Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-09-05

the season, is splendid The post-oliicr
under the charge 50 of a gallant and ablr
defender Of his country" Is one of - tht
handsomest and best kept in the State. Tht
entertainments presented by some travelling
minstrels, - abounding in the choices
music, and brimful of the keenest wit anC
dry humor, are always looked forward to By
our community with the most pleasurablC
antieipations" In fact, criticism is but adj
yertising with these RhadamanthuSeS. The
Neic York Tribune told the exact truth in
the assertion that - Nothing is more COM
MOI than for persons, otherwise sensible
and pright, to enter newspaper Office with
requests which are dishonorable to those
who make them and insulting to those to
whom they are made
Here We pause. OF the social life of this
section Of Vermont there yet remains the
local government and the common school to
be treated Of, both characteristic of people
who, if anything. have too much liberty.
The school and the territory OF the Uni
ted States, to my mind, are its most unex-
amplcd blessings-the land to be worked,
and the school where he who lists may be
taught to work Region and soil under
every variety of climate is owned by this
great republic; but its proudest distinction
Is, that wherever its citizens plant them
selves, they rear the public school free to all,
and recognizing no distinctions save those
won by skill and industry, and the ardor of
sell-improyement.
\ COMPLETE FALuRE.-Either a very mag
inatiye young man has died recently in Day
export, Iowa, or another, almost rs badly
affected, has furnished the GG-citc, of that
place, with the story which follows: ''One
of the leading citizens of North Davenport
had an only daughter, who was bctrothed to
a young man Of fair promise, a clerk in a
leading commercial house at Dubuque. His
visits to the city We're regular, and arrange
mentS had been made for an immediate
union, when the bridc-elect WAS stricken
down with typhoid fever, and in spite Of all
that skill and care could do, died. After the
melancholy journey to Oakdale the Young
man returned to Dubuque. Nervous fever
set in and peculiar hallucination seized him
that his lost one was present in the room
draped in the same garb which had cnycl0pcd
her clay. All remonstrancc was in vain. lie
described her dress. herappcarance,
and her position in his chamber Even when
his parents or friends would dsitor stand where
he declared her to be. he saw her glide away
and take another place. This went on for
weeks. and the patient was gradually sink
in under the physical and nervous excite
ment, when a friendly ruse was tried 10 cure
him Of his ecstacy. Coming 10 Davenport. his
mother found that the funeral garments were
purchased ofC Il NJ, and made bv NrS L.
She procured the material. had it made up.
and returning, a young lady as near in height
anlappearance as could be found was dressed
Ia resemble his deceased love, and during
one of his fcycrel and brief ,lumhcrs was
into his room taking her seat in o
shaded corner His awakening was anxiousiy
watched. and sanguine hopes ofremoying lis
were indulged in. He awokc at
length. and, turning his eyes in the direction
of the piou- fraud, stared with fixed ewes for
some seconds. then raising himscf almost up
right in his bed. he flung his arms alolt. and
-hricking in an unearthiy voice. My God.
there Of haui fen back and cXpir
ed. "