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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23
General Sum M nry.


made from ST. John, N. B., to England.
The snow storm in Minnesota, last week
was so heavy that plows were brought into
use on the railroads.
| Mr.. Spurback, OF Broome, N. y, aged
| 20, climbed tree to shake off chestnuts,
and fell, breaking his neck.
A Berlin despatch says the number of
| Russians killed, wounded and missing from
the commencement of the war to November
It'll, is Gi,S63.
The drought in the interior of Brazil is
| disastrous, in one province alone 50 600 cat
tie having died and Is 900 people are on the
verge Of starvation.
A lad of fourteen years died recently at
Charlottetown, 7. f. l., from excessive
smoking Death resulted from nicotine.
The coroncr's jury find that W. F. Cool
baugh, Of Chicago committed suicide while
Temporarily insane lie had a life insurance
of Sl00 900. Law suits are anticipated.
New York city has penny restaurant
where small cup OF cofee, bread and but
ter, pork and beans, a slice of corn beef,
mush, oatmeal, and boiled rice NAV be Oh
tanned at IL cost of one cent for each item.
1t is a newspaper mans enterprise. and is
nroyino A success.
CT. Ga .l a;.l,bou;, baro hoo,
,;'a1,;,,a,ad i, RI Irn hv scbooI cbildrep
and the authorities have accordingly issued
order. tina, the children of families afflicted
shall not be permitted to attend the schools
until all danger OF infection Is removed.
Tho,o ava .o,oo IN oOO nostu,steru !, the
I,a;,oJ states and oo OnO soldiers 1t il
,,,,og,oJ ,b,t ono ,v,,, IN d,uhle the SIZE ,f
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o,l, l;rir,, t-orilio onts;dc his native baunts
pn1,n ,ns Something over three wears of
ao,,, and obort three feet bigb Ue was An
o1ncotad ,or;Ila smote drank-apd died
IT, ,;,nhcr ,,.ed in tho Comstock mines
Norada costs sI- OOO dav the fire wood
f,r The ,tcnm engine ID 0G, candles so.
man ,hc mil, ,Iynr lost 80 ono md the
ice 10 cool the water for drinking in the hot
L,,or IcvoIs 81 ana nor dav
p;,.,i. D., :. s,;rroJ mn bv tho dis
orreannce Of s w b Gill, n prominent
LAWYER. lie left the city September IL. to
take his daughter to Nassar college, and has
not been seen or heard OF since September
=; ne WIS worm S'vV'oV' WIN 'inaI'
ilaniiitie'' anu IL Is 'eafeu Ut n"7 pe'i inu'
uereu'
The losses 10y the burning of Field Lei
ter j.. store, at Chicago" ednesua' high'' mre
icss than Stateu IN ear',er ie lp1m oo, -n1
ouiluing can ne fepa'tu iot S-'V nv, I,,u
was insured Tor apout SIo"'"oo' my .a'ue
oil ITS contents Is estimated at iess thar
mnra roso"a , fron tho G,,ncs and the sal
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rar CON-, Thoy werc insured far so35 600
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

SOME of the speeches made in the House
on the resumption repeal bill have been
violent in the extreme. In listening to them
one could easily imagine himself in n com
muniSt gathering or among set Of French
red republicans. FELTON,, of Georgia, made
one Of this kind Q! speeches yesterday, and
when he fairly boiled over in his wrathful
sentences against the foes of labor, his face
glowing like furnace, one could but WON
der at his presumption. Here was man
who till quite recently owned his labor
bought and sold it like sheep in the sham
bles,-and here he is roaring like tornado
against "the Entertainments Of capital ~ If
that is not impudence, what is? Down in
Georgia the negro represents labor, and We
are told that the silver bill and the resump-
tlon repeal bill are TO be passed for his
benefit Out upon such hypocrisy The
simple truth is that these DISCLAIMERS don {
care fig for the laboring man. Some
Of them are simply demagoging it at fast
pace, but most of them are trying to pay the
debts of themselves and their neighbors at
~ cents on the dollar. Ii is a curious sight
to watch the Democratic side of the House
when some of the excited financial speeches
are made. A We-tern Democrat uses the
most violent language against ''thc bond
holders" 1.-The capitalists, 1.-THE Eastern
creditor class, and 80 forth. There ait Fer
nando Wood and Mr. Potter and Mr. Willis,
and dozen other Democratic millionaires of
the East, as calm under these violent har
argues As n summer morning. They seem
to understand that it is all for Duncombe-
all to catch votes in the West. But it is
playing with gunpow der, nevertheless But
the most amusing sight is to see a Western
member worth million lecture an Eastern
man who happens to have few thousands
invested in government bonds. That is
Buffers old game. lie has always been
sneering at the bondhOldcrs. when his own
pockets were stuffed with all other kinds of
property. You never catch that class hold
ing per cent bonds they prefer manufac
tures-speculation- that will make
them 10 to Is per cent. There is not one of
these violent fellows who talks so much
about government bonds who doesn't make
from ! to II per cent on his average invest
ments, and most Of them, presume, are en-
gagged in speculations which they think will
be successful if we can only have some kind
of imitation Washington Letter.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

CUKIosIrIFs or A WEEK S NEWSPAPER Cur
PING.-Mr. Krawl, of Davenport, Ia. after
kindling a FIRE in his store the other day.
threw the lighted match behind him, which
landed in keg of powder left by some IN
suspected burglars, the night before, and
Mr.. krawl went soaring skyward, coming
down at distance and receiving dangerous
burns and bruises. A lad in Deaker's
Corners, Ulster county, n. Y. shoots hun
self through the heart with rifle after
hiding in the leg ot his boot letter, in
which he begs his mother to bury him in
an old packing box, as cheap as she can find,
because funerals are expensive and an old
box is good enough for him any way. Then
a bridegroom in Reading, Pa, Is taken
sick at his own wedding and Is corpse be
Tore he has been a husband twelve hours
Then there comes TO the front MOntana
man who has invented an electrical autJm-
atom dog. with vulcanized rubber head.
Il brass spine. sheet-lrOn ribs, cOpper-tOed
feet. q caSt-lron tail and a gutta-percha
skin, and an interior where the wheels OF
an eight-day machine whirl around and
send him tearing about to tho tune OF two
miles minute. An Illinois maehini~t in
ventsa machine tor indIcting capital punish
ment,a galloWs with powerful springs inStea
OF weights, which l. warranted to satisfy the
most exacting ma!eiactOr IN tho matter #
breaking his neck. A man went into a
store at Hull, near Ottawa, and asked t.
have an address written on card The
clerk did it Tor him, aud was gong to tack
1t on trunk which the man WAS about ~
send off. But that would not do
No persuasion could induce hun to
have 1t placed on the outside OF the
trunk. He said it must be placed inside,
and if the parties wanted to SEE where to
take 1t they could lift the iIt ami see the
address lie had his way, and the trunk
was dispatched with the address inside 10
match this person and to clcsc this list.
there ~ a woman in Newburg. n Y, WIN
is called to testify IN Il law suit. who can
neither be claxcd nor lntlmidl;ri spite vt
LAWYERS. indigo and all the dread cnstncry
of the law. INTO opening her mouth on the
matter The earthquake seems to have
shaken things up to some purpose.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

NORTH FEERIsBURGH -The weather of the
past week has seemed very like "Indiun Sum.
mer' and has been exceedingly well i'm
proved by the farmers and others III this
vicinity in preparations for winter.
The lecture course in this village has as
sumed features and proportions during the
week that promise the utmost success. The
following speakers are expected to partici-
pate namely Rev. c. b. Hubert, ID. D..
of Mddlehury College Hon. L. T. Ravens.
of ESSEX, y. Y Henry Ballard. ESD OF
Burlington Rev. H. ". Worthen OF Chel-
sea Mr. l.. q Burnham, OF Burlington
Mrs Ella W. Felt Ielocutlonist) Boston,
Mass The time and subject OF the lectur-
ers are not yet fully arranged. However,
President Hubert Is expected to speak on
Thanksgiving evening, 18th inst, subject
self Culture the Condition of Personal Eu-
loyment" Possibly Hon. 7. Z. Ravens will
give his address on the evening OF the 18th
inst. Subject. Lies Blessings
The Ladies' Aid Society and Sociable OF
this place, met on Inst Wednesday, ut NJ. F:
Aliens At the suciable there was served a
rich treat of music upon piano, clarinet,
violin and bass vol.
On Saturday eve, at Good Templars Hall,
Prof Cecil gave II very successful expose
of the outward and physical manifestations
OF Spiritualism.
About 1870 volumes OF new books have
lately been added To the NJ. L. : $. Library
of tins place
During the past SIX or eight weeks the
purchase of potatoes in this vicinity and
across the lake, has been pushed vigorously
srwrd, employing IN the meantime some
four or five men of our community.
Mr.. Il. Newell and wife, who have spent
scvarnl weeks ona western visiting tour,
have returned
The Attendance at the NJ. f. s s. on the
inst, was lO2 penny collection, "A cents.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

OUR Southern brothers can stand good
deal of pacifying and they feel quite free
to ask for more, when they do not get
enough. The governor Of Texas wrote the
other day to Gov. Williams, of Indiana, re-
questing him to send to Texas a certain
battle flag, formerly in the possession Of a
Texan regiment, which was captured in
battle by certain Inciana soldiers, of the
Union. NOW that the war is over, and
ancient friendships are being restored, - said
the Governor of Texas, "the return Of the flag
would be another evidence that we are in
deed friends again; and he kindly added
that he would pay the expressage. Gov.
Williams was willing enough to send back
the trophy, but it happened that State
Librarian Common, Of Indiana, had something
TO say about it, and it was tins being
custodian of the rebel flag which the Cover
nor of Texas desires returned, | simply have
to say that while have control of it, it will
remain in the State Library. 1t is trophy
Of the hcrOism of my comrades of Indiana,
both living and dead, and if the Governor of
Texas cannot be 'pacified' without its return,
he and his soldiers of the lost cause will
have to 90 unpacifed
State Librarian Conner will, perhaps, be
blamed for his unconciliatory spirit, by some
people who see only that, and not the honest
patriotism which inspired his reply We
do not know why rebel flags should be
sent South to be made more Of than
the flag of the Union is in that section.
Gov. Joseph Hawley, in recent speech
in Boston, said that in Journey in
Georgia, recently, he did not see the United
States colOrs anywhere. lie spoke at large
agricultural fair and in front of the stand
was tall flag staff, such as in any Northern
State would have borne the stars and stripes
But no such patriotic adornment aOated from
it. 1t stood bare, 50 much perhaps being
conceded to the Northern man and soldier of
the Union, who was the orator Of the day
The next day, quite likely, it bore the State
flag, or possibly some rebel garrison flag, 1t
will be quite time enough to send home the
rebel battle flags, when we End that the
national colors have at least equal honor with
them where they are going
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

TUE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.

TUE PRESIDENTS fRCt LANATlos-
BIZ the President orLEe United States Of imericd
The completed circle of Summer and WINTER
seei time and harvest has brou US to the accus
toned season at which a religious people Celebrates
with praise and Thanksgiving tho enduring mercy
orAlmfshty God. This devCut and public COMES
sion OF the Constant dependence Of man upon the
Divine Father for all good gifts of life and health
and peace and happiness so early in our history
made the habit of ou- people. finds in the survey
of the past year new grounds for Is joyful and
grateful manifestation.
In all blessings which depend upon benignsnt
seasons this has indeed been memorable year
Over the wide territory Of our country with all us
diversity Of soil and climate and products, the
earth has yielded bountiful return TO the LABOR
of the husbAndman The health Of the people has
been bIi GIFTED by no prevalent or widespread us
eases. No great disasters Of shipwrecks upon our
coasts, or to our commerce on the seas have
brought loss and hardship to merchants or marin
ers and clouded the happiness Of the community
with sympathetic sorrow. In all that concerns our
strength aud peace aud greatness as nation IN
AL that touches the permanence and security oil
our Government and the benefeent institutions on
which rests in all that affects the character ana
dispositions ofour people, and tests our capacity TO
enjoy and uphold the equal and free condition OF
society. now permanent and universal throughout
the Land the experience the last year is cons peu-
ously marked by the N, tectng providence OF God,
and is Jul Of promise and hope for the coming gen
craft rs Under a sense OF these Infinite oblisa-
tons to the Great Ruler Of times and seasons and
events let Us humhly ascribe il TO our own faults
and frates. il; II any degree, that perfect concord
and happiness peace and justice. which such great
uerces should dif1se through the hearts and lives
ofour %. pie do not altogether and always and
ever, where prevail. Let us, with one spirit and
with ous voice lit up praise ard thanksgiving to
odGr his manifold goo loess TO our land and His
manifest care fer our nation.
Now, therefore !. Rutherford b. Hayes, Pres-
dent OF the United States, do sppoint Thursday,
the path day of November rCxt, as a day OF Ia
tiorsl II AMI Swing and prayer, snd l earnestly
reeomu, nd that, Withdrawing themselves irom
secular csrcs Al ators. the people Of the United
States do meet together on that day in their respec-
tive places If woI ship, there to give thanks and
praise to Almighty God for His meieies, and to de-
youtly bes,ech their continusnce.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal United States to be affixed
Done al the City Of Washington this twenty ninth
Day Of October. in the year OF Our Lord one
thousand i-ht hundred and seventy-seven'
and Of the Independence OF the United States
tee one hundred and second.
H. RB.HAYEs
by the President
WILLIAM II. EyARrs, Secretary ofState.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

SITTING BULLS STORY OF TUE MASSACRE.
A New York Herald CORE 'rondent re-
ports prolix interview with Sitting Bull.
From his statement of the Custer fight, the
Herald finds that Clusters plan was to attack
the Indian camp simultaneously on two sides
Reno attacked first and was driven back
and Clusters attack followed. Sitting Bull
imagined that Reno's command, which had
retreated to the heights, were an insignia
cant handful left there by Custer for Obser-
yation, and thought it safe to withdraw
all the warriors and concentrate against
Custer. On the side toward Reno there
were left only squaws, children and superan-
nuated men. If these had been attacked,
some Of the Sioux warriors who were over
whelming Custer would have been detached
for the defence of the squaws, and the fate
of the battle might have been different
Sitting Bull says the noise of the firing
was distinctly heard by the squaws confront
ing Reno and must have been heard by Reno
himself. Sitting Bull mistook Reno for
Custer and had no idea he WAS between the
two forces.
Sitting Bull said the men who came with
Long Hair" Custer were as good men
as ever fought When they rode up, their
horses were tired and they were tired.
When they got of from their horses they
could not stand firmly on their feet. but they
began to fight at once. But by this time
there were plenty Of warriors to meet them.
When Long Hair" found he was so out
numbered and threatened on his TANKS, he
took the best course. The buge blew to
fall back All the men fell back fighting
and dropping. They kept in pretty good
order Some great chief must have com
manded them. They would fall back and
make fresh stand beyond on higher ground
There were no towards on either side. None
died on horseback. All were dismounted.
Sitting Bull said he was told that Custer
died last, standing like a sheat of corn with
ali the ears fallen around him. A few stood
by him lie killed man when he fell, and
laughed when he had fired his last shot from
his pistol. He rose upon his hands and
tried another shot, but his pistol would not
go of. One man was kneeling when Custer
fell, but he died before Custer.
Sitting Bull says "Long Hair" was not
scalped, because he was great chief.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23
JAPANESE Paper Carpeting at the " Bee

JAPANESE Paper Carpeting at the " Bee
Hive
The CAPTURE OF KARs.-The attacking
force numbered Il, 800 and they climbed the
steep rocks, ramparts and walls, and drove
an equal number of desperately fighting
Turks in a headlong flight over their
bitches. Gen. Lazerof, who commanded
the Russian right wing. assaulted Fort llafz
Pasha, crowning steep, rocky height. Gen
Count Grobbe, with regiment of Moscow
grenadiers and regiment of the 39th
division, attacked the fort in the centre.
The Ardahan brigade and another regiment
of Moscow grenadie-5 under Gems. Roop and
Komarof formed the left wing and assault
Fort lnglis on the north. The attack began
in the centre at $50, Saturday evening,
when Count Grobbe led his brigade against
the Khauli redoubt and himself fell dead at
the first onslaught, pierced by bullet. The
redoubt surrendered in the morning, and
then the three towers, almost simultaneous
ly with the capture of the Khauli redoubt.
The citadel, Fort Sauxave and Fort Ilaiiz
Pasha were carried by assault, and by day
light, Sunday morning, Gen. Lazerof's
troops had made progress as far as the cap
ture of Fort Karadagh Other forts, espe-
cially the Arab Sahia on the east and TAX
man Takm on the west, maintained a stub
born resistance until eight O'Clock, when all
the garrisons which could escape fled toward
Erzeroum. These were subsequently over
taken by dragons and Cossacks and brought
back as prisoners.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

IS debate, in the House, on the Army Ap-
preparation Bill, Mr. Banning, OF Illinois,
the bounding Banning as he is some
times called, said he believed "the military
establishment which has been maintained
BY the Executive since the first of July last,
is in no legal or constitutional sense the
Army of the United States and that he
should "vote to pay its officers and soldiers
with the utmost reluctance" lie would
never vote for the appropriations, if there
was any way these men could get pay
from those who had illegally employed
them" Banning doesn't like soldiers
There happens to be in his case good deal
more doubt whether he is in any legal or
Constitutional sense a representative from
the State Of Illinois, than there is as to the
right of the United States army to its
name and pay
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

BIG STEAMER. - The largest steamship
ever built except the Great Eastern is now
at New York. She is named the Hooper,
and mas been used in the laying of telegraph
cables This is her first trip to this eoun-
try. She is $50 feet over al So feet wide,
and SO deep. She is built OF iron and
rugged as three-masted schooner. She is
registered as A ,s35 tons, but has capacity
OF 5000 tons, exclusive of passengers She
will carry OUT the largest cargo that ever
left any port in the United States.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

This ought to serve as an encouragement
to the extent of few cents day at least
by every one who has it his power to earn
even scanty compensation for his labor.
Ii is true, as remarked by another, that
every person wastes enough in 20 OF 30
years. which, if saved and carefully invest
ed. would make u family quite Indopen-
dent {; but the principle of small saving has
been lost sight OF IN the general desire to be-
come suddenly wealthy by some fortunate
speculation"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

DEATH OF Col 7. H. HALsEY His many
old comrades and acquaintance in Yer
mont will learn with pain of the death of
Col. Thomas II. Ilelsey. late paymaster U.
5. A. which took place at his residence in
Brooklyn. N. Y. on Monday last, Nov.
10Th. Col. Halsey paid more of the Yer
mont troops in the war than any other pay
master ; and his genial temper and oblig-
ing disposition made him universal favo-
rite. We shall publish fuller tribute To his
memory hereafter His funeral will take
place at the residence of Mrs C. W. Con-
apt. in Brandon, tomorrow Thursday, at
3 o'clock p. IN.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

HARD ON THE LIoUOR SELLERS In the
case OF Aldrich vs.. Harvey, for assault and
battery. In Caledonia county. where jury
found that the defendant committed the
assault ''by reason of intozication from in
tOxicating liquor sold him by the plaintiff, -
the Judgment of the lower court, holding
that the defendant was not liable. was
affirmed by the Supreme Court, at Mont
pelier. last week. According to this decis-
yidual who sold him the liquor, ali he wants
to, without being held liable
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

The OGDESsBuEG RAILROAD The Ogdens-
burg and Lake Champlain railroad have
lately purchased two thousand tons of steel
rails from the Hamburg, Pa, steel works
They are to be delivered mex; June, and will
be laid Immediately, beginning at R1uses
Point. They will lay about twenty three
miles Of track. 1t is intended to have the
whole road-bed laid with steel rails within
a few wears
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

BRisToL Henry Sheldon and Mr..
Bssonnettc got INTO quarrel, last Satnr-
day evening, resulting in the arrest and IN
generation of Mr. Sheldon who was sepiiE
tt.S rino Monday morning he was released
and dlvulgcd on II Shattuck, one OF our
druggists Shattuck was prosecuted and
fined for four offences and costs. amounting
to between SGi and SOS Shattuck ap-
pcalcd. 1t was jury trial before Justice
vintou, ". W Rider for the State and
Alison Hill, E.q, for the defence There
was something about the air or something
else, Last Saturday evening that was very
intoxicating for several persons vi usual
good health became drunk.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

DURING this changeeble weather, it is i'm
portant to guard against the insidious in
roads Of disease, and especially of colds
1t is hazardous for person to lay aside an
overco3t or cloak when going ont because
the atmosphere is milder. The constant
exercise of common sense in what are con-
sidered minor matters will often prevent
sickness and death.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY. The residence of
A. G. Lalime. at Worcester Mass. was en-
tered by burglars, the other night, but they
were frightened of before securing any
plumber. Mr.. Lalitne is one of the agents
of the Central Vermont, and at the time
was on his way to St. Adams with large
sum of money belonging to the railroad
which, it is supposed, the burglars were
after