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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-28

The revised estimates of the Secretary of
the Treasury give $4,000 for improving
Burlington harbor aud Sc, 900 for Swanton.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-28

The Subscription price OF the Daily FREE PRESS
TINES is EIGHT DOLLARS per year; Two Dollars
per quarter; Eighteen cents per week. Single
copies Three Cents.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-28
nCMOR ON A CHILD
SINCE Birth CTeEB. AFTER FAITHFUL MEDICAL
TREATMENT HAD FAILED.

Mess WEEKS 4 POTTER Gentlemrn.-My hti!e
sOE. two years Of age, has had huuor On one side
Of his face since he waa born which during the lst
four months has spread over the entire sdt 81 Inc
face, the chin. ear, and side OF the heal II must
have iirhed and irrltated him a great deal a. ne
scratched the surface all the time no mat
matter what was applied. usei many remedies
10y advice of friends and nv physician without
benefit until found CUTICURA, which immediately
aliayrd the itching AMI Inflammation ana entirely
cured hun. Respectfully.
JOHN l.. ST REI.
Wuh WalwOfth Manufacturing TO
Boston, April Is. ISIS.
NOTE-Once cured the skin mas he rendered soft
and fair by using the CuticUTd Soap exclusively :or
toilet o. nursery purposes
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-28

SASFoEb'S JAHAitA GI%GER, tor the traveller or
for IN" household. Is nu' cuuillci a. a delicious
safe and reliable remedy los any Others know ii To
druggists. Nov ~, we'd, sitANlt
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-28

A QUIcKENED CoNsCIENCE. About ten
Years ago the buildings Of person residing
in town some forty-fivc miles from Mont
pelier were damaged by fire 10 the amount
Of about one hundred and fifty dollars. and
clothing 10 the value Of fifty dollars was
burned. They were insured in the Farmers
Mutual and the case was duly settled and no
more thought OF 1t. ON Friday last the per-
son drove TO Montpelier, appeared before the
insurance company and gave himself up,
stating that he made 4 false statement OF the
losses sustained by the fire, and that he set
the fire himself TO RAISE money to make II
payment on his place. lie had recently ex-
perienced religion and his mind could not be
at rest until he had made clean disclosure
of the whole thing to the company and set
tied for the same. Although poor man,
with large family to support, he had come
all this distance 10 give himself into the
hands of the law The matter was satisfac-
torily adjusted and he departed for home a
happier man.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-28

KILLS HIMSELF THEoUGH DEsPoNDENCY.
The Brattleboro Rcornaer gives the fol
lowing account of the suicide at Hinsdale,
n. H., of George Arnold of this city: lie
had attended a Temperance meeting during
the evening and the deep fit of dependency
which had enveloped him for some time, was
very much increased by the speakers allu-
sions to "a mothers boy" 4 friend from
Keene slept with him, and was awakened in
the night by ArnOld's striking lamp, when
he said: I'm no mothers boy; | can't
stand tins any longer" and seized his pistol
and shot himself diagonally through the
heart from the right breast killing him in
s;antly. Whether he was only partially
awake, or his melancholy had been intens-
fed into something like insanity, it is i'm
possible TO tell.
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injurious preparations. hui ltA al one" III NJ =
REMEDY. which has stood TIE test at - Wears.
LATE HOME TESTIMONY.
100 Westminster -; PEoXIpESCE. Il. l.. ur!. l& i,.J.
wv. l.. tLNEEE-p1r Sir: have suffered very
much with ny hidut and Liver Tor years In jan
uary. l>.9, grew WORSE. hodt!ng lruriuy. NN
physicIu OF The best in Providence, wished Iuc
10 tr IN MS REMEDY. a. safe and reliable. a.
he hid known ii to cure kriucy Diseases when ali
other u.rrinrs h.ii failed lid 50. amt IA twenty
i"ur huu'a | pas 'i four or i've gallons OF water.
The hlndt was removed, AMI the great relief made
M" i"rl q well man. Were u not i"r lit ~ =
kENLrI Tyuli NOT nc alive to-day.
T. SIIEPARnSbN.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-28

ailctr iy IT, .l EXHIBIT any OF the following! anec-
Defective Evc.irbt In!Iimcd and aIattery
Res, Painful and Watcry Eyes, Loss of
I-aring, EGraclc, Neuralgia of the Far.
Discharges from tho Ear. Ringing Noises
In the Head, Dizziness. Nervous Headache.
Pains in the Temples. Loss of the Senses of
Taste and Smell, Eiong1tion of the Uvuia.
inflammation Of tho TonSils, rutrid Sore
'T:,raai, Tickling or Hacking Cough. Bron-
.hi;is, and Bleeding of the Lungs.
I'll, r,c,.l-r contains Dr. Sanford's Improved In.
.,, It. " 10 fall and carefully prepared directions
rus. IN all cases Price 81. For sale by all wholesale
D.. W retail druggists and dealers throughout the Uned
. n : and CaIndns. WEEKS u POTTER. General
s,.l.ts and Wholesale Druegi Boston, Mass.
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Il the most economical rorm of Washing Soap
All bar or square cikcl wear down in 10
large fat piece, too thin TO handle and,
therefore, wasted; while the OVAL CAKE OF
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AGENTS READ THIS I!

We want All Agent ia This County To whom We
will paw salary of sion pei month and expenses 10
sell uur wonderful invention. sample free. Ad-
dress at once. SHERMAN = co. MARSHALL, Mich
igan.-Nov Il, -dGTiU
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They destroy all ten

They destroy all ten
dency 10 Inflammation by
= drawing from the system
morbid or uuwholesOme
matter, thus preventing or
curing rheumatism, Neural
iru over the pit Of the s,om-
It. AMI Liver Pains, Infldmma-
Kidneys. Bilious Colo. Dys-
ramps and Pains.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-28
THIS year Christmas day falls On Thurs
day The Old rhyme SAYS

II Xmas day ON Thursday boz.
A WINDY winter ye shall see:
windy weather IN each week.
Aud hard tempests strong aud thick
The summer shall bee good and dry,
Corn and beets shall multiply:
That year Is good for lands 10 III.
Kings and princes shall die by skill
III a child born that day shall he.
II shall happen right well FOR he
OF deeds he shall he good aud stable,
Wise Of speech and reasonable
whose that day goes thieving about,
He shall he punished without dpubf
And II sickness that day betide,
il shall quickly from thee glide
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CHICAGO. ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC +. n.
THE GREAT CONNECTING LINK BETWEEN THE EAST AND TIE VIZ

SMOKING; SALOON where vuH Oh ...t."
Havana ut all nuuts ~ ta.' ,.fr
MAGNIFICENT Iron BRIDGES span g.. NJ .-f
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NOTE.-Ii is only the iaisyeaI of rs' posted. and
it'ise,fi.h hys,ciI.s who can afford 10 prescribe
tins remedy. Experience Ia. proved this. The
highest class medical men IN every large city where
It l. known recommend It,
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Trade Mark Registered TO Careful Hpusckccpers,
not only as superior I'm quality. hut Us III form
tho most economical Sap nov mRd".
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Dr.. 4. SHERMAN


YUEK. and t. MIlk STREET. BOSTON.
In ..,r-.i.,,. a., tb.. ,,..,t demand for Dir !
SIrruar- r,, -nnl services. he divides HI, time
yrt N,M e Wan,, nI Tn ,s avs"
and m h1,lIn W We, Tprs , An' fr'lay9
The fame ui pr. sherman. ari-n" from In, great
a iac N c ' ran,,S. rD ,e ."r ad i- -
po>irrs To- ,,i'-,n, ln'la,. w., a. III; HhrIln'n;
tile "Iislni' ~ ~. 'll' - I,' que i" I'sS ~
W AMI II, INNS , ,,, %iyIa I %HS ,s VIZ III
va Ta's a%Ps ana a I'm M as 9's S NoE9sp s
dress Il. u. I'll SELL. \ 60. ful'-, - tornhll
Boston. ", =, ia tW
buno Plhn. '.''%n al ... , 'la Ia
IA ..,n. f i.r, iyiir ii@iit4on
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ZO with name. iocis. NASSAU evan Co, Nassau.
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SII outlr irre. Shaw a o., NGea.la: Nalne.
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. a. ,nXEI,1.f~I-t.. ..,ti 10, ...its f- 1ta, ,,,,
pamphlet: a,l about ,'r"-lHwra AiVrrishG.
-, .,...,-
'PEOPLE > DRU SIORE Il,
~" $50. uncut "'
suitable l't ihr II'tus a"l canning -'fis"h
Sept -. dr"itWi
Winter GERM. tr.i,,, U,c,mbrr I'd,
,r,,,,-n ,,,,. ~ m, ,rs
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"Nith' MIND
TTpDNnln nOlI1pDUNrp OprINADV
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-03-14
why she stopped Her paper.

She came bouncing through the
sanctum door like a cannon bail, withs
out pausing to say, "How dye do?'
and brought her umbrella down Oh the
table with a mighty crash and shouted
Il want you to stop my paper2
Cali right, madame.
stop it right Off she persisted
whackiog the table again, "lor have
waited long enough fof you to DO the
square thing"
She quilted down for mamcnt, and
we ran our finger down the list OF
names aud when reached hers and
scratched it out she said:
There, now, mebbe you'll do as you
ought to after this, and not slight a
woman jes' cause she's poor If some
rich folks happen to have little red
headed, handy legged, squint eyed,
whey squalor born to them, you
puff it up to the skies, and make it
out an angel; but when poor people
have baby you don't say a word
about it even if 1t is the squarest toed
uobbicst little kid that ever kept a
woman awake at nights That's what's
the matter and that's why I stopped
my paper
And she dashed out as rapidly as
she came
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-03-14
some Extraorainry Hogs

The New York Sun gives an ac
count of sixteen hogs raised near
Bordetown, n. j. The respective
weights of these hogs, dressed. were
$50, 792, 7S6; 695' $40, G33, GIG GIG
606, 500; $50, Gil, SOC, $50 and 536,
az average Of 6434 pounds and total
of 10,29l pounds,
Nothing is said about the breed Of
these extraordinary hogs, but the
following 10 regard to general care and
feeding will be read with interest by
hog growers.
How do they feed the hogs after
they lose their sight and get so fat
that they can't stand up?"
"Well, up there in Bordentown
there is considerable rivalry in hogs
and are cared for about as we'll as race
horses are down in Kentucky Mr.
Carter has men watching his hogs dag
and night. 10 cold weather they are
blanketed, and at ali times they are
fed as often as they want food. Balls
Of corn meal which has been scaldcd
are forced into their mouths and as
long as they are willing or able to
swallow them the supply is kept up.
They are allowed little cold water
to drink, but not much. When they
get good fattening cross they make
a great secret of ii, and allow no one
in their confidence to approach their
hog pens"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-03-14
EEe Get EEis Liquor

Derrick Dodd tells the following
good story 1t was sad looking
tramp, with panied expression of
face, that entered Suffer street bar
room, the other day holding in his
band a small, battered red canister.
Look at this" he said, Sorrowtully
Il went into a gunshop and begged for
something to eat, and the mean man
handed me this can Of powder. lie
said I could go SHOOTING starving
man 90 shooting just think of it ~
"Well, mizz!e retortcd the bar
keeper, who had just set up four fancy
drinks for a rev of customers
Il pledge you ny word said the
vagraut, holding thccau within az inch
of The open stove I'm so miserable
I've almost mind to blow myself q p. "
Dare you to do Il, said one of the
by ISLANDERS, wiuking at the crowd
The wrecked party gave a sad, lin
geriug look a; the poured out liquor
as that he might ne'er behold again,
and tossed in the can.
The yell that the whole crowd gave
as they started fer the other side OF
the street was heard on Telegraph hill.
When they fled in about tea niuuies
after the empty can did not explode,
there were four empty glasses on the
counter. the lunch table was an empty
mockery, and the till looked like a
savings bank on the day after really
large deposit.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-03-14
AsEUsESgElNTs.
EseecTser's E'Ecss for Base ES4iE,
boating, Dancins, Thea
sers and Billiards..
I New York Tlmcs. ]


A lecture on "Amusements, deliver
cd by Rev. Henry Ward Beeohcr last
evening, at Lexington avenue Opera
house, was a source of amusement 10 a
very large audience, and of profit to
the Northeastern dispensary, for the
benefit of whose treasury it was given
Mr.. Beecher commended the bail
field, boating, running and billiards as
means TO amuse aud make happy the
tired man. Woe be TO the man, he
said, who refills from the cup God
gives US the wine all around aud above
US with whies to refill the exhausted
fountains of vitality. Frivolity was a
good thing at times. lie would rather
have il than the saintliness which is
like a heavy wagon body that presses
down upon the axle, and is heavily
jolted by every small pebble over
which the wheels ROLL FrivolitY may
then be likeued to springs put under a
wagon body. Returning to his discus
sion of exercises, be SAID each man
must choose the one adapted to over
come the weakness caused by his BUSH
ness. 1t would be absurd for letter
carrier, after his'day's work, to take a
long constitutional" VIVA; he wants
is company, eheerfulneas, pleasant sur
Toundings, while he rests. 1t would
be equally absurd for a man engaged
ali day upon some absiruse problem to
engage at night in game of chess,
taxing his mental faculties still more
For him should be tie car, the walk
the dance. Men ought to choose their
exercises, their amusemen;s, as they do
their food. What disagrees with them
must be avoided Mr. Bcecher belicv-
ed in the theatre, the opera, ard a
hundred other forms Of amusement.
but each Of them is not adapted to the
use Of all men. Dancing is good
when 4 man also does something be-
sides dance, and card playing is .
healthy amusement If one does not
make a business of it. Billiards, he
also believed in, and he would like to
have-a billiard table put in the house
hold Of every we'll to do family What
are wanted are more billiard tables in
proper places, aud fewer in improper
places. He gave al amusing accoun;
of his visit to the first billiard tourna-
ment held in this city twenty years
ago, aud of the wonder caused by his
appearance thereat Referring to the
controversy which has been carried on
by advocates of the pulpit and of the
stage, he wished to heaven it would
cease, and that both pulpit and stage
should be permitted to 90 on and be
judged by their results. No man should
be allowed to carry a conscience for
his fellows. In conclusion, he pleaded
for home pleasures, aud warned his
hearers against compelling young peo-
pie to go clandestinely IN search OF
amusement.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-03-14
The Romance OF a LOTTERY
fs'fERef

Two beautiful actresses 10 Vienna
who had been intimate friends quar-
reied and had their case up in court,
and the result was that one Of them
rot judgement against the other loT
ten thousand marks. One of the fair
ones had sweetheart, handsome
Young art studen ut, whom she adored,
bat who went back on his vows in a
most Theseus-like manner; at which
The deceived girl went into tears and
began tearing up his letters, when
suddenly from the mass Of Mss, lot.
terry ticket dropped. Her fair friend
was standing by in vain trying to con
sole Mile Emile, which was the for
saSen oue's name, ard when the lot
terry ticket fell she impIored her friend
with tears not to throw it away.
Then you can take it, for I will
have nothing that came from that
horrid, deceitful wretch.
Her friend took it aud after admin-
istering some more female consolation
went home. Two days after that NJ lie
Emile saw in the paper, which she
always reads before getting up
that the number of that ticket
had drawn FIVE thousand marks
She took the curl papers out Of her
hair and dressed herself in three min
ties Instead Of two hours as was her
wont, and skipped to the room Of her
friend saying, Il want nay lottarly
ticket"
You mean you want your Eve
thousand marks; but you can't have
II my dear, because We got it under
The pillow now You gave me the
ticket and the prize is mine,
The porter heard a fgst class whirl-
wind going on upstairs and recipro-
cal compliments of "audacious mink
aud immoral hussy," had ran up in
time to see one young lady in a
nymph like scarcity Of dress standing
iu the middle of floor covered with
back hair, eufl-papers and other eyi~
dences Of recent battle At the same
moment Nile Emile arrived similarly
a,iired, in the street through the win
dow. She brought suit tor damages
and got exactly the amount of tie lot
terry ticket; aad the strange adven'
t1re so interested the false lover that
he returned, renewed his VOWS, Dor
rowed the five thousand marks and
left. So that Mile Emile lost her
lover, her friend and her money and
is now wiser If not q better girl.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-03-14
How Boys Can Wake Money.

Thinking perhaps to encourage boys
who do not altogether like father 5
ways. and We often wonder whether he
=sed to pick stones, or pull weeds or
hoe potatoes all day in the hot sun
while he was boy, when there was so
much fun, and perhaps mischief, wait.
ing for just such boys Now, boys,
although you may 5elooking anxiously
towards your cousin who clerks 10 the
city, who has fine clothes and appar-
emily an easy time, but don't be de-
ceived, it is too often a delusion. l
will tell you how | managed to go
through with such life and yet man.
aged 10 drive trade on my own ac~
count. Before ] was twelve years old
| had saved seven dollars and a half
by cutting and saving wood, and by
making fires in a ncighboring church
In the mouth of February | obtained
the consent Of nay parents to 20 to a
man who had lately brought flock Of
sheep on his place, and buy as many
sheep as I could with my seven dollars
and a half. The man was a kind,
honest farmer, and picked out three
ewes that suited my fancy. we put
them in a sleigh. and drove home the
proudes. | have ever been in my life
Father told he before | bought them
that if | would take care Of item he
would give me the feed We had
never kept sheep. and did not know
how TO care for them but we had a
hired man who helped me the best he
could, and with orr combined efforts
they grew finely. La March was
wonderfully pleased. one morning, to
find , nice little lamb running around
with its mother. Soon | greeted She
advent Of another, aud finally two
more. was now a proud boy, the
happy owner Of seven head all told
They grew finely, and in July sold
them all for twenty-onc dollars, and
che wool for FIVE more-making in all
q return of twenty six dollars for my
first business ycnture.-T W. Goodrich.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-03-14
Peni,entIary for aise plan.
( Frankfort Woman. 7

There are now in the peniteniiary
in The neigh borhood of fifty men who
are sentenced for life. This is about
one hundred per cent. more than we're
ever before 10 the prison at QUO time.
1t grows out of the law which gave to
the courts the right 20 determine
whether a murderer should suffer death
'or imprisonment for life. Il is dis
cretionary with jury which punish
ment it will infiict after the accused is
found guilty, aud the result Is, in nine
eases out Of ten, that the death penalty
Is not enforced. at the present rate,
IN the course of ten years, there will
be men enough who are convicted for
life to completely Gil the peuiteutiary
as 1t now stands. In one view this will
be calamity to the State, but IN
another view it ought 10 be considered
blessing. Before the late revision OF
the statutes the death penalty only
could be enforced 10 capital cases, and
the verdict Of guilty was necessarily
followed by the gibbet; but, unfortuo
nately, 1t was rare thing that this
verdict was reached, on account of the
indisposition of juries to inaiet the
penalty, and the criminal was diss
charged and allowed to go at large and
commit other crimes. The revisor IN
dertook to cure this by giving the
discretionary power to the jury, aud
the number of convictions for life since
ITS enactment is good evidence OF the
wisdom of the law. There will, how
ever, DC problem to solve before many
years, and that is: What will Ken
lucky do with her life prisoners? Either
the prison system will have 10 undergo
change, or we must see the advent of
some Governors who are inclined to be
very mereifui.