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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-09-29

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT OGDEysBuEs.-
Alfred A Rose, aged eleven years, a son Of the
head miller IN the Touring mill Of Rodee, Lyude
X Co, of this city, met a horrid death by
smothering in wheat bin, on Saturday after
noon, about four O'Clock. The wheat bins Of
the mill are about twenty feet deep, and it hap
pened that they were drawing grain, from the
one in which young Rose lost his life. at the
time Of the accident. He had gone to the mill
loft with some other boys. Mr. Rodee thinks
he jumped into the bin for the purpose Of get
ting some wheat, thinking 10 climb out by lad
der built upon the posts on one side Of the bin,
but was drawn into the current produced by the
flowing grain going towards the spout from
which the wheat was delivering When the
other lads SAW him disappear from sight they
ran below and gave the alarm.
The spout was closed at once and some Of the
men rsn up to the loft and descended into the
bin. but their search was unsvailing the lad
being ss certainly hid from sight though
lying in the river in deep water. Seeing the
difficulty. the spouts on the opposite side Of the
bin were opened, and about four thousand bush
els Of wheat run out upon the warehouse floor
before the body Was recovered. The first thing
discovered was a tip end Of a finger, when it
was ascertsined that be WAS standing upright
with both hands raised over his head. couple
Of the men reached down into the wheat and
took hold Of his coat collar Snd endesvored to
draw him out, but the coat came off in their
hands. Other men then got into the bin and
standing round in the grain sll took hold and
lifted him out.
From the time he disappeared under the
grain till his body was recovered, was fully
twenty minutes, and life was entirely extinct
His mouth aud nostrils we're filled with wheat.
He was fine, promising lad. beloved by all
who knew him. His parents have the heartfelt
sympathy of the whole community in their deep
affiiction OgdeHsburg Journal, Sept. Is.
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Correspondence of the Sun.
George Francis Trains Last Manifesto
He VIII be President ANY How.

place ny children in school for three yeas
Mrs. Irsin will remain here | return in the
Baiuc from 18th September arriving in New
YORK zlth, and commencing my 70lst Presiden-
tai mass meeting October ] Tir0 hrufre9
appointments. receive grand ovation al
CORK on sept Il, where the Trades and Iuterna-
uonals nominate ne in behalf Of all ths work
lngmen for the American Presidency. intend
10 show Europe that our 81 800, 600 0OO Sc
eurities now in Europe will be wiped out on the
failure Of Vanderbilt, which will smash the
national banks and wipe out the debt. Stand
from under There t fearful doom hanging
over Wall street.
Nobody laughs in France perpetual night
mare. Ihlers Is preparing coup d'ctaf. per
hsps TOR new, mad military civil law. Glad
stone IS crushing the Lords between the Crown
aad the people The grand power Of the day is
tne international. Pagan when speaking on
religion; tenisn when reviving lreaud's free
dom; and Communist when on French liberty
| am all fire, so mske the most oft.
am coming home, but disgusted with the
damn-phooi-doin Of my country. | would rather
nave seen Washington in ashes than TO see our
independence and manhood signed away in the
sshing'on treaty. | have fought a single
hShded battle TO emaucipate my peop!e for
years. am tired Of it. but cannot stop I feel
ell alone. push on toward the White Uopss
because some strange, uncomfortable fate srr-
rounls me- How can you account for nv career
Duplicate me II you can Find another man
who has earned the right Of being President on
the ground OF his brains, his education. bis mo-
rale, his courage, and his gcts2 Find another
man that makes the people pay all his halls.
gasllghts, advertising, aud give him thirty than
sAnu year ior the privilege Of calling him
crazy aud nominating him every night for the
White House. 'A'
Europe is bloolei up by American monarch.
lists. No Republicans ever come from America
Flunkeydom, Ioadyism, and Shoddy macadamize
all the hotels Our hireling Americans yonid
crawl ten miles on their bellies IN ,hate bsrds
with king. Every American who keeps nvav
from the polls FIVE years on account of bis res
Fectability, and every American LIVING abro,5
hive years, should be denAturalized bv law
Grsnt has packed his cards aud loaded the
dice for 1872. The loan swindle in I,ondon snh-
sidizes the press, and the military do the rest in
Americs. But Grant has tanned the horses
fourteen months tco soon. The times are chang.
ing. The people are waking. Seeing This I
feel annoyed to lose my interest in them. lam
tired. know not what will become Of me
have all my family abroad, aud return a waif
| never would speak again if | could help il [
have done more for my country than anv man of
my yesre and been tested more but | have
kept my honor, and must 20 on and work ont
my destiny.
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Wit and Wisdom.

Switch tenJers-bair Mus
Much in briei-the alphabetl
P,.l.,,,.,o- lido ,,,r,,-t
Ihe tune oil the sinokeT-spit-tnHe-
Can shin with two owners hc called
partnership
Many plain young ladies live u be pretty
old ones.
Good ns-.c r.-a conductor az, a stree. rail
way-'Osear.
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I;r, c5eerlolly
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w. -1'i -, - 80 80 '-'
.-" ''''7
ine L'"en ''A,''' a,ss MS exchanges 90
qalt calling Is the Low Oour-
y Western editor reports money CLOSE
bat n1t close enough % he reached.
A queer c3inci3cncc-Cabul news. jus.
now of interest, reaches us by cable
some ,,,s--. CANE .l.e-- 'rbov iic o, .,,..
sill, and +,,,1' .,,.,- and H. o7, rho o.bc-
They reckon timo out West and give dates
r.
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dauhter, six months after her return from a
fashionable boarding school. The young
lady's musical performances had dwindied
piece by piece, to a solitary polka, and the
fond parents sole compensation for his many
years outlay was this precious thousand
dollar polka and his own sorry joke.
Dr. johnson, when lady who travelled
with him in carriage, remarked that she
could not hear him in consequence of the
noise is said to have answered: the stripetuos-
ity of circumrotary motion renders the mod
ulations of ordinary discourse inaudible /;
and the cartilaginous materials which COM
pose our auricular members become stultitied
to the exercise of their natural functions.
VIII the resources Of personal journalists
ever be exhausted? ? One Of them is getting
widely personalzed on the strength of having
a lock Of Washingt0n's hair. Another is be-
coming quoted as having given an agate
stone to the late Phoebe Cary. Now let
their tailors. landladies, shoemakers. and to-
bacconists publish the bills they hold against
personal journalists, and those documents
will have greater value on their face than
they ever did before.-Br0oli5u Z gglc.
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A LoyG BEANCd B0NtNcE-A c0rr,spon-
dent of the Cincinnati Commercial writes :
Even the peTfdious occln has its advantages.
4 young man Of coed family and position,
without income worthy Of mention, came down
here some weeks since with the intention Of
marrying girl having a wealthy faJher-not
with the intention Of living upon her, bat a. s
precautionary measure against possible poverty.
He found such a girl, one Of two children, and
as she was sensible, amiable, and moderately
good looking, he proposed to her after a court
ship Of ten dsys. She thought his wooing rather
brief. and frankly told him she believed he
wanted TO wed her fathers fortune rather than
herself With equal csnGor, he admitted that
the pecunisry part had its influence, but declared
that if he were rich and she poor, he would be
most happy to make her his wife She wavered
for half day, slept over the matter, and the
next morning felt constrained to decline The
young man performed The philosophic role, re-
marking that he wac sorry, Int that he had too
much to DO to occupy himself in breaking his
heart " We may do better than marry, Bella, {"
he added 1--WE might have quarrelled as man
and wife, but we won't quarrel as friends; and,
after all, who knows hui cehbscy is the greatest
of blessings?" Still, he did no. surrender
hope. He proposed the same afternoon to teach
her TO swim, and they went together into the
surf much fnriher than prudence would have
dictated. lie wanted to frighten her, and he
succeeded. The undeTtOw carried her out until
she thought she was really drowning lie
plunged after her, and brought her safely to the
shore. When she had recovered from her ter
ror she said to her companion, "You have pre-
served my life, Charles, and it would be un-
grateful for me longer to Withhold my hand.''
ChCr!es, as may be supposed, accepted Pspa is
delighted with his prospective son-ir-lsw for his
heroic achievement. and in the early autumn
the torch of Hymen will kinile the FIRE upon
this new domestic hearth
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THs TIDE TURNED AND Butler EBBISG The
casual observer. the wsyfarer though fool, Ike
a great many Of the Butler crowd for the last
three weeks. czn see plainly enough to-day thai
the tide of success has turned against the
" Great American Glbbler" Il is in the sir,
and every msn you meet feels it, though few
sgree as to the cause Of il Custom-house off,
GERS aud revenue collectors, who. week ago,
were certain BGtler was to be nominated at
Worcester, and were doing WIS: they could to
help him, are today joining in the demous;rA-
tion against him, which almost every one Of the
trusted republican leaders is active in. sumner
Wilson, Boutwell,, Judge Hoar, Gov Clshin,
Speaker Jewell, without disguife. declare thar
Butler must be defeated at Worcester, and men
ike Slack and Russell begin 80 see that he will
be. Mr.. S ack has asked the two senator's 20
speak against Butler. and. though they are IN
willing to make speeches at this time in 4 Rice
meeting, they have taken their own method 10
inform the people Of Massachusetts, how they
feel toward the man who Is stSbbng At the
state government sni the life Of the republican
party in the state and nation. Governor Claiin
is urgei TO make speech or print a letter deny
a.
the state expenses, commissions. etc, and il Is By
no means improbable that be will do 90. Speak
er JeWell's letter is taken as an intimstion that
he may devote a speech or two to the same iu-
vitng topic. Mr.. Boutwell, has communicated
his views to Butler himself, il IS said, informing
him that the best fortune he can pray for is 10
be defeated at Worcester. Judge Hoar, as al
ways, is outspoken in his opinion of Butler, sud
will have an opportunity to state It publicly.
These things becoming known, and combining
with the defeat Of Butler in such places as
Charlestown and Stoneham, where it WAS sup /
posed he would win. and the triumphant success /
of the Washburn men in Worcester and in the I
four western couniies, have convinced nearly all
the political weather wises and weather cocks
that Butlerism is ebbing fast. and within the
next five days you will see a collapse Of that
bubble as rapid as its initiation Wss Even the
state constables, who have done almost las much
work for Butler as the federal ofiee-holders, are
beginning to feel :he reaction. Boston Cor.
Springfield Republican.
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MARY JANE,
Aged II yrs. ; mos.
She was not smart, she " as not .ar,
But hearts with grief fC her are swslliu'
All empty stands her lit G chair
She dLcI ~ ear-ns MAfer me-lr


\ lecturer on the moral sentiments in
Philadelphia, remarked that the dearest ship
in the world was friendship whereupon a
young man rose iroiu the congregation and
stated that he knew another--a dearer ship
still--and that was ,;ouTtship. The young
man had once been defendant in claim
for breach ofpromise' of marriage.
\ Yankee in Texas, who sat listening to
the stories of Louisia nian in regard to the
mar'elous growth of +, lgarscane on his plan
tati0n, near New Orlea Is, finally said That
ain t nothing. I've sec n cane in New Eng
laI ID more'n mile long = what kind Of cane
was it?' was the gener ] inquiry. a hur-
r 4cane = answered the II iumphant Yankee.
At the concert by the AIendelssohn quin
te;tc club in st. John, th 2 other evening. a
fair damsc asked her attendant swain
Which is Mr.. Mendelssohn, ! wonGer?' Il
don't think he's there. was the reply.
Why didn't he come, 7 wonderY 90
said the other, determined to be equal to the
emergency, L am told he hardly ever leaves
Boston now.
An honest eurate in the country, remon-
strated with married coup e, who did not
live together in the most agr eeable union, on
the indeceney, and even ein fulness of their
contentious, since they were in the eyes of
God and man but one. iiut one . cried
the husband, surely if you were to come by
the door and hear us in the height Of our
quarrels, you would swear " were twenty.
My dear will you play your thousand
dollar polka said farmer 10 his charming
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-09-29
Yalua Of Advertising.

without advertising [ should he poor nan
H. T. Heim5olE.
advertised my productions and MAZE money.
--Nieholas LoHgr0rh.
Advertising has furnished me with compel
tenee.-Lairrence.
A man Who Is liberal ia advertising is liberal
in trade and such man succeeds while his
ne.ghbors, with just as good goods, fails and
drops out Of the msrket-H0race GREELEY.
He who invests one dollar in business should
invest one dollar in sdvertising.--A. T. Sfel0-
rrf
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This is my fret letter and my last, so throw it
in the basket, or publish it with my Constitution
of France, written in theBastile on the blank lines
of Jewish Bible. see Secretary Seward and
party just alighting from the omnibus. lie IS
younger than l. You may say to the lecture
associations that shall keep my appointments,
commencing October l. Don't be surprised az
anything that you may get from Paris or Lon
don. The devil is organizing Internal machines,
and he'll is agitated with Christian reforms.
THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF AMERICA.
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Of the coming great Boston Peace Jubi ee says
ut should be known that Mr.. Gilmore comes
accredited to Europe by the President Of the
United States" IL should he known, slso. hat
Mr.. Gilmore j. not accredited by the President,
but by Gen. Grant in his personal capacity. As
President he has no more 10 20 with recommend
ing iublees than with recon mending jewsharps.
Abroad, the general notions in regard to the iu-
ties and functions OF officers Of the General Gov
crnment are 20 miserably muddled that it Is
we'll to have it distinctly understood that neither
Congress, the Constitution, nor the Chief Exc
cuiige has anything 10 DO With Mr.. Gilmore's
T. Tribune.
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We often admire II. calm aui sensible way in
which Harper's IFo,ly pu,- things in its
editorial discussions Of national politics The
following seems TO Us exceedingly aeu sail:
We maze The preference Of no candidate vet
mentioned tes' Of Republican orthodoxy.
There are those, inieed, whose nomination might
fAlrly be held TO show such decentralization in the
party thst good Republicans could not support
them but 40 such alternative has set presented
itself ia the presidentiSl dchste For reasons
which we have mentioned aud shall probably
often repeat, the denomination Of General Grant
seems TO rs most eGpeient for the Republican
party. While IN his administration, IS in every
other, there j. much to re criticised much also Of
what IS said cf him is sheer c4lumny. But ii the
party shall fairly decide that it viii not fight il
out upon thst Line, but prefers another leader,we
shall follow the n,s And If ~ this ,ime the
withdrawal OF General Grant from the candidacy
would obviously unite the Tsrty upon 4 more
available candidate. We believe that the Presi-
dent, whose patriotism AM devotion to the vel
fare Of the country bsye certainly been ampy
proved, would not hesitate 10 withdraw Ent
his retirement would not produce that result.
Inefe has oeen no other person mentioned upon
whom there is any probability whatever Of bar-
monious union. In 1867, when the question of
the nomination was agitatel. i; General Grant
had peremp'orily declined, Mr. ChSse would
have been unanimously selected by the sentiment
OF the party. But who stands now where the
Chief Justice stood then In the actusl situation,
therefore, the denomination Of the President is
as expedieat as his nomination was in 1868
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IHE ADlEU OF THE EVCAGED.-N0.hin- is
50 pretty as to see the engaged folks part on
Monday Morning-the fowler TO 20 back 70
business for a whole week the cnsnarod 70
stay at the Cape, counting the days Of his
absence. To see this scene. you must get up
at OF the clock, for il is the early tram
that the young man Of business must take
The young man in his duster, little drag.
ged ont, slips down with his yalise and at
the foot of the stairs, spying the inex1rable
omnibus, halts a minute to let the bird catch
up 10 bin, also little worn with early
rising and late last evening, the bird hoIs
down stairs in her yellow morning plumagc
and formally shakes the young man hy the
hand and as he recedcs, and turns once at
the threshold to look back with that glance
which is the respectful ycarniug Of al that
he knows or hopes for,it meets already fixed.
the bird farewell, poured out Of her ewes
like a note Of melody. That look is the liy-
Ing solace Of the week, the one ration "a
which love must march for Fix davs. till sat
urday brings another rendezvous. Ii is the
pledge, better than oath or affirmation, that
neither is to be forgotten by the ether: al
though the true parting, as We all know.
took place elsewhere. rs above stairs-per-
haps in the room of the old bird. who gm
ciously assented, and lived back thirty years
in the sound Of her daughter kiss.
The three fond periods Of life are the fret
consciousness of love returned the summer
last before marriage, when all the course is
smooth and, next, the early months Of the
first baby, when the man feels a little queer
and the woman is perfectly self possessed
again.
The woman engaged, once fully and dis
tinctly in love, is the highest type Of human
fidelity. See this one, abandoned to week
Of the the longest ennH possible to her ma
ture-the absence of her aliianced A man
would, perhaps, balance it by the violence
Of his pleasures and smother expectation in
gayety. Like vestal who knows not the
day nor the hour when her master cometh,
the engaged woman becomes for his sake the
subject of her own exalted respect. Her body
ard soul, her walk and conversation, are
purer TO her eyes because they have been
promised away. She draws around herself
the circle Of the solemn church, and all s0ci-
ETY. falls beyond the line. ButiOne man can
cross it be beach, the ball, the prone
mad, ia bath, etheralized and no longer
autaken in romp and volatility. find her
still higher above reproach each Saturday
successfully; till at last, when the season
ends, and with it the last campaign of her
beauty, she abdicates, like Zenobia. without
an accusation, secret, or lament 4 wo-
man in love knows when her mind is made
up; man thinks he does Gcorce Alfred
TowHsend, IN Chicago Tribune
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The innocent diversions Of the scientific gentle
men on top Of Mount Washington have set such
a good example of hellthful recreation for over
worked students that our paternal government
has resolved similarly to invigorste the tagging
energies of meteorological philosophers in public
employment. and to this end has secured an eli
gibe mansion on the summit of Moosehillock, in
New Hampshire, and contemplstes the erection
of commodious refrigerator on Mount Ascut-
ney, in Vermont Both Of these situations will
be supplied with fuel, cossting sleis, telegraph
wires, drsught-boards, lemons, euehre packs,
ami other implements Of scientific research, in
order that the SUN Of human knowlege may b
increased by sscertsining if it blows as hard on
a mountain of mile in height as it does on one
Of mile aud quarter - forid.
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'"
One OF iAe beet stories that has recently been
told, is given IN she San Fraucis,1 Va, Litter.
Tb. -t.... f.;-.. .,.. q ,t., ....;
c1oi'e movement
one iaT in . an homes; m'rcr mp in Cal
syerss biz himself w.il r smhl snake Of the
garter variety, aai. either as a possible antIote
or with determination 20 eajly the trisf rem
nant Of a wAstei life. he applied trimming
Jug Of whiskey TO his lips. aai kept ii there uu-
al Ike feplctei leech-which in no other re-
spect /. resemblel-it fell of The man fell OF
likewise. The next day. While the boiy lay IN
state upon pine slab, aul the bereaved part
ner Of the deceased was uubeniing in a rAme Of
90 seven up ' with = friendly Chinsman. the
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Grit tIoiI.
(4jferfAs manner Of lie Nos'rAs.
Uurrp fl- Nou % the Mountails.

C4JfertAs a,1nnsT Of lie Noa'rAs.
Hgrra for Non OF the Mountains,
The gal thas hangs BY le,
= back her again tho bigges- euss,
whoever the fool may be.
he's a stnmpsr and Toaier.
WHAT 90 you say she's nlack
fOuna. fellow, you'll -it a l0orer
if you don't tase that word back
Down in the gulch's belly
She pitched into silver jim,
She knocked him into a Jelly
There was little left OF him.
She and a grizzly tussled-
IL was even tug and 20,
She'd nary rag left on her,
But she made him swallow hoe.
She bet her pile and lost 1t,
For gouging Lee was there
she cidn't seem TO care Bit
Didn't the fellow stare
III 20 another ~ yelled Molly,
We gathered round to see
she te1, hed cff a keg Of powder,
AND landed in a tree.
Moll was hanging there too
ohe did not vince or moan,i
b1i 70 see her open and shut her hands
would have melted heart Of stone.
" Are you sufieTin' much ~ said ], " Noll,"
L m Just in leil," said she;
'' But guess as far as monte goes,
Pm ahead Of -0uging Lee -
Three months On hor back Bfol lay
The powder mark Is there.
But gOuging Lee found another tree.
Now call her black. II you dare
Riehayd s. gree 0ugh-
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FATAL ACCIDENT IT COScoRD, n. H-Ed-
ward Pease, a freight conductor on the Vermont
Central train between Concord and Boston, was
instantly killed at the fcrner place at an early
hour on Saturday. lie was directing the trans
fer Of some cars on to a eide track, when in the
rain and darkness he Accidentally stepped into
the open work Of Travelled road and in attempt
ing 10 himself be fell directly across one Of
tie rails and was instantly crushed by the sp-
proscl 'ng engine of his train. lie was about
thirty-6ve years old. reliable and industrious
man. and leaves a family at Concord The en-
gineer saw thc conductors light disappear sud-
denly. md stopped his machine as quickly as
possible, but it wss too late
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ses by accident. An association of scienti-
te men and others has now been formed for
the thorough excavation Of the bed of the
Iiber, and 1t relies on the cooperation of
many artists antiquaries. and other learned
men of Europe and America, all of whom
have been strongly urging the speedy com
mencement of the undertaking. A very en-
conraging response is said to have come from
all quarters, and a liberal proier of funds to
begin operations with from Paris banking
house