Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-08-02

Vermont, and that he has been a soldier, both
Of the British Army and our own"
! letter from Ascutneyyille, dated the
9th inst. says there vas great excitement
when the officer removed the prisoner from
the hall where be was examined As he
came down stairs with the prisoner to take
the train to " indoor, the crowd rushed tow
ards the carriage and some one threw rope
with slip moose at it, end at the prisoner,
hoping to Assoc him, but a man by his sito
warded it of. Finally the team started,
the crowd following and hallooiug - hang
him - chang him =" He, howCytr, sue
coeded in getting away from the crowd. and
lodged the prisoner in the State prison at
Windsor. On Saturday be was takeno
Woodstock and delivered to tie High Sheriff
of the county, who Will take him to Rutland
or Middlebury for safe keeping.
THF PARIS ADMINISTRATOR OF TIE [.
). CoxussIoNIRs-VEnloSr AND HER Prizes.
Mr.. Hagcr writes 10 tie Rutland Herald
as follows;
The world never witnessed such display and
probably many years will elapse before ANYTHING
Of the kind Will be attempted again. Amer
cans who have ATTENDED this will not feel like
entering the contest again. The memory Of the
stages Of hope. fear, modification, anger and
pride through which they have passed viii srs-
gest the propriety and disturbances Of keeping
upon their own side Of the water IN future, not
/ withstanding we were in the end in many res
poets yiclors in the contest.
/ Our English cousins, l understand, feel great
/ " erieyed az the result Their medals Ike
angels visits are few and far between. They
were sanguine Of success, which makes their dis
appointment the greater. Hal Mr.. Beckwith,
the United States Commissioner, proved 10 be
a competent, faithful and efficient agent for US,
our prizes would, in my opinion, have been IN
creased IL number and Of higher grade As
I Il was, many Of the contributions were never
. seen or rrcperly examined by the juries. Very
few Of the exhibitors felt ike going to the office
4 Cftke Imperial Commissioners or 10 the Jurles
aud inviting them 10 visit the articles they had
on exhibition It was DO easy task TO DO SO.
/ Policemen guarded these august bodies when III
their offices as they 10 the members OF the royal
family aud none but officials or those having
special business could enter their rooms. II an
exhibitor WAS fortunate enough 20 pass the
guard ami reach the jury, Of what teneht would
it be to him if be could not speak French. Ger
man or Italian sgain the ''red tape dignity
Of these juries would not in all cases allow them
to listen to the appeals Of contributor OF his
agent
l called upon Jury class 40 and desired them
TO examine come marble mautles made Of Ner-
mont, Tennessee and California Marble, manu-
featured by John Shuster Of Brooklyn. y.
They replied that our commissioner hal not no.
tilted them that he was ready, aud until he did
they did not feel Ike making the examination.
| Immediately notified Mr.. Byckw.tA that our
marble products we're ready. he SAID IL was
not his business 10 nOuiy them, and the result
was that Mr.. Shuster's beautiful Nantes, that
had cost him over 200, were neglected aud
did not receive even a favorable mention hy the
Jury. I am not aware tat they ever saw the
mantles Unless exhibitors watched careful. y
and secured the attention u thg judges their
articles were passed by unuoucei am noi
aware that Mr. BeckWith ever showed q jury an
article from America. He certainly never dil O
. contribution from Vermont. But Americans
worked for themselves and i.r one another. Al
though competitors il many instance, yet III,
national pride that burned IN their bls1ms
prompted them to abandon all selfish clusic a-
tons and 10 noble deeds. vii cite one u tat
many instances Of this kind Col. James I
Griffin, the agent for McCormlck's Reaper
seeing a competing Reaper from the manuiAc-
tory Of Ness.s. Seymour * Morgan aud no on,
to put it up, suggested that I take hold Will
him aud put it together before the judges cam,
round | chceriully accepted the proposition
and We laboreI hard 10 put up the machini
which ty a hard contested l4W-suit some yeau
since, hal been pro.el 90 De an infringement OF
Mccormick s patent But an these difference
and ielIousies Of the past were SCI aside Of
smOtberei by the Cliouc. AMI a more christian
spirit substituted in Us stead
But by union, cooperation and peTseyer
ance We have done well-tetter than any 0tLc
nation. think l gave you hasty notice o
the result, but as an error OF two occurred u
that report l will give il again briefly. Tn
whole number Of contributions is over a. lI0
About five thousand prizes were awarded, max
| Ing about one medal o. every eight exhibitors
e From the United States there were about ~
articles exhibited, and two hundred and sixty
! eight prizes or a fraction over one medal priz
10 every two articles exhibited. The contribu
ti0u5 directly from Vermont stand much l-he
than this. There were SIX contributions as 81
lows Wariel's Chluuellin- Machine from
Rutland; Balls repeating lire Arms fro-
= Windsor Manufacturing Co. Windsor, Fair
banks Scales from ST. Johusbury Howe
Scales from Brandon; lmp,es Of Paint and ka-
/ Iu from Brandon hialin and PANT Co, aud
Vegetable Cutter from 4. H. wellington. Wood
{ stock. All but the last namel articles had
e medal awarded. The Agent Of Mcssrs Fair
} banks (Nlr Merril) arranged 90 have his scale
J J divided into two classes l5 and ta) and exam
J inei by two jlr.es. The first jury awarded
silver medal for the large collection Of smal
scales and balances and the other one awarje
; a bronze melal On the large scale, So th
Messrs. Fairbanks receive two medals on thei
E scales, thus making the number oi medals jus
equal 10 the number Of Contributions from thi
J State-of these three are silver and three ar
I bronze. No State has done bettor-uone 50 well
) Missouri sent numerous contributions many
: which were very valuable, hut the commissions
Tor the State dil not arrive till the veriicts ha
! been decided upon, AMI not an article from tina
State got as much rs even an honorable mention
Illinois sent cut "Scho0l House" and paIte
in Chicago a Western farm House" Bot
are nice buildings. but neither Of them got
mention or medal. They were not finished whe'
the juries were AT work in April Numer1u
other instances Of a similar nature sht b
. ] s.aaN n.srH q.