Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-11
MATTERS AND THINGS.

The Rugby Colony is cheered by favor
able Summer and good crops, and the grum
blers have gone to the rear for the present
Among the wickedness denounced by the
recent Free church assembly Of Scotland
was "the admiring of the works Of nature
on the Sabbath"
The engagement ring given by wealthy
young German to his bctrothed, whose step
mother Is u New Yorker, was his first tooth
set in diamonds. They have been married
recently with great eclat in Germany.
Illinois has the greatest railroad mileage of
any State, and the yearly earnings OF the
companies is put at $50, 900, 900, while the
running expenses are $50, 000, 900, including
$95, OOO, 900 paid as wages to 10000 men.
Two colonies settled New York town
one Of Pennsylvania and one of Yankees. Each
wanted TO name their new settlement after
their old homes. They finally compromised IN
Penn and Yam. And that Is an explanation
of the singular name of lively municipal
ity.
With last months debt statement the frs
loan authorized by the Government in 1861,
on account Of the Rebellion, amounting to
$3.50, 800, 900, has disappeared from the rec
ords of our Indebtedness, and of the second
loan of S75, 100000 in 1868, but SIT ,O00,-
900 remain uncalled.
The Russian Observatory at Poulkovo will
shortly he in possession of the largest tee-
scope in the world. The totallengh will be As
feet and the diameter of the glass 80 inches.
1t has now been definitely decided to build
permanent observatory on Ben Nevis.
Lyman B. Goodhue,a st. Louis druggist, is
white, and bis wife is black. He is suing
for divorce, not on account of the difference
in color, but because she treats him cruelty.
He bore with her lovingly, he says, as long
as she struck him only with her open hand,
but when she threatened his life he moved
for a separation.
The Young Mems Christian Association
year book for lss2-s3, just published by the
international committee, reports 779 associa-
tons with membership of 50 ,375; 104 own
buildings and real estate with net value of
50 1888, 900, adding to this the value of IL
braries, furniture, etc, the total value Of
property is $780, 900.
Business is good throughout the country,
and few deserving people are now unemploy-
cd. The savings banks in New York report
an increase of 5000. 900 in deposits for the
| last six months. This is good evidence of 10.
cal prosperity, considering that these de.
posts come largely from the poorer classes
of people, and that the cost OF living has ma
terially advanced during the period named.
| Aboo. Keer, or Aboukir, as it is more com.
monty spelled, is II small village, situated OF
the shore OF the Mediterranean, about Il
miles northeast from Alexandria. 1t wa'
here, on the first of August, "a years ago
that Nelson fought his famous battle OF thu
| Nile against the French under Admira
Brueys, utterly defeating them. and thereby
gaining for himself the title of Baron Nelson
of the Nile.
| A four per cent semi-annual dividend ha!
been declared by the Clifton Cotton Manu-
featuring Company of Spartanburg, S. G.
The factory has been in operation but siA
months, and that it is able to declare such
handsome dividend already is proof of goot
management, as well as encouraging to SINH
lar Southern enterprises. The Clifton com
pany is so encouraged that it will at an early
date utilize other near water-power and in
crease the stock to $1,000, 900, with proper
tionately enlarged capacity.
| The late Parliamentary return shows that
in the first six months of the present veal
there were 3O49 evctions in Ireland of which
2051 were for nom payment Of rent and 99s
for other causes. The number Of cases, in
which hardship was caused to the tenant by
his inability to pay rent due from poverty
caused by bad seasons is given as 176; the
number of cases of hardship otherwise thar
that from bad seasons, 1882 and the number
in which the non- payment Of rent was due
to unwilingness or fear of injury on the part
of the tenant BAG.
The liquor question is causing both parties
considerable trouble at the West. In Indiana
the Democratic State Convention declared
substantially for free rum, SO that bolt Of
Prohibition egates-numbering about thir-
| ty-took place. This is the most surprising poll
| lical occurrence Of recent years, that as many
US thirty Democrats should secede from d
| regular party convention on the score OF
prohibition. These Democratic Prohibition.
lists say they will defeat, by large major
| ity, the party abandoned by them. 1t re.
mains to be seen whether the secession
strengthens or weakens the Indiana Democ-
racy
The United States, it seems, does not en-
joy monopoly of the counterfeit butter
business. According to the London Times
there are in operation in the Netherlands
some three score and ten factories from which
an immense quantity Of oleomargarine but
ter is turned out. There is said to be fac.
tory in New York which produces 200, 900
pounds year Of oleomargarne cheese, which
Is declared by the Times to be so fine an i'm
itaiion of American chedder" that it can
hardly be detected. 1t appears that all at
tempts to stop the fraud-ifi 1t be fraud-by
legislation, or appeals to the public, have been
complete failures.
The official reports show how seriously the
city Of Quebec, Canada, has suffered from six
fires during the last thrty-six years. In May
and June. 1915, two fires swept away two
thirds of the suburbs of st. Rock and St.
John, destroying "a, 900, 900 of property on
the 14th OF October, 1860, $500, 900 worth
was destroyed in the districts of ST. Roch
and st. Sauveur; on the Gath of May 1870,
loss of 100000 occurred in st. Roch's !;
on the Both of May, 1875, the district of St.
Louis lost 81 ZOO, 600, and on June 9Th, 1881,
90, 600, 900 were destroyed, making a total
loss of over $40, 900, 900.
Mr.. Gresh Martin, veteran Illinois dis
tiler, who keeps the run of the traffic, has
been making statements that are deserving
of notice. He says the production of whis-
key greatly exceeds the demand, that sur
plus of ninety millions Of gallons is now
stored IN bond, and that the fifty millions
now in this country drink less whiskey than
did half their number thirty years ago He
comedies that ''the moral and religious senti-
mcnt of America" is against the traffic. and
is not deluded by the assertions that 1.-THE
temperance movement is failure" All of
which should be encouraging to those who
have labored to produce the change, even
though II is not so great as they had hoped