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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-09-11
EARM FOR SALE.


offer my farm Tor sala, situated IN the iowa
~ wnhail. sin miles from Manchester Railroad
station. raid farm consists u CO Aer, ., good
tagar oroh-fd plenty Of fruit. and viii Keep
cove aud team Price f7t0. ALSO = tiInbsr
lot u CO Ecres Aboui miles from Manchester
Station, ~ the ROCKVILLE road For sale cheap.
Address,
u. W. TAFT.
Winhali. VI, May 1871 1879 SAT-
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1879-09-11

NNTANrRD Al old fashioned upright oeek
Wv must have brass tnprks aud be ia god
running oFdet ALSO some old fashioned nr0ok.
cry IN sound condition, Any cue having the
shove articles aud wishing "a dispose ~ them
will please make the fact known By ssndipg word
to the Editor Of the JouRElL, giving name aud
place where they can be ssen. 10
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

AND HOW IT LOOKS TO EASTERN EYES.
The terminus of the Central Pacific Rail
road is at Oakland, where passengers and
baggage are transferred to ierry-bOat which
conveys all on board to the wharf at San
Francisco in about half an hour. There we
are met by the largest and the noisest crowd
of hotel runners that ever met in any other
part of the world. 1t is enough to confuse the
most experienced traveller, to say nothing Of
its effect upon the old lady making her first
journey to u strange city alone.
San Francisco, with its three hundred
thousand inhabitants, is the largest city in
the world Of its age. fact not easily for
gotten. and of which an Eastern man is re-
minded wherever and whenever he meets
hills and their intervales, presenting an
unique appearance from all points where
general views can DC obtained of it. The
buildings are mostly of wood, some two or
three stories high Others loom upward four,
five and six stories high; the streets are
broad. well paved and very many of them
provided with double tracks for the horse
railroad which traverses almost every part of
the city where steep accents are made the
cars are propelled by a stationary engine
and endless wire rope. In number and
elegance of structure, and completeness Of
appointment, the hotels of San Francisco
surpass those OF any other city have visited,
and believe them equal if not superior to
a0y in the world, the Windsor Of New York
and Of Montreal not excepted. The hospi-
tails and other charitable institutions
IN the city are numerous, their buildings
unpretentious in appearance, but provided
with all the attendants and comforts of
home. The shops are attractive in appear
ance, with windows well filed with mer
chandse of all kinds, at prices comparing
iayorably with the East
We have friends here, acquaintances
identified with the city and its growth from
its starting point, who still retain their lose
for the green hills and their respect for the
institutions of Vermont. vet would never
forgive me if did not visit Woodwards gar
dens, drive through the park in embryo
to the beach, to the bluffs and Preside, the
military headquarters, and compare eli
mates, productions. etc. etc. All this
have done-been to Woodward's gardens
where We find good collection OF the
fauna aud fora of the tropics and anti
tropics, consisting oi all sorts and kinds.
instructing and amusing with II small out
lay accessible from all parts of the city,
well worth visiting and repeating. A very
pleasant drive to Preside via the Spring
Valley water works, where the troops are
garrisoned, and II little further On to Blush
Point, the headquarters Of Gen. Mcdowell.
A long row Of pretty cottages with small
gardens planted with shrubs and Towering
plants, surrounded by hedges Of eyergreens
iur protection from winds, are occupied
by the officers and their families u commo-
dious parade ground bordered by barracks
and neatly painted small houses for
soldiers quarters and for the uss OF the ad-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

AN important bill has just been passed by
the House, being that authorizing the issue
of certificates of deposits in aid OF rounding
the public debt. The bill authorizes the
Secretary of the Treasury u Issue, in ex-
change for lawful money ot the United
States, certificates of deposits Of the denomi-
nation of so, bearing interest at the rate of
three per cent, and convertible at any time.
with accrued interest, into the four per cent
bonds authorized to be issued, ana directs
that the money so received shall be applied
only to the payment of the 20 bonds. 1t
is claimed in behalf cf the bill that it will
afford the poore, classes an opportunity of
investing their small earnings where they
would be safe and secure and not subject to
the instability Of private corporations; and
that it will practically make national saw
ings bank, where there would be positive
and absolute security for every dollar depos
tied BY the poorer classes.
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pies while attending to the public bust
ness; he will see occasionallya member
with his boots off, easing his cOrns, andhe
will see much else that will detract
somewhat from his description of an
impressive body. A few years ago
member from one of the southern states,
now happily out of public life, was in the
habit during the sitting of the house of
taking out his false teeth and wiping
them on his coat sleeves and picking
them with his finger nail. Another MEM
ber was in the habit of combing his hair
with a fine-tooth comb while listening TO
speeches. He was very tidy abont it,
and always spread 4 newspaper on his
desk to prevent soiling it with the result
of his labors. A member of the house
from Kentucky at the close of the last
session went into the committee room on
appropriations, taking off his boots aud
stockings, perched himself on the back
of chair and proceeded to wash his feet
in the marble wash basin. One thing
may be said of him, however, he was
member OF the committee. Several
other members were present whose
stomachs were turned, and one member,
Mr., Hewitt, looked at the kentuckian for
a moment and between his teeth uttered
the word .damnatiOn" and bolted from
the room. The member was beaten
for reelection, and is said that his habit
of occasionally washing his feet was
what defeated him. His constituents did
net want their member to wash his feet
and his face in the same basin. There
niln. stlauge people IN " aShlngton.
One of them is a brother of a distinguished
general in the army. He is not very old,
but his hair is white, and his flowing
whiSkers are like snow. He has rooms
in the Corcoran building. and is said to
be very rich. He drives a handsome
pair OF horses and his rooms are furnished
in the quaintest fashion. He has been
reat traveller, and has picked up,very queer
odds and ends for his rooms. He has the
oldest furniture that can be procured and
he has penchant for the skins Of wild
animals. The floors of his rooms are
covered with skins of white bears, black
bea-s, tigers. wolves, leopards. foxes and
other animals. This gentleman's chief
peculiarly is in having a servant who
never leaves: s:sight OF him. If he walks on
avenue Joe is somewhere bend him; if
he goes to church Joe watches in the
vestibule; if he goes TO the theatre Joe
will be found looking down upon him
from the gallery if he drivesJoe is always
at his side Even the boys in the street
are in the habit of watching for Joe
whenever the master is in SIGHT. What
if Joe should dle2
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

THE Senate had lively time at it, execu-
tive session. Wednesday, the cdsus JeAi be
ing the New York appointments. The Presi-
dent, in answer to Il recent request of the
Senate, sent a letter enclosing communion
tion from Secretary Sherman, giving the
causes of the removal Of Collector Arthur
aud Naval Officer Cornell. la this, Secre-
tary Sherman charges Collector Arthur with
having neglected business, with having given
an Insufficient amount Of time to the public
business Of the Government, with having en-
ploycd an unnecessary number OF employees
and kept them on the rolls aiter their need
lessness was demonstrated, etc, etc As
soon as the reading of the Secretary letter
was finished, Mr. Coukling took the floor
and. the correspondents say. made an in-
tensely bitter speech against the President
and the Administration. He charged that the
removal of friends from ofhte was really the
result of personal feeling, and that hostile
and jealous influences from other parts
(meaning Chicago had iraneneed the ae-
tion of the President lie alluded to the
latter throughout his remarks as MIR
Hayes" and spoke OF him a '',hc President
so-called" Mr.. Edmund tried to pour oil
ON the troubled waters hu; in this to him
unaccustOmed work was unsuccessful
vote was taken ON the question of max
inp the Secretary's letter VuhlIs MIR
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24
NUMBER 30.
POLITICAL NOTES.

The announcement is made of the discoy-
cry of the fact that the rames of seven elec-
tors of Arkansas in 1875 are all signed on
the back of the envelope containing the cleo
toral certificate of that State in the hand
writing OF the same person. The story runs
that when Acting Vice-President Ferry re-
ceived the Arkansas certificate, he discover
ed an irregularity therein in the absence of
the signatures of the electors from the back
of the envelope, and permitted it to be sent
back to the State for correction, as in the
case of the Louisiana certificates. When it
was returned to him, he presented it to the
two Houses in joint convention, and the seven
votes were counted for Tilden and Hen
bricks.
Congressman Robinson, Of Indiana, gives
this pre-Raphaelite sketch of Senator
Voorhees, He is one Of the most
superficial men in American politics. He
does more talking and less thinking
than any prominent man L know of. As
politician he is unscrupulous and un-
reliable. He always waits to see which the
popular side is going to be, and then be joins
In the hosannahs. He has but one great
virtue in political sense. and that is stick
ing to his party. whether 1t be right or
wrong"
The friends Of Senator Howe, of Wiscon-
sin, have established daily newspaper at
the State capital to advocate his claims so
long as the senatorial contest is in progress.
At recent meeting of some louisiana
Republicans, including Pinchback and War
moth, a resolution was passed asking Con-
gress to set apart a tract of land like the
Indian Territory as an asylum for the color
ed race.
George G. Vest was nominated for the
long term United States senatorship from
Missouri by the Democrats of the Legis-
lature on the second ballot.
Gen. James Shields, who has represented
Illinois and Minnesota in the United States
Senate, has been nominated by the Demo
Gratis of the Missouri legislature for the
short term (until March / next) to succeed
Armstrong of that State.
The New York Witness thinks the time
has come for recalling to the public service
the late Schuyler Colfax, and believes he
should be sent to Congress, if only to present
the dangers of Mormonism, jim which, it
seems, he has recently become an expert.
Attention is called by the Chicago Tribune
to the fact that, of the thirty-six Senators
who voted for the salary grab, every one Of
them has been retired to private life except
two-Bayard and Ransom. Not one of the
other thirty-four is now Senator. Of the
twenty-si1 Republican Senators who voted
for that robbery not one has been reelected.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

One of the most remarkable criminal cases
of the day closed at Norwich, Conn, Thurs
day night. when the jury returned Mrs.
Kate NJ. Cobb guilty of murder in the Sec
ond degree. Mrs. Cobb was indicted for
poisoning her husband in order To marry one
Wesley Bishop ia married man whose wife
died under suspicious cireumstanee>), the
parties having become mutually infatuated
with each other. A chemical examination
of Mr.. Cobb's stomach was made by Prot.
r. Ogden Doremus and Prof. r. II.
Witthaus, of the L. V. NJ, and they testi-
fed to arsenic poisoning. The principal
evidence connecting Mrs. Cobb with the
poisoning was that Of Bishop whose story of
their Illicit relations was lous aId minute.
Mrs. Cobb's testimony in her Gwn defence was
q strong and positive denial Of guilt and
plausible explanation of circumstances ai-
mittedly against her. Bishop has proved him
self cowarily, pusillanimous scamp, and
it was certainly the sarcasm Of destiny that
be should be yoked in crime with woman
whose infexible nerve and uEfaillng eour-
age have never been surpassed III Il criminal
trial. Under the circumstances, a cOnyic-
tion in the first degree could hardly have
been expected; but it i certainly to be
hoped that the full penalty will 5e inflicted.
and that the cowardly plram0ur nay not go
scot-fIee
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

The DEFEAT of Gen. joseph r. Hawley tor
United States Senator from Connecticut IS
an event which we are exceedingly sorry to
chronicle. Gen. Hawley belongs to the best
class Of our public Iuen-able, sound, patriotic
and thoroughly upright; and that he failed
of receiving the party nomination Is matter
for great regret. The United States Senate
already contains a sufficient number of emin-
emily respectable nOb0dies, and additions OF
that character are no. particularly desirable.
The successful candidate is Ofville II. Platt,
of Meriden, who We hope will make as good
q Senator as Gen. Hawley would, but who,
whatever his qualifications. is far from pos
sessing his competitors splendid record.
The fight in the caucus was bitter one, the
leading candidates being, beside the gentle
men named. Marshall Jewell and IL. B. Har-
rison. Gen. Hawley led largely through
over thirty ballots, once coming within four
votes of winning the nomination but the
final victory was not his. The result is not
one on which the party or the country is to
be congratulated.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24
Washington Correspondence Philadelphia Times.
An Impressive Body.
HOW THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS BE-
HAVE IIIEMSEINES

A letter from Washington to the EUen-
utg Post of New York describes the house
OF representatives as very impressive
body. 1t was necessary for the writer to
say that twas his first visit 10 the capital
| should like to read Il letter of his. writ
ten with the same frankncss and honesty,
alter the close Of this short session.
| should want him TO be present in the
gallery during row and to attend all
the night sessions and the closing cere-
monies. | should want him also to keep
his eye on certain members | should
name. II be is attentive, he will see
members roaring drunk once in while !,
he will see dozens OF members squirting
tobacco juice over carpets that cost sc a
yard; he will see scores Of members
smoking in the chamber during the sit
ting; he will see members stretched out
on the sofas asleep, and he will hear them
snore; he will see members with both
feet on their desk, sitting on their back
bone; he will see members,munching ap-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

HOW THE BANK or BELGIUM WAS ROBBED OF
4,G000 900 EY A CLERK on A SALARY OF $500
YEAR.
The Bank of Belgium has Just discovered
that its funds, to the amount of 81, COO 900,
have been embezzled and squandered by
Eugene Tkindt RoOdebecke, a clerk on d
salary Of $500. Eugene T'KIndt was a clever
youth, and soon after entering the bank lie
did what most criminals Of bis ability do-he
detected a weak spot, t. .oopholc of laxlty-in
the working OF its system The Bank OF
Belgium resembled the City Of Glasgow
Bank in one respect 1t was the favorite of
the petty traders, the thrifty folks whose
small savings are invaluable Us deposits in a
concern where a little swindling Is needed.
The weak spot Of its plan Of working is this.
that when securities were lodged with it no
record in detail of the fact wes made. In
vague way the general title OF the security
was entered in the books, and the depositor's
name was noted But beyond the record
that such and such q person had on given
date deposited shares or scrip of a certain
company, to an amount named, the books Of
the bank took
NO coGNIzANcE OF THE TRANSACTION.
Any sharp clerk could see at distance what
was wrong in this system. No accurate note
was taken of the securities so as to enable
with the names Of these depositors No at
tempt, in other words, was made to check the
numbers, as well AS the amount of these
securities, and Of this fact young Tkiedt
soon made profitable use. He had sole charge
of these securities, amounting III value to
many millions sterling. 1t never occurred to
his worthy chief " FOrtamps-a great fnan-
cier and Senator to booths odd that a
clerk with $50 year could live like lord
and enjoy life with the prohgacy of a prince
that he could have town house. a rural villa
picture gallery, box et the MOnnaie, a
racing stable, and all sorts of delightfully."-
wicked, but ruinouslJ expensive, Injuries.
Belgium is cheap place to live in, and per-
haps III. Fortamps though. that his clerk had
a genius for thrift, and could make the in
come OF beggar 60 as far as the revenue of
q king. The directors we're one day startled
by NJ. Bischoftsbeim, the eminent fnancier,
lodging u compliant to the effect that 1853
shares of the Namur & Liege Railway, be-
had, without his knowledge, been
ABsrRAcrED ERoN THE BANK
and deposited in another establishment, of
which he was himself director. lie went
and demanded the scrip, but was told by
Tkindt that, as the Office was closing. he
must come next day. He came next day,
and after waiting quarter of an hour, had
his shares, which had been meanwhile re-
covered, rendered TO him as if nothing was
out oil joint in the transaction As for his
complaint, so cleverly did TKindt defend
himself and so artfully did be dwell on the
popularity the bank had gained through his
eIertions, that, instead OF looking into bis
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

record of securities, the directors accorded
him A vote of thanks. Even his chief, NJ.
Fortams, abated not jot of his confidence
in him. and only inspected his ledgers after
giving him few days notice of his inten-
tion to do SO. One day, however, TKindt
began to find the atmosphere of Brussels
getting uncomfortably warm, and, feeling
that he would benefit by q Change of climate,
he set out for New York. He might have
added new chapter to the financial history
of the great republic had it not been that he
was captured at Liverpool with f32O, 900 OF
other peoples money in his carpet-bag.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24


Life's millstonss, marking year on year
Pass ever swifter as We near
The final goal, the silent end
To which our isted footsteps tend
A year once seemed II century,
Now like day il hurrles by,
And doubts and fears our hearts oppress,
And all the day is weariness.
All me, how glad and gay we were,
Youths sap in all cur veins asuT,
When long 20 with spirits high,
A happy, careless company,
We started forth, when everything
Were the green glory of the spring.
And all the iair wide world was ours,
To gather as we would its flowers
Then life almost eternal seemed,
And death 4 dream SO vaguely dreamed,
That in the distance scarce it threw
cloud-shace on the mountains blue,
That rose before US soft and fair,
Clothed in ideal hues Of air,
TO VIII eh we meant IN atter-tlme,
Strong in oar manhood1s strength, to climb
How all has changed Years have gone by,
And Of that joyous company
With whom our youth first journeyed on,
WhO-whO are left Alas not one
Love earliest loitere1 on tho way,
Then turned his face and slipped away
And after N with footsteps light
And all lhs carelt SIS joys that lent
Their revelry and merr'ment
Grew silenIer and, ere We knew
Had smiled their last and said "adieu.'
Hope fa,tering then with doubtful mind,
Began TO turn and look behind,
And We half questioning. were fsin
To follow with hsr back again
But Fate still urged US on our way
Aud woul1 not let Us pause or stay
Then to Cnr side with plaintive eye,
In pl ace Of Hope came Memory,
Ani murmurel of the past. and told
Dear stores Of the days OF old,
Until its very dro.s seemed gold,
Ana Fri ndship took the place o, Love,
And strove IN vain to usto prove
That Loyc was light and inslncere-
Not worth a mans regretful tear.
All all in vain-grant twas a cheat,
Yet no voice ever was SO sweet,
No presence like to Loves. who threw
Enchantment over all We knew;
And stil II we listen with sigh
And back, with fond tears in the eye,
We gaze to catch a glimpse again
or tina, dear pilce-out all in VAN.
Preach not, 0 stern Philosophy!
Naus hit we can have, and naught we see.
VIII ever bs so pure. SO glad,
30 beautiful. as what we had.
Our steps are SAD, cur steps sre slow,
Moth nS IS like the long ago.
iGno is the keen, intense delight,
The perfume faint and exqu!si!s,
The glory aud the eriu-nce
That haloed the eurap ured sense.
When Faith and Love were at our side,
And common life was deiiied.
our shadow. that we used 10 throw
Behind US, now before US grow;
For once we walked towards the sun,
But now, LIE full meridian done,
They change, ami in thelr chill we move,
Further away from Faith and Love.
A chill IS in the air-no more
Our tn ushts with joyous impulse soar,
But creep along the level way,
Wa tin, the closiug Of the day,
The future holds no wnntrous priEs
This de deaths awful my steries
Beyond, what waits for US. who knows
New lie, Q: infn!te reposet
-Bl9ck moods Maya.ins.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

An English nobleman, who is in the habit
of speaking to soldiers in an affible manner,
was much amused lately when a guardsman
said to HIM, in d hearty and genial way : Il
like you, my lord There's nothing of the
gentleman about you."
Charles Lamb defended the custom of New
Years resolutions in this way The man
who does not ut least propose to himself to
be better this year than he was last, must be
either very good or very bad indeed. And
only to propose to be better is something.
In TACT to propose to ones self to do well is
in some sort to do well positively"
Said DIR. Blanche, the famous French ex-
pert in cases OF insanity. to the jurors in u
case recently tried in Paris ''In the pris-
oner's drunken moods he would grow sad
and remorseful. and blame himself for NAL
treating his wife, as drunkards often do, gen
tlemen, without doubt you yourselves
know"
'Rather than touch another drop of liq-
uOr, said Il Jealous convert at II temperance
meeting at Alton, Ill. the other night, Il
would take razor aud blow out my brains. "
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

A Paris correspondent Of the New York
Tribune writes that journal that Gen. Grant
desires, on his return home, his old position
as head of the army-aud this from pecuni-
arg and not political motives. The tour in
the Old World has very nearly emptied his
pockets. the correspondent says, and he will
not 20 back to tie States rich man, what
ever he was when be left them. But it
isn't at once clear how Gen. Sherman can be
summarily shipped, even to make room for
Gen. Grant
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

GEN. JoHy A. LOGAN, with the luck, the
political tact and some other quality invisi-
BILE at this distance Certainly not brains)
which have given him fIgr terms in the
House and one in the Senate, has again won
a capital prize, having rccoiTei the Illinois
Senatorial nomination III the Republican
caucus by large majority. This result IS
greatly deplored, as Logan can not be re-
carried as other than most unfit man for
the place. The incoming Senate will have
some remarkably weak timber in it.