Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-01-21
VOL. XIX. NEW {


1923. Proclaims a Fast Day.
lo2o- Cuts down May Pole at Merry
Mount, as a rebuke to vain recreations.
1888. Is crowded for accommodations
ard stakes outa new farm at Connecticut.
1857. Makes war on the Antinomiaps.
ana the Pequot Indians. and whips both.
1885 Starts College. and
1910. Sets up a Printing Press.
l6i3. Goes into Confederacy-the first
Colonial Congress.
1913. Lays down the CAMBRIDGE Plat
form. Hangs Witch.
1919 Sets his face against the unchris-
tian custom of wearing long hair, "a thing
uncil and uncomely."
1861. Is rebnked for " intolerable ex.
cess and bravery of apparel" and is for
hidden to wear gold and silver lace, or other
such gew-gaws.
1852 Coins Pine Tree Shillings. and
makes the business profitable.
| 1868. Prints Bible for the Indians.
1850. Buys - hang-up" clock. and os-
caslonally carries a silver watch that helps
/ him guess the time of day. About this
| period learns to use Forks at table a new
fashion.
! 1922. Is scared by Witches again. at Sd
lem but gets the better of them.
A..
alter while. settles down at New Haven.
l1Ol. Prints his first NeicspGper, in Bos-
ton.
1905. Tastes Coffee, as a luxury, and at
his own table.
1907. Constructs another Platform-th
time at Saybrook
l7l0. Begins to sip Iea-very sparingly.
1t does not come into family use till five and
twenty years after.
III. Puts letter into his first Post
e6iee.
1920. Eats Po,ato-and takes one home
to plant IN his garden as a curiosity.
l72l. Is Inoculqted for the Small Pox-
not without grave remonstrance from his
conservative neighbors. Begins to Sing Jy
note on Sundays, thereby encountering mucn
| opposition and opening ten years quar-
rel.
l740. Manufactures hn-ware, and starts
the first Tn Peddler on his travels
l742. Sees Faneuil Hall built The era
die OF Liberty is ready to be rocked.
l7l5. Builds an Organ but does not
permit it to be played in the Meeting
house.
1850. Buys bushel of Potatoes for VIM
ter use-all his friends wondering what he
will do with 50 many.
1855. Puts up Franklin .Stors in his
best room and tries one of the newly IN
vented Lightning Rods.
l760. About this time begins TO wear
collar to his shirt. When he can afford it,
takes his wife to meeting in Chase, in
stead OF on pillion. as heretofore.
l7G5. Shows his dislike 10 stamped Pa
per. and Joins the " Sons Of Liberty"
l96S. Tries his hand at Iype Founding
I NOT Nar cueaassff4i ltr--fr, t',p,.erfanr
100. Buys a homemade Wooden Cl0c.
l773. Waters his Tea in Boston Harbor.
Plants Liberty Trees wherever he finds good
soil.
l774. Lights Boston streets with oil
Lamps a novelty. Though New Lights
had been plenty some years beiore.)
I775. Shows Lord Percy how to march
TO " Yankee Doodle" Calls at TicOndero-
ga 10 take lodgings for the season. Sends
Gen. Putnam (under the command of sew
erai COlone!s), with a small party, TO select
a site for Bunker Hill monument.
l776. Brother Jonathan-as he begins to
be called IN the family-declares himself
Free and Independent.
1850. Buys an "Umbrillo" for Sundays.
and whenever he shows 1t is laughed at Tor
ms etfeminacy.
l7gI. Starts z cotton Spinning factory
I79e Has been raising SILK Worms. in
Connecticut and now gives his minister
mot his wite) q home made silk gown.
Buys Carpet for the middle of the parl0r
floor.
1898. luyent= the Cation Gm-and
thereby trebles the value OF Southern plan
tations.
l795-Is0O. Wears PdntdlOons occasion
ally, but not when in iull dress. Begins to
use Piaies on the breakfast and tea table.
ls02 Has the boys and girls racciHGted.
lSO6- Tries TO burn piece Of Hard Coal
from Philadelphia q failure.
1907. Sees a boat going by Hema, on
the Hudson.
1915. Holds little Conrepti0r at Hart
ford, but doesn't propose TO dissolve the
Union. Buys one of TerrY's patent " Shelf
Clocks" for S3G 90, and regulates his
watch by it.
1917. Sets up a Stove in the Meeting
house, and builds fire in it on Sunday
an innovation which Is st3utly resisted by
many.
ISIS Begins TO run Steamboat on Long
Island Sound-and takes passage on It to
New-York, after making his will.
1919 Growing bolder, he crosses the At
lantic in a steamship
1922. Lights Gas in Boston. (but doesn't
light Boston with gas TIL 1929 At last
learns how to make Hard Coal burn. and
sets up a grate in his parlor Buysa Steel Pen
Zone of GIllott's, sold at S23 per gross).
Has.his every day shirts made without
RufFes.
1925 About this time puts Percussion
Loci on his old musket.
ls26. Buys his wife a pair of queer
shaped India Rubber oyershoes. Pats on
hi. first False Collar. Tries an Expert
mental railroad, by horsepower
1928. Tastes his first IomGtO-doubting-
ly. l. told that il is questionable TO feed
himself with his knife. and buys Alrer
Forks, for great occasions.
1893. Bays his first Fr,ction Matches
then called '' Lucifer," and siterward
- Loco-Foco" Throws away the old Tn
der Box, with its flint and steel.
1885. Invents the ReUolrT, and sets
about supplying the world with 1t, as
peacemaker. Tries Gold Pen. but cannot
ind good one yet-nor TIL lS44. Builds
a real Railroad, and rides on 1t.
s37. Gets in panic-and ont again,
after free use Of shin -plasters."
1898. Adopts the new fashion of put
ting letters in Envelopes "a fashion which
does not fairly prevail till seven years
later).
1910. Sits for his Daguerreotype. and gets
picture learfully and wonderfully made.
Begins to blow himself up with Cam
phene" and " Burning Fluid ;" and con-
tinues the process for years, with changes
of name of the active agent, down TO and
including l." Nou-Explosive Kerosene"
1874 Sends his first message by the Elee-
tric Telegraph.
1871 Buys his wife a Setciag MacAine
in the vain hope that somehow it will
keep the buttons on his shirts. Begins to
Al. l., 81
1855. Begins to bore and no bored by
the Hoosac Tunnel.
1888. Celebrates the laying Of the Ocean
Cabls. and sends friendly message to John
Bull. Next week begins to doubt whether
the cable has been lald at all
1851 Goes South to help compose
family quarrel. Takes to using Paper
Money.
1861 5 Climbs the Hill Dificulty-re-
lieyed of his pack after Jan l. 1864 but
loses Great-Heart April IA. 1865.
1865 Gets the Atlantic Cable in work
ing order at last, in season to send word to
his British cousins (who have been waiting
for an invitation 10 his iuneral) that he
" lives vet
lsG5-75 Is reconstructing and taking
aJouf Resumption Sends his boys to the
Museum to see an old-iashioned Silver Dol
lar.
1873. Goes to Bunker Hill to pay honor
to the illus;rious men who commanded Gen.
Putnam. Thinks he won't inhste-and
helps 10 strangle Western rag-baby. Gets
ready to celebrate his second golden we'd
ding by grand family reunion next year
in Philadelphia
HIS FIRST DUTY.-Jake saw an old ac-
auaintance by the name OF Amos on the street
,ha other evening and apcosted him