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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-03-21
HOWELL C NrLETEs 900 EILgs

When the figures 900" went up oppo-
site Ruwell's name on the blackboard, the
excitement can scarcely be imagined This
was at 81. Row,ll then put on his ulster
and carrying the American flag over his
right shoulder end an immense bouquet 10
bis lett hand, he marched sreand the track
twice. with the captain OF police un ore
side and his trainer on the other. Tho band
PLAYED God save the Queen. and the en-
thusiasm ran very high. Rowell then left
the track for good He went at once to the
Ashland House and vas hathed aud rubbed
down, and went to BED 10 be awakened
every three hours between that time Gnd
morning. lie said that he did not feel
badly, and would be out tomorrow.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-03-21

\ Cincinnati special says the trustees t.
investigate the financial affairs of Arch
bishop Purcell have completed their labor-
and say 3,4Sj creditors have presented
claims amounting to S3,G72 81. BESIDES
this Rev. Edward Purcell owes 500 900.
Besides real estate obligations there are notes
Of hand and open accounts to the nominal
value of s 1854 0n0. The trustees 6ni that
IN addition to II large amount paid as inter
est, bad Investments, shrinkago in values,
misplaced confidence and unbusinesslike
management are tho rause1 Of the sad
calamity We most dcplorc. ami in vain en-
dearored to remedy. We must now call
upon the generosity Of the clergy and laity
OF the diocese Of Cincinnati and the country
at large to provide means for the relief Of
the suHcrings of the many poor thus de
privcd OF their support in old age anu N
time of need >
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-03-21
Ennis REMAINS ON TIE TRACK

Ennis was lett aiano On the track at Just
o'clock. lie had completed 40 miles,
and i, vas generally supposed that be
would stop, Einte there seemed to be no
reason fer further osertlGn. The people
began to 20 out, but he did not cease
walking, except for few seconds. TO
swallow a mouthiul of brandy. lie. like
his competitors. took no rest after ] p. m
The motiTe for Ennis 10 Continue was
: 900 in cash. = party OF gamblers had,
about the middle OF the week, bet heavily
that ho would cover 47j miles. They wen,
to him Saturday morning and Cfered him
81. coo as a reward for winning their bets.
lie closed the bargain, and tina. was why
he Gid not stop when R0well and Hartman
Gid. Elnis walked four miles quickly,
leaving bim only one to go. Tnen he
started to run ~ bis deer-hound way,
lust a. though he had been st WORT only
SIX hours instead ot nearly SIX days,
and made thu nile in 6p. Ia, the
fastest mile Of the week The upr0ar during
those six minutes ,xcc-ded, If possible, any
thing that had preceded 1t. Inc men and
women stool up. shouting and bcudIag iOr-
ward 10 zee the runner, and the crowd
within the Jours- Tfsbtd pell mel from
side to side to get a giiilsu % him lie was
done before 10 O'Clock His wife kissed him
as he reeled INFO his house and tell exhaust
ed on cot He rallied, however. and de-
elared tina. he lclt frSt-rate, as hs started
Tor the Putnam HOUSE.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-03-21

Gov Robinson has removed County Clerk
Henry A. Gumbleton, of New York, on the
charges of neglect of duty, malieasance and
mayersation in office and extortion.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-03-21
The Great Walking Match.

At - minute before &. Hartman COM
pleted the last lap OF bis $50 miles. the last
man Of the three. yet winner OF % per cent
Of the stakes. Several OF the judges and
timekeepers shook him by the hand, 50 did
Howell and Ennis. and all three passed On.
Hartman walked two more laps, carrying
a flag over his shoulder ard then he disaD-
r,na cd int h. iA.,-..
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-03-21

The total number OF miles made By eac
man each dAY OF the match. vas Is 10
lows:
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-03-21

1t is officially stated that the receipts at
the recent walking match were S5i .601.
and after deducting expenses. etc., the
amount accruing to zach contestant will be
about as follows RnweH gel, 200, Ennis
of tie spells will be made to-day.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13
"IAcknowledge the Corn"

This is the origin of the phrase II
acknowledge the corn" In 1928 An
drew Stewart, member OF Congress,
said in speech that Ohio, Kentucky,
and Indiana sent their haystacks, corn
fields, and fodder to New York and
Philadelphia for sale. Wicklife, of
Kentucky, called him to order, declar-
ing that those States did not send hay
stacks or cornfelds to New York for
sale. Well, what do you send ?" asked
Stewart. Why, horses, mules, cattle,
and hogs" Well, what makes your
horses, mules. cattle, and hogs? You
feed 800 worth of hay to a horse. You
Just animate and get upon the top of
your haystack and rid off to market.
How is it with your cattle I? You make
one of them carry $50 worth of hay and
grass to the Eastern market How
much corn does il take, at thirty-three
cents a bushcl, to fatten hog p
"Why, thirty bushels" "Then you put
that thirty bushels into the shape of a
hog, and make it walk off to the Eastern
market" Then Mr.. Wicklif1e jumped
up and said: "Mr. Speaker, | acknow-
ledge the corn"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

The Detroit Free Press occasionally
handles things without gloves. With
regard as TO how murderers should be
treated it says:
The New York Herald howls for MUIR
derers' rights. 1t wants the murderer,
if he must be executed, killed by the
neat and delicate process of electricity.
This is first rate idea. The first muir
derer who kills his victim in neat and
delicate way would be good subject to
try the new process OH. As long as in
nocent people are hacked to pieces with
axes, Drained with clubs, riddled with
buckshot, gashed with knives and
crushed with stones, perhaps our pres
ent method of dealing with the doors of
these deeds is neat and delicate enough.
Take the murderer of Mary Stannard,
for instance. She was forced to swallow
arsenic, then stabbed with knife, then
smashed with stone, and finally crushed
under the heel of her murderer. Yet
it seems as if the neat and delicate pro-
cess of Connecticut will not ever get a
chance at her destroyer. In Michigan
the murderer has more rights than the
citizen. ANY man may be torn to
bits by murderer, but the culprit is
carefully protected from all harm and
given situation for life. No chance
for murderer getting killed in Michi-
gan
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13
Look to Your Mouth,

The mouth is the frankest part of
the face. 1t can the least conceal the
feelings. We can neither hide i'll tenn
per with it nor good. We may af-
sect what we please, but the affecta-
ton will not help us. In wrong cause
it will only make our observers resent
the endeavor to impose upon them. A
mouth should be of good natural dimen-
sions, as we'll as plump in the lips.
When the ancients, among their beau
ties, made mention of small mouths
and lips, they meant small only SIS OPP
posed to an excess the other way. The
sayings in favor of small me nth,
which have been the ruin of SO many
pretty looks, are very absurd. If there
must be an excess either way, it had
better be the liberal one. A pretty
pursed up mouth is fit for nothing but
to be left to its complacency. Large
mouths are oftener found in union
with generous dispositions than very
small ones. Beauty should have neither,
but reasonable look of openness and
delicacy.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13
Saturday Night.

How sweet the note to the man of toll,
to the weary-hearted and SORROW
stricken! The little bubbles that have
agitated during the week cease to an
noy, the emotions of envy, pride, jeal-
ousy and malignity yield to the socth-
ing influences of the hour, for the night
of resi- has come that has its morrow of
quiet and peace. The weekly plans of
the honest, industrious man have all
been contaminated, the little grains in
trade garnered, the trials, doubts and
fears Of life set aside, and now at peace
with conscience and all the world, re-
cIining on his couch, no king in purple
is halt so happy under the soothing in
fuences of sleep.
Saturday night! standing on the brink
of what will shortly be portion of
Eternity, let us ask the solemn question,
will the white light of the Great Morn
ing dawn upon us ere another week
circled by ten thousand mercies shall
close its record OF life-trial and duty ?
Thousands of coffin-lids have smothered
down the hopes of happy households
thousands of misery's children have
pinned in want and woe, and thousands
have groaned away life on couches of
pain, whilst every moment of the new
fed week has heaped upon us mercies
that no intelligence can number.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13
The " Cat" in the British Army.

Archibald Forbes, the famous war
correspondent, declares that he was
saved by the "cat," which it is now
proposed to abolish from the British
Army. Twenty years ago he enlisted
in cavalry regiment, Young, full Of
spirits, and not destitute of money, he
was scandalously often in trouble. AT
length an escapade got him placed for
a month in the Sheffield Provost He
was not cured however. Again, brought
before his commanding officer, he was
asked if he knew he was a second class
man. No, he knew nothing about it,
"Well, said he, "you are, as such, liable
to be logged, and the next time you
come before me I'll fog you" Mr..
Forbes never again came before him,
and is now 80 full of love for the " cat !"
that he pleads for its retention. The
Pilot reports that its editor, Jonn Boyle
O'Reilly, had an almost similar expert
ence. At eighteen years of age he en-
listed in huzzar regiment, and, in the
strength and wildness of youth, began
a reckless course. One day friendly
old Sergeant said to him, as he was
marched to the guard room You'll
destroy yourself, youngster, if you
don't stop. The next time the Colonel's
in bad humor he'll court-martial you,
and you'll be logged" The word chung
to O'Reilly's mind and appalled, him
into steadiness. But, unlike the Eng
lish brother in literature, he regards
the "cat" with horror, and considers
its use more degrading and demoraliz-
ing on soldiers who witness it than
would be the death of the defaulter.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13
The Wonders of Science.

1t is curious how narrow-mindeds some
men are, and how little they care about
subjects calculated TO broaden and fit
their mental faculties Such man
was half asleep on the bench at the
Union depot when tall stranger with
a very short linen buster on sat down
beside him and said:
"Have you calculated the pressure
per square inch which you exert on this
bench %
The sleepy man scowlcd as he looked
up, aud then turned away as if he didn't
want to hear any more.
Don't you know" continued linen
buster, whether it is dead weight or
force of gravitation which permits you
to rest on that bench2'
"No sir" was the emphatic an
swer.
"What is the attractive power of
earth? What force is exerted by the
law of gravitation on feet the size of
yours? Let us figure a moment"
81 don't want TO hear you talkP'
snapped the other as he sat up. | am
waiting for train"
"So'm l." said linen buster, land
that opens subject for new thought.
Do you know the weight of air displaced
by train, moving at the rate OF thirty
miles an hourg
"No, sir, [ don't care! I'm in no
moo for talking"
Suppose" remarked linen buster,
as he squinted his left eye at the sun,
"that you are walking at the rate of
six miles an hour, do you wish to know
what pressure the air exerts upon your
forward movement? Lend me your
lead pencil and / will figure"
81 won't do it; and tell you again
don't want to be talked to!" was the
fierce reply.
"Do you know how long it would
running at the rate of one mile a min
ute?" softly asked linen buster.
See h re, I'll knock your head of
If you don't go away from me -
"You, sir, weigh about one hundred
and sixty pounds and have well devel-
oped muscle; but do you know how
much force is exerted in knocking down
a human being, and the force of atmos-
pheric pressure to be overcome before
your fist reaches his fistF'
"Pve stood your sass just long enough,
and now you leave or I'll mop the
ground with you'll" shouted the narrow
minded man as he jumped up and spat
on his hands.
care not the wonders of science in
teresting to your"
No sir"
And don't you care to know that the
sum is 256, 000-T'
mo sir no sir 9''
"Or that that the moon exercises an
influence
"No, sir-go off don't care-go
away-you're liar and a fraud"
The man with the linen buster with
drew few feet to lean against the wall
and the other went back to his narrow
minded and selfish interests. While
the latter dozed aud thought Of nothing
higher than ham and eggs, the former
picked up an old nail and softly fig
ured out the the distance travelled by a
fathers arm in giving his son an old
fashioned whaling.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

THE latest number of the Scientific
american contains the picture of an in
vention that will do more to promote
domestic happiness than anything that
has been constructed for many year.
1t is an automatic fre-lighter. 1t is a
simple arrangement that can be fitted
into any clock so that the fire can be
lighted at any desired moment The
inventor lives at Homestead, Iowa,
which is certainly an appropriate name
for the place where an article of such
value to all homesteads originates. The
clock can be set so as to light the fire
say at o'clock in the morning, and the
alarm set SO that half an hour afterward
the inmates of the house are aroused
from their slumbers, not to have a
heated discussion about whose duty it
is to light the fire, but to heated house
instead, which is much more pleasant.
No doubt the first result of the intro
duction of this useful invention will be
the marked decrease in the number of
divorces issued.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

A RATHER important question con-
nected with women has just been set
tied at Boston. Attempts have fire.
quently been made to secure the adj
mission of female practitioners into the
State Medical Society, but New Eng
land conservatism was too cold and rigid
to permit such novelty. A progress
sive spirit, however, has obtained more
and more weight among the younger
members of the society, and at late
meeting of the Council the Board of
Censors solved the whole problem by
quietly ordering the examination of
all candidates for admission without re-
gard 10 sex. 1t is not probable, how
ever, that for the present this change
will lead to any large infusion into the
society Of the feminine element, as the
concession will not be able to combat
the feeling of opposition which still in
fuences the older members and creates
a hostile atmosphere. 1t is in the break
ing down of the first barrier that the
women practitioners of Massachusetts
recognize the value of victory, and
hey are contented to wait for the rest.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13
Is Professor Wise Still Alive?

The friends of Professor Wise, the
aronaut, in st. Louis, were thrown into
a state of intense excitement lately by
the reception of letter from Zenas
Tanner, of Metropolis City, Illinois, in
closing note which was found in
bottle at point between Metropolis
and Paducah, KY, on the 18th inst.
The note reads as follows:
PATH FINDER, Ohio River, Nov. 2-2.30 P.
M.--Paducah, KY; going at the rate of IS
miles, Southeast, per hour. p. +. in bad con
diticn. / am almost dead with exhaustion
and hunger; ii days since Burr's death .
Goodbye. WISE.
Those who are familiar with the miss
ing mans handwriting say that were it
not for the date of the note, and the local
ity in which it was found, they would
swear that Wise wrote it. He always
capitalized the F in Pathfinder, and it
is so in the manuscript. 1t is not prob
able, however, that the story will be
generally credited.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13
Enthusiastically Small Man.

New YORK Herald butotAi.l
The last lecture of the course with
which Professor Proctor is instructing
and delighting astonished thousands
was upon the vastness of time. The
subject is one upon whick many men
think they know something. The time
during which the ash barrels of certain
city districts remain unemptied is often
pronounced vast, and that in which
thousands of creditors of defunct saw
ings banks have waited for dividends
is vaster, but neither approaches in
duration the time consumed by the
earth in getting ready for business,
We are told that for trihe of one hun
bred million years the world has been
dependent upon the sun for light and
heat, but that previously it had spent
more than three million years in cool
ing down to a degree which justified
it in accepting assistance from Its near
est warm-hearted neighbor Three
hundred million years is quite ase-
spectacle amount of time to consume
in reducing heat. After such vast
periods the duration of man, the boast
full 'lord of creation, is simply nothing,
and man the individual is many thou
sands OF times less, while his assump-
ton that the globe has been glowing,
wasting, cooling for countless cycles
and icons merely to afford temporary
resting place for a lot of two-footed
mites is arrogant to a degree which
even a custom House Inspector over a
gile of trunks never attained to. Mans
insignifcance is further shown by his
manifest inability to prevent the earth
one day becoming the mere dingy Gin
der that the lecturer assures us it must
finally be. The earth being mere
speck in the solar system, and the sys-
tenn itself a wee, lonesome cluster of
stars whirling on the outer edge of R
system infinitely greater, it behooves
man to be modest. 1t matters not
whether he finds the root of his genoa
logical tree in Adam or in protoplasm,
for the gardener of Eden, with his
nine hundred and thirty years of life,
died mere baby if his age is to be
compared with that of the still inn
mature earth, while protoplasm it
self was, we are told, a mere accidental
outcast from matter. The more Profess
sor Proctor tells us the more infinitely
small man appears.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

The heirs of the late w. S. O'Brien,
of San Francisco, are in the unfortunate
position of being rich without being
able to lay their hands upon their
wealth. The estate, amounting to
$4,000, 900, was ready for distribution,
when man by the name of Burke
brought suit against J. G. Flood, the
estate of w. s. OBrien and others for
something over $3S,000,Q00, and the
distribution of the OBrien estate was
thereupon stopped. This suit may not
be settled for years and the O'Brien
heirs may, in the meantime, build air
castles and lay plans for disposing of
their wealth when they get it.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

IT is understood that friendly suit
will soon be brought to test the right of
the Post Office Department to detain
the correspondence of lottery dealers.
This is an important question, inyolv-
ing points which she uld be settled
as speedily as possible. The opinion of
Attorney General Devens is in direct
conflict with the orders issued by POST
master General Key-but the latter
must be obeyed by postmasters until re-
yoked or overruled, without regard TO
consequences.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

AN interesting case has just been de-
cided under the Civil Damage Law in
Massachusetts,. 1t was the first action
brought under the law, and resulted in
a verdict of 5000 in favor of the plain
tiff, policeman, who was badly hurt
by a drunken man whom he was at
tempting to arrest for drunkenness
Under this law the saloon-keeper who
sold the liquor, and not the man who
drank it and committed the injury, is
held responsible for the damage done.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

The New York fishery laws prescribe
penalty of ten dollars for catching
bass weighing less than half a pound.
Disciples of the gentle Walton should
affix to their lines some such notice as
this: /" Beware of hooks! Bass under
one half pounds weight positively for
hidden on these prcmisesW This would
put the young fry at their own peril,
and should they persist in trespassing in
the face of this inhibition, let their
papas pay the fine.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

THE marriage of King Alfonso, of
Spain, to the Archduchess Marie Chris
tine, occurred on the 29th in the palace.
Special representatives from France,
Italy, Germany and England presented
their credentials and presents to the
King on the day preceding the cere-
mony. The festivities lasted four days:
upon the first, the marriage ceremony,
tie second, reception at the palace,
and gala performance at the oper
and on the third and fourth days, two
bull fights, State concert, Examinations,
banquet at the palace and gala per-
formances at the theater.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

THE latest tramp dodge to get food
without work was developed at Worces-
ter, Mass, where a number of the fra
ternity presented themselves with red
flags at the various houses, and explain
ing they were fagmen on the Boston
and Albany Railroad, asked for food,
as they had forgotten to take their din
ners with them,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

A FIGURING mill now in course of
erection at Minneapolis, Mimi, for
capacity and size, will surpass anything
of the kind on the continent. 1t is to
have capacity of 5000 barrels of flour
per diem and storage for 100, 900 bushels
of wheat
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

SENATOR Hill, of Colorado, thinks
that Indians who are willing to work
should be fed; Indians too lazy to work
should have no rations issued to them,
and none of them should be permitted
to own or use firearms; and further,
that if an Indian robs or kills another
he should be indicted and tried in a
United STATES Court.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

The School Committee of Boston
have voted, subject to the approval of
the City Council, to appropriate $1,000
for fitting up and maintaining an In
dustrial Institute, for the discovery of
natural aptitudes," and the education
of young mechanics"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

THOSE gentle pets of the Interior
Department, the Utes, who have been
examined as to their knowledge of the
Meeker massacre, are good witnesses.
None of them know anything about the
bloody work, and feel bad that they
should even be suspected as the muir
derers, Notwithstanding that they car
rIed off the women and children. Can
that joke be carried any farther?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

FoRTY-FoUR and four. tenths per cent.
of the white people who took the yellow
fever during the late epidemic in Mem
phis are said to have died of the blacks,
16 610 per cent died. There were al
together ,537 cases Of fever and 487
deaths, total death percentage of
1850.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

GERERT GERKEN, of New York, is at
present suing the proprietors of New
York hotel for $3.50 which he says
was left in the pocket of coat he in
trusted to their care. Gerken once
gained similar suit against the Adams
Express Company and recovered s., 000
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-13

AN epidemic of scarlet fever is max
ing extensive ravsges in Springfield,
illinois, and stringent measures are
be ing taken to prevent its spread, even
To the closing of the schools and the
stopping of funerals.