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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-24

The English sparrows, INTRODUCED INTO this
country some ten or fifteen years ago, have
now become so numerous and. it is said,
have so successfully waged war upon the
native song birds in some places as to excite
alarm lest they become in time an ntoera-
bic nuisance. They have already Overrun
the country from the Atlantic to Salt Lake
City. A Western paper having suggested
that the sparrOws be sent after the grass
hOppers. the Gr0phic says Tho sparrow
is essentially a seed eater. lie would prob
ably ding the grasshOpper in straight
GrecO-Roman wrestle, but neither would
eat the other except in the last stages of
famine II sparrows are transplanted to tho
West they will 90 for wheat with an ayidity
that will make the grasshoppers stand up
on their hind legs and whistle with amaze.
ment.n
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JERSEYS FOR SALE

A CHOICE. YOUNG HEED OF JEESENS FOR
N Sale. Consisting 81 Young Prize Bull. and
three YOUNG Cows. All entered IN the American
jersey Herd Book. Address
ROMEO II. STEPHENS,
Slucum Lodge
Sw2w ST Lambert Canada.
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VEGETINE
SHE RESTS WELL.

VEGETlNE has never failed to effect a cure,
giving and strength to the sttm debilitated
hy
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PERUVIAN SYRUP.
PERUVIAN SYRUP.

Restored TO Complete Health.
Brooks, Me-, Sept. 7, 1874.
DEAR SIR From early youth was in feeble
health, troubled with humor in my blood, weakness
and debility Of the system generally; was unable
to labor much, and only at some ls lit business, and
then only with great caution.
Seven years ago the past Spring had a severe
attack OF Dipttheria. which lett my limbs paral-
yzed and useless. 30 was unable to walk or even
sit up. Noticing the advertisement Of PERUVIAN
SYRUP, concluded to give it trial. and to my
great joy soon found my health improving. | con-
tnued the use Of the SYRUP until three bottles had
been used and was restored to complete health,
and have remained so TO this day.
attribute my present health entirely to the use
Of PERUVIAN SYRUP, and hold il in high estima-
ton. | cannot speak too highly in its praise.
have in several recomme died il in cases sml
Jar to my own with the same good results.
Yours truely, CHAS. L. PEARCY.
SETH ". F0WLE & SONS, Propr's 50 Harrison
Ave-. Boston. Sold by all Druggists. Pamphlets fee
Il mon thurs &w Il
Aug |, mon, thur 8wtf
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CEOO REWARD will lie paid for bottle OF
SDUU any other Extract or Essence OF Jamaica
Ginger if found to equal it in line ilaNor, puiiy ana
nrompt medical eject Largest. Cheapest and Best.
Take no other until you have given it trial.
Sold by all Wholesale and Retail Druggists, "fo
GERS and Dealers in Medicine. Price, 80 cents.
WEEKS POTTER, General Agents and Whole
sale Druggists, Boston.
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PORTLAND AND OCDENsBURG RAILROAD,
LANoILLE VALLEY DIvIsIoN.-The annual
meeting Of this corporation was held at
Hydepark on Tuesday, August 18th, ard
was very enthusiastic and harmonious. By
a unanimous vote the old board of directors
was reelected. as follows:
Franklin Fairbanks. St. Johnsbury; j q.
ID. Bell, Walden; j. II. George. IIardwick
DIFF Abel. WolcOtt, Geo. W. Hendee, Nor
risville; Waldo Brigham, Ilydepark Or
ange Buck, johnson; X. 5. Reed, Fairfield;
ID. ID. Wead, Sheldon; o. 5. Rixiord. High
gate A. b. Jewett, SwantJn.
President Brigham presided, and made
partial report of the business done during
the past year. lie claimed that since the
opening Of the road to SwantOn and Bur
lington, the passenger and freight traffic had
trebled, and promised still larger increase
when the arrangements are completed for
through traffic. lie said the books at the
stations along the line would show that the
saving made on freight alone would amount
to enough to pay the bonded Indebtedness
of the towns-principal and interest-in ten
years.
Col. Fairbanks and Gov IIendee were
called up and made some very pertinent re
marks. alter which the meeting adjourned.
A detailed report Of the cost OF the road
wasIpromised at no distant day
After adjournment, the directors met and
reelected Waldo BRIGHAM President and
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SoUTH POLAND, Me-, Oct. II, ls'G
ii. X. STEVENS:
Dear sir-l have been sick two years with the
liver compliant and during that time have taken
a great many different II rdicines, but none Of them
did me any good. l was restless nights and had no
appetite. since taking the Vegctine rest well and
relish my food. Can recommend the Nesetne Tor
what il has done Tor me. Yours respectfully,
MRS. ALBERT KICKER.
Witness OF the above.
Mr. Geo. NJ. Vaughan, Mediord Mass.
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WILLISTON ACADEMY.

THE Trustees o! Williston Academy take pleasure
i in announcing that they have secured the ser
vices of Rev. +. W. Olmstcad, as Principal and Miss
Z. r. Omstead, as Assistant. both of whom are prac
teal teachers. for the year ensuing. Mr.. 0lmstead
for thirty years has been connected with educati0n
al interests both in and out of the State has taught
s;ully large share Of that time, and We EEL
warranted in saying that in his hands the public
may safely rely on having first-class school.
The Fall Term will commence Wednesday. Sept.
5th, Isl.
Further particulars will he given on application
to the Principal. or GEO. MILLER,
Aug ., dlw&7w3w Secretary.
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HAVING purchased of Mr.. T. NJ. READ his entire
III stock OF Sheet Music, instruction Books, small
Musical Instruments, &c. | shall continue their
sale at the same store. aiding thereto a. srcqured
new goods, thereby maintaining the largest and
best appointed Music Store within a large circle.
In connection have placed my stock of Books,
Stationery, Artists Materials. Fancy Goods. &C.,
removed from my former place Of business the
FULLER" stand.
By keeping well selected line of Goods In all
branches. by strict and courteous attention hope
to merit your patronage. HENRY II. DAVIS.
Burlington. VT, July -, ISL. wifi
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ST. JOHNSBURY ACADEMY.

ST. JOHNSBuRN, VT.
A SCHOOL Tor both SEXES. oilers superior ad,ru
~ tases for the pursuance ui Classical English,
and scientific studi,~. Location hralthy moral
influences excellent, instruction thorough. ami
expense moderate.
The ne\t year begins August 9Th. ~. ForCit
aloSue, address. REV. II. 4. FULLER,
July eth. Wiw princip,I
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OTHER SPEECHES.

Speeches were afterwards made by Thomas
Allen, of Pittsfeld and st. Louis Lieut.
Gov. Knight. of Massachusetts,, who e1-
pressed his regret at the absence of Gov.
Rice. and spoke good word on behalf of
his State and President Bartlett, Of Dart
mouth college. The Exercises of the Ban
quet were closed by the rendering of a vol
unteer poem entitled. "Parson Aliens
Ride" by Wallace Bruce, of Poughkeepsie
as follows:
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MILLION While digging in clay bank
recently, Louis Lyon found a silver coin
bearing date l77O, somewhat larger than a
quarter Of a dollar. of original value IN
known. Ii lay about four feet under
ground. and when taken from the clay was
bright as newly coined silver.
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Prepared 10y Ii. r. STEVENS, Boston. Mas
VEGETINE is SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS
Aug DAWN
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NERGENNEs is distracted by that venerable
question Does lager bier intoxicate?
, 1877-04-29

clerks shall take the same oath and
have the same powers and authority
as the judges and clerks of general State
elections. After tile closing of the polls the
ballots shall he counted and the returns
made out and returned under the seal Of the
City or Village Clerk, as the case may be,
within two days after election, and there
upon the City Council or Board of Trustees,
Us the case may be, shall examine and can
vass the same aud declare the result Of the
election, and cause q statement thereof to be
entered upon its journals. As tho law now
stands there is no protection against repeat
ing and illegal voting, except such as the
vigilance Of the people may provide for them
selves. An instance Of it may be found IN
the statement that 1lr. R1oRDAN has already
run down 164fraudulent votes in the Seventh
Ward, constituting more than H11DRETHs
pretended plurality, and he could probably
find several hundred more if the search were
pursued. Registration is tho best protection
that has yet been discovered, and cities need
it in their elections as much as, if not more
than, the State.
, 1877-04-29

During the last two years, horse-raclng
and baseball playing hive given an impetus
to a business which has degenerated into
gambling, and which supports number OF
disreputable places for e1hausting the t'mo
and depicting the pockets Of young men H.
terested in these sports. They are known as
pool-rooms. The House has passed a BILL
prepared by Mr.. THOMPSON, of the Cook
County delegation, which is designed to
break up pool-selling, and provides TINT any
person who engages in the business shall be
fined not exceeding $4,000, and imprisoned
in the County Jail for term not exceeding
one wear. The bill has also been wisely
made to reach the owners Of the building
who shall knowingly permit it to be used for
the purpose of selling pools. AS pool-selling
differs from other gambling in necessarily
being IN open business Cts success depend
ing upon assembling large number OF per
sons), the owners of buildings can scarcely
plead Ignorance Of the traffic, and, by sub
jecting them to the same penalties rs the
booksellers themselves, there is hope that
tbs business may be completely abolished
, 1877-04-29

Evidences of the profigacy and scoundrel-
ism of our County Government are accumu-
lating rapidly. The County Treasury is de-
p1eted, and the employees Of the county who
honestly earn their living are hawking their
orders about the streets, selling them to the
curbstone brokers for what they can get. A
motion for closing the County Agents Office
has already been made. There are rumors
that the work on the Court-House will prob
ably be suspended in q couple Of weeks, be-
cause the contractors can get no money from
the county, hare none Of their own to keep
ahead, and cannot borrow any, under the con-
tingency that their contracts may be tainted
with fraud. And now there are threats that
the contractors for furnishing -four, bread,
meat, coal, groceries, ETC., intend to throw
up their contracts, because, though their
prices we're good at the time the arrange
ments were made, the contrncts are no
longer profitable under the recent rise in
supplies they probably can do this legally,
since the comfy has failed in its part Of the
contract by being largely IN arrears to all Of
them. In case these contractors retire, the
closing of the Poor-House, the Insane Asy-
lnm, and the Hospital, will probably follow,
as the county could only bug for cash, which
it doesn't possess. Now why all this en-
barrassment? Simply because the funds
have been squandered and stolen. Under
the rule Of the Ring the county is in the
condition Of thriftless, dissipated fellow
who has eaten up his income and exhausted
his credit. It is but repetition of Tammany
in New York, tBoss" SHEPHERDS rule in
Washington, and Colvinism in our own City
Government. Will the Legislature give Cook
County chance to elect five honest Com
missioners next fall on general ticket?
, 1877-04-29

Mr. KEHoE's energy has secured the pas
sage Of another bill in the Senate which will
be Of substantial benefit to Chicago and all
the other cities organized under the general
act Of incorporation, By providing for regis
tration at the charter elections in the spring.
4 similar bill Was defeated in the House, but
we hope this one will have better fate. It
is in the shape Of an amendment to the In
corporation act Of 1872, and provides that
no person shall be permitted to vote at any
election held under the provisions Of this
act who is not registered as is provided for
in case of State elections; and the manner Of
conducting, registering, and voting at cleo
tons to be held under this act and contest
ing the samc, the keeping of pon-lists, and
the canvassing Of the votes, shall be the
same, as nearly as maY be, as in the case of
the election Of county officers under the
general laws Of this State. The Judges of
election shall appoint clerks when necessary
to ill vacancies, and the judges and
, 1877-04-29
TIE P0LICY-HOLDER TIE BEST INSUR-
ANcE SUPERINTENDENT.

ANcE SUPERINTENDENT.
When the magazines take to printing
articles about life insurance it is evident that
the subject las great popular interest.
tScrs1ners 1ately had paper full Of interest
ing information about the history and
methods Of tho business. The International
for May-June discusses the insurance crisis,
and the last number of the GALAXY contains
very intelligent contribution on the same
topic. The article is anonymous, and is evi-
IDENTIFY written by some one familiar with the
crooked ways Of life insurance. Policy
holders who have been induced to change
their policies for those Of some new form
will here find explained the motive of the
companies in proposing the trade. When
al insurance company does not care to resort
to tho brigandnge Of freezing-out !" its
policy y-holders, as F1osr and HAMMOND did
in the case Of the Continental policy-holders
in California, it will employ secret
method known as " changing" It's agents
are sent out to persuade the policy
holders that some new form Of policy IS more
desirable than the one they have. But the
old lamp is worth mora than the new one,
In the exchange the po1icy-holder lets 20 the
reserve TINT has been accumulated On his old
policy, and this money is distributed between
the agent and the officers Of the company.
every policT-holder," emphatically says
the writer in the GALAXY, who is asked to
surrender his policy and take money for it,
or any other policy, may rest assured that
there is fraud at the bottom Of the transac-
tion, and that, whoever will make money by
, 1877-04-29

that he has already traced l6+ Voters
who have no local habitatlon IN tnot
ward, men who registered themselves
as living at street numbers "neIe
there are only vacant lots, or as reslolne III
barns, or as sojourning in saloons, the pro-
prietors Of which swear they know no such
men. It is not likely that any or many OF
these fraudulent votes were cast tor R1ohpAS'
who made no effort to get them and. II thas
number be deducted from HnDRETH's vote,
it will leave plurality for R1onDAS. Iho
Council has the power under the charter 10
institute judicial inquiry into the Legality
of the vote, and will probably proceed to do
so as soon as an ordinance can be adopted
for carrying out the provision OF the charter:
This will be the proper way to proceed.
The Council has no right to call special
election if the man who received plurality
of the votes can qualify legally. There is lit
tie doubt that HnDnErH could run
such special election to suit himself, with
the roughs and rcpeaters at his command
aud the respectable citizens Of the ward
quiescent, and elect man who would serve
his ends as fully as if he himself were in the
Council. It is wise to avoid special elec-
ton, if it cen be done fairly. Mr.. R1oRDAs,
too, has claims which the Council cannot
justly ignore. If he got more honest votes
than H1nRErH (Which We hope is trne for
the credit of the ward) then the seat is his
by rights, and his claim should be thor
oughly examined before special election is
ra11ed
, 1877-04-29

Mr.. L1EB, the County Clerk, who takes more
stock in the County Commissioner Ring than
is compatible with professions Of honesty, is
down on Commissioner FITZGERALD. Said
LIED to reporter the other day:
Now, whatever people In general may think Of
Mr.. FlrzcERALD's Intentions and qualifications as
a reformer, the officers Of the different depart
ments of the County Building consider h i'm a
windy bathcrskite and an ignorant bIackguard.
Ever since he has pnt his nose into the County
Board, he has acted the bull in the china shop.
prancing about and kicking up his heels in a man
ner wonderful to behold. Tie WIS not particular
rs to whom be hit or kicked, SO long as he was
county official.
II MIR. Clerk L1EB will contain Ills soul in
patience until the morning OF Wednesday,
Nov. !. 1sT,-that is to say, for about six
months,-he will find man elected to the office
OF County Clerk, and his name will not be
HERMANN L1EB, and he will not be the tool Of
the Ring, and this new Clerk will be in perfect
accord in relation to county matters with Com
missioner FITZGERALD. There will also be four
certain, and most likely FIVE, new Commission
crs who will be wors: bulls in the Rings
china-shop than even F1rzoERALD. They will
smash the Ring in manner +wondcrful to be-
hold"
, 1877-04-29

vided the Turks break the treaty
with servia by marching their forces
into her territory breakage "hloh
will undoubtedly occur, since the abrogatloh
of the treaties as u military necessity "ll1 Do
considered of little account The pasaage
at this point is 8 matter Of absolute certainty,
for it disposes of the two great na.u.A'
defenses of the Turks,-the Danube ana tne
Balkan Mountains It enables the husslanS
to avoid the one and turn the other. Inc
greet battle Of the war, therefore, II tno
Russians succeed in transferring their army
over the Danube into Servia, must be looked
for south Of the Balkans, between SOPHIA
and Constantinople, the route over "n!cn
the Russians triumphantly travelled IN 1876
, 1877-04-29

4 bill wns filed yesterday in the Circuit
Court By WILLIAM FITZGERALD, one Of the
County Commissioners, to prevent the Board
from issuing m order in favor Of Farmer
HAR1s for the $34, 900 worth of extras which
the latter claims to have furnished On the
new Courthouse Mr. F17zoEnA1D alleges
that the architect has; already fixed the
amount due HAnAs ut $14,37s. 13, and that
his decision is final. A temporary injunction
was granted BY Judge FARwE11., who quietly
remarked when he issued it that the County
Board was not called on at present to be
liberal with their money.
, 1877-04-29

Just as Russia is plunging into war with
Turkey, France has footed up her bill of
damages for making war on Germany, as
follows:
The claims which have been paid to private par
ties for Losses sustained during the German inva
sion amount to nearly $50, 900, COO, and another
500, 900, 600 has been absorbed BY the requist-
tions made By the German armies on cities $780,
600, 900 Paris a1onc), the expense of providing
for the German army Of occupation, and other
damages This is but part. Of course, Of the
total expense Of the German war to France It
doubled her national debt raising It to the fright
full sum OF 81, 500, 600, 000 or two and oncfourth
times as much as that OF the United States. The
annual Interest charge Of France s 5000, 600. 000
or more than twice as much as that of the United
States,
, 1877-04-29
H1LDRETH'S LITTLE GAME,

The Self-cOnvlcted rcveuue-defrnuder Hill
DRETH (who had the shamclessness to run
for Alderman in the full flush of his infnmyH,
having been declared ineligible on account
Of his criminal record, has about made M his
mind, it is said, not to press his IS claims to
seat through the Courts. If he has come
to such q decision, it is not because he has
suddenly acquired sense Of shame, which
Is entirely alien to his nnture, but because he
knows that be could be kept out during the
entire term by the laws delays, and in the
end would be informed by the Courts that, as
convicted, haff-pardoned felon, he hns no
claim to place in the City Council. He
thinks he knows trick worth two of this.
He wants his case hurriedly disposed of and
special election called for the Seventh
Ward, which he can manipulate in tho inter-
est Of some tool of his own, equally corrupt,
but not bearing the bar sinister of criminal
conviction to exclude him from an Alder
manic sent among decent men.
The Council will probably refuse to crafty
H1LpRETH's desire in this particular, aad take
time to ascertain definitely whether Hu1
pHETH actually received plurality Of the
legal votes Of the Seventh Ward, as the re-
turns seem to indicate on their face. IF hc
did not, then there is no necessity for call
ing special election, as Mr. R1onpAH, his
competitor, is the legally elected Alderman.
Mr. R1oRDAs and his attorney think they
will be able on careful CANVASS of the votes
to prove that Hunaz1H did not receive the
plurality he claims. Those who ore f.
mi1iar with the hard character of a large
Fart Of the inhabitants Of the Seventh Ward,
and with HnDRErH's methods for carving
an election, will not doubt that several hun
dred fraudulent votes were cast for him.
His seeming plurality over R1oRDAx is only
liz votes, and Mr. R1oRpAx claims