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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27
POLITICAL NOTES.

Alter a five days session and 81 ballots,
the Democrats OF the Sd Congressional dis
triet of Alabama finally nominated Col sam
Ford
The Greenbsck candidate for Congress in
the Cleveland (o.) district is shoemaker,
FAMED Shove. whose wife is supporting the
family by peddling while he makes Green
back speeches.
Over 5000 citizens of Milwaukee have
signed call to Matt Carpenter to be can
didatc for United States Senator from Wis
consin. In reply Mr.. Carpenter says, only,
that, if elected. be shall regard it as his
duty to accept.
The Boston Herald thinks that there is
more than an even chance that there will be
no choice of Governor in Connecticut this
fall, and that the Legislature will have to
elect Hubbard had less than 800 maiori-
ty two Years ago, and Greenback assession
oil any magnitude will make an election by
the people impossible.
The Oregon Legislature has chosen Hon.
James Ii. Slater, Democrat, as United States
Senator for the full term of six years to sue
coed Senator Mitchell, Republican, whose
term expires next March Mr.. Slater IL
native Of Illinois, having been born IN Sangs-
mon county, in that State, in 1896. After
receiving limited education he studied law
and WAS admitted to the bar, removed TO
Oregon served two terms in the Territorial
Legislature and one in the first Legislature
after Oregon became State, and in lS66-6S
was district-attorney. He was member of
the Forty-second Congress and served on the
committee on public lands. lie anpounees
that he is not in sympathy with imitation;
advocate, the substitution of legal tenders
for national bank notes opposes fat money
and demands that the currency shall be on .
coin basis
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27
Deserted Villages.

CHANGES IN THE PENNSYLVANIA OIL REGIONS
From the Crawford, PENN Journal
young man who used TO be engaged il
| business In the oil country, during the pal
my days after recent visit, writes the fol.
lowing While roaming through the Oh
country, our interest was excited by having
certain localities pointed out to US as the
place where once stood IA small city. Per
haps no part of the oil region shows this as
much as that situated between Oil City and
Tltusville. and no place as much as
Petroleum Center. We stand amazed, and
almost doubt the truth of our informant.
when we are told that this is the Petroleum
Center which We saw 10 years ago. At that
time, as the name implies, it was the center
OF the land OF grease. Surrounded as it was
by tie best oil producing country, cit
could not be otherwise. Vast numbers of
houses. stores, machine shops, etc, were
erected III short time, and i'll 1865 it was a
city of 5000 or 1000 inhabitants Every
body in oildom knew the Petroleum Center.
The city had banks. immense hotels. large
business houses, and could boast of three or
four fine churches. The whole country
around the place WAS city. AT night it was
almost impossible to get through the great
crowds OF people collected Tor all kinds of
pleasure. What a change. Nothing can be
compared to it except the destruction OF war
Instead of fine residences, the ground is now
used for potato patches; road marks the
place where the principal street WAS the
churches yet stand, but nobody remain to at
tend them. Perhaps there are 100 inhabi-
tants III the town now. North of Petroleum
Center we were shown the place where in GG
and % WAS the famous Benninghoff Run.
There remains not the sign of anything ever
having been there. As many will remember.
TINS was one of the best oil territories in the
country at the time. On the northern part
OF this farm was small town by the name
of Dublin. 1t had 200 inhabitants and was
the terminus of the Benninghoff Run rail
road. Not single house remains. In fact.
one would think, not knowing any better,
that 1t had never been cleared Many towns
like this have gone the same way. But per-
hnps the next III Importance is Pithole Like
Petroleum Centre. 1t is nearly gone. When
{. B. Duncan, who died in Glasgow some
years ago. made his will, he left TO a church
of pithole $4,000. During the legislation
which followed, u committee was sent to find
the church. They returned and stated that
no such building existed. nor could they find
any one who ever knew of it. The facts are
when Mr.. Duncan was i'll Pithole the church
existed in n fiourishing condition. But il
had disappeared long before the committee
went there On account of this more than
else. Mr.. d., was thought to have
been crazy when he made his will.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

The IRoSllEAETED LOVER In the hi,
crowd OF excursionists sitting on the civ
Hall steps Tor rest the other dny WINS ,
Young man of excellent length of legs, and ,
Hirl with sixteen auburn cuIls hanging down
around her head. They had scarcely settled
themselves and locked fingers when She eau
tiously observed:
Il ssl ose they have soda water in thi.
town :"
Il sspose so, he replied, "but the last
thing aiore we started promised your moth.
er not to let you drink any soda-water. It's
the worst thing in the world to bring on con.
sumption"
She was quiet for moment, and then.
pointing to the left. remarked
IL sec that Sarah IL eating peanuts
sspose they have pearuts in this town :"
Wall yes, but Your mother cautioned me
the last thing not to buy any peanuts Tor YOU.
The shucks are apt to git INTO your wind
pipe. The Queen of Holland was choked To
death in that way
Pretty soon IA boy came along with some
iruit, and the young woman felt obliged TO
say
Them apples and pears look awful nice. "
Yes, they do, replied the prudent lover,
"but promised your mother at the depot
not to buy fruit for you. Them apples look
NICE, p"t II you get the toothachc started on
yon then the whole afternoon ~ busted
The young man had Just commenced to
take comfort AGAIN when she innocently re-
marked
when came up here last summer with
jim he bought morn two pounds OF can
dy."
Yes and what was the result" he de
manded. You fell down cellar that very
week and didn't Jim have to light out last
winter for Dustin in the school-house door
She had got down to water, and with .,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27
UnpubIished Poem by shelley.

The following stanzas, addressed to somo uuknowl
person by the late Percy Bysshe Shelley, hav
been scot to the New York World by a gent ema
who has in his possession many interesting relies o
the poet, and VINO assures that journal they hay
not been hitherto published:
The serpent is shu: out from Paradise
The wounded deer must seek the herb no more
In winch Its heart cure lies.
The widowed dove must cease 10 haunt a bswer.
Like that from which its mate with feigned si xhs
Filed in the April hour.
/. too, must seldom seek again
Near happy friends a mitigatcd pain.
oc hatred an proud-with scorn, content;
Itse indinereut
But nui to speak Of love, pity alone
Can oreaN spirit already more than bent
Inc miserable one
Turns the minds poison into food
Its medicine Is tears, its evil good.
Therefore if now | see you seld omer
Dear. gentle friend, know that only 1y
Your looks because they stir
Grieis that shJu sleep and hopes that cannot die
The very comfort that they minister
Iscitce can bear. vet |,
81 drspl, Is the gone,
Should quickly perish If it were withdrawn.
when return to my cold home you ask
Why am not as have been.
You spoil me for the task
d, or acting forced part ou | fe's dull scene
oi wearing on ms brow the Idle mask
oi author, great or mean.
In the wariu's carnival | sought
Peace thas, aai but in you found 1t not
Full halt an hour to-day tried my 10;
With varlou- flowers, end every one said
She loves ms loves ms not."-
And il This meant a vi Zion ong since fled
Ii 1t meant fortune, fame. peace of thought
II II meant u.-i dread
To speak " 'at YOU may know too we'll,
St.!l, tlisre was truth IN the sad oracle
The crane, DER seas and forests seeks her home;
No RI 30 wild hut has its quiet nest,
Whence II no m re would roam /;
TIE s!cep!ess bIllvws on The oceans breast
Burst ike a bIrsting heart and d Q in peace
And thus at length fini rest.
Doubtless there is n ace of peace
Where my weak heart and all its throbs shall cease
asked her yesterday If she believed
That hal resOutt on. One who had
Would re'er have thus relieved
II $ he ,rt with wOrds-but wha: his iud gment bads
Would 40. and leave the scorner unreprIeved.
Ehesc Te:ses are too sad
To send 20 You, hut that know,
HAPPY yourself, You feel another's woe.
SEQ .sFlusf
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

BY GEORGE ARNOLD
SEeet is the voice that calls
From babbling waterfalls
In meadows where the uowny seeds are flying
And soft the breezes blow
And eddy ing come and 90
In faded gardens Shere the rose is dy ing.
kmonc the stubbled corn
The hrthe quail pipes q; morn.
Tie "a ~ FLitr!tsc drum. in hidden places,
And Zlttefin2 insects slSam
Al, " the reedy stream
Nhe:r hcsy spiders sp n their flmy lAces.
u; eve cool shadows fall
Across the garden wall,
And on the clustered grapes 10 purple turning;
And pearly vaporr lie
Along the eastern sky
Where the broad hard moon is redly burning.
All. soon on field and hill
The winds III. II whistle chill,
And patIiarsh swallows call their nocks together
To fly II, m II. st and snow
And seek Tor lands where blow
The iairer blossoms OF halmier westher.
The pollen-dusted bees
Search ior honey lees
mat !'nser IN the last flowers Of September
While pinintive mourning doves
Coo sadly to their loves
o. the dead Summer they so well remtmber.
The cricket chirps all day.
20, fai5est summer stay"
The squirrel ewes asksnce the chestnuts browning
The Wild fo~l fly afar
Above the fOamy bar,
Ana hasten sOuthvard ere the skies arc frogniug
Now comes fragrant breeze
TaTuu=h the dark cedar trees
And round my temples fondly lngers
In gentle play fulnsss
Like TO the II caress
Eestowct Ia happier day by ewing fingers
Yet. though a sense OF gIisf
Comes With the falling leaf
And memory makes the summer doubly pleasant
In ali my Autumn dreams
future summer CLEANS
Fass lng tie iaitest gluTies OF the present
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

JOSH BILIINGs PHuosorHY. yu under.
take to hire man to be honest, yu will have
10 ralIe his wages every morning and watch
hlm dredphul cluss besides.
1t u the surprizes ov life that add most to
our Plezzure one man IL surprized with a
legacy frsm rich uncle another that the old
spekled hen hnz just cum of from her nest
with - chickens
A sassy man is either a howard or II phool
take yonr choice. gentlemen.
Ihare amt nothing that a man will thrive
so Well On AS abuse that amt meritcd
Whenever yu cum akrost n man who dis
trusts everyboddy, You hav found one that it
IL sale for everybody to distrust
lho best oduknshun that yon kan give n
boy II 10 be polite AMI allwuss tell the truth /;
add TO this vell-poished shoes. and yu hay
got pvriekt little gentleman.
The men who cant bear 10 be alone are
those who hay no thoughts of their own, or
are afradc to trust themselfs with the
thoughts they do bay.
II waz going into the hermit bizzness. i
would go into the heart ov n CRATE city rath-
er tnan into the heart oy a monntain-a great
City IL CRATE solitude
1hare " only one kind ov person who IL fit
to live IN solitude, and il IL the one who il
capable oy ndornng emmy posishun in 30
ciety.
lhare II lots ov people in this world who
are like guideboard at the forks ov the road
they kan point out the right way for others
to persew, but they don't follow 1t them
sells.
Caushun IL a good thing for a man to hay.
but when he haz got so mntch ov it that he
" afraid to tutch cast-iron lion for fenr If
will bite, ignoianse IL what's the matter oy
him.
II thare il ever a perfektly happy man
found IN this world, IT will be the one who
hHz got but little, and don't want ennything
more
Man " dissatisfied kritter and that IL lust
what he waz put here on earth for-the man
VINO " sltlshed with everything lust as he
mas 1t Is no better of than a number 2
mackrel.
Take all the phools out nv this world and
thare wouldn't be emmy fun nor profit living
in IT.
never tri to settle other peoples ouarrels
hav seen people tri to do this and iii bodIy
whipt by both partys.
Employment is the great boon ov life n
man with nothing to do Is not haff 80 inter
esting sight II riponing turnip.
Sarkasm Is a powerful weapon. but in han-
ding it many people take holt of the blad o
instead of the handle.
Bashfullness Is often nothing more than
ignoranse, aud, like the plating on a spoon,
soon wears off and shows the odious brass
Happiness don't seem TO kOnsist so mutch
IN what man haz NJ 1t duz in what some
boldly else haZ got
Hunting for happiness IL like hunting for
hen 8 eggs under the barn ;haf the time they
are added after yu hay found them. 80 Ne,o
Eok H'etit
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

sideraIq9 sarcasm in her voice she inquir-
ed
a can have drink of water, can't 1?
Mother didn't say anything against that, did
she?"
''Wall, no, not exactly" he slowly replied
but she gin me an appealing look as the
cars moved otf,-same as to say that it ought
TO be kind o warmish water, if any. You
set here, and I'll borrow dipper some
where"
She ''sot,' and it was all of an hour and a
halt before he again succeeded in getting his
arm around her D,tICh Free Press.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

A NIAGARA FALLS SToEY.-When Blontiin
came in 1859 he had his rope stretched abou
n mile below the falls, and even there it WAS
1900 feet long. On both sides of the river
Enclosures were built around the rope. INTO
wEich ticket-buyers were admitted and
where the acrobat had his dressing-rooms
He was to start on the first occasion from the
Canadian side. and within the inclosure
there were number of invited guests, among
them Henry W. Faxon, then the local editor
OF the Buffalo HtpuLlic. Faxon was a wit OF
more thon local renown, and Blondin had
for some treason. taking great liking to
him. While Faxon stood-laughing and
testing, rs wns his way ON the edge of the
precipice overlooking the river 40 feet be-
low, Blodin appeared IA few feet behind. lie
was Just about TO attempt the most daring
feat upon tight rope that had ever been
performed and what took place will show his
iron nerve and reckless temper. He saw that
Faxon. gazing out across the river, was un-
conscious of his presence. Motioning to the
bystanders Tor silence by passing his fingers
to his lips he seized FaXon under both arm
pits and held him out for IL second or two
over the verge. Faxon must have weighed
1G5 pounds. His countennnce when Blondin
laid hold of HIM was irrndiated with ninth
When Blondin drew him back and dropped
him on the green sward. he sank there In
heap. horror stricken by shock from the
effects of which his nervous system never fully
recovered In the next instant Blondin,
grasping his heavy balancing pole. danced
out upon his rope beyond the fearful preci-
pioe. and, turning To ENJOY the effect of his
maneuvcr, saluted his indignant friend with
gesture indiscribably outre. lie then CON
tinued his first walk across the Niaraga chasm.
experiencing not the least tremor or emotion
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

1t il better that men should soon make NJ
their minds to be forgotten. and look about
them, or within them. for some higher mo-
tive in what they do. than the appreciation OF
men, which Is fame . namely, their duty
that they should be constantly and quietly
at work, each III his sphere, regardless OF
effects. and leaving their fame 10 take care OF
itself. Fame comes only when de-
served. and then is as inevitable as destiny.
for it is destiny Longfellow.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

This world is IL dream within dream
and as We grow older, each step is an awak-
ening. The youth awakes. rs he thinks,
from childhood the full grown man despises
the pursuits OF youth as visionary and the
old man looks on manhood as feverish
dream. Death the last Sleep No it is the
last and final awakening Nv. Scott's Life
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

Bat from tins total must be taken 37s
the numb,r of foreign holdiers killed in our
service, leaving 7,s7G rs the entire loss in
killed during the whole war in Spain md
Portugal, together with that of Quatre Bras
and Waterloo Six thousand men killed in
the entire Peninsula war Not half the Rus
sian loss at Eylau, less than the Russian loss
before Plevna, less than half the French
dead at Waterloo.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

vine bears three grapes, the first OF
pleasure, the second Of drunkenness and
the third Of repentance Anacharsis.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

TEIrLTSG LOSSES IN THE CONTINENTAL WARS As
COMPARED WITH THOSE or LATER YEARS.
From cornhill Magazine
1t WAS the glorious epoch, that of the PEN
insular war Nino-tenths of the names en-
broldtred iE golden letters on our regiment
al colprs were won IN the five years interyen-
ing between 1909 ana 1911. The story of
that time has stll power to recall to us mem
ories fall of the GloIy of battles won from
Napoleons greatest captains, of sitges in
which the terrible Yalor Of our soldiers were
pre-cmlnent, OF marches and feats of endu-
rance never parallrled in our modern history.
before or since. But though the battles of
the Peninsular WAL, and still more the crown
ing victory of Waterloo, ale household names
among us. We have wholly lost sight of n
fact shat at the time did much to influence
tue national Joy over our victories that fact
was our long continued failure in any portion
OF Europe to oppose the legions OF the Re-
public or OF the Empire. On the coast of
France, IN the Low Countries in Flanders,
IN Sicily, IN Corsica. i'll Naples at Genoa, We
had utterly failed TO maintain our own at
tacks. In Egypt alone had our land forces
cen successful and in Egypt every element
OF success WAS on our side. From 1893 TO
1853 We had not a single result to show on
the Continent OF Europe for the e3OO. 900, 600
which he had added to the national debt in
that period. Our expeditions to France
Spain. Portugal, Holland, Italy, Corsica, had
ali Tended IN complete failure. 1t Was on this
account that the victories of the following
years appeared so glorious. The nations
faith IN its army had reached its lowest ebb.
and the reaction Of victory was proportion
ately great.
But the greatness of the success in Spain
and at Waterloo did much toward hiding
IL hon and q l.. i
We sustained. When We here state that our
entire loss in killed in Spain, Portugal and
Flanders, including all the battles. engage
mcnts, skIrmishes. seges and sorties did not
amount to the loss in killed suffered by the
Germans IN the two battles of Graveotte
and Sedan, We state fact which will doubt
ies- astonish many readers. Yet it is never
theless true. 4 statement Of our actual loss
Is during the years from lS0S TO lslj inclu-
siye will he read with interest in these DAYS
of breech-loaders:
g-l1E n
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

The man who has given himself to his
country loves it better the man who has
fought for his friend honors him more the
man who he's labored Tor his community
values more highly the interests he has
sought TO conserve the man who has
wrought and planned and endured for tho nc,
compli shment Of Gods plan in the world
sees the greatness of it, the DIVINITY and
glory of it, and is himself more perfectly as
simulated to it.-[ DR.. Storrs.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

The best books Tor us are not always those
which the wise recommend. but often those
which meet our peculiar wants, and the natu-
raj THIRST OF our minds and which therefore
awaken interest and rivet thought # Chan
Mug.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

1he Christian life Is not knowing nor hear
ing, but doing.-[F. W. Robertson
If you are not right towards God. you cal
never be so towards man !: and this is forever
true. whether wits and rakes allow it or not
Lord Chatham.
God made the soul to correspond will
truth. Truth is its own evidence, as th,
lightning flash is, as the blessed sunshine is,
IF. W. Robertson.
Whoever thinks of life as something tha.
could be without religion is yet in deadly ig-
norance of both. Life and religion are one,
or neither Is anything Macdonald.
Whosoevor would be sustained by the hand
OF God let him constantly lean upon it :
whos0ovcr would he defended by it, let him
patiently repose himself under it-[Cul-
yin
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SUNDAY HEADING,


AT TIE CROSS.
Before Thy Cross, dear Lord. fall;
Out o. the derths TO Thee call,
Oh, Friend and Helper, one and all.
Oh dearest Lord. Thy tender eye
Rebukes, yet uitIes my lonecry,
When staggering meath my cross lie.
Poor human hearts, with human needs,
How many are its broken reeds,
Grasped till the hand in torture bleeds!
How many gOurds have felt the blight
How many stars have lost Their lishtf
How many suns gone down in night,
All, all are gone like barks at sea,
Lost in the dread immensity
And now ! am alone with Thee
All PROSTATE at Thy Cross kncel,
For Thou canst all our sOrrows feel,
And Thy dear hand our wounds can heal.
No more mark the dreary road
My bleeding feet SO long have trod,-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-09-27

The following stanZas, addressed to some uuknown n
person by the late Percy Bysshe Shelley, have
been scot to the New York World by a gentleman
who has IN his possession many interesting relics
the poet, and VINO assures that journal they have
not been hitherto published
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-02-06

The new rates OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company are given AS fol.
lows: The Old Fate tor each additional
i've words is discontinued When the
tariff for ten words is 25rcents, the rate
tor each additional word is 2 Gents (;
when the tariff is 40 cents, each add.
uoual word. 3 ceuts; tariff of rs cents,
eaca additional. cents; tariff of 81,
each addltionai, 7cents; tariff of s. rs,
each additional, 8 cents; tariff of ) 50,
each additional, 10 cents; tariff OF 81 rs,
each additional. II cents; tariff OF 81.
each additional, l3 cents; tariff of 81 so,
each additional. IL cents. The Western
Union Telegraph Company will charge
Tor the. word collect" hereafter. the
same as for word of the message.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-02-06
Pomeroy's Democrat.

The assertion of Chicago cores
pondent. which has gone the rounds of
the press, that Pomeroy's Democrat
had suspended, ana would not be re-
sumed, is proven false. Brick"
Palmer of Paradise Valley who does, or
at least did, at Que time, swear by
Pomeroy. has sent US a copy of the
Democrat dated January 26. 1878. 1t
is now the advocate of the Greenback-
ers, and red hot soft money sheet.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-02-06
Trade Dollars.

The demand for trade dollars in the
Eastern States is increasing. and large
quantities Of the coin is being
shipped from San Francisco to
meet the demaud. 1t has been decided
that the Philadelphia mint should re-
sumo the'coinnge of trade dollars; yet
we are told by the Associated Press dis
patches that the people, of the Eastern
States have had surteit of silver coin
and do not want any more of it.