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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09

The statements now furnished concerning
the condition of the New jersey Mutual
Insurance Company give very discouraging
history. business had been extrayagantly
conducted. The report of Actuary Fackler
concerning the condition of the company
asserts that there was absolute falsehoOd in
the statement OF its affairs furnished to the
State in 1875. The books were kept at
once intricately and carelessly. The man
agement was loose. Several Of the policies
are not to be regarded as life insurance at
all, but simply as agreements for contribu-
ting to pool to be divided some years
hence. The present deficiency of assets is
estimated at S42l 500.
Some of the policy holders in the National
Life Insurance Company, a concern that was
some time ago absorbed indirectly by the
National Capitol Company of Washington,
are striving to recover their nalf-lost rights.
Their opinion of the Washington concern is
highly unfayorable. The officers of the
Security Life Insurance Company are In a
serious plight, complaint having been
lodged with the Grand jury charging three
of them with perjury and four with embez-
element. a resolution has been passed in
the New York State Assembly to prepare a
bill to check further performances of insur-
ance amalgamation. Altogether it is very
hard Winter for sick insurance companies,
and the season of their discomfort is not
half over,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09

Leafess are the trees their purple branches
Spread themselves abroad, Ike reefs o: coral,
Rising silent
In the Red Sea Oi the winter sunset.
From the hundred chimneys o! the village,
Like the AfTeet in the Arabian story.
Smoky columns
Tower alOit into the air Of amber
At the window winks the iickering Ere !ght;
Here and there the lamps Of evening glimmer,
Social watchiires
Answerius one another through the darkness
On the beach the lighted logs are glowing,
and like ariel in the cloven pine tree
For its freedom
Groans an sighs the air imprisoned in them.
BY the freside the old men seated.
Seeing ruined cities IN the ashes,
Asking sadly
OF the Past what it can ne'er restore them.
BY the fircsde there are youthful dreamers.
Building castles fair, with stately stairwsys.
Asking hlIndly
or the Future what it cannot give them.
BY the fresidc tragedies are acted.
Ia whose scenes appear two actors only,
Wife and husband,
And above them God the sole spectator.
By the ireside there are peace and comfort:
Wives and children, with iair, thoughtiu izces,
NaitinE, watching
For a well known fOOtstep in the passage.
Each mans chimney is his Golden Milestone:
Is the central point from which he measures
Every distance
Through the sateways Of the world around him.
In his fathest wanderings still he sees 1t
Hears the talking flame the answering gnigLt-wind
As he heard them
When he sat with those who were, but are not
Happy be whom neither wealth nor fashion,
Nor the march OF the encro4ching city,
Drives anexile
Fro N the hearth OF his ancestral homestead.
We may build more splendid habitations,
Fill our rooms with paintings, and with cu,pture
ut we cannot
Ruy with gold the old associations
-LongteHOW.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09
u y: y I ., 50 ss:sss. EXON; ; Hsrs,-

This report, it is to be noted, was made
solely on the personal testimony of the de-
fenda2t Sutton. The account appended
seems to indicate that two grades Of whiskey,
as well as two grades of sandwiches. one
for the "oiicers and leading men" and one
for the frank and file," were furnished.
there being a barrel of Bourbon whiskey
charged at So 95 per gallon, and other bar
rels or half barrels of corn whiskey and
New England rum, at lower prices.
The Court disallowed the charges for in
tOxicating liquor furnished in violation of
law, and rendered judgment pro .torma. for
the plaintiff, for S276, to which exceptions
were taken by the defendant. The parties
have since, We learn. settled the suit, and
the report is now valuable chiefly for the
legal explanation it offers. of the singular
circumstance. heretofore noted. that since
1866, no boy has ventured to go bare
foot within ten miles around Hyde Park.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09

CARRIER PIGEoNs-The suggestion that
ocean steamers be provided with a number OF
carrier pigeons, to be let loose in case of any
accident, or even from time to time, to give
news of the voyage, is 50 obvious that it is
a wonder that it never occurred in all these
years in which both ships and. carriers
pigeons have been in use. In fact it has in
fiction, for the reader OF "fOul Play, -
Charles Reade's improved Robinson Crusoe,
will remember that the ingenious male her
init, having been given the problem OF how
a diffuse intelligence from an island thous-
and miles from anywhere. solves it by catch
ing lot of wild ducks and tying messages
written on rags around their legs. The
suggestion seems practicable one, and If II
had been tried before we might have had
news that would have told the fate Of the City
of Boston and many another stout ship with.
out months of heart-sickening despair, and
perhaps have led to therescue of some boat
loads of passengers that have escaped from
wrecks only to perish later Of hunger and
| cold.-ProUidence Journal.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09
VOL. XIX NEW SERIES. VOL. xxi.
The Electoral Judges.

Mr. Justice Nathan Clifford, of Maine, ol
the United States Supreme Court, who will
preside over the Electoral Commission, was
born in Rumney, Grafton county, N. ii on
the 18th of August, 1908. After receiving
n High School education he studied law and
removed to Maine. where he quietly rose to
public prominence. lie served the State as
Attorncy-Gencral and Representative in
Congress, and in 1916 was appointed At
torney General of the United States by
President Polk. lie was appointed to his
present position by President Buchanan in
1858. Mr.. Justice William Strong, OF Penn
sylyania, was born at Somers, Conn, on the
9th day of May, 1908. He was graduated
from Yale College in 1898, and practiced
law at Reading, Penn. lie has twice repre-
sented his district in Congress, and in 1857
he was elected Judge of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania. lie was appointed
Judge of the United States Supreme Court
in 1870 by President Grant. Mr.. Justice
Samuel F. Miller, of Iowa, was born at
He received college education and first
adopted the medical profession, but after
few years practice became lawyer. lie
settled in Iowa and became one of the Re-
publican leaders in that State. lie was ap-
pointed to his present position by President
Lincoln in 1862 Mr.. Justice Stephen j.
Field, OF California, was born in lladdam,
Conn, on the 4th of November. lSlG.
He was graduated from Williams College
in 1887, and afterwards received legal
education, settled in California, where he
rose to he Chief Justice in 1857. lie was
appointed to the Supreme Bench of the
United States by President Lincoln, in 1868.
He is brother of David Dudley Field,
Cyrus W. Field and DR.. Henry NJ. Field, of
the New York Evangelist. Justice Joseph
p Bradley, who has been selected as the
fifth Judge chosen by the four appointed, is
Republican in politics. He was born in
Albany County, n. Y, and in his boyhood
had but slight advantages of education but
he contrived by the aid of the village school
master and some little help from his father
to prepare himself for Princeton College,
New Jersey, from which be graduated in
1885 with the highest honors Of his class.
He subsequ emily studied law in Newark, n.
j., and after his admission TO the bar was
connected in partnership with Theodore
Frelinghuysen, father of the present Senator,
who is to serve with him upon the Commits
sion. He rapidly rose in his profession
until lie finally became one of the ablest ad-
vocates before the Supreme Court of the
United States. 1t is said that President
Lincoln once determined to appoint him to
the office of Chief Justice, but he was over
ruled by Mr.. Seward, and the late Salmon
P. Chase was appointed instead. lie was
appointed by President Grant in 1870.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WOULD NOT SET \ rRIcE ov uIusEL

WOULD NOT SET 4 TRICE UN nIUsELT.
WASHINGTON, d. c.. Feb. 2-Thc Senate
Louisiana Committee to-day examined Lit
tlefeld. who testified before the House Com
mittee. The only new TACT elected was that
a man named Clifford told witness il he
would GO to Washington with him the
secretary of the national party or treasur-
er of the republican committee. would
give him a hundred thousand dollars ior
the changed return of Vernon parish
Witness refused because he would mt set
price on himself.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09
In General.

The poor mans bank the snow bank.
Now they say of a man who is II fraud,
40, he's gimp"
Those snakes which fell from heaven upon
Memphis last week turn out TO have been
worms.
Twelve Molly Maguires are awaiting exc
cution in the jails OF SchuylkilI and Carbon
counties, Pa.
The latest agony" in midwintor toilets is
the introduction OF amber hucs combined
with blues. both s.ades of the same tone.
Berlin comic paper, announces discover
les at Mycenn more recent than these Z"
Schliemann. including several dog collars
marked Pluto. which ARE undoubtedly those
worn by Cerberus.
A little girl asked her mother What
kind of u bear l. consecrated, cross-ryed
Lear ?" On further inquiry. it turned ou'
they sang about the animal III Sunday
school.
Near Epinai, France, three youngsters
bought two quart bottles of brandy at the
Far, and drank the whole within an hour
The Youngest aged 13 died on being taker
home, another, aged l6. expired atew hours
later. The third, aged II, recovered.
Homeopathy is steadily making headway in
France. There are now 10 doctors of thai
persuasion in Paris, and 300 in the provinces
Within eight years, three homeopathic hospi
tails have been founded two in Paris and
one at Lyons.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09

To YOUNG BRIpEs.-The following from
Hsrper's is very near the truth The pastor
of u church in one of our large cities said to
me not long ngo : II have otliciated at forty
weddings since came here, and in every
case, save one, felt that the bride WAS run
ming an awful risk. Young men of bad hab
its and fast tendencies never marry girls OF
their own sort, hut demand n wife above sus-
picion. So pure, sweet women, kept from
the touch of evil through the years of their
girlhood, give themselves, with all their
costly dover of womanhood, into the keep
ing of men who. in base associations. have
learned to undervalue all that belongs to
them, aud then find no time for repentance
in the sad years after. There is but one way
out of this that | can see, and that is for you
the young women of the country-to re-
quire In association and marriage, purity for
purity. sobriety for sobriety. and honor for
honor. There is no reason why the young
men of this Christian land should not be
Just ms virtuous Us its young women. and II
the loss of your society and love be the price
they are forced to pay for vice, they Will not
pay it. / admit with sadness that not all our
Young women are capable of this high stand
ard for themselves or others, but l believe
there are enough earnest, thoughtful girls III
the society OF our country to work wonders
if faithfully aroused. Dear girls. will you
help us, i'll the name of Christ? Will you.
first of all. be true to yourselves and God 30
pure in your inner and outer life that you
shall have right TO ask that the young men
with whom you associate, and especially
those YOU marry, shall be the same lhe
awful gulf of dlshonor is close beside your
feet and in it fathers, brothers, lovers and
sons are going down. Will You not help US
in our great work
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09

Great and understanding nation,
Bear with one whose humble pen
Sends this hearty commendation
Flying through the mouths OF mem
Not in vain. presumptuOus daring.
But with gratitude sincere,
As your thousand bounties sharing
Tlls Centennial, happy year.
None need doubt my faithful fitness
Thus TO judge, and soto speak
As q true and honest witness,
Mindful, though the words be WEAK
Since l may not tell out strongly
All the best feel and see,
Lest suspicion, sneering wrongly,
Find natterer in me.
Five and twenty years have vanished
since hailed you once before,
And my memory holds unbanished
How you greeted me of yore;
Even now some few surround me-
Though that quaIter century's fed
And their love has newly crowned me
With old blessings on my head.
Thanks to YOU, dear old and new friends,
Each and all my praise receive,
Everywhere l know you true friends
And your cordial words believe;
As brother greets brother,
Still our generous feelings blend,
And we look on one another
Each with each as on his friend.
Noble People now returning
Absent thus So many year,
With what ken, not undis ,erning,
Can judge your great careeri
low does Rip Van Winkle find you
Worse or better than of yore
Flinging all your faults behind you?
Forcing all your best before,
Yes as in that old Dutch story,
You have grown both great and good,
Truly, Progress is your glory,
Winning all that mertals could;
truly rising better, wiser,
For sdversities and woes,
Gathering good from each adviser,
War and peace, and friends and Toes.
Temperance, morals, courteous bearing,
And the hand TO help all round,
Each anUther's burden sharing
Generous traits Ike these abound
Energetic, self-conhding.
And relI gious, and sincere,
Patient. dutsous, law-abidins,
Men Ike these are common here
Gods good will, your country blessing,
Helps your works OF human will.
Nordrous cities. each possessing
Every type of art and skill;
While the wilderness rejOices,
Showing EdenS on the earth,
With the shout OF freemen's voices,
Woilar's song, and childhood's mirth.
Since your pills grim fathers landed
(Some Of mins sailed with them too)
Giant hearted, gisnt-handed,
We still tight life's battles through,
TIL the energies, victorious,
Uf our Anglo saxon race
Build Us yet more great, more glorious
Kings and priests in every place
- Mdrfin +. Tupper.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09

The TaIMuD.-Jcws, Protestants, and
Romanists all agree in receiving as canoni-
cal the books of our Old Testament. But as
the Romanists would add TO these the
apocryphal books, 50 the Jews insist ON add
ing their oral law. They say that when the
written law WIS given to Moses, inscribed on
two tables Of stone, God also gave another
and verbal law explanatory Of the first,
which lac was commanded not to commit to
writing. but 10 deliver down by oral tradi-
tion. When Moses came down from the
mount, they tell us that he first repeated
this oral law to Aaron and his sons, and
then to seventy, and finally to all the peo-
| pie, each Of whom was obliged to repeat II
in his hearing, 10 insure its correct remem
brance. just before his death, they say, he
spent month and six days in repeating it tC
them again and then, they assert, he com
mitted it in special manner to Joshua
through whom it was impaired TO Phineas
and 80 ON through the long line o.
prophets, and afterwards OF teachers
down to the time of Judah the Holy, who
lived in the second century, by whom it Wa
committed to writing lest it should DO l)st
This work, consisting of six books, is thu
famous Mishna OF the Jews, which, with 1t
Gemara, OF commentaries, constitutes thei
celebrated Talmud, in which is comprc
hendcd all their learning and much of theI
religion as people, The whole work !
held by them IN lar higher esteem than tn
Bible, 50 much 80 that they say the Blhl
is water, but the 1almud is wine and the,
even declare that he who studies the Bibl
when he might read the 1dlmud does bu
waste h!s time, and that to sin against tn
latter is far wore than to SIN against tn
former. So implicit is their confidence i
this oral law that it il almost useless to rca
son with a Jew out of the Old Testament
for he i ever ready with an answer from tn
Talmud, with authority Of which he
fully satisfied. .-Tgon Ed,rards, m Scd'Jnt
| for E,irudrV
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09
Washington aS COmmander-in-Ch hief-WhO Nom
mated Him In the Continental congress:

To the editors of the Ercnmg Post
find in your Journal the following para
graph
The twcnty-frst of next March will be
the centenary Of the Inauguration of the first
governor of Maryland under the Republic
Thomas johnson jr., and there Is some talk
of observing the day with appropriate cere-
monies Governor johnson WAS warm
friend of General Washington, and while a
member OF the Continental Congress nomin-
ated him as commander-in-chief of the
army"
MIR. John Adams, in a letter to james
Lloyd, dated Quincy, oath, April, lsl5
says "Who, then, should be the general
On this question the members were great!y
divided. \ number were for Hancock; q
greater number were for General Charlie
Lee; number were for Washington, buI
the greatest numbe were for Ward lr
this state of things John Adams met Samue
Adams in the State House yard at Philadel
pha. Nv hat shall we do to get Congress
to adopt our army said Samuel to Johr
Adams 81 will tell you what | am deter
r:ined to do - said John to Samuel. =
We'll" said Samuel, what is youl
scheme ?" Said John to Samuel, 81 will g
to Congress this morning and move that d
day be appointed to take into consideration
the adoption Of the array before Boston, th'
appointment OF general and officers, anC
| will nominate Washington for com mande
in-chief" II was subjected I,
almost as bitter expectation for creatin,
| Washington as scommander-in-chicia as | hal
been five years before for saving Preston AM
his soldiers from an unrighteOus judgmen
and execution ,See Life and Works OF JOIN
Adams, vol. y p 1863
Mr. William V. Wells, in the second vol
ume of the Lille OF Samuel Adams, says
"Mainly through the influence Of Juhl
Adams, however, upon whom it deyolyed
bring the subject before Congress, the elec
tion Of Washington was secured.
John Adams. after an interview with hi
kinsman. introduced the subject, and nom
mated Washington. The motion was sec
onded by Samuel Adams, and the great VII
ginian soon after became the leader OF tn
American army"
Here is sufficient evidence thai the cour
trv was indebted to John Adams for III
nomination of George Washington for CON
mander-in-chiet OF the army. j. y. Il.
Brooklyn, January q. 1877.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09

The Court-Prisoner, you are accused OF
having tried to pick this lady's pocket.
Prisoner-lf any one dares to insinuate that
=. The COurt-O, know all that, but
your hand was in her pocket? Prisoner
Certainly, but | was only circulating al
yeTtising hand bills.-Pnts pdper.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09

A PHOTOGRAPHERS in Montreal. the other
day, was fined So 50 and costs for keeping
his gallery open Tor business on Sunday.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09
WESTERN NEWS.
INAUGURATION.

PORTLAND, Oregon. Feb. 2.-Secretsry OF
State Chadwick was insugura' ed governor,
vice Grover elected to the United States
Senate
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09

New YORK, Jan. &c, 1877.

\ BROADWAY FARM-sHERIFF OFFICERS -CRA-
ZY PATENT MEDICINE MEN POLITICAL THE
SUFFERING PooE-BUsINEss-sN
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09

is still as dull as it can be. with no prospect
of Improvement. The people are now writ-
ing for spring, hoping that warm weather
will bring the change.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-09

arts that probably the construction of
that would be 1.-The case, on its merits
Mr. Edmunds-lt covers the whole sub
ject of particular State.
MIR. Sargent-in reply to the question of
the commission as to which OF the objectors
would present the case aside from the cOun-
sci, on conference 1t Is determined that
Messrs. McCrary and kassan will appear.
Mr. Edmunds-l move that the public
sitting Of the Committee be adjourned till
halfpast ten IN the morning
Mr.. Garfield think there was one oh
lection filed regarding which no action has
been taken. | believe from Senator Jones.
have heard the president of the commits
sion make no aliUslOn 10 it. | inquire
whether there is any special hearing on that
objection.
Presiding Ju>tice-My impression is that
the several objections u returns from
State constitute one case.
Mr. Field-There are objections to the
four votes of Florida, one each side-that is,
we object to four votes.
Mr., Eimunds-Whieh are they?
Mr. Field They are the Hayes electors.
The commission then adjourned. till 1920
tomorrow.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-26
NOTICE.

CHRISTIAN RAMsEIER and Rosie Ramseler
" heretofore residents Of Stark County, o., but
whose place Of residence is now unknown and
can not be ascertained, will take notice that An
thony Vogt, of Stark county, Ohio did, on the
2Oth day OF November 1876, file his petition In the
court OF common pleas within and for said coun.
ty Of Stark and State of Ohio against them, said
Christian Ramseer and Rosie Ramseier, setting
forth that they said Christian Ramseier and Rosie
Ramseier gave mortgage 10 said Anthony Vogt
on lot No thlrtysix 1867 In Riverside addition 10
the town, now city of ofMassilon. toseoure the pay
ment Of one hundred and. fifty dollars $3.50 ae-
cording to certain note referred to In said mort.
gage, and that said sum with the interest accrued
thereon from September 18th, 1876, at s per cent
per annum payable annually, is still wholly un.
paid though long since due, and praying that
said Christian Ramseier and Rosie Ramseier pay
said sum and interest or that said premises be
sold 10 make the same.
And the said Christian Ramseler and Rosie
Ramseier are notified that they are required TO
appear and answer said petition on or before the
third Saturday after the 10th day of May, 1877
Dated April 18th, 1877 ANTHONY V0GT
By G. T. MEYER, his attorney,
April 8, 1877.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-26

FAREST WA /
ny A. McaRRaoR


Fu' weel do mind, In my earlier years,
That aften I'd see my dear mlther In tears
An spearin' the cause she wl'd look on usa'
An greet for the ane that was iarest ava,
The struggle o life had been constant aud salr,
Pressed fayther and mither WI wearisome care,
An my brither, 10 try better fortune to draw,
Had game DER the sen, and was farest ava
The time was lang bye, an nae word did.we hear
Our parents were constantly troubled WI fear
An the bAlms big and wee, aften wud ON him ca
An wish him safe back that was farest ava,
Days, weeks, months and years had been slippin
away.
Hope, sunk 10 despair maist expired wi delay
My mthers warm tears no sac aften wu'd fa'
Tho she mourned day an NIGHT for him farest ava,
The wee anes had grown to be usefu' inspart,
Had learned by their toll to relieve the wac heart
Our parents less frequent been sent to the wa
An this without help irae him farest ava
Ae NIGHT at the gloamin the days wark was done
A stranger camspearin' his way to the inn,
By his voice and appearance twas plain to us a.
He was late frae some Ian that was farest ava,
We just had got thro wi directin the gate,
When out cam our mither, as If 1t was fate,
The strangers "kind thanks" did her earnestneSf
draw,
An sune she held him that was farest ava
The tale was a sad ane, wi shipwreck at sea,
For lang cast ava, an aft thocht he must dee
At last to Australia WHARF gold lay for a.
An now, he was hame that was farest ava.
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