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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-06
The johnson Normal school,

The closing exercises of the Spring term
began Sunday June "a, with sermon before
the graduating classes by Rev. S. Dickinson
of johnson. Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday were devoted to the usual semi
annual examination, over which State Super
intendent Dartt and Principal Putney OF st.
Johnsbury presided. A class of five, whose
names appear below, WAS graduated, and 9th
er classes were advanced in the course
Thursday evening was occupied by the Is
class for the benefit of the school library, pre-
scnling the following
ORDER OF EXERCISES
Music By the Johnson screnade Band and by menu
bers OF the school.
The Painter of seville,
Meora A. Crossett, Bakersfield
what is Justice?
Mary l.. Gates, Montgomery
Emma c. Ryan, Fairfield
The Graypor Legend,
Horatius at the Bridge,
Ghosts,
Jennie NJ. Rankin Georgia
Music BY the School
,,,. M. b. Sullivan, Cambridge
The Forging of the Anchor, '''
- Elsie C. Raymore Cambridge
The Modern Aesthetic.
Jennie NJ. Kinney, Grand Isle
Days Wages for Days Work,
Nellie NJ. Cilley, Fairfax
, Annabel Stow, Morrlsville
MUSIC Band
1t is not our purpose to mention particular
speakers when all acquitted themselves adj
mirably, but the second and eleventh pieces
were of very high order and were rendered
with apprecative spirit. Friday afternoon
came the closing exercises of the graduates,
OF which the following is
THE PROGRAMME.
Music johnson Sercnale Band
frayer' Rev. A. A, Smith
Music. ................. Hand
The signal Service,
Augusta II. Boomhowcr, Fletcher
Graded Schools .Lepha b. Rankin, Georgia
me Tarlh .,..'.,.....David II. Holmes, johnson
Music ;..',,;:.,,.:...,:;:. Singing by the School
ihe Memory. Agnes Il. Wheeler, so; Darlington
Preseniaiion Of cericates the o''''
Benedic,ion.
The articles presented furnished good ex-
amplcs of the clear thinking and plain state
ment, which is the best evidence of sound
training.
The Alumni association held their annual
meeting Immediately after the close of the
school exercises. The principal exercises
OF this meeting were Il very felicitous address
OF welcome to the new graduates by T. j.
Boynton, ESD, of johnson, Il valuable lee
ture on education by Mrs. George Wilkins of
Stowe and an entertaining paper entitled /;
personal "Reminiscences" by Miss Helen
NJ. Winslow of johnson. The following of.
iicers were chosen for the next year: Pres
ident, b. A. Hunt, Esq. secretary, David
II. Holiness executive committee, John
burnham, q. Z. Jones, Miss Lucia l..
Bedding. This memorial school has now
successfully closed its third year, with bright
prospects for the future.
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Worthwhile.

ii. NJ. Rich and wife leave home soon fol
Fargo, Dakota. Mr.. Rich whohas been ina
bank some time in Jatlrey, New Hampshire
goes there to serve as secretary OF
loan and trust company, which the JaiTrcy
Bank company are connected with. Mr.. ant
Mrs. Rich will be much missed in the com
munity, having lived here for several years
both being graduates Of MUrrlsville Aca
DENY.
L. ]. Durham who has been confined al
Hyde Park the past eight weeks, for intoXi
cation, was set at liberty on Friday.
ii. p. French, ESD, formerly Of this place
but now Of French X Choatr, Wholesale sta
TONERS and school furniture dealers New
York, is visiting his relatives in town.
IL. G. Fisk returned on Saturday from Il
tiip to New York, Washington and Balti-
more.
The examinations aud closing exercises OF
the Normal school took place last week.
Superintendent Dart and Prof. Putncy OF
the St. Johnsbury academy and the State
Board of Examiners were in town. The ex-
animation occupied three days and was rigid
~ thorough. The class all passed and re
cevcd their iivc-ycar certificates TO teach in
our common schools OF Vermont. The clos,
ing exercises were ON Friday afternoon. The
original essays and Grafton were all up to the
mark, and the affair passed of very pleas
antly.
The alumni meeting on Friday afternoon
was a success in spite of the extreme heat,
and the time of the graduating exercises
coming the same afternoon. There were u
good many present. Mr.. T, j. Boynton
made II highly felicitous address of welcome
to the graduating class, Miss Helen Winslow
read a paper on personal "reminiscences, -
and Mrs. George Wilkins of stowe, gave an
interesting and scholarly lecture on the sub
ject of education. New officers were elected.
Mrs. Riddle, lifelong and highly respect
ed resident of this town, is very i'll. DIR.
Grinnell of Burlington was here in council
with DR.. Woodward on her case Saturday.
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river Tuesday, on the little steamer Guzcllc.
The excursion was given to few friends OF
Mr. and Mrs Cbas l.. Parker. Some fifteen
were in Attendance. They went across the
lake, and landed at the Champlain grauite
marble companys works.
Cornwall.
Last Saturday night Mrs. J. b. lIamblin
accidentally slipped and fell while Sgoing
down cellar, and broke one of the bones OF
her leg Just above the ankle.
Bucl aud Henry Warner we're called to
Port Henry last Sunday to bury their broth
tr, DR.. Rolin Warner Of that place, son OF
tue late Deacon Daniel Warner OF Cornwall.
lie had been great sufferer for some time
with diabetes. lie was about IS years of
age.
Mrs. Alice Bristol and daughter of Bristol,
Colorado, arrived last Thurs lay To spend y
part OF the Summer at her fathers, j. ii.
Footc
Jack Frost visited town Saturday night.
We haven't heard OF any damage done to
crops.
Wild Strawberries are plentiful and of fine
quality.
Farmers are getting ready fer haying,
There will be fair crop. laying and hoe
ing will come together this year.
Potatoes are looking finely. The potatoes
beetles arc plenty and threaten trouble, but
farmers are prepared for them.
Communion services were held on Sunday
last at the Congregational church. There
were two ladies taken into connection with
the church and two children were baptized.
MiddIcbury.
Mr.. Caleb Ticknor, who used to he pro-
priotor and landlord OF the Addison House.
has been in town this week, after an absence
of many years. He now resides at Great
Darlington, Mass.
The trees along the roaisdes throughout
the village are being trimmed by direction
of the trustees. Mr.. Edwin Nalelte has
charge Of the work.
Mrs. NJ. V. i. Bronson died Thursday
afternoon, after an Illness OF three weeks.
The funeral took place here Saturday morn
ing.
There is no intention of having Garrett j.
Rose re-arrestcd on the complaint which was
first brought against him by his mother. The
old woman is so utterly unreliable that it is
believed it would be making a useless cy-
pensc for the State to again have Inn ar
rested.
BridpOrt.
The Sunday school concert, at the Meth
odist Episcopal church, Sunday evening, was
u complete success. There were twenty
Rotations by the children and young people
interspersed with singing. The audience
was well pleased with the entertainment
Rev. Mr.. Breese is in town preaching for
the Cougregationalists.
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WEST RANDOLPH, VT, July &c. c. Sar.
gent. section man, was struck and badly
injured by the cylinder of locomotive, this
afternoon, while working on the track near
the station. lie was thlown some ten feet.
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ADDISON COUNTY.
Scrgenries.

There was pleasant excursion down the
river Tuesday, on the little steamer Gazcllc.
The excursion was given to few friends OF
Mr. and Mrs Cbas L. Parker. Some fifteen
were in Attendance. They went across the
lake, and landed at the Champlain grauite
marble companys works.
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The Potato Race.

Six rows OF thirty potatoes each were laid
on the track in front of the grand stand the
potatoes being about yard apart, and half
bushel basket standing at the end of each
row. Each competitor was to start at CIV
en- signal, from the Laske; at the end of his
row, pick up the first potato, run back and
put it in the basket, then the second, and
then the third, in the same way, and SO on to
the end of the row, he who finished his row
first to be the victor, add the others in their
order. But three competitors were secured
for this contest, Peter lIauley, James
Hanley and Martin Garvey. The first twelve
or fifteen potatoes went into the baskets
pretty lively. but the rest made harder work.
The competitors took the last half of the race
much more easily than their friends in the
crowd thought at nil necessary, the race clos
ing with IA little squirt between Martin Gar
vey and James Hanley for second money.
The score stood as follows Peter Elaney
first Martin Girvey second, James Hanley
third. After the regular race, scrub race
between three boys took place, on the
three remaining rows of potatoes
This race was much harder fought and cx
citing one than the first, and aroused consid-
cradle enthusiasm among the spectators
Next in order came the amusing
Creased Pig Chase.
The track was tightly boarded up beyond
the two ends of the grand stand, and piggy
was brought in his chariot into the arena.
Six brawny competitors commended for the
honor of embracing his dclusive hog -ship.
Ills box was broken open, and out ran the
well shaved porker, dripping with grease.
For time he ran through tho fingers of his
would-bc captors like skim milk through
sieve, but finally II stout, barelegged fellow,
Anthony Phillips by name, got his arms clasp
cd around piggy's neck, andhung on like grim
death. In vain the sturdy porker squealed
and struggled. lie was fairly captured and
finally rolled over with his clustered captors
on top of him. Tho pig was declared to be
the prize of Anthony Phillips, who drove it
of with pride, amid the applause of the spec
tators
The last thing on the programme for the
morning was the
100 Yards Dash FoOt.racc.
One hundred yards was measured OIL to the
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GRANDISLECOUNTY.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.

The Iodine Spring House at South Hero
is open for the season.
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Honorary and Other Degrees Conferred
-COrpOratiOn Dinner - Commence
mcnl Concert.

The prizes in the Parkerian prize speaking
Tuesday night were awarded as follows:
First prize to Willis NJ. Ross OF Poutney,
VT, S24 second to jesse Ellsworth, Whit
ing, VT, S1a. In the Merrill prize speaking
the committee awarded the four prizes as
follows First. Wilbcrt n. Severance,
Manchester, $50; second. Fred. 7. Mcleod,
Liverpool, N. 5. third, Michael A. Staple
ton, Middlebury, SEQ; fourth, Julius V.
Sturtevant, New Haven, Sl5
The audience as a general thing, were sat
islied with the way in which the prizes had
been awarded.
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Corporation Dinner.

At the conclusion of the Inaugural address
es of Prols. Foster aud Eaton, large part Of
the audience adjourned to the parlors of the
Congregational church, where the annual
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Two young men were drowned in the
Mad river at Waitsllcld on Tuesday. 1t
seems that party of young men were in
bathing when Eli b. Douglass lost control of
himself and Charles sou of Josiah Holden,
went to his aid but both were drowned.
The bodies were soon recovered.
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The music was rendered by the Middle
bury orchestra, and proved very acceptable.
The speaking of each of the young gen.
tlcmcn showed that much benefit had
been attained from Prof. Silvoruail's careful
training. Each speaker was greeted with
generous applause from the large and appre-
oiative audience, and most of them were the
recipients Of handsome bouquets and wrcaths
of flowers from their lady friends.
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Degrees Conferred.

Degrees were awarded as follows The
degree of A. B. to each member of the grad
uating class the degree of A. M. TO G. b.
L. Moody, of the class of 1877, to A. G.
Peck of the class of 1880, and to 7. w. Oar
ling of the class of 1874. The degree of ID.
was conferred on Rev. s. w. II. Scott Of
Fitchburg, Mass. The degree Of Ph. D..
was conferred on Albert $. Bowles of Nor
witch, Conn.
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Music-Trial by Jury ....................W Waterman
Fair Play for Women. .......... Geo. VIM. Quits
". II. Benedict, Amherst, Mass
leadership of Educated Men. Geo. VIM. Curtis
Jesse Ellsworth, Whiting VI.
1.-THE Future OF the Rcpublic".... Geo. VIM. Curtis
Ralph +. Loyeland, East saginaw, Mich.
Two Villains of Dickens '............ Parsons
willis NJ. Ross, Poultncy, VT.
Music-Ia Petite ,XcOil
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1t is not our purpose to mention particular
speakers when all acquitted themselves ad-
mirably, but the second and eleventh pieces
were of very high order and were rendered
with appreciatve spirit Friday afternoon
came the closing exercises of the graduates,
OF which the following is
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-06

Next in order were the horse trots. FIRST
was the 800 class, which proved TO be an
exceedingly duh affair. Three horses trotted
aud Young Columbus walked right away
from the rest, taking three straight heats
with an ease which made the race very
tame affair.
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Parade OcIEOrribles

took place. In the procession were troop
of Indians, half dozei clowns, a -four in
hand" and all sorts of grotcsque riders and
pedestrians The thing had been devised on
the shortest Of short notices, and, all the cir
cumstances being considered, was quite a
success. The procession was witnessed by
immense throngs of people, but alas ! its
triumphant career was cut short by driving
storm which compelled spectators and process
sionists to break for cover in short meter.
From this time rain fell during almost the en-
tire forenoon, aud the effect was dampcning,
in both literal and metuphOrical sense.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-31
Mr., Wellborn and the Subsidy System

Class legislation, the Distinguishing
characteristic of practical Republican,
ism, having destroyed ship-building,
and class legislation, through navi-
CATION acts, preventing ship buying,
and American ship owners being re-
stricted to American bottoms and
everything entering into their con
struction being protected by an av-
erage duty of forty per cent, il results
necessarily that we have no ships.
Class legislation, another term for Re-
publican legislation, has swept Ameri-
can ships from the high seas. Really,
the wrong done is as criminal and
costly us ii this destruction of wealth
had been effected Ivy LAFIrrE. LA
fll1rE was an open, daring brave rob-
Der; the tariff system is "sneak thief
end pick-pockct.n We don't
know when or how we are robbed.
but the money and the ships both
have vanished. 1t is against these in
direct and ruinous processes of robbery
and wrong that Mr.. WRLI.BoRN in
Weighed most earnestly and eloaueutly
in the house.
He said that 'the proper method OF
restoring the ubiquitousness of the
American flag upon the high seats
would be discovered in repeating the
tariff on articles used in ship-bulld-
ing.N ON the contrary, and to ohviate
this necessity, il IS proposed TO give
ship-builders "dmwhacksp equal in
amount to sums they must pay tho
custom houses. In other words, we
must protect against protection.
The gentleman from California has
told us that there vas general de-
mand from the people of this country
for congress 10 take some action look
ing To the restoration of the American
Nag upon vessels carrying the COM
merce of the United States. IL, indeed,
there be such demand, let us in an
swering it consult only the interests of
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-31
Animal Sagacity.
m the Denyer News.

1 FROM the Denver News
1 admire his perseverance. Som,
| people call it obstinacy, but they take
but narrow view of the burro's char
acter. They look at him through q
single-barreled cye-glass. ! have seer
burro work for hours to get his foot
stuck in an empty tomato can. When
he has succeeded | have known him
to so miles out of the way, in the
darkness of midnight, to wake ur
some drowsy prospcctor with its mel
ancholy standardization. | have
known him to come back repeatedly
with his serenade, although he had
not been encored, and no floral offer
ings had been received. | have seen
him crawl under the projecting bed OF
railroad wagon and strain every
nerve to boost it OFT the road. True
he did not succeed in his main desire
but he did everlastingly smash two
coIfee-potS and destroy the continuity
of his owners bedding.
| have seen him desert n bundle al
hay to go away and munich cactus and
gravel, He couldn't get the sam,
amount of nourishment from the lat.
ter in the same space of time, but Inc
scorned To be influenced by such q con,
sldeation.
| respect his digestive apparatus
One day ] stood ON the mountain sid.
with Il dyspeptic from Greeley. who
Tor years had eaten nothing but IRA.
ham bread and cracked wheat. we
We're watching burro feed. AS the
animal slowly and conscicntious,y
chawed up the flour and gunny sacks
got away with the salt bags and han,
covers. gathered in brown paper and
and old socks, and finally tackled a
large-sized sardine box, the tears
welled up in the eyes of the Greeley
man, and in n husky voice he said,
Gracious, If could only do that.p
| worship the intellect of the burro
tie cannot be humbugged. He knows
when he is within clubbing distance
ana when he is u ( you can we'll nj
MN till he black in the face. but h,
won't move. Some of the incidents
that attest his sagacity are almost
marvellous. | was once sitting on n
soft sandstone bowlder in the little
town of c.. Down the meander.
ing street came old Skipton, driving
before him one of the most remarlxa
bic jacks | ever saw. In the rugged
ness of his physical comuosition he
was scenic. Half of his left ear WAS
gone, and numerous clear places ON
his hide made IL apparent that he WAS
addicted 10 the hot bath.
Where did you get that wreck ~ |
asked.
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the people; let us not be moved by the
selfish calls of ship-owners and ship
builders who seek government boun-
ties; let us not use the treasury of a
common government to enrich pre-
ferred classes, but let us give to the
people measures of genuine and gen.
eral relief; let us establish free ships as
our permanent policy; last, but great
est in Importance, let us so reform the
tariff as to expunge forever from our
statute-books all vestiges of protection
which with us is the sum of legisla-
tive wrongs and an Had of economic
woes.
Others in commendable fervors OF
patriotism have expressed longings
for the period when merchant ships
flying proud embIems of American
nationality shall carry not only our
own exports and imports, but shall
largely effect the commercial ex-
changes of other nations. Sir, am
not so insensible to the promptings of
national pride as to be unaffected by
likefeelings. | too, would rejoice to see
the day, if its developments could be
rghtfully accomplished, when flags
fashioned like that which hangs above
your chair fixed to the mast heads of
uncounted and countless ships, should
stream in the winds of every cline,
and thus proclaim to the nations the
ocean supremacy of the American
Union.
But, ut the same time, in connection
with that flag | cherish higher and
better aspiration. 1t is that the ma
tional authority which its presence
asserts may never he extended on land
or water by an illegitimatc and wrong
full exercise of the sovereign power oil
taxation; that this authority may
never be upheld at home nor signal
lied abroad through the agency of sub
sides unjustly wrung from the hard
earnings of taX-oppressed labor: but
wherever that bright emblem may he.
whether floating over home soil or un-
der alien skies, whether to be met
with on one or all the seas, it may
ever symbolic the great principles of
true constitutional government among
which none are more vital than uni
formity and equality of taxation, un-
just privileges to none and equal pro-
lection of the laws to all
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-31

that case. Assertions have been made
that the design OF this treaty Is to pro-
mote the ends Of certain railroad cor
poratioDs in this country and Mexico
rather than the public good. There
Is probably no truth at all in these
stories, for what will promote the bus
mess Of the railroads connecting the
two countries can certainly do no harm
to the public. Mr.. VOORHEES,, who has
recentlydeveloped into a roaring protec-
ZIONIST, may be expressing in his resolu-
ton to the alarm of protection over the
modicum of free trade that is proposed
in this treaty; but that is no reason
why II should be discussed with closed
doors, as II its success depended on the
secrecy with which its contents are
kept from the people of the two coun-
tries. Whether the treaty con-
tains much or little reciprocity, the
public has right to know what IL in II
and the consideration on which IL Is
urged. This kind of treaty is the
homage which protection pays to the
spirit OF commercial freedom. The
two systems Of protection and free
trade cannot be expected to work har-
moniously together. In the treaty
with the Sandwich Islands the island
ers get the products of this country
duty free, while the prices of Ha-
waiian sugar consumed by the people
ofthe Pacific coast are regulated by
the rates Of the duty paid on sugar inn
ported from other regions. A little
reciprocity with Mexico may work
better in the protective systems Of
the two countries. But let the dis
cussion OF the terms be open and pub
lie in the senate of the United States.
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Wreck" he replied scernfully,
why, you tenderfoot, that's Henry
Ward Beecher. He's the father Of his
country, and he's just got more brain
power than any jack in this state"
intellectual, is he?' ] inquired.
"Well, / should blush. Why, I'll
just tell you a little act he did yester-
day. We was working up on the
High Hopes-me and Jim Atkinson,
my partner-and we got to feeling a
little peekish along about noon, and |
went up to the shanty 10 fire up.
Well, Jim he was sacking up few
pounds. of ore to have sampled. and III {.
Ward was a-standing by, and some
how Jim he slipped and fell in the
shaft, but'he caughton the bucket, and
she common ced a-hying down like
thunder, and the shalt was near on to
u hundred feet. Well, what did
Beecher do? Why, he knew that it
wouldn't do to try and catch the ham
die, so he just backed up again the
windlass and held hard till he stopped
her and saved Jim's life; that's what
he did, and III take my paralyzed
oath on it, and SOIL Jim. See where
ii took the skin off his haunches.n
The cuticle was evidently gone and
Skip looked most solemnly in earnest.
! could not doubt him. We went
across the street, and Skip took little
ginger in his.