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Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14

One morning he awoke to find the coveted
chair by his bedside, and on its cushioned
seat stood the old teapot, with pennies
tumbling out of the spouthole, there were
SO many: wee slip Of paper told him it
was "all from Birdie" and when the
Birdie stopped to give him ride in her
"own dear mammals carriage" he
thought an angel had surely come to take
him home!
Yes, Teddy, Mrs. Testers teapot was
full of pennies, but better than that, her
heart was filled with the love that "re-
joiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in
the truth. !'-Hearth and Home.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14
pneumonia by riding to and from s.
IN an onnp lncp,pp active ~

pneumonia by riding to and from S.
on an open locomotive"
NJ B threw himself into chair,
and seemed for some minutes lost in re-
Election. 1t was terrible alternative
either to give his daughter to maudit
Prussiea, or to endanger his own valuable
life.
GLOW long, think YOU" he asked the
Marie, twill it be before the Army of the
Loire will destroy the Germans before
Paris, and drive the last one of them
across the Rhine?"
'The Army of the Loire" replied the
Marie, "has, according to news received
this morning, been defeated, losing 10000
prisoners"
"Mensonge! Impossiblew cried NJ.
B..
But he concluded that it would be wise,
under all the circumstances, to follow tho
advice of his friend the Marie. Imme-
diately on his return from his sixth com
pulsory trip to S., he gave his consent
to his daughters betrothal with the hated
Prussian, and from that time he received
no more orders from the German head
quarters to ride on an open locomotive
Translated from "Recollections Of the Fran
co-German War;" By Franz Eugen.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14
A WOman's Memorandum for Her
FOrgetful Husband.

| A GENTLEMAN who resides few miles
| in the country announced his intention of
coming to the city to get few Of the
necessaries of life. His good wife, who
evidently reads the papers and knows
| what is going on, furnished her 'Old
man. with the following memorandum,
| recognizing the fact that 'these men are
so stupid" and always forget what they
are sent after But here is the seasonable
| list of necessaries, which though not in
strictly clerky form is nevertheless to
the point, and well calculated to make
an impression on the mind
Get pound of tea.
And don't forget to go to Browns drug
store and get eight pounds of copperas
and pint of carbolic acid
Get dollars worth of loaf sugar.
Bring dozen lemons.
Ifyou have a chance you had better
bring bushel of lime.
We ought to have pound of ground
mustard and some ginger.
Get gallon of coal oil and a demijohn
Of whisky. BE particular and don't get
them mixed--have the coal oil put into
the can, and the whiskey in the demi-
john.
If you see a nice piece Of calico, you
might bring me enough for a wrapper.
Go to Orynski's and get a bottle Of his
blackberry syrup.
The flour is out.
BE careful and don't drink any we'll
water while in town.
BE sure and get bottle of Hamlin's
cholera cure.
We ought to have half a dozen knives
and forks for the kitchen.
Go TO McClcery's and get a bottle of
DR.. McCabe's blackberry brandy.
Don't bring any green thing home to
make the children sick.
Don't forget the coal oil and the demi-
john, and be sure to keep them sepa-
rate.
Go to Cheever's and get bottle Of
syrup of blackberry and ginger.
Get pint Of cognac brandy.
Keep away from them nasty ponds un-
less they are filled up.
Ifyou see any good disinfectant bring
some home.
Get a few pounds of crackers and rice,
and some oatmeal.
If you see the doctor ask him to give
you prescription to cure cholera.
BE careful and don't break the dcmf-
john.
Johnny needs pair of shoes.
You had better call at all the drug
stores and see who has got the best chOl-
era medicine.
Now don't forget any Of these things,
and keep this list in your hat where you
can find it.
Come home early.
About four o'clock yesterday afternoon
the man with the memorandum might
have been seen going out Broadway with
all his horse could draw, his rockaway
resembling the hospital supply train OF
an army corps. 1.-THE cholera ever goes
out in that direction it will meet with .
warm reception.-Hanni6al Mo- Courier
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14
EARTHS ANGELS.

NEVER saw an angel.
Except the ones in books:
don't believe q mortal
Knows how an angel looks.
We guess at something misty,
With trailing wings Of white,
With amber tresses floating,
And garments strangely bright
But I believe earth's angels
Walk here in mortal guise.
Though we discern but family
Through heavy lidded eyes,
OR see them as they leave us.
WHO walked beside us here,
Their angelhood quite hidden,
Because il lived SO near.
can remember angels
Who seemed like common folks,
Who wore Old-fashioned bOnnets,
And faded winter cloaks;
Who came when dire disaster
Crowned lesser home mishap,
or younger claimants crowded
The dear maternal lap;
With curving arms wide open
To take the weary in,
With patient love to listen
To childish want or sin.
What better thing could angels
For childish sinners do,
Than listen to their story,
And bid them promise new!
think Of fireside angels
Upon whose faded hair
There shone no crown OF glory
And yet the crown was there;
When tender love, true-hearied,
Forgave the wrongs it knew,
And patient voice gave answer
The days Of trial through.
All. me! the childish angel
Who beckons as write!
Perchance should not know him
In mystic robe Of white.
He wears a schoolboy's jacket,
And cap, and boots, to me,
And when we walked at twilight,
His head against my knee.
There are dear mother angels
We each perchance know one
Whose robes of better glory
Are daily being spun.
With loving hands 10 guide lis,
With loving speech TO cheer,
Said not well, eartq angels
Walk daily with us here!
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14

Texas be excluded from the list on account Of the admitted mpctbiy Of
innate of the numbers in their large herds will appear that Illinois had the largest
working and nearly double the number
IN
head The 1871
The different olows
Missouri Virginia. Michigan
Canada Pennsylvania $685. New Jersey 2l0; Tennessee 1922 Kansas 1;
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14
LIVE STOCK IN THE UNITED STATES.

United
men of live stock the yous States Of the Union making total Of
and lambs and 500 swine distributed Territories
OlloWS:
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14

WEALTH, after all, is relative thing,
since he that has little and wants less, u
richer than he that has much but wants
more.-C0lt0n.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14

|
now, and concluded my present must have
been very costly. 1t is beautiful, isn't it,
but not half so beautiful as the true love
that gave it to mel"
| At that moment Mrs. Lester drove up
to the gate, and through the open window
saw the minister with his arm around his
wife standing before the bracket. II
looked like another proof toward the
truth of her story; but recalling her hus
bands words, she entered the parsonage
| with more kindness in her heart than she
had ever carried there before.
'I'm just home from town, Mrs. Rogers
and stopped to leave this small parcel
the fall goods were being opened, and
| this is pretty shade that will suit you,
and she did not wait for thanks.
| "Oh! Harry deari q new dress. Now
| YOU can do what you wished you could
this morning-get chair for poor Teddy
Burns. Pm so glad! Why, it's like your
sermon on Sunday: All things working
together for good"
In the Lester home that night there
was happy change. MIR. Lester wonder.
| ed why his wife was so tender In her
| greeting, SO softened in manner, never
dreaming that his good deed was already
springing up; it had not been sown upon
barren ground, but in soil that simply
needed cultivation.
| Oh! if man would oftener seek to rule
| in Lowell if, finding us guilty Of many
faults, he would try to lift us TO nobler
| ideal of womanhood instead of sneering
at our weaknesses, the result would prove
his effort to be grand one.
! Oh! if woman, the true woman, seeing
| in her sex this disposition to bicker, 10
SANDER, would rprove by silence or
| gentle rebuke, society would be
based upon higher principle,
the atmosphere of our homes wsuld
| be purer, and lives of mother, wife,
and daughter would breathe Of the love
that sis kind and thinketh no evil"
] Mrs. Testers eyes were full when her
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-08-14

The minister could not study tnat morn
ing, consequently the call from two ladies
did not interrupt his usual busy hours
| And after the long talk, as the three walk
ed to the parsonage, Mrs. Rogers repeated
| slowly:
GAN things work together for good to
them that love Him."
"Ohl yes said Mrs. Lester; "for if II
| were not SO, might have gone on in my
old way, and ruined myself as well as
others. But have not yet made full
reparation."
The sewing society met at Mrs Testers
the minister's wife was not there, and
Mrs. Pratt looked across the table TO Mrs.
Hill in most significant manner. The
hostess was SO very still and white some
| one questioned if she were i'll.
mo, thank you; but, ladies, ! have a
statements confession to make, and
resolution to offer"
Then she went over the whole story, i'm
p1icating no one but herself; and there
was more than one moist eye as the
usually naughty lady pleaded with her
sisters to aid her in her new resolve to be
first pure, then peaceable."
Mrs. John Testers money never WELD
ed such power in the society as did her
love that day.
Mr.. Lester had been proud of his wife,
Of her beauty, her grace; but new pride
was kindled in his breast when he listened
to all she had TO say. The wife he had
looked for and wanted so long had come
to his home! Birdie sang her prayer to
both father and mother in the quiet twi-
light-the prayer that had been SO quickly
answered.
The minister's book shelf did not stand
empty for new commentaries; nor did he
and his wife want for true friends. And
Teddy, poor Teddy In the tenement house
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-02

After few such breaks the discreet family
that would like to preserve Its identuy AT
the table, learns to maintain dignihed 81
So the meal time. which should be social
rennion of the family and which tells more
upon its character than We are apt to think,
Is lost for educational purposes, or, as Or.
Bushnell would say, for any means oil grace.
Then the children-what mother on the
farm who has tried to have her chlidren
well-behaved and speaking toleraDly decent
English, has not seen the careful, anxious
training of years overthrown IN single
season BY some s'iart "hired man whose
free and easy roughness ana ininitaple
dialect have struck the fancy oil her lmpres,
sible son? Bows seem to have natural
liking for slang. Mr.. Bret Harte, in his
iectnIe ON the Argonants of 40, tells US that
the early Californians put their sentiment
into slang. Perhaps the boys who have
little reading, few refining. amusements or
occupations. find vent for their esthet zeal
nature in quaint, uncouth metaphorlcai
sneech such as makes Sam Lawson OF Old
| Town Folks. n rich character, but would
spoil the hero Of any romance,
Morse than harm to the children man
ners or language, harm TO the morals, not
unfreouentIy comes from this lndiscrlmi
nate mixing. know that this is true. The
tender little ones in their own Christian
| homes away from corner groceries or any
| baunts of vice. are not always shielded from
evil II is a theme for the church pastor.
| VIII not the mothers see to 1t that their
vounp children. eager, curious, listening,
Questioning, bordering all that comes to
them. in their hearts, are Kept IRON " evil
communications ?" ~ n.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-02

When the public finds that it takes four
bushels of wheat to pay for the transporta-
tion Of n fifth bushel from the producer in
Iowa 10 the consumer in New York, and
nearly the same proportion for every ton OF
coal brought from the coal fields OF Penn
sylvania, naturally enough the question
whether this is necessary acquires great
Importance.
In 1868 a report was made by the Board
of Trade. in London, England, from the re-
turns made to Parliament by all the rail-
roads in the United Kingdom OF their ex-
penses for that year. This average was Is
I'd. (say g. cents) per mile for each tram,
including " goods, coal and other mineral
trains, conveying two or three hundred tons,
as well as passengers.
The items from which this average was
made included maintenance of way and
works; locomotive power; repairs and re-
newal of carriages, &C.; general traihc
| charges: rates and taxes government
duty compensation for accidents and loss
legal and parliamentary expenses other
working expenses.
The average actual cost of transporting a
train, carrying from two to three hundred
tons. mile, was in England sixty-three
cents ten years ago. How is it in this eoun-
try?
The Rail,rav Gazette for March s, 1873,
calculates from the tables IN the ILLINOIS
Railroad Commissioners Report that the
expense in that State for carrying a tram a
mile amounts TO Sl.03 and says; I'm Massa-
ehusetts, from much more accurate returns,
the average cost per train mile Is put at
SL3l.'
In the annual report of the Maine Cen
trial Railroad, which operates a total of 35i
miles. the average cost per train mile l;
given as SLIP. The excess of expense be-
tween this country and England arises pro
| badly from various reasons, among which
not the least is a want Of economical man
agement.
Here there are the materials for a calcula
ton like this
The cost OF mining 3oo tons of coal, at co cents
per TT If ir5.rcrtjps it to New York. say
3rl miles at to be generous, $50 per mile II
Total cost of 3Jo tons OF coal, landed in New
York. T'E'
PROFIT made out Of the consumer. IL
nearly twice as much As the mining ant
the transportation really cost.
No wonder, then, that Mr.. Gait, in hi
report Of the Board of Trade in London
said: When the public come to know tina
a passenger can be conveyed one hundred
miles for twopencc hali-penny g cents, TO
which he is charged eight shillings ant
fourpcnce (S2). and that Il ton of coal car
be brought from the North of England 70
about a shilling Us ceats), the cost there
being six or seven shillings and the price il
London four or five times that sum, it re
quires no prophet to foretell that the days o
railway monopoly in private hands will IL
this country (England) soon be number
ed Graphic.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-02
Organization OF the Central Vermont Ha''ro"a
Company.

We are glad to be able to announce mat
the preliminary steps for the organization
of the new company, chartered by act OIL
the last Legislature, for the purpose oil pur-
chasing the Vermont Central and Vermont
& Canada railroads, have been taken, anu
that the reorganization Of the roads, unuer
that charter, may be set down as hAeu
fact. Pursuant to notice, the Comlnis-
sioners appointed under the act, non,
George Nichols, Hon. John W. Stewart
and Hon. Bradley Barlow, opened 'he
hooks for subscriptions to the stock oil the
new company. at St. Adams, yesterday
Trio millions of dollars of the stock was
subscribed for, in cash, and Sl27 900, pay
able in second mortgage bonds. The DOCKS
were then closed. A majority of the stock
was taken by New York parties, including
as we hear. the heavy firm of Duncan
Sherman & Co. T. W. Park, ESD SUD
scribed $3.50 goo. The remainder was taken
BY parties in Boston and in Vermont
The act provides that when not less thah
one tbousand shares of stock are taken, the
Commissioners shall call meeting oil Inc
stockholders for the election Of directors
As over ttoenty thousand shares have been
subscribed. there is no obstacle to the I'M
mediate and complete organization OF TIT
new company. We expect the speedy re-
tirement of the Vermont Central mortgage
bonds, as provided for by the act ana ''
see the new company in full possession o
the roads,-a consummation most devoutA
10 he wished, as release of the roads iron
their present condition " in chancery'
and a promise of relief from their preSen
roubles
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-02

E;,bt montbs of the current fiscal year oil
tbe Vermont Mutual Insurance Company
have zone by. and an assessment OF one per
cent. covers all the losses during that tiihe'
which is a good fortune few mutual COM
Panies can boast Of.
J.E. Woodbury., of Berlin, uroPpeu "a
the street in Montpelier. recently, aP ~
age containing over 81 DOT, winch W. .pto 30
to him wbereupon he offered Mrs. sawyer
The mnnifeent sum of 81 as reward lor
her integrity
Cvrenus LYMAN of Duxbury is the owner
of only five ewes, which have brought INN nm
ten nice lambs this winter, all liVlhS. OHU
pair weighed II pounds, and anothcr pan
- pounds at birth.
Post Ainsworth, G. A. r. at Waitsiield
are holding pleasant camp fires when are
well attended.
wINDHAN COUNTY.
Ten divorces were granted at the recent
term of the county court
A small house owned by Henry Williams
of Westminster, has been destroyed by lire.
Insured for 500.
The tobacco growers on the Connecticut
River at Westminster, Putney and vernon
have commenced preparing the ground Tor
seed. Several beds are still beneath banks
of snow three feet in depth, while few
have been shoveled out and the seed sown.
Some of the growers have sold their tobacco
crop Of last season for 20 and 10 cents.
A. G. Nourse, formerly of Brattleboro, has
been elected one Of the Representatives from
New Britain to the Connecticut Legislature.
lie Is a Democrat.
There are quite number Of Manila Pa
per Mills in Vermont. The business has
grown up within 10 years and in the vlcInl-
ty Of Putney and Bellows Falls is quite an
important interest.
The Good Samaritans Of Brattleboro voted
down a resolution to substitute monthly for
weekly meetings.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
The Directors of the Windsor County Ma
tual Fire Insurance Company, at their re-
cent meeting, ordered an assessment OF two
per cent to meet the losses the past year.
This Is below the rate of any company in
the country, and below its own average
Almira Burbank of Bethel, long a town
charge, was found dead in bed a few morn
ings since.
G.. L. Cass Of Proctorsville, has taken the
/ Tyson House, at Tyson Furnace.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-02
BY TELEGRAPH
Special to the Free Press and Times.
The Vt. Central Investisatio"'o'k" "-
nation of the New Company.
TO THE FREE PRESS 4 TINES.

The VT. Central Investisatfon.--Orgnh
izntion fthe New Company.
ST. Adams, W., April 3O.-The railroad
hearing is likely to last through the week.
Thus far the evidence Is favorable to the
railroad management.
The subscription books to the stock oil the
Central Vermont railroad which were
opened this afternoon, were closed at sunset
with a cash subscription of S2.O0O,OOo, and
of second mortgage bonds one hundred and
twepty-eeven thousand. The new company
will be strong one, with abundant means
at command to pay all indebtedness and put
the road in the best possible condition 1t
was the common remark by the gentlemen
from Boston and other localities that the
Vermont Central railroad now Is stronger
than if ever has been before. No man IN
the country has been more malignei oil late
than Gov. Smith. but to him alone Is due
the credit of lifting the Central road from
the condition it has been in Of late, INTO it.
improved position. The rival interests that
have done what they could to break down
the Central line and divide its effects, here
fter will have to deal with powerful cor
poration. The friends Of the managers of
the line may well rejoice over the result.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-02
For tho Free fres
Burlington and Qucbec.-New Railway.

BurlluSiOH anu Vatp'N' Wv """""l'
M Dear Free Press:
Are YOU Burlingtonians asleep? Don
Won want new four feet eight and hall
inches Air Line Railway connection with
Quebec through one Of the best parts oil
Vermont and Lower Canada? lfso, pray
look about you and see if the thing can t be
done. The goodpeople of Westiield, Lowell ,
Eden, &c, have put their hands into their
pockets, and they are about to have rall-
road survey made from the " boundary
Line" between North Troy and Manson
Vile. and 50 on southwest " looking to Bur
lington." The " Big Thing in view is, to
Join at As near North Troy the four feet
eight and A half inches railroad. expected
soon to be built from that point via west
side of Magog Lake to Richmond, 7. O., at
the junction of the Atlantic and St. Law
renee and Grand Trunk Railroad (sOon to
be four feet eight and half inches), and so
form a through Air Line" from the grand
old city of Quebec to the city of Burlington,
and thence "all over the world. Any
shrewd business man well acquainted with
the whole country through which this pro-
posed road is to pass, will say at once,
''Theres money in it :" and wouldn't It
gladden. the hearts Of the " ten thousand
SAll Round Trippers" when fleeing from
Z" Gotham" to escape sun stroke, and
having "done" Niagara, st. Kits, Toronto,
Ottawa, Montreal. Quebec, Saguenay, Ca
couna. &c, to return by . The Air Line
via Richmond and along the home route and
''do" Magog, Mansfield, Burlington Cham
plain, Lake George, Saratoga, the Hudson,
&c? You will not be surprised, there
fore, that the sleepy Canadians" as we
sometimes laughingly call them, areiust now
''rubbing their eyes" a little and looking
over the matter. The new proposed rail
road. called the "Alissisquoi and Black
River Valley Railway" from Richmond,
p. O., to the cline" near North Troy, has
received the approval of the Quebec Minis
try and Parliament, and also government
appropriation to aid in its construction
Several municipalities have already taken
stock in the enterprise, and the prospects of
soon raising all the necessary local stock,
are said to be good. j. III. Graham, Esq,
of Richmond, p. O., a gentleman well
known to many Vermonters, is the Manag-
ing Director Of the above Quebec Company.
Should the Vermont end of the new project
be carried ont. immense advantages to both
countries may fairly be expected to flow
therefrom. Yours truly,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-02

The appointments were then read and the
conference adjourned.
Among the appointments outside Of the
St. Adams District are Ii. A. Spencer for
Montpelier J. NJ. Puffer, Barre; W. K.
Pufler, Mortified; A. L. Cooper st. Johns
bury; W. c. Robinson, Holland and Nor
gan; NJ. Adams, Pittsfield; Peter Merrill,
Chelsea Daniel Lewis. West Burke; K.
Morgan, Lyndon and II. W. Worthen for
Springfield.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-02
WASHINGTON NEWS.


WAsuNGTo,<. April 30
Hon. james Brooks. representative In
Congress from New York, lied nj his resi-
dence in this city. tonight, at : 30. in the
presence Of his family. He recognized those
around him to the very last moment. He
had long been in feeble health. from (as he
himself frequently Said) the effects of g.
fever contracted in Asia. The deceased Wa
in the 63rd year of his age. His death has
created profound sorrow in all circles OF the
community