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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-19
THIRD DISTRICT POLITICS.
THAT HYDEPARk CAUCUS.

HYDEPARK, July Is.
The working and talking Democrats OF
Hydepark are keenly and thoroughly Tor
Barlow. Numerically the Republicans are
the weaker party. The Barlow ticket was
headed and the canvass was managed by
Judge Russell 5. Page local Won Moltke
in town and county politics. Barlow
"help" from johnson assaulted the town in
front and flank, the morning Of the caucus.
And yet the Barlow ticket won by only one
majority. Zone more such victory, -"
shrleked the British commandment chief the
morning after the battle OF Bunker Hill,
land we are ruined" Can the sage Of St.
Adams get different consolation from the
siege at Hydepark
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-19

FROM the annual report it appears that
during the calendar year 1877 the patent
office had receipts of S732 ,343 and expendi-
tdres Of s6lO,476; while the number of
patents issued was 1863 of these the
largest number went to New York;, i96,
or one to every 1855 of population !;
Pennsylvania comes next, with l ,5l5, one
to every 1926; Massachusetts, next, with
1892, one to every l,O46; then Ohio, with
1858, one to every 2,460; then, in order,
Illinois, Connecticut, New jersey, Iowa and
Indiana. The number of applications for
patents reached as high figure as one
thousand only so late as 1874. In 1850,
they passed . 900; in 1865, turned $1,000 {;
reached the maximum Of q COZ and q ,GSs
10 1874 aud 1875 declined to 81 ,42j in
ls76, and % .3OS 10 49,. About onc-tbird
# the applications are rejected.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-19

DO THEY HAVE SCHOOL HOUSES AND CHURCHES
THEREi
To the Editor Of the Free Press and Times.
So asked a lady of a fellow passenger on
a steamer that was skirting our Isle OF
Beauty. Our neighbors seem to DO troubled
with the same anxiety now. We have had
a deluge of st. Adams people, all anxious
to enlighten rs. That smart little village,
the nest OF great political influence, seems
yery much devoted to the cause Of one Of its
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-19

A PEIMA DONNA WHO SINGS DNINELY AND
SCRUBS HER OWN STAIRS.
Vienna Correspondence Chicago Times.
Frau Wilt, the Austrian prima donna, has
a voice that is heavenly and the most Cread-
frl appearance of any artist | ever saw. Frau
Wilt has many peculiarlties. and one OF them
is her great avarice When she dimes at a
restaurant. if in good humor, she gives .the
waiter pour boire drink money OF one
kreutzer- about cent of our money and
when she Is in one of her tempers she not
only gives him nothing, but wants to take
the cent she gave him the day before She
is now grandmother, and yet this magnih-
cent organ remains young and agreeable
She sings up to the upper and Il, and IN
the ..IIymn to st. Cecilia, by Handel she
makes a trill Oh the high G and d that is the
most wonderful aud beautiful ever heard. 1t
never ends. and goes on swelling out into the
harmony of "A thousand musical throats, all
sinuinp in one voice. But never look at her,
as even the charm OF 80 perfect an organ Is
lost when realizing that II comes from so ugly
A woman Her ince Is coarse and red, and
her ewes resemble those OF IN enraged bull
VIXEN almost starting out OF their sockets.
She weighs nearly or quite 300 pounds and
has the muscular strength OF prize-hghter.
She does all her own work. and lone day the
lmpressarlo MOreln called 10 engage tue
well-known soprano for II season OF concerts.
After climbing five flights of stairs he found
the giantess of II woman scrubbing the sixth
flight, and when she was interrupted she
turned ON him in perfect fury. What do
You want p said she to the oily impressario,
whose gentle voice begged to pass.
IL wish to see Fran Wilt, responded the
director, .'and would thank you to-
Not ii | know 1t, cried the soprano, put
ting her arms akimbo and glowering down
on Morelli. First what do you want of
herr
My good woman. don't know that it is
any OF your business said Mr.. Morelli but
If you will let me pass I don't mind telling
You that | have come to see Nine. Wilt on
business. and
The creature smiled grimly, seized her pail
and mop-cloth tiourishod her red, brawny
arms in Morelhs face. and with a simple
Follow me. mounted the stairs. She
threw open the door, entered, Morelli at her
heels Then, after going through the prelm-
inaries of iuriously blowing her nose she
wiped great drop of perspiration from her
face. and said again What do you want
am Frau Wilt"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-19

The Boston Herald has gossipy article on
the homes of the New England Senators,
from which We take few notes The resi-
dence of Senator Dawes a. Pittsield is
large. square, brown mansion Of wood, the
south windows of which command beauti-
full prospect OF the valley OF the Housatonic
and OF the HOosac mountains. Mr.. Dawes
has a farm mile OF two out of the village,
and riding horseback with his daughter for
companion is his fayorite method of taking
a constitutional. Senator Hoar's house is in
the quiet north end OF Worcester. 1t is
roOmy cottage with gables and veranda
placed in miniature forest of tall oaks.
The home of Senator Barnum, of Connecti-
cut. is at Lyme Rock, little hamlet among
the Litchfeld county hills. 1t is ample and
hospitable looking, and suggestive OF the
solid comforts of domestic life. Quite farm
surrounds it and the Senator'S live stock
runs to Attorneys. A pleasant residence on
Church street, Hartford, two squares from
the depot, shaded and quiet despite its prox-
unity to the city's heart, houses Senator
Eaton. Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island,
although wealthy. contents himself with
IioAbi "poNth hOuSC vi bcuCNO-
lent street, Providence while his colleague,
Burnside. has commodious residence in
Providence, elegantly furnished, as well as
a summer villa near Bristol. on Narragan-
sett bay. The New Hampshire Senators are
domiciled. the one at Milford and the other
at Concord. Wadleigh's residence at Mil
ford overlooks the village, and is the hand
soonest in town. In the Senator'S law office
is one Of the finest private Libraries in the
State. The home Of Senator Rollins is one
of the Oldest in Concord, built of brick and
antique in appearance. lie has also farm
at Rollinsiord, where he spends most OF the
season playing the gentleman farmer Sena-
tor Ilamlin has modest home at Bangor,
Me-, and also good farm in the vicinity.
upon which he takes great satisfaction, like
his New Hampshire neighbor, as an amateur
agriculturist
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-19
STATE NEWS.
Religious Intelligence.

The Young Mems Christian Association,
organized at Rochester. some weeks ago,
is prospecting very well, and now numbers
some thirty members. They hold weekly
prayer meetings, and also meetings every
Sunday afternoon in various school districts
in town. The religious interest is reported
as very good all over town.
In Jericho Centre, an organization has
been in existence since 1906, called the La
dies Cent Society. which has contributed
about 81 800 to the cause OF missions. A
similar society exists in Underhill. These
are oftshoti of the famous New Hampshire
Cent Institution. founded in 1905. One
hundred and ten of these now exist in New
Hampshire.
Work has been begun upon tho new
North church at st. Johnsbury. The
church is to be built OF Isle La Mott gray
stone in its rough state. while the trim
mings are to be Of the same stone hammer
ed. 1t is estimated that it will take about
500 cubic yards of stone and will take $50
cars to bring it from the lake. The church
is to be completed by September, 1879.
A Sunday Association for Gale
donna County was organized at st. Johns
bury recently The society includes five
denominations. and about thirty-fve
churches. Col Franklin Fairbanks is
president
Rev. j. 4. Goojall, pastor Of the Baptist
church at W est Randolph. administered the
ordinance of baptism to four persons, on
recent Sunday. and extended the hand of
fellowship to fifteen, recent additions.
A notable revival is in progress at East
Fairfield
General Notes.
The brothers Burritt, of Factory Point.
caught their fiity-slIth bear. the other
day
Fifteen year-o Willie Mohat, OF White
River village. has rescued SIX persons from
drowning, during his brief career.
Alta recent meeting of the stockholders
of the bennington County National Bank
articles of Incorporation were adopted.
The bank will have a capital OF 100000.
Charles Fletcher, of North Bennington,
will probably be its first President.
Mrs. Clarisss llealey, OF Pownal. who
died the other day at the advanced age OF
lOI years, was the mother OF fifteen children,
ten Of whom are now living. and was fol
lowed to the grave by five generation, OF her
descendants.
Mr.. 4. W. Jennings, OF llubbsrdton, has
been elected president of the Brandon Ma
tional Bank, in place of John A. Conant,
resigned. The latter gentleman had been
president OF the bank ever since its organ
iZatiO,, in 1913.
William McClonathsn. of Salem. was
drowned by falling into we'll on the llth
instant. Ito went to the well to draw
pail OF water and ~ supposed to have fallen
in while in a fit.
The Brattleboro Rsformer says that over
So, OOO, 900 worth OF property, OF two-thirds
of the towns wealth, haslbeen exempt from
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-19
From our Regular Correspondent.
Our Paris Letter.

THE CATACONBs AND THE rETE-TmE BONES OF
THREE MILLIONS OF PERSONS EXPOSED TO
yIEw-THE GREAT ILLUhINATIoN-TEN-
FILES OIL FIRE-A HAPPY MAD DEMOCRATIC
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-19

Tux place for Americans to be educated
in, Is America. The notion that boy will
DO better educated in Germany than in the
United States is a delusiOn and a snare.
The notion that the German university
affords u better preparation for useful
lie than an American college il a more par
donable form OF the same error Christian
Uniol.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-19

CONGRESSMAN CHALNERs, of Mississippi,
wants u Normal School for the cllored peO-
Die of his District, which is well but it
would have been better, if. instead OF asking
that it shall be established by Congress, as
he did, he had asked the State Of Mississippi
TO pay for it, Just AS Normal Schools are
paid for in the Northern States. The
Winona, (Miss.) 4drdHoe recently declared
that "the people of the State OF Mississippi
are in far more prosperous condition than
ANY State in the Union And as the State
of Mississippi, under the first year Of re-
stored Democratic rule, expended only
SAL, go for the education of 1859 chill
dren Of school age in that State, it can well
afford to establish Normal School for Itself,
and paw 70. it, as other States pay for theirs.
1T Is BELIEVED throughout Great Britain
that the present Parliament is holding its
last session. and that Propagation will be fol-
lowed By dissolution and general election.
The legal duration of Parliament is seven
years, but the limit is never reached. Twice
onlv in the present century has a Parliament
exceeded term of six years. From Sep
TENDER. 1876, to the present time, there have
been twenty Parliaments, the average dur
alton of which has been little more than
four years. The present Parliament met on
tina 9Th of March, 1874, and has, therefore,
already exceeded the average duration OF
Parliaments by three months. 1t is hardly
to be wondered at, remarks the Boston
4drertiser, that Lord Beaeonsfeld should
decide to take advantage of the present mo-
ment to secure new lease Of power. No
body knows what may happen during
the next two years. Just now the
chances are favorable for brilliant victory
TOR the government. The party in power
is told by all the organs that it ought to be
highly delighted with the result of the Ber-
lin congress, ard it Is certainly pleased with
Cyprus The liberals are not well united
and they are not harmonious and even if
the government be held not to have accom-
plished much at Berlin, the liberals have
nothing in the treaty to congratulate them
selves upon, or to form the basis of CON-
plant against the ministry. Probably they
do not expect much from the elections. not
even to held their own If they do more
than that, they will experience as much sur
prise as Lord Beaconsfeld will feel"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-07-19

We believe there are. II hundred men, at
least, in tue district that would as soon have
been sought out as candidates as Mr.. Bar
low and yet, two years ago and very early
last spring, his name vas fOisted upon the
public a. a candidate. 1t is well known
that from that day to this, every means has
been taken to puff his good qualities and
cram him down the judgments of an unwil-
ling public. Who snpposes that he would
to-day have any following outside of a few
personal friends, if an extraordinary effort
had not been made to get him into notorietv,
and to force him upon the public Who
believes that Mr.. Barlow, without the aid of
manipulation, could have carried
single town out Of Franklin county,
How manv men in the whole District, in
looking Tor suitable man to represent
the District, decided that Mr. Barlow was
that man. Mr.. Barlow was somewhat
known in this section, but chiefly from the
fact that he had gained AM unssvory noto-
riety about Washington. There are men IN
Franklin county that are not only favorably
known in this vicinity, but who might re-
ceye natural and hearty support for the
place mentioned; the same could be said of
Grand Isle, Chittenden and Lamoile coun-
ties, but Mr.. Barlow has not made name
or a record that has commended him to the
people OF the District. We do not like to
feel compelled to say as much against man
as we have said against Mr.. Barlow, but it
seems to US that it would be very severe
calamity to the State to send man of his
reputation to Congress. -Barton Monitor.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-09-20
In Hanran

1t has often been noticed, 60 often that
the subject is trite, how often q vein Of
comedy is found in the deepest tragedies
of life. This is exemph6ed in a remark
of Goodwin to his dying wife, the char
acterIstlc of that unsentlmeutsl mater
alist to be passed over In cne OF Mary
Woolstonecraft's last hours. when she
was suffering acute agony Mr.. Basil
Montague ran TO Dr. Carlisle, aud re-
turned before the physician with an
anodyne which he administered himself,
raising her il bed TO give 1t. The LneclI-
cine had at Immediate eject. aud she
turned to her husbsnd. who held her
hand. with sigh Of relief, and saDd,
"Oh, Goodwin. l am in heaven!' But
even at that moment Goodwin declined
to lie entrapped into the admission that
heaven existed, and be calmly replied,
"You mean, my dear. that your phys
ical sensations are someWh hat easier"
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-09-20
The Cross Of tbe Editor.

The cross of the editor, says the Troy
Times, constant as cruel, is the evanes-
eence of his productions The most
brilliant articles seem like the freely of
June. 1t flashes and then expires. Col
lected editorials are the dullest of read
ing. They are salt that has lost its SAVIOR.
The most promising experiments of this
kind have been failures. Dust is on the
leaves and publishers are vexed. But to
what hard-working editors does there
not come the hope that at some time
with propitious circumstances, when the
collar shall no longer chafe, and the
strain shall be relaxed, of doing some
thing that will have permanent utility,
upon which he may felieitate himself,
as Gibbon Joyed beneath the acacias of
Lausanne, or as Allibone, with holier
emotion. returned his profound graft
tude TO that Almighty Being, without
whose help all labor is Intellectual, and
without whose grace all wisdom is
folly?" But the vision never receives
the halo of realization, hardly the hue
of anticipation. The grinding toll en-
dures, and to the last he tugs as at
windlass, letting buckets down into the
we'll OF thought only to draw them up
,ill-Of emptiness.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-09-20
BsnsFts from a College.

On an average there are four hundred
and fifty young men IN attendance at
Cornell University yearly. The Ithaca
Journal says the annual necessities can
not be supplied on an average allowance
of less than $400 per annum. This gives
a handsome total of SIS0,00O. Add to
this the amount voted by the trustees
for salaries to the professors and the ex-
penses Of their families, in round num-
bers 100000, and about so, 900 in nee
essary supplies, repairs, improvements,
etc, etc, and the magnificent sum Of
$330000 is attained as The actual nee
essary annual cash disbursement of the
institution on the bill into the tills Of
the grocers, merchants, clothiers, butch
ers, boot, shoe and laundrymen and
clearinghouse keepers. If the sums
expended in luxuries and paid to doc
tors, livery men, cigar, billiard room
and restaurant keepers be included, to-
gether with the amounts expended by
visitors Of the students or guests of the
faculty, or sight-seeTs who come to view
the town and buildings, and all the
money caused TO be spent directly or in
directly by the university, we doubt
whether the magnificent grand total of
$500, GOO annually would be an exagger-
ated estimate. We have experienced as
q locality less depression and siagnation
from the hard times since 1873 than any
other section of which we can learn.
Our solution is that Cornell University.
with its yearly half million in exchange
for the commodities which we had to
sell, stood like great bulwark between
US and stringency-possibly bankruptcy.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-09-20
KH nnd H,n,nr

You can't make eorned beef by Civ.
ing COWS whisky.
A young Oil Citizen calls his girl
Revenge, because she is sweet
The period spent by the chicken in
the shell might be designated as the
inter-egg-num.
Wilkie Collins spends as much money
as he earns. Shake, Wilkie, my boy /;
there is big gang of US.
Our ancestors, the monkeys, couldn't
have been so ignorant after all. They
were all educated in the high branches.
"What is money!? is the heading of
leading article in new paper. The
publisher will find out when his paper
Is about six weeks old.
A little Florida boy tanned an alligator,
and the ugly reptile learned to like the
little fellow-not however, until the
little fellow was all gone.
A married man in Newburg has in
vented an India rubber rolling pin that
will roll out the dough very evenly and
yet bend to the head when it strikes.
These sausages are hardly up to the
mark ?" Waiter-'sThey amt, eh !?
Well, dye expect Italian greyhound and
thoroughbred Scotch terrier for two bitsT
Powder and gloves are the last thing
put on a girl going to 2 party.-Bazdr.
You are not going to get US to ask what
is the first, if we never find out. Besides,
we don't want to know.
Cambridge is proud of a young woman
30 innocent and pure-minded that she
remarked to her Intended the day pre-
vious to their marriage. "Now mind
Iswon't have baby brought into the
house."
"Don't you find that it hurts your
lawn to let your children play OF, ?'
asked a friend of a suburban, the other
day. eyes" answered the gentleman
addressed "but it dosen't hurt the
children"
A man who had fled petition for
divorce was informed by his counsel
that his wife had fled "cross petition"
as LAWYERS call it. "a cross petition P'
exclaimed the husband. 'That's Just
like her. She never did good-natured
thing in her life"
There is cat in Burlington that has
lost its voice. The HGa0keye says it is
just heart breaking to see that voiceless
cat go out in the moonlight and climb
on the shed roof and try, by violent
and emotional pantomime, to express
a yowl that could break pane of win
dow-glass eight hundred yards away.
I've been buying champagne lamp"
said Mrs. Williams to her husband,
"and it's the best in the store" "a
champagne lamp! I guess You must be
mistaken. Champagne won't bnrn y
said her husband, Il guess Won J mean
camphene." 81 guess / know whot
am talking about" said Mrs. w. as sbe
took off the wrapper. eff c-h-a-m-p-i-o-n
don't spell champagne, I'd like to know
whatdoesT and Mrs. Williams elevated
her nose as if her acquaintance with
Webster and Walker and johnson was
lifelong one.
AT dinner the host introduced to the
favorable notice Of the company splen-
did truffled pheasant, amid murmurs of
admiration. "Isn't it a beauty" he says.
''Dr. So-and-so gave it to me-killed it !
himself" "Aw, what was he treating it
for p asked one Of the guests,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-09-20

The Chinese mode OF wearing the
hair makes the howery land the para
disc of BARRIERS, and the Chinese barber
has not his counterpart the world over.
From dawn he is in the streets carving
upon his shoulders at either end of a
long bamboo, adorned with an efigy of
a chimerical creature, the parapher-
MALTA of his craft. Eagerly on the look
out for any one whose poll is not per-
fectly shaven, as soon as he detects such
a one he has him in trice installed on
a stool beneath large parasol fixed in
the ground. In the twinkling of an eye
Ah is ready, and the scull under his
manipulation soon becomes as smooth
as ivory. That done he passes on to the
pigtail, which he brushes, perfumes, and
dresses with the greatest care. Useless
as it seems to us, it really is by no means
so. The schoolmaster brings it smartly
to bear on the fingers of recalcitrant
youth, the ass driver has no other in
strument wherewith to stimulate his
beast, the man tired of life employs it as
a hanging rope, and lastly the execu-
toner seizes hold Of it when he decapi-
tates man.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-09-20
Useful Family Hints.

To Keep Lemons Fresl.-Place them in
q Jar with water enough TO cover them.
They will keep fresh in this way several
days without changing the water.
To prevent scald-head and painful
eruptions behind the ears and on the
neck, comb or brush 6 child's head and
wash it frequently with CASTLE soap and
water
FritIers.-Two eggs, one pint butter
milk, one teaspoon ssleratus, three
fourths teaspoon salt and -four enough to
make a stiff batter. Fry in hot lard,
putting in teaspoonful at time.
To Clean Smoky MGTbIe-Brush paste
of chloride of lime and wafer over the
entire surface. Grease spots can be
removed from marble by applying a
paste of crude potash and whiting in this
manner.
Plum C1Ee.-One pound -four, one
pound sugar, one pound butter, five
bounds currants, ten ounces citron, three
quarters of an ounce cloves, three-quar-
ters of an ounce nutmegs, ten eggs, one
wineglass brandy,
Good Use for SOdpsUds.-Save your
washing suds for the garden; If they
are poured over the roots Of plum trees
they will kill the curculio; if turned at
the roots of geraniums, roses, etc, they
will enhance their beauty tenfold.
Lady Padding.-0ne quart Of milk,
two large spoonfuls Of -four, the yolks Of
four eggs well beaten and mixed with
milk, beat the whites Of the eggs sepa-
rately, mix with four teaspoonfuls of
sugar and drop on the top and bake.
To Cure Weak EyS.-Take rose leaves,
the more the better, and put them into
q little water; then boil after this strain
il into bottle and cork it tight. You
will find this liquid very beneficial in
removing redness and weakness from
the eyes.
Lemon Syrup.-Squeeze the lemons /;
strain the juice carefully lest any pulp
should remain to one pint Of juice add
two pounds of sugar; set il away till
completely dissolved, stirring il occa-
sionalIy; then bottle il. One or two
teaspoonfuls Of this syrup stirred into a
glass of water will make delightful lem
Onade.