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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-03
EdisOn's C0urtship.

NOW THE GREAT INVENTOR MADE LOVE
AND MARRIED-THE "EDIsoN GRIN" AND
HOW lie CAPTURED NICE YOUNG
GIRL,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10
The Grant Grouni-Swell.

Judge Settle, formerly of North Carolina,
now of Florida, related, in an interview the
other day, how he tried to make Gen. Grant
consent to he candidate for third term,
in the last Republican National convention.
Said Judge s.:
President Grant heard me through without
interrupting me once, and then replied:
Il would not have you think of doing so.
For 10 years have been under a strain
could endure, and am determined at the
end of my term to have some rest and recrea-
ton" He added that he did not feel called
upon 10 notice the reports in the papers.
| did not feel at liberty to announce his
purposes to the country, but quietly said TO
the friends who were cooperating with me
that we would drop the matter, as | was sat
isfied the President would not accept NOM
nation, and the matter was dropped.
But, continued Judge Settle, Gen. Grant
has now had his rest and recreation, and
every citizen of the Republic, whatever may
be his political sentiments, ought 10 be proud
of the honOrs that have been conferred upon
him by all the great powers of the earth.
The reasons which might have been urged
against his candidature far third term no
longer exist. lie cannot use the patronage Of
the Government to further his own purposes
In fact, the patronage of the Government
has been used since the Inauguration of the
present Administration, and is now being
used, against him and against all who are
known to be his friends. But that will
make no difference. There is n ground swell
in his favor, and you might as well attempt
to stay the rush of tidal wave as TO prevent
his nominaton-unless he does il himself.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10

President Claiborne of Williams College
was among the speakers, at Il Republican
rally in Springfield, Mass, on Friday last,
and said some excellent things, though his
anecdotes were not all Of the most refined
and savory stamp. He said, among other
things:
The third class of Butler men. coming
next after the Democrats who are going IL
have some fun out of this thing anyway arc
the sorchead Republicans, those men who
have lost their offices, or whose friends have
not been elected. Now, it has been settled
to mathematical certainty that We can't
all have offices the same year. Some people
cannot lose an Office without taking it
terribly TO heart. They never think of them
selves. o, no, it is only general principle
They remind me Of the boy who found a
hair in his bread and said to his mother be-
fore a company, Mother here's hair in
the bread" 80, no. said she, " it is only
a thread" Yes, but it is a hair replied
he. If il wasn't hair this nit wouldn't
be on it." So with these soreheads, when you
look around, there is some nit on it,
some office that has been lost. Now put
them all together, and if we come up and do
our duty, We shall whip them out by 5000
or &c, 900.
Finally, there are the Disconnected Re
publicans, with whom | confess / some
times sympathize. 1t has been intimatcd
that the Republican party is not perfect. /
suppose we have all found that out. | did
long since. Because | do not like all the
things that have been done in the State
or in the Nation, because | do not like
all the men that happened to be nominated,
am | TO desert that party which, for p
years has marched on from one great
achievement to another until il has made
more progress in all those things that consti-
tute good government than was ever made
before by any people on this globe APP
plausc. Because there are mistakes made
am to desert that party which seems to me
to hold together the greater number Of the
best men, and have done so much No.
no; | will stay in it until it changes very
much from what it is, and where | see any
thing wrong, there | will open my voice and
speak of it. When any man is suggested for
office whom think is not fit, | will 20 to the
caucus in my own town and try to defeat
him. Don't talk Of leaving the Republican
party for a single year TO go of on this wild
goose chase, and 50 stab the party as perhaps
to cost the next Presidential election, which
comes in 1880. could trust my Democratic
neighbors here but not the great solid South,
with all their crude notions The only safe
ty is for the Government to remain four years
more at least in the hands of the Rcpubli-
can party. Undcr IL we shall have strength,
peace, prosperity, all those things essential
to good government As for me, | will not
lift my hand 10 strike at the party in this
State. 1t would be like cutting the artery in
the arm Of man he would bleed TO death
NJ well AS if stabbed TO the heart.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10
PACIFIC COAST INrELLIGESCE.
FATAL BALLOON ACCIDENT.


San FRASCIsCo Oct. ). - This afternoon
Prof. Colgrave, the aeronaut, and C. II.
Williams, manager of Woodward's gar
dens, attempted to make balloon ascension
from the garden. The wind was blowing
almost a gale The balloon seemed in
sufficiently inflated with gas and rose heavily
above the buildings of the garden Soon
after it dropped and scudded along at a low
elevation, tearing away telegraph wires in its
flight. In a moment the bag was ripped and
the gas escaped with a roar heard orblocks.
Both the occupants we've thrown out falling
on Folsom street. while the balloon came
down few rods beyond. Williams was fear
fully crushed about the face and head and died
in few a moments. Colgrave's face was
somewhat bruised but his injuries seemed
mostly internal. He also died soon after
wards. The disaster created considerable
sensation. The men fell about two hundred
feet, The balloon rebounded after striking
telegraph wires, then striking chimneys again
rebounded, at which moment the aeronauts
were thrown out.
HORRIBLE STORY THE NATIVES OF ST.
LAWRENCE ISLAND, IN BETEING SEA, starry
ITG-RUM DID IT.
NEW YORK, Oct S-A San Franco SEQ
despatch states that the schooner Pauline
| Collins arrived on Monday from the A-ctic
ocean. Captain Sands reports a frightful
story from St. Lawrence island in Behring
sea. Almost the entire population of the
southeastern end of the island have rerished
of starvation. A party landed from the
| Collins and were Mortified to find $50 corpses
in one field. The living had carried the
dead away from their huts until overcome
themselves and then in turn died in the
huts and so remained. Everywhere the scene
was frightful. Captain Sands attributes the
starvation to rum. Nearly every trader goes
to the arctic loaded with it and so long as
the liquor lasts the natives will not go fish
| ing, then it is too late and starvation follows
On the northwest end of the island about
200 natives are still alive. lie says revenue
steam cutters are of no use to stop this
/ traffic.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10
Manuals Of Rife Practice.

A serious controversy appears to have
arisen between General George w. Wingatc,
Inspector of Rifle Practice for the State Of
New York, and Col. T. Il. Laidlcy, of the
Ordnance Bureau, L. 5. A. Gen. Wingatc
is thcauthor Of IA Manual of Rifle Practice
which has reached the sixth edition and is
now the official textbook in the National
Guard of New York, New Jersey, Connect
cut, Vermont, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Illinois, Colorado and Louisiana
In 1877 the Chief of Ordnance detailed Col.
Laidlcy, in charge of the WATERFOWL Ar
senal, to prepare "a complete system of
target practice" This has been recently
published and Gen. Wingatc asserts that it
is largely plagiarizcd from his book. Col.
Wingatc, in recent interview with II
reporter OF the New York JIwN, said
| have notified LipIlncott & Co., who
publish "Laidl'y's Manual, to cease their
issue of il and they have sent the notice to
Colonel Laidlcy for an explanation. The
plagiarisms arc on every page. Out of jl5
sections of the work over two hundred are
taken verbatim from my manual while of
the eighteen pages Of the appendix seventeen
are my manual - all bagged without the
slightest credit. The right Of Col. Ladlcy
to resort to such original publications rs |
used is unqucstipnabic, but he was bound to
take directly and not to avail himself Of my
labors. He hasn't always even copied intel
ligently. Now when the Prussian govern
ment wanted n translation Of my book the
officials detailed for the purpose wrote to me
asking permission. | couldn't withhold il
for the work is not copyrighted in Europe,
but that was an act Of courtesy About
Col. Laidley's book not word was known
until it was ready TO he put on the market
In no part Of his book is any allusion made
to the existence Of such n work as "Win-
gate's Manual" Yet the plagiarism is fla
grant Next winter | am sure that some
vtry sharp questions will be put to Congress
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10

As Fer our trying to break up the Rcpub-
lican party in this district the FEE PEEss
knows better. Our bolt was within the Re
publican party. precisely as that of the FEE
Press had been in Chittcnden county politics.
and il was protest against capturing con-
ventiOn by money. Misrepresentation and
fraud. The Massachusetts case presents no
parallel. If the FEFE pl:Ess would he con
sistent, or better still, if it would he wise, it
would cease TO kick AGAINST the vote Of a
majority of IFS own rarty.-iSt AlJdhs .Ncs-
sengeT.
We present the above as sample Of sub
lime-what shall We call it? The Messenger
year ago was up to its eyes in the work Of
organizing separate pariy-thc Grccnback
party antaS1nistic 'oihc Republican party
That party, before utterly insignificant in
this district, suddenly spraug into fornida-
Die strength, hot house growth. forced by
the money of the N.eeHgsr's candidate, and
fostered by its falsch9ods and spccous argu-
ments. The Messenger was the organ of that
party. Its columns were filled with Green
back TRADES; and 10y all methods, except fair
ONES, it lent itself to tie task Of building up
that party TO the direct and sore damage Of
the Republican party And this the Ncsscn-
ger calls "a bolt within the Republican
party! To What chapter in Chittcndcn
county polilcs The Messenger processes TO
sllude, We do not know. If the FREE Press
has been conspicuous for anything it has
been for consistent and unvarying support of
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10
News by Telegraph.
TIE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
THE ZULU CHIEF. cETEwAYo.

CAPE TowS, Sept 1G.-Cetewayo is an
exceptionally fine specimen of a noble
savage. He is big black, fifty years of
age. nearly six feet high, well proportional,
good natured, with broad open face of
the Zulu type. He dresses in European
clothes in which he does not seem
uncomfortable. He was accompanied hither
by four of his wives, four followers and
a little girl The king gave very little
trouble on the way down, except OCCASION
ally he became sulky, and demanded an en-
tire OK roasted for his daily meat In Simons
bay, on board the Boadicea he saw soldiers
at drill and expressed wonder and admira-
ton, remarking, "Oh was only born yes
terday. | am mere boy. | never should
have fought against such good men as the
English who intended to take away
my country and govern it go much
better than l should They shot us
to make us Christians. | ask pardon for
shooting back at them" In an interview
between the premier of the Cape government
and Cetewayo the latter said: IL was the
child of the British government. Ny father
(the English came to chastise me for
wrong doing. | caught the stick with which
he wished to beat me and broke it. | did
wrong to fight him and am punished ! am
no longer king. The English are a great
people. They will not kill those who fought
with them. hope the great father will par
don me and allow me to return to my
country, and give me place and permit me
to build kraal." When informed that the
government intended to treat him with con-
sderation in view of his valor and previous
distinction, and that the English officials
desired to supply him with everything neces-
sary for his comfort, Cetewayo asked that
ten more of his wives be sent for at once 1t
is not probable the request will be granted
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10

SAID Representative Blackburn Of Ken
lucky in his speech on the Army Appropria-
ton hill, April 3. 1873: I'VE do not intend
to stop until We have stricken the last YES
tige of your war measures from the statute
book" This declaration of Mr. Blackburn
was checred 10 the echo by the Confederates
and their Northern allies in the House of Re
representatives.. 1t was taken up and repeated
as the party watchword in Ne Senate, and
in the Democratic press North as well as
South. 1t was repeated in another form
10y jefferson Davis in recent published
letter, IN which he said The vital issue
before the country is the contest
between State rights and consolda-
ton" BY State rights" he means
State sovereignty, and the contest" is be-
tween that and National sovereignty BY
war measures Mr.. Blackburn and the
Democratic party mean all laws designed TO
preserve National authority and National
honor. Among tie war measures" which
are to he swept from the statute book, if the
Democrats can carry out their programme
are those which provide for the protection
of Federal officers in the discharge of their
official duties those enacted 10 preserve the
purity Of elections; and, logically enough,
those under which means are provided 10
pay the interest ON the National debt and
for the redemption Of the debt itself, for it
was created as ''war measure" Are the
patriotic voters Of the United States ready
for this programme
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10
THE ADRIAN, MICH. DISASTER,
sixteen killed and Seventy-five In
tured,

TIE BLAME THRowN on The ARCHITECT.
ADRIAN. Mich, Oct, Sat the county
fair grounds in this city, Yesterday afternoon,
about two thousand people had assembled on
newly erected grand stand to witness the
races, when the centre of the stand gave way
with crash, the front part falling outward
and the back part falling into the river, pre-
cipitating the mass of people into the ruins
The number of casualties could not be ascer-
tanned, but tonight the total number of
deaths has been ascertained to be sixteen,
while seventy-five persons were seriously in
jured, some OF whom physicians say cannot
live more than few hours. The architect
of the grand stand is blamed for the disaster.
The stand was built unusually light to admit
of space for exhibition wagons and carriages
underneath, and the timbers were simply
spiked together instead of being morticed
and brap,,I
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10

lis sessions were of high interest The exer-
clses were interspersed with frequent sing
ing acceptably led by Rev ]. r. Bartlett,
ami aided by the clear and mellow cornet of
MI sherman, the able leader of Sherman's
Band A musical episode of especial inter
est was the singing of Not half has ever
been told, Wednesday afternoon. the solo
being taken by Mrs. j. r. Bartlett and the
congregation joining the chorus.
Mr.. Barker presided with dignity and
ease, and the Convention was fortunate in its
Recording Secretary, Rev. j. H. Rabbit of
Swanton, and the executive committee and
committee of entertainment performed their
arddous duties with excellent judgment and
care and the Convention was felt by all
who attended it to have been useful and
successful meeting.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10

ALFoNso's SUMNER PALACE. - La
Granja IL royal summer residence of the
Spanish family up in the Gua,larrama
Mountains, $500 feet above the level of
the sea. 40 feet above the altitude of
Madrid, and higher by 30 feet than the
top of Nesuvius II was bought from the
monks of FL Parral of Scgoyia, who own
ed the lands for scores Of miles around
and had here their Grange, by Philip v,
the Bourbon Prince, who undertook to
perpetunte the Hapsburgdynasty in Spain
M heir of his grandmother, Maria
Theresa, wife of the "Gramd Monarquc, -"
and by the will and testament of Charles
H. the last male Of the Austrian line.
Philip V. built here II palace and laid out
gardens in imitation of Versailles, en-
ploying his time from lTl9 10 l1iG with
such disregard Of the cost that the gar
dens alone caused IN outlay Of forty-fivc
milan piasters (Sij, OO0, 0OOD. In return
for tins enormous expense the King had,
as he was heard to say, ''his quarter of
an hours amusement" and the satisiac-
ton of boasting n royal habitation higher
up in the air and nearer heaven than any
other sovereign in Europe. The attrar-
ton for those who are not of royal blood
and who own neither house nor land in
this place lies i'll the fact that while in
Madrid the heat is at SO degrees i'll the
shade, it only attains 6S degrees Mt La
Granja,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10

CNMIsTAKABIE indications of the revival Of
business continue to multiply. Within the
last two months, ii is said, fifty millions OF
bushels of wheat have been shipped from the
West to New York, and the price has been
advanced thirteen cents while the exports
from seven of the leading ports were, for the
last two weeks, over eleven millions of bush
els greater than for the corresponding time
last year Iron is selling as fast as ever, and
prices are still on the rise, with supplies run
ming short all over the country. From the
other great departments of business come
equally cheering reports and judging by
reports from all of the country. the Fall
trade will be the largest known the past ten
years-and the trade of that season is but
prophecy of a still greater increase of bust
ness and revival of manufactures TO follow,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10

convention by money and fraud, is the
most desperate flying in the face of the facts
that can be conceived of. The ''money,
Misrepresentation and fraud" were wholly
on the side of the Messenger and its candi-
date. In spite of them Gen. Grout and his
friends carried the convention honestly, fair
ly and squarely-and considering all the in
fuences combined against them, it was one
of the biggest things ever accomplished in
Vermont politics. To carry the regular
nominating convention was all they under
took to do. and that they did, with nothing
to conceal or to be ashamed of, in the means
they used. They never, in the convention
or in the election, undertook TO fight money
with money, or fraud with fraud money
and fraud carried the day in the election.
But a majority of the Republicans of the
Third District supported the regular nominee.
Our Greenback Congressman was elected
only by the aid of a majority of the Demo-
cratic voters. His election was Grcenback
and Democratic triumph, precisely such as
the success of Ben. Butler will be if he sue
ceeds in Massachusetts,, and gained by the
same sort of means. If Gen. Butler is now
only running ''bolt within the Republican
party then that was all the Messenger did
But Ben. Butler, with all his impudcncc
would not LA We the check to call his canvass
bolt within the Republican party.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10

touching the regular army way of doing
things. The work from which Colonel
Laidley has so cody cribbed represents seven
years work in introducing and perfecting a
system the result of which is admitted to
have put the National Guard in advance Of
the army in the use of the rifle, and to have
induced the army to take up the subject for
the first time. | feel that could not, with
out loss of self-respect, permit this to pass
without a challenge, nor would it be fair to
the National Guard, which particularly re-
present. and especially to the officers who
have worked with me-
The subject, it is stated, excites much dis
cussion 10th in the National Guard and in
the army; and it is to be hoped that the mat
ter may he settled without any resort to
either rifle or pistol practice.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10

The London Times has recently been max
ing calculations as to how large popula-
ton our coming census will show, and is
forced to admit that they exhibit PIC
ture of progress which cannot fail to
gladden. the patriotic hearts of sanSuine citi-
zens of the North American Republic" The
Times regrets that no adequate data have
vet been supplied for deciding the question
as to whether the birth rate among the des-
pendants of the earliest settlers falls below
what it is among the English race else
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10
sol TIiERN NEWS.


CHATTANOOGA, Oct. S.-On the eth OF
September, Dick Woods, storekecper on
the line of the Cincinnati Southern railroad,
was found murdered in his store. and the
store robbed. Last Saturday Il negro
named Tom Jones was arrested while try
ing to sell pair of sleeve buttons belong
ing to the murdered man Jones implicated
another negro named Bill Pearson. who was
arrested. Both confessed the murder, say
ing they killed Woods by hitting him on tho
head with ear coupling pin while he was
drawing beer for them They also confess
ed that they had other murders IN view II
they got off with this one. Jones and Pear
son were taken from Gust ody on Monday
night, by unknown parties and hung from
the railroad bridge at Whites Greek.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10

LONDON, Oct. s.-The steamer Faraday
has sailed for st. Pierre, Miquelon, to COM
plete the laying of the new French cable.
There is a general widespread disapproba-
ton over the recent army regulation which
prohibits newspaper correspondents from
accompanying the troops in Afghanistan.
PEsrn, Oct, S.-The prime minister refer
ring To the distress threatening some parts of
the country, informed the Hugarian diet that
apprehensions of famine are unfounded.
The government would distribute seed among
the rural population.
SIDNEY, n. s. W, Sept 1.-THE sculling
match, Lacock vs.. Rush, for COO pounds a
side over the championship course, resulted
in an easy victory for Lacock-
Heavy rains again prevail throughout the
colony and serious floods have occurred in
the country districts
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10
THAT WALKING MATCH.
THE TRACK SIXTY FEET suoR

NEW YORK, Oct Considerable excite
ment was created here to-day by the discov-
cry that the track used at the late walking
match in Madison Square Garden was nearly
60 feet short to the mile. Thus Weston,
Ennis and krohne are over five miles short
and the Others in proportion to the greater
distance covered by them. Weston, Ennis
and Krohne not having actually made 450
miles, were not entitled to u share of the
gate money, but the money cannot now be
redistributed
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-10

THE siaid old State OF Connecticut declin-
ed to be carried away by the current which
has set so strongly towards biennial elections
and biennial sessions of the Legislature The
constitutional amendment providing for such
change was voted down on Monday, by an
immense majority. General Joseph Hawley,
who was one of those who originally favored
the amendment, recently announced that
further examination of the subject had con-
WINGED him that ii would be unwisc to
change from the annual TO the biennial sys-
TEN; and his later opinion was evidently
shared by the masses of the voters of both
nartips