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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

We alluded MT lons since to the Canadian
election law, and the great rurifcation it
had effected in elections in the Dominion.
A fre,h example of the effective way in
which it is administered has been furnished
in the ease of c1-AlIerman Patrick Hughes,
OF Toronto, who was declared elected to
represent Niagara in the House of Commons
in September last, and who, for acts of
bribery by his agents, has jus. been unseated
and disqualified from seeking reelection for
ei,ht wears
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07
VERMONT NEWS.


BRADFORD, VT, Feb. 3.--Thc name Of the
town Of Vershire was changed Saturday, to
Ely. by vote of two hundred and twenty
one to sixty-eight.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

The Sj,50O,OOO Of the fishery award has
been diyiieI-S4 ,SS7 500 to Canada and
S975 000 tn Newfoundland, the imperial
government holding the rest till the ez-
penses of the coamission making the
swari are settled. There is lively quarrel
in prospect ove- the DJminiOn's share, as
Prince Edward Island claims half of it on
the ground that it was proved that the
isllui fisheries were more valuable than all
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

TENNESSEE has a law suit Uf gyoily size,
no less than seventeen millions Of dollars
being involved. Twenty-seyen years ago
the Legislature helped the railroads of the
State, taking liens and loaning them its
bonds, tie ra!s subsequently, reIaying TIE
loan. The State, however, being bankrupt
and on the eve Of Reputation, the holders of
the bonds have suel tie railroads for their
face value and the interest which the State
has not paid since 1860. The prosecution
will not dispn;e the settlement between the
roads and the Safe, but will cJntoni that
1t was not le.al, since it left the b0ads origin
all; issued without security.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

MARSHAL MAcMAH5S has at last actually
carried out his ott-repeatcd threat to resign.
1t docs not appear that the immediate conse-
queuces will be serious The present form
of government has been established long
enough to carry it through such crisis as
the present, and the great popular lead
ers have in the last troubled decade
learned moderation and self-control Then,
too, President MacMahon's successor will
better represent the wishes Of the people, as
expressed 10 the recent elections Mr. Grevy
the new President is man Of frmness and
moderation
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

The WOODBURY. PATRST.-The New York
Tribune says: People who are now middle
aged, remember to have heard of the Wood
worth and Woodbury. patent case when
they were boys. Judges long sinco dead
have given it the benefit OF their legal learn
ing. Lawyers now no more have appeared
for plaintiff or defendant. Scores of wit
nesses who have testified in it have depart
ed, to be sworn and examined and cross
examined no more. Thirty years have gone
by since the litigation began and now
Judge Lowell, In the Circuit Court in Bos-
ton, has decided that WoOdbury's improve
ment in tho Woodwork planning machine
was not pstentable. the invention of fat
bars to keep the stock firm having been an
ticipated. This late decision will bring re-
lief to the minds of thousands of owners
of planning machines built upon Woodbury's
plan, and put a stop at once to the cnllec-
ton OF ROYALTIES upon it. Woodbury. him
self is dead, and his patent was held by a
corporation
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

The city Of Elizabeth, N. j., is bankrupt.
The interest on the city's bonds was de-
fau.ted Saturday, and tho school teachers,
policemen and other employees are not paid.
Millions of dollars have been squandercd in
extravagant schemes of public i'm provemcnt.
The to:al debt January l, was $500, sos.
with nominal assets, mainly in the shape of
unpaid taxes, Of S2,8l9,77l.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

WAsHrfDr'y Il-pl'ras- sty that caucus
Of the D,noefi'sr S,lti,r. came unani-
mou,ly I" th" r3arip.i1n tLnt the pre-cnta-
ton Of ia, T. im nd resolution in regard to
the constitutional amen lmcnts. was Il piece
Of sharp practice, t, annoy the Democratic
pa-ty on tao csc / ira assumption OF power
in the l-si-iAt.se branch Il the Government,
and thel lore the purity 10 the Senate will
oppose the fa-Stg' uc the -uhstitutc resolu-
ton. II j. snrFo'ei thar ether Democratic
Senators will follow Nc. Morgan and that
the debate will be prolonged for several
days. Senator Eimunds il credited with
having done an alroit thing in failing to
take the floor. By declining to do 50 he
will draw the FIRE of the Democrats and then
be able at his leisure to dsmolish their argu
ments
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

AFTER the fourth If March ntTt. Mr..
Edmund, If be Is tien in the United
States Scratc, viii he tie third Senator
in lTgth Of s'Uicc, OIL; two Senator'S
being lis saTiuTs IN tic Senate. Mr..
Hanlin served from 1888 10 1861. and
on:eIirg n q senate again il 1859, lis pre-
Ont tom Will expire in 1881. Mr. Anthony,
of Rhode Island, has bc,u a member Of the
Senate SAGE 1859, and - therefore the
Longest in continuous service Of any mem
Der. Mr. ElmahI- hc.aa lis Senatorial
service IT, l>GG, afd M Morrill, followed
him Nib ith, l-G7, at which date Mr.
CJnklins as, entered the Senate. Senators
Thura'1n and Bryarl entered the Senate
together IN 1869 Senator Morrill,, on tie
4'h Of Men, sill h.y1 lea ,,r,,ytorr
years IT, { .ryrt-s.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

WHAT with the enormous expenditures
rendered necessary 10y the new pension ar
rearages law. and the proposed reduction Of
the tobasc, tax (ahica Commissioner Raum
estimate viii cause a r.aGc.iJo Of four and
hall millions 10 the Government reyenue)
to run the Government on substantial
financial basis, the Coming year, Will take
something more than the cheese pairing
economies Of the Democratic House. To
make the balance good tie Southern mem
b2rs. our dispatches say, tagcr tie restora-
ton Of the ilcIm2 tsx--5eyonj question the
most oiiou- tax oTer imposed upon the
American people, iuqaisitorial 10 it, char
&C er. MI IT IA IL working, and an abomi-
nation to c'c'y risht-mind,d citzsn.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

SENAryR MORGAN, Of Alabiml, in his
speech on the E imunds resolutions, affirmed
the doctrine of State rights in it, most per-
nicious form by deny ing that the people of
each State had common interest in the en-
forcement Of the whole Constitution. lie
insisted that if men were deprived of the
right of trial by jury, or Of the right to vote,
in Vermont, the people of Alabama had no
right to complain; and, CT course, that if
these things happened in Alabama it was no
business of the people Of Vermont. The pep
pie of Vermont do not hold this view Of the
matter
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

BANK SUPERINTENDENT LAME Of New York
i. rursuin. a vigorous course with the men
who wrecked the Troy bank. A Mr.. Dan
iel ROBIN on reuse to resign as trustee. Mr.
Lamb hi= al lrcs.ci letter to tie Attor-
ney-Genor.l si;a the purpose Of instituting
proccelin,4 ior his iorcible removal. The
letter is az ,l.b.rate statement Of The gros.
wrongs which lave been perpetrated in this
case. IL ~tat.s that tie Troy savings blDK
was used 1, bolster up the discount bank OF
the same parties, and that again to prop up
their railroad and manufacturing concerns
which were without credit elsewhere. These
proceedings were covered by false reports,
and tLeiF recent revelation is among the
worst Of recent wTeck.g disclosures
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

SENATOR CuRrsTnNcr, OF Michigan. whose
health has been quite poor, has been ap-
pointed minister to Peru and was promptly
confirmed. A Washington despatch says
Chrisuarcy informed a friend that he had
been first offered the Berlin mission, but
that he declined it mainly on account of his
health lie has no taste for the style of
living he wouli be obligci to maintain at
the German capital. lie Will resign in a
few days. His friends say there is no doubt
that Mr.. Z lch Chandler will succeed him.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07


Ir is said that Senator Edmunds would
like to succeed Judge Hunt. Certainly
it is supposable case that as the Republl-
can party is about to pass into minority,
which involves the acceptance OF subordinate
places on the committees By all the Repuo
lican Senators, our senior Senator may be
willing to step from the Senate to life posi-
ton on the bench of the United States Su-
preme Court, with salary of $4,000. 1t
he would take such a place Mr.. Eimunds's
legal learning and high standing before the
country should command for him the appoint
mcnt. Vermont, of course, appreciates the
homer which he does his State; and while
be is content to represent her in the Senate,
is proud to be so represented. Bat hi- con-
stitucnts would also recognize the eminent
fitness of the appointment should Mr.. Ell
munds be made Justice of the Supreme
Court And nothing is more certain, in
view Of present facts and future contingent
cies, than that the Supreme Court greatly
needs the stifening which it would receive
by the accession oil a jurist as learned, SELF
sustained, and loyal as Mr. Edmunds.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

T..ms--sa.oe year. .lw.y. I'm .d, .nce.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

Madden. the lunatic, who recently threat
eucd the life of Queen Victorm, it il said,
had been imprisoned in Belgium, Austria,
France and the United States Tor threaten
ing the lives OF rulers President Johnson
is said to have been the American whom
he desired to put out Of the way
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-07

ABOUT eighteen months since, Representa-
tive Glover. of Missouri, asserted that the
executive departments were seethng ruth
corruption, and that it was difficult, if not
impossible, to get any legitimate business
through without bribery. The President
thereupon invited the fullest scrutiny. The
invitation was accepted by Mr.. Glover but
an investigation Of eighteen months, aided
by numerous experts" has failed to dis
close tho corruption. Mr.. Glover has,
indeed, feebly endeavored to show extrava-
gance of expenditure in the treasury bureau
of engraving aud printing. He reports that
there has been a needless expenditure OF
SlSO, 900 during the last fiscal year in print
ing national bank notes. The bureau has
furnished the entire paper currency for up
wards of 1000 national banks-renewing 1t
as often as necessary. and the total cost, Tor
the whole year. has been but $50 81.
According, therefore, to Glover, the cost OF
keeping the entire national bank circulation
in good order ought to be exactly 1897 or
about 81 cents per year, for paper, engray-
ing and note printing, for each bank ! This
is fair sample of Mr.. Gloyer's investigation.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26
A slow Train.
Editors Drawer, Harpers for March.

We are frequently indebted to our friend
Colonel Yard, of the Monmouth Demo
crat7 ior anecdotes illustrative of the
character OF the peculiar people who live
in New Jersey. He sends us this:
The Hon. g. T = tells a good story
of slow railroad in the northern part Of
the state. He says he went there cunning,
and came to a short line of road on which
was run a single car, the forward end OF
which was parttioned of for baggage.
lie took his dog in the car with him and
put him under the seat. Presently the
conductor came along, and insisted that
the dog should go into the baggage room
which, after some alteration, was done;
but here the baggage master demanded a
fee OF fifty cents, which was denounced as
a "swindlc," put up Job" between the
conductor and the baggage master, and
that sooner than pay 1.-THE would tie the
dog to the train and let him "work his pas
sage" The conductor assented, and the
dog was hitChed to the rear Of the train,
but the conductor began TO get uneasy,
making frequent trips TO the engineer, urg-
ing him to increase the speed OF the train,
and back again to watch the effect upon
the dog. The latter began to show signs
of fatigue, but after a while caught his
second Wind" and was keeping along as
before The conductor now ordered the
engineer to heave all the coal into the fur
mace and stir up the fire, which being
done, the speed was perceptably increased
The conductor again went TO the rear OF
the car to observe the effect, but the dog
had disappeared, whereupon he triumph
antly called T-'s attention to the fact
The latter, after taking a glance at the sit
uation, quietly pointed to crack in the
floor of the car "and there" says he, "was
the dog, comfortably trotting along under
the car, and licking the grease from one Of
| the axle boxes"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26
SULPHUR SOAP.

Now that was pretty cool talk, consid-
ering that | was there TO guard him and
had my carbine ready for a shot, with fifty
comrades within hail but he went on:
~ have my rife under the straw, and
could have shot you long ago. l didn't
want to however. feel good natured this
morning, and you need fear no harm"
"One cry from me will alarm the whole
post" managed to remark.
"Pooh! Let's hear you yell out oncew
Our eyes met. There was nothing ma
licious in his, but they put strange spell
on me- His voice, too, had a strange,
| tender influence, and when he asked me
| to toss him my canteen Of water and hay
ersack of food / obeyed without the least
hesitation. He drank from the canteen,
and as he chewed away at the food he re-
marked:
"This is pretty good fare for hungry
man. AS l can't stay here to eat it all |
shall beg the favor of carrying the rest
with me-"
lie was looking into my eyes, and
could not force my lips to utter word Of
objection.
ii hear that Sheridan has offered re-
ward for me, but no one will ever earn it."
he said, as he drank again.
| lie was not fifteen feet from my carbine
and was thinking how surely could hit
him, when our eyes met and he said:
"No use trying! If you want to shoot
me blaze away, but tell you you can't
hit me-"
We looked at each other for half min
ute, and felt my carbine slipping from
my grasp to the ground outside. My fin
gers had no strength to hold it. Dan
laughed in dry way and said
"Why don't you shoot"
"You shall never leave this place alive!"
said in answer, but hardly recognized
my own voice.
"Poohr he carelessly replied, 81 am
ready to leave nowl | shall go out of this
other door here, and you will sit right
where you are"
was looking full at him, and to save
my life l couldn't move hand or foot. Each
limb felt as numb as If asleep.
"Well, old boy, good bye to you," said
Dan as he picked up his rife from the
straw, and in another minute he was out
of sight. | was sitting there, mouth open
and eyes fixed on vacancy when com
rade came down from the picket-post,
shook me by the shoulder and cried out:
"A nice man you are, fast asleep and
your prisoner gomez
Was | aseep' No! Was it a dreamS
No! But the prisoner was gone. There
was talk of court-martial in my case, but
it never occurred, as the prisoner was sup
posed to be only some common 'Johnny
| Rcb" Had ii been known that my man
was the famous bushwhacker | should
have been taken out and shot for permit
ting him to escape. I permitted him, and
yet | didn't. | was as helpless as if with
out power or muscle. That night when
he crept in on picket and stabbed him
to the heart l wondered if the poor victim
first saw those strange, wild, magnetic
eyes glaring into his to deprive him OF
even power to ask for mercy. : Detroit
| Free Press
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26
"Joshua WbitcOmb" in Trouble.
Detroit Free Press.

The other afternoon Denman Thomp-
son, the comedian, who is now playing
"Toshua Whitcomb" at Whitney's Opera
House, stepped up to the cigar stand at the
Russell House and bought a cigar While
lighting it he looked back Of the counter
and noticed a friend standing, as he
thought, on the other side. "Josh" gave
nod Of recognition and the friend smiled
and returned the bow. Thereupon "Josh"
walked down the corridor and through the
wash-room, expecting to get into the room
on the other side of the counter, where
his friend was supposed to be. He was
confronted by solid wall, and not one Of
the numerous doors on either hand solved
the mystery. Then it was that Mr.. Thomp-
son discovered that while standing in
front of the cigar stand he saw his friend
who was standing behind him-because
he was looking into mirror Of clear and
powerful rejecting qualities.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26
Dangerous Girls.
(Lippincotts Mag incl

1t may seem difficult task to decide,
that this or that type of young lady is the
most dangerous TO the peace of mind OF
men, there are so many beautiful and
charming girls, endowed with gifts which
strike the senses, the imagination, and
occasionally the heart. There are New
York girls, brilliant, stylish, with pas
sion for beautiful costumes and grand par
ties; there are Philadelphia girls, beautiful,
graceful, winning, with sweet voices and
seductive by certain rare womanly at
tractiveness; there are Boston girls, whose
mission is less toward fashion and beauty
than towards GU ture and a h, h civiliza-
ton; and thee are southern girls, with
charming faces, perfect shapes, and
small fee and with aspirations only in
the direc of love and Irritation. All
these beautiful and ravishing types OK
the genus woman are dangerous, or
ought TO be, to e peace Of mind Of
man, for whom they possess irresistible
attractions.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26
ABSORPTION.
Not Made by Introduction.
(Boston Transcript)


Apropos to this expression "making
acquaintance" l was little taken back
the other day at hearing the sharp reply
of kind not so common in these DAYS as
in those Of Lady Hollands and Wortley
Montagus.
A certain gentleman had for some time
admired certain lady without knowing
her She had been informed that he de-
sired to know her, and it CHANGED one day
that they met at the house of friend and
were introduced. Exhibiting his sudden
sense of satisfaction at the rencounter, he
darted eagerly forward, and with his hand
extended, exclaimed, "Happy to meet you,
Miss F. delighted to make your ac-
quaintance." The lady, with curled lip,
suffered the pendant hand TO lie before
her as she replied, "You havn't made it
yet, sir" giving him to understand that
the acquaintance of lady is not made
from single introduction, nor her hand
to be shaken as if it were Chinese puzzle.
Indeed, there are some men who have
fashion of offering their hand that would
lead one to say, "What shall | do with
it" When will Americans leave of
hand shaking, or at least learn when TO
shake? George Francis Trains custom,
adopted from the Japanese, is the best-to
shake ones own hand and preserve ones
electricity, not giving it out to every
chance conner.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26
Men in Politics.

Through what an ordeal of calumny all
political men must go | was brought up
to believe that Andrew Jackson was a
murderer because he shot certain deserters,
and some of the Older people in the house
may remember that pictures Of soldiers in
coitins were circulated as campaign docu-
mcnts against his reelection as President.
Now all historians agree that he was hero
and patriot, and the best possible man Tor
the hour. Henry Clay was derided as a
libertine. Theodore Frclinghuysen was
caricatcred as a souri, faced Presbyterian.
Abraham Lincoln was called lantern
iawcd peddler of filthy anecdotes. Geo.
Washington was denounced by the the
military rivals Of his d"v as being ambi-
tious and untrustworthy. A man has to
be dead about forty years before the world
gives him his right place in history.
Therefore, let all our public men be patient;
they are in the company Of a great null
titude who were cursed while living, and
eulogized after they were dead.-[Talmage.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26
The Truth About Lotteries.
lMiadlebury Record

1t is not ours to say that you shall not
buy lottery tickets, but it can be said that
a person simply stands no chance at all for
a return when he invests money in a lot
terry ticket, 1t is delusion to think that
you can get rich in month by investing
a dollar Suppose you chance to draw
five dollars, you will never rest content un-
til that is also invested in schemes lucky
hit makes you all the more anxious, and
you die sorry for your bitter experience in
lottery schemes. Like selling and buying
stocks, it is a species of so-called respecta-
Bile gambling, and if straight gambling
leads to something worse, what will be the
end of the constant buyer of lottery tick
cts? 1t is no use, it all must come under a
common level. Better spend your money
for something from which you will derive
benefit than TO throw it into the hands
of gift concert men, who have not parti
Gle OF interest in your or any body's welfare
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26
Saturday Night.
IBrick Pomeroy,1

Saturday night makes people human,
sets their hearts 10 beating softly, as they
used to before the world turned them into
war drums and Jared them to pieces with
tattoos. The ledger closes with a crash
the iron doored vaults come to with a
bang, up go the shutters with will click
goes the key in the lock 1t is Saturday
night, and business breathes free again
llomeward, ho the door that has been
aJar all the week gently closes behind him,
the world is all Shut out Shut out? Shut
in, rather. Here are his treasures, after all,
and not in the vault, and not in the book
save the record in the old family Bible
and not in the bank. Maybe you are
bachelor, frosty and 40. then, poor fellow,
Saturday night is nothing 10 you, Just as
you are nothing to anybody. Get a wife,
blue-cyed or black eyed; but, above all,
true eyed. Get little home--no matter
how little-a sofa, Just to hold two, or two
and a half, and then get the two or two
and half and then get the two or two
and a half on it, of Saturday night, and
then read this paragraph by the light Of
your wife's eyes, and thank God and take
courage.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26
Long Sentences.

One of the ncatest things recently said
in Washington, where neat things are
neither said nor done so often as could be
wished, was said by Secretary EVerts at
dinner the other night, in reply to some
body who happened to have been reading
one of the regulation jokes aUout the Sec,
retary's endless sentences, and gracefully
repeated it. ooh, nonsense" said Mr.. Ev.
arts, good naturedly;"I don't object to that
sort Of thing at all. People who expect tc
injure me by calling attention to my long
sentences forget that the only persons re
ally opposed to long sentences in this couE,
~" are the criminal classes who deserve
tnem."
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-26

The premises Of John Flagg, on Broad,
way, Troy, IN. " were overrun with rat ,
and in order to kill the troublesome visitol
he recently purchased ferret, which ..
once began the desired work of extermina
ton. His ferret-ship succeeded in annih,
lating all the rodents except one enormou.
powerful fellow, who fought and overcamc
its enemy half dozen times, The nat
ural hatred which the two animals enter
tanned for each other singularly gave way
to mutual friendship, the two occupying
the same apartments, and eating togethe.
from the same dish.