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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

lr seems that the recent outbreak of the
yellow fever in Memphis was due to an al
most incredible act of folly The wife of
the man who was first attacked with the
disease, and who died from it, lost several
relatives last Summer by the scourge, and
thereupon came in possession of their effects,
such as clothing and even bedding from the
death-beds. These effects were packed away
in boxes last Winter, but were reopened this
Summer and put into use-with the result
that might have been expected.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

A TRANr's ARNoRY In the satchel ct d
tramp now serving Il SIX years sentence te
the House at Correction far burglary was
found the following well selected assortment
Of professional tools; Three clasp knives,
one with Il blade about five inches long Il
four harreled pistol, of the pepper box pat
tern; u single harrcIci hrcrch loading pistol,
screw driver, n,inie ball clllrldsts" ut varl-
Gus sizes, ball OF wa1, needles AMI thread.
several boxes of caps large old fashioned
powder horn, small powder horn, piece Of
buckskin two shot pouches, bottle at oil,
two pairs of bullet moulds, some old rags, II
pencil and two pieces OF vegetable ivory, one
Of which he hadcarvedin shape of pipe hut
from its surroundings evidently not one Of
peace Besldes these useful articles the tramp
had in his possession when captured three
powder TASKS two bullet pouches, rifle aud
shot gun.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

The Butler Chittenden greenback test
case of which We have heard so much is still
hanging fire The latest report is that the
friends of Mr. Chittenden are advising HIM
TO withdraw the suit for the following re;i-
sons. If the court decides that the green
backs that have been issued since the war
are unconstitutional, which is Chittendens
proposition, Butler will say, very well;
then all the national hanks that have emitted
notes have done so on non-legal tender
security" and strong argument would he
given the opponents of banks, 10 be used to
break down their credit, as all their notes
are redeemable in greenbacks. Should the
court, however, hold the opinion that the
creenbacks are full legal tender, then Butler
would have carried his point, and would
redouble the cry for more money. 1t
is said that Mr. Chitienden's bank friends
want the matter left just where il is.
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ronxAno N rrrrsFIE1D MASS.
THE LAKE GEORGE REGATTA.
The First Days Races.

LARGE ATTENDANCE AND FINE HOWINa
LAKE GEORGE, July 16-The opening
races in the Lake George regatta came off to-
day. There was large attendance In the
first heat of the junior singles, mile and
half, Alderman OF HObOken. Reisel of Hart
ford and Andrews of Saratoga started. Ack-
erman won in IA min. 81 sec In the sec
oDd heat, Seifort of Reading. SCHUYLER of
Reading, Peet of New York. and Claiborne
Of New Orleans started. Seifort won. The
pair Dared race between German brothers OF
the Olympic club, of Albany the winners OF
the national pair cared race at Saratoga
last week. and the Cray brothers of the
Zepher club, Detroit, was one-sided and de-
void of interest. The latter led for 81 quar-
ter of a mile, hut the Olympics left their OPP
pononts soon afterwards and won as they
pleased in l | minutes 81 seconds. The four
cared race was postponed until tomorrow.
Considerable interest is manifested in the
college race, tomorrow, between the Cor
nell, Columbia and Wesleyan four-oared
crews. The Wesleyans are looked upon as
probable winners by sporting men, with Col
mba second and Cornell third. Different
opinions, however, are held by the more
knowing ones
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

THE raid of tramps into New York on ac-
count of the Governors veto of the anti
tramp law which is in force in neighboring
States, is reported as becoming an alarming
nuisance In one locality fifty of them have
encamped and are spreading serious appre-
heusion, if not terror through the neighbor-
hood The recently enacted stringent laws
of the New England States have largely and
i'll fact almost wholly ahated the nuisance in
their limits; and New York, unprotected by
any such legislation, has the full benefit OF
the countless trampS driven out of her neigh
boring Slates.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

The Sherman ''boom" in the West receives
an additional impetus from the course of
Carl Schurz's old paper, the WestHc1s Pot
OF st. Louis. The Port keeps standing at
the head of its columns that portion of Mr..
Sherman's letter to John b. Haskins which
defines what he would do if he were to be
elected President. The editor, Dr. Preeto-
rious. say he thinks the Sherman movement
is gaining strength each day, and the Grant
movement, waning. He does not believe
Grant could be- elected if nominated. and
says his paper would support him under no
circumstances. The Port represents the
sentiment of nearly all the Western German
Republicans, and IFS support of Secretary
Sherman is significant
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

Tue negro exodus is still blooming.
Senator Lamar, on his returnto Washington,
said that the emigration fever in his State
was increasing, rather than dying out. W.
a. Harrison, president of the Migration As
sociation of New Orleans, writing from
Topeka, Kansas, saws the people who have
gone to that State from the South 'are all
doing right well. and that little money
is necessary to begin with" Peyton Ran
dolph. Louisiana emigrant to Kansas.
writes that people from the South should not
60 there empty handed, if they cauhelp it.
He adds While the kindhearted white
people and colored people, asa general thing,
in the State of Kansas, are trying 10 do all
they can to help us, We must help or try 10
help ourselves" Reports from various sec
tions in the South show that more emigrants
are preparing to leave, and along the Mlssls-
sippi the blacks are leaving everywhere.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

Tue New lor. EceifHg Pest, one ot the
one which cannot he charged with undue
warmth in It's support of the Republican
party indccp il is always prompt 10 ciiii-
cizc the policy, the measures and motives Of
Republican leaders thus sums up the Demo
cratic position
Yet what do We see today We see IA
solid South II ls moi WaVIn" the bloody
shirt Ia recognize the fact that the South is
IA solid as il has been at any time for TWEEN
ty-tivc years of cours" We 81" not mean
that il is solid To make war an the mon,
but ii solid on II party sense. II ~ solid Tor
soft money or hard money \" less eminent
ii representative than Senator Hampton says
that il cares for none ui these things. Is II
solid for reform in the administration of the
Government, for economy IN expenditures,
against the appropriation al money for sub
sidics and other improper CT doubtful pilr-
poses? We know that this l. not the object
Of its unity. What is it solid Tor II not for
the old narrow notions, the mischiryous his
ioric doctrines, After all the tremendous
events IF recent years We hear a Senator of
the nitcd States TALKING in the old fashion
about his people, ns ii the South was
country inrrign to the Union. We hear
another Sennrnt If the lnitcd States men
tioning the lntr wfetchcd sectional struggle
i'll Congress as II companl"u piece I" the
Declaration al Independence. 1hg4' ARE
small signs. hut they are truthful ones The
great sign is the solid South, and il that is
not gross political anachrpnism it Is hurd
to Imagine what would he
We see IN the Democratic party Ot the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18
srONN POINT CENTENNIAL.


"RAriIH BY GEN. HAwLEY NAVY CEIERRf
THIS PRESENT.
PouGHEEErsIE, \. Y, July Ii Twelve
thousand persons to day participated in the
centennial celebration at Stony Point. The
mercury was 9S in the shade and there
were numerous heat prnstations On the
arrival oi Gen. Hancock, the United STATES
ships Minnesota and Saratoga fired a national
salute. Gen. Hawley was also salutcd al
noon. The people assembled about the
platform near the fort, on which were Gen
erals Hancock, Hawley, Allison president OF
the day, Gen. \. f. SuiIern, Gen. Shaler,
state treasurer, Col. Fellows, Col Bensnn.
Senator Robertson, and Others. y F. SUI
fern made the welcome address, and Gcn
llawley delivered the Grafton. The sham
battle was omitted owing To the heat Tie
Minnesota and Saratoga each fired 81 cuns
and the celebration ended
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

SOME figure are given as to the real value
OF the privileges for which the United States
have paid s., 800, 900 under the Halifax
award, from which it appears that the total
value of all the mackerel caught in the Gull
OF St Lawrence, whether within or without
the threc-milc limit, during the five years
covered by Tie treaty. was less than one-fiftb
OF the award to the Dominion of Canada,
while at the same time duties were RENTED
to Canadians on the fish sent to the United
States under the provisions of the treaty OF
Washington amounting to 81 ,G63. s21. All
OF which clearly shows thst tho Americans
were sadly overreachcd at the arbitration.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

The tax levy of the dty of New York for
1879 is S27, 5O., 097 q, entaling tax of -. 20
per 800. or S27 per capita. The valuation
shows an increase of real estate of ST. ,000,-
900 compared with last year and a decrease
of personal property Of SCI, 500, 0OO-a net
decrease of 81, 100000 compared with last
year In 1870 the tax was S23, 500, $50. 1t
was highest in 1874, amounting at that time
10 S32, SOC. 600 The highest tax rate during
the past nine years was in 1875, when it was
S294 per 800. The interest on the city
debt is IS. 40 153
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

The reapp,arancc Of the yellow fever at
Memphis seems wholly due to the gross neg
lect of its municipality of the plainest and
most obvious sanitary precautions. One
would think that after the terrible rayages
OF the disease last year every Enssible meas
! urr would have been taken To prevent its re-
appearance hut the reverse is the ease, it
seems. The streets and sewers are reported
rs clogged with filth. and the sanitary gen
cr,il condition Of the city is no better than
year ago, when it WAS thus described: The
accumulations of forty years were decaying
| upon the surface; u bayou dividing the city,
and which was the receptacle Of the contents
OF privics and waterclosets, was sluggish
and without current, owing 10 the want of
water and the fact that there had been
| scarcely any rain for several weeks. Dead
animals were dccaying in many parts OF 1t,
and the pools which had formed at the abut-
menls of the several bridges were stagnant
and covered with scum of putridity, emit
! ting deadly eiiluvia." Last year Memphis
had Il 900 cases of yellow fever with 3, 100
deaths; and while both the hope and the
probability is that the present season will
| show no such appallinr statistics for the
history of IN. scourre Shove that il never
vista the sam. locolitv two Years
s,,ccess;voI,- ,houqb the Intermediate wear
ia marked hv individual cesesl if is
n, x,nI,r ,hat the alarm and consterna-
tiop bav;. be,o ,rr,.,t and that the pcople are
leaving the ci,v in swarms
Tho IosSor ,ouo,t 10 tn. nlJ ola ono of
TIM, cleanliness which is akin In codliness
Filth il ,,,vavs and cvcrvvher, the fruitful
mother of disease and that Memphis. once
taurh, the lesson with such terrible empha-
sis should nav no heed to it is simply amaz-
ing The present senson the disease seems to
annear not as an endemic but as having
naturalized itself in the tith-encumbered
streets Of the city and probably it will CON
tinue its uuwelcome visits and claim new
victims until the Main conditions of health
are COMPLIED with. Last year the city was
decimated and its business totally destroyed,
and this year, whether yellow fever becomes
an epidemic or not, it will be drained OF its
population and deprived of its trade; and
from, nm economical ne well ne nbilnnthronic
r,,;n, of ,iev In. ansthv and NEGLECT of ALL
,ho.;,i., a,,, n.o,,l. .e.m limos, incrrJi-
HE
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

The outbreak of the yellow fever at Mem
phis has impressed the members of the Ma
tional Board of Health with the necessity ce
taking timely and vigorous measure- 10 pre-
vent the spread of the epid0Hifc. Under the
law. approved on The cd of June last, the
powers Of the Board are very comprehensive,
they being authorized to establish a quaran-
tine between the States, and TO request the
President TO detail officials from the several
departments to enforce their regulations; and
half million dollars were appropriated for
their Use. A death in the New York quar-
sntine hospital from yellow fever has excited
some alarm in that city, but Prof Chandler,
president OF the New York Board of Health
thinks there is no ground for fear The har-
Dor quarantine was effective, and should the
disease gain Roadway in the South, energetic
measures would be taken TO prevent its
spread New York was, he claimed, Il
healthy city as compared with other large
centres, us the death statistics given for
Philadelphia and other places were not COM
plete
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

MORE humiliating story we have never
heard than that which ascribes 10 the Prcs-
dent the intention of appointing Daniel f.
Sickles as Mr.. McCrary's successor in the
War Department. The standard required
in u cabinet officer has not been high, latter
ly, and the War portfolio in particular has
been disgraced by such men rs Bclknap,
Cameron, Floyd and jeff. Davis but never
has President stopped so low as to call TO
the head Of great department a man like
Sickles. II was national disgrace ms well
as an insult to the proudest of countries when
President Grant sent him as minister 10
Spain hut 10 appoint him to cabinet
office is absolutely intolerablc His appoint
ment to Spain may perhaps be explained by
the same reason that President Grant gave
for nominating Tom Murphy as collector of
the Port of New York-"Bccause he's n
good fellow and | like him" but the country
las n right TO expect somewhat different
criterion from President IIayes In our
opinion all of the Presidents mistakes would
shrink into insignifcance compared with this
one, for it would be direct and irrcpar,blc
blow at the foundations of national morality.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

Dr. VERDI of Washington is reported to
have given it as his opinion that yellow fever
has become one of the acclimated diseases of
this country. and the other members of the
National Board of Health are said TO share
these views. If this theory is correct-and
it certainly has the weight of authority
new system Of prevention becomes neces-
sary, and the strictest attention to sanitary
matters assumes still greater and more vital
importance than has heretofore been held,
and there has never been any danger of over
estimating the Importance of the subject.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18
MN ENGLAND NEWS.


BrDGEPoRT, Ct, July 16.-Four men at
Shelton were struck by lightning to-day
One Was killed, and the other three injured
-One fatally.
GREAT STORM - BosTON--LO-- Of LIFE AND
PROPERTY.
B07TuN, July 1G-The weather. to-day
has been intensely hot. This afternoon a
storm OF terrific violence burst over the
city, lasting half an hour Great damage
was done to life and property Reports from
the harbor contain accounts Of serious dam
age and distressing accidents The schooner
Myrtle, having on board six persons capsiZed
oil Bird Island, and all excepting one man
were drowned. A boy was drowned by the
capsizing of a boat of Hulls. The damage
throughout the city is probably many thou
sands. In the southwestern part OF the town
it was severe. Hail fell in large guam
titles. \ large number Of windows
were broken, trees blown down, houses I'M
rOOied chimneys toppled over. There was
a flood in some streets several inches deep
Along the wharves were many anxious peo-
pie inquiring about friends who left the city
on excursions. Greasy & NOyes's saw mill
was struck by lightning, but the fire
was quickly extinguished. A fireman was
buried in the ruins Of falling chimney, and
workmen arc now digging for his body.
Several important buildings were damaged
by hail. Reports from other places also at
test the severity Of the storm.
TORNADO IL rITTsFIEID MASS
futsFIrLn, Mass. July lG.-This after
noon tornado struck the suburbs and two
persons were killed and three or four ynuna
ed-some fatally. Buildings wera unroofed
and blown down and hundreds of trees level
led. Twenty thousand dollars damage was
done
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

VERY competent authority, Major J. NJ.
Walsh, the officer the Canadian Mounted
Police, in charge of the camp of Sitting Bull
and the Uncapapa Sioux, thus very justly
and pointedly criticizcs our Indian policy ::
''fou can't make two govcrnments-onc for
the Indian and the other for the white man
You don't need them Treat the Indian like
white man from the start Show him that
You recognize the fact that he has rights, and
point out 10 him what those rights are
Teach him that the white mans rights and
his are identical. Then show him that he
will I've protected in his rights, and that he
will be punished if he infringes on the rights
of others. and the business is settled" And
it is by enforcing this policy, he says, that
Canada has been enabled to live at peace with
the savagCs for generation.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18
FROM NEW WORK..

MINISTER srorGnroN DESIGNS Ills SUCKS
sOR
NKw York, July III 1t is stated thai
Minister Stou"hton having resigned. Hon.
CORTLAND Parker of New Jersey has been
offered the mission To St Petersburg.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

The New York Commercial Bulletin in q
recent issue published complete list of the
defaulting railroads in the United States
from which it appears that three hundred
and seven railroad corporations have been
compelled 10 90 into bankruptcy, with losses
to creditors varying all the way from so to
100 per cent. The enormous sum thus sunk
cannot be accurately stated, but tho Commer-
eidE BalletiH approNimatcs it at 1890, 900, 900,
u sum which amounts TO nearly one-quarter
from the verv beginning to the present time
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

JoHH W. F"ENEN in writing of the present
troubles in England says: personally
know that this American competition. which
extends Ia other things besides grain and
beef, eScitcs the deepest resentment of the
British arist"racy the manufacturers and
landowners. Ia the United States, no matter
how they pretend {" sympalhizc with US;
and their hatred is natural but without
American cereals and cattle the English poor
would beconfessclly driven into revolution.
This last consideration shows that while the
aristocracy, and the manufacturers, and the
landowners of England are to-day honestly
hostile to the United States, the people of
Great Britain look To our institutions with
increasing interest. The h,trrd of the rich
Is as logical as the love of the poor"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

dishonor which lie at the foundation "i inc
inflationists' creed. Let the people see I"
it that they are not deceived 10y the "''''
rogues and trickStcrS
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

THE most remarkable discovery of Pres
idential candidate IN poss' yet made is that
of Senator William Window of Minnesota,
by Senator Conkling. According to II cor
respondent of the Cleveland Leader, Mr.,
Conkling while dining with several intimate
senatorial friends, just before adjournment,
stated that it began TO look as if there would
he such heated contest for the nomination
that General Grant would not be candidate
He then asked his friends TO name man
who could poll the entire vote of the party,
and not cause any bitterness among its lead
ers. They declared their inability TO do it,
whereupon Mr. Conkling said: "Well, gen
tlemen. can. We can nominate and elect
Senator Window without the least friction
or bitterness, and then we will have placed
the White House in possession OF a man
whose political character is so well-known
that he could be trusted in any emergency.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

THE Tribune gives deal of true inward
ness AS to the Southern situation when IL
says The solidity of Southern elections ms
year will surpass all previous records. Inns
is made apparent by the carly activity OF inc
bull-dozers and by the arrogant tone oil the
Southern newspapers. The issue raised ny
the extra session just suits them, and The
security which they now feel against legal
prosecution for driving voters from the
polls will prompt them TO more reckless bull
doing than ever. 1t is safe therefore, To
predict enormous Democratic majorities in
every Southern State, without a shadow ol a
Republican success anywhere. That South
Carolina warning to Swails sounds the key
note for the campaign; and every man.
black or white, who sends up hostile shout
will indeed have lively time and be
glad to retire
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

"AsHISGToS dispatches say the reports
thus lar received at the Department of JUS
tice as to the effect of the failure of the an.
preparation for United States marshals are
;rry mrHgrc The impression, however, at
., = ".r, "rln rais Office ia, that when
they h>a. /! ~. all the HarsIaIs in the South
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

DEMOCRATIC professions of economy AMI
reform find ready answer in a table recent
" prepared at the Treasury giving an analy-
sis of the public debt of the United States
from July l, 1856, to July l, 1879, from
which 1t appears that during the last five
years of DemDeratic responsibility the cash
in the Treasury was reduced from more thsn
SIS. 900, 600 to less than $1,000, 900, while
the debt was increased from mss than SEQ,
900, 900 to more than $40, 900, OOo. From
about ten millions in 1857 the total debt IT,.
to thirty-eighi IN 1853, fifty-thrse in 1853,
sixty in 1860, and lightweight in 1861 ;
while the cash IN the treasury fell from
eighteen millions in the first year, to seven,
five four and two in the Years mentioned.
The Republicans came into power on the
ith of March, 1861, but were not responsible
for any financial measures until Congress was
convened in extra session after the close of
the fiscal year. Such is the history of De
mocratic economy and reform during the
last tenure of Office of the party