Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-10-17

b PR L SIS, FRIDA Y
i One of the notices alta farmers gathei
2 ing in Lexington ILL.,, was neatly pat. thus
None bat lire stock should be ioGtered.
The change of gauge on the Grand rrun
Railway OF Canada was completed the ct
t over the entire line, and trains have II
sumed their regular trips
MicInoAN UNIVERSITY has Freshma
class Of 1870. twenty larger than last year
though the requirements, especially 70
scientific students, have been raised.
The Boston Transcript thinks that til
} taxation of ecclesiastical property in thi
; country is one of the questions looming n
in the future.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal Compan,
is not curtailing its operations. 1t keeps
large force at work all the time upon it
enterprises between Albany and Rutland.
James Brown. of Brown Brothers, banker
of New York, has given the Union Theolog
zeal Seminary of New York 100000 t,
complete the endowments of its professor
ships.
WEIGHING OF MAILs.-Thc mails are now
being weighed on various railroads, by
order of the postofico department. The
order is to weigh for thirty working day.
from October LIST.
The New York Examiner makes good
point on the panic, in saying, I've live
literally by faith in our fellow-men. When
men cease to trust one another, they cease
to work together, and arrangement and los,
are inevitable"
The Evangelical Alliance held its closing
sessions in New York, Saturday. After the
adjournment the American branch met and
organized permanently under the name of
the - United States Branch Of the Egange-
lical Alliance.
FoxY.-Itis said that blue fox is going
to be the fashionable fur for the coming
winter. 1t is an expensive article, that
kind of fox being peculiar to high Arctic
ATTITUDES only.
Ia the Superior Court in Boston, a suit
is On trial, in which the plaintiffs, George B.
Nichols Ct ais, sues j. Gregory Smith and
others to recover twenty-five bales Of wool
shipped from Middlebury to Boston and
never delivered. The suit is against smith
and others as receivers of the Rutland Rail
road. The defence is a general denial.
1t does not at all surprise US to learn that
General Judson Fitzpatrick has Joined the
Oranges, and has been elevated to the rank
of Master in the Order Of Patrons of Hus-
bandry One by one these representative
farmers are recognized and receive the re-
ward of their years of laborious sacrifices as
tillers Of the soil.
The appointment of Morton, Rose L Co..
of London. as fiscal agents of the State De
partment Of the government in Europe, is
well received in financial circles. The APP
pointment is probably IN part a compliment
to Sir John Rose, who took an active part
in the Joint High Commission on the Ala
bama claims
The expenditures Of the Department Of
Public Works in New York during the last
year of Tweed's swindling reign were close
upon 5000, 900; the estimates for 1873 only
call for 81 $50 ,OeO. The difference, says the |
Times, between wholesale plumber and con-
scientious administration could not be more
forcibly illustrated.
The Pennsylvania Constitutional Con-
yention has provided for increasing the |
membership of the Legislature By the /
ratio Of representation recommended, the
house viii have 2ll member, instead of 100, |
As now. The change Is said to be owing to
the conviction that small legislative
body is more exposed to corruption than a
larger one.
1t is reported that Congressman Wilson
Of Indiana, who was chairman Of the second
committee on Credit Mobilier investigation.
will, early in the next session, enter mo-
ton to revive his committee, when be will
continue his inquiry into the Central Pa
cifc Railroad history. 1t Is his purpose, If
he secures the necessary authority, to look
into the operations of all the roads which
have received aid from tho government. in
GLIDING the Northern Pacific and the Mem
phis and Fl Paso or Southern Pacific.
The legal tender " reserve so-called. Of
the l. ). Treasury, has been drawn upon
to the extent of three millions. The present
belief at the department Is that not more
than five or six millions will be used. The
receipts from customs and internal revenue
Ire daily increasing, and unless matters
grow unexpectedly worse, the usual figures
will be regained by the close of the month.
After that the reserve will be called in again
: rapidly as possible
With the manifold rulings, opinions and
decisions by various Treasury official, on
he back pay appropriation, the public q
mind must be in a decidedly mixed condi-
ion on the subject; The latest "opinion" a
8 that given by the First Comptroller of d
he Treasury, and j. adverse to that Of the a
Their accounting officers, to the effect that $
he appropriation made for back pay and il
llaries is not indefinite and permanent il
-ithin the meaning Of the act regulating
uexpendel balances: that it is only in Il
efnite in amount and not in time and con- i
'quently in two years unexpended balances u
salaries will revert to the Treasury. e.
Deputy United States Marshal Anthony =
omstock, the officer who caused II. E.
unter Of IIinslale, " H., to be arraigned "
r circulating obscene literature, has again J.
served well Of his country by causing the =
rest of a dozen of the notorious quacks =
ho have 50 long piled their traffic in the -
God of the innocents in Court street, -
oston. The principals arc charged l.,
imarily with using the United States "
ais for the purpose of circulating obscene 4;
erature. 1t is said that some Of them :
We virtually confessed their guilt and the
bile is assured that ample ev idence has -:
en- collected against all of them to secure
nyiction without any personal acknow II,
lgment. au
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1t is related As fact that there have been it
covered in New Zealand the fossil bones ke
a bird 50 enormous that 1t is conjectured d.
have preyed upon the moa itself, and "a,
lbtless only persisted when there was pc
more TO eat. 1t had curved talons 50 cei
~ buU. and shawn .bat II r,oles Sind ~