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LOST BOY.
Five Thousand Dollars Reward.

This cash will be paid in coon skins,
,ossum hides or other produce to be
collected at or about next camp-meet-
ng, or thereafter, by any one what
atches, him; for young man mis-
ing from your place in the next few
lays. Some have said that he is red
leaded, cross-eyed, hump-backed
inock-kneed, whopper,jawed and
)igeon-toed, and that he had tin
ar and gutta-percha nose. This is
lot correct. He is tall complexioned,
lbout inches, / foot of age, square
;ountenance, pleasant shoulders, and
his height 81 years and Is months.
Had ON when last seen a pair ofswal-
low-tailed, seal-skin trousers with
'ausage stripes and cylinder-escape-
nent seat, double-barrelled frock coat,
'lightly run down at the heel: usual
y wore smile on the back of his
lead aud slight impediment in his
looks if met in the dark. He wears a
"Grecian Bend" on his upper lip, and
whiskers cut off short inside. Was
carrying an empty carpet-bag filled
With post holes and wheelbarrow
'eds in each hand, AMI a wooden bag
In the other, containing nothing but
few ocean steamers, railway tunnels,
needle molds, shirt collars and other
things. Usually wore a high heeled,
'quare-toed plug hat, and low
;rowned, broad-brimmed, double
oack-action, stem-winding, cable
screwed boots. Was born before his
Younger brother, and is, therefore,
lbout your age. He was ofen heard
singing.
Pm my daddy's only son,
Gay and lively full OF fun,
Brother Is twice as old as me,
Sowe are twins, you plainly see.
Any one giving such information
as will learn him where he is will be
prosecuted as the law directs. He
was supposed at first to have gone off
on his ear, but this was a mistake.
Since the above was written his
friends have learned to their delight
that he was recently seen goi e to the
SOUTH KENTUoKIAN OFEIoE to sub,
scribe and get ticket in the big draw
ingwhich will come off Saturday Octo
Der 9th 1883.
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EXPRESS OFFICE.

SOUTHERN EXPRESS CoNPASY-R. W. Nor
wood. Agent. Onlce old Bank building, Main
Street.
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SOUTH KENTUCKIAM.
ADVERTISING RATE.

p iblic as the Royal Persian College
If Philosophy makes them out. Mr..
Benjamin has been made master of
lrts and member of the royal acade-
my by his highness the Shah.
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Hollands Opera House

Main Street, adjoining Phoenlx Hotel. r.
IL Holland, Proprietor; A. ID. Rodgers, Man
nRpr,
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Skinny Men.

"Well's Health Renewer" restores
lealth and vigor, cures Dyspepsia
impotence. Sexual Debility.
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FRRRpoN l.opG., No. 70, U B.-Meets ist
ANA 3.u iucs,la. nishts III Bell's Hall. l.. v.
uiass. ". ~; bucknvr, secretary.
MusApORA TEMPLE, No. 3s, 8. OF F.
Meets 2ud ann 4th Iursaays in each monih.
Augusta Momeu, " r.; Katic IasAy ,scereta.
p
IloPKiSsvILLx LoDGE, No. 1860, G. U. q.
on .. f. Mrvts an, aud AZ Monuay nighis
=, helrs Hail. ,hari.s Lightfoot, \. u; Il.
\. Lander, q. y.
IiorKlssviLLE LoDaE, No. !. U. b. s.
Mv,ts ls, AMI Srd Aou,lay nights at Bells
iiali. 4. Bell, President, Il. MoAsai, secre-
thfh.
>tcct. IN the southern ircsby terlau church
have, ON an,i anu 9th sunua,s. Rev. a. Z.
biudie, Pastor.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-09-28
ChanlbOrd,s VIII.

The Neue Frti3 Press of Vienna, pub
fishes an extract from the Comte de Cham
bord's will, which it declares to be authentic
1t is written in French, and begus thus -
Il die a good Christian and belevin!
Catholic, and, as such, bear no malice
toward any man, | forgive all who have
Offended Ire during my lifetime, and bee
forgiveness of all those whom have offend
cd or wronged commend my soul to God
the Almighty" Then follow the stipulations
concerning the testatur's property. There
are four estates -Chambord, in France St.
Hubert, in Croatia, another estate in Galicia
aid the Chateau of FrohsdOrf, besides s, 900. =
900 tiorins in securities. The COmtc Sc
de ChambOrd is sole hciress for life to the
entire property, excepting such legacics u
are afterward mentioned. After her
death the Contc de Chamhord bequeaths
two-thrds to the Dikc of Parma and one
third to Count Bardi Thea follow seven
legacics. The Comics two nieccs, Grand
Duchess Alice, of Tuscany, aud Duchess
Marsareta, of Madrid, each 500,0O0f. The
Society for the Propagation of the Catholic
Faith, established at Lyons, also 800, O00f
A sum of 400, 000f, to be invested. and the
interest paid to Peters Pence the poor of
Paris 100, 000f.; and the poor Of the neigh
borhood of Frohsdotf 20,000f. certain
sum is sci aside for the mass to be celebrated
annually at Frohsdorf and Goritz. Don
Carlos aud Don Alfonso Of Bourbon are not
mentioned in the will, nor yet the Francis
can Monastery at Goritz, which a French
newspaper represented to have been endow-
ed with 100 0O0f. The document is written
in the Comle de Chambord's own handwrit.
ing, and says nothing at all about the success
sion TO his political nights.
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INJUSTICE TO RAILROADS.

There has always been more or less Of
popular prejudice against those great aggre
cations of capital known as railroad corpor-
tons. The people Look and always
will look with jealousy upon any form OF
business enterprise which bears the nature
of monopoly. Concentration of capital is
contrary to the Dem cratic Ii Itio IS of the
American people. We want no aris,oeratic
class, whether their aris,ocracy comes from
pedigree or money. And, after all, the
aristocracy of money is more offensive thar
the aristocracy of blood, because it comes
from lower plane and is more overbearing
Railroad corporations are looked upon by
the people as II kind of financial court circle,
and unmade aud where members of cliques
are appointed to positions of honor aud prof
it, whose EN- Jumen,s are wrested from the
so-called lower classes. This prejudice Is
only one form of the Old hatred of labor for
capital.
But, in the case of railroads and railroad
corporations, we think this prejudice, on the
whole, is an unjust one. The people would
like, no doubt, to have the railroads and the
telegraph managed by the government, and
the time may soon come when the latter will
be. But, at the present time, this would be
impraclcabe as regards the railroads. The
noxt best Thing is that the railroads
should be managed by the people
that is, that the stock of these COR
poraions should be distributed equta-
bly,, among the people. Oar railroad system
is not like our telegraph system, one great
centralized monopoly, with a single head and
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board of managers, and u select circle of
privileged stockh )lders, and an enormously
watcrcd fictitious capital. There are hun
dreds of railroad corporations, dividing the
aggregate railroad capital of the country
among themselves and their stockholders.
These corporations make no claim to excn-
siveness. They are simply business films,
doing business in the regular and approved
way. Their stock Is commonly in the market,
and eau he purchased for what it is worth by
any citizen of the United States. Possibly
one reason why railr ,id capital is s. apt
to fall into the hands of few grasoing
shareholders is because of the prejudice OF
the people against what they are pleased to
sets paper says that the railroad stakeholder
IN this country is the beast of burden in all
that relates to the railroad business. al
really has no control over his investment,
aud receives, when he gets anything, less
than three per cent on his investment, when
| its original cost Is all rcckOned in" Well,
| why is it 81? He is not enough Of stock
holder TO count as a corporation member.
| who own the lions share of the
stock, and the small investor must
pick up what crumbs he can, with
his tail between his legs. Tne trouble IS that
the small Stockholders, who invest in rail
road property are 81 few and so non-ag
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war unless it is forced by Bismarck; and 1t is
almost certain that in such an emergency
France may count upon the assistance oil
England. France has been very careful TO
preserve entirely amicable relations with
England, us is evdenced by the adjustment
of the ramatave difficulty, and England is
the other hand, has given assurances to
France that any warike demonstration on
the part of Germany will be sufficient to en-
list her sympathies at once.
1t is not too much, then, to say that the
present outlook for the French Republic is a
hopeful one. However doubtful may be Its
prospects for the future, in the case OF q
change of administration and policy, or ID
case of Il change of relations among the lead
ing European powers, as the government oil
/ the Republic now stands, there can be nc
immediate danger. 81 long as the lltepub
can government, can retain the confidence o.
the pcoplc-,s chief risk the permanency o.
the Republic is assured.
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TWO EOOL;..i HutNG MEN.
4 aon on smith Va. weed locked IN.

Mr.. r. \. Weed, s)n OF Mr, Smith VI.
Weed of Piat,sbursh, and young McKillopp,
O. c!c.k in broadway clohiug store, were
locked up in the Mercer street station house
in New York, on Friday night, on charges Of
| d!soldcrly conduct. y report of the affair in
the New York Times says; The prisoners
and DR.. Little of pm'tsbursh visited the
Union Square Theatre The young men
were somewhat und,r The intlu. ucc OF liquor,
MIR. Weed being perhaps the most sober of
the party. After the second act they went
| out, when Mr., Weed got into row with the
ticket seller, because a b6rcto1ted street arab,
to whom he had given lis check, was not
admitted on il. The ticket t1kur called in
Officer Burke 10 keep order in tie lobby. Mr..
Weed aud bis companions, alter mucu lond
expressions, went TO the sidewalk, and the
officers say that Mes.rs. Weed and McKillopp
| used such language that they felt warranted
in aIrcs,ing them.
\, the station house Ny. Weed laid lie
was John Doe, and MIR. Mol.illopp gave bis
| name Ms Mr.. j. j. Lewis. Sergeant Clarke.
who was at the desk, said that both had been
drinking aud he locked them up. DR. Little
secured the services of Maurice Unlermycr,
| a lawyer, OF No, GiS Lexington avenue, who
wanted TO bail .he prisoners, but Sergeant
Clarke refused on The ground that q drunken
man was not bailablc, being not tit 10 take
care of himself and bt cause no proper bail,
AS prescribed by law, was oirrrcd-and the
young men spent the night iu the lock up.
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THE NEWS FROM ST. ALBANS.

The prosecution of the direct managers of
the bankrupt St. Albans Trust company
starts of well. The grand jury has found
twenty-four true bills against p esident
Lawrence Brainerd and has indicted five of
the directors and these persons have been
held to bail, Mr.. Brainerd in $4,000, In
fixing the amount at that figure the
court did well. 1t ia not excessive. 1t is of
such an amount as will probably ensure
Mr.. Brainerds appearance for trial,
and that is the only legitimate OBJ
ject of bail. Mr.. Branerd's associates are
held in comparatively small sums, hut they
OF course have no intention of lorfcling their
bail.
We trust that the cases will he pushed to
their legitimate conclusion without fear or
favor or delhy that the guilt will be appor-
toned as 1t justly belongs and that the sew
crest penalties of the law will he j. ilictcd
upon the guilty parties.
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ANECDOTES OF SOLDIERS,
How Little Potter" Convinced His
Comrades that he was no Skulkcr.


A short, little, square built, dark skinned,
twinkliug eyed young fellow was known the
regiment over as Little Potter" The name
came from his trade before war times, and
from the fact that he was always talking
shop aud examining clays with the enthus-
asm of geologist, He had the faculty Of
becoming interested IN anything that sny
other man was doing. Standing near the
picket fire, though uncomfortable himself,
he could always suggest way in which to
make the coffee boil, and would gather up
splinters and chips and pile under or about
the little kettle with the keenest enjoyment,
although the coffee belonged to the most
tacturn man in the company. He showed
this kindly interest in every mans affairs,
and of course was universally liked. AT
Shiloh, in the midst of the second days
battle, Little Potter left the company to get
water for himself and several companions.
A quick change OF position, new line-ofr
battle formation, took place after his
departure, and Little Potter was seen no
more Tor several days, After the rebels re.
treated he was discovered acting as nurse at
the brigade hospital. lie couldn't find the
regiment on his return, but found the hospi-
tll, and the Division Surgeon ordered him on
duty, and, discovering his excellence as a
nurse, would not let him return to the COM
pany. There was Il quarrel between the
Captain and the Surgeon, the former seeing
Little Potter as a skulker and the latter see
ing him as a useful man who had made u
mistake through no fault of his own. The
Captain reported Potter absent without
leave, and he was court-martialed. The
sentence was that he should forfeit six
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The people OF Dakota are in a peck
of trouble over the permanent loca-
ton OF the capital of the Terri
tory, the towns, of Bismarck and Yank-
ton being the rival claimants. Bismarck
was selected by the last Legislature, having
voted spacious grounds for the necessary
buildings, which are now being rapidly
erected. Yankton appealed from the Legs.
lature to the courts, and Judge Edgerton has
Just rendered decision proclaiming that the
appellant is entitled to be the seat of the
territorial government Bismarck, how
ever, will 60 to the United States Supreme
Court, and meanwhile proceeds vigorously
with its building operations. 1t is said that
the act authorizing the transfer of the capital
required the commissioners to meet and make
arrangements at iankton, whcrcupon the
Yanktonians armed themselves with injunc-
tions, quo ,carranto writs and shotguns, and
lay in wait for the commissioners. Tue
sheriff with an enthusiastic posse patroled
the railroad and searched every incoming
train. Oae fine night, however, special
train was run out from station across the
line in Iowa. 1t was neither scheduled nor
expected, and the watchers were sleeping.
The commissioners were alb ard, and as
they crossed the municipal boundaries Oh
Yankton they took off their hats, were
called to order and unanimously voted tC
hold their next meeting in Iowa. Scarcely
two minutes were required to transact the
whole business, and Yankt)n was check
mated
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ELECTRIC CARS PARIS.
Success Of the New Motive Cars in the
French Capital.

NaPht"h'
An electric tramcar trial was successfully
accomplished recently in Paris by the French
Electrical Power Storage Company. AT 3
o'clock the vehicle, an ordinary lhrce-horse
tramcar, left the Place de la Nation, in the
far east and after traversing the capital
through important thoroughfares reached the
starting point soon after o'clock. A dis
lance of thirty English miles was thus mhde
in about three hours. The mute wonderment
with which the soundless progress OF the
apparently animated car through the crowd
ed streets was witnessed by the public may
be imagined. There was not the slightest
accident. Not a single horse SHED through
out the entire route. Whenever there was
an impeachment, the driver, directed by NJ.
Philippart the manager of The company, who
was ever on the alert, had no difficulty in
bringing the vehicle to standstlll at a see
ond's notice. The ease with which the car
was turned off one set of tram lines aud got
on to another across several yards of UNI
metalled ground was likewise admirable.
The locomotion is affected by means of
Faure accumulators, weighing some fifty
hundred-weight, which are fixed under the
tramway seats, and connected with Stem
ems machine placed under the floor. The
machine, which makes 1900 revolutions n
minute, sets in movement, by means of Il
pulley, an axle, to which are connected the
chains which give impulse to the wheels
These wheels revolye sixty times TO twelve
thousand revolutions of the machiue. The
speed of the electric tramOar is nine and o
third milesa n hour on level ground and five and
a halt miles on an ascent. The present tram
lines are not well adapted for the new loco
motion. On the newer lines the movement
was sufficiently smooth, but on those that
have been laid for some lime there was a
marked difference, and the actual working
force was considerably lower than the in-
dicated horse power The experiment, how
ever, says the correspondent OF the London
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months pay. The men of The company
were Indignant, but Potter said nothing.
The stoppage Of six months pay told sorcly
on MN, but he weathcr,d the storm and
came ont us serene rs though he had never
been cnurt-mlrtacd.
Much clothing was lost at Shiloh. and n
list was made out Of clothing lost in battle.
The Sergeant would ask "Well. Blame
what did you lose at Shiloh Z" Answer
AN ovcfcOat and knapsack.n "What did
you lose at Shiloh, POTTERY" With indiscrib.
able diollcry Potter said with sort of lisp
that was characclistci II lotht thcvepiv.
eight dJllarth." This was the only reference
he made to the c0uft-martal and six months
pay uhlli The morning of the terrible Dec
81, ut Stone River. Iu the hurry OF the
company formation for battle Little Potter
was the first man 10 place after the orderly,
ana, though the shortest man in Tie company,
he lcId his place there in face of the rule
to the contrary. There was a sweeping
charge The company left their dead fur.
ther TO the front than any other regiment in
ACTON mat day. They were cruelty crushed,
feIeilllcssly driven. Little Potter was a
giant IN doing. lie kept his place next to
lhe orderly Whcn the company was broken
and scattered. With II precision that would
undet other circumstances have been drull,
he formed on The orderly whenever a charge
was made, and while it was every man for
himself. AS he was rammng home Il load
bali struck him in the illshy part of til,
| itS' cutting great cash and tearing hi.
clothes. lie was advised to 90 to the rear
| he reply was. 81 will show then who is :
coward A shot struck hun inLhc shoulder
and he btclmc deadly pale. Still, with ,cetl
aud rislt hand, he managed to Lad his pur
anu fire. Another sho. stuck him in iii,
thigh, and he tell.
lie was dragged TO stump and placed s,
llltt the ruking fire would not touch him
lie deliberately crawlcd around and place.
himself 50 as to face the rebels, aud as ,ht
company gave back in one Of those almos
hand lo.haud fights Little Potter kissed hi
hGud 10 The men LcarCst Lin and nestle,
down with u sigh OF relief.
Days afterwards the sergeant found n mi
OF bright eyes glltteriug from fcstoons 0
white sheet in the hospital al Murfrcesboro
They belonged to Little Potter, broken
legged, hroken.armed and baudagcd. IL
could not move and could hardly spe TX
But us the fearful men bent over him. Il
lspcd; 1--WE waAthd them, didn't we {:
The rebels found him braccd against tn
stump, punching ut them with his gun he'll
In one hand as t.Hy ran by. He was take
to the hospital, and here, day after day, wen
his old comrades t. see him. They d
more; they wrote to Gen. Rose rams, tellin
The simple stony. They carried the lcttc
along the ree,-lGpc Zinc from brig ate head
quarters to division, from division 10 corps
IRON corps TO- army headquarters, ian
returned with an oder from Rosccrau
himself directing that the six months pa
be restored TO Lutte Potter, that all charge
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is led by Min Gong TX, who is the chief
minister. In Corea he is a noble of the
highest rank excepting members of the royal
family, to which he is related through the
ly pleasant, amiable gentleman, of highly
polished manners. The vice minister is
Hong Gong Six, who is son of the Corean
prime minister. So Koang Pom, the secre-
tary of the legation, is also high officer al
home. lie is an ardent lover of ant, and has
much skill at painting, The foreign sccre-
tary is Mr.. Percival Lowell, native of B,s-
minister to England.
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THE CAsTLETON rn GEpy.
y Mother s"rpos'd {" y':ve Murdered
Her Child.


SPECIAL Desra'cht to the Free Press and TlmeeI
CAsrLlroN Sent. 24.-N,roh Gco,,,,r
mother ~ ,,o ,,n.a,.a',. win,
:, co., Wv .''", '''' Z" 'n'u''' "as arrested
d. Oasue.on MS forenoon on complaint Of
States Attorney Howe, charging her with
the murder of the child. She waived exsmi-
nation before Justice Harrington and was
committed 10 Rutland county i,il to await
tlic action of the grand jury now in session.
me prevailing opinion aboat Castle'on IS
mat she IS guilty.
We have already briefly told the story of
tbc mu,dor - No. i,,s', ,1 ''I s,o'S u
c.,,,.n,.,'e D 'I '"'"u' c'''u VI lhefon
o'o'"i" VI Nas'iet"h' IL seems that about
month ago, the mother says she met man.
who threatened if she dit,,f Ie.vc,ho laos
&c. L;r,,. 80, 49,, 'N' 'aee
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A correspondent of the Middebury Regis
ter and following him, the Rutland Uerdla
take it very much TO heart because one OF
the officers of the Howard Park fair was
driven to the grounds by liveried servant.
The fact is, an attentive observer at the fair
would have noticed that the gentleman in
question was by no means the only one so
driven. Great numbers of farmers AID 9TH
ers went to the park in similar fashion, and
We have not thus far heard of any of them
being criticised as purse-proud aristocra,s
for 50 doing. 1t would seem that if livery
met. can without adverse criticism put their
divers in livery, private citizens can do the
sane.
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Ghe Iree prtss.
BURLINGTON, FRIDAY, sEPT,2s, 1883.
PUBLISHED BY
The Free Press association.
q. q. BENEDICT, Editor,
year, always i'm advance

The surviving members of the New York
Abolition Society will on the second day OF
October celebrate the fitch university of
the beginning of organized anti-slavery work
in the metropolis. The only person known
to be living who helped to found the organi-
cation is the venerable EIizur Wright, now
of Boston.
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,v............ " 60 90
"'HV',Ls'H"' va" sept lv-lhe Ve'ef'
ans leit liarpcrs Ferry yesterday noo1 and
reached Winchester about ? p. N. A mag
nifcent recep,ion greeted the Marty ard w,ti
,nil;,or,. ,.aar, 20 - ~ WIS
ana III" rn'ouSu ~io"u
y strre's 90 the oourl house, where the may
or OF the CITY maze most cordial speech OF
welcome and tendered the hospitalitlcs Of TIC
CIV. MS speech vas so tuli OF patriotic sen
uhIeh's, mat hc carried the veterans to thei
ieet anu tney responded with chez u?ot
cneer' Col' wight ,l',uksd ihs mayor fol
n'' words ana the city Tor our reception ant
thcn grand banquet followed the flow o.
soul" AT the close, the party were escorteo
OUTSIDE oil the city towards our present camp
rents were put up about three miles from
the city about midway between the Infantry
positions in the morning of the 18th of sep
TENDER and where the cavalry made its tina