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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12
HARDWICk.

The new Selectmen had a big storm
and blow for an initiation.
A. E. Clement has sold out his gro
Gerry business to his father.
The Town Clock has been on another
tare about striking for week.
Chas. Wilcox has moved onto the
Philbrook farm lately purchased OF
the Jeudevine Estate.
Mrs. Fred Grant is at Bakersfield,
taking care of her mother, who has
been dangerously sick.
There was more rum visible Sunday
than was necessary for a proper
observance of that day.
Finley Green has rented the ten
ement in L. II. Warrens house re-
Gently vacated by Wilcox.
W. H. Underwood and c. e Dean
are drawing lumber onto their lots
on the Bridgman meadow for new
houses this season.
Be sure and attend the village
meeting Tuesday evening to see what
action the village will take towards
procuring Il water supply,
French & Warren are rushing the
potato business and areloading cars
at WOlcott, Hardwick, and other
points on this line of railroad.
Laclair & Bashaw Bros, have com
pleted the trade with Mrs. Kittridge
and are remodeling the rooms for
their grocery and meat business.
There are several cases of La Gripp
in this vicinity. Editor Harris, saws
he had almost as soon Postmaster
Shattuck would have it as to be
afflicted thusly himself
Frank Emerson has sold his inter-
est in the granite business OF Lawson
& Emerson to Chas r. Davis and the
new firm will do business at the same
shed, under the style of Lawson &
Davis.
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NermOnti State News.

Underhill farmers are getting ready
for sugar making and expect a good
season.
A man teacherin a Windsor county
school makes young ladies of IL sit
on the floor in punishment for slight
disobedience
Thomas Geometry of Windsor was
caught on the COW catcher OF tram
and carried several rods. He escaped
with bad cut on the leg.
The notorious Rob FittOn got
drunk at Ludlow and assaulted his
father-in-law, George S. Hill. Fltton
was arrested and fined $50 and
costs.
~ ohm c. Griggs of Waterbury, deal
er in boots and shoes. has gone IN
to voluntary insolvency. Liabilities
$4,000; assets probably sufficient to
pay in full.
At the town meeting in Lyndon a
sum not to exceed $500 was voted
to celebrate the Tooth anniversary OF
the first town meeting, which was
held July 4, 1871.
Randolph, the old Randolph vii
lage on the hill, gradually succumbs
to the railroad and the inevitable.
All town meetings are hereafter to be
held at West Randolph.
The Fairbanks Scale company at
st. JOhnsbury are to pay their help
on the 10th of each month, begin
ming March 10. For about so years
the 10Th of each month has been the
pay day.
A switch at the foundry in st.
Johnsbury was open and allowed an
| engine and four ears to start down
grade Three cars left the track,
struck the corner of the foundry and
demolished it clear to the roof.
c. NJ. Winslow, of Brandon, mem
Der of the Vermont board of agricul-
tufe and secretary OF the Ayrshire
breeders association, has had from
nine to sixteen Ayrshire COWS that
have average for each COW more
than 5000 pounds of milk per year
for the last eleven years.
Conductor Parkhurst of the st.
Johnsbury and Lake Champlain road
recalls the fact that 10 years ago his
train left Hardwick Monday morn
ing and did not get into st. Johns
bury until Wednesday night. For
IA days, ending April ). no trains
ran over the road and mails were
carried in sleighs The snow along
the track came within few inches of
the top of the telegraph poles. 1t
was the severest weather on record
in that section.
The position to which Hon. Henry
C. Ide of St Johnsbury has been
nominated by President Harrison is
of commissioner in behalf of the
United States to act with the COM
missioners appointed by England
and Germany to settle the controvert-
ed claims of the German and Ameri-
can citizens to Samoan lands and
harbors, in regard to which the
United States and Germany had so
much diplomatic and warlike cor.
respondence a year ago. Each ofthe
three countries under treaty APP
points one commissioner. The COM
mission will probably sit in Samoa
and in England. The commission
ranks in Importance with the United
states fishery commission, in which,
under President Cleveland, Hon. Will
liam l.. Putnam of Portland, Maine,
represented the United States.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12
The EiftY-First Congress.

The Fifty-frst Congress, which end
ed last week, was a great Legislative
body, and some of its work will pass
into history as the best ever done for
advancing the welfare and prosperity
of the country. 1t has been a work
ing body, and with theimportant ex-
ception of the Elections bill-and
that passed the Lower House-has
redeemed all the pledges made by the
Republican party to the country.
Speaker Reeds closing remarks were
as follows:-
After two long and stormy sessions, in some
respects unparalleled in hundred years, the
House of Representatives of the 51st Con-
gFess will soon pass with a completed record
in the history of the country: and its works
will follow it. What we have done is in a
large measure political; whatever is political
rousPs the sternest, most turbulent and most
nnforgiving passions of the human races.
Political action can never be justly viewed
from a near standpoint; time and distance
are needed for ripe Judgment; and the verdict
of history is the only verdict worth regard
ing. To state in language, which would seem
to me to be inadequate, the achievements of
the House would not be suitable to this time
or this place; nor is it in the least needful
that should ref,indle old disputes or fan dy-
ing embers of struggles past and gone
W Whether we have disposed of the questions of
finance with the wisdom of broad statesman
ship time will surely show Whether things
we have done and things we have attempted
for the furtherance of human liberty were
actuated by high and honorable motives will
be visible to all the world at no distant day.
Our actions need no catalogue and all
enumeration and praise by ourselves would
be in vain If our deeds do not praise us our
words cannot. Confident as | am of the YER
dict of time on what we have done, ! am still
more confident that the highest commenda-
ton will be given us in the future, not for
what measures We have passed, valuable as
they are, but because we have taken so long
a stride in the direction of the responsible
government, having demonstrated to the
people that those who have been elected to
do their will can do it. Henceforth excuses
will not be taken for performance, and the
government by the people will be stronger in
the land. Toward those who have opposed
what the majority of the House have desired,
can have no unkindly personal feeling.
Who ever offers battlet to old convictions and
faiths must expect battle, and the yigor OF
assistance mast always bear some proportion
to the vigor of the onset To the members
on my left, with whom | am politically asso-
ciated, beg to tender my most sincere and
heartfelt acknowledgements. No man ever
received more ungruding and unhinching
support, or from band of men more pat
riotie. | am proud to acknowledge in all
that has been done am but one in the null
titude. and that the honors of the 51st Con
gress belong to you alone.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12
Lie OF General Sherman.

No literary announcement of the
year is of greater interest to the gen
eral public than that of acomprehen-
sive Life of General Sherman, which
is about to be published and sold
through agents by the noted house
ofHubbard Brothers, ofPhiladelphia.
Admirable biographies of Grant and
Sheridan, complete to the time of
their death, are already familiar to
the public, but life ofthe third great
commander, to finish the series, has
been lacking. The various biOgraph-
les of Sherman hitherto published
have necessarily been incomplete;
and even his own memoirs, written in
1875, said almost nothing of his in
tensely interesting early life, and not
a word, OF course, of the more than
twenty years of social activity and
fraternity with old comrades since
the war.
The work which is now to be issued
will splendidly supply the widely felt
demand for u history of the great
strategic commander 1t is being
written by Willis Fletcher Johnson,
whose ability as IL historian is fa-
miliar to the reading public of Amer
lea through his former unusually
popular works @--.s-i@b have had mil
lions Ofreaders, and The sales oftheir
vast editions enriched an army of
book agents; he is aided by Mai. Gen,
o. o. Howard, Il man OF fine literary
attainments, who knew Sherman bet
ter than any other of his comrades
now living, and ranked next but one
to him in the army. That this his
tory of Sherman, the last ofthe great
Generals, will surpass all others in
popularity is not to be doubted. 1t
will doubtless be the best life of the
great chieftain published, and we pre-
dict for it wonderful popularity.
PGODle come from all Dorts of
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12
Our Trade With Canada.

If the New England farmers have
the idea, says the Greenfield Gazette
and Courier, that reciprocity with
Canada is desirable for them they
forget that Canada, instead of fur
nishing markets for farm products,
under any sort of free trade, would
be the most serious competitor for
New England markets. The Boston
Globe has been urging reciprocity as
a means of opening Canadian trade
for Eastern farmers, but the state
ment just published of the agricul-
tural trade between the Dominion
and the United States during the
year up to last June shows that Can
ada sent us twice as much in value
of agricultural products as we sold
her. In horses, we received 81 $751;
S95, and returned SS4 40; of sheep
bought of her, $761, 565 and sold
$107,674; of eggs bought 81, 793,-
104 and sold $50, IA; of potatoes
bought of her, sos, 915 and sold
none; of hay received 1922, 1877 and
sent her none. So far as New Eng
land is concerned the Canadian mark
cts are worthless, while the compe-
tition of cheap, degraded Canadian
farming is "a serious injury. The Nc
Kinley act tries to correct this and
time will show the result.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12
PROBATE COURT.

The following business of public in
terest was transacted at the Probate
Office in Hyde Park, during the two
week ending March 18th, 1891:
March 2-Silas o. Perrys estate, Cam
bridge; the Administrator asks for an eX-
tension of the time heretofore allowed him to
settle and close the estate: hearing thereon
ordered to be had March 9th. 1891. Sarah
NJ Knight, minor, johnson; Mrs. Laura Nj
Knight of Johnson, appointed guardian.
Henry j. Donnally, minor, Cambridge APP
plication for appointment of guardian
fled and referred for consideration, to March
18th 1891, at ten O'Clock. n. m, and notice
to the guardian of Peter Donnally, father of
the minor, Lordered. odqska Calkin's es-
tate, Stowe; &. l.. Atkins appointed Admin
istrator.
March 3-George Taylor's estate, WolGott;
the Commissioners return their report.
March 4-Leo Edison, minor, Morristown
adopted by and made heir-at-law of Fred l..
and Luna A. White of Morristown.
March 5-Lavinia NJ. Chamberlin's estate,
johnson; Administrators account settled
and estate closed Adabert Blaisdell, minor,
Belvidere, son of Daniel Blaisdell. late of
Cambridge deceased: L. Royal Fletcher of
Belvidere. appointed guardian, and files his
bond.
March Jonathan Fl. Barnes estate, FL
more; appointment of Joel X. Parker, of Ell
more, as Administrator and Alger Jones,
of Wolcott, and George N. Gray, OF Gilmore,
Appraisers and Commissioners.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12

Coop ADVICE FOR VERdONT.-Ver-
monters lost heavily by the failure of
the American national bank of Kan
sas City, of which a Vermont man
was president, and now the Windsor,
Vt, national bank is forced into
liquidation through large losses from
reckless western investments. A
great amount of money from that
state has also gone into the west and
south through the savings banks
and mortgage loan companies, and
the lesson conveyed in these two ex-
periences will probably be empha-
sized several times yet. But the net
gain of it all to the state will not be
inconsiderable If more capital is
thereby induced to remain nearer
home No state needs it more for
the development of natural resources
than Vermont The advice given by
the Massachusetts bank commission
ers to our institutions of savings to
invest Massachusetts money in Mas
saehusetts, where it can be better
guarded, and where it can do more
to help its possessOrs, is very good
advice for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Re
publican.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12
The New Experiment Farm.

A meeting of the special board APP
pointed to consider the offerings of
real estste for the new Experiment
Station farm was held at Burlington
last Thursday. The committee con-
sisted of Gov. C. S. Page. Mr.. G. S.
Fassett of Enosburgh and Cassius
Peek of Brookfield. There were also
present Gov. Ormsbee and Hon. Cros-
by Miller of Pomfret. The party
visited the James Shedd farm and
Carlos Baxter farm and other places
and the subject was considered at
length. Owing to the fact that the
ground was covered with snow, it
was decided to hold another meeting
after the snow was gone
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12

Harpers' Magazine contains an i'm
portant article on {" The Literary
Landmarks OF Edinburgh, written
by Laurence Hutton and profusely
illustrated from drawings made in
Edinburgh by Joseph Pennell. Ed
win A. abby contributes eight full
page Illustrations of shakespeare
Comedy of Errors" and Andrew
Lang, in his comment upon the play,
gives some curious facts concerning
the history of the play. Theodore
Child relates his impressions of "The
Argentine Capital" Julian Ralph,
in a paper illustrated by Frederic
Remington, presents some interest
ing information regarding "The Chi
nese Leak" or the smuggling of Chi
namen into our country across the
Canadian border. Brander Mat
thews contributes a charming love
story, In the Vestibule Limited. .
A new series of stories, entitled,
Wessex Folk" by Thomas Hardy,
is begun, and Charles Egbert Grad
docks absorbing story I'm the
Stranger Peoples Country" is con-
tinued. Francis Korbay writes an
interesting essay on Nationality in
Music" and N. B. Twist tells about
American Leads at Whist, and
their History"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12
More Complete Stock Than Ever.

Efs~ feel very grateful to my friends
for their constantly increasing patronage
in all the departments of my trade, but es-
pecially in my Shoe trade, and just now
can show you more complete stock than
ever before and hope to continue to sell
you good goods at right prices. Am going
to invoice soon and will sell some short
lengths cheap. We have new WALLPAPER,
new Crocl1ery, new Wash Goods, and don't
forget our line of Black Dress Goods.
=. P. MUNsoN, Morrisville, vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12
The Sewers of Paris

ore one of the modern wonders of the world.
That marvellous network of underground
streams. over which the tourist can travel by
rail and in boats, constitutes the bowels OF
the gay capital. This labyrinth Of streams is
kept with scrupulous care; for any obstruet-
ion in the flow of the sewage would be attend
ed with serious results to the health of the in :
habitants of the city above. The sewers of
the human system are the liver and bow
els, and in order to keep disease out of
the wonderful city of which they are a part,
they must be kept always free and unob-
structed. Dr.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative
Pellets are the best laxative and cathartiG
known for the purpose. Tiny, sugar-coated
granules, in Walls. always fresh.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12
New Industries and Higher Wages

The Free Traders take delight in
pointing to a recent reduction in
wages in some lines of manufacture
as evidence that the new tariff bill is
doing what its advocates claimed
for it. An investigation of the reduc-
tions, however, show that in nine
cases out of ten they have been made
in some branch of the iron business,
and that in every case the new tariff
makes a reduction in the duty on
their products. So it is shown that
a reduction, not an increase in duty,
was followed by a reduction IN wages,
and the ground upon which the Free
Traders hoped to base an effective
case becomes the foundation for a
solid Protective argument.
By way of presenting the other
side of the picture the Boston
Journal reviews some of the indus
tries already started in this country
because of the new tariff law, many
of them being reported in Free Trade
papers. They include an announce
ment by the New York Times that a
Philadelphia worsted company was
800 operatives, and that a lace com
pany has been organized in Scran-
ton, Penn. At Fall River, Mass. a
firm from England is to erect ma
chine works, employing more than
200 men, and in the same city will be
located the third spool-cotton mill
removed from British territory to
this side of the Atlantic. At Dover.
Del, a silk mill has been located with
a capacity for 500 employees. At
Minneapolis are located a linen-mill
which will employ more than 100
people, and macaroni factory,
which will furnish work for l 900.
In Bridgeport, Conn, another Eng
Iish firm has secured a site and is
bringing over shiploads of the ma
chinery formerly used in it's mills
IN England. At Clark's Mills, n. Y,
ii plush factory has been established
A halfdOzen tin-plate factories are
either completed or in course of con-
struction.
These are q few of the industries
which have sprung up since the new
tariff went into effect, and six
months have not yet passed. Manu-
Tacturers are leaving England to To-
safe in this country, making places
tor thousands of working people and
extending the home market for
American products. Have any
American firms left the United States
b cause of the Ubiquitous Mckinley
iaw?" Hundreds of immigrants are
landing weekly on our shores. Have
any working men left this country
because of thu protective law? Are
they rushing over to England, which
las . Free Trade and the markets of
the whole world? ?"
And there is something else. Wages
have been raised in the felt-shoe fac
tories at DOlgeville, n Y; in the
mills of the Nashua and jackson
manufacturing companies; in the
Meriden, Conn, britannia works; in
the Peabody cotton mills at New
buryport, Mass; in the pearl but
ton factories at Newark, n j., and in
the shops of the Hamilton manufac-
turing company at Lowell, Mass.
Doubtless there are other cases not
yet reported.
All this has occurred, although the
new tariff has not been in operation
six months. 1t has already glorious
ly indicated it's wisdom. yet only a
beginning has been made Troy
Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12

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growing of all varieties of farm crops
through the use of commercial fertilizers.
with descriptive articles as to how practical
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periepce of practical men In their use. The
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-12
A Possible Scheme for Sugar
Makers

The Burlington Free Press says It
is noteworthy that the sugar bounty
is likely to work a great change
among the sugar planters of Louisi-
ana. Hitherto small planters have
operated their own mills and found
it difficult to compete with Cuban
sugar or with the larger mills. Cen
trail refneries are now being estab-
lished. to which planters may bring
their raw product for sale, and this
plan, it is expected, will open up new
districts, where sugar has not been
grown hitherto A scheme of this
sort has been suggested as possibly
practicable in Vermont Men own
ing orchards which they have not
considered it worth while to work.
might find such II plan feasible, col
Letting the sap and carrying it to
some central post for reduction to
syrup or sugar. While such scheme
could not be carried to the same ex-
tent here as in the cultivation of a
one-season crop in Louisiana, it
might result in increasing the yield,
and when the bounty comes adding
quite a number of dollars to the
right side of the Vermont farmers
ledgers. Anyhow, it is worth while
to thing about all these possibilities.
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Plain Facts.

The Breeders Gazette gives the fol
lowing statement of an Ohio farmer
which contains useful information
plainly stated;
On July 4. 1888, we had a pure
bred Shorthorn calf, of which | made
steer. He was hardly an average
of our calves of that season. | let
him have half of the milk from his
mother until he was six months old
After weaving he had about five
pounds of crushed corn and cob meal
per day, with hay-what he would eat
at night, with a comfortable stable
to go into, and corn fodder during
the day until grass came. | still con-
tinued the meal right along on grass.
Last winter he was wintered the same
as the first, and this summer fed the
same as last until new corn was hard
enough to feed, after which he had a
busnel of corn in six days until he
went away on the 18th of November
He was then two years, four months
and thirteen days old, and had eaten
as follows: Fifty-fve bushels of corn,
at forty cents per bushel, $22; six
and twO-thirds pounds hay per day
first winter, twenty pounds second
two tons, at So, SIC; thirteen and
one-half months pasture at 81 per
month, $3.50. Total cost (aside
from his damn, $3.50 He weighed
LOO pounds, tfour and One-fourth
cents per pound, $72 %; a profit of
SPOTS. Now, he could have been
marketed at more profit younger
He would have brought as much per
pound at any time after he was eigh-
teen months old as when | sold him.
He weighed at eighteen months,
1880 pounds, at four and One-fOurth
cents, 1927. CosC of keep to that
time, aside from his mother, $25 :;
leaving a profit of $27.70. AT TWEEN
ty-four months old he weighed $40
pounds, at four and one=fourth cents,
| $65.72; cost Of keep up to twenty
four months, $41.50; leavinga profit
of $24.72. The above shows a profit
of So in favor of selling him at
eighteen months old.