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

Only Just now, the pale, pink June
Scattered her roses throughout the noon
Only Just now, did IL seem TO me.
when looking again, behold 1 see
BY signals flashing across the land,
That elbow August is close at hand.
Trumpet-creeper and butterfly weed
Tangle the pear-tiee blaze In the mead
The holly hook spreads her pink rosettes
Der tiger-lilies and bOuncing-bets,
While coreopss and marigola
A gorgeous revel OF splendor hold.
Scarlet geraniums on the lawn
Follow the tulips SO lately gone
Beds Of verhena with twinkling eye
Catch the reflections OF red July
Those rare reflections that hide beneath
And shine through the blood red cOleus lea
The insects murmur like rushing rain
Deep in the thickets birds complain
while in the distance, the summer sea,
TIE fairest of all fair sights that be,
Burns with a living and breathing blue.
Forever old and forever new.
Midsummer no,r, but all too soon
Shall we see above US the harvest moon,
And watch the reapers among the wheat
Falling in showers around their ieet,
Leaving the hillside brown and bare
And shorn Of its graceful golden hair.
Tarry awhile, o Summer yet,
Lest all 100 heavy become the debt
OF undone duties and small delays,
Piliny up with the passing days
Growing a burden heavy to bear
hen wintry winds shall wbiten the air.
The sun shines on, and the changing moon
Morning and evening and afternoon
All 20 on their appointed course,
Silently busy each hidden force,
Till the seed is ripe, and we find at last
Summer is over, and Harvest past
Church Journal and Messenger.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

The Albany Journal thinks that the pro-
cess of 'squelching' Stanley Matthews" be-
gun by the Ohio Republican platform, has
been finished by Secretary Sherman and
J-a., w..
Mr.. Tilden appears to be having good
time in England. He has been wined and
dined by some of the most eminent members
of the British aristocracy.
Postmaster-General Keys little speech.
which has SO enraged his ''erring rethren"
Of the South was as follows:
My dear friends, this is grateful to me.
| do not accept it as personal compliment
to me, but as an indication of fraternal feel
ing on the part of our Northern friends to
their erring Southern brethren.
The disclosure of Mr.. Tilden's escapade
with an adventures at Newport, in 1875,
elcits from the New York Commercial the
unkind remark that sit will be seen that
the patriotic Tilden, who weeps for his
country, would rather bestow favOrs upon
the wearer of an attractive bathing-suit
than paw his income tax"
Here is an extract from one Of Bob
Toombs's recent Georgia speeches:
l insist that the federal government, the
conquerer and public enemy my country,
has injected into the social organization and
political body 10000 savages, VINO, what
ever their rights, are not fit to exercise the
powers of governments And now, how are
they to be governed? They are to be govern
ed as every race of paupers are governed
by those who own the property and give
them bread; and Just the same as the red
man is governed.
Mr.. George W. Smalley. the London cor
respondent of the New York Tribune, thus
refers to the ISLANDERS upon Gen. Grant, re-
specting his conduct in England:
saw something and heard great deal
of Gen. Grants demeanor during the rather
trying ordeal which he went through in Lon
don. All that saw and heard was alike
creditable to him. The anxiety about pre-
cedence which was displayed in his behalf
created some amusement. but it became
known that he himself cared little or moth
ing about the solemnities of etiquette, and
the derision did not fall upon him. Ills
manliness and simplicity of character, his
considerateness for others, his modest graft
tude for the kindness shown him, were seen
of all men. Very likely he missed point
or two of drawing-room ceremonial, but such
tattle as is produced in the letter ! refer to,
starts not from the drawing-rOam but from
the servants hall. see also in weekly
journal which prides itself on its propriety
repetition of the assertion that invitations
to dinner were solicited by Mr.. Pierrepont
for Gen. Grant. This assertion had been
contradicted on Mr.. Pierrepont's authority,
and the contradiction published in New York
some time before the Nation gave fresh cur
reney to the scandal.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31
CaIlfornia's Woman Walker
FIFTEEN MONTHS AFTER SHE HAD LAID ASIDE
THE SOUL. DESTROYING NEEDLE.

FIFTEEN MONTHS AFTER SHE HAD LAID ASIDE
THE SOUL. DESTROYING NEEDLE.
A petite figure, built for endurance, five
feet two inches in height; shoulders higher
and squarer than those generally seen on a
woman, n well termed bust hips not so broad
as usual, head large and well formed, with
clear, colorless complexion, eyes blush
gray, and hair dark brown. Such are the
chief outlines of the person of Kate Law
renee, the new candidate for pedestrian fame.
She is 30 years of age, and has lived here
for the last eight years, working at dress
making. She tired some l5 months since of
work ing at her needle with no prospects for
the future. Sick, too, she got the idea that
walking would help her health, and after a
consultation with a well known professor of
athletics, she determined to make the effort
to beat Miss Won Hillern. Her first walk in
the way of self training was to the Ocean
House and back. % miles This stint she
kept up for several weeks, and then she start
cd on the road to San Mateo, 80 miles dis
tant Her next walk was on the railroad to
Santa Clara, 40 miles. These walks were
commenced at iour o'clock in the morning.
In lew days she started for San Jose, s.,
miles, walk she accomplished easily IN an
ordinary DAY. Shortly aiterward llorticutu-
raj hall was engaged and she walked against,
time 10 miles in "A hours The walk was
actually accomplished in 10 hours 50 min
utes ,43 miles being walked in her stockings,
the shoes having hurt her feet. Having ac-
complished this, Kate Lawrence deter
mined to try it again. She started to
walk 80 miles in ~ hours, and actually ac-
complished it in II hours and 10 minutes.
During this walk she made two different
miles in 10 minutes for each. Since these
walks in Horticultural hall. Mrs. Lawrence
has walked daily to and from the city to the
Cliff house, doing this sixteen miles in three
hours, for months past before breakfast, and
then doing her regular days work in addi-
ton. She has improved in health under the
steady exercise and the regimen Necessary
until her health is perfect. She proposes to
walk in Pacific hall against time 100 miles
in 2s mountaineering on August 2l.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31
Only.

Only baby,
Kissed and caressed,
Gently held TO mother's breast
Only a chill,
Tcddling alone,
Brightening now its happy home.
Gully boy,
Trudging to school,
Go7erned now by sterrer rule.
Only youth.
Living in dreams;
Full of promise life now seems.
Only a man,
Battling With life,
Shared in now by loving wife,
Only father,
Burdened with care,
Silver threads in dark brown hair.
Only a grayhtad.
Toddling again,
Growing old and full OF pain
Only a mound,
u'-rgrown with grass,
Dreams sunrealized-rest at last.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

A REMARKABLE CAT AND DoG STORY. In
Beatrice, Gage county, Neb., lives gentle
man by the name of NJ, who owns II very
fine greyhound, named Queen. Now, Queen
IL great fayOrite in that part ui the country,
not only ON account OF her beauty and gentle
disposition, but also from the fact that she
and her pups are noted wolf hunters. She
has several times, unaided. run down and
killed wolves, and one day tins summer. with
two OF her full grown SONS, captured and
killed three wolves. About two months ago
Queen had litter of little ones and few
days after one OF Queens friends, eat, oc-
cupying the same table, had new family oi
little kittens Shortly after the arrival the
order was gwen to drown some of the
pups" but the cNecutioner finished the whole
OF them. Poor Queen wns inconsolahle, and
went about crying and searching everywhere
for the missing ones, looking up IN the most
brsecchlng way. to each one OF the family.
After awhile she went back to the stnble and
then her whining ccnscd In the afternoon
Mr. Nj went Ia the stable, and found
Queen IN her nest, with the old cut nnd her
four kittens nilcctionntrly cuddled up III her
arms. Mother puss did not seem I" like
tins, after awhile and evidently Thought the
new mother was getting the most attention
from her babies. So when Queen was out
Tor lew minutes The took th" kittens, one
ut time. and carried them {" her own nest
Queen returned to find her home npnin desc
late, and went Immediately and took the Int
tens all back, the eat following. This per
formancc went on for three OF tour days. the
cat carrying the kittens one way and Queen
taking them back, until mother pnss changed
her plan, and. while Quocn was absent, car
red one OF the kittens into the loft, to which
Duecu could not climb Next dny pIsS took
another. and then n third, leaving Queen hut
one, which she tended most zenlously - b"r
Di,mb lnimuiS.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

ties Of beauty, never permitted IL razor to
touch the boards Of their men or 4 - SCISSORS
the hair of their women ; and sor doctors
affirm that men become bald oi uer than
women because their hair is str uated to
waste its vitality by more freque'd cutting
On the other hand, girls hair doul -ss gains
in thickness and strength by being IT "cc'
sionally, even when not kept shorn. NL.H
doctors differ who shall decide?
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31
THE gentlemen at Mount Washington who

THE gentlemen at Mount Washington who
expressed to President Hayes in formal
terms their approval of his conduct address
ed him as "Your Excelency." Governor
Connor, of Maine, in tencering him the
nospitalities of that State Exclusively, OF
course, OF the town OF Etnal, addressed
him as Your Excellency," and Senator
Blaine, in secondlng Governor Connor's III
yiration. also addressed the President as
your Excellency." The use of this style
has become so common of late years that
private persons may perhaps be forgiven
for falling into it. But the Governor OF Il
State and a Senator of the United States
ought to know that it has no warrant what
ever in law, and no good warrant in custom
and tradition. The proper title OF the
Chief Magistrate is simply MIR. President"
and, if we are not mistaken. the only fune-
tionary in this country who has right to
be addressed as Your Excellency" is the
Governor of Massachusetts,, in which State
it il also provided that the Lieutenant Gov
ernor shall be addressed as "lour Homer. "
-Nep York World.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

WE still hear occasionally OF the tender,
passionate, worshiping lover, who lies IN
ambush for the idol OF his hearts affections,
and cuts her head of with q hatchet because
she will not marry him. Ii is getting To be
safer for girl to shoot man when he pro-
poses than to reject him. And that posi-
bility makes it yery unpleasant for the man
when he tasks. y Burlington Hnckeye.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31
POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY.

My fellow citizens: When our fathers
made the constitution of this country thew
recognized slavery in it. Tho people Of the
South. who supported it from the very begin
ming, had differences with the people OF
New England, who opposed it, and for
many long years the two sections cOntinu-
ed to quarrel over the extension of slavery.
Finally they decided to settle it by force of
arms; to quit quarrelliDg and fight it ont.
Both sides fought bravely: but, as SOL
dier of the South, can say you whipped
US soundly. That, | hope, created no
enmites between us. Here is your fellow
citizen and my friend, Attorney General
Devens, he and | used to shoot at each
other, but there are now not better friends
North or South than we are to-day. And |
hope this feeling prevails through all sec
tions of the land, and is entertained by
every man, white or black, as we are all
now free men. The cause of the great
quarrel between the South and New Eng
land no longer exists. The great chasm
which yawned between is closed and will
remain closed forever. and friendship and
amity should exist among US all. The
soldiers OF the South abide by the settle
ment of the questions which divided us,
which one and all recognized in the con-
stltution, as amended, as the final deter
mination of our quarrel.
General Key was pplsuded quite as much
as Senator Iloar or Gen. Devens. who are
especial pets of Worcester. The town was
elaborately decorated in its public and pri-
vate residences, and fireworks were Iayishly
burned during the evening. After the
public had been received at the Bay State
house, the Presidential, party were elegantly
entertained by Senator llOar at his residence.
afterward being escorted again to the depot.
With the close of the New England visit
the party breaks up Mr.. and Mrs. Hayes
and Judge Key return to Washington. Mr..
Eyarts stops with Senator Hoar, and Gen.
Devens at his Massachusetts home. Bur
chard Hayes goes to Newport. Webb is
going on to Ohio to arrange for meeting
of the Presidents old regiment at Fremont,
and the President will Join him there about
September !.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

Arkansas is .rying to borrow money to
run the State until the close OF the fiscal year.
PRUDENT man is like pin his head
prevents his going too Tar.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

Usr oF FLIES Although tlics are, in sum-
mer, the pest of our lives, and we wonder
why they were ever made ut all, 1t should he
remembered that they have an infancy as
maggots, and the loaihsome life they
then lead rs scavengers clennses and purities
the August air, and lowers the death rates OF
our cities and towns. Thus, while stables,
and piggeries and filth are tolerated by city
and town authorities, the young oft the house
fly and the flesh and hlow-ily, with their
thousand allies, are doing something toward
purifying the pestilential and ayertlnS the
summer brood of cholera, dysentery and ty-
phoid fever, which descend like harpieS upon
the devoted towns and cities. 1t may be re
Carded as an axiom that where flies most
abound, there filth, death-dealIng and bane-
ful, is most abundant, and tilth-diseases such
as we have named do congrcgate. hy
which is born in August generally lives II
month or sin weeks, and dies at the coming
of frost either of cold or from the attacks OF
tungoid plants. A few, probably, winter
over. and survive until midsummer, and thus
maintain the existence OF this useful specles,
To which civilized man owes more than can
readily he estimated, and which he can dis
pense only when the health of cities and
towns is looked after with lar greater vigil
lance and intelligence than Is perhaps likely
to be the case Tor several centuries to come
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

A ROMANCE OF THE CARS SIsTER.-On a
little frequented street of st Petersburg
there stands gloomy looking building large
but of severe style of architecture, and
PAINTED in sOmhrc cOlOrs This il the l.euch-
tenberg palace, u name suggestive OF dark
Jage in the history of the marriage Of the
Gar Nicholas iavoritc daughter to dashing
young German officer. The Duke of Icuch-
tenberg was good looking but comparatively
poor and obscure, and 1t is said that the
wayward princess made the first advance and
even that the stern emperor consented to the
marriage only to avoid scandal. At any rate
romance and royalty do not seem to agree
well, and the union turned out badly. The
duchess tired of her former idol, gay and
dashing but at the same time scholarly and
thoroughly honorable German, and began to
form liasOns, the most notorious OF which was
with count Strogonof. After life of
mortified scclusion and constant study the
duke died, refusing To recognize on his death
bed the last two children borne by the prin-
cess. Immediately after his demise the lat
ter was forced to marry StrogOnof, and was
banishcd from Russia. She took up her
abode in Paris. where she died lew years
ago The children of the union have been
somewhat under cloud, and several matches
proposed for the very accomplished daughter
were broken off for some unexplained rca-
sons The oldest s0n-the young Duke ot
Leuchtcnberg-h now Joincd the army OF
the Danube, and nav accomplish something
in the field that will place a renewed lustre
around his fathers name, and bridge the
guilt that separated him and his sister from
the remainder of the family.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

YET, as Boosy says. Prof. Hall wouldn't
have found that new moon if Mars hadnt t
satellite out for him Graphic.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

BYRoN says of one OF his characters lie
knew not What else to do and 50 he swore.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

LITTLE l,AAC.-Ihc treC-!rog cannot be
called an insect. a reptile, or one OF the
winged host, he has four legs, the two fore
most short. with claws rs sharp ~ those OF
a squirrel; the hind legs five inches long,
and folding by three joints. His body Is
about n big as the first joints oi man \
thumb. Under his throat Is II wind-hag.
which assists him IN singing Isaac all the
night When 1t rains. and il very dark, he
sings the loudcst His voice IL not so pleas
ing ~ that ui the nightingale. but this
would he Il venial Importection, II he would
but keep silence on Saturday nights. and
not forever prefer Isaac to Abraham and
Jacob lie has more elasticity IN his long
legs than other creature yet known. By
tins means he will leap five yards up tree,
fastening himself to 1t by his iOre-legs. and
in Il moment will hop or spring As far from
one tree to another. Ii Is from the singing
Of the tree frog that the Americans have
acquired the name of Little Isaac. Indeed.
like certain part OF them, the creature ap-
pears very Ievout. NOISY. arbitrary and
phlegmatIc, and associates with none but
what agree with him in his ways -PeterS
H,f1TU Gf Connecticut.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31


All Worcester turned out to welcome the
President, on Thursday evening. lie was
escorted to the Bay State House by the
local militia and Grand Army post and the
Continental company commanded by Col.
W. s. b. Hopkins, formerly of Greenfield.
The party were welcomed by Senator Hoar,
Congressman Rice, Mayor Pratt. the city
government, and all the leading gentlemen
of the city. The speeches were given from
the hotel balcony to a crowd Of probably
5000. The President said
PRESIDENT HAYEs's SPEECH.
Fellow citizens of Worcester need not
say to you that this is great reception and
very gratifying to us. The government of
the United States is of interest to all of you.
And it is because of your interest in that
government that you have turned out as
you have in such vast numbers to welcome
those to whose charge the administration of
this government has been committed. We
un derstand perfectly well that this is no
personal compliment to US. You entertain
very decided opinions as to the course the
government shall pursue, as to who shall
of opinion as to the precise measures of the
government But there are few things,
as have acquired the habit of saying SIP ce
our trip through New England began, up
on which the whole people of the United
States are substantially agreed. CHEERS. }
We are all agreed that hereafter for all
time the territory OF the United States,
EN- bracing as it does the best part of this
continent, extending from the torrid zone
on the south to the frigid on the north,
from the Atlantic ocean on the east to the
Pacific on the west, is forever hereafter to
belong to one nation, and to one nation
only. We are all agreed that all the States
of the Union shall have equal rights, tina
every State is equal to each other State.
that all the citizens of the United States,
black or white, native born or naturalised,
capitalist or laborers, shall have equal
rights before the law, and .over all, the, gov
ernment by the people shall continue to be
forever supreme. These are the general
ideas entertained about the government.
There are differences as to ms sthods. and
whatever errors may be mo de, you will
remember that it is our purrosc honestly to
pursue course in support oil the propositions
have offered you. And now, having al
ready spoken too long, | must give way to
one who, although he has not always been
with us. is in support of the ideas have
given you, as sound as you and |. now have
the pleasure of introducing Judge Key. of
Tennessee.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

Ir is understood that one Of the questions
nut to ali applicants for life assurance in
Mississippi. ~ as follows: Are you rup-
turod, subject To disease. ot an apnplectIc
habit, Republican, or IN any other man
ncr likely t1 die suddenly ,"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-31

''Uh, YES WAS forgettin' that Well,
yer see, thcr WAS revinoo agent come out
to collect the GOvnment taxes on whiskey II
few weeks ago. He got u lot o money in
Deadwood, where every other house IL n
sloon, an he left town late one night in my
stage with SO, 900 on him. He sat on the
box next to me, carried the money on his
person an was as wide-awake an game n fel-
low us ever see He was armed with Win
chester repeatin' rifle with sixteen barrels
and two eight -chambered revolvers. About
midnight We was to 90 through Dead Man +
Canyon, several miles out O Deadwood
about the darkest, orneryest place rs ever
was, | reckon knew that if he was to be
attacked it'd be there, an | told him 80. an
that we was almost certain to he stopped ;
but. Lord bless you, he didn't show no more
fear than you do now ; but there was II kind
of II determined look i'll his eye an | could
tell he was layin' his plans although he never
said word. Directly we come to the canyon
"a dark rocky hole. made by the devil for
road agent II we listened with all our ears
Suddenly We heerd it. low at first. then grow
in louder rapidly. II was the clckety-clnck
of ponies hOois on the road behind MS. |
didn't need to tell him what 1t meant. We
knew ther' was good many ; that they were
galnin' on us inst an knew that they would
attack the cOnch Just 1t wns goin slow up
the Tiso out of the canyon. told him this
when, quick MS flash, he Jumped of an
called me to drive On an to wait for him
when | got out of the canyon. saw his
game IN IA minnit and IT was n bod one. |
reckon. lie hid behind rock right in the
rond mn got his weapons ready. drove on
an lett HIM alone. The thieves fell into the
trap They rode on after the stage, thinkin'
him IN 1t, an as they passed close to where
he was opened fire. What, with his sixteen
shooter an his two reyOlvcrs nm their re
turnin' lire, it sounded to me like n whole
regiment | never knew whether he killed
any, hut he wounded some sure, an they
scattered like was after EN-, some OF them
as was hurt howlm' like devils. lie lust
came M with the stage an rode on as cool ns
YOU please. lie WAS II smart iclcr."