The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-10-24
ImbCis from the Chicngn Eirc.

NV tuiebrO 4 bot odlN ~ 10 NOillIuttl
that about eighteen thousand workmcn
are already engaged in clearing away the
ruins in The burnt district, for business
purposes.
In Inc midst Of all the misery aud de.
struc,ion at Chicago, last week, twenty
marriage licences were issued. Amid all
the ruin the torch Of Ilymcn still burned
brightly.
Senator Terry Of Michigan, who is at
the head of a great lumber firm, has so
fixed it that 50,000,000 feet Of lumber
shall be sold to Chicago at once, at the
regular rates, and great is the disappoint-
ment of the umbcrmcn whose stocks es.
capped the fire.
The rush of strangers and business
Spectators is great. All the hotels are
packed with five and six in room all
private boarding houses are filled, and all
residences are pretty crowded by refugees
from the other side. Hotel men are
coming in to take turn in the new wheel
Of fortune, and before long the place will
be one vast caravansary. Street cars
and stages are beginning to run regular
ly through the burned streets, and com.
munication is quickly restoring itself
throughout all the Divisions.
The women of Chicago match the men
in the courage with which they face the
great disaster. The encouragement
which some noble women give their hus-
bands and brothers, who but II week ago
were opulcnt and are now pennilcss is
grand. One such woman has come East
with her family on free pass, with just
s5S for her winters supply, whose hus-
band awhile ago had S260,000, and now
nothing. Last summer she travelled with
Saratoga trunks; now all she has from
her elegant home was saved in two bar
rels. Still, there is no dependency.
A number of ragged newsboys in New
York-not more than twenty all told
contributed so in pennies, fve-cent
pieces, and ten cent stamps for the relief
of the Chicago unfortunatcs and handed
the money over to the chairman of one
of the committees with this characteristic
speech Here, Boss, is our stamps, we
haint got much. But we likes ter do a
leetle for Chicager,,when she's busted up"
The statistics of the dead of the fire
are approaching something like accuracy
and reason, and some of the thousands of
lost people are daily brought to their
friends. The attested records of the dead
prove beyond question anarchy and de-
moralization as the prime causes of most
Of the deaths. In some streets the
corpses of men were found in heaps in
such positions as to indicate that drunk
encss generally was at the bottom of the
trouble. There are no more than 100
bodies so far accounted for, but it is
feared that great number were swept
away by the means of the lake when the
parting crowds had buried themselves in
the sand to escape the binding avalan-
ches of flame and cindcrs hurled through
the air. Some Of the women and chill
drcn must have persisted from hunger,
cold and terror Not tenth part of the
ruins has been looked through yet, and
not until every brick has been overturned
can the full story of death be known.
The Chicago Times, which.has resumed
publication, pitches into the demand for
a stay law, as follows:
"The inevitable effect Of Stay law
would be ruin to what is left to us of our
credit. 1t would paralyze business in.
stantly. 1t would take away the last
chance Of resurrection from ten thousand
energetic business men who are making
their arrangements to 60 on. 1t would
spread all over Chicago the decree of in
evitabe ruin to four.fifths Of the best
business men. 1t would be virtual de.
cree of Punishment to the commercial
hopes Of the city Gentlemen of the
General Assembly, if you would serve
the wcll-being, present and future, Of
Chicago if you would not complete the
work of ruin which the conaagration be-
gan, do not even talk of passing a Stay
law Do what you shall find practicable
to prop our public credit relieve us as
you shall deem best from public burdens
if you please, the terms Of our
courts but do not put us in the hopeless
conultion OF pdnhIupt rcpuulators
The authorities of Missouri poor.
house care for pauper who drinks ten
gallons of water a day
The photographic Survey Of Vermont.
We are glad to see that the Secretary
Of the State Board of agriculture, Manu-.
facturies and Mining, is taking the pre-
liminary steps toward obtaining dydre-
graphic survey of Vermont, similar to
the one recently completed in Maine.
The immense Importance of this meas
ure in securing the development of our
material resources, can hardly be over es-
but although it has been fire.
quent topic of private discussion, it has
never, we believe, been brought promi-
nently before the people of our legisla-
ture,
Within our borders, and readily acces.
sible, are many water powers, compare
lively unknown and wholly unimproved,
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