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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15
THE INDIAN HUNTER.

When the summer harvest wis gather'd IN.
And the sheaf OF the cleaner grew white anl thin
And the ploughshare was in its furrow left.
Where the stuhhle land had been lately cleft,
An Indian hunter. with unstrung bow,
Lookd down where The valley lay strercai below.
IT, was a stranger there and all thai das
Had been out on The hills. perllouS way
But the foot of the deer was far and neet.
And the wolf Kept aloof from the hunters feet.
And bitter feelings pass d DER him then
As he stood by the populous haunis of men
As the sun stole out from their solitudes;
The moss was white on the naples trunk.
And dead from Its arms the hale vine shrunk,
And ripen'd the mellow fruit hung. and red
Were the trees withered leaves round II shed.
The foot OF tine reaper moved slow on the lawn.
And the sickle cut down the yellow corn;
The mower sung loud hy the meadow side,
Where the mIsts Of evening were spreading wide,
Aud the voice OF The herdsman came up the lea
And the dance went round hy the greenwood tree
Then the hunter turned away from that scene,
Where the home Of his fathers once had been,
And heard by the distant and measured stroke
That the woOdman hew'd down the giant oak.
Aud burning thoughts fashd over his N nd
of the white mans faith and love unkind-
The moon of the harvest grew high and bright
As her golden horn pierced the cloud of white.
A footsfep was heard in the rustlIng brake,
Where the beech oVerShadow d the misty lake,
And mourning voice and plunge from The shore
And the hunter was seen On the hills no more.
When wears had pass'l on 10y that sill lake side
The fisher lOok'd down through the river tide.
And there on the smooth. yellow sand displayed,
\ skeleton wasted and white was laid
And twas seen. as The waters moved de'paid slow
That the hand was still grasping hunter : bow
Prom LoHlteii0iC', Ed''y PofmS.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

Mark the increase, These appropriations
are all under Democratic Congress. For
the fiscal year ending next June, they are
nearly forty eight millions larger than for
the fiscal year which ended June, 1873. 1t
was the Democratic boast that they had
than wiped out by an increase Of forty-eight
millions. This large and rapid advance is
caused by the deficiency bills which grow
out of the failure of the Democrats in Con-
gress to make the necessary appropriations
when they were prating of their economies.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

In commenting on the extent to which
American cheese has been introduced III
the market of Scotland, and the effect Of
tins influx of the foreign product upon
Ayrshire dairymen, the Scotsman says :
The extent to which American cheese
is being imported into Ayrshire and re-
tailed at prices greatly under the cost
of the home produce, is beginning to tell
in a way that was hardly anticipated by
dairy farmers in the country. Many oi
thosc farmers, 1T appears, still find them
selves in possession Of the bulk of the
chccs.. manufactured last season. with
little prospect of getting IT dispuHcd "f at
! anything like the figure they hnv" been
l in th. habit uf realizing, The result of
/ this is that not a few of them have been
I compelled to abandon the making "i
cheese for the present. This, again, has
| had the effect of increasing the supply
of butter and milk III the country 70 en-
ormously, that these commodities are sell
! ing at prices unknown during the past
decade. Last week, fresh butter OF the
/ best quality WAS quoted IN the market "i
| the country town at eight and onc-hali
/ pence per pound, or less tlm half the
/ price for which It was sold AT the CORES
! pOnding date of last year. The reduction
per gallon IN the price Of milk resulting
/ from the increased competition induced
| bv the suspension Of the chees" mnnu
| facturer would seem 90 bc equally mnrE.
ed. For Glasgow and other lnrge towns
/ the supply available at present Is lar N
| excess Of the demand. and farmers nrt
said tn be at their wits end in regardtoth'
disposal of their milk At almost any
huur of the day, carts C"utnnin2 haifel'
of m.lk may be ac.n IA some partr oi AYi
IA charge Of persons end"avonng t" s.
cure purchaser =, but who not unfrequcntlN
are obliged to take the article home un
sold to he served out to pigs, which arr
tins season being reared ia larger mum
bers than IL ordinarily the case m AYR
shire. Should this state o. n..ttrrs con
t,nue. Ihc results can hardly fail to h'
serious, more particularly for such far
mers (and these are said to br not few
as have within the last year or two en-
tered upon new leases at cnnsidrrabl,
| rise of rent
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

the stand and testified; Mr. s. d. Pierce
since called my attention To the fact that "A
car going south was marked on the bill by a
clerk prepaid" when in fact it was not pre-
paid | remember this circumstance think
there have been other such cases.
Cross examined: Don't know whether
this formed part of the deficiency.
The defence here rested.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

The following dialogue took place at
Central Toombs last night between sta
ton keeper Kerr and a hard looking
tramp Tramp-"Please, sur, KIN l
roost here ter nightY Station keeper
why don't you go to work and make
money enough to pay for bed? Tram"
Cbrisklyl- "Woll Id st"rt ter the codii
try arter Iop, but when got about ten
miles ont it begin ter thunder, and as my
CONSTRUCTION is very delicate | wae
afearcd of getting wet so | turned
around and come back Station-keepcr
Go in there and goto bed. Ln"tSrHf
(n.l. i.,-. .hIn.nn,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

| IT Is a curious circumstance that several
and Parker houses being of the number
have a lookout over old grave yards They
tell Il story of Il traveller who recently put
up At hub hotel and was given room in
the rear of the building The first sight
which met his eve in the morning was a
gloomy expanse of graveyard right under
his window lie was man Of sensitive
nature, and the landscape spoiled his appe.
tite for that day. As soon as his days
work or pleasure was over he quietly re-
moved his baggage to another house. Here
he asked for front room and went to sleep
in peace; but in the morning. as before,
Aurora's beams gildcd Il dazzling array of
tombstoneS across the street in the Kings
Chapel graveyard The gentleman had an
other days bal digestion. hut, being of
courageous disposition, he made a trial of Il
third hotel. stipulatinr that he should not he
given a back room or = front one. The
gcntlemanly clerk assigned him parlor on
the west side. and the guest went to bed
happy lie arose, feeling decidedly more
cheerful, and drew his curtains, TO feast his
gaze on the old Gramry cemetery, with
tombstoncs 800 wears old modering before
him 1t was too much for the stranger. He
paid his bill AMI departed to hunt up a town
where it wasn't 50 unhealthy that they had
to have a graveyard attached 10 every
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

cilmen nominated and elected in ward in
in this city where the whites are
about 50 in the majority. Such, sir, is
true statement of affairs in YaZoo.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

QUESTIONINGS


Dld yen see the sky ma, july summer night
Nlen The rose INT was lrcked with snowN while
deWN light o'er ths green earth was cast,
Like The smile on a brow uncluuded AZ last.
thought thai the curtains of Heaven were un
loaptl
Thai the azure folds an angel had dropped,
As spirit passed up through the gates OF gold,
| saw sapphire and garnet, and gories untold.
Did you see on the hills the deep blue sheer,
And the bands OF gold thai lay between
Dld YOU see Inc cloud that kissed the brow
oI the mountain wreathei with sunshine nov"
D.d You look from your window when tine evening
shade
Fell on forest and PLAN, and meadow glade?
Did You the shadows trip DER the lea.
With steps a merry As the crickots glee?
And whaI lid the cry OF the night bird tell you:
II made me tremble, and wish 10 be near You.
thought twas poor lost soul that never
could taste the JOY Of the glad forever.
Nhai SAID 10 Won the star that shone,
80 calm and still. hut all Alones
No other wIth strong beam To cheer IL.
None 10 rival vel no satellite near H.
The twilight sang Tor me that night
I ne SKY, the mountain. and stars lone llEti.
Forest aud shadow, rock and dell.
Echoed measure. know full well
NesIfard july 1873.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

THERE are some five or six hundred rebel
flags in possession of the War Department at
Washington, and representatives, Of the regi-
ments from which they were captured are
very anxious to get possession of them to be
kept as mementoes. For white silk banner
once borne by an Alabama regiment, a citizen
of that State is said to have offered six hun
dred dollars. When the Democrats get into
power al Washington these captive flags
will be reclaimed by their old owners.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

The missing link" seems in a fair way of
being discovered. Major Serpa Pinto, the
Portuguese explorer, who made trip from
Central to Southern Africa. reports the dis
covery, in the country lying between the
Cubango and Coango rivers, of a very curl
Gus race Of men. Although exceedingly
light of complexion, they have black curly
hair, very much like that of the negro. In
deed, if it were not for the color of their
skins, they might pass for negroes. They
are uglier in appearance than the worst
looking negro the explorer ever saw This
race is also reported To- he as low down in
the scale of civilization as it is apparently
possible for man to be.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15
GENERAL NOTES.


LIKE MS DAD.
| hear his mothers chidIng voice :
lOw came Nour trowsers torn .
And black a. INK. sir. J. thai shirt
You put on clean tins morn.
..Yaur feet are wet. too. l declare;
You're muddy 10 your knees;
II Is too had; you only care
Nourmother, sir. to lease.
And those nice shoes-yOur SUNDAY best,
Thar but three times you've worn,
AMI scratched and scraped and all Iul down,
The heel VI one Is gone.
Your hair IS twisted in a snarl
And Just look at that hand
Il looks as though 'twere never washed
How dare You say I IS tanned:
you've been a-iishing. sir. guess
What been 10 see the match
You'll have lit OF sickness sir;
pretty cold you'll catch.
And thus she talks for halt an hour,
And only stops To say,
Your fathrr1l hear of thla tu-nEh
Iwouder what he'll say ..
Nv friends IN complimentary way
Declare 20 me they see
A close respmblance-Nrrl marked
Between the boy andne-
Bu; nothing that they see IN him
In either form or face
Bespeaks my son - do his pranks-
In these ms own ! trace.
AMI why should At tatl srei clothes
Or dlity ones repne?
In HIM live my youth again
Gaj bless the boy he'- mime!
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

ANOTHER quarrel between army officers
attracts attention The parties to it are Gen.
Hancock and Gen. Hunt. The trouble be
gan with letter which Gen Hancock wrote
to Senator Burnside. chairman of the Senate
Committee on Military Affairs. in which he
criticised Gen. Hunts conduct as Chief OF
Artillery at Gettysburg. Gen Hunt in reply
alleges that on the morning Of the eventful
day he was stationed rs Chief of Artillery of
the Army of the Potomac on the central
part of the field at the left of the second
corps. commanded by Gen. Hancock ; that
he forsaw that the rebel plans were to make
line commanded by Hancock, and that this
assault would be preceded by tremendous
cannonade to draw the Federal fire that he
instructed Hazard and McGilvray, the artil-
lcry officers in charge. to withhold their fire
in order to he able To mow down the rebel
infantry with grand cross fire: that the
rebel programme was carried out exactly as
he expected it would be: that when the
assault was made McGilvrays guns did ter
rible execution. hut that Hazards guns were
silent, and that the battle was almost lost
because Of this failure of Hazards artillery
to do its expected work at the right moment.
This failure, he saws. was due to Gen. Han
cocks orders. Whether this quarrel will be
fought out on paper remains to be seen
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-15

The prosecution produced a cash book
which respondent identified as his it had
been kept in 1873 -. The subsequent cash
books have been sent To St Albans, it ap-
pggrrl
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23
s. From the East.o

He was a dapper little fellow, as tidy
as new pin, and as he entered one OF
the " sample rooms" an Woodward ave
nue., yesterday, the bar-keeper mentally
remarked:
"That fellow will call for champagne. u
But he was mistaken; the little fellow
leaned over the bar and said:
" want a tumbler two-thiros full OF
water, and some pieces of pure ice in the
lumber"
1t was handed him and he asked:
"Do you ever have a lemon about the
placer"
eyes"
"Well, gently squeeze one into the
tumbler."
"The sqeezing process took place, and
the little man continued:
"Do you have raspberries out herep'
awe no."
"Well, put two in the tumbler."
They were added, and he put his hand
to his hand to his brow, tried hard to
collect his thoughts, and suddenly ex-
claimed
All! yes-sugar! l knew I could
think of it. Add spoonful of sugar"
While it was being added the little
man dropped on to three kernels of cof-
fee, powdered cracker and a bit of
cheese, and then said:
"Owing to the prevalence of malarial
diseases in your western country / find
it the best way to carry my own straw
with me. A fellah kinder hates, you
know, to use everybody's straw, you
know, especially out west here"
He pinned his handkerchief under his
chin brushed back his moustache and
began drawing. The bar-keeper's pet
dog came in when the glass was half
drained, and the little man took the
straw out of his mouth and said
"Please remove your dawg to the rear
room, can nevah dwink lemonade with
dawg in the ROOM"
The "dawg" was escorted out, and
when the bar-keeper returned the little
man had disappeared, and the glass had
been emptied of even the lemon PEEL
Detroit Free Press.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23
Cutting"Out Expeditions.

The capture of troop-ship in q
CHILEAN port by two Peruvian iron-clads,
if truly reported, is very creditable
imitation of Lord Dundonald's achieve
ment fifty years ago, when he ran his
single vessel into one of the strongest
Pacific harbors, captured one ship, and
set on fire two others which came to the
rescue, while his eight-year old son stood
by him, shouting and waving his cap in
the thick of the fire. A cutting-out
expedition" of this kind, attempted by
one of Nelson's captains, has been pre-
served from oblivion by the singular
medicinal phenomenon which attended
it. The officer who directed the attack
found the cruiser which was its object
so strongly posted under the guns of a
battery that he at once called out to his
crew: cts no use-shove off," At
that moment Frenchman on board the
cruiser fired at hinJthe bullet running
along the side of his head and completely
stunning him. For eight days he lay
senseless, and his first utterance on re-
covering was, cts no use-shove off,
the idea having evidently lain dormant
in his mind all that time.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23
An Ambitious Text.

The parsons do, after all, tell the best
stories. Rev. Dr.-is responsible for
the following.
In the early part of his ministry a
very eminent clergyman of his own de-
nomination visited him and spent Sab
bath with him. OF course he invited
him to preach for him, and, to his great
satisfaction, he consented. Rev. DIR.
is tall, and his pulpit was rather
high, to accommodate his manuscript to
his sight; his visitor was short, rather
stout, and had a shining bald head.
Rev. Dr.-proposed 70 lower the pulpit
a little, but his friend declined, and, on
the contrary, desired that it should be
raised higher. 1t seemed that he was
near-sighted, but for some reason prefer
red not to wear spectacles. The desk
being raised he proceeded to pile upon
it the closed pulpit bible, two hymn
books, pile of about dozen sermons,
and finally his manuscript and then, his
bald head just glimmering over the top
of his ertempore fertilization, he announc.
ed his text" Thou shalt see greater
things than these" -Editor's Draacer,
in Harper's Magazine for September.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23
IS Below Par.N

"That reminds me of a little anec.
dote." is what every bright man has
heard over and over again, as his mem,
DRY has been logged by someone's telling
good story. When good stories and
ready repartees are going on, one witty
little thing is sure to suggest another.
Thus we thought, day or two since,
when reading in an evening paper,
that Charles Sumner was no musician,
and that lady friend once told him
that if he was to buy music-b box set to
Old Hundred" she did not believe
that he could make it play more than
seventy-fve." 1t was doubtless some
thing in the same vein that prompted
old Mrs Rothschild, when ninety-seven,
to say to her physician, Doctor, you
must keep me up for three years more at
least; it would be discreditable for a
Rothschild to 60 of under par" -Har-
per's Magazine.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23

a beauty from the sunny south,
A

beauty from the sunny south,
A maiden waif from Italy,
With glowing cheeks and ripe, red mouth,
And smile that dimpled prettily;
With eyes whose violet velvet shone
With such a deep immensely
mat at their light yelled my own,
Which is not my propensity.
/ meet her in my daily walks,
This model of humanity
And by her side q creature stalks
Who drives me to profanity;
For she is looking up to him,
Her eyes are almost reverent,
Their fire is pure as cherubim,
And he seems quite Indifferent.
/ watch them as they pass along;
Her willowy form, so sIenderly
Compact, IS gliding thro' the throne
And clinging TO him tenderly.
her sweet, strange accents, soft and low,
Seem pleading with his haughtiness-
lis Tuscan; meier felt till now
The curse that Babel brought on US.
And still each day and every day
And all day long wait for her
greatly wonder what she'd say
To all | contemplate for her,
For we.e she mine, and only mine,
L would maintain her regally-
L wonder if she would decline
My hand, if offered legally.
change has come; day has brought
A hest of secret clearances;
And | have bitterly been taught
To judge not by appearances.
Another street / chose to-day
To pace and bear my trial in;
saw her there an organ play
While he scraped at violin.
Oh, whitening sightl a seconds doubt
Unclaimed me, mute and wondering;
And then / calmly turned about,
Went home and cursed my laundering.
Fair though they be as dawning day,
And charm they meier so wittily,
In future shall keep away
From maids of sunny Italy.
San Francisco NelrS Letter
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23
IL.

Months rolled on, but though you had
gone ever SO many times into Messrs.
Moonstone's establishment, you would
not have seen Mr.. John Riddel. His
flowing cataract of hair no more adorned
the foreman's desk, over which cleaned
in its place-like moonlight after sun
light-the bald and shining head of Mr..
Boltby. And yet our hero was in the
shop; he stood at the counter in the
further corner, where the youngest as
sistant was always placed, Tin charge of
the mourning jewelry,) with Welsh
wig on. His own mother-not to men,
ton the duchesses-would never have
known him. He had fallen from his
high estate, and was beginning life again
on the lowest rung of the ladder.
This was how it happened. Mrs.
Montfort and her niece, young lady
only less charming than herself, dwelt,
as l have said, on the first floor of Mr..
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23
TO A GIRL

Thou art 50 very sweet and fair,
With such a heaven in thine eyes,
1t almost seems an over-care
To ask thee to be good and wise.
As if a little bird were blamed
Because its song unthiDking flows:
As If a rose shouldibe ashamed
OF being nothing but rose.
Good Words.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23

STAY Neighbor, stay ere you commence
To take down your gate and door-yard fence,
1t may improve your grounds or view,
Or seem to enlarge them rod or two;
But think! Oh, Think of the fearful fate
That then viii come to the man of fun,
The paragraph builder, if this be done,
If he no more can locate Kate
And John, her beau, on the door-yard gatel
-Bfnqhdnston Republican
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23

AMERICAN cheese has so crippled the
market for the home made article in
Ayrshire, Scotland, that the farmers
turned their attention to butter making
and silk selling, and the supply of the
two latter articles is now so great that
butter is worth emily half the price of
year ago, and milk has to be fed to the
swine.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23

OHIO produced $4,000 tons of butter
and cheese in 1877, more than one-half
of the amount being furnished by the
Western Reserve and three or four
counties Immediately joining it in north
eastern Ohio. This is better than max
ing ofice-holders of all its citizens.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23

The rate at which England is becom-
ing dependent on America for the prin-
clpal necessities and luxuries of life
causes increasing establishment to con-
sentative Britain. A chance sunny day
IN London, the other day caused an Eng.
Hshmsn 10 declare England was i'm
porting everything from the Yankees,
even the weather." The proverbial
English conservatism itself seems to be
giving way, if we may believe the story
that an English lady of rank has recent
ly urged publicly on English mothers
the propriety of giving to their daugh-
tiers the social freedom and manners of
American young girls, instead of those
distinctively English.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-23

QUEENSLAND, the youngest of the
Australian group, occupies the northeast
ern quarter of the Austrian continent,
and stretches from the northern bound
airy OF New South Wales to the Gulf of
Carpentaria. 1t is twelve times the size
OF England, twice the size of Canada,
and half as large again as England, Ire
land, Scotland, Wales, France and Spain
combined. 1t is rich in gold The au-
riterous country now worked is less than
1900 miles in area.