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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

The United States, as complainant il
the Telephone suit aSSer-s that Bell, 'uI-
der the CLOAK and preten;e' of obtaiuin.
one thing, wrUngfully and dccelttulll
owing in part to the incompetence AN.
ignorance of the examiner, was enabled t,
claim another thing; that the government;
did not believe or suppose that the patent
issued was granted tor any new art o.
transmitting articulate speech by means
Of electricity, or that the patent could be
SO construed, but did suppose that it was
granted for improvements in harmonic
multiple telegraphy." The government
furthermore asserts that it did noe sup
pose that the patent could be used to Sc
cure Bell the monopoly, which he has
since enjoyed, of an art known long prior
to the filing of his application. 1t asserts
that the Bell patent of 1876 is not being
used that it is without value, and that
the transmission OF speech ut the present
day by the Bell company is by the use of
what is known as the Blake transmitter,
which was an infringement of the Edison
patent, which latter patent Edison claim
ed was an improvement on Reiss, and that
the Blake trasmitter was largely in use in
this country three years before being
patented, and therefore the patent was
void, and further that vocal and other
sounds were transmitted geographically
long before Bell was heard of. In short ii
claims that it has been deceived and impos-
ed upon, to the great injury CT the people
Whether all these allegations are well
founded or not, it is pretty clear that the
history of the Bell patents is going to he
thoroughly investigated, and that the
question whether Bells first patent did OF
did not disclose the invention of speak
ing telephone, will not be allowed to re
main question fore Yer.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

Raising sheep in Vermont seems to be one
OF the lost arts, and still our senior senator
holds apparently to the idea that his mission
Is To hold the duty on wool up to point
where it would be profitable to raise wool in
Vermont huntington independent
If our Democratic brother should con
suit the report of the tenth census he
would find that there were about 100000
sheep in Vermont in 1880; and if he
should come down to this county, it could
easily be demonstrated to him that rails
ing sheep in Vermont" is not lost art. y
Possibly there are fewer of them in Yer
mont now than five years ago. If so, it
is not because the art of raising them
is lost" but because our senior senator
was not able to succeed in his mission and
prevent the passage of the tariff act OF
March, 1883, from the effects of which the
wool industry is but just recovering -
Middtcbury Register.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

In the auction sale of the collection of
orchids belonging to the late Mrs. Mary j..
Morgan of New York, last week, single
plant found by an Engishman two years
ago in some Oriental country, the name
of which he refuses to diNulge, brought
5000. Enormous as this price seems for Il
potted plant two feet high, it is much be
low what it cost Mrs. Morgan. She paid
300 guineas or $500 for il, and in its pur-
chase, transportation and care of the prec-
ious plant she expended not less than $1,000.
The prices of the rest of her orchids ranged
from 800 up to $3.50 per plant.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

Our friend of the Burlington Independ
ent apears to think that Vermont has a
prohibitory liquor clause in her constitu-
ton. At:least he prints and calls atten-
tion, without correcting it, to a state
ment that Vermont enjoys constitutional
prohibition. This is often said by per-
sons and papers outside of Vermont ; but
it Is not correct. Vermont has an iron
clad prohibitory law, which operates on
the whole as very effective restriction on
the liquor traffic. But there is no prohlb-
itory clause in the constitution of Yer
mont, and no particular need of one, that
we can see
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

Type setting by machinery seems likely
to become something more than a romance
in the near future. 1t is reported that
Richard Smith of the Cincinnati gazette,
Mr.. Haldeman of the Louisville Courier
Jou1mdt, William Henry Smith of the
Associated Press, Melville +. Stone of the
Chicago NclrS and several other promi-
nent newspaper men have invested $3.50
600 in a type-setting machine which prom
ises marvellous results. 1t is claimed that
any one capable of using II type-writing
machine will be able to set and stereotype
at the same time the type required for
the printing of a newspaper. If this is
true the country editor of the future will
have to be responsible for his own typo
graphical blunders."
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

Affairs begin to look serious for would
be insurers in New Hampshire, owing to
the new "valued policy law" Three
local mutual insurance companies have
been started to assume the business which
has been dropped by the tifty-eight foreign
corporations but the entire capital of the
three does not exceed 81 ,000, DOC, and within
thirty days the amount left uncovered by
the termination of policies will not be less
than $40, 100000.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

The French Canadians who resist vac
cination in Montreal do not seem to under
stand that by their suicidal action they
are running the city's business, and de-
priving themselves of the means of gain
ing livelihood. Recent dispatches say
that almost utter stagnation reigns among
the business interests of the city, and that
thousands of the inhabitants must soon
be thrown out of employment. 1t is
doubtful if even starvation will bring the
superstitious and blinded people to their
senses
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

The New York sun declares that ever
since November 4, 1854, it has been
endeavoring 'to keep the Democratic
party in friendly relations toward Mr.
Cleveland" The Sums efforts toward
harmony are much like those of the man
who undertakes to reconcile two scowling
boys by knocking their heads together.
If the Sun is friendly to Mr.. Cleveland he
must pray to be delivered from his lumin-
Gus friend
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

Where all the money went to which
Ferdinand Ward plundered from General
Grant and his other dupes, has been a
question ever since the Grant 81 Ward
failure. Mr.. Ward has been on the wit
ness stand for number of days in New
York, and the public have waited for
light on this point. But beyond the fact,
previously known, that one Warner was
allowed to draw out over million dollars
of alleged profits from "A business which
consisted in borrowing money that could
never possibly be paid aud that Fish got a
hundred thousand dollars or more in the
same way, no important disclosures have
been elected from the head swindler. He
intimates, however, that if he We're to tell
all he knows, it would strike some men
who now stand high. This may be 50
but it is safe to believe that Mr.. Ward is
protecting first and foremost Mr.. Ferdin-
and Ward. and nobody else. He will never
tell the bottom facts of the rascality. But
one of these days probably he will be re,
leased from JAIL and will then call on his
pals, for his share of the swag.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

President Cleveland, i'll his letter to Mr..
previous to the recent change of admins
tration, only Republicans were appointed
to office. Mr.. Stevenson, the first assistant
Postmaster-General, is authority for the
statement that this is not 50. To II Dem
ocrat, demonstrating with him for his
slowness in turning out Republicans, Mr.
Stevenson said that in the Southern States
fully three-fourths of the postoflices are
now filled with Democrats. lie found
them so, and in most cases nobody has
asked for change. The fourth class
postmasters get but small pay, seldom so
much as Two hundred dollars year, and
the office is usually given to the principal
store keeper in the village, who is usually
Il Democrat. This, says Mr.. Stevenson,
makes statistics misleading, and injustice
is done to the postoflice department, when
it is charged with retaining SO many Re
publicans in office, though in fact large
proportion of the present incumbents are
Democrats All this was pretty well
known before. There have been many
Democrats in Office all along, and large
numbers of Democrats were appointed in
the Southern States under PostmaSt err
General Key, who was Il Southern man
But Democratic orators and organs VIII
keep asserting that only Republicans were
allowed to hold Federal Offices, before Mir
Cleveland came in.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

An old minister of Ohio seemed rather
opposed to an educated ministry. Said he ::
why, my 'brethering,' every young man
who is going to preach thinks he must be
oil TO some college and study Il lot of Greek
and Latin. All nonsense All wrong |
What did Peter and Paul know about
Greek Why, not one word, my brother
ing Mo- Peter and Paul preached in
plain old English, and SOIL l."-BostOn
GlObC.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

color but green and the red-cheeked
American varieties are consequently es-
pecially attractive to Englishmen. Be
sides, almost everything American is in
favor there.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

1t is now announced that the great
Flood Rock explosion in New York will
take place next Sunday morning, and the
commissioners naively explain that they
have chosen the hour just before church
time, $50 as to give everybody IA chance to
be on the watch for it without neglecting
their business" Here's modern material
ism for you
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

General Butler has again offended the
workingmen's party, whose champion he
pretends to be, by the assertion that work
ingmen sell their votes to the men who
pay their poll-taXes General Butler APP
parently did not notice that this little
statement was one of the kind which kills
at both ends, and the recoil has evidently
been more disastrous than the shot.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

A Washington special to the New York
World says that the resignation of Judge
ThOman, the Democratic member of the
civil service commission, will he placed in
the hands of the President in day or
two. The Worlds correspondent adds
"The sudden breakup of the commission
is due to the President. He was annoyed
at the continued criticism of this body of
men and called for Mr.. Eator's resignation
last summer. 1t was his intention then to
reorganize the commission so that the ma
jority should be in harmony with his adj
ministration." The assertion that the
President asked for Mr.. Eaton's resigna-
ton can not be easily reconciled with Mr..
Cleveland's expressions of regret at Mr..
Eatons retirement from the commission,
in his letter accepting the latter's resigna,
ton. 1t is probably only Washington
yarn.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

Mary Anderson has arrived safe home,
and when she steps upon the American
stage again she will have an ovation fit for
n princess.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

United States District Attorney and
Editor, Dorsheimer, of New York, has
avowed, in his new administration organ,
that he prefers ian incompetent, or even
venal public service" to one regulated
by the principles of civil service reform.
He is likely to get his choice, as things are
going
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

One of the editors of the Montreal Times
has just passed through siege of small
pox, and the whole editorial force of the
paper has been quarantined. All quota
tions from the Times will be properly
fumigated before they are passed over to
our readers.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

The nomination of Governor Robinson
and other State officers of Massachusetts,
for reelection, by the Massachusetts Re-
publicans, was wholly foregone conclu-
sion. Ticket and platform are all right :;
and the harmony and enthusiasm which
pervaded the convention at Springfield,
presage an old-fashiOned Republican ma
jority in the Old Bay State.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

The report that the English had taken
possession of Herat is denied. The only
basis for the statement is said to be the
fact that a number of English officers, in
compliance with II request of the Amer,
have been assisting the Afghans in
Strengthening the defences of Herat.
Every well appointed newspaper office
should keep on hand a liberal supply of
salt, to NIX with its Eastern dispatches.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

A gay young New York book-keeper has
stolen $4,000 from his employers and
skipped for Canada. Small poX had no
terrors for him.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

In gath ring wild flowers, autumn leaves, or
picncing in the wood, we are more or less
exposed to danger from poisoning by ivy or
other wild vines and shrubs. The poison is
under certain circumstances readily absorbed
by the blood, and painful swCllinES or erup-
tiOns are caused. such affections Hoods Sar-
sapurilla readily cures, rs IL eXpCls all impure
ties from the blood. Even in cases of poison
ing 10y Paris green, Hoods Sursaparilla has
been remarkably successful. II should be
kept constantly in the house for all blood dis
orders. Hoods Sarsaparilla is made by G. [.
Hood n Co, Lowell, Mass, and is sold by all
druggists. 100 doses 81.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09
m;he Etse 2ress.
BURLINGTON, FRIDAY, OCT 8, 1885.

PUBLISHED-BY
THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
G. G. BENEDICT, Editor.
Terms-S2.O year, always in advance.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-09

Within the last few years ii large mum
Der of patents have been given to women
for new and useful household inventions
Miss Amanda II. Jones, who has good
reputation as poet is also an inventor.
ing the reunion this week.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-10
ByL. W. JGlliard, Dc

CURVED SPiXEs.-The chief cause Of this
deformity is continuous sitting III school,
or in many other occupations. We lead
unnatural lives, sitting three-quarters of
the time, while this is the worst position
there Is for human beings. The injurious
effects are most marked in children who
grow so rapidly as to be lax IN their bear
ing and who are phiesnatic and naturally
indolent. Professor Billroth proposed as
precautions against curvature and q suitable
treatment for il, gymnastics swimming,
riding, massage, leaning often. work done
while standing and lying down, proper
desks and tables. an hour or two Of COM
plete physical rest during the middle Of
the day limitations Of mental work and
protection from physical and mental IA
tigue-l Herald Of Health
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-10
REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

John Kuhn, of Lafayette, Ind, had a very
narrow escape from DEATH This is bis own
story: d" One year ago was In the last Stages of
Consumption. Our best physicians gaze my
case Up. finally got 50 low that our deciersaid
could rot live twenty-four hours. &y friends
then purchased bottle OF DR.. WA- I4LL'S
BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS. which benefited
me. ! continued until I took nine bottles.
am now in perfect health, having used no oihec
medicine" fe2lisly&w1y
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-10

" beginning with the Southern Pacific Rail
way. and going on through the various lists Of
items, / undertake to use the best arguments
that suggested themselves to me TO enhance
the values Of these securities. / insisted that
though they claimed the Southern Pscifc bonds
were worth only sixty cents on the dollar that
under their administration and what they
would do. aud the connee1ing roads they would
build, the fact that II was leased to the Central
Pacific for a sum OF money which enabled
them, with the earnings of the road, to pay the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-10


There is no claim that any of the stocks or
bonds in question had any market value, unless
II be the bonds Of the Southern Pacific and as
20 these the claim is rather family made, and
certainly the evidence plainly shows they had
none.
What are the values. then, which are ex-
pressed in TX. E2 The phrase Intrinsic value''
has been used. although this Is not the meaning
insisted upon by the plaintiff. But if there were
no market value, what other value could it
have This phrase is used in opposition to mar
ket value, or fancy valne or special value to
some individuals, and perhaps in other eonnec-
uonS Except as comparative term, il is diff
cult to.extraet any meaning from it,
Nalue is said 10 indicate the relation the mr.
chasing power OF one COMMODITY bears to the Dur
chasing power OF other commodities, and gen
orally 20 money, the universal medium of ex-
change. and which furnishes, Therefore. the
criterion, or unit, for the estimate of all CONNER
elai values This is the only meaning it can
nave here, or which would have been deemed
material IN these negotiations
Inc Elisl question was: How much can be
realized from these assets to enable the corpora
ton 10 pay its debts and divided among its
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-19
THE EAkES SEX.

Miss Cleveland writes her compositions with
q gold pen. Her manuscripts are very neat
and her writing is legible.
Princess Beatrice is two inches taller than
the queen, with form so perfect that it is
said art can add no beauty to its outline.
Mrs. James A. Garfield will be given O re-
ception by the trustees and president of
Williams college at Williamson, Mass, OH
June 80.
Clara Morris says that Mr.. Tilden is the best
conversatiunalist she has ever met. In her
opinion he is far too lovable to have remained
a bachelor.
Paris managers win not give Patti as much
money in year as she can earn in America
III two weeks. And yet we claim to have
more sense than the French.
Economical wives are getting scarcer every
year. There are some married women who
do not save enough i'll two years to pay their
husbands bar bills for week.
They have got it that Ella Wheeler, the i'm
passoned poetess, doesn't live happily with
her husband. He will no longer sit still and
suffer in silence as she reads to him.
Baroness Burdett-Coutts is usually accom-
panied in the streets by beautiful collie
dog, which is the gift of Henry Irving.
Miss Cleveland is the baby of the Cleveland
family. She looks to be 35. She is q inc
dium-sized woman, inclined to be petite with
square shoulders, a short neck, and a face
sallow in its complexion, but decidedly intel
lectual in it's features. From high fore
head little brown curls stand upward, and
going backward cover her whole head with
innumerable ringlets.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-19
MEN OF NOTE.

Riel writes to his brother that he is very
anxious to get good counsel. Probably he
would like to have the rope break, too.
Secretary Lamont is said to entertain office
seekers with such melancholy vocal selections
as ''SOme Day. and ''Sweet By and By"
Henry L. Nelson, Speaker Carlisle's private
is at work on another novel which is fast
growing towards completion.
The fashionable people Of Newport are
highly elated that the president has promised
to wash in the surf at that summer resort in
July.
A West Point graduate has 120 pairs Of
white trousers. The secretary of war should
see that this young warrior is sent against the
Apaches at once.
James Russell Lowell is said to be fast be-
coming an old man in appearance and man
ner, with hair turning white. His wife IS recent
death may accelerate this decay. His mind is
active, however.
Lord Lytton's manners are described as be-
ing "a cross between those of the Partisan
petit maitre and the dandy diplomatic of Great
Britain Men do not like him, but ladies
pronounce him charming. ~
Ex-Justice Strong of the supreme court does
not indulge in that elegant leisure which he
might enjoy on his pension of $4,000 year,
but is one Of the most active and Industrious
working lawyers in Washington.
Having buried his young friend, Victor
Hugo, M. Ferdinand de Lesseps announces
that he accepts with alacrity the presidency
OF the Paris exposition for 1889, and will be
on hand to open the Panama canal in 1920.
Lord Cairns possessions consisted entirely
of personal property. No British chancellor
has left any large territorial estate since Lord
Eldon. Modern chancellors. have preferred
what Lord Beaconsfield termed 1.-The sweet
simplicity of the per cents"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-19
Pennsylvania Ghost story.

DpeCldl 10 Inc UlODe.
LEBANON, Penn, June 1S.-Several
years ago, during the speculative insurance
mania, Joseph Reber, an old man. was
found drowned in Indiantown creek. in an
isolated portion of the county. 1t was
afterward developed that he had been
killed by his head being held under water
and drowned for the money ON his life,
several hundred thousand dollars. Five of
his neighborS were afterward arrested. con-
victed and hung for killing the old man.
The trial developed some of the most start
ling phases in American criminal history.
The outside world has forgotten the
crime and it's terrible sequel But the
usually quiet people between Swatara and
Indiantown gaps are, nightly aroused by
unearthly screams from along the creek,
and trustworthy citizens declare that a
strange figure is continually pacing up and
down the pathway where the crime was
committed. 1t flies at their approach. and
at other times, before it disappears as in
mist, shakes its head, points to the quiet
waters of the creek, and utters a strange
sound like death rattle. 1t is the figure
of man dressed in gray, and after night
fall the road is very little travelled, as sew
eral hundred persons have seen the ghost.
Some think it the spirit of old man Reber,
while many others think that it is one Of
the five who were hung innocently and who
comes back to earth to trouble his persecu-
tors and the people who perjured themselves
in bringing him to the gallows. The affair
has caused a great deal of talk and gossip.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-19

tirely forego pleasure which lin
gered like the memory of some pleas
ant dream, and the old man compro-
missed the matter. An arrangement was
made by which he was privileged to select
certain number of the prettiest girls from
the flock, who alone were to be the recipi-
ents of his kisses. The girls failed to real
ize the cause of this unintentional partiality
and the result was the biggest sort of a
civil war was inaugurated. The first kiss
was the firing on Fl Sumter, which opened
the rebellion. The next girl who was
called up absolutely declined because she
hadn't been selected first, and Immediately
adopted an ordinance of secession, declar-
ing herself out of the Union. This put
old TEcUMsEH ON his mettle, and, after
proclaiming martial law and suspending
the writ of habeas corpus, he at once pro-
ceeded to crush the rebellion with force Of
arms. Before the rebellious maiden knew
what had happened she found herself strug-
Cling in the embraces of the captor OF At
lanta, both of her hands clasped in his,
while right on her ruby little lips he was
raining shower of kisses that sounded as
they fell like exploding bombs. 1t was the
grandest civic victory ever achieved by a
superannuated warrior, and will probably
be the closing scene in the dramatic career
OF the veteran soldier.