Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-10

-. lie vehicles were let.
/, The Legislatures of New York, Mass
o chusetts and Maine, organized on the frs
: At Albany, the principal ''job = on han
= is providing a new charter for New Ior
city.
The Fifth Avenue Theatre, burned
? New York on Wednesday, was one of th
most popular and fashionable of the cit
play houses. 1t was noted for the perfet
ton and nicely of its fittings and stage az
y Pointments.
For the first time under General Gran
the treasury statement, instead of the usua
reduction Of from one to a dozen millions c
the public debt, reports an apparent inereas
l during December of million and hall
though when all the accounts are square
up to January l, the balance, it is stated
will be considerably larger on the right side
f The Springfield Republican calls the delea
of Mr.. William S. Robinson's e. Warning
ton ~ reelection as Clerk of the Massa
chusetts House, " the first demonstration 0
the Boutwell, coalition in our Stat
politics" The result was generally unex
: pected Colonel c. II. Taylor, of S0mer
vile. was elected Clerk.
GOV. Caldwell. the Republican Governor
elect of North Carolina, and other Stat
officers were inaugurated Jan. lst. The Cover
nor, in hisaddress, declared that he did not in
tend to take the part Of a partisan. Other
things being equal, he should give his pat
ronage to party friends, but when he could
not fill an office from his own party accept
ably to himself he would consider it hi,
duty to select good man from the opposite
party.
Full returns from all the States of the vote
for presidential electors are now received.
These give Grant .. 592 1854 and Greeley , :
1913, sl7, showing a popular majority for
Grant of $50, 1877, which Is larger by 4i9,
5i9than!in 1865. The Republican total vote
was 3 1872 1854, an increase of SO, 796 over
1865 The Republican party carried every
State in the Union but six. Gen. Grant re
ceived three hundred electoral votes, against
sixty-six, scattered among Democrats and
Liberals.
MIR. Hayemeyer was publicly installed as
Mayor Of New York city, on Wednesday.
The ceremony was quite informal. He ap-
preached Mayor Hall, and shook hands
with him. The latter, buttoning up his
coat 1aid, " Mr.. Mayor, allow me to install
YOU in your old Office, to wish You happy
New Year, and pleasant term Then
Mr.. Havemeyer received the private keys Of
the office from the retiring Mayor, bowed,
and that was all. After the ceremony he
received his friends, in the governor room,
according to custom.
The prisoner Stokes appears TO appreciate
his immunity, under the existing admins
tration Of criminal law in New York city.
1t Is related that on Monday morning last
as he (Stokes) WAS passing the cell of man
imprisoned for the murder of his wife, and
looking at his meagre quarters, Stokes re-
marked why wasn't you first class
murderer-murder man and not a woman
and then You would have had a good time
and got clear
1t is announced that the President pro-
poses to remove all federal officials who ac-
cept Offices under state governments. This
will havea tendency to restrain federal
ofhce-holders from undue activity in state
politics, and will secure better civil ser
vice. while preventing such evils rs have
recently occurred in several Of the southern
states. The President decision, it is stated
was occasioned by the conduct Of some Of
the United States officials who also hold
State Offices in Louisiana and Florida
The four towns in Vermont which have
the largest grand list, in proportion to pop
ulation, are as follows, the population and
grand list being taken from the Vermont
Register Orwell has a population of 1872;
grand list, S7,l6s.l6 for each person,
$6.Ol. Shoreham, population, ,225 grand |
list, s. ,5O7.47; for each person, S6.l2. |
Addison, population, OIL grand list, So,
6OO.2i; for each person, S6.H. Charlotte,
l,i3O; grand list, S9,Ol9.72;
for each person, $500. Randolph, which
used to be reported As the richest town in
the State, Is now returned as having pop
ulation of :, 500, grand list of $lO,6O6.6i,
lyeraging'only 1914 for each person.
\ correspondent of the New York Ercn-
ny Post recalls the cold winter ofl779-SO.
From November 25th to the middle of
March the icold wa. severe and almost I'M
Interrupted. The mean temperature for
January was almost twenty degrees below
he temperature of the same month in Ordi-
lary winters. The snow was nearly four
eet deep along the Atlantic coast for at
east three months The winter was severe
II Europe also; and on the 18th of January,
he mercury at Glasgow fell % 10 degrees
,elow zero The heat of some parts Of the
ucceeding summer in America was ex-
rene.
MAGNIFICENT MErEoRIc SHOWER. - The
hip R. c. Winthrop, from Antwerp, re-
orts that ON November y, latitude "a Is q
orth, longitude I7.l9 west. the Madeira
stands being south half east, distant 100
niles, had 4 meteoric shower, commencing
I dark and lasting two and half hours.
n the first hour, a. near as could be judged,
here were from 900 to | 200 meteors in the c
If constantly; in the second hour from
90 to 600, and in the last half hoar were
radually disappearing. About four-ffths a
the meteors appeared like small balls Of '
re moving through the air lesurely, but /
Tiers moved with great velocity, leaving in !
leir track n trail of fire resembling that
/ the wake Of an army. {
The principal cost of the dress Of fashion a
be ladies nowadays is in the labor of :
aking, and the enormous price of import ,
articles 4 jacket or cloak, which
oald have cost ten dollars ten years ago, "
wv costs twenty-five to thirty; suit that Il
uld have been made for fifteen, can now u
only made or bought fer forty-fve; and o
e substantial straw bonnet, for which u
ur or six dollars was considered 4 good II
ice, is transformed into Il nondescript U
hich is only adopted in certain styles of IL
ess, and is called cheap at from twelve to p
teen dollars. The ladies spend much 81
ore money on their clothes without being o'
y better dressed, than they used to be at
If the price. d,
Secretary BOutWeu saws in n unfinished