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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05
PERSONAL.

Rev. DR.. William Ives Buddington, former
pastor of the Clinton Avenue Congregational
church in Brooklyn, is dead. a little more
than two years ago a cancer made its appear
ance on his lip, and it was tree times opcr-
a,ed upon, but reappeared after each opera
ton in more troublesome form. He went
to Europe and to Boston and was there treat
ed for the disease last fall On his return
the cancer spread over his chin, when he be-
came weak and debilitated. lie leaves 4
Il wife aud six children.
Brevet Brigadier- General Jefferson {.
Davis of the United States Army died at
Chicago, Sunday. of pneumonia. lie was
born in Indiana about the year 1928, and was
only l6 years old when he enlisted for the
war with Mexico. lie acquitted himself so
crcditably in that war that on june IL, ISIS,
he was commissioned rs Second Lieutenant
of the First Regular Artillery. On February
Goth, 1852, he was promoted to I've FIRST
Lieutenant of Company L, First Regular
Artillery, and rs such was stationed at fort
Sumter when that work was bomharded.
The first gun fired in defence OF the mon
flag was fired by his hand on the morning oil
April 10, 1861. At the battle of Pea Ridge,
he commanded the Third Division of Cultis'5
army and earned promotion to the rank oil
Brigadier General of Volunteers. Alter
ward he was attached to Gen. Buelrs army
of the Ohio, and becoming i'll returned 10 his
home On rejoining the forces, the advance
of Bragg into Kentucky caused him To find
his command ut Louisville, where he came
under the command Of Major General VII.
liam Nelson, with whom he had personal
quarrel on September ~, 1862, shooting him
dead lie was arrested, but there was no
evidence ON which to hold him for trial by
court-martial Tried by the civil authorities
he was acquitted the verdict being very gen
orally approved. In December, 1862, ten.
Davis was connected with the Army "i he
Cumberland, under Gen. RoSecrans, ana at
the battle of Murfrcesboro commanded the
Ninth OF Centre Division of Gen. McCo"k $
corps. During February, 1863, he pursued
the rebels who had attacked Fort Donelson,
and ON his return brought with him 80 prs
oners and subsequently rendered other I'M
portant service, being brevetted Major Gen
eral of Volunteers and Brigadier General in
the regular army. After the war he became
Colonel of the 23d Regiment, United states
Army.
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student has eaten humble pie. They 10 not
admit that they have done wrong. They
are back on probation, it is true hut, as be-
tween them and the faculty, it is mutual
probation, for the students have taken care
to proclaim that they go back TO await a IRE
organization OF the faculty" II that is re-
constructed to suit them they will stay
till some occasion arises when they may see
fit to practically abolish some other college
rule by means of their new process of vol
untary suspension" which is simply rebel
lion. The result is n virtual decision that
the final appeal in cases of discipline in Mid
dlebury College, is 10 the students and the
proper corollary should be provision in the
new edition Of the college laws which the
bows are awaiting, that future infrac,ions OF
college rules shall be reported to the students
as a body. who shall in each case vote the
amount of penalty to lie inflicted. Low
things are likely to be at Middebury in fu
! ture. we do not undertake to predict but il
the course pursued in this case by the nomi
nal board OF control ere 10 be accepted a
a precedent generally among the colleges, i
would hc the most serious blow 10 college
discipline and order in general that has beer
inflicted on them in this generation.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05

Charlottesville grand list of this town
for l179 contained the names of l46 residents
liable to poll tax; for 1879 two hundred and
seventy three.
Two foxes in day is not bad for the driv-
ing of one dog-more foxes than hunter,
though.
The death of Homer Clark removed an
old and respected citizen He came here
from Connecticut when young man and
began life working by the month on the
farm owned by him at his decease. With
good business tact he accumulated a COM
Portable fortune, and died enjoying the friend
ship of all who knew him. He was 4 mem
Der of the Baptist church nj East Charlotte,
and had been such for forty Five years, being
one of the deacons a good share of the time,
His wife and eight children survive him.
John Quinlan has taken 4 good deal of
stock 10 Boston markets the past season.
Wilson Williams, Il banker in Vincennes,
Indiana, came here 10 spend Thanksgiving
with his father, J. W. Williams. He returns
this week.
Union service was held in the Congrega-
tional church on Thanksgiving day.
Lyceum at Academy Hall, East Charlotte,
each Friday evening. These meetings are,
as usual, well sustained.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05
NEW ENGLAND NEN y.
THE MAINE ELECTION.

ArGrsrA, Me. Dec 3 Charles Rounds
attorney for the county of Washington, has
addressed letter to the governor and cOun-
ell. Referring to their refusal to allow an
inspection OF he returns ON the ground US
expressed by the governor that M Cunstitu-
tional power exists for making corrections,
Rounds offers on behalf of the republican
senators elect from Washington county, il
the board will open the subject for investiga-
ton. To prove that in case changes have been
made in the returns from the democratic
towns for senators and representatives
that these changes were made 10 supply
defects discovered by surreptitious and pre-
mature openings of the returns and that they
must involve in some form collision or con
nivance of persons connected with the state
government. The witnesses Rounds desires
To have summoned are principally persons
connected with the state government, officers
in the democratic towns and a few others
who have competent knowledge On which to
testify
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NOTES AND NOTES.

,ooor.,;,,r 70 IN. ,.,lJ. all In. fo, is in The
s.o o,,.;n ho,,roan p;,,,,a,,l, and ,be v,ti.
a
The Ncv York Tines u,,ts the losses Of
,he ..lorbs'' in the last Wall street break nj
from, 81 o0o ooo 10 so 600 600
A French comnanv has secured the privi
lece of construc,ine- y railroad in the interior
of Palestine |, will, run from Dan TO
Beershebo
Kentucky dresses the female prisoners in
its State pcntcntia:y in sacks and pants
without skirts. This inforccd wearing Of the
brceches is greatly resented by the women.
The Democrat who runs against the next
ner" ',.hnt liz i' I;, ,Ii.,do E,"raay
pro.;Ion, H., ,,,l, t;s Thorl sewing
,,,,.a,. ,.;,, nh, cin,ns,n -, ph;,odol
VIM
PIMA
Mr. Herph's attention is called TO the bar
n, .,.. aa
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rapids.
-
1cinpora mulantur II "rlhtllN Tue loolsil
virgins had no oil now the foolish virgins
are too free with the Kerosene.
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III H''''i W "'''' ''','
IL t'ie'e ""''u '' "'''s'' '"'" ''N'''S ~
piled, Ne, but there VIII he singing.
Rubins,ein's new dramatic opera of
nero. has lust had an Immense success at
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05
Tsrms-ss.OO n year. aIwaysi in advance.

The Republicans in the House plume
themselves on tine fact that, on the first roll
call of the House, they beat their opponents
on the Democratic side. The vote was taken
on the referenceof Southern warclaim bill,
introduced by Thompson of Kentucky. He
wanted it to go to the Judiciary Committee,
but Conger declared it should go to the War
Claims Committee, and carried his point by
three majority.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05

publish the message, from any source, till 1t
was delivered to Congress, there would be
much less liability to breach of confidence
on the part of INSCRIPTIONS publishers, and
fewer mistakes and omissions. 1t would be
a great pity if the theft of the message this
year should entail on the entire Press of the
country, the trouble and expense of procur-
ing the message by telegraph in future years
If, under . better plan of distribution II
should be found that no reliance can be
placed on the honor of newspaper publishers
it would then be time enough TO abandon al.
together the system of distributing advance
comics II the Press
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05

R1cHMoxD, Va, Dec. 3.-The first hien-
NAL session of the legislature opened to-day.
The readjusters elected all the officers in
both Houses, u vote showing that they will
have an average majority ON joint ballot Of
twenty seven The governors message is
nearly wholly devoted to the public debt.
lie fully endorses the settlement known as
the Mccullough bill, and states that notwith-
standing all agitation looking To II repeal of
the measure which had tendency to check
the bringing in of the old bonds, nearly
eight and half million dollars of old bonds
had already been changed for new ones.
The governors views are very decided that
the money represented in the dclr, large as
it is, is OF little Importance in comparison
with the state credits, and that nothing save
inability can excuse its non-payment. The
governor thinks there is no need of an in
crease of taxation for with proper enforce
mcnt of the present laws the revenues Will
meet the requirements of the Met ullough
act, and leave the handsome surplus in
the treasury.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05
STATE NEWS.

Mrs. Commodore Ellery of Castleton has
Just received the intelligence of the birth Of
her twentieth grandchild.
WArErBrEY, Vt, Nov. ESP. q. Wright
of this place left four weeks ago on an excur
sion To Boston. to return the same week,
since when nothing has been heard from him.
He was not seen at the places he intended Il
visit and the worst is feared. lie WAS book
keeper at Warrcn's tanncry; was about Il
years old, of excellent religious character
and remarkable resemblance 10 Henry Ward
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05
M,nK TwAry saws of the Postmaster Gen


MARK TwAGS says of the Postmaster Cen
erals order which has made so much stir:
II will compel 30. 900. OOO of our people 10
write Il daily average OF ten extra words
apiece - 300, 900, 900 unnecessary words
most of these people are slow-thc average
will he half n minute consumed on each ten
words-15 600, 900 minutes of this Nations
time fooled away every day-say pa ,40o
hours-which amounts 10 about %, OO0 work
ing DAYS of ten hours each; this makes 81
years of 300 working days each, counting
out SUNDAYS and sickncss-S2 years OF TINS
Nations time wholly thrown away every
day. Value of the average mans time, say
81 900 year-now do you see :-So2 UOo
thrown away daily; in round numbers So
600, 900 yearly in ten years, S25O, oOo, 0oo
in n hundred years, =, 500 DOC, 900 in
million years-but have not the nerve to
90 on; Won can see yourself what we are
coming TO. If this law continues in force,
there will not be honey enough in this coun-
try. by and by. TO pay for its obituary-and
YOU mark my word il will need one.
For MANY years it has been Enslands
boast that her postal system is so admirable
that YOU can't so cripple the direction OF
letter that the Postofiice Department won't
manage some way 10 find the person the MIS-
siye is intended for We could say that,
too. once. But we have retired hundred
wears, within the last two months, and now
it is our boast that only the brightest and
thoughtfulest and knowingcst mems letters
will ever be permitted to reach their destlna-
tons, and that those of the mighty majority
Of the American people-thc needless, the
unthinking, the illiterate-will be rudely
shot by the shortest route TO the dead-ietter
hot
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05

IT has been discovered says the Baptist
Weekly, that the identical sermon of DIR.
Parker, which DIR. Lorimer of Chicago has
been accused of plagiarizing from, was
preached verbatim by another Baptist minis
Ter in Canandaigua, n. Y, in June last. His
hearers were SO delighted with the discourse
that they requested it Republication, and the
pilferer had the audacity 10 consent, modest
~ saying in his letter; Il wish that it was
more deserving of the honor you confer upon
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05
SOUTHERN NEWS.


ATLANTA, Ga, Dec, "a strong tenn
perance movement has been inaugurated here
by John Drew of New Hampshire. Three
thousand have bound themselves TO total alb
stinence. Governor Colquitt and other
prominent citizens participated in the move
ment A temperance boom in Georgia may
be tho result Rockdale county voted yes
tcrday in favor of prohibition. Local option
is becoming popular.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS.

WASHINGTON, Dee 3.-The House COM
mittee ON appropriations met this morning
No arrangement of the subcommittee is vet
made The meeting was informal. 4 gen
eral Interchange of views indicated the pur-
pose of the members To perfect the bills as
quickly rs possible The deficiency appro-
priation for the pay OF marshalS and deputies
for the current year received more than in
cedenta attention. Opinions expressed
warrant the statement that this appropria-
tion will be the first to he provided for
A bill was introduced to-day by Senator
Maxey, providing that no person shall be
tried by court marshal for an offence com
mitted more than two years, or in case of
desertion more than three years, before ar
raignment The time of absence from the
United States is excluded in computing the
period of limitation.
The House committee on election, this
morning, canvassed the docket Of con-
tested cases, of which there are sixteen.
The only case in which action was taken was
that of AcCabe. (Dcm.) vs. Orth ,rep) in
the 9th district Indiana. The contestant pc
ttiOned for further time in which to obtain
affidavits The motion was made not to allow
the petition and discussion ensued. The
motion was postponed until Tuesday. Of
the sixteen cases before the committee four
are ready TO be heard, the btiefs being all
printed and the parties in attendance. These
are the cases of Cradley (repD Us. Slemons
tdem. of the second Arkansas district; Bis
bee (rep.) VS.. Hull (dcm. of the second
Florida district Donnelly (dem) vs. Wash
burn rep of the third Minnesota district.
and Curtin (dem) W. Yocum (rep) of the
twentieth Pennsylvania district.
Mr.. Viewers bill provides that the second
auditor of the treasury shall ascertain what
amount of currency was paid TO each soldier
or sailor in the service and ascertain the gold
value of said currency at that time, and the
soldier or sailor or his legal representative
shall then be paid the difference in value
between the currency which he received and
the standard gold coin in which he should
have been paid. with 6 per cent interest
from the date tho soldier or sailor was mus
tered out up to the date Of payment of the
sum found due him by the provisions of this
act. To enable the government to meet
the ST payments the secretary of the treasury
is authorized to issue five hundred millions
le.sal tender notes.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05

MI. Bayard is Il very good man, as good
as other people. He never picked pocket,
or filched from the purse of the Nation. lie
has been, greatly to his credit, consistently
hardl-money man. A very considerable num-
her of voters would be glad TO see him Presi,
dent. He is very strong among those with
whom he is in favor but when it comes tC
talk about actually electing him, he is no
where. lie would be nowhere near carry
ing a majority of the electoral votes. Sher.
man could beat him. Blaine could beat him.
General Hawley could beat him. Almost
any Republican but Grant could beat him.
Nee York Sun.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05

The bungling way in which the distribu-
ton of advance copies of the President.
message has been conducted for two year.
past is simply ineXcusablc. The President
Secretary, Mr. Rogers, entrusted the matter
to the agents of the Associated Press. deliv
erins to them, at Washington, copies Of til,
message, sufficient in number to supply the
daily papers Of the country Last year the
advance copies were supposed to be sent Il
the postmastcrs, to be delivered TO the news
papers. on receipt of Geographic notice that
the message had been delivered TO Congress.
But in many cases no copies were sent.
Postmaster Derby received despatch direct
ing him TO deliver 10 the FEE PEEss the
message in his hands, but he had no copy t.
deliver. Other papers had the same OK.
perience. The omissions cntailcd much an.
noyance and heavy expense upon many pub
fishers. This year the advance copies appear
to have been sent 10 the telegraph Offices ;
and the publishers Of this paper were duly
notified that a copy was in the hands Of
Telegraph Manager nrury, which would
be handed over on receipt Of despatch an
nouncing the delivery Of the message to Con
gress, which would be promptly sent from
Washin gton. We had accordingly an extra
force Of printers ready at O'Clock Monday,
toput the Message promptly intype, intending
to give it to our readers in our evening edi-
ton. The message WAS delivered to Con
gress at $50; but no despatch to deliver the
message came To Mr.. Drury, or could he
obtained by him, ill 6 O'Clock, by which
time it was a matter Of entire Indifference to
US whether he delivered rs his copy or not.
The New York inns, having obtained an
advance copy probably by bribing some
operator or agent Of the Associated Press
published the message in full on Sunday
morning; and it was through the Times
office, and virtually by means Of Il theft, that
the message was given to the Press and pub
lie Of the country.
Surely it cannot he a esyy difficult matter
to arrange a method for the distribution of
the message, which shall not be liable to such
failures. The system Of distribution Of ad-
vance copies is Of great public benefit. The
message gets to the people, in that way, in
much more accurate shape than when tele-
graphed and the plan saves many thousands
of dollars to the newspaper publishers. We
believe that if the advance copies were sent at
once 10 the newspapers, say lhr lugh tie post
masters, each publisher being required before
receiving his copy to sign pledge not to
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05

The Democrats and Greenbackers, who are
harping upon the corruption of the Govern
ment, should ponder the statement of Mr..
Sherman in his report that ''the financial
transactions of the Government during the
past two years, agsregaiing 1884 345, O49.-
50, have been adjusted without question,
with the exception of few small balances
now in the process of collection, of which
the Government will eventually lose less
than S1S 600, or less than four mills on each
s. 900 Of the amount involved"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05

We now learn that our information (re-
ceived from Middlebury that all the students
Were back at work, was not strictly correct.
Young Leavenworth-whose suspension was
the cause of tie rebellion Though, as we
hear, his classmates acted against his advice
in resisting tie infliciion of the penalty
not there bat il suspended for four or five
weeks, and is AT his home. Of course the
refusal of the faculty 10 back down, so far a:
he was concerned. scores one more point fol-
them than we had credited to them.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05

Judge New has obtained consent of the
Secretary of War that claims on file in the
Office of the adiutant- general in Indiana,
known as the Morgan raid claims, may he
transferred in bulk at once TO the war de
partment This will prevent the claims
from being barred by the statute of limta-
tinns.
FROM Orr FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES.
The Consul at Vera Cruz describes many
facts showing unjust and ruinous exlctions
upon vessels coming into Mexican ports from
the United States
The Consul at Para, Brazil. reports that
importations from the uited States incrcaS-
ed as, 900 the last wear The exports TO
the nited States show decrease OF S;Si,-
900 The Consul mentions the irksomc and
expensive manner in which duties are col
lccted in Brazilian ports Brazil exports TO
the United States annually forty 10 .itN
million dollars worth importing about nine
million dollars worth from the nited States
In spite OF the many obstacles variety of
our staple articles might find a market in
Brazil, with proper cNertions on the part OF
our exporters
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05

AxoTHr" murderer cXpi.ted his crime up
On the galowS, ut Windsor last Friday. He
went, as pretty much all murderers now go,
expressing full assurance that he was going
TO Heaven an assurance in the foundation
of which there would be more confidence if
it Lad not been accompanied by lying de-
claration of his innocence. OF such antici-
pations of future hlessedness, on the part OF
men who made life little hellfor themselves
AMI all about them, the world is rather
weary Nagoon was man of peculiarly low
and brutal character His wife and family
seem not to have cared whether he died or
lived, and probably no heart has been sad
dened by his disgraccful death, save as the
heart OF every phianthrophic person must be
saddencd by the evidences of the brutalizing
effect of unres,rained appetites, and by the
retributions which bring 10 view so forci5ly
the sad fact of human depravity.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-05

a NUMBER OF professional gentlemen were
recently interviewed in New York on the
methods of exception of murderers. Prof.
VIM. Darling, of the Medical College sug-
gested that an efiectual way to dispose of GRIM
inals would be 10 introduce an instrument
between the occipital bone and the first bone
of the spinal vertebrp. which would cause
instant death. An easier system, he thought,
would be to put the condemned into room
where there is a charcoal fire. That, he said,
would be, on the whole, the best plan. Prof.
Jno. W. Draper thought that the French
plan of executing by the guillotine was in
many respects the most advisable. He re-
garded the English system as better than
ours, for in that country the hangman
travels around 10 perform his duties,
and is skilled in the business, where
as in this country executions are too
frequently intrusted TO the hands of
reform and prussic acid. Or a man
might be put into an air-tight cell and have
some destructive gas let inwhile he is asleep.
The faucet would be turned on while he was
dreaming, the gas would enter, and he would
die without pain, in sleep. All this is very
fine; but it is doubtful, if such methods
would have the dr,crring influence on Grim
inals of the present method. Murderers are
executed, not simply to get them out of the
way, but to furnish Il warning to would-be
murderers and torcpress violence and crime.
The disgrace attaching to death upon the
gallows is doubtless an appreciable element
in the REFRESHING effect Of such consequences
of crime Tie actual physical pain in
cases Of hanging, when properly conducted,
is probably momentary. The body writhes
and muscles contract but consciousness
probably departs At once, though life may
linger for a few minutes and if all execu-
lions were conducted with the good judg-
ment and efficiency which mark those which
takeplace at Windsor, there would be less
discussion about other methods.