Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

lut mttlluR III U tAOth
was held ut the large tent. Rev. II. W.
Hughes. of Charlotte, had charge, and at
the same hour the children's service oe
Cured at the stand led by Mrs. Brooks.
Tha afternoon congregation was largely
in excess of the morning. Rev. II N. Nun
ger preached practical and forcible ser
mon from Psalms ii: ii, II. The theme was
Christ, the Saviour" The preacher spoke
OF the opposition which Christ meets in the
world. and the certainty of His ultimate
triumph.
The evening sermon was preached by
Rev. A. q. Barrett. The text was Mark XVI:
l6 The speaker made the three following
points. viz LIST. the belief on which saliva
tion is based; I'd, the salvation promised ,
ID. the damnatiOn pronounced.
Our New York Letter.
THE GREAT TELEGRAPH CoNsoLIDATIoS-THE
BUSINESS OUTLooE-TnE CrRIosITIFs OF
CRIME a CATHOLIC SCANDAL.
NEW YORK. Aug. %, lS711.
To the Editor of the Free Press and Times.
There is no more competition in telegraph
ing, and the public is as entirely at the mcr
cy Of monopoly as it was before the Allan
TIC anu dclIlc WIS StaTttu. W Una HtiltuN
competition, rates had got down to point
that enabled the people to use the telegraph
freely. A message from New York to Chi
eago only cost - cents, and rates for shorter
distances were even lower. This did not
satisfy the managers, and 50, this week they
got together and consolidated the two com
panies, and up 90 the rates. 1t
will result in the government taking
the telegrsphic system Of the country
under its wing-at least it ought To. If
every man, woman ard child in the nited
States doesn't petition Congress to take the
telegraph lines, and operate them as it does
the mail system service, they will deserve all
the swindles that can be imposed upon them
Jay Gould made Jour millions of dollars by
his shrewd manipulation of Western Union,
and the subsequent consolidation.
The BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
There is no longer anv question-there is
an improvement in business. The enormous
crops of this year are burdening the lines of
TRANSPORTATION both by water and land money
is being sent out of the city by the million
to move the crop, and that money, distrib-
uted at once, is putting vigorous life into
trade 1t is fact, that the wheat crop of
the year will average more than twenty-five
bushels to the acre. taking the country to-
gether, which is something never known be-
fore, and the corn crop will be equally large;
and this enormous yield comes when the
country is bare of grain. and when a great
war in Europe takes away all the competi-
ton we have always had in supplying bread
Eaapipy tho yrice nm m a rnnd rnuDl
figure. Add to this the fact of a settlement
of our internal troubles by the Wise policy OF
President Hayes, the fact that we have got
back almost to gold basis, and he must be
a croaker indeed who cannot see better times
very closely ahead. The effect is now per-
ceptibe in this city. The merchants from
the interior are here in force, with pleasant
faces and those who came to buy FIVE thou
sand dollars are, under advlces from home
since they left, buying ten thousand. One
publishing firm in Boston has sold 5O,OOO
copies of new book in the first three weeks
of its publication something unheard of since
1873. and other limitations of returning
prosperity are not wanting. Our exports
are now largely in excess of our imports, the
flood Of gold instead of going abroad Is set
ting this way, and Europe is contributing to
US instead of our contributing to Europe.
We are exporting goods to Europe, and in
China, japan and South America tie English
are labelling their fabrics american, in
order to sell them. There is no use in
hanging back any longer. We have struck
bottom, and from this time We shall rise
rapidly.
THE CURIoSITIES OF CRIME.
Last week, a girl named Wetzel killed
man named Listemann, by slashing him with
razor Llstemann had kept her as his
mistress six years, and the girl had frequent
ly importuned him to marry her, urging that
she was " sick of leading life of shame.
She made this demand last Tuesday night
which he refused to listen to but, apparent
" pacifed, she retired with him. Scarcely
had he laid down when she whipped razor
from under her pillow, and inflicted horrible
wounds on his abdomen, from which he died.
Two days after a similar ease occurred IN
Brooklyn. woman had lived with a man
on intimate terms, had reformed and mar
ried. Her paramour was brute enough to
make public the relations that had once
existed between them, which coming to the
ears of the husband, ended in a separation.
The enraged woman made an appointment
with her former lover and deliberately cut
him in the abdomen and thighs till he died.
Then day after similar tragedy was en-
acted in Jersey City, and still another in
18th street, in each case illicit love being at
the bottom, razor the weapon, bed the
scene 1t il as though every disappointed,
repentant woman felt called upon to follow
the example of the first, and in the same
horrible way. The details of these affairs
are too horrible to print. In each case
death ensued.
A CATHOLIC SCANDAL.
The little town of Vineland, near the city,
is greatly exercised over recent transaction
at that place. A man named Gregory, a
worthless sort of fellow who had more than
half forsaken his church. was at the point
Of death. His wife, devnut Catholic,
begged the priest to shriye the dying man,
which he refused to do, on the score that he
WAS not a good Catholic, and was not en-
titled to absolution. Finally, after many
interviews, the priest did go and confess him
and gave him full dissolution. Father Niycr
was indiscreet enough afterward to say that
he now had means enough to pay off the
debt on his church, as a valuable piece OF
land in Newark had been devised to him
and Mis-. Gregory, now that her husband
was safely through purgatory, dropped hints
that it had cost her more than she liked to
get it accomplished. An inquiry was set On
foot and it was mlde known that the dying
man and his wife had decided the Newark
property to the priest, besides giving him
800 in money-all they had-beiore he
would apsolve him. 1t has made much feel
ing in Vineland.
SERIOUS DEMOCRATIC TROUBLE.
Congressman Adrian Muller, OF the First
District in this city, had vacancy IN W cst
Point to fill, and advertised that Il eompetl-
tive examination would be held, and the hey
making the best average would be appoint
cd. colored boy, named Charles \ Min
ME, came out ahead, and Muller was COM
PEELED to appoint him. There were an
hundred applicants, but Minnie had a clear
majority ot points. and there was no mis-
take about it, There is loud swearing
among the Democracy of the First, ut the
dirty nagur'' who had the andaelty to
stand first among the youth of that district.
John Morri>sey is aStute enough to turn this
little draught OF gall to advantage. There
the gallant John M sooner hears OF it, than
he sends his cheque for $500 to Minnie,
with which he may provide himself with
proper outfit. This Is a shrewd stroke. Ii
will he a convenient thing for John to have
at his back in future political contests some
hundreds oi the negroes Of that section, Tor
they are looming into political Importance
every day. and even the enmiry OF the lIiSh
cannot keep them out, Minnie Is IL very
bright boy. he has been more than two
thirds educated at home. and has done the
most OF it himself. In the examination the
maxium was an hundred. and he stood 90 l..
He understands fully what is before him at
West Point. but he is determined to 20
through 1t like man, and do something for
hi race ~ well rs himself