Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-01-23


TnE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FROM New
YoRK PoINr OF VIEW. - The New York
Mail has 4 cheerful article upon the present
financial outlook, in which it says; We
have looked long enough backward upon
that terrible period Of financial collapse
which prostrated so many fortunes last fall
We ought not to lose sight of the teachings
of that time, the chief OF which was that
while credit Is the creator and sustainer
cf the vast machinery OF our civilization,
its abuse is sure to destroy the foundations
Of all trade and industry. But it is our
immediate duty to look forward to what IL
Likely u occur to restore activity, prosper
iIy and confidence. To US the prospect
seems fall of encouragement. From the
West the reports are exceedingly cheer
full The movement Of Western produce,
even since the close of navigation, is
very heavy The money received from
the sale of 100 900 200 bushels of grain
sent to Chicago alone, in 1873, has been
scattered among the farmers. artisans,
merchants and railways of the West. The
spring trade from that region will open
early, and Will be very large. The cotton
trade has Of late assumed extraordinary
dimensions, and will continue large until
navigation opens and the flow of Western
products to the seaboard again sets in with
fall force. In New England, New York and
Pennsylvania, the manufacturing establish
ments are more generally active than any
one dreamed would be the case, two months
agO. At the financial centres broken bank
ing-hUuseS are resuming business or getting
ready to DO -. \ surplus OF money is tend
Ing to speculative activity, while it is evi-
dent that at least the whole of the Sii ,000.-
GOO grccnback reserve will he issued. In
fact. our great danger Is that Congress will
aG1rd additional and unwhule~ome facilities
for speculation
Runs DoIxcs-Mu2DER by Al INHUxAs
FArHzs john Buckridse, residing atNo.
l33 Douglas street, Brooklyn, who is an
habitual drunkari, came home on Saturday
evening and ascertained that his wife had
been intoxicated all day. Upon being told
that she hal gone out without preparing
any supper. he became maddcned with rage,
and in q ft of drunken frenzy, finding
nothing clss - wreak MS anger upon,
seized hg the legs his infant son Henry,
agcd three months, VINO was sitting
in a haby-chair, and threw him on the
ground. Then, unmOved by the wailing
OF the child, he kicked him with his heavy
boots, flung him against the furniture.
dashed him against the bed, and finally
threw him upon i hot stove. The chill
was by this time happily unconscious. The
wife, who was IN 4 gross state of lntoxlca-
ton, at this iuneturc rushed into the apart
ment. She was sufficiently sober. however,
10 comprehend what her husband had done.
and appealed to several persons who had by
this time entered the room to rescue the
child from It's fathers violence. They had
come into the room too late. however, to
save the child's lie.
Officer Shields, who was passing at the
time. was called in and after desperate
conflict with the prisoner took him to the
Third Precinct Station IEe mother and
her remaining three children were also AZ
rested aad taken u the Third Precinct
Stati0n-hou>e The woman here. fully
comprehending what had been done. ;el!
into "a series of fits from which she was with
difficulty brought back to consciousness
Meanwhile the child had been taken . the
Long Island College Hospital. 1t present
ed horrible appearance f-om its bruises.
burns. and broken limbs. ltS agony was
relieved by the use OF ane>thetics and early
yesterday morning it died. The man whv
sold the ram by which this mother WAS
brutal;zcd and the father induced 70 marder
his infant child. must feel happy at the con
temptation of this horrible picture.