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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-25
THE CANVASS IN MAINE.

The election in Maine, September 1lth,
will be the first State election of the year
possessing any National interest. Rhode
Island held her election away back in April
Oregon in June, and Alabama August 18th
and Arkansas will vote September 4th and
our own State September 9Th but from
obvious reasons none of these have any Ma
tonal significance With Maine, however,
the case is different and although 1t has
been shown that her vote is not essentially
necessary to Republican success in the
Nation, as witness the memorable cam
paign of 1880, the result, neverthe-
less, will be awaited with great and
general interest II is of interest, indeed,
outside of the State not only because It will
he taken MS showing the drift of public senti-
meni, hut because some very important pub
lie positions are to be filled. The Governor,
executive council aud the Legislature are to
be chosen for two years. Besides these. the
delegation in Congress, which consists OF four
members, are TO be elected on general tick
ct because the Governor did not call the Leg
isiaturc together in extra session for the pur-
pose Of redistricting the State under the new
apporionmcnt. The Legislature to be chos-
en- in September will have the election of Il
United States Senator in place of Senator
Frye, whose term expires on March 4th next,
and the Governor will have the appointing of
| five members of the Supreme Court. The
| House Of Representatives is now so evenly
divided that the choice of Congressman is a
very import ant matter, and the same is true
as to the Senate. The candidates for Cover
nor are, the present incumbent, Governor
Plaisted, who has been put in nomination by
the Fusion party, consisting of Democrats
and Greenbackers and the Republican nom
inee, Colonel Frederick Robe, who is de-
scribed MS a man OF high intellectual attain
ments and If wide experience in the affairs
of his State The Congressional candidate!
are the present Republican Representatives
Reed and Dingley. with two new men, Bou
telle and Milliken. The Fusion candidates
are Murch and Ladd rcnominated, and two
new men, Dane and Thing. Mr.. Reed ant
Mr.. Dingley have made exceedingly credita
BILE records in the House; while on the othe
hand Messrs Murch and Ladd have distin
guished themselves only by their ignoranc
and demagocuery.
The campaign is already very lively AM
will be exceedingly lively as ii progresses
The Republicans are making an aggressy
and vigorous canvass, and host of thei
best speakers, headed by Mr.. Blaine, wi
soon take the stump. The Republican pa
pers give cheering accounts of the situatio
| and promise the country rousing victory
and we hope the prophecies will be verified
, The Greenbackers constitute potent facto
| in the politics of the State, and what wit
: them and the Democrats and the Fusionisl
? and the Republicans, affairs are decidedl
. complicated. But the outlook is at preser
very favorable, and it will be more so q
g election day approaches.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-25

Assistant Postmaster General IIa2en ac-
counts for the apparent discrepancy in the
postal accounts-the amount Of revenue said
to he due being some eight million dollars
more than was collected by declaring The
returns of mail matter carried inaccurate and
the result o! gucsswork rather than of actual
computation. The officials he says were
aware tina, in the hurry Of despatching mail
matter it was practically impossible, cspeci-
ally at the larger offices, actually to count
the picccs Of matter handled and that the
reports were in many eases mere estimates,
and probable eXaggerations. And the state
nent of the business OF that year, it appears,
is based on AN alleged actual count OF mail
matter, originating at all the postoiiiccs and
railway postoiices in the United States dur
ing the first seven days of December, The
figures obtained by this count ure multiplied
hy ffty-lwo and the result is taken as an esti-
mate of the business Of the year. But postal
business, as statistics show, is always heavier
in the Winter than in the Summer, and it Is
specially stimulated in the early part of De-
cember, in anticipation of the holiday trade.
General Hazen also declares that the calcula
tons made on the figures furnished in the
tables of the Postmaster. Generals report
were erroneous. He is not disposed to be-
lieve that there has been large loss through
The use OF washed stamps.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-25

Jay Gould has taken open part in the war
fare against Gov. Cornell. He has caused
himself to be interviewed by y Herald re-
porter, and in this manner tells the public
that Governor Cornell promised him before it
passed the Legislature, that he would sign
the elevated railroad bill-a statement which
Governor Cornell prouounces absolutely false.
Mr.. Gould also says: Il have an unsettled
account with Governor Cornell in connection
with what is known in Wall street as the
Governors blind pool IN American District
Telegraph A blind pool is combination OF
parties taking certain interests in transac-
ton, and leaving the purchases and sales in
connection with the transaction entirely tc
the party who gets the pool up, aud in whom
they repose confidence. Gov. Cornell got
up such a pool during the stock excitement
some time prior to the death of Gen Garfield
He came to me and asked me to take an in
,erest in his blind pool at first declined
but he was very urgent, saying that he conlC
not make success unless would lend hin
nv name and get those of Mr.. Russell Sage
and Mr.. Sidney Dillon. He said that if
would do this would be doing him the great
est favor could possibly do him. Beinl
thus pressed reluctantly consented to TAXI
an interest, and induced Mr.. Sage and Mr.
Dillon also to take an interest in it. Thu
Governor has not yet rendered an account O
his stewardship. Common report says tina
he has made some hundreds of thousands o
dollars out Of the pool, so that am expect
ing good round check by way of dvi
dend."
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-25

President McCosh OF Princeton Col
lere has written forcblc letter TO the
Times ON civil service reform. lie lived
in Great Britain when the reform was car
red there. He was n member OF a commits
sion appointed by the crown to organize
the system" ON its first application to the In
dian administration. lie says that before he
left Great Britain he saw the good effects
that followed Immediately and visihly' upon
the adoption of the measure. lie looks at II
as an experiment already made with great
success ON the other side, and likely to prove
ms successful here DIR. McCosh urges The
continued agitation of the subject by think
ing aud educated men, and that colleges
should speak out loudly aud openly both by
their officers and students
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-25

We are glad to learn that Summer insti-
,ntcs OF learning are now being held in the
South, and that the educational movement
there is more aggressive than ever before.
Education is what the South needs. Not
enough has been done for the elevation of
the '.poor white" element there. The negro
has had the benefit of about all the charlta-
Bile aud home missionary work accomplished
in that section so far. 1t is time that the
wants of his white brother should be taken
into consideration, and in M other way can
this be- so proftably done as by gaining his
90 operation in educational work.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-25
A "GREENBACK" PARTY WITH GREEN
BACkISM LEFT OFT.

The noticeable thing about the platform
put forth by the Vermont GreenbackS,ate
convention at Waterbury, the other day, is
its virtual abandonment of the fundamental
principle Of Greenbackism. That principle,
as every reader knows. is that there is no
need of any specie basis for currency, and
consequently no need Of solid money that
the 'lat" of the Government makes paper
dollar IL dollar; and that the Government
should make all the paper dollars that are
wanted or can be used by anybody and
everybody. This fundamental position seems
to have been deliberately abandoned by the
Vermont Grecnbackcrs. The resolution OF
their platform in which they indicate in de-
tail their financial creed, is us follows:
Rrsoircd That we favor the prompt payment OF
| the public debt, the substitution OF Government
money for the National bank currency, and the es-
tablishmcnt of banks of discount and deposit whose
existence shall not be contingent upon the National
debt the adjustment of the tariff 40 as to protect
home INDUSTRIES the unlimited coinage OF gold and
silver 80 long as these metals considered essen.
tial as money Tree ballot and far count IN IN, a
81 the country ana general evaf az
corporations who derive their existence from egis
lative charters and who should be controlled by the
| HuDllC WeIuTt
Here is demand not for unlimited issues Of
paper money, but of gold aud silver coinage
las long as these are considered csscntia
as money which will of course be for Ions
and indefinite time to come. Iu other words
the Grecnback party of this State is no longe
Il Greenback party. As regards financial faitl
its members join the ranks of the solid
money masses of other parties. The othe
financial qnirks of their declaration such a
the substitution Of untaXed Government cap
ital for the large capital of the Nationa
banks, which now bears its share of taxa
ton the abandonment of the existing strong
sound and safe bank system, for return Il
the old insecure and annoying State banl
system, which would necessarily he adopted
if the National banks were wiped out-maR,
no sufficient foundation for Il separate party
The Vermont Greenbackcrs choose to cal
themselves separate party, and as this is
free country they are at perfect liberty to d.
50 but their party is nothing but name
They are solid-moncy Greenbackers-wh
is a contradiction in terms.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-25

AT a recent meeting at Gettysburg oil ON
c,rs euuaped in the battle. ON both sides,
Gen Daniel F. Sickles told over again The
story of the part taken in the battle by the
Third Corps. In this, as reported in TIE pa
ptrs, hr made the following alluslon TO the
Second Vermont brigade 'On my way
from Emmcttsburg to GetlysbnrgI d'scoV-
cred STANDARDS Vermont brigade guarding a
wagon tram. THIS was duty those spen-
did soldiers did not much relish, SO TOOK
the responsibility of ordering them to JOIN
nv command. You can hardly imagine
their 10Y when they found they were gong
to ioin in the battle. They gave ro'lslng
cheer. and the splendid work they perform
cd during the next two days, justified my
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-25
Ghe Stree press.

Our dispatches have already told The story
of the finding and rescue of another Arctic ex
poring expedition 10 the Polar seas Mr..
Leigh Smith, an English gentleman of for
tune, started last Summer in his private
yacht, the Ezra, to aid in the search for the
Jeanette intending to return the same sea-
sonand not to Winter in the ice. But the little
ship was caught in the ice fields and crushed,
- that she sank Immediately when the pinch
relaxed. Her crew lived on bear and wal
rus for II year aud enjoyed the usual round
of Arctic experiences, but all reached home il
safety
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-25

Young men who contemplate marriage
will regret to learn that the price of ''parlor
matches" has advanced. -Er. The man
who got up that joke must have sulphured
terribly.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-25

A man in Lynn, Mass, has just paid for a
pane of glass which he broke when II boy,
thirty-two years ago. He had become tired
of waiting for glass TO cheaper. -Detroh
Free Press
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-06-16
Iowa County Circuit Court.

The adjourned term Of the Iowa county circuit
court met on last Monday, June II. Present,
Hon. NJ NJ. Cothren, circuit judge. 4 special
venire for seven petit jurors was issued.
The first day was occupied i'll hearing motions
and eX parte matters.
The following attorneys were present from
abroad: Philo \. orion, Darlington: a. w. Bell
and VIM. f. Carter. Platteville; L. ?. Villas. Mad
lson.
Motions in cases from Grant county were heard
az follows:
Michael Heiss, archbishop of the diocese of
Milwaukee. VS.. Joseph +. Vasberg ct al. Motion
by defendant to dissolve Injunction. Melton
granted on the ground the complaint being for
trespass the injunction would not lie.
Samuel hanatta et al. VS.. Moses NJ. Nanatta FL
al. suit for partition. Judgment confirming
sale and directing deed and dispositian Of funds.
IOWA COUNTY CASES.
Thomas Chapman VS.. Fannie ). Chapman Di-
vorce. Decree granted on ground of w.llful de
sertion by defendant.
Fam VS.. Shields. order OF leave to issue exc
cution.
George Jeffrey ct al. v. Vim. II. Prideaux. Set
tied
August Muhlhauser IS A. L. Robbins. Con
tinued on leave being given defendant 70 file
supplemental answer.
Serena E. Swartz vs. John F. Hunter. COntin-
ued by stipulation.
Anton IIhofr vs.. Michael Flynn ct al. Settled.
The following criminal cases were stricken
from the calendar: state vs.. John Moore, state
Us. Matthew Jackson, state V. William Maybell,
State vs. Grace Stacy. state vs.. Ira Campbell,
state ys. Richard J. Tenant.
SECOND DAY.
Henry F. Parish as administrator of William
Parish deceased VS. the Town of Eden. Action
for injuries occasioned by defective highway
Jury inpanelled. trial commenced, but on ac-
count Of a technical defect in plaintiffs proof
occasioncd by an oversight in the county Judge
of Grant county, the plaintiff was granted leave
to withdraw juror, and the case continued 70
next term.
Thomas Lego applied for admission to the bar
and was admitted and sworn in as an attorney.
Patrick Kelly VS.. James A. Owens. Tined by
jury Jury disagreed
Eva Geiss vs.. Henry Steel. Certi0rari judy
ment Of the court below reversed.
James MeIlhattan VS.. Samuel Kitchens. Appeal
dismissed by appellant
The following persons were admitted to citi-
zenship: Richard Oliver, Lewis Oliver Oscar
Carlson, William HOskins William Gribble
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-06-16
LINDEN LOCALS.

The Good Templars of this place
held their picnic at Dinsdale's grove
last Thursday. The procession,
headed by the Linden cornet band.
marched through Main street to the
grounds, there to indulge in the del
icacies of the season. As the shades
Of evening approached they repaired
to Mrs. Ingram's hotel to enjoy the
pleasures of social hop.
Among the many who are taking
pleasure in our burg at present is
Captain Macham and wife. of Quin-
nesec, Mich, superintendent of the
Quinnesec mine. They are the guests
OF MIR. and Mrs. James Hicks.
Last Friday evening our quiet lit
tie village was shocked with the ter
rible news that William Batten had
met with terrible accident, which
resulted in his death. It appears
that he left his home in the morning
to get a load OF posts of Mr. McFar-
land, four miles the other side of
Highland. His load of thirty-two
posts turned over on him, which
must have caused instant death. He
was buried Sunday afternoon, Rev.
Matthew Dinsdale, of Madison, Off
eating. lie was well beloved by all
who knew him, and was always
ready and willing to do good. He
was a consistent member of the NJ.
(. church. In his death the wife
has lost kind and loving husband,
the family an indulgent parent and
brother. The funeral sermon was
preached from the words of the
Apostle Paul, Il am now ready to be
offered up; the time of my departure
Is at hand; hence there is laid up for
me crown of righteousness" A
very singular occurrence happened
to Mr. Thomas while hauling rock at
Eden on the same day. The team
ran away with a load, throwing him
out on the ground, but escaped with
only few bruises. Later in the
evening, while driving to his broth
er's, accompanied by his nephew,
Thomas Batten was thrown from the
wagon on the heels of the horses and
narrowly escaped with their lives.
Hurrah for the Fourth of July
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-06-16
SUITS FOR INFRINGEMENT.
Cyrus H. Mccormick Enters Court
and Goes for the Minneapolis Har-
yester Works an Others.

To-day at noon an important bill
was filed in the United States
Circuit Court, in which Cyrus II.
Mccormick, the famous reaper maker
and inventor, of Chicago, appears as
complainant, and the Minneapolis
Harvester Works, defendant. The
suit is for damages for infringe
ment of patent on grain binders,
the damages to be assessed, and
also to restrain defendant from fur
ther manufacturing and using the
patent involved. The feature in
contest is the yielding corn-holder
in connection with the knot-tying
mechanism. The bill sets forth in
detail wherein the infringement con
sists, it being wholly in the above
mentioned mechanism.
The point is apparently pre-
ponderatingly in favor of the McCor-
mick Company, az last week the
William N. Whitley Champion Ma
chine Company of Springfield, O..
were forced to pay 100000, and
did pay that amount in cash, for
the same Infringement, and other
manufacturing establishments are
being negotiated for settlement for
the use Of the Gorham patents,
which are controlled by Mccormick
and others. The present suit in
this court is confined tothe mechan-
ism mentioned, which is owned and
controlled exclusively by McCor-
mick.
Three other bills than the above
are ready for filing in this court,
but were Withheld to-day They are
against the st. Paul Harvester
Works and others. The first named
company, through Mr. Dean, desire
that they should be withheld for
deliberation.
Mr.. Charles Callahan, of Chicago,
counsel for Mccormick, arrived
to-day, but objected to an inter
view. George Harding of Philadel-
phia. also of Mccormick S counsel,
will arrive tomorrow. Minneapolis
and st. Paul Evening Journal.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-06-16

The Platteville Witness is advocat-
ing prohibition again. But judging
from its action last fall, as soon as
the congressional campaign COM
mences it will support the nominee
of the party which refused TO submit
the proposed prohibitory amend
ment to the people, but passed the
anti-treating law as a sop for the tenn
perance men, whether that nominee
is temperance man or represent
alive Of the liquor interests.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-06-16
MOREJEWISH PROSECUTIONS
Russian Influence Being Felt in Tur-
key-TestimonY Of an Eye Witness
to Russian Barbarity.

The following are extracts from
the London cable letter to the New
York World:
Il hear from Constantinople, from
Il source not likely to be mislnformed
on such a subject, that the Sultan re-
fuses to permit the Russian and
Roumanian Hebrews, flying from
the most horrible persecution, TO
emigrate to Palestine in large num-
bers or to form permanent colonies
there. Many families are ready 10
proceed to the land If promise, but
the Turkish consul al Odessa and
Bucharest refuse them passports.
Two hundred families of emigrants
are now in Constantinople literally
at the point of starvation. Mr.. Law
renee Oliphant is doing his best to
stop the tide of emigration until the
difficulties have been cleared away.
The Sultan's inhumanity to the jew
lsh refugees now at Constantinople
daily becomes more marked, and III
tiicts heavy suffering on those help
less and miserable people. English
influence at Constantinople, as |
need hardly say, is dead to all in
tents and purposes, but possibly a
few words from the United States
might induce the Sultan to show
some mercy to the scores of wretched
families now likely to perish at his
palace gates of hunger 1t is Ger
tainly horrible that in this century
of civilization men, women and chill
dren, driven from their homes by a
persecution as cowardly. cruel and
revolving as anything recorded of the
worst days of the Middle Ages or of
Indian massacres In the New World
should find no help or shelter any
where. An Austrian physician, who
has visited the Jews hospital at
Odessa, gives the following account
of what he saw there: In the Jews
hospital at Odessa one hundred and
twenty-five mutdated persons have
been received within 3 few days, and
still greater number are still! in the
ruins Of their homes in Hozole, Balta
and smaller places in the naighbor-
hood Most of the wounds are Of a
very dangerous character, the ag-
gressors having been cruel enough to
pour spirits and petroleum into them.
If the Jews resisted this treatment,
the Russians cut arms and legs of
the badly used bodies and carried
them to the woods to throw them TO
the wolves. Very few of the victims
in the hospital are likely to recover,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-06-16

The iron manufacturers receive a
larger booty from the people under
the name of protection than any
other body Of men, and yet they can
not come to terms with their work
men. Can it be that they pay such
princely wages as they would have
the country believe when they appeal
to congress for more protection
against the pauper labor of Europe?
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-06-16

Hon. George @. Hazelton, member
of congress from this district, has
kindly furnished his constituents at
Dodgeville with copies of his speech
in congress on the Mormon question,
and your correspondent, having re-
ceived copy, has given it a careful
and unbiased perusal.
The delivery of the speech has I'M
doubtedly been one of Mr.. Hazel
tons happiest efforts; and being, too,
upon subject which the speaker
usually excels in, it will exert great
influence over those men in this dis
trict who have been elected husbands
by 4 majority Of wives.
Mr.. Hazelton having been nearly
six years in congress, and having
faithfully applied his attention and
great natural talent to the study and
investigation Of the habits and in
stincts of the Mormon wife, shows a
degree of information on that sub
ject in his speech that is almost in
credible. His active, comprehensive
mind is so admirably adapted to
grasping the subject in all its details
that he has evidently handled il
it without gloves.
Since Dane county has been an
neXed TO this congressional district
it is reported that several gentlemen
III that county are DESTROYS of espous-
ing the cause of those men who are
SO vigorously fighting the women OF
Utah, but it is feared the Dane coun-
ty men have not had sufficient expe-
Renee i'll these matters to inspire
public confidence. 1t requires a
vast resource of experience and rhet.
4
oric 10 be able to teach seven
teen married women in every
family in Utah that the law Of
the land requires the addition Of
sixteen more men in each family to
make the family circle complete
Mr.. Hazelton has acquired this
knowledge and experience III ali EN-.
inent degree, and if he is turned out
now all this vast bulk Of usefulness
which he has been collecting for SIX
years will be apt to heat and get sour
and perhaps emit a deleterious Gas
that would thrill through the whole
body polite. Give George one more
term anyhow, and | am willing t,
pledge my honor as arepublican pol
itician that before the close of the
next congress there will not be q
Mormon in this congressional dis
trict, nor a man that can boast o.
more than one wife, or not more
than two or three at the utmost.