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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

srAri>TIcs PROM The DEPARTMENT or AcRicrL-
TIRE

STATISTICS FROM THE DEPARTMENT or AcRicrL-
TURE.
The report of j. r. Dodge, statisician Of
the Department of Agriculture. upon the
comparative numbers of the different kinds
of farm animals, as shown by careful esti-
mates annually made by country correspon-
dents, shows a small increase in the horses,
cattle and sheep Of the United States, while
the number of swine will nearly reach the
total Of last year The indicated increase in
horses Is about two per cent, and the ad-
vance in cattle is nearly aS much. The per-
centage OF horses, as compared with last
year, is as follows Maine. Rhode Island
Connecticut and New jersey, 90 per cent;
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
New York. Pennsylvania, Delaware, Florida
and Ohio, 100 Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennes-
see, Indiana and California. lOl Georgia,
Kentucky, Illinois and Wisconsin. l02
and West Virginia, l04 Mississippi and
Texas, l0j; Minnesota, los ; Arkansas,
l09 Kansas and Nebraska, 10 Mules in
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Virginia. Florida, Louisiana and
California, 100 Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin, l0l /;
Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Illinois and Iowa, l02; South Carolina and
Nebraska, l03 North Carolina and West
Virginia, lO4 Texas and Minnesota, LOG ;
Kansas, l07 Arkansas, los
The states in which decrease in cows APP
pears are-Texas, 81 Florida, 81 North
Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, 9S Massa-
ehusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Georgia,
80. Those in which numbers are unchanged
are Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, South
Carolina and Kentucky.
The following states show an increase
New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, l0l ;
New Hampshire, Vermont, Tennessee, West
virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, l02 Mis-
souri, Louisiana, 1903 Maine, Wisconsin,
los.
The comparison of numbers of oxen and
other cattle in the several states is as follows
Texas, 81 Connecticut and California, %
Kentucky, &c; Florida, o. Rhode Island
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Mississippi, SO; Vermont, Delaware, yir
ginia, South Carolina and Georgia, 100
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York
Tennessee, West Virginia and Michigan
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21
VOL XLvI. NEW SERIES, VOL. XIX

and big dose of castor OIL Before going to
bed he took eight of new kind Of pill,
wrapped about his neck flannel soaked in
hot vinegar and salt. and had feathers burnt
on shovel in his room. He is now thorough
ly cured and full of gratitude We advise
our readers to cut this out. and keep it
where it can be readily found when danger
threatens.-DanJlry Neics
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

MONKEYS APINc THEIR Thomas
tindley, importer of blooded. fowls and pro
prietor of a saloon on Leidesdorff street. re-
Gently augmented the stock of curiosities in
his saloon by the addition of two large and
intelligent monkeys. The animals arrived
on the last steamer from the Orient They
were formally introduced to the chief bar
keeper, who rendered them the freedom of
the saloon. The customers watched the an
tics of the two strangers with eager interest,
dubbed them Jim and Susie. and voted Jim
a fellow Of infinite Jest Susie went to bed
at reasonable hour and did not object to
being locked in her cage but jim would
not tolerate the advances of any one when
near his cage, and was left roosting over a
door, when the time for closing the saloon
arrived Next morning when the bar keep
er opened the door he saw something fiving
through the air, and dogged his head lust in
time to escape sound blow. He peeped
into the window and saw jim perched on 4
tall ale cask, with pile of boxes around
him, evidently waiting for the reappearance
of the bar-keeper's head The latter pro-
cured reinfOrcements and sought to overawe
Jun. The monkey, evidently determined
not TO yield without desperate struggle,
gathered all the available soda bottles and
boxes and chunks of wood about his strong
hold, and upon the advance of the bar-keep-
er and his command, hurled his missiles to-
ward the enemy with great rapidity and pre-
cision, and as long as the ammunition held
out he conld not be diSlodged Finally Jim
was brushed with club and persuaded to
be quiet. The strong smell Of liquor that
permeated the air caused the barkeeper to
look around with anxiety, and well he might.
Jim had emptied whisky and brandy upon
the floor, treated Susie to whisky until She
suecumbed to its effects and was in a beastlv
state of intoxication. and had filed all the
bottles with Sawdust, the damage amount
ing to $40. Mr. Findley no longer takes
interest in monkeys, but will cheerfully give
information on the subject To persons Of an
inquiriag turn Of mind, or direct them to
Robinson, q" the tropical curiosity man. Of
Washington street, with whom Susie aud
jim are residing.
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The Washington Capital, which has beer

The Washington Capital, which has been
very severe in its comments on the Credit
Mobilier, says in its last issue:
Now the fun of this Credit Mobilier in
vestigation comes in on the fact that Is net
has caught the honest men, financially con-
sldered, of Congress. This is the common
remark and it is the subject of general
hilarity about Washington. No two in
telligent observers can look each other in
the face and not laugh at the charge that
any one of these men, if we except John A.
Bingham, has been influenced directly by
money. Messrs. Colfax, Wilson and Kelley,
for example, are very tiresome fellows with
their eternal talk about moral legislation
and parental government, that is as stupid
as it is insincere, but no sane mind know
ing the gentlemen can be made to believe
that they ever were influenced in their
official duties by money. The fact that
after generation of public life-a public
life that has been sober, hard-working and
economical-a good-sized army blanket
would cover the property Of any one OF them
is proof as strong as holy writ that they are
honest.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

An OLD Tine SENAroR.-W hen Hon.
Samuel Prentiss was L. ). Senator from this
State, he said in his valedictory to his tel-
low Senators, when he accepted the office of
District Judge, and in reply to the hand
some encomiums which they passed upon his
Senatorial service Il would not under
value popularity, but | should not dare to
make it the rule of my official or personal
conduct" Mr.. PrentiSs was n lawyer OF
large experience and attainments, a Judge
of clear intelligence, discrimination and i'm
partiality, a Senator of great influence and
usefulness, a man of incorruptible integrity
and honesty He never made use of his Off
cial position to take for his own use sheet
of note paper or solitary pencil that be-
longed to the government. He belonged to
that splendid array Of statesmen and jurists
who illustrate the earlier period of the his
tory of the L. ). Senate. His opinions and
judgments could not have been bought with
the gold of the Indies, and a bribe would
have been resented with burning indigna-
tion Montpelier WdtchmGH.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

\ SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST a RAILROAD
The action Of railroad companies is some
times oppressive in the extreme, and this
no one knows better than Mr.. Archibald n.
Clemons Of Dresden Mr. Clemons owns
an extensive bed of gravel on the line of the
railroad from Whitehall to Ticonderoga
The RAILROAD company coveted the deposit,
and being unwilling to pay Mr.. ClemOns 4
reasonable price forit. undertook to acquire
title under the State statute. Justice Pot
ter, Of the supreme Court. appointed as
commissioners of appraisal near relatives
of the Company attorneys. Mr.. Clemons
appealed to the General Term, and obtained
a stay of proceedings. Judge Potter, after
argument, dissolved the stay, and ordered
the commissioners to 90 on. Last week wit
neS~es were examined As TO the value Of the
property Thus the commissioners are
acting on an order whose validity j. Vet to
be passed upon by the General Term A
most arbitrary proceeding.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

Gen. Stark, Of the Lowell railroad, in
answer to the request that the company
build grain elevators in Boston, says that
while the road has such uncertain eonnec-
ton with the railroads at the North, be-
cause of hostile legislation in New Hamp-
shire, it is not considered advisable to make
the large expenditures required. He says
that if the proposed union with the Fitch
burg railroad is effected, all necessary
terminal facilities will be speedily furnished.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

MR. FESToS OF NEW YORK-Time writes
no wrinkle on his azure (?) brow Disas-
ter lessons not his habitual smile A
blank, dead future seems to throw no chill
upon his urbane present. lie is still Uriah
Heapish with his hands, and cordially non
cOmmittal with his mouth. But he knows
as well as you and | know, that his mer-
curry is at zero in the thermometer of every
body's estimation. lie is never spoken of,
save with an implied sneer. What he saws
and does is never thought of As being of the
least present or contingent Importance. 1t
Is trying to ones nerves TO 90 about among
people who express all those things in
their eyes and acts. But Mr.. Fenton has
good nerves. His plan Of action for the
future is plainly marked QUITO 90 about
as if nothing had happened. In pursuance
OF this plan, he was one Oithe callers at the
White House on New Years Day He
smiled his smile and shook the hand of
President Grant with every evidence of kind
ly good will and deepest respect. This was
to indicate to the President, suppose, that
Mr.. Fenton has forgiven him for his re-
election, and is willing 10 readmit him into
his confidence. But it Is not many months
since Mr.. FentOn was confdentially inform
ing his friends that the said Grant was-to
take the varnish off Mr. Fentons more re-
fined phrases-a thief. s0t. a ScOundrel.
tyrant and nepotist If Mr. Fenton
thought he was telling the truth when he
said these things, could he in honor extend
his hand and congratulation to this thief.
sot, ef al, and in his own house? To my
narrow mind, no Washington Cor. Troy
Times
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The Baltimore American tells the follow

The Baltimore American tells the follow
ing story
Some weeks since, when the Board of
School Commissioners suddenly awoke To
the Importance of having 4 thorough vac
cinatiOn Of the teachers and pupils of the
public schools, and after the receipt from
New York of the quills containing the
vaccine virus. each member of the Board
took two Of the quillS with him, either to
show as curiOsities or to use among his
family. One very eStimable gentleman Of
the Board. not familiar with the use Of
the virus attached 10 the open end of the
Quill, on his way home stopped at his club
room, where several friends were sitting in
conversation. He exhibited quill, and ex-
plained in his own way its use, when one
of those present, an officer in one of our
Courts, expressed desire to be yaccinated.
The amiabe Commissioner was equal to
the emergency, and telling his friend to
bare his arm, proceeded with the yaccina-
tion. He first made a cut, which caused
seme pain and a plentiful flow of blood. He
then with his knife cut off the pithy end
of the quill, and with no little pain to his
friend rubbed the pith into the wound
throwing the only valuable part of the
quill (that having the virus) away. The
result has been that the friend vaccinated
by the new process has now very sore
arm, and at times has had to carry 1t in a
sling. His friends are anxiously awaiting
to see a crop of goose feathers as the result
of the operation.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

50per cent by the competition between the
New York Central, the Erie and the Penn
sylyania railroad people.
\ woman book canvasser in indianapolis
sued the owner of vicious COW foD 5000
damage for an injury TO her spine resulting
from an attack of the cow. The evidence
brought ont in the case showed that, while
the woman was ostensibly canyassing for
religious work, she was in reality engaged
in selling an abominable instrument for pro-
curing abOrtions. 1t is rather startling
fact that, selling these instruments for $40
each, she had made $50 in six months
A terrible case of asphyxia from coal gas
recently occurred in Toledo (O.) boarding
house. Mrs. Majors, the proprietor of the
house, her daughter Ida, and Mrs. Quance
were taken suddenly i'll, Tuesday night, and
summoned a physician, but the illness passed
away and they retired. The next morning
Mrs. Quance and Ida were found dead upon
the floor, and Mrs. Majors was but just
alive. Three men upstairs were insensible,
but they recovered, and there is some hope
for Mrs. Majors. The gas came from a de-
fectiye coal stove in the sitting room.
For pleasant, Genial way of avoiding
the abrupt statement of a disagreeable fact,
commend US to this from the Danbury
Necs 8 Mr.. Tonkins of Willimantic, tried
to see how swift he could skate over thin
piece of ice on the Connecticut river, Satur-
day The funeral will take place in the
spring" How much better this polished,
delicate way of putting it, than unfeeling
ly stating the bold fact that Mr.. TOnklns
got drowned.
\ Hartford Conn physician was recent
ly called to attend young man who was
laboring under fit of delirium tremens
lie was very pugilistieally inclined and
the doctor, thinking to quiet him, pointed
a revolver at his head. This only increased
the fury fthe excited patient, who prompt
ly seized the doctor by the throat, and, after
half choking him to death, took him BY the
nape of the neck and kicked him down
flight Of stairs.
Chicago has had great social event in
the marriage Of Miss Percy Wheeler to
Charles W. Opdyke, wealthy son of ex-
Mayor Opdyke Of New York. The report
er who " did the thing for the Chicago
Tribune, and We think it was a " She" says
it was a case of mutual love at first sight,
the '' parties lhaying passed the bread-and-
butter age Of gushingness." Good. Fur
ther on We read Of a dozen bridesmaids
presents all of solid silver; the bridal dress
of white satin, - rich, creamy, iridescent;'
lest0Ons of orange flowers then comes
melange of tulle, pearl edged ribbon. point
d Alencon lace, corsage knots, six-button
kid gloves, diamond crosses, and the she'll
like ears and creamy flesh of the proprietor
Of all this magnifcence. None but pro-
fessional modste could describe such a gor-
geous trou>Seau. without laundering fatal
". The fellows who do up the murders and
fires would have been a. much out of place
at that wedding a. pirate at a christen-
ing.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

know BY sages We are told
To reckon riehss vile;
I'm not sage-ani so, OF sDld
ia Ike pretty pile.
II Is not avarice; u no;
For SoPhie's sake I'd have il 50;
y, It's. be sure
BeaucOup d'amoar
only love-much love
~.
And would be a bard divine,
Her praises 10 prolOng:
And link my Sophle's name with nina
In never dying song
Yet II thus aspire 70 claim
The poets laurel wreath cf iame
%, It's, be sure,
Beaucoup d'amour
only lOve-mueh love.
III
And I would be a sceptered king.
That Sophie mi ght be seen
With all that royalty could bring
To grace my darling queen
Ambition No; for her alone
III wish to sit upon throne
o, It's. be sure,
Besucoup amour
only lOve-mueh love
w
/ e. why, o why, would possess
= Ihese shining gins Of Fate
rSr love has more Of happiness
ihan fortune, fame or state,
~ - Iet them 90; III not rep.ne
ne sweetest treasure st.ll = nine
y, l.. be sure,
Beaucuup d'amour
only lOVe-muCh love
AtisT BsTsag:T ~ Js.E o. sac.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

The Best PREAcnERs.-Iev. DR. Cuyler
in the \. Y. Independent. SAYS
1t Is often said that there are not preach
ers enough to meet the demand of the land
and of the world. That NAV be true But
every living Christian i preacher Every
payerful, earnest, gOdly life Is 4 sermon.
There are hundred ways Of preaching Jesus
without choosing 4 Bible text or standing in
a pulpit. 4 Wherefore could proclaim the
Gospel Of love on the floor of the British Par
Lament, even though he wore no surplice
and never had a bishops hand laid upon his
honored head. George II. Stuart was an
apostle of the cross when he organized the
Christian Commission for soldiers tents and
John Macgregor was aaother when he or
ganized the " "Shoe-back Brigades" in the
streets of London Hannah More preached
Christ in the drawing room, and Elizabeth
Fry in prison cells, and Florence Nightingale
in the hospitals, and Sarah F. Smiley among
the negro freedmen of the South Our Mus
ter scatter> his commissions very widely
Harlan Page, dropping the tract and the kind
word through the city workshops John
Nanamaker, the Christian merchant, mzS-
terlng poor children into bis d" Bethany"
mis>ion-house james Lenox. giving his
gold TO build churches and hospitals the
Dairyman's Daughter, murmuring the name
of Jesus with her faint, diving voice George
Muller, housing and feeding God orphans
all these were effective and powerful preach
ers of the glorious Gospel Of the Son Of God
There is poor needlewoman in MY congre-
cation whose unselfsh, cheerful holy life i'm
presses me As much Is any pulpit message Of
mine can possibly impress her true and
noble life is the mightieSt of discour,eS.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21
APARrY AND ITS RrPEEsESTArIvES.-T
Hartford Post SAYS

Apolitical newspaper should advocate its
party's principles for the reason that they
are supposed TO be the best for thecountry.
The party selects persons a. its agents 10
effectuate those principles. Those agents
are put into various Offices of trust for that
purpose, and when that Is done they be
come also agents of the people. II they
betray their trust and the political newspa
per supports them, then it improperly
ASSUMES to adopt in the name of the party
their wrongs On the contrary, if the
newspaper does its dity it will repudiate
those acts in which the agents have ex-
ceeded their authority, and call upon the
party to choose other banner-bearers from
its own ranks The Pacific Railroad, and
the doctrine that the government should
aid in its construction, were Republican
measures. It Is not necessary to argue
them. Their justice, rightfulness and benet-
cence are acknowledged by the entire
country. If there was wrong in the exc
cution of those ideas it is not the party
that is to blame, but the men who violat
ed it, confidence.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

The noises that have TO be endured by
dwellers in lodgings are thus enumerated by
n nervous man: Three door bells, one Of
which is always ringing large dog in
the backyard, which never stops barking
except to eat, and that is only once day
two sewing machines in the next room
seven roeking-ehairs, four OF them overhead
a dentist who gets up early in the morning
and works all day with hammer and files
on false teeth a little boy with drum
German musician who practices upon the
bassoon four hours a day 4; deaf servant
girl at whom everybody hollers."
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

The Richmond (Va.) Journal says 1t
is time the term carpet-bagger was drop
ped from our nomenclatural dictionary. 1t
has ceased in this State to have any party
significance in fact, and its use is no longer
available except for low partisan purposes. J"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

SOM Hints oN RE>>.-Probably nothing
that is not useful is in any high sense beauti-
iul. At least it will be almost universally
seen in the matter of dress that where an
effect Is bad 1t l. an artificial or false effect
and vice versa Bows stuck about when
there is no possibility Of their fastening two
parts, almost always appear ridiculous; wien
needed for mere ornament, Il rosette should
be used, which pretends to be nothing else
In the making Of dresses, lines ending no.
where, and nohow, are often apparent. and
never fail to annoy the eye The outlines of
bonnets are conspicuous instances Of this mis-
take There Is no art instinct. and but little
of the picturesque element. in a nation who
are Indifferent to these things, and whose eve
does not inStinctiyely demand meaning and
token in everything. The uncultured
dreSs-maker, only longing for novelty. in
vents forms OF attire that would be mpoS-
>ible We're dress les utterly artificial than it
Is. and this Is half the cause Of our universal
Undressing. No fashion or form can leave
the mind without jar that Is not where tits
because Indispensable there Whether it oc-
cur in house or in a gown, the principle
must be the same. One of the reasons why
peasants, iishwiyes. and such folk look pie
tureSque and beautiful even in their rags.
whatever be the mixture of color or arrange
ment Of form-so much more beautiful than
fashionable people look, even when they try
to initiate the fshwiic-is. think. the mo
tive apparent in everything they wear The
bright kerchief that covers the peasants
shoulders is 50 much better than a bodice
trimmed in the form Of kerchef \ hood
that Is at once seen 10 be incapable Of going
over the head something that looks ike a
tunic in one place. vet in another IS seen to
have no lawful habitation, nor a name a
false apron, q iest0on that looks as though it
had fallen accidentally upon the skirt, when
by no possible means except glue or irrelevant
pins could make it stay there a veil that you
at once perceive Is never meant 10 descend
over the face. but i tackled % the top Of the
head in an exaSperating manner; heavy lap
pets. that, instead Of being the natural ter
mination Of something else, hang meaning
less and mutilated slashes that are sewn
upon the sleeve instead Of breaking through
it and other things of the same kind =
they leave the eve unsatisfed, diScontented,
often disguised SAINT PdaFS Magazine
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

OF the respective nationalities they repre-
sent: These buildings will be from s TO 20
feet in depth, and reaching through several
stories to the very ceiling Of the hall.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

1t is proposed to reorganize the Signal
Corps. in order that its usefulness may be
extended and competent employees receive
better salaries. 1t is good move.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

over The crAole ihe lnotnef NUM-
Softly grooming a slumber song;
And these were the simple words she sung
All the evening long
Cheek or chin, OF knuckle er knee,
Where shall the baby's dimpie he
Where shall the angol's finger rest
When he comes down To- the baby nest.
Where shall the angels touch remain
When he wakens my baby again -
Still as she bent and sung so low.
A murmur into her music broke;
And she paused TO hear, for she eould not know
The baby's angel spoke.
Cheek or chin, knuekle or knee,
Where shall the haby's dimple he,
Where shall my finger fall and rest
When come down to the baby's nest
Where shall my fingers touch remain
When wake your babe again ?"
Silent the mother sat, and dwelt
Long in the sweet delay Of choice
And then by her hchy's side she kneit,
And sang with pleasant voice:
" Not on the limb, o angel dear
For the charm with its youth will disappear
Not on the cheek shall the dimple be-,
For the harboring smile will fade and nee
But touch thou the chin with an impress ueeP'
And my baby the angels sesl shall Keep.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-21

Judge Clifford of Newark, N. j., recently
sentenced to the State Prison for one year.
for larceny, man who had been his play
mate in his school days.