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AUCTION SALES.


by Virtue Of certain assignment recorded In Liber,
No 1000 Folio G Of the Land Records for the District
gtColumhat will offer iur sale ~ public auction ~
the Oce OF Thomas j. Fisher & Co, No, 1921 street
northwest, on FRIDAY, the 5th day Of May, A. -
1881, at $50 o'clock H. M all tho right, title, interest,"
and estate Of William r. Clark rim and to all the real
estate Of which r. H. CLARK, late Of said District dled
seized except the south ~ feet OF Lot NO, y, ~
Square No ISL lying and being In the city OF WASH
ntOn, ~ said District and being the promises known
No itB street northwest No. 0i2 Twelfth street
northwest, aud No I'LL " street northwest subject 70
two deeds OF trust for 5000 on the premises NO
Iit3 street northwest aud the other ior 500 upon
the Individual interest of the said w CLARK IN Tue
Hd real estate Of which the said II. u Ilark uipd
seized and entitled to- and subject also TO two annui-
Ties eO0 each, charged upon said real estate by the
last will and testament of the said a. p Nlnk ~ re-
corded In the Office Of the Register Of Wits for the
District OF Columbia.
Terms-CGsh. -.
ANS II. Agnirupp
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rorc,pn MONEY ,T.rLe,.

BALTIMORE May s.-Virgnia Is. consolidated o.;
do second series, 37; past due coupon CO. new 1905
hid to-day,
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DRoPoSALs FOR GAS CHANDELIERS.
IL OFFICE or BUILDING FOR
STATE. WAR Ann NAVY

WAsHINGToS, d. C., April %. 1882
Sealed proposals for furnishing, delivering, and
putting In place the Gas Chandeliers required for the
office rooms in the North Wing of the Building for
State, War and Navy Departments, IN this city, will
be received mt this Office until IL NJ of May 49, 1881
aud opened Immediately thereafter, In presence Of
bidders.
Specifications, general Instructions to bidders. and
blLlk forms of proposal will be furnished TO estab
lished manufactures of gas fixtures application to
this office. TTOS. LINCOLN CASEY,
ap29-6t Lt.-Col Corps of Engineers.
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by virtue of writ of ner iaclns issued out OF the
Clerks ONCE of the supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, and to me directed, will sell at public
sale. for cash. ut thee Court House door OF said
District, on TUESDAY, the 10th day OF May. lss2,
AZ Y o'clock M all the right title caiin, and interest
Of the defendant In and 10 the following
property TO wit That part of Lot &c. in old George
town. beginning lfl feet II inches east from line be
tween Lots Nos. and 49, and running west Bridge
street 10 feet thence south 10 feet to alley;
thence east ~ feet and thence north 10 the beginning,
with use Of the alley leading to Duck Lane.
Also that part OF Lot No 81, In old GEORGETOWN, be-
ginning on the south side of alley leading from
Duck Lane, aud about 12s feet and inch west nom
said Duck Lane, and running thence east 70 feet
thence south 100 feet TO the canal thence west said
canal 50 feet 10 Dreyuss Lott thence north TO the be-
ginning together with all and singular the Improve
nents thereon) levied upon the property Of Edgar
gowkea, garnishee TO satisfy Execution No. 222S nj
law, In favor OF Buckley a Marbury
G. T. HENRY, u. 8 Marhhal
.Tuos. DowIING, Auctioneer. feH-dts
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.aItimore Stocl. Hoard,

sUBTREAsURY BALANCES.
ST. 203 GO Currency.. S3676 325 a
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PRODUCE MARKETS.

Chicago Grain and Provision Market.
Yesterdays Chicago grain and provision market
Furnished by Cooke Co. Pa. ave Rnd Fllttentlat
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WORCESTERSHIRE.

FOR THE INFORMATION OF THOSE DE-
STRING TO FURNISH THEIR HOMES IN A
MODERATE MANNER. WE APPEND THE FOL-
LOWING LIST OF PRICES;
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brought 9lc for white. No ryc or oats reportc
Country produce quiet and unchanged
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DKOpONAIS FOR WKAPPINU PAPEW,
il 1wine, Letter Balances, and Marking and Rating
PosT-OFFIcE DEPARTMENT,
WAsHINaToN, ID. C., May 3, 1852.
HoAlcd Proposals will be received at this Depart
inent until the eth day of June, lsS2 at II O'Clock
noon, for furnishing Wrapping Paper, Irvine, Letter
Balances, and Marking and Rating Stamps, for the
nse Of the Post Offices In the United States for
year from the list day of July, 1881
Blanks for proposals and circulars stating the kind
aud estimated quantities required, and giving full
instructions as TO manner of bidding and conditions
TO be observed by bidders, will be furnished app
meut Washington, ID. C." Il. o. HOWE,
ma4ItT Postmaster General.
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On the Badensburg road, four acres, Emily u
Hutchns to Thomas W. d. Ward $3.50.
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[NoTE--The closngs are bid prices, and are not 1
Cluded in the high and low.


bANkEHS FNCIIANUF
Three-day bills..,.. i9O1s Sixtyday bs....... 4SS
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29

interest is not embraced by the protective
principle The aim of protection is to create
and stimulate industries and guard them
while they are feeble. 9But the Louisiana
sugar fields were not created by act OF Con-
gress nor has their product increased under
the heavy duties. 1t is no larger than 1t was
before the war. This Is necessarily the case
for all the cane is grown now that room can
be found for on the land All the duties that
could be imposed would not swell the crop,
nor would Introduction of taxation diminish
it. With the sugar planters stand the glu-
cosc men. So long % sugar Is very hiSl
there is profit in making glucose Will
which to alultcra,c it. So the glucose man
ufacluicrs of the West strike hands with tn,
cane planters of the South. They have al
ally inthc San Francisco monopoly which con
trols the entire importation from Honolulu,
and 50 regulates prices that the free sugar d
California costs more than the taxed sugar OF
the East. These are the interests that IRON
selfish motives and in opposition to the wish
es Of the people oppose any considerable re
ducton of the sugar duties. But Congress
ought not TO be controlled by these interests
The change might work some individual
hardship. but the best good of the whole ma
ton is to be looked at and from that view
of the matter reason and eXpediency boil
favor the reduction OF the duty in ques.
,;,,,
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year OF his service in that capacity was re-
Gently commemorated by the Society OF that
church by the gift TO him of service Of
plate aud when it was known that the man
who had always been the giver was for once
TO be the recipient, the numbers who desired
to contribute to the testimonial was so great
that the subscription had to be closed sum-
marty, and more Or less money returned to
the subscribers. Mr.. Sleeper was in former
years connected with one of our prominent
industries, as a large stakeholder in tho
Burlington Wooden Mill, before its sale tc
he IIardings; and he has always been helc
in the highest respect by all his associates il
that enterprise. lie is now eighty yeats Old
but on visit to Burlington two years ago
he was as erect aud fresh-lo)king as at fifty.
1t is pleasure to make note of a life SO lillct
with bcnciicendcs, and crowned by M
old age 50 vigorous, genial and generous.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29
A HANDSOME GIFT.

Among the recent noble gifts TO American
Colleges, is the new building for college
of Liberal Arts, given to Boston University
by Hon. Jacob Sleeper of that city. 1t stands
at the head Of the entrance to Pemberton
Square, and IS handsome and spacious
structure, of pressed and moulded brick and
terra Gotta, in Renaissance style, with
stained glass windows. 1t contains n Uni
versily chapel, rooms for neurological
collections, large and elegant rooms for a
young ladies' study and, young mems study,
reference library, gymnasiums, for students
of both sexes, etc, and is elegantly finished
with carved oak book cases, hard wood
floors, marble thing, lavatores, aud all mod
crn convenicnces 1t has been named by
the trustees, jacob Sleeper Hall. Its cost
was in the neighborhood of 100000.
Mr.. Sleeper, who has made this muniticent
gift, is one of the oldest and best known
and most respected citizens of Boston. lie
has been for fifty years the superintendent
of the Sabbath School of the Bromfield
street M. Z. church of Boston. The iiftieth
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29
A SWEET \! B.IECT.

Tie average man us he buys his pound of
sugar at his giocei's has no idea of how much
of his shilling goes to tie government and
how little for the sugar itself. The country
annually consumes about million tons of
the article, and as the quantity raised here is
small its pIice is as high as that of the i'm
ported article OF the million tons Louisi-
ana furnishes eighty thousand and Hawaii
forty thousand tons 50 that nearly nine hun
dred thousand tons pay duty. That duty is
at present. with the exception of that on
Hawaiian sugar, which comes in duty free
about ffg-fre per cent OF the value of the
sugar in other words, the consumer pays
about dollar and half for every dollars
worth of sugar he buys. During the last fis-
cal year the value Of imported sugars was in
round numbers S93 900 900. and the duty
collected upon it S47 600, 900. This vast sum
is an enormous burden upon the people. 1t
forms memorial Of the legislation of years
gone by when sugar was regarded as luxu-
~, and was actually such. But now it
would be ridiculous to maintain that it is a
luxury. II has become necessity in every
household. Ii isused by rich and poor alike,
and as the number of poor men greatly ex-
ceeds tie number of rich men the greater
part of the tax falls upon those least able to
pay it,
The Tariff Commissioners propose reduc-
ing the duty only fifteen per cent, which ap-
pears to be "A very inadequate reduction
Other duties are to be lessencd 25 to so per
cent and it is even proposed 10 cut down the
taxation ON tobacco, while maintaining that
on sugar at nearly The present rate, netwith-
standing the fact that is the heaviest of the
duties in force. The tobacco pouch is to fare
better than the sugar bowl. That the peo-
pie favor large reduction, or would so ia
vor it, did they know the facts, can not be
questioned and if Congress wants to
do popular and just thing, it will
largely reduce it. The opposition to the
change comes from certain interests who be-
lieve their chances for gain will be lessened.
The Louisiana sugar planters for whose ben
eft the high duty was IN part established,
insist that they must be protected, But this
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

In Nebraska so, 06S votes were cast on the
woman suffrage amendment of which so, COB
were against it, 1886 in favor and IL, 6l9
votes were blanks.
The Georgia Legislature has made an APP
preparation of $4,000 tor portrait of the late
Senator b. H. Hill, to be placed on the wall
of the Chamber of Representatives. A
Georgia artist will be selected to paint it.
None Of the Republican candidates for the
Illinois Senatorship seems to have secured an
actual majority of the Republican caucus.
The Chicago Times (ind.) says Governor
Cullom undoubtedly leads, with Raum and
Oglcsby dlsputins the second place. The
situation is full of discouragements for all the
professional candidates"
The citizens of New York are never free
from trouble about their streets. The streets
are SO dirty as 10 be constantly offensive.
They are so crowded that they can be cross
ed only at great hazard of life and limb.
The sidewalks are so encountered with mtr-
chandisc as to be almost impossible. Some
of them are made nuisances by the elevated
railroads Lately there has been great out
cry because the streets were torn up in all
directions to put down electric wires and
steam pipes. The other day something hap
pened 10 an underground electric wire, and
every horse who came into the vicinity was
given shocks that made him nearly crazy. A
day or two ago an underground steam pipe
burst, hurting paving stones through the air
and scattering the whole vicinity with black
mud, thrown out of the volcanic pit that sud
denly opened. Life in the metropolis is not
all bliss, and things sometimes happen there
which would make quiet party contenled
| to live in Boston or even in Philadelphia.
A prominent legal gentleman of New
York met Oscar Wilde at dinner night or
two since, and asked him what his real opin-
ion of New York was now that he had lived
here nearly year. "Well, SIR" said Mr.
Wilde with placid smile, my opinion is
now formed, and it IS that New York is a
very good place for one to stop for dinner on
ones way to Yokohama"
Earthquake shocks in India are to be sys.
tematicaliy observed for the future at certain
meteorological stations in Bengal and North
ern India. The plan was first proposed five
years ago by the British Royal Society, but
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29

Affairs in Ireland are going from bad to
worse. The inhabitants of large part of
the country are threatened with falnlnc and
the prospect for the winter months to come
is gloomy cnoIgh, The people on the sea-
board of Donegal are said TO be hopclessly
destitute. The authorities are besiegcd by
crowds Of starving poor for assistance, which
they are unable To- give. In Glare, Galway
and Mayo the situation is almost equally bad
So far nothing has been done hy the govern
ment to relieve the dcstitution, nor is there
any likelihood of anything being done, The
funds raised in particular county, and ap.
plcabe to the succor of the poor are, even
in ordinary times, inadequate, and these
funds have been exhausted. The church
fund, resulting from the discstablishment OF
the Anglican Chulcn in Ireland, might have
been used for the amuliorltion of the present
suffering, but that fund Las already been as.
sigIc for the cancellation of accrued rents
The government of England apparently de
ponds upon the emigration clause in the AZ.
rears bill which will compel these pool
wrctChcs either 10 stay al home and starv(
or to be landed in this country without
friends and Without funds.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29

,ros mn. ,,I.o, 49,. .., $3.50. .., Al,
dia, aov .smrm ap un.i nom' Tnef .he IN
vid;,SS ~, nn' ''. nus vo.eu lul,s ior pro
ings. Talking of meteorological phenomenn
a ,, observatory has been erected on the top Of
Appcnzol-o, nv a,,i,,, a an naoo p1 ~, .a', n ~
is the fourth highest observatory in The
world, the three others bcinp those IN tho
Stelvio, 772O feet The pic du Midi 300
| feet and Pixies Peak. Colorado. United
States, 49, 100 feet.
~,
luz ue'hoitlon OF all tlat remains OF san
down Castle, near Deal, England, which was
temporarily suspended Nv order of thc War
Oo,ce or,ho,;,;a. haa -, @.
tirmlv ora H. s, LIS peen resullea' 90
n,a,cy,;oi o., '1s u,ochs vi sV,'ne una other
yr,o ,,;,;aa,,,, w, .fI . . III WHICH my
rcn,ovnd h, ,i r',.', M. .nV can ony oe
rrocooJ;nGy '' ..,n EHcntu..ons arc now
rooms nf no o, mua' WI oi,s.ua,y ."o sui'
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29

PnlIADELPnIA, Pa, Dee Smith II Co.,
manufacturers of ginghams and cotton
goods, have been running two large mills in
this city, one on Pine street and the other
known as the Berkshire mill. The announce
ment yesterday that their paper had gone to
protest caused stir among textile mauufac'
turers. The firm is composed of James s.
Smyth, formerly prominent lawyer, and
VIM ID. Olier, The liabilities are estimated
between 100000 aud $500 900 Smyth
thinks that the creditors will allow them to
continue their business.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29
SCHOOLS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND IN YER
MONT.

The annual report of Hon. j. w. Paiter-
son, the New Hampshire Superintendent OF
Public instruction, tells very much the same
story as tina, recently submitted by Superin-
tendent Dart Of this State. The burden OF
Mr.. Puttersons report is limited ability ana
deficient scholarship On the part OF the teach
ers, bad methods OF teaching, and failure
OF the public schools to satisfactorily ois-
charge their functions. MIR. Patterson says
"The public schools do next to nothing ior
the manual deXterity anu SIKH o' sc"oi"'''
very little to quicken perception anu chlaige
the fertility OF intellectual resources lhey
do.not make the formation Oh haoi's vi opse'
tion ard reelection an opJec' oi u'h''i'e anu
continuous effort; do not exercise, ana 'here-
fore do not educate, the Judgment IN piactl-
cal matters OF everyday concern. Inc oo-
jccts and activities Of actual adll lie are
not sufficiently used as instruments ana nus,
tratons in our schooling. Hypothetical, Il
not impossible examples are too generally
employed in the eluclda'lon oil prihcipies'
There is too much blind examining oil tue
memory with what the unawakencl under
standing does not approximation little d's'
elimination between what is useful and what
is useless in the acquisition OF knowledge.
With such drawbacks, the physical, iniellec-
tual and moral faculties of children cannot
be 50 disciplined aud informed as to tit Il en-
to do their best i'll the industries and lespon-
sibiities of after-lfe.' All this is just as
true in Vermont as it isin New Hampshire ;
and both States are confronted by the same
question.
In details, to-, there is "A likeness in the
condition of the two States. Our school
population has largely decreased within the
last quarter of q century, aud so has that of
New Hampshire. According TO Mr.. Pattcr-
son, the decrease there has been nearly three
thousand within fifteen or twenty years past.
And many of the schools there are so small,
so short and SO poor that they do next TO
nothing for the education of the childcn.
Thus of the 264l public schools IN the
State no less than ,53 numbered
only twelve pupils or less, and
$40 six or less. Mr.. Patterson acknowl-
edges that this educational problem is a
difficult one TO solve. As steps toward
It's solution, however he recommends the
abandonment of the district system-whlch
lie very Justly thinks has outsrown It's use
fulness; the rigid enforcement Of the law
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29

The Senate refuses to adjourn for the Holt
days, and the House must continue IN session
Or adjourn for three days only at time, for
the Constitution requires that neither branch
shall adjourn for more than three days with
out the concurrence Of the her-though it
is not believed that the House will have
quorum present at any time next week But
the business of the House is already more ad-
vanccd than that OF the Senate, which has
several appropriation bills before it which the
House has passed. besides the civil service
reform, the bankruptcy, and other bills.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29

Thee is nothing like leather is an old
proyerb. The boot and shoe manufacturing
interest OF the United States is represented
by big figures. The census statistics show
that for the manufacture cf boots and shoes
there are 1853 establishments, employing
III 152 PERSONS requiring capital OF SAP,
904 OPS and paying in wages e43, COL 43S.
The value of materials used is ~l02 ,442, 442,
and the moaucts are 80, 400 $50 pairs Of boots
valucdat S53. 223, 2Gj 8: and 81, SS1 ,G15 PAIRS
of shoes, valued at SIP, 100, 343, or total
product worth SlGG, $50, 3j4, before it gets to
the retailers price These nsures, of COURSE,
take no account of the vast amount of GUS
tom work that keeps individual shoemakcrs
busy.
Colonel Mcclure of the Philadelphia Times,
writing from Washington, says that never
during ,hiry years Of visits 10 the Capital
when Congress was in session, has lie seen
such an earnest purpose on both sides 10 leg
islatc promptly and judiciously in obedience
to tie cx,rcssci wishes of the people. ut
is true" he says, "(hat the people made a
laundering call upon their law makers to
halt hut ncycr before did popular revolu-
ton 80 completely subdue party leaders. In
steal # party leaders constantly conspiring
10 gain party advantages at any cost to the
gen raj welfare, as has been common on all
like occasions, they seem TO understand that
r. .eit,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29

A wag, speaking of a friend whom he sus
pected of living altogether beyond his means
observed that he believed he "would owe
several thousand dollars after all his debts
were paid. "-Ldnreaes american.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29
The Stree press.

Governor Cleveland of New York will
have IL lively time when he gets at his work.
There were 1000 applicants for positions on
Governor Cleveland's staff, which consists of
II members. Mr. Cleveland has named the
II, and this puts the noses of just 0s3 Demo-
Gratis out of joint. Other appointments will
Of course have like effect III . correspond
;u,y ratio
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29
Perhaps the Garfield Doctors Will SEE
the Point.

Many people in Washington have been DIS
posed TO laugh whenever any of the doctors
or nurses or clerks or messengers, who were
with Garfield during the last illness, spoke of
injury resulting to their health or business
from their close attention to the President.
There seems to be a similar desire outside of
Washington. The subjoined bill, received by
the president OF the Garfield board of audit,
is very good burlesque on some of the non
sense in the shape Of claims which have been
sent into this board. 1t is needless to say
that il will receive as respectful consideration
as was given other and more pretentious
claims of the same description. The claim
is undated, but it came in an envelope post
marked New York.
The Garfield board Of audit, to Jonathan Sage,
Jr., DR..
To anxiety caused by Presidents illness si4OO "
To extra papers purchased ss........... ~
To wear and tear Of brain caused by the
- suspense. ...........'.''. ''.....,''..' W bU
To abrasion of mind caused by the af-
Iair 49,. ''''''''''''''''''''''' W. w.
Less 40 per cent. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. B6 90
To II opinions on the Presidents recovery
- III ~ thch. .,..''....''--'s'''l'' ~ w
10 sundrles. Observation-Disclosures. ~ w
Total 1904 so
Less per cent for cash ,,.,............, 10 81
In this have only charged what wealthy
person, who did not dispute the charges,
would be willing to pay. Please send Inc a
check for the amount of the bill, or l will
taka GOVarnmant honda at mar
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29

The half dozen gentlemen who comprise
the GrccnOack party in Vermont will be glad
to hear that the Grecnback National committee
at its ST. Louis meeting twenty-five States
being represented decided that fusion with
either of Tie oil parties is undesirable, and
that the members arc determined TO build up
the party under its present organization,
which is "as perfect ms il can be made"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-29

New York State having refused to take
stock in the project of an international park
at Niagara Falls, Canadian company is
now seeking incorporation from the Lcgisla-
ture for the purpose IF restoring and pre-
serving the natural beauties OF Niagara. 1t
proposes to acquire the property adjacent 10
the falls At a valuation, and form 1t into
park, free to everybody, without charge for
admi, sion to any part except where buildings
have cen erected or othor outlay incurred.
The plaus of bulldogs and scale of tolls is
to he submitted to The Lieutenant Governor
in Council.