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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28
Old Letters

Ay, burn them. What does il avail
To treasure the dumb words so dear TO US
Like dead leaves tossed before the autumn gale
Will be each written page We cherish thus.
When Times great wind has swept them all away
The smiles, loves tears, and hatreds OF to-day.
Living, we hoard our letters. holding them
Sacred and safe, a. almost sentient things
So strong the yearning tide oi stleL 70 @ sten,
So true, when doubt creeps in, or treason sthss
Parting NAV smile, such golden hridse hetween
Chanre cannot come where such stamped faith has
been.
Diving. we leave them to our children's care,
Our well plized sOlace. records of the time
When life Law spread before us rich and fair,
And love and hope spoke prophecies sublime
Lore slowly gathered through laborious hours,
Wits playful flashes, sweet poetic flowers.
All these to US, to us-and for awhile,
Our loved will guard the casket where they lle
GlRncng them over with fearful smile,
Touching their yellow ioldings tenderly;
A little wnie-hut Life and Time are strong,
Our dearest cannot keep such vigils long.
And bv-and-hy. the cod bright eyes of youth,
Lighting on such old fotsam of the past,
The shattered spars of trust and hope, and ruin
ON the blank shore of Times great ocean cast
VIII read and Judge, with naught OF soft behoo'lng
Dssectlns, sneering, anything but loving
So. let us burn them all. the totterirg words
The guided baby fingers wrote US lirst.
The school boy scribble--lines the man affords
To the old eyes that watched-Old hands mat nufst
The girls sweet nonsense, confidence OF friend,
And these, our own, ours ony, till the end
Heap them together, one last fervert Hiss.
Then, let them turn ere we do INTO uusi'
Ashes to ashes. Well and wise II is,
To meet the end that comes as come It must;
And leave no relies to grow gray and rotten,
Waiting the certain doom of the forgotten.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28
TuE New York Nation says of Mr.
Edmunds's Electoral bill J.:

TuE New York Nation says of Mr..
Edmunds's Electoral bill
This measure is wise one, and deserves
TO pass. 1t probably comes as near settling
the great question Of double returns as is
possible for human political device. In
the first place, every State has three whole
months between the elections and meeting OF
the electors to determine by means OF its
own tribunal all such questions as arose in
1876 in the three disputed Southern States /;
and every State may pass what laws 1t
pleases providing for such contingency
The difficulty in such a State a. Florida in
1876 was that no conclusive proceedings to
test the title of the rival electoral bodies
were possible. In case of the passage of
this bill, all Florida will have to do will be
to pass law making it possible for the
courts, or some other tribunal. to decide any
questions that may arise. The decision Of
the State Is also made binding on Congress
in the case Of double returns. In the case OF
double returns where there has been no de-
termination by the State, the practical effect
of the bill will be that the vote will not be
counted at all.
We do not see how the Nation can say
this last A concurrent vote Of both Houses
of Congress may, under the bill, decide
which votes shall be counted, when the
State does not determine the question.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28
the chairman. ii. n Newell. of Shelburn,
reported as follows:

reported as follows:
The Republicans Of Chittenden county. steadiast
ly adherng to the principles OF the party hereby
resolve:
That We Cordially endorle tho administration oi
President HAYES believing that his Southern poll-
cy is hest calculated to aid in the permanent p1c.h
cation of the southern section ot the lnon-a duty
to which the Republican party stands salemnly
pied sed and that in the administration of the CIV
II service lie has faithfully endeavorcd to carry out
the principles expressed in the Cincinnati platform
of requiring honesty, fidelity anu calac!ty III All
appointments to ,flice.
Resolued, ID, That the financial policy oil tbs Ad-
ministratiUn and It's attempts to bring the currency
OF the country to sound specie basis meets Win
our hearty and unqualified approval
Rosolred, ri, That we commend to The suiirnSt'
of the reemen Of this county the hepubhcah etate
ticket and the candidates nominated by this Con
ventiOn.
The resolutions we're accepted and adopt
ed, though there were a large number oil
votes in the negative.
A B. Halbert. Of Essex, presented the
following resolution, which was adopted,
the only opposition being number OF mega
tive votes from the Milton delegation
Resoirei. That as representative Republicans OF
Chittenden county. we earnestly reiterate the
sentiment OF former convention 'Ihat TINS
State, and the nation cannot afford, In these times
of doubt and political danger, to lose the services
of the Hon. J. s. Morrill, IRON the coursels OF the
nation.
We therefore request our nominees Tor senator's
il elected to support by vote and influence the re-
election of Mr. Morrill, at the next session of the
Legislature. for further term Of six year,.
On the recommendation of the committee,
G. NJ. Spaulding, of Jericho; Warren
Gibbs. OF Burlington: john Allen. of West
ford; A. d. White, of Huntington. and
Joseph Barton, of Charlotte; and on
motion Of Ii. N. Newell, the committee was
authorized to act as a committee on creden-
tials, as at tho present convention.
The convention then adjourned.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28

Bon lNGERsoLL says the explanation
Stanley Matthews made in the Senate.
rominds HIM Of traveller who was gong
through country which had been infested
with noted desperate, when he Tell in with
II fellow traveller. Alter they had logged
on mile or two tugo ther, the traveller
said u his companion hope We will
not bo molestcd by this celebrated thief,
Tor | have large nmount OF money
and have no weapon thiuk not,
said hll companion. Shortly alter. a.
the traveller stopped to drink at u spring.
his companion puuncod upon him, demand
ing his money or his lite, adding, II am the
thief you dreaded" The traveller showed
fight, and IL was only after II tough tusslo
that he was overcome Now give me your
money, demand,d d the thiei. II have no
MONEY!" said the traveller. What in
thunder made you fs ht then, SOP cried
the thief "W ell, replied the traveller,
81 told you had good deal OF money and
no weapon, and | hated 10 be caught in
such a silly lie"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28
Civil Service Rules.

There have been so many expositiOns Of the
civil service regulations of the present Ad-
ministration in regard to contributions OF
money for political purposes, that it is graft
tying to have at last an official statement Of
the rules. 1t comes in the form of letter
from the Secretary of the Interior to one OF
the subordinates in his Department and it
is announced that it has received the formal
sanction of the President:
First-You receive your salary as an en-
ploye of the Government for certain services
rendered in your official eapacity-not as a
member of any political party. The salary
so earned belongs to you, and, unless taxed
by law, il is in no sense subject to any
assessment for any object whatever. In re-
turn for it you are expected to perform your
official duties faithfully and efhciently-nO-
thing more. In this connection | have to
call your attention to the following statutory
provision (l9th stat. p. log. see. 6):
THAT all executive officers and employees
of the United States not appointed by the
President with the advice and consent OF the
Senate, are prohibited from requesting giving
to or receiving from any other officer or
employe of the Government any money or
property or other thing of value for political
purposes, and any such officer or employe
who shall offend against the provisions OF
this section shall be at oLce discharged from
the service of TIE United States, and he
shall also be deemed guilty of misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof shall he fined a
sum not exceeding $500"
SecOnd-lOu are As free as any other
citizen to spend your money In any legiti-
mate way you please, and as your political
principles or your public spirit may suggest,
provided you do not violate the above quoted
provision of law, either directly or indirect
ly-
Third-lour contributing or not contribut-
ing, as above stated. will not affect in any
manner whatever your official standing or
prospects in this department.
c. ScnURz, Secretary OF the Interior.
If this announcement had been made at
first, when the question of political assess
ments and contributions came up, good
deal of trouble and miscnnceptiOn might
have been avoided.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28
Town Committees.

Bolton-Andrew Harris, r. J. Morse
Burlington-E. b. Taft Newell Lawrence, W W.
Henry, A +. Conant. l.. J. Smith.
Charlotte-B. II. Tsggart, ". W. Higbee w. ].
Bradley.
Colchester-s. l.. Reynolds, L. d. Platt, Jr., A.
Austin.
Essex-M. A. Bingham, J. X. Warner, T. c.
Abbey.
Hinesbursh- Chas. p. Boynten. P. r. Miles. u.
X. Patrick.
Huntington-G. b. Andrews, c. n. Carpenter, Ii.
r. Norton
Jericho-D. Il. French, J. A. Percival, f. II.
Lane
Milton-P. A. Boothc, W. W. Wright. Horace
Robinson.
Richmond C. W. Green, r. +. Jones. II. Clay
GLEASON.
Shelburn-James Patterson, ii. N. Newell. Is. F.
Vanvliet.
south Purlington-E. Taft, deo B. Wheeler, o.
W. Hard.
st. George-U II. S. Joslyn, II . II. Tilley.
Underhili-C. W. Reynolds. +. W. Church, Z. W
uurlburt
Westford-s. II. Macomber, George Beach. Geo'
W. Allen.
williston-H. A. CLARK, Normsn Miller. George
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28

Tho names of Messrs. Russell, Browneil
and Deavitt were then withdrawn. and Mr..
Peck nominated uird rOcc.
For Sheriff, NJ. r. Tyler nominated
Luman A. Drew. speaking OF his diStin-
guishc1 success IN executing the law and
hs less known hut equally valuable ser
vices in the prevention OF crImo.
The nomination was seconded by Hon. r.
c. Kennedy and delegates from Charlotte,
Ilnesburgb, WestiOrd. and Jericho, and
was made unanimously.
For High BailiH, l. B. Howe. of Jericho,
nominated Ferdinand Beach. of Essex.
Seconded by delegates from WIlllsion, Mil
ton, Essex, Colchester. and Burlington.
A. B. Ashley, of Milton. was nominated
by $. H. Macomher, of Westiurd. and sec
ondcd by II. N Newell.
A ballot WAS taken, Messrs. Macomher
and Howe acting a. tellers. which resulted
~ follows:
Whole number of votes. ........ l65
Necessary to choice. ......... S3
Ferdinand Beach had. ad................... 9s
And Mr.. Beach WAS thereupon declared
the nominee
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The committee on resolutions, through
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28

And now all this is as true of the preacher,
as of the godly, devoted deacon. He has
Joined that innumorhble company with so
many Of whom he had aioretime enjoyed
sweet converse. Dr. Lyon, DIR. smith
President Wheeler, Professor Torrey, and
DIR. Calvin Poase, and with many OF whom,
over sick beds. open collins and yawning
graves, he had mingled his tears OF sympn-
thy
How often have We sat together and dis
cussed the awful mysteries OF the future.
He no longer looks through glass darkly
but face to face ''lf it is best tor me that |
should never wake from the sleep OF death.
my Heavenly Father will let me sleep, said
he to me one day. "lf 1t is best that l should
wake. and live forever, my Heavenly Father
will bring me up. l cheerfully and conii-
IDENTIFY leave all IN his hands. This sweetly
believing doubtcr knows all now gazes upon
the realities OF the eternal world without
any dimnlng veil between.
GloriOus old man Eminent and shining
saint Natures noblcmnn crowned by grace
Faithful. and now gloniied minister OF the
Lord Jesus Christ
Servant of God well done
Thy glorious warfare's past,
The battles fought, the race is won,
And thou art crowned at last
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28

Rev. jasper has two crushing questions
"If de sun do not move. why do Joshua
command it to stan still? lie inquiries and
then he sits down and says, IN wait sixty
wear for Sou to respondicate to dat y And
when the next astronomer comes along, he
exclnims, eli de earth heant rom, how does
de amjlls stan pom de ioah cawners ? And
then he smiles contemptuously and winks
one eye in IA slow and eloquent manner
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28

Americans are great deal like potato-bugs
They will go to Paris green. Danbury
News.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28

THE wONAN'S HOTEL RECORDER HACKETT :
AUDACITY- NEW YORK HIGHWAlMEN-
GENTLENEN's FAsnIoNS-H0w CIGARETTE.
ARE MADE.


NEW YORK, June ~, 49, =.
To the Kditor of the Free Press ami Times
The WOman'S Hotel was not a legitimate
failure. The preface that women would
not pitronize it, for want OF mems society,
was IA coarse and shallow excuse for the per-
version of trust. The arbitrary rules,
which forbade boardcrs n droplisht, a pic
ture, an extra chair, provided hy themselves,
made women hesitate Ia enter, but a. the
accommodates became known, they would
have given liberal support spite of these
drawbacks. Some useless mls%t;.tements
about the hotel deserve correction. Ii is
reported, that it cost $4,000, 600, which
carries absurdity on the face OF it. The
Grand Hotel in Paris. the largest and most
sumptuous in the world, only cost 81 ,OOO.-
600 To build, while the Woman'S Hotel,
though tasteful, WIS not expensive. Its
500, 900 worth of plctdrcs belonged to the
Stewart estate, and might ~ well hang IN
the hotel a. anywhere. and the vast Ii
brary, talked about, through good, was no
larger than a common village library. There
is more truth in the assertion that the depre-
ciated income of other paItS of the Stewart
estate made 1t desirable IL convert TINS hotel
into paying property. One ui the Leland
brothers, the best known hotel men in the
United States, said he could have run the
Woman's Hotel at Il paying rate, Tor less
than its lowest charges.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28

HIGH NoUNrAIxs-How THE PEOPLE LIVE
SOME OF THEIR PECULIARIIIEs- PIETH AND
wHIsKEY.
A correspondent of the New York Sun has
been soiourning in the regions OF western
North Carolina Some of his pictures of
scenery and life are very interesting. and We
Cffer no apology for copying freely from
tl,a,,,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28
NEw YORK HlGnwANATN.

Visiting friends should come to the city well
armed and in good pistol practice, and be
very careful how they carry money about
them. Last Monday night. IN driving
storm, the Third avenue ear full OF Germans
coming home from a picnic, with the recelv-
er of the road taking The days earnings-
some S5OO--dOwn town, was boarded by
roughs, who showed pistols to the IaSsen-
gers, beat and stunned the receive, tore the
bag of money from hun, and fled before the
passengers fairly knew what was the matter.
Two weeks since, an attempt was made To
rob a street ear not TAR from CITY Hall. The
lawless element, embuldcned by the tImIdlty
shown before the rioters and strikers, make
good reason for organizing vigilance COM
mlttce here before Fall The rOnghS are
busy Oh tine Coney Island roads, which in
Summer do Il larger business than any in the
country. They recently threw night
train of the track, killing five men, and the
next day tried to wreck crowded tram by
a tie across the road. But the pusillapl-
nous jury, instead OF hanging the men who
placed the Instructions, found that the train
was thrown oil by stones falling from gray
el train, and censured the company Tor not
taking better care OF the tracks, With all
the gravel trains run in the United States 1t
is singular that this Is the first accident from
such cause But the average jury
here would sooner bring verdict against
Wm. H. Vanderbilt than against one OF the
low, desperate Irish who inicst New York.
A spirit of violence is rising III the lower
classes Of this region which would irIghten
tho boldest who could read its signs.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28
TUE NEW AMERICAN r,RTY.

With this state of things, it u not Won
deriul that there is call for something like
the old native American party. There ~ such
party forming, and one of the best admin
istration daiies has been approached with
proposals to become its organ. The Eepuh-
lie was not meant to he II hcllhro,h, brewci
of the funatieisms of every nation under
heaven
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28

A Daniel has come to Judgment in the
shape OF the peppcry Recorder llackett, who
means to see whether New York has city
government OF not. By his direction the
grand jury took action on several abuses.
and foui teen aldermen were bewildered by
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28

SUNDAY READING.

Ny sprightly neighbOr, gone before
To that unknown and silent shore,
shall We not meet as heretofore
some summer morning,
When from thy cheerful eyes a ray
Hath struck bliss upon the day.l
A bliss that would not 20 away,
A sweet iOreNarnlpg
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-28

The Convention was called to order by the
President, at o'clock, tho attendance not
being a. large Mt first as in the forenoon
many delegates having loit ON the afternoon
trains South and East Subsequently, the
hall was filled even better than in the morn
ing.
Major N. p. Bowman, for committee to
nominate State Committee, reported as fol-
The Morning herald., 1878-03-21

JAMES Lambert, the Scotchman, who
won fame by saving the lives Of score or
more Of drowning persons, but who only
obtained it after an English novelist had
told the story Of his life, does not stand
alone in the world. Officer Bleil, Of New
York, and Edward Nordell, ofour revenue
steamer, Tench Coke, have received medals
commemorating their services in saving
life, and now another police officer, Thomas
Mcbride, Of the Fourth District, New
York, is candidate for gold medal. He
is said to have.saved from drowning thirty
persons within the last four years, and
there is positive evidence Of the rescue by
him of nineteen lives. Petitions have
been forwarded to Congress asking for the
award of a medal by Csngress, and the af-
ddavits which accompany the petitions
show that he has been no lezs brave than
efficient as an officer on the water front Of
the East river.
The Morning herald., 1878-03-21
A COLD SPELL PREDICTED.

JuDaE DAILY, President of the Ameri-
can Geographical Society, recently made
his annual address before that learned
body, in which he reviewed the advance
made during the year in geographical
knowledge. He alluded to she careful OBJ.
servations recently made ly a scientific
observer in Iceland on TIE ice and snow
surface Of that country, from which the
result is reached that both on that island
and in Greenland, the masses of ice and
snow are increasing, and that large por
ton of the former is yearly precipitated
into the Northern Atlantic, which is slow.
ly but surely DETECTING and pushing the
gulf stream further south; and that this
will gradually bring on the approach Of e
glacial epoch.
Judge DAILY alluded to the opinion now
generally accepted that there have been so
many successive glacial periods with semi.
tropical intervals, an opinion fully sus-
tanned by the prefuse fossil vegetation
found in the Artie regions, proving the
existence Of former luxriant vegetation in
that present land of ice: However correct
all these theories may be, it is some con.
ISOLATION to the present generation that this
approaching glacial epoch is coming along
very slowly, and that fully ten or twenty
thousand generations must come and go
before the calamity will fall upon our sue.
eessors. There is no immediate occasion
for timid men to make their willie, Or pc.
iitical candidates to forego their lor gsoher-
ishsd aspirations. Ample time ren aims ia
the latter to run for Office ever 81 oftea
and to meet with success or encounter de-
feat to their heart content There6 ~,
while the southern emigration must some
time set in, no immediate exodus to the
tropics need be apprehended.
The Morning herald., 1878-03-21

THOSE innocent and amicable soyereigns
who imagined that the Russians made war
upon Turkey for the purely benevolent
and disinterested purpose of releasing the
Christians from Mahomedan tyranny, and
that the Gear would stop short at the gates
Of Constantinople, without having the
curiosity to look in, are likely to be dis
appointed. The latest accounts state that
the Russian army has camped in the
suburbs of the Turkish capital and it is
not yet ascertained when it will suit the
convenience of the Gar to retire.
The Morning herald., 1878-03-21
GrrANItNEss is next to Godliness

CLEANLINESS is next to Godliness, and
it1inust be with d view to the neral wei
tars Of the United States army that The
sQuartermaster General has advertised for
no less than 1850 scrubbing brushes to be
delivered at the Jeffersonville barracks
but how horrible, how revolving is the
spectacle Of an army in need Of 1850
s,rubbing brushes, at one fell swoop, as it
weiel . ...,--y.--., I'd. 10
The Morning herald., 1878-03-21
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Conducted by e. L. and w. J. YoUMANs.
Containing the very best articles published
in the foreign scientific journals and
reviews,
The Morning herald., 1878-03-21
WIIBINGrON. Dsl, march sl, 1878

THsNswdYork sunsis hopeful. It in
ssrs from The amount Of advertising that
the business Of The country will be lively
in the approaching Spring. This is very
good, coming as it does from . chronic
xrowler. We believe that the dark cloud
Of financial distress is passing by. The
silver lining has done it, q. III. NJ .---g
The Morning herald., 1878-03-21

Pore LEO XIII has practically signifed
his purpose to abandon his claim to tenn
poral power over the late States of the
Church; and it is said that q recognition
Of the sovereignty Of King Humbert will
be, given This will be wise and will
promote peace on earth and good will to
man 80 t',r Z. n.