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Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28
The Pet CaIf'S Grave.

A London paper says it is impossible to disconcert Scotchmen, unless he has been demoralized by residence in the south, and as proof thereof tells the fol lowing story A lady residing near 8 Scotch city had set her affections on a handsome little calf, and was much an noyed on being informed by her man servant that her pet had been accidental ly so much hurt that he had been obliged to kill it. The lady, who had loved the creature too well to think for one moment of disposing of it's remains by any culinary process, ordered the man to bury it, and herself superintended the burial. When the chief mourner was gone, however, it forcibly occurred to the sexton that here was a waste of good material, so he disinterred the calf. Meanwhile, the lady dreamed dream; she saw 8 round of veal smoking on her servants board, and, when morning dawned, summoned him to her presence, and explained to him that for divers reasons she desired once more to behold the body of her favorite. Without be- traying the slightest uneasiness, the worthy man followed her to the rifed sepulcher, took his spade, and dug; no result appeared, and still he dug; dug on, indeed, till his mistress cried out in utter weariness: " Why, John, you must have eaten the calf" "'Deed," replied John, without moving 8 muscle of his countenance, "and that's just what I've done, my leddy."
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28
Finding the Sunset.

 Oh, the beautiful home of the sunset, Hung out on the western sky, Where the days lay down their brightness, And bathing in splendor, die! swekt friends in the home of our childhood, The gentle and loving ones, stand Gazing out as we enter life's wildwood In search of the sunset land. Full soon do the meadows grow broader, And rougher the path where we stray, Less frequent the cool, gushing fountains, And the sunset seems further away. And the friends who have journeyed with us We lay with the moldering dead; They have reached the bright sunset before us And lonely the pathway we tread. But the floods of molten glory
 Which beam from the sunset land Fill our hearts with restless longing On those beautiful shores to stand. Our locks, once sunny and golden, Are white as the drifting snow; Our eyes have grown dim with their gazing, And our footsteps are feeble and slow. As we near the eternal splendor
 We pause at swelling stream; We must cross it ere reaching the hilltops Which glow in the sunsets beam. So, closing our eyes for 8 moment In the suns last dazzling ray, We awake where glory dwelleth, In land of perpetual day.
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28
A Sad Scene.

That must have been 8 sad procession of Northwestern editors which filed out of the dining-room in Port Royal the other day, says the Savannah Ncaos. They were on an excursion, and most of them had the well known habits of odi- torial excursionists. They had been re- ceived at the Port Royal station with beating drums, gay banners, and a crowd of tumultuous and enthusiastic citizens. The chairman of the reception committee, mounted on barrel, made them speech of welcome, and they were then taken for supperto building over which the wold [" Welcome was displayed in gigantic letters. ...-
 Supper being over, the excursionists prepared for a stroll about town. At the door they encountered an effusive citizen, who calmly extended his hand. They shook it and called him ''brother," but he calmly and sternly said to every man: Seventy-five cents, if you please" And every man paid. It was sad scene. ..,. ....s.tr
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28
Two Mothers and Two Babes.

Two women in Des Moines, Iowa, gave birth to children in the same room and at the same time., The woman who cared for the little strangers, bathed and clothed the r, and started to present them to their waiting mammas. Then she made the startling discovery that she had intentionally mixed the infants so that she was unable to decide which was the mother of either. The two mothers cast lots for choice, agreeing that if the children should, when grown, develop family traits sufficiently to identify them they should be exchanged if the selection should prove to be in correct.
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28
The Centennial Motive Power.

The great engine which runs the ma chinery in machinery hall on the Gen tennial grounds weighs eight hundred tons; will drive eight miles of shafting; has fy-wheel thirty feet in diane, CT and weighing seventy tons; is of four teen hundred horsepower, with ca pacity of being forced to 2,500 horse power; has two walking beams, weigh ing twenty-two tons each; two forty-inch cylinders, ten-feet stroke, crank shaft nineteen inches in diameter and twelve feet in length, and piston-rods six and one-qu lrter inches in diameter. The platform upon which it rests is fifty five feet in diameter and composed of polished iron plates, resting upon brick foundations that extend far down into the earth. The height from the floor to the top of the walking beams is thirty nine feet. MT. Corliss is the inventor, patentee, builder and owner, having had it erected for the double purpose of ex- hibition and furnishing motive power, which will be supplied gratuitously, but only for the purpose of exhibiting ma chinery in operation, no machinery be- ing allowed to run longer than is neces- sary for that purpose, except by permis- sion from the chief of the bureau. Of the eight lines of shafting -four oh each side of the transepG seven will have & speed of 120 revolutions per minute and one of 24O.
 The Times tells us how the great en- zine started up the first time. At pre- cisely half-past six o'clock the director general raised his arm as signal, MT. Corliss patted his huge iron pet as if it were frisky nag that he was coaxing to move, when a slight puffing was heard, not near so loud as that of @ railway To- comotive when about to start, one of the beams began to descend and the fly wheel to turn. and the engine was in motion. Without waiting for more, every spectator took his hat in his hand and swung it in the air, the action being accompanied by cheer so deafening that nothing could exceed it in enthusi- asm except the cheers that followed it. Everybody appeared to understand the significance of the moment, and the practical appreciation of it shown would be worthy of the opening day. The mo- tion of the engine was astonishingly noiseless, nothing being heard above a uniform murmur, resembling the well known sound of a we'll set wheel in rapid revolution. There were but four teen pounds of steam generated by the four boilers, and the revolutions of the fy-wheel at starting numbered fifteen per minute. The shafting cog-wheels, portions of which rise above the floor in distant parts of the building, though re- volving with great rapidity, were even more noiseless than their gigantic mo- tor. It was long before the spectators could turn away from the grand sight, and when they did it was to speak mad miration of that power in man which can invent the means of accomplishing the power of many giants with none of the hustle made by one child.
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28

MIXED UP.-It is we'll enough, says the Norwich Bulletin, to talk of elevat. when 8 we'll meaning young man tries to introduce protoplasm as a subject, at little gathering, and finds that every body thinks he is referring to new kind of plaster and considers him in delicate in doing so, he is apt to feel that the life of the reformer is kind of perpetual picnic on an ant hill.
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28
CATARRH, Five Years Sickness Cured bv Four Bottles of Constitutional Catarrh
 Remedy! Pain in Shoulders, Back and Lungs, and Droppings in the Throat, Disappear.

ST. ARMAND, P. o., Sept. 12, 1874. Messrs. LITTLEFIELD CO:
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 HENRY SNYDER
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28

BLACK H111s.-Yhe adventurers in the Black Hills are having ''high old time, " if the high price of provisions is any sign. Camp board there is from $15 to $2O per week (no extrasl and hard to procure at that. Wages average from $40 to $55 per month. By this it . would appear that that it 1 would be cheaper iourn at 6rst-class hotel, though per haps not quite so exciting.
Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28
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 Cured by One Bottle,

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Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28
Lowest Prices,

And in quality, variety and completeness es ssoek, l claim to offer Rn ,erioY Inducements Strictly Arst-clsss, and one l-ies. 1yfnalSvoN
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-09-01
Id OH rcader.. and vermonter. g.

Do Or readers, and Nermonters general
y,realize what an amount OF direct personal
te>timouy from high sources, they are get
ting in regard to Mr.. Tilden : character and
claims to support as a reformer. Early in
the canvass We had a speech here in Burling-
ton from Col. lie Grand B. Cannon 1t was not
long speech but it was very pertinent
and pithy one. lIereabouts a good many Of
Us know Col. Cannon and know him to be a
hish-minded and truthful man-of indepen
dent Judgment, Of wide knowledge Of men
and rhings-an earnest Republican, but yet
not 50 strong a partisan as to permit his
Judgment or his fairness to be carried away
by his party feeling. He told Us that he knew
Mr.. Tilien he had had ample opportuni-
ties to know him-t0 measure his character,
and to weigh his methods in politics and in
business. lie SAID with emphasis, that Mr.
Tilden was a "trGud.' Then we had Gov.
Underwood We all know him. too, and
know that he Is not a strong partisan. lie
has certainly criticized as freely men Of one
party as Of the other, and he is not in the
habit Of standing ~ and telling Les in his
speeches. lie said, in his first Burlington
speech. in this canyass-and we heard him
tell the story at the time, long before Mr..
Tilden was ever thought of as a candidate
either for Governor or President that IN
conversation with him he heard Mr. Tilden
advance the deliberate opinion, that every
MON soldier that marched across Southern
oil, was trespas-er and liable to suit in
an action for trespass lie had known Mr.
Tiden for twenty years, he said, and had |
discussed the constitutionality Of the war
with him, and he considered him no better
than a secessionist.
And later still, We have the speeches Of
Hon. Dorman B. Eaton, of New York, at
Brattle5oro and Rutland, in which be too
aid that he knew Mr. Tilden well, had
known him long, and that he was as thor
lugh going copperhead as Hendricks, and
4 " sham reformer' Mr. Eaton is a Vcr-
nonter by birth, and highminded man.
'aretul in his statements, not partisan. lie
poke, he said, with especial care; for Mr.
-ilden was his nelghbor and acquaintance
md his (Nir. Eaton's) words would be likely
o confront him, on his return to New York.
Bat that was his candid and well-weighod
pinion Of the Democratic candidate and
ruth compelled him to state it,
Here Is certainly a noticeable concurrence
f unimpeaehable testimony at first hand
nd from very high sources What say can
id Vermont Democrats DO they wish to
ote for fraud. secessionist. and sham
eformer? We can tell them that a good
lany honest Democrats in New York State
o not intend to vote for Mr.. Tilden, lerquse
hey ka0lc him. ,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-09-01

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year and second that the law and his oath
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engaged between loo' anu louV IN recon-
structng. 1t IS verv safe assertion that in
1860 Mr. Tilden's income was nearer 800
ooo .t.,, con ooo I. ian i,s,t, ., ,,uIl;o
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understanding to pretend that Mr.. Ihden,
who Is to-day reputed to be worth from five
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-09-01
THE BURLIN,
The True Party OF Eeform.

We hear now and then of stray ''liber-
a." who thinks Tilden good enough man
for President, and the Democratic party
good enough to be entrusted with the gov
eminent of the country, because he has sue
ceeded in persuading himself that the Re-
publican party is very bad I'VE have no
particular fault to find with Hayes, he
says, "he is good sort of man. no doubt,
but if Hayes should be elected he would be
controlled by the leaders of his party, and
they are hopelessly corrupt" Reform with
in the party they declare TO be wholly i'm
practicable. The remarks Of Hon. Daniel
Roberts in his speech of last week Tuesday.
were perfect reply to that false and fool
ISL assertion.
at is as false, F" said Mr. Roberts, I'm phil
osophy as in fact Is it necessary to de-
stroy in order to reform Is there no other
true philosophy of reform except that of
Robespierre, Danton and the Partisan COM
muniSts If there be corruption in the
church, j. there no reforming it except We
turn pagan If there be faults in Christian
administration. can they be reformed only
from without by rejecting the Master and
burning incense to the devil j.? And who
shall say. that party which has exhibited
such susceptibility to the spirit of reform,
and has effected the greatest reforms that
our century Of political life has witnessed.
lacks the power and the will to correct the
smaller ills that now exist, or have existed,
to blur the fair escu.cheon of the party ?"
The only reform possible for parties is an
improvement in the character Of the men
nominated and elected to office. The Re-
publican party Is certainly doing something
in that way. The nomination of Gen.
Hayes was dictated by the reform element.
Ii Is true that Republicans who are far
from beng reformers will vote for him, but
they will vote for him because they must,
not because he is the candidate they would
have chosen. Gov. Morgan nomination in
New York IS another illustration and
achievement of the spirit Of reform. In
Indiana. Mr. 0rth, when charges of grave
misconduct were preferred against him, re-
tired from the candidacy rather than expose
his party to suspicion, and one of the ablest
and ppre,t men in the State is nominated in
his stead. In Missouri Mr.. Finkelnburg,
man of great ability and Of the highes:
character was nominated against his earnest
remonstrance, because the party would not
be satisfied with an inferior man. And 50
it Is all over the country The nominations
for Congress, 50 far as made, show that the
spirit of reform peryades the Congressional
districts. In Ohio, Judges Matthews and
Force and ex-Gov Jacob D. Cox Will bring
OF the party thousands Of votes by showing
that Republicans are earnestly trying to
get the best The party which claims
the services OF such men, and entrusss them
with responsibilities Of executive and legis-
latiyc flee, Is the true party Of reform.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-09-01

4 FINE sample Of Democratic economy is
seen in the Postofiice appropriation bill.
The bill as it passed the House separated
the amount Of money to be expended for
carrying the mails by steamer routes. The de-
partment now announces that it has been
compelled to decline to establish postal ser
vice on different railroads in the States of
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arkan-
sas, Missouri, Kentucky, Texas, Colorado and
California, aggregating nearly 900 miles,
and which would have saved the Govern
ment very large sum of money if The ser
vice could be transferred from the the steam
er service to the railroads. Nearly twice As
much as was needed was appropriated for
steamer service, while for railroad service
the sum was 50 small as to prevent any in
crease whatever in that branch of the ser
vice. for which application is daily being
made.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-09-01
POLITICAL NOTES.

Gen Banks quotes Southern Congress
man a. recently saying to him To be
frank with you, we want the government,
and We will get it il We have to murder
and stampede any number of people"
Judge Kelly, of Pennsylvania, has con-
cluded to support Hayes and Whseler, des-
pite their financial views, on the principle
. that it is wiser to labor for the conversion
of an honest and ayowed opponent than to
hope for fair and honest dealing at the
hands Of a pretended friend whose constant
esidences of treachery compel YOU to fear
that while embracing you and asking, How
fares it, brother p he may put stietto
under your fifth rib. meanwhile
| want to 60 to Congress again. | have
no hesitation in saying so. | am no maiden.
am more like a widow know wha |
want. Laughter and applause. am not
afraid to ask for it. ITO the reporters, put
that down." think it time somebody
should he in Congress who knows when and
where and how to speak Of these Southern
outrages.
The Boston Advertiser rejects the
a. Widow " Buffers proposal, and goes so
far as to say II the old and honored
seventh district should yield to the impor-
tunity of this aggressive and imprisoned
widow, very numerous body of its citizens
will still, We trust, be able to say truly,
- Thou canst not say | did it shake not
thy CORY locks at me ~
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-09-01
More Personal Testimony TO Mr. TIlden's
Character.

Hon. DJrman B. Eaton, Of New York
made strong Republican speech, at Brat
tleboro. On Thursday evening lie said be
knew Mr.. Iilden well, and it was to Judge
William Kent. law partner Of his (Mr.
Eaton >. that Mr.. Tilden wrote his now ia
nous letter recognizing the right of seces-
sion. Mr. Llton quoted Mr.. Tilden' Ian
guaEe TO prove his disloyaity. He then re-
ferrsd to the manner in which the prison
system of Ohio. under Governor Hayes, had
been managed. The Ohio prisons now pay
a profit TO the State oftwerty-iye thousand
dollars annually. Under Gov. Tilden, Sing
Sing prison runs the State OF New York 10
debt over one hundred and forty thousand
dollars. He referred to the reforms in New
York city. the police system, fire depart
ment. the board of health. but all these re-
ceiyed no word of encouragement from Gov.
Ti!den. When the New York Times ex-
posed the Tammany frauds, Gov. Tilden.
three months after. seeing death to the
Democratic party unless something was
done. came out from Tammany His first
reform act was performed at hfty-seyen
years Of age and he now claims the credit
of reforming Tammany. Mr.. Eaton said.
Tilden believe. in = party majority that
the voice Of the people is the voice Of God
and Tilden knows no God above Iammany
Hall
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-09-01

The venerable Thurlow Weed in a recent
interview said | believe that the prosnects
OF carrying the election, this Fall. are good
simply for the reason that we have both for
the Presidential and the State ticket tho
very best that could be selected. However
am little anxious and doubtful about the
result IN the nation. 1t depends upon arous-
ing the American people to true sense of
their danger. The rebel general Wade
Hampton has declared in favor of Tilden he
cause be opposed the government during the
rebellion. If the people are willing to LET
the government fall into the hands of those
who attempted to destroy it, Tilden and
hendricks will be elected. On the otbe-
hand, if the masses are reached with ev;-
dences OF the existence of an alliance between
democracy and rebellion, they will elect
Gov. Hayes, who perilled his life to preserve
the Government and the Union. | sbould be
willing to trust the result of the Presiden-
tlal election to the Judgment Of the electors |
throughout the Union, after they had in. |
tividually and carefully read the letter of |
Colonel Mosby in support of Hayes and |
and that Of Wade Ham nton in
'upport oiTilden and Hendricks.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-09-01

To invest the Democracy with the char
scter Of reformers something more is re-
quired than the gsrb Of reform. 1t does
not seem safe to rely upon that party for a
resumption OF specie payment whose plat
form and candidates and Congress demand
the repeal Of the law of Republican Con-
gress to secure it. Ii does not seem safe TO
lntrust civil service reform to that party
whose House Of Representatives thrust Con-
iederate soldiers into Offices from which
they had thrust Union soldiers out. Ii does
not seem safe to look for the removal of bad
officers TO National Executive who. as the
Executive of the State Of New York, directs
the patronage Of his office to personal ends
1t does not seem safe to look for reduction
of national taxes to a Democratic President
whose claim to Administrative reform con-
ssts chiefly in appropriating to himself,
while Governor, the reduction of State taxes
effected by his Republican predecessor in
offce.-Gen. Cochrane's Speech a, The Netc
York Li5efal Convention.