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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
More About the Direct Tax.

The News AND CITIZEN stated last
week, upon the authority OF one OF
our Ex-Goyernors who has had the
matter in charge, that there was a
special statute preventing the govern
ment officials from seeking to offset
the much talked of claim against Yer
mont to the $4,000 due us under
the recent act of Congress. But we
learn that our informant was prOba-
bly, mistaken. Gov. Page and Audi
tor Powell visited Proctor Monday
evening and held a consultation with
Secretary Proctor, who has recently
returned from Washington and had
taken some pains to investigate mat
tiers there.
There seems to be no doubt that
the Comptroller is in doubt as to the
status of the claims against Vermont.
1t is true that Vermont had a large
quantity of muskets, &C., from the
general governmental 1865 for the
purpose of protecting the frontier at
| the time of the st. Adams raid, and
that at the time of the Franco-Prus-
sian war they were sold for some
thing more than 100000, and the
money turnedint the state treasury
But on the other hand Vermont
raised twelve regiments of militia, at
the especial request of President Lin
coin, for the purpose of defending our
frontier. The expense incurred in this
matter was something over 5000, 900
and to this extent at least Vermont
has an equitable claim against the
United States.
This mooted claim was suggested
in message from Gov. Ormsbee
some years since, and our Legislature,
by special act, empowered the Gov
ernor and Auditor of Accounts to act
for the State in the adjustment of all
claims, both equitable and legal, be-
tween the State and the general gov
eminent as soon as the Congress OF
the United States should give like au-
thOrity to a commission to act for
the national government. This Con-
gress has never done, and it has been
the evident purpose of the govern
ment not to do this, or in any way to
press the claim against Vermont. 1t
now appears, however, that after ly-
ing dormant for so many years, the
Comptroller is in doubt as to his
right to pay over the $179, 900 direct
tax until this charge against the
State has been disposed of.
Auditor Powell is probably quite as
conversant with all the facts as any
other man in the State, and at the
request of Gov. Page will accompany
Secretary Proctor when he returns to
Washington Thursday and there give
the matter further investigation.
Both Secretary Proctor and Audi
tor Powell are of the opinion that
whenever a fair adjustment of the
matter is reached, it will be found
that the United States is indebted to
Vermont rather than Vermont to
the United States on these old war
claims.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
ate of a Liar.

.
an explanation of the following lines will
be found in the advertisement of Towne',
Racket Store.)
Inc darkness was Stygian, the hour was
eleven
As liar reelined on his pillow.
lie piteously cried for ticket to heaven,
But his hopes were hung on the willow.
Friends. frantically strove to keep him
alive,
With their hearts in tumult all uuaking.
They knew by his eye it was vain to strive,
For Satan his toll was taking.
They knew by his cunning and wicked
glance,
By the smiling sinister token,
That he thought of days when the dupes
As they piled his promises broken.
He thought of the numerous characters
blasted
OF the pain and the sorrow he'd wrought;
His life with that of the truthful CON
trasted
As the words of the Bible have taught.
He thought of the time when truth would
be king,
And to right and honesty married.
While he, consigned as a pestilent thing,
70 the realms of Pluto was carried.
In visions he saw the wrecks he had made
Denouncing their author paternal
And mourning their numerous hopes de-
layed,
With wishes for him so Internal.
He died at the close of that dismal night,
His solitary honorable deed;
In furnace his corpse was fired out of
sight,
For fear he might sprout ike a weed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
HORSE NOTES.

{. K. Pages Wilkes stallion is look.
ing finely this spring. A large, hand
some, strong made horse.
At the Kellogg sale last week "War.
rem" 2:20k sold for $4,000 and
Essex 2:27A for $4,000 both were
sired by Aristos by Daniel Lam
bert. Don AlpOnso was also sired by
Aristos. He will be kept at John
Campbell's this season.
Paul Robinson of Burlington has
sold his black gelding to T. w. Ut
ton of Morrisville.
j. W. Fountain of Winooski is said
to have refused $3.50 for four-year.
old colt by Gilroy.
A. S. Allis of Brookfield has sold a
pair of five-year-olds, sired by Rich,
ellen; reported price, $3.50
The kite track at White River
Junction is said to be from one to
one and a half seconds faster than
the oval track.
W. ii. Miner of Brattleboro has
sold to W. H. Rollo OF Guttenburg,
N. j., his gelding Sir Onward; re-
! ported price, 5000.
William Corey of Manchester, n.
H., has named his colt by Viking,
2:19H, out of Jennie Wilkes, bv Nam
brine Wilkes, 2:2S4, Stanbridge, and
will stand him in the stud at Morris
vile.
Says the Horseman: Nv. w. Moore
of Shoreham, Vt, breeder of Gillig 4 .
2:23R, still owns this exceedingly
fast young stallion. Now that the
horse has grown in age and strength
to carry his great fight of speed, he
may be put in shape for a mark bet
ter than 2:30 the coming season."
The Mirror thinks that if Gillig goes
in training at the close of his stud
season he will surely beat 2:3O.
Howard & Butler of Johnson are
the owners of Barney Ethan by Star
Ethan, son of Daniel Lambert. out
of a Morgan dam, and after a short
season in the stud will place him in
training for a record this season.
At the Leonard & Rice auction
sale of horses last month at Will
mington some Is were sold, includ-
ing colts and the stallion Braintree
Wilkes. The latter was sold for $500
to c. d. Noyes of Brattleboro; others
were sold to parties in and out of
Wilmington.
According to the Mirror and Far
mer the fastest horse in northern
Vermont is said to he Charles T,
2:29Y, owned by William Landon of
Milton. He is an inbred Morgan.
being sired by AshIey's Ethan Allen
(sire of Allen Maid, 2:16h), dam by |
Earthquake(sire of Rex, 222K).
The following we clip from the
American Horse Breeder published at |
Boston: "The grand young colt
Ben Addison, sold to r. Pickering
Drown at the Isburgh sale of Mr..
Pages stock last week, is by Gov.
Hendee's elegant stallion Rare Ben,
instead of Ben Franklin 1920, as in
stated last week. We
hear the get of Rare Ben mentioned
IN high terms by expert horsemen,
and Judging by Ben Addison, he is
sure to rank high as a sire. Rare
Ben is a handsome bay, stands 1913,
S beautifully gated, and got three
year-old record of 2:33B His dam
vas by Holabird's Ethan Allen, MAX
ng him quite closely inbred to that
elegant trOtter Ethan Allen (2:25B),
he fastest of Vermont Black Hawks
ret.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23

THE SWEDEs.-The statement hav
ing been published that the colony
of Swedes which Springfield, Mass.
concern located at Norton Mill il
Essex county is not proving a sue
cess there, and that it's members are
dissatisfied and moving away, we
have taken occasion to correspond
with responsible persons in Weston
and Wilmington in regard to the
Swedes brought to those places by
Commissioner Valentine. Our Yves
ton informant says that the Swedes
are Industrious, frugal, and peace
able people, who mind their own af-
fairs, and promise to make good
citizens. Most of them remain on
the farms where they were first loca-
ted, though one family has moved to
Andover to work on a farm tor a
year, and the younger men are at
work on lumber job in Peru. From
Wilmington the statement is that
the Swedes are holding their own,
are getting a living, and seem to be
contented. The younger members
OF the families, who find work away
from home, are well liked. Two
young women, who had proved to
be valuable domestics, have gone to
New Haven, Conn. One young man
recently went to Philadelphia. and
one new family has recently come to
town. The only objection raised to
the new corners is their tendency to
seek larger places as soon as their
services become valuable. In both
places the impression made by the
Swedes seems to be favorable one.
-Brattleboro Phoenix.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
News and Citizen
MORRISVILLE and HYDE PARK,
Thursday, April %, 1891.
Arbor Day Proclamation.

The scenic attractions of Vermont are
recognized as among the finest in the world:
We lack the grandeur of the Yosemite, and
even some of our sister New England States
excel us in eXpanse of unbroken wilderness,
but in her smiling valleys, beautiful lakes
and rugged mountains our little State has a
wealth of loneliness which can be nowhere
surpassed. But nature courts the cooper
alton of man. The garden left to itself
changes to a waste, but the waste under the
united care of man and nature blossoms into
a garden.
The scenes of beauty which ma
ture has so prodigally spread about us may
be touched into more perfect IoYellness oy
the organized efforts of our people. Our
hilsides and our valleys would be more val
liable by reason of the home market created
for US by the large numbers that would an
nually make Vermont their summer home
were we more enterprising in adding TO the
natural attractiveness of our State by sur
rounding our homes, school houses ana
churches with shrubs and shade trees, and
fringing our roadsides with the rich verdure
of the oak, the elm and the maple
Appreciating the fact that concerted effort
aVails where want of union and organization
fails Il do hereby designate Friday the
first day of May, A. I'D. 1891, as Arb0r
day. and recommend that the good people OF
our State devote that day to tree planting
urge that the day be kept as n pubic hol
iday by all the schools in the State and That
our teachers utilize their school orgahlZatloh'
in identifying the school grounds and the
public parks Let every scholar, with his
own hand, plant one tree which shall grow
with his growth and be the object of his
special care and protection.
Given under my hand and the State seal
at Hyde Park, this eighteenth day OF
April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety
one.
CARROLL S. PAGE.
By the Governor:
HENRY NJ. MCFARLAND,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
Estate of chas. J. Brooks.

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.
State Of Vermont, District Of LdmOftie, -. In
Probate Court, held at Hyde Park. In said
district on the 18th day Of March, A. ID. 1881.
Silas Quincy, Administrator Of the estate Of
Charles j. Brooks, late Of Boston. Mass. de-
ceased, and leaving estate in said District u
LamOille, presents his administration account
for examination and allowance and makes ap-
plcatiOn for decree Of distribution ana partl-
ton of the estate Of said deceased. Whereupon
IL Is ordered by said court that said account and
said application be referred 20 n session thereof
10 be held at the Probate once In said Hyde
Park on the 9Th day Of May, A. ID 1891. az ten
o'clock In the forenoon, for hearing and decision
thereon: And, II Is further ordered, that notice
heteof be given 10 all persons Interested by
publication OF the same three weeks success
sively In the NEWS 4 CITIZEN. "A newspaper
published at Morrisyille and Hyde Park. VI,
previous to said time appointed for hearing that
they may appear at said time and place, and
show cause. II any they may have. why said ac-
count should not be allowed and such decree
made By the court-Attest
% w. II. II. KENF1ELD. Judge
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23

A most notable as well as remark
able gathering will be that at New
York next Saturday night. The
event will be a dinner given by the
American Protective Tariff League
to that famous champion of protec-
ton, Major VIM. Mckinley. Every
thing served or used on the occasion
will be of American manufacture.
Everything, including the dishes,
cutlery, glass ware, ETC., as well as
the edibles, will be ''home grown as
it were. 1t is said this will be the
first great banquet ever served in
New York in which everything used
will be of American production.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23

Time flies. 1t was just thirty years
ago Sunday, April II, at 4:3O
O'Clock in the morning, that the first
gun was fired on Fort Sumpter. A
new generation has come up since
that memorable day, to whom the
war which followed that fatal firing,
with its demand for billions of mon
ey and hundreds of thousands of
precious lives, is known only in sto-
ry. Yet a generation morepatriotic,
more mindful of the great cost of
that conflict for right, liberty and
union, never did or never will exist
than the present one.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
Estate of Noah Nail.


The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District of
LamOille, Commissioners, 90 receive, examine,
and adjust all claim and demands fall persons
against the Estate Of Noah Hall late Of ElmOre,
I'm said District, deceased. and all claims eNhih-
tied In Offset thereto. hereby give notice that we
dence of Mrs. Noah Hall. on the 23rd day ~
April and goth day Of Aug next. from 10 o'clock
a. m. until O'Clock y. M. each OF said days, and
that six months from the 2d day Of April A. D.
1891. is the time limited by said Court for said
creditors TO present their claims 20 US for exam
inaton and allowance.
Dated al Gilmore, Vt, this 9th day Of April,
A. ID. 1891. n. s. PUTNAM.
JOSE CAMP.
faaff
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23

The papers announce a strike be-
tween a Methodist church and the
Bishop, growing out of the refusal
of the Bishop to return a popular
pastor. As a result on Sunday the
choir, sexton and large majority
of the people failed to put in an ap-
pearance. Services went on as usual
however, and the new preacher still
holds the fort What the outcome
will be is uncertain, but the laws of
the NJ. E. Church being pretty firm
we are inclined to believe the parish
toner's of this particular church will
finally abide by the Bishops decis-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
AMOS HILLIARD,
II. l.. FAIRBANKS.
Estate Of Darius CLARK.
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.


The undersigned having been appointed by
the Hon. Probate Court for the District % l.a-
noble, Commissioners, 10 receive, examine. aud
adjust all claims and demands Of all persons
against the estate of Darius Clark late Of
johnson, I'm said district deceased. and all
claims exhibited I'm Offset thereto hereby give
notice that we will meet for the purposes afore-
said az hall over Holmes 4 Cowles drug store
I'm johnson village, on the I'd day Of May and
22d day Of Aug. next. from I o'clock =. "a.
until o'clock y. m. each of said days, and that
six months from the goth day Of February. A. ID.
1891. Is the time limited by said Court Tor said
creditors to present their claims 10 rs for eX-
animation and alloWat ce.
Dated at johnson, Vt. this 4th day Of April.
A. ID. 1891.
ID. G.. HOLMES.
G.. L. PHILLIPS.
% Commissioners.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
More Hard Facts for Free

More Hard Facts for Free Traders.
Here is another dose ofconsolatio1
for the Free Traders, who made such
a howl last fall about the tariff on
tin and have been ringing the changes
on it ever since Tin, they all
shrieked, cannot be produced in this
country, and the tariff means a tax
upon the poor mans dinner pail, the
farmers milk pans, and everything
else made of tin. The following is
from the Chicago Journal and is au-
thentic:
J. NJ Hayner, banker and farmer,
of Warren county, Ohio. has made a
contract with Norton Brothers, at
haywood, ILL.,, for 100000 two
Tound tin cans for his 1891 sweet
corn crop, all to be made from plate
made by American manufacturers
Last year, before the Mckinley law
went into effect, the price of two
pound tin cans was 1926 a hun
dred. Mr. Hayner's contract with
Norton Brothers is $1.S7 hundred,
a clear gain to him of 81, 140.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
A Model War Secretary.

The Washington correspondent of
the New York Tribune gives a most
interesting summary of the work OF
the war department under the direc.
ton of Secretary Proctor, and pays
deserved tribute to that officer
He notes many important reforms
due to Secretary Proctor's energy
and executive ability. Original eyid
ence in pension cases must be secured
from the war department. The
work had fallen greatly in arrears.
and as a result on July s, 1889,
there were nearly $4,000 applica-
Cions unanswered and 1864 pend
ing. Secretary Proctor has changed
all this, and so expedited matters
that now there is no delay The
magnitude of the work is illustrated
by the following figures taken from
the secretary's last annual report;
Number of cases awaiting action Ju-
" 3, 1889, 40,654; received from Ju-
ly 3, 1889, to June 80, 1890. SOL
23S; total, 341 800; answered, July
B, 1889, to June 30, 1890, 341 ,S92;
remaining on hand June 30, 1890,
none. The daily average of cases
disposed of between December 1.
1890, and February 25, 1891, was
1851. No old soldier or any sol
dier's dependent relative has now to
wait for pension so far as Secre-
tary Proctor's administration goes.
What is extraordinary is the fact
that the work has been accomplished
by a clerical force reduced by fifty
seven per cent from that under the
Cleveland regime. Secretary Proc
tor has also greatly improved and
promoted the work of compiling the
rebellion records, reduced desertion
in the army from 1894 in 1889 to
1889 in 1891, and largely augment
ed the efficiency of the system of pro-
viding for the national guard. In
fact, he has shown himself a model
ofzeal and capacity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23

In speaking of the men who make
up the usual Vermont legislature the
Woodstock Standard saws: s"Tbev
have such an appetite for chasing
every ten-cent piece up a tree that is,
or ought to be, in the pockets OF
citizens, it would be impossible to
exclude them from this pleasure. In
the meantime Vermont capital takes
a stampede beyond the limits of the
State which is likely to continue
some years" exchange remarks :
Just so. Many of our laws regard
ing taxation are simply for the ap-
prehension and bounding of capital. ,
1t would seem to be a crime to ac-
cumulate and hold property, if the
action of the average legislative Wig
lance committee is any criterion"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23

Rey. DR.. Wickham of Manchester
recently celebrated his ninety-fourth
birthday, and was the recipient OF
many congratulations, both person
ally and by letter. DR.. Wickham is
the Oldest living graduate of Yale
college. He has been closely confined
to the house during the past winter,
but his health gives promise of being
much better with the approach Of
warm weather.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23

As the representatives of the Far
mers' Alliances in the various States
are evinciDg considerable activity III
the political world justnow as stump
speakers, lecturers, orators at BAN
quets and upon other occasions, 1T
might be well to read carefully the
remarks of such orators as Senator
PETER of Kansas, Congressman Jerry
Simpson, Senator Kyle and Others,
in order to ascertain if they are lay
inc before the farmers of the cOun-
try all the elements in the questions
they are discussing. There are some
interesting facts in regard to the
prices of farm products that have
recently been issued by the Agricul-
tural Department, presided over by
that sterling protectionist and pa
tr1otic American, Jerry Rusk, to
| which The Press proposes to call at
tention, in the hope that some of
these gentlemen will take occasion to
cheer the farmers of the country with
the prospect of better prices for Their
products and better times for them
selves. Surely this would be only
fair. We have heard so much OF the
double yoke of mortgages and inter
est under which the American farmer
is bowed down; we have seen so many
gloomy pictures relative to the price
of his commodities and the narrow
ness of his profits, that common JUS
tice demands at the hands of the rep
resentatives OF the Alliances a fair
presentation of the other side Of the
pictdre. We therefore present below
a table which shows the general av-
erage of prices in the United States
of agricultural products from Decem-
Der 1, 1889, to December 1, 1890, as
follows:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
estate Of oscarF. Hayford.

COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned. having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court Tor tue Dislrict ol
IamOilIe commissioners, 20 receive, examine
and adjust an claims and demands of All persons
against the estate Of Oscar Il. HaylOrd, late 81
johnson. in said Dist, deceased. hna all claims
ms exhibited In Offset thereto. hereby give > q
tice that we will meet for the purposes aforesaid
nj the dwelling house OF Oscar y. Hayiurd late
OF johnson, ON the i4th day OF May ana sih uik
OF October, next from one O'Clock y. M. until
four O'Clock p. m. each Of said days. aud IN AZ
six months from the 9th. day Of April. A. ID. ic.i
Is the time limited by said Court for said credi-
tors 10 present their claims 10 Us for eNaini-
nation and allowance.
Dated at johnson, this nth day of Anril, A. ID.
1891. g. z. PMlLLlfs'
s. C. SCRtBNER,
25 Commissioners.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
PROBATE NOTICE.
Court-DI.trlct oI LamoIlIr.

Probate COurt-DIstrict OF L"""IEE"'
Until further notice. Probate Court for SAID
District will he held at the Court House in Hyde
Park. Ia said District on each Monday and
Thursday from "a. M. 90 y M, and IRON lso
D. M 10 Ip. m. Guardian Accounts Will pc set
ranpement Accounts Of Executors aud Admin
istriitors should be filed in the Probate once
when application Is made for notice OF the set
w. II. II. KENF1ELD. Judge.
HYDE PARK. VT. April !, 1891.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
Estate Of Lucinda Matthews.

COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned. having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District ~
Lamoille. Commissioners. 10 receive, examine,
and adjust all claims and demands Of All persons
against the estate Of Lucinda Matthews. late 81
MOrristOwn. In said district. deceased, and All
claims exhibited In Offset thereto, hereby give
notice that we will meet for the purposes afpre-
said at the dwelling house OF Amos billiard at
Cadys Falls In said MOrristOwD. on the "a day
of May and 18th day Of October next from one
O'Clock p. m. until five o'clock y. m. each -
said days. and that six months from the tan
day Of April, A. ID. 1891, Is the time limited
by said Court for said creditors 90 present their
claims 10 us for examination and allowance.
Dated nc MorrlstOwn, VT, this iith dHy Of
April, A. ID. 1891. -
AMOS IIIIIIAID.