,51S pounds
in 1880. New Hampshire lost in the
same proportion, while Nassachu-
sets tobacco crop dropped from
over 100000 pounds to less than
5000, 900 during the 20 years named
and that of Connecticut from over
100000 to less than 100000
pounds.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
The Last to Surrender.

According to a story in Albert Law
sons "War Anecdotes" the last cOn-
federate did not surrender until ff
teen months after Appomatox. The
story is that on the morning of the
Fourth of July, 1866, the Secretary OF
War, who had planned a fishing eX-
cursion at the falls of the Potomac,
received a telegram from the provost
marshal at Richmond, saying that
squad of confederate soldiers were
at his office, ready to deliver up their
arms and be amnestied. Knowing
that joking of that sort would
subject the perpetrator to court
marshal, the Secretary FASTENED to the
White House to consult President
Johnson. The result was telegram
to marshal: "Who are they, and
where did they come from?" The an
swer was prompt and to the point !:
Sergeant Tewksbury and guard
from Dismal Swamp. Did not know
war was over" After a good deal of
laughter the provost marshal was
ordered to and did receive their
capulation, which was conducted in
due form. Tewksbury, an old Virgin
ian, ordered his squad, a couple of
Georgians, to give up their guns and
sign the papers, reserving himself as
the last man of all the confederate
forces to surrender. The old sergeant's
description of the way he fourd
the war was over was amusing.
He and his companions had been
posted on the edge of the swamp to
watch the movements of the Union
troops, from Norfolk, with orders to
remain until relieved. He was never
relieved, and had subsisted on fish
and game for three years. At last he
met an old negro who told him that
the war had been over for about a
year. which clicked him better than
if he had been kicked by a mule" as
he facetiously expressed it.-Atlanta
Constitution.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
The IoIIiaSt Statesman.

The Oldest statesmen in the country
are the jolliest. A man who is 70
can afford to be witty, and he who
has lived to be 80, and still feels well,
ought to laugh and be merry all day
long. Senator Justin S. Morrill, is now
81 and he can cackle a laugh with
all the vigor of a boy whose voice is
changing He was born in 1910,
began life as merchant, then turned
farmer, and finally graduated as a
statesman. He hangs to his seat in tn e
senate like grim death. For 35 years
he has been in public life and his con-
gressional career is more than gen
Grafton. Still, at 81, he is tall, we'll
formed and fine-looking, and though
his shoulders are bent little with
age his eyes are bright and his brain
still works. He is averse to interview
ing, and the gist of my conversation
with him was that he felt as young
as he used to be and that he by no
means considered himselfan old man.
"Come round" said he, "about six
years from now and | will feel fit to
give you an opinion on longevity.
At present / am one of the young
men of the day and l do not feel that
my appearance justifies me in giving
advice to the other boys.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
HORSE NOTES.

DR.. Webb has sent Joseph Battell
of Middlebury a check for $500 for
the horse breeders.
Red Wilkes and Onward each had
4S performers on the turf last year,
Nutwood 45, Happy Medium 43 and
Egbert Al.
The first installment of entry fee to
the races to be trotted at the breed
er's meeting at White River Junction
In August close with Secretary Far.
rington of Brandon on June 10.
The Mirror and Farmer saws
Homer Brewster showed the boys at
Philadelphia last week what smooth
ones, in both horses and men they
can raise in Vermont. He had an
easy win with Tom Hamilton in the
2:34 class, giving the horse a mark
OF 2:27A in the fourth heat. Tom
Hamilton is a son of Hamilton (by
Rysdyk's Hambletonian) owned by
George Davis of Windsor, VT, and is
the second of his get to enter the
2:30 list.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

WHAT A DoCTOR SAYs.-Farmers. horse
owners and the human race have offered
them in Hills Golden Oil the best healing APP
plieation for all flesh cuts, wounds, burns,
gals, scratches, chapped hands and many
forms OF ulcers. ! have used it quite extern
slVely and heartily recommend it. | have
tried it carefully in my practice, for my own
benefit and have paid the advertised price for
every bottle used
Hlils Golden Oil Co. have never asked my
opinion OF their goods and / do not make
this statement for their benefit, but in the in
terest OF any and every one who may be in
need of safe and reliable medicine for what
Hills Golden Oil is recommended.
DR.. j. II. HEFFLoN,
Franklin Centre vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
Mr.. BLAINE's SICKNESS.
His Family Greatly Annoyed by Falls
Reports Concerning Him.


Reports Concerning Him.
New YORK, May 23.-The only effect OF
the reports from Washington about Mr..
Blaine's i'll health has been to cause the
members of his family great annoyance
and labor in answering the many tele-
grams which have been sent to them from
various parts of the country, asking for
definite information. 1t may be coinci-
dence, but on the very day when Mr..
Blaine was feeling his best, since his re-
cent attack of indigestion, followed by the
govt, the worst results were circulated.
lie was up most of the day, reading and
debating letters and talking with Mrs.
Blame and his daughter, Mrs Walter
Damrosch, at whose home he Is staying.
Had the weather been less humid Mrs.
Blaine intended to take a long drive
through the park yesterday with Mr..
Blaine, but that was postponed until to-
day.
If one may judge from the demeanor of
Mrs. Blaine aud Mrs. Damrosch last even
ing, when Tribune reporter called at the
house in SEVENTEEN street, there was moth
ing IN Mr.. Blaine's condition to cause
either them or his friends any alarm. They
were as lght-hearted as could be, and in
the best possible spirits. Neither would
discuss the report, but both declared with
much energy that Mr. Blaine was gaining
rapidly, and that yesterday had been his
best day since his recent attack
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

A national union convention was
held at Cincinnati last week. 1t was
made up of representatives from "a
OF the states, some 1900 delegates
being present. 1t embraced discord-
ant political elements of every stripe,
and resulted in the formation of a
party known as "The Peoples Party
OF the United States of America. The
platform adopted was a very extern
slve one and demanded among num-
erous other things the abolition of
national banks advocates the sub
treasury plan" favors free coinage of
silver, a tax on incomes, the election
OF president and vice president and
enators by popular vote.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
A CURIOUS OFFER.

c. S. Page is receiving enquiries
from numerous parties asking what
he will charge for Fertilizing Salt
delivered at depots on the line of
this road and he has decided to
make the following offer;
For One Dollar he will pay the
freight to all stations between
Fletcher and Hardwick inclusive,
on any quantity of Salt that may
be ordered up to 5000 pounds.
This would bring the price, freight
prepaid, So for one ton or So
for one and one-half tons. Farm
ers may in this way, by clubbing
together, get their Salt at a price
unprecedentedly low.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
BOSTON PRODUCE MARKET.
Saturday, May 90.

FLoUR-The market remains quiet but mill
ers are very firm, and buyers are obliged to pa,
Fine, superfipe and common, 50 0O(D4 90
extra and seconds, 81 2564 s.: Minnesota
bakers, clear and straight, s. 0)G5 30; winter
wheat, clears and straight So $50 co. winter
patents, So 1905 80; spring patents, prime
S. 9096 25; JObbing price 25c higher.
CoRNMEAL is steady, with a fair demand
At quotations; Choice kiln-dried cornmeal fol-
export, So O5@3 10; bag meal, 81 4O01 AZ; choice
graduated, S4 1901 10 Oatmeal is quoted
Sc zoos so for ground, and 81 0)67 80 p Dbl.
for cut and rolled. Rye sells at 81 10 by job
bers: wholesale lots, 81 O56l 10, with rye flour
at So 50Q6 % q Dbl.
CoRN-The market is very unsettled, with
quotations nominal. Chicago No. yellow for
shipment 671936Sc; The spot market is quoted
at: high mixed 70d171c: steamer yellow, zoe
steamer mixed, 6819669c; no grade Csc for
good. with off lots as to quality.
PORK-There is quiet trade in pork provi-
sions at unchanged quotations. They are
Long cut. Sl3 50al4 90; short cut. S13 756
4 %; backs, S14 OO@l3 50; lean ends, $l4 O06
81 90 Extra prime, Sl2 90; butt pork, $40 90;
por.. ,Jngues, SIT 016l7 80.
BEEF-Dull. but prices are steady and I'M
changed. Quotations: Prime steers, 9Lid915c:
good steers, S1z19c; light, 70sc; extra heavy
kinds, 1l0l113c: good binds, 1Nl1l015c; light, ga
9g3c; heavy flores, 5G712c; light. 516c: rattles
&c; rumps, loo l3l2c; rumps and loins. lJGDl41Sc:
short ribs, 1l9131ac; loins. 131lSc.
MUTTONs AND LAMBs-Easy. with light
-
0lSc e h; fancy fall lambs, ll15Gl215c; fair to
good, lucille; ordinary, SG9c; yegrlings, 90
lie; fair to good. 7@Sc; Chicago muttons, ga
lie; Brighton, 96bllc; eastern, a091sc for
choice; fair to good, 6GsSc; eastern veal poor to
good, 5G5c; good to choice, SG9c; fancy, 90
Ql0c.
BUTTER There is better Trade at the re-
duced prices Receipts have been heavy
The prices are follows; Western cream
cry, 1@02lc: fancy well known marks higher;
frsts and extra firsts, l7Q1Sc extra imi-
tation creamery, 166l17c; factory choice, 1G0
i8c; New York and Vermont extra creamery,
2002lc; extra firsts, 1Sl1l9c; eastern creamery,
lS1l9c; New York and Vermont dairy. fresh
lSQ1l9c; fair to good, 160lSc; low grade, l2GI5c:
jobbing price, lG2c higher.
CHEESE Steady, with the market at: Choice
northern, 120l3c; western, 1161215c, sages,
l2199l31@c; jobbing lots are 119c higher Liver
pool is cabled at SIS Cd.
EGGs-Firm with the market at: Eastern
TO1714c; western, lie; southern, 16166i7c.
POTATOES-St at previous quotations:
Eoulton and Aroostook hebrons, 81 % p Dbl;
Houlton and Aroostook rose, 81 20; Maine
New Hampshire, Vermont and Nova Scotia
burbanks, white stars. silver dollars and Da-
kOta reds, 81 90 Vermont and New Hamp-
shire rose and hebrons, 81 l56tl 20; chenangoes,
9O095c for for bulk and 81 for bags.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
u. v, M, Notes

The granite base of the fountain was crack
ed by the frost last winter. 1t has been taken
out and will be replaced by new stone.
At joint meeting of the senior class held
Monday forenoon it was voted to have the
annual commencement boat ride on the steam
er Vermont" Thursday night June %.
The annual Forrest prize speaking will oc-
cur Tuesday evening June %.
Last Friday the U. V. Ms defeated the
Tufts college nine by score of to f. The
following day another game was played be-
tween the same clubs. Neither scored until
the fifth when U. v, NJ. made two runs, and
Tufts one. The final score was Varsity IA g.,
TUFTS 3. Mondays game with the University
of Michigan club was the best of the season.
The Arbor boys got one run in the first. In
the sixth inning they scored again and U. "
M. secured a run. The final score was 6 to 2
IN favor of Varsity.
The U. V. M. battalion will march in the
parade Decoration Day. 1t will be divided
into four companies which will be under the
command of Capts. Grow and Ferrin and
Lieuts. Beeckham and Cheney.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

LOTTERY LETTERs.-The postal
authorities have posted in conspicu.
Gus places, in all the postoffices, pla-
cards announcing the terms of the
regulation which prohibits the pat
ronizing of any lottery concern by
mail. This act applies not only to
the lotteries themselves but to the
persons who have been in the habit
of sending letters to any sort of lot
terry whatsoever. A sharp lookoutis
being kept by the postal officials and
any person detected in the act of
mailing such letter will be punished
to the full extent of the law. This
law applies, too, to any newspaper
publishing a report of any gift enter
prise or prize drawing into which the
element of chance enters in any
degree. Exclusion from the mails is
the publishers penalty. Some may
not like the law, but it is no use kick
ing against the United States govern
ment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

FARMING WILL Pay" People in
New York imagine that all the farms
in Vermont and New Hampshire are
abandoned" said Thomas Fleming,
of Vermont, "but they are very
much mistaken. There is no country
in the Eastern states that can sur
pass the quality of butter that's
made in Caledonia county. The
greatest pains are taken by the dairy
men to keep their butter up to the
highest standard of excellence. The
farmers are all making money, and
if you should talk about their leav-
ing home they would laugh at you.
The greatest trouble with our dairy
men has been to make them raise
their own grain, but that is now
being gradually overcome, as they
find out that the soil of Vermont is
capable of producing all the grain
needed. The silo has been of great
assistance to us in caring for our
corn after we raise it; and after re-
peated experiments with different
kinds of corn we have found a corn
that even on the uplands will pro-
duce good yield one year with
another. The enormous sums of
money paid to western farmers took
all the ready cash out of the state,
but | think it is satisfactorily settled
now.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

An important notice is made by
The Boston Daily Globe, which will
issue a grand G. A. r. souvenir edi-
ton on Saturday of this week. 1t
will include the history of more than
200 heroes for who the posts of G. A .
r. in Massachusetts were named,
showing the battles in which they en-
gagged and recalling events, memories
and "reminiscences which will thrill old
soldiers and soldiers families. 1t will
also interest and instruct all who
have been born since the war. twill
be a souvenir you will want to keep,
and also one to mail to your relatives
and friends. Order in advance of
your newsdealers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
Stop A. Minute Here.

quote you Badley Phosphate s32 ton QunPac phosphate
All new fresh goods this Best quality timothy seed fe per 4 A SEEKS
bulk also at Gets Seed Peas Ben sanford GGrn @
Tooth
Harrow Carks Culaway
kinds Barrows 10 Lufkn
MOrrisve All
would pleased to them
lighter draftand walking Plow can
For description
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
They Print Our Money.

NEW YORK, May 21.--A strike of the
steel plate printers employed by the
American Bank Note company was be
gun Tuesday, but the fact did not leak out
until yesterday. The men are employed
chiefly on government work, and should
the strike be prolonged one, serious in
convenience to both the public and gov.
eminent may ensue. About 80 men are
affected. The men have several griev.
ances, chief among which are the use OF
steam presses and the employment of non,
union Tney,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

THEIR FUNDAMENTAL JUNCTION.
In President Harrison's speech at
Denver, where he touched on the
school question, he closed his eulogy
of our public school system with this
sentiment: "These common schools
are not simply nurseries of intellect
ual training; they are nurseries for
citizenship" Just here lies their
chief value, and the American people
must insist that they be nurseries not
only in theory, butreally and actully,
In the fullest sense of the term. To
train American citizens is the first
function of the American public
school.-Boston Traveller.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

AN OBJECT LESSON TO FARMERS
A bushel of wheat will buy two or
three times the sugar it did year
ago. So will a bushel of potatoes.
A bushel of wheat will buy twice as
much of the luxuries of life as it did a
year ago. The producer of wheat
and potatoes, the lord of the soil
known as farmer, who contem-
plates these results of the new Tariff
law is not likely to be frightened by
the cry of " Mckinley prices The
" Mckinley prices suit him to the
dotting of the and the crossing of
the that records them.-Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
PROBATE NOTICE.

Probate COurt-Distriet of Ia n"'''s
Until further notice. Probate Court ioF saia
District will be held at the Court House ~ ~ ~
Park In said District on eAch M'iii 80, 4 al
Thursday from a. M; 10 " ~, wv. "a ~, 81
n M 10 IN m Guardian Accounts VIII be SCI
lied at such times as are fixed by previous ~
rangement. Accounts OF ENecuio. ~ 80, sa,
when application Is made for notice oi the se'
tlpment thereof. 49, - ..,...,.,,,, m t,,ag.
rT,ynp papE VI Aprll I. 1891
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

A GOOD YEAR For CREAMERIEs.-
The st. Johnsbury Caledonian says
If present Indications are anything to
judge by, this year will be one of ex-
ceptional prosperity for the state.
All lines OF trade seem to be reviving
and real estate is taking decided
upward tendency But what induces
this remark more than anything else
is the encouraging reports from the
ccreamerIes. Last week the Caledon-
ian published a statement of the
growth OF creamery in the neigh
borhood. This week the announce
ment comes that less milk than
usual will be shipped along the Ben
nington and Rutland railroad as the
farmers can get better prices at the
creameries than they can in the city.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
A PENSION OE $1,000.
But an Interesting Question Arises
to a Possible Government Claim,

But an Interesting Question Arises as
to a Possible Government Claim.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-Commissioner
Rdum of che pension bureau has approved
and signed a pension certificate in favor of
John q. Hildet, formerly OF company K.
First Michigan Volunteer infantry, for
$4,000. This pension is for a gunshot
wound in the right arm, causing amputa-
ton and resulting in nervous prostration
and insanity, and dates from 1862 for
amounts per month varying from S25 to
S'5 month. Hildet has been an inmate of
the government insane asylum near this
city since 1862, and an important question
arises as to whether the government should
be reimbursed from this money for his
care in the asylum since 1862.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
Estate Of Madison o. Heath.


WILL PRESENTED.
State of Vermont, District OF Lamoille, ss.-ln
Probate Court, held nc hyde Park, In said Dist,
on the 9Th day of May, A. ID. iNi.
COPY Of an Instrument pnrporunE 70 be lle
Last Will and Testament ~ Madison q. Heath,
late of Sparta In the County " Kent. aud state
of Michigan, deceased. and ~ the Probate there.
of by The Probate Court within and for the snl'l
County Of Kent, duly auth ntcate9ls pfsseli, =
Ia the Probate Court here g. be allowed ~ Tie
state of Vermont as the last VIII ana lesiit-
ment 81 the said deceased. Whereupon. u - 2.
dered by said Court, that all persons concern
therein be notified 90 appear at n session th"f,,-
Of 20 be held nc the Prob 'te ONCE IN hyde iafk
In said district on the 81 day OF june =. ID.
1891. at ten o'clock In the forenoon, ana SLOW
cause II any they have, against the allow ance
OF said copy as such last VIII and testament. Tor
which purpose 70 is further order
ed that this order De published three weeks
successively In the News and Citizen, news
paper printed nc Morrisyille and Hyde Park In
this state. preyi us 20 said time Of hearing.
2s w. II. u. KENFIELD. Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28

The present center of population OF
the United States, 20 miles east OF
Columbus, Ind, has been marked by
a handsome monument bearing the
inscription Center of population
United States" This is the second
monument of the kind ever erected
the first being % miles west of Wash
ington, D. c., on the spot which was
the center of population in 1910.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-28
Farmers with Guns

NORWICH, Conn, May 25.-The farmers
of eastern Connecticut are fighting hordes
of tent caterpillars with shot guns or long
barrelled revolvers, for it is impossible t.
stay their ravages with kerosene torches
and other ordinary means