Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-02-20

The awful example of tho Mayor of
Chicago has infected the newspapers, and
the Journal talked about dam conference
and a dam business, the other day, in such
a cool fashion that the other dailics hid
their faces and wept.
An effort will be made this winter to get
a Compulsory Education bill passed in the
New York Legislature. The bill provides
that any child under sixteen, who may be
found in the streets, shall, unless he or she |
can produce certificate showing attend
ance at some school, be deemed yagrant
and as such committed.
The passage of the amended bankruptcy
bill by the Senate. shows that there can be
no absolute repeal of the bankrupt law,
this session. The Senate bill greatly i'm
proves the law and largely lessons the ex-
penscs OF going through bankruptcy. What
its fate will be in the House, remains to be
seen.
The Monitor saws Nv understand that
A. &. Bowley, who assaulted Mr.. Stone, the
Newport schoolmaster, week ago FRIDAY,
has settled for the same by paying MIR.
Stone $50 for each blow, and that there
were blows enough to come to $500. In
addition to this, he pays Ss5 fine and loses
he nlbca ou constable y
The remains of Mrs. Blodgett, who was
killed by her husband at Laconia, n. H.,
have been taken to Baltimore, Vt. Blodgett
requests that she be buried in the lot he
owns, where their child is inferred, and
saws: sIfI am hung, | want to be buried
there. too The Messenger says he iswell
known at his home in Baltimore, Vt, as
hard customer and "a thief.
The Chicago Tribune describes the new
freight railroad project now popular with
certain section of the Western people as
cheap transportation, to be got by taxing
the people to build a permanent railroad,
with the usual modest profits to contractors,
which will carry freight at rates unreason-
ably low, and produce an annual deficit, to
be in its turn made good by taxation.
Postmaster General Creswell has been be-
fore the House committee on appropria-
tons, advocating the establishment, on all
the railroads of the United States. Of
special mail tram, to be run at high rate
of speed, for the sole purpose Of transmit
ting mail matter. The system that he re-
commends is somewhat similar to that now
practicei in Europe.
The Massachusetts, House concurred, on
Saturday, in the Senate resolution repeating
the famous resolution of censure upon Mr.
Sumner. Now if Mr.. Sumner could make
everybody forget that he ever tried to have
the names of Union victories torn from the
flags, he would be AL right -" on that
business.
The Chicago Teacher thinks that whip
ping is better punishment than detention
after school hours, because it sets the blood
in circulation and causes increased activity
of the brain. Assuming this to be true. it
is suggested that the editor Of the TEACHER
should subject himself to severe whipping
certainly as often as once week.
The planning MACHINE LlTIGATIoS.-Un-
der the impression that Woodbury. Will not
dare bring suit during the life time Of GER
tain important witnesses who are now old
and in poor health, the counsel for the de-
fence have taken the necessary steps to per
petuate this testimony. Testimony an per-
petuqpl will be taken this week by Mr.. Drew
in New York and New Jersey, and by
| Judge Curtis in Massachusetts,.
The following educational statistics are
gathered from the national census Our
country expends annually for schools over
/ sos zoo ,OO0, equal to one-third Of one per
cent Of the property, real and personal, Of
the country as returned by the last census.
and employs POI 900 teachers. International
government has already set aside for educa-
tional purposes 10, Ooo, 900 acres ofthc pub
lie lands
VERMONT AND MASSACHUSETTS RAILROAD.
AT the meeting Of the stockholders Of the
Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad. We'd
nesday. the following board Of directors
were elected Daniel 5 Richardson Of
Lowell, VIM. Hill Of Boston, james A.
Dupee of Walpole, George +. Fay of
Fitchburr. Francis Goodhuo OF Brattle-
boro. Wendell T. Davis Of Greenfield,
Thornton X. Ware of Fitchburg.
The New York Pos mentions a. a sign of
reyiving trade the fact that the duties re-
ceived at the Custom House at that port on
Friday amounted to S706, ~ Sc. beng the
largest sum received on any day since the
panic. \ marked increase in the imports
and duties has been observable since the
middle of last month, the revival Of the
trade affecting nearly every class of goods.
On several days the duties have amounted
to more THAI 100000.
TINS TlcoNDERoGA EXPLOSION About fl
teen minutes before the explosion of the nj
tro glycerine factory at Ticonderoga last
week, President Baker, of the New York
and Canada Railroad, left the building and
had just time enough to get out Of the way
of the flying timbers, although somewhat
shook up. Several thousand feet Of lumber
was stored in the building, which was
blown into such small pieces there was not
enough left to kindlc coal fire with.
Returns from the English elections bring
word of continued rioting, and show that
the elections there have been more disordcrly
than any of late years in this country. 50
| far PSI Conservatives and l50 Liberals have
| been returned to the House from Eng land,
Is Conservatives and SO Liberals from
| Scotland, and 81 Conservatives and Al
Liberals and Home Rulers" from Ireland
Mr.. Disraeli is already making up his
cabinet.
\ correspondent of the Rutland Globe,
deprecating the stampede of young men
from the State. calls attention to Vermont
facilities for manufacturing. In the vicinity
of Fairhaven, he says, there is water-power
equal to 1850 horsepower running to
waste, and if the matter was taken in hand,
cities like Manchester, Lowell and llolyoke'
might be built up in that vicinity. The
power at Fairhayen might be made avail
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