Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-08
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1879

able length by his business managers in Eng
land. and whether true or simply as den
ferrous advertising dodge it is now asserted
that he has so charmed the Englishmen with
the eloquence of his convoluting arms, legs
hair, ears and jaw that his own people will
be left to seek some other attraction.
The current number of Huper's Weekly
contains an article on the recent doings OF
the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York, which cmbody some remarkable facts
and figures. Ii shows among other things
that during 1873 the company paid out to the
survivors of its policy holders the enormous
sum of three and II half millions of dollars.
Its aggregate capital has now attained II
magnitude some twenty five per cent greater
than all the capital Of the banks of the
metropolis, being in the aggregate eighty
seven millions of dollars. 1t is the largest
financial corporation known to exist, IT'S
policies outstanding securing life insur-
ance equal in amount the entire issue OF the
National bank currency alloat
Poverty and the willingness To run heavy
risks for light gain have caused the death,
or, at any rate, the asphyxiaiion of Il brave
man. He was diver by profession, and
was employed for the munitcent sum of ten
dollars, out of which he had TO pay his us
sistants, to attach acable To an anchor which
had been lost in recent collision in the har
Dor. He had been down two minutes, when
the air pipe, which he knew TO be weak, but
was too poor to replace before his last de
scent, burst with Il loud report Ills com
rades hauled him up very quickly, and fran
ticaly dashed off the glass mask under which
he was suffocating. He gasped heavily, and
then, as they thought, expired. According
to some physicians the case was by no means
hopeless, but it was SO thought by the by
ISLANDERS, and no attempts at resuscltatlon
were made. On the contrary, the irliiains
were speedily placed in an ice-boN where
all possibilities of revival were Of Course al
once extinguished. Since the recent evI-
dence of Professor Van Der Weyde in court,
in the Cox-IIull murder case, the uncharlt-
able are beginning to say that the undcrtakers
are killing more people.than even the doctors
surely an unworthy jibe al two deserving
classes Of citizens.
line northern PORTIONS vi Nldhlhiltau ioIdHN
are being built up with remarkable rapidity,
and business people generally seem encour-
aged with the conviction that we have at
last seen the worst of the results OF the panic
of 1873, and that We have entered on an era
of renewed prosperity. What is held to be
a significant feature, one of the straws which
show the way the wind blows, is the won
derful impetus lately given TO immigration,
eliminating in 1872, it fell off tremendously,
but has started up very briskly now. Men
nonjtes from Russia, mostly well supplied
with money, and Ilelanders, scarcely less
thrifty, have just TOUCHED aur shores, and
been whirled West by the earliest trains,
while the bone and sinew and brain of Eng
land has for the frs! time rivalled the influx
of Irish and Germans.
John Brady, the oldest printer i'll America,
and veteran of 1872, who remembers Hor
ace Greeley when, raw boy, he applied FOL
work at the Euening Post has just been
carried To his long home. The old heroes are
| diminishing fast in numbers, aud their an
nual feasts at the Sturtevant House are very
| pathetic festivities. Yours, ID