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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31
FOREIGN

The emigrant vessel North Fleet was SUNK
in the English Channel, Jan. -, by COLL
sion with another ship, and over 300 per
sons we're lsst. The steamer when ran
down the emigrant vessel, paid no attention
to the latter after thecollision but proeseaeu
on her voyage. The steamer i Said TO De
the Peavo. bound from Antwerp TO havana,
buckingham Palace has been placed al
the disposal of the Shah Ot Persia ior
residence during his visit to Eng-and--
The Hungarian Lloyd says that 1enera4
kapka will undertake the reorganlzatioH
of the Turkish army. For the task, Wh!eA
will extend over two years, be Is 70 receive
GOO 600 iorin~.-Prince Ri marck has re-
ceiyei from the Emperor William, on the
occasion Of his quitting the Prusslan
Premiership the order of the Black Eagle,
SET in brillantS-Fr0m COnstantlnOple
it j. announced that the Turkish Govern
ment has authorized a loan of Sl25 ,OO0,O
20 complete the system Of railways IN Iur-
kew In Europe. and extend their lines be
vond the B0sphorus.-ltis estimated that
the number Of hands out on strike IN south
Wales Is 10000. 0ne-third IF them being
C0lliers. The ironwOrkers, having no unlon'
are entirely without resources y large
number Of the colliers are seeking work IN
the steam and house coal collieries."A
shadow darkening the prospects of Spain Is
the increasing unp0pularity OF hing
Amadeus II Is stated that the King on his
side Is compile ely Disguised with his situa-
ton. and only remains in the country AZ a
point Of honor 70 support the policy which
the Italian Government has traced out Tor
itself-Ihere Is much uneasiness IN Eng
land in consequence of the English note to
Russia regarding the disputed boundary
question in Central Asia.-The Thonley
estate in England, after which one hundred
American heirs have, for thirty years, been
struggling in the English chancery courts,
has been decided finally to belong TO the
English claims MT This knocks out Of the
American heirs $3.50, O0O. 900 they could
have had just : well a. not if the decision
had been the Their way.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The question has been quietly and earn
es:ly discussed for some time among both
Senators and Representatives as to the pro-
priety of increasing the salaries of members
of both Houses to $40, GOO year, the prop
osition to include the present Congress
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

\ Washington special says one Of the
leading lawyers Of the country expresses
the opinion that the government will now
take steps to dispossess the Union Pacific
railroad Of its charter and settle up its ac-
counts. Moreover, that Judge Hoar says
sufficient evidence has already been adduced
in the Credit Mobilier investigation, to
forfeit the Union Pacific charter in several
courts, and in this view Hon Caleb Gushing
heartily comedies. How much Of this Is
fact, and how much stockjobbing rumor,
we cannot say.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The New York Commercial thinks "Nye
would make capital Minister to China.
We want such talent as his to deal with the
imperial All Sin at Pekin. Moreover, 1t
would be decided benefit to Nye personal
ly. He greatly lacks what 'Ouida' would
call the 'Orientalesque.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

At meeting Of the Boston Board oil
Trade, on Friday. the officers Of the Board
were requested, by unanimous vote, TO
address a memorial to Congress, remon-
strating against the passage of any measure
looking to a repeal of the national bankrupt
loxr
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The vote by which Governor Oglesby, OF
Illinois, was elected United States Senator,
on Wednesday, stood Oglesby, lis;
Trumbull, IS; Coolbaugh, 2; Oglesby' 5
majority over all. IS.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

A man who has been sentenced to read
the Credit Mobilier investigation through
has petitioned for change of sentence to
Imprisonment for life
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The murderers in the Tombs are repre-
Sented as greatly depressed" by the oc-
currenee of the last two shootings and the
comments of the press upon them. Stokes
shows more uneasiness than he has ever be-
fore showi., and all on Wanderers row ''
talk as if their doom was certain. Foster
will probably be resentenced to the gallows
to-day. Stokes's bill of exceptions has gone
toJudge BOardman, who sentenced him, for
signature or rejection, and his disposition of
it viii probably be known to-day.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The Springfield Republican gives list OF
about seventy places, containing more than
half the population of Massachusetts, IN
which smallpox has appeared within three
months and in most of which it is now active.
In nearly all the towns within twenty miles
of Boston the disease seems to be on the IN
crease. 1t is Of course not likely that the
spread of the epidemic can be confined by
State lines We must expect TO see the
disease prevailing throughout New England
1t has already made its appearance in Hines
burg, in this county, under circumstances
which forebode au increase Of cases in that
town and we hear Of it in several other parts
of this state These facts carry their own
moral, which is-get vaccinated, without
delay.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

There is only one shing we can recolI
upon which Hope sheds a more sickly raw
than upon t he suit of the heirs of Robinson
CruSoe. for the recovery of the Island of
Juan Fern andez, and thai. is the future If
the Democr attic Party -
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The Chicago Inter Ocean knows OF
family. consisting of six members, that
manages to live in Washington quite com
fortably on 81 900 year.
Query. Are four of them cats?
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31
.nrNARY OF THE WEEK.
DOMESTIC

DOMESTIC
u..a.mes woodruff and Claim "ei'
.,o;n arrested Jan. 81, and piaeed III IL. ~
a1ce vile the authorities extending " 49,
the Inequalities of the TOmts.-o"' Uon
der in New York, Jan. 23.-1vn
william Cassidy, OF the Albany AFyIs' N.t
Tan o3-It is proposed that hereafter 'ns u,
Sta,a election in Pennsylvania shall be neiu
on the Tuesday succeeding the first weeA ~
November-the day Of the PresidenIiA, !.
.,Oot;an The remaining $500, OOo, GOO oil
the five per cent funded loan have 'o,A
.oLan bv , combination of prominent oahA-
omonp whom are the Earrings ana 'ne
po,bscb;lds-Foster, the car-hook muir
Ior will he hung on Friday, March -
C,adit Nobilier Investigations 90 on anu
49, disclosures show much OF pollticai
,ocrsrv or of roguery among politicians
n eontradictoryiis some ofthe evidence '""'
neriury must have been eommitted--
rn.,bsr accounts from Minnesota show that
49, ;no,ruration snow storm in January
DESTROYED much larger number OIL ii'e9
,ban was at first reported. The number Is
said 70 be 3OO.-A bill to provide Tor 'ne
1;s+ribption of the money awarded al
GENEVA to Alabama claimants was orousn'
before the L. ). House Of Representative
10, % and referred TO the Judiciary com
nittee-Mr. Hale has placed IN the hahds
If Mr.. Fish. to be delivered to the President
his RESIGNATION Of the Office OF Assls'in'-
S..-e,orv Of State. The President has
ro,,inated and the Senate confirmed, j. t
pone-o,t Davis As Mr.. Hale's successor
The Bowen-DeLarge contested election caSe
,as finally settled saturday, the House De
clarinc neither party was entitled to the
seat The mysterious disappearance OIL
Mr. \. A. Shute, the Cashier Of the Granite
state National Bank, Exeter, y H. ha7
bssn solved. 1t appears that he Is de-
a,lter to the amount Of Sl65, 200, and that
the bank has not any bonds to fall BACK
rnon TO make good its loss; is confidence IN
hin, being 80 great that when his bonds e2-
,i-el they were not enewed-lndictments
have been found By the Grand jury oil the
Tinted States District Court against susan
p Anthony and fifteen other women
charging hem with voting illegally IN
Rochester. Indictments were also louh4
AGAINST the three inspectors who received
their votes.-It has been determined that
the government will compromise with the
house Of Phelps, Dodge & Co. upon 'he-'
having the sum of S264 900 for underyalua-
/ ton Of their business.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

Grace Greenwood writes to the New York
Times of Parson Brownlow " Looking
down from a place near the reporters gal
lery, | caught sight on a senatorial desk of
the familiar shape Of an attenuated foot,
and looking again, saw Mr.. Brownlow in
his seat, still unchanged. after the great
change which several years ago left him a
wreck in all but his keen intellect and in
flexible will There was the same paid and
impassiye face, the same wasted, helpless
and tremulous figure figure which the
waves ofpolitical agitation seem to break
against, and pass round, bat never move
which seems to have no reality about it,
unless it be the power TO occupy. till the
live man comes. Yet there Is something
grand in the neyer--ay-die spirit of the grit
ty old fighting parSon Of Tennessee.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The Legislatures Of five states have voted
for United States senator's, within day or
two-Pennsylyania, Wisconsin, Nevada.
Georgia and Florida The first four
elected Cameron. Howe, Jones and Gen.
Gordon; the other southern state reached
mo result.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

\ singular shooting ARRAY occurred al
Tioga Center, n. Y, a station on the South
ern Central railroad, last Saturday. A
man by the name of Hand entered the Office
of Col William Ransom, drew pistol and
shot Mr.. Ransom, who sat in a chair, twice
On being arrested and asked what be did it
for, he said On him, wanted to kill
him. The rumor is that the foundation of
the trouble was financial transaction in
which Hand was beat in some way. Ran
som will recover and Hand is in Jail at Os-
werO
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The present Congress is doing some i'm
portant work. The Senate has passed the
bill abolishing the ranking privilege, and
the House that repeating the bankruptcy
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The Springfield Un,on is little hard ON
the Yale boysof the present day, when it
says the reason why Professor Tyndall
thinks 80 much Of the Yale boys, and 50 ef-
fusiyely accepts the invitation TO lecture
before them, i because they afford 50 bril-
liant an illustration of his views concerning
the ineffciency Of prayer. Probably they
are prayed for harder, and get salvation
slower, than any ether set of young men in
the country.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

What is the matter over in England!
We are continually receiving accounts from
there of tremendous mercantile failures.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

Heavens Vicegerent'' in Louisiana
Judge Durell, has made bother enough ia
induce Vermont hereafter to keep al her
citizens likely to become entangled in such
vicarious employment, at home CONNER
eiai Advertiser.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The Prison Reform Congress opened a.
Baltimore. Tuesday, and continued it ses-
sion through yesterday. Horatio Seymour
was chosen President Of the association for
the ensuing year. Among the Vice-Presi-
dents, are Senator Wilson, Speaker Blaine
and Congressman Kerr. Papers were read
on prison discipline, on criminal legislation
and on the penal institutions Of North
Carolina, which are represented a. in a de-
plorable condition.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The gay season at Washington has just
begun and with receptions, State Sociables,
Germans" dinner parties, Patti and
Mario, Janauschek. Boucicault, Aimee,
Thomas concerts and grand weddings, one
l. bewildered.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

CoNxLrNG RE-ELEcTED.-The New York
Senate's vote for United States Senator
Tuesday morning resultedas follows Ros-
coe Conkling, 20: Charles Wheaton, .
William NJ Eyarts, l; Henry Selden, /.
The three Greeley Republicans were divided
upon Eyarts, Selden and Conklinge The
Assembly vote was % for Conkling and pc
for Wheaton, strict party vote.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The ex-rebel Gen. John b. Gordon was
elected United States Senator by the Geor-
gia legislature on Wednesday, upon the fifth
ballot The final vote stood ll2 for Cor
don, st for Alexander II. Stephens. and
for Alderman. Gordon received seven Re
publican votes, there being no chance FOR
the election Of Mr.. Alderman. Hence he
owes hi, election to the Republican mem
bers. The term j. for siI years from the 18th
Of March next
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The MISSES FEET. The correspondent
of the New York Herald in speaking of the
Washington receptions, revives an aneedote
connected with the late Senator Foot of this
state. He says 1.-THE cabinet ladies' as they
like to call themselves, are at home on
Wednesdays, when they have the services
of the department messenger to open their
doors and to announce visitors Now-a-
days these messengers are all of the African
persuasion, but in ante-5elium they were of
the Celtic race, and one of them, who
prided himself on his grammatical knowl-
edge, on being told to announce Senator
Foot and the Misses Foot roared ont ''Sena-
tor Foot and the Misses Feet"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

1t appears from British official reports
that 395 emigrant ships, containing l63,-
SIS passengers, most Of whom were emf
grants, left the MerSey during 1872 for the
United States. Of these passengers and
emigrants, - ,5lj We're English. :, 537 were
Scotch, "a go were Irish, and &C, $40 were
from various other countries Canada re-
ceiyed but Is ,O36 emigrant,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31
Iror.

Recently published statistics show that
last year there was an enormous increase in
the amount of ore mined in several states.
Michigan, which the census credits with
mining 600 1888 tons, last year mined near
ly'l .OoO ,0G0. Missouri last year raised 400 O.
600 tons gainst is, $40 in $50. while New
York state added 80 per cent. to the 40
1873 tons reported for 1870. There has been
a corresponding increase IN the furnace ca
pacity of the country. According to a list
in the report IF the American Pig Iron
Manufacturers Association, there were.
last August, recently completed or building,
50 blast furnaces, distributed a. follows
Pennsy iyania. Il Indiana. Illinois. ,:
Missouri. >; Tennessee, 1: Ohio. 10;
Michigan and Lake Superior region. 5.
Since that time steps have been taken to
build probably 30 other furnaces. All the
new enterprises will, it Is estimated insure
an addition 20 the annual productive capac-
ity Of the country of 500, 900 tons of pig
iron, with an Investment Of from S35. OOO,-
600 TO $4,000. 600. This increase seems
warranted by the increasing demand for
iron throughout the world The annual
production Of the world is about Is 900 900
tons, much les than the actual demand.
Treat Britain is now the only formidable
competitor Of this country in iron produc-
ton, and She i becoming less so each year
on account of the enhanced price of coal,
the failure Of valuable ores and increasing
cost oflabor The price of manufactured
iron Is nov advancing in England on ac-
count of the tecent strike Of IS GOO laborers
IN the fonndries and rolling mills Of Wales
Railroad iron has been especially affected,
and it isprobable that high prices will be
steadily maintained throughout the year.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31


The franking privilege seems in fair way
to be abolished at last. The Senate, in its
action on the House bill, made complete
sweep of it, making no provisions for the
issue of stamps for the use of the Depart
ments, no provision for the distribution of
public documents, and adding positive
provision that Senators and Members shall
have no extra allowance on account of post
age. The bill goes back to the House,
therefore, with the repeal of all legislation
on the Thanking privilege and with the last
named proviso. In nearly this form the
House has passed bills twice to abolish the
franking privilege, but it was very gene
raj surmise that the House knew the Senate
could be trusted to prevent their passage
Now the responsibility of defeating the
measure is thrown back on the House but
it is hard to see how the record that has
been made there can be reversed, and the
opinion is prevalent that the House will
take the Senate proposal. If public docu-
ments are to pay postage, it is safe to say
the Public Printer will have his labors much
lightened. The law, if it becomes one, is to
take effect July /, 1878.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

At each OF the shire towns of the four
teen counties, there i constructed a build
ing for the temporary detention of prison
ers, previous to trial and acquittal or SEN
tence for crime. They consist Of one or
two large looms and few cells. designed
for the safe keeping of persons arrested. On
conviction of certain minor offences, the
law sentences 10 confinement in Jail Is for
example, lewdness in females, theft OF fruit,
careless Use Of firearms, and certain offences
against the prohlbitory liquor law. Tue
county Sheriff has charge Of the Jail and
special care of the premises Religious
services arc occasionally held in them, but
there is no general rule or law on that point
Some efforts have been made to effect i'm
provements in our jail system. but as yet no
practical results appear. In this, Vermont
has nothing whereof TO boast
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

Mr.. Ames continues d" sloshing around :"
in the Credit Mobilier Investigation. and
some heads get hit which were supposed 10
be out of reach. On Wednesday Mr.. Ames
made statement OF his dealings with Mr..
Colfax. In January, 1865, he said Mr.. Col
fax agreed to take 20 shares of Credit Mo-
bilier stock. lie paid no cash. In Febru-
airy, Mr.. Ames received the so per cent. div
idend in frs: mortgage Union Pacific
bonds, sold them, and credited Mr.. Colfax
with the proceeds. On March 5th, Mr..
Colfax paid him the balance due for the
purchase money for the shares, in check
on the Sergeant-at-Arms for S534.72. In
the following June, Mr.. Ames paid him
cash dividend of 81 200 by check on the
Sergeant alarms, payable to S. c., or
bearer. He never handed him the Pacific
stock dividends declared, but still held
them, waiting the result of the McComb
suit. He considered them and the 80 shares
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

The GREAT PRAIRIE STORM OF JANUARY
| 7ru.-They have a theory out West that
they DO not feel the cold a. much there as
We do in New England, though their Their
mometers mark lower. But the accounts
which come from there Of the loss of life by
| the recent terrible storms. show that human
powers of endurance have been taxed there.
as they seldom or never are in New Eng
land and that human life succumbs To ez-
posure to temp eratures Of fifty below zero
/ there. as surely as elsewhere. \ correSpon-
dent of the New York Herald describes the
the recent awful tempest tina, swept over
the prairie State of Minnesota. 1t lasted,
without intermission. for over fifty hours.
From two hundred 10 three hundred lives
were lost, and the snow-drifts mounted
higher than the houses. Babies were frozen
stark at their mothers breasts, and the
scenes presented after the hurricane ceased
were probably more appalling than any
ever Yet witnessed on the tornado-swept
plains Of the West. The writer SAYS
When Fri lay. the 10th. came, the sun
rose upon a land of snow and silence
| Drifts many feet deep and many square miles
in extent wee there. Here and there the
chimney of a house stood up like tomb
stone IN Va st cemetery. The land lay like
corpse un der a winding-Sheet that had
moulded lt>e II into occasional wrinkles over
the dead lin J. or set features. Now came
the giant lab or Of clearing away the giant
drifts and 81 ting free the Imprisoned trains,
and the SadCer task of tracing through the
pralrles the steps Of the dead Everywhere
like in
TIE Icy EMBRACE OF DEATH
Sometimes the searchers would find man AMI
horses tOget her, the former lying dead
wrapped in has robes with the whip in his
hand, IN the sleigh. one horse down, the
other standin 2 in the spot where he was
fastened by his partners fall till he shared
his partners fate Sometimes the sleigh
was found owe rturned. with the traces eat.
Then TO right OF left would be discovered
the driver, who had wandered round In a
despairing circ lie TO die. Occasionally the
beasts showed in their dilated noStrils.
widely spread lips and staring eyes the
signs Of mortal terror And the men. too
We're sometime Laocoons Of ice-statues Of
writing despa II But, a. a rule. death
came quietly, ass 1t generally does in these
cases, first r0bbing the victim of the CON
ssclousness Of approaching death, which
begets an ago nized struggle for life. and
sitting him with stupor said to be a de-
licious a. it Is deadly.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31

Such is a brief view Of The penal and re-
formatory institutions of Vermont, leaving
out of the record the work of Christian
Sabbath schools and the Christian educators.
as preventing agencies. We submit the
facts, in the belief that if, in some things.
Vermont falls in the rear of some States in
the great enterprise of true prison reform,
it is not by reason of the lack either Of ewes
to perceive her deficiencies, or the head to
find remedies for them, or the heart to press
the application, in the due time, unto the
successful issue. Vermont may be in the
rear, but she, is not asleep
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31
III. TIE REFORM SCHOOL.

The Reform School was opened at Water
bury, in 1850. II was instituted mainly on
the plan Of the school at Lancaster, Ohio,
viz that of the family. In 1872 there
were reported IL inmates. The limit of
admission j. under sixteen years of age. The
sentences are during minority, furloughs
and discharges being discretionary with the
officers Of the institution. The congregate
system is now practised. Boys only are ad-
mitted. They are instructed in the elements
of the branches of useful learning which are
generally taught in our schools, and are
trained to industry, morality and good or
der. The results, thus far. are of a highly
encourage nature.