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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

IHs general opinion of the people of this
state oil Senator Howe's attack on the ad-
ministration, as reflected in the newspapers,
Is somewhat difficult to get at, inasmueh as
hardly third of our Vermont exchanges
have anything to say upon the subject, pro
or con but as far as they have found vocal
utterance they are practically of one mind.
Ihe Montpelier Wachman thinks that the
country is heartily sick of this course on
the part of leading Republican Senators"
and that "the people will see to it that the
President is not trampled down and spit
upon by sehemlrg politicians. The 81.
Adams Messenger calls Senator Howe
Bourbon" and considers his speech
failure. The Montpelier Freeman says lit
1t well that the discomfort which appears TO
ba 50 plenty in Washington should be for
mulated and spoken out loud; and thinks
that the Senator'S course will hasten
the fall of the Republican party. The
Brattleboro Record sees in Senator Howe's
speech only the disappointment of poll.
tician; and the Phanir, OF the same
town, says: To talk about the Republican
party repudiating President Hayes, is worse
than folly; IL is sheer madness; and the
soon3r Congressional leaders of the Howe
pattern desist from their attempts, and, in
stead of heaping obstacles in the Presidents
way, join hands with him in carrying out
the principles which he has enuncia.ed, and
which the country endorses, the sooner will
the prospects of the Republican party begin
to brighten" The Windsor Chronicle
chaiaeterizes Senator Howe's speech as "a
humiliating display of personal weakness,
bitterness and folly, without benefit either
to the party in which he claims to stand,
the cause which he espouses, or advance
ment to his own interests.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

Dio Lewis says man need not sneeze un-
less he wants to, and that by not sncezing a
man can save nearly $ll year.
Mr.. Dickson, of Palmerston, Ontario, died
a few days ago at the reputed age of 112
years. lie was native OF Armagh, Ire
land
Miss Mary Hampton, a pretty school mis-
tress of Memphis, has been indicted BY the
grand jury for a series of clever forgeries,
and has disappeared.
While most of the Washington officials
have handsome horses and carriages, Vice
President Wheeler, it is said, seems content
to ride to and from the Capitol in street
car.
A man out West sold his gun for whiskey,
drank the whiskey, started for home and sat
down on the railroad track, where subse-
quently seven trains ran over him and cut
his body into small pieces.
A man named Silence was fined So in
police court in Washington, several days
ago, for loud and boisterous language on the
streets.
Mr.. Larkin Turner, of Merriweather
county, Ga, took his first dose Of medicine
when he was 100 years old. Fatal step
He only lived ten years after that.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

In THE contested election case of Benia-
min Dean against Walbridge A. Field. both
claiming to be the legally elected Represen-
tstive from one of the Boston districts, the
House seated Dean by vote of 124 to l23,
the Speaker giving the casting vote. Some
thing like bakers dozen of Democrats
voted for Mr.. Field, while the solitary Rspubli-
can voting for Mr.. Dean was no less person
than Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. Mr.. Dean
is a Boston lawyer of no particular note,
and has always figured most prominently
before the country al a notable member Of
that body Of equestrian patriots known as
old Democratic war horses. OF Mr.. Field
it would be difficult to speak too highly,
personally or prof essionally. His retirement
is loss to his District and to the country,
and will still farther weaken the not par
ticularly strong delegation of State which
once numbered among her congressional rep
Webster, a Choats, and the
Adamses.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05
From the New York Evening Post.
Fare Thee Well, Loved One!


The following verses were written by william
Hewitt on the ei ghty fifth anniversary OF bis birth
DAY, in loving memory OF Margaret +. Foley, an
American sculptor. who died at Mersn, in the Ty
rOl, December 7, 1877. Miss Foley was a member o
the Hewitt household, and was most .enderly cared
for by the family during her last illness
By the sound OF strange water., IN strange earth
we laid her,
Far away from the land of her birth and hsr
And strange were the hands to her rest which con
yeyed her
But what recks ii where weary mortality eHds'
And oh she was weary SO worn. weary hearted
fain to depart, hui not to be parted
From the fri ends that she clung to in pleasure
and pain.
So we laid her to resi- where q gathered band
OF the pilgrims of suffering had sunk to repose ;
Where the records and symbols Of many land
In the tongces of their races above them arose;
Where the snow ma ntled pinnacle-, rugged and
OF encircling mountains heavens clear azure
sever,
Like ighty archangels who solemnly keep
Thor vigils above them forever and ever.
So we left her alone No not lone nor forsaken,
For the flowers that were rained on her hallowed
We're the pledges Of union, eternal, unshaken,
That We were with her spirit, united in God.
Beautiful spirit generous outspoken
All warm with affection, all radiant with power,
All. to have seen thee thus crushed, bruised and
Prostrato in weakness. '.cut down like flower"
Wewho had seen thee as once we had known thee,
When across thy bright pathway abruptly we
came.
Ere insdiOus death had thus overthrown thee.
Thy mission arrested, ungsrnered thy fame
A creature all energy, frank. blithe and beamin..
Scattering thy iancies like sunlight on dew.
Thy soul with all fOrRs of the beautiful teeming,
Drawing round hee the souls OF the pure and the
true.
Oh for the days that caa never come back again.
When We saw thee stoop, childlike, in love DER
Never with thoe on some wild mountain track again
Shall We stand in tho presence of Infinite Power,
Spirit, which now hast so teariully entered
The limtless realms OF the God loved and free,
Where sll riches Of love, lie and wisdom are GEN.
And the marvels of being are untolded to thee;
Cast loose earths fetters. powers deathoss posses
sing,
In scenes where the nob!est and greatest live on,
Sages and poets and art SITS progressing
From victory to victory, these makest thou one
Where forms the diyinest where mysteries sublime
From the innermost heaven encounter thy glance,
Where all nations and races from uttermOst time
Are planted, yet fill not the mighty eXpanse.
All they tell US heavens gate shows most fair to
the dying.
But on ihis side its portals are shadowed by sin
And its threshold is paved with pains, groaning and
signing
Its bsauiy and glory beam only within.
The torch of thy lowell sht still cleaning before;
Till again in the strength Of the heavens shall
view thee
Embrace thee. and love thee, and leave thee no
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

Mine eyes are weary OF surveying
The fairest things, too soon decaying
Mine ears are weary of receiving
The kinde.t words ah. past believing
Weary my hope, OF ebb and flow
Weary my pulse. Of tunes Of woe;
My trusting heart is weariest!
would-l would were at rest
For me can earth refuse TO faiel
For NE can WORDS be faithful made
VIII my embitter'd hope be sweet
Ny pulse fore 20 the human beat
No! darkness must consume mine eye
Silence. mine ear-hope cease-pulse die
And Ger mine heart stone be pre.s'd-
Or vain this-"MOuldI were at rest -
There Is a land Of rest deferr'd -
Nor eye hath seen nor ear hath heard.
Nor Hope hath trOd the precinct DER
For b. pc beheld is hope nomorei
Inere human pulse forgets its tone
There hearts NAV know As they are known
Oh for doves wings. thou dwelling ble.t,
To ny 10 thee, and Se 81 rest
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

One of the Washington correspondents
has set forth at some length scheme, which
she (the correspondent is woman) says
will be fully developed within sixty days, to
nominate ex-President Grant as Mr.. Hayes's
successor. Mr.. Conkling, she says. will give
him the vote of New York in the convention.
Zach Chandler is to take care OF Michigan,
Mr.. Howe Of Wisconsin, the Camerons of
Pennsylvania, and so on. This is all nom
sence 1t makes something to talk about
but practically the recall to the chief majes-
tracy of President who has served two
terms and retired, is contingency so i'm
probable that it may be set down as an in
possibility. If President Grants friends
could ever have given him a third term, it
would have been at the close of his second.
And however popular he may be, and
however unpopular President Hayes may
prove to be, with the Republican masses. the
chances are really greater that President
Hayes will be given second term, than that
Gen. Grant will be taken up anew. Things
do not work in that way, in this Republic
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

SENATOR EpMuNps and Senator Thurman
have opposed the repeal of the bankrupt law
on the ground that commercial nation like
ours cannot do without snch statute. But
they both anticipate its repeal. The effort
will be made to amend. rather than repeal,
in the Senate; hut the chances are against
the retention Of the law in any shape.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

A very little boy had one day done wrong
and be was sent, alter maternal correction
to ask in secret the forgiveness of his leav-
enly Father. His offence was passion.
Anxious to hear what he would say, his
mother followed to tho door of his room.
In lisping accents she heard him ask to be
made better and then. with childlike SIM
plicity. he added: Lord. make ma $
temper better, too. O."-Boston Traveller.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

NoTEs OF TnE BEAUTIFUL SPRING.-The
newspaper wits are having the usual hang
to-hand tussle with the season, with vary
ing results. One burgeons out with this
agricultural advice: " Now plant sparrows.
Plant them thick and deep, if you would
have rich crop OF sparrow grass" And
another pl,intively remarks: g the season
tor fine sunsets is not yet arrived, but We
have noticed some very fine onion sets in
market" A third strikes the light guitar,
with the following melancholy result:
How doth the little frog Pipe up
His sad and tuueful lay;
AMI from each swamp and hidden boz.
He yelleth What dye soy"
Looking prophetically into the dim, shad-
owy future another sweet singer MARBLES:
Another round of weeks, and then
The little child Of sin
will hurdle the forbidden fence
And scoop the pippin in.
And with his martial spirit queled
By pain his thefts beget,
He'll clutch his little vest and wish
He had no apple cat.
For cold-blooded atrocity the following
equals anything yet reported from Bulga-
ria Worcestershire sauce is the thing for
Spring lamb Oh. yes-somo sheep arc
worse to shear than Others"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

1HE HORSE TO HIS sMAsrKR.-Going up hill
whip me not going down hill. hurry me
not on level road, spare me not: loose in
stable. forget me not; of hay and corn rob
me not of clean water stint me not of soft
dry bed deprive me not tired or hot. wash
me not if sick or cold, chill me not /: with
sponge and brush, neglect me not; with
bits and reins. U jerk me not and when
you are angry, strike me not
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

A NEw ENGLAND lady has in her auto
graph album characteristic inscription by
Ben Wade. A young Southern admirer
had written presumably after an evening
passed in her company: "12iO u. M. Time
was made for slaves" Beneath it Ben
Wade wrote; "And eternity for slave
owners"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

LORD DERBY resigned because the British
Cabinet decided, against his advice, to call
out the reserves His resignation removes
from the Cabinet the strongest element in
it that made for peace" Although only
fity-two years of age, he has long been one
of the leading men of England, having held
several important positions as Lord Stanley.
before he succeeded to his present title in
1869. Lord BcacOn>fcli, in his remarks
upon the resignation said Il have felt, of
late, that the political ties between Lord
Derby and myself must soon terminate. hut
had believed it would be in a very different
and more natural manner, that would dis
appear from the scene while Lord Derby
would remain to take the leading part in
public affairs" Lord Derby : withdrawal,
under the circumstances, seeH,s to he one OF
the strongest premonitions of war.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05
A LITTLE si1-year-old Whitehall boy wa

A LITTLE siI-year-Old Whitehall boy was
watching the sunbeams as they shot through
a window and danced diagonally across the
room.
Mamma" said he. what are those
streaksY'
"Those, my son, she replied, "are sun
beams from heaven"
"Oh. know what they are for. mamma,
said the little fellow. who had been sliding
down beams in the barn loft. "they are
what God slides the babies down on when
no sends EN- to folks - Whitehall Times
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

DEAN SWIFT proposed to tax female beauty,
and TO leave every lady to rate her own
charms. lie said the tax wond be cheer
fully paid and be very productive. Fon-
tenele daintily compliments the sex when
he compares women to clocks-'the latter
serve to point out the hours, the former to
make us forget them"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

WEDDING anniversary celebrations occur
a. follows: Three days. Sugar GO days,
Vinegar 1st anniversary, Iron; 5th,
Wooden 10th. Tin 18th, Crystal Goth.
China 25tb, Silver; 2Otb, Cotton; S5th,
Linen 10th. Wooden; i5th. Silk 5Oth. =.
Golden 18th. Diamond.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

A BosToN paper says: "A butterfly was
caught at the South End yesterday" 1t
may be safe enough to catch a butterfly at
the South End, but when you go to grab a
wasp. you want to catch it at the north
easterly end, shifting westerly toward the
head Norrisiown Herald.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

Tie VETERAN Thurlow Weed, who knows
something about Offices, though he would
nevor hold one, says: " If a young man in
whose welfare take an interest should coz
suit me about Ofiicc-holding, should tell
him it WAS one of the worst ways of conf
mencing liie."
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

WHEN tempted to anger" says writer,
breathe prayer" Jes' So When you
happen to stub your toe for instance. mur-
mur, Now lame me. ."-New York Com
IiIas.cIIl
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05
A GENTLEMAN handed Bismarck an album

with request that ho would write low
lines. Tho Prince opened it to the page
which bore two briet inscriptions. viz:
During my long lie have acquired two
wise rules lst, to pardon much I'd, to
forget nothing Gmsot.
"a little iorgetiulness will not detract
from the sincerity of pardoning. ~ Theirs.
Prince Bismarck took his pen and wrote :
For my part, l have learned to forget
much. and to ask much forgiveness for
myself"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

Tue report that a camp of two hundred
thousand Russian soldiers is forming at Kho-
kama for the invasion of India will not d.
muish the excitement 10 Easl.nd.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

BARRIER Cut your hair for penny
No. Shaving ponnv; cutting thrup-
pence" Boy: All right. My ed Ill be
sll the cOoler-shavc it-Funny Folks.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

ALL THE INDICATIONS point to an Indian
outbreak Of unusual dimensions, this season,
for with ten thousand men at his bovine
heels there is no saying what Sitting Bull
may not do, and the settlers in the Far
West must keep an extraordinarily tight
grip on the tops Of their heads. In the good
old times wealthy Irish town had an ar
ticle in its Gtany, From the fury of the
O'Flaherties. good Lord deliver u.s." and
even so our Western squatters (though they
are not popularity supposed to indulge to any
great extent in litanies) may well pray to be
delivered from their scarce human foes.
What really appears to be needed is tho
capture and summary execution of Sitting
Bull, Spotted Eagle and the entire zoolo-
gcal and ornithological gang.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

THE LATEST GOSSIP anent the New York
Custom House is to the effect that ex-Gov-
ernor Reuben Z. Fenton is to be made collec-
Tor; and that venerable public functionary,
Gen. John A., Dix, naval officer
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

some more or less interesting statistics of
the agriculture of the country are given in
the annual report of the New York Produce
Exchange. In the aggregate the crops cover
l33, ,OOO, 900 acres and their total value was
81 ,600, ,000, 600 In wheat there are three
million acres; corn, fifty million; oats,
thirteen million; rye, million and half
blrley, two million. Iowa raises the largest
crop Of whea:, Illinois the most corn and
oats, Pennsylvania the greatest amount of
rye, and California the largest crop of barley.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

A CLERGYMAN in one of the Hudson River
towns united German couple in marriage
When tho knot WAS tied, the bridegroom
said: dominic, I've got no monish. but
I'll send you Won little pig" Ii was done.
and the circumstance was forgotten by the
clergyman. Two years aitorward he met
the German in another town, for the first
time since the marriage ceremony was per
formed dominic" said the German,
you remembers you married me- and gave
you Won leetle pigY' YES" "Veil, if
you'll unmarry me III give you two leetle
pigs. ."-harper's Drairer.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

FROM CALIFORNIA AROUND THE HORN.
I'VE are permitted to lay before our read
ers the following extracts from the journal OF
a voyage from California to Washington in
government vessel. given in private letters to
a friend of the writer residing in this CITY,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05
CAILAo MINE, Dec. 18th

am here in Callao. but to use gamblers
expression. di Int get square deal" The
parties III New York that engaged me told
me everything but the truth am trying to
make the best of 1t, but person used to
civilization has no iden of heathenish coun-
try until they have tried it, You can look ON
q map for the Orinoco aud three hundred
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

Yours in despair"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-29
An Unfortunate Man.

A Portsmouth man was going East
with his wife last week, and the train
started off very suddenly while he was
talking with his friends. He grabbed
hold of q woman, chucked her on the
train, jumped after her. and away they
went, fifty miles an hour, with his
wife shrieking and tearing her hair,
on the platform, and woman he nev-
er saw before going into high
pressure Mysteries on the car, calling
him a monster, and yelling Save men
By a terrible mistake he had got hold
of the wrong woman, and the conduct
or, refusing to listen to his explana-
items, kicked him out of the car, the
brakeman chucked him into the ditch,
the Sheriff met him, before he was
half way back to town, and put hand
cuffs on him; and, when at last he got
home, he saw his business partner
holding his wife on his lap, and telling
her that there were men in the world
who loved her much better than her
faithless husband ever did. He says
the next time he travels he will walk.
-LewistowD (Pa.) Democrat.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-29
POETRY.
Beautiful Things.
By EILKN P. ALLKRroN.

Beautiful faces are those that wear
Ii matters little if dark or fair
WhOle-souled honesty printed there.
Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like crystal panes where hearth fires glow,
Beautiful thoughts that burn below.
Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like songs of birds,
Yet whose utterance prudence girds.
Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is earnest and brave and true,
Moment by moment the long day through.
Beautiful feet are those that go
On kindly ministries TO and fro
Down lowliest ways, if God wills it so.
Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
Careless burdens of homely care
With patient grace and daily prayer.
Beautiful lives are those that bless
Silent rivers of happiness,
Whose hidden fountain but few may guess.
Beautiful twilight, at set of sun,
Beautiful goal, with race well won,
Beautiful rest, with work well done.
Beautiful graves, where grasses creep,
Where brown leaves fall, where drifts the dec
Over worn out hands-oh, beautiful sleep!
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-29
The Old Mill AT Stiles.

/ hear the rush of the river still
The cool, brown river under the hill;
But l miss the hum of the droning mill.
The old mill stands on the grass grown shore,
As ii stood in the years that have gone before,
And the sunlight glints in the open door.
And over the face of the mill pond wide
The light winged swallows circle and glide,
Chasing their shadows from side to side.
But the current idly hurries along,
For the wheels aae gone, and the bustling
throng,
And the great round saw with its buzzlng
song.
Silent, deserted, and passing away
Meath the steady march of q slow decay,
The old mill sleeps in the July day.
Yet still, where the stream has a smoother
flow,
And the pick'rel weed and eel grass grow,
The mill looks back from the wave below.
And the stream flows on, but the image stays,
Through the drowsy length of the summer
days,
In the morning light and the noontide's blaze.
ana Stlii, as we slt WueTe tne "aIOi SiSoAio
In the quiet eddy of midday dreams.
The past like the present moment seems
With tender lustre the picture shines,
As we fondly follow its shifting lines,
Where something of sadness intertwines
Till we speak so softly it seems as though
Our voices were part of the murmur below,
And the words from the murmur you hardly
would know.
ssE'n thus, when the task with existence be-
gun,
The labor of living, is all of it done,
And we sleep by the shore where the centu-
ries run,
eOn the river of years, as it rolls to the sea,
Where the waves of Nepenthe break muir
muringly, -,
May there linger a shadow of you and of me-
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MHR UGS.

HEADQUARTERS FOR
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knelt beside the sofa, and JessIe's
thanksgiven and his went up to heaven
together.
But little remains to be told. The
lovers were united before many months
had passed. AlgernOn and Maggie
soon followed the good example set
them by Jessie and her lover. On the
former wedding day the only gift pre-
sented to the lovely bride by her de.
voted husband, Frank, was bunch of
roses,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-29
Reduced the Price

OF every thing In our l1ne and propose to sell
First Glass Goods as low as they can be sold
anywhere. With increased facilities for man.
and with a Complete
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-29

Elst-Because they buy in large quantities,
have unequaled facilities for buying, and,
therefore, can afford to sell for less than those
not having such advantages.