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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-11-29
TWO FIRES IN VERMONT.
6LAzES IN ST. JOHNS6URY AND
WlLLlAMST OWN.
The Fairbanks Combination Store and
Contents Destroyed-Hotel, stores, I |
and a. Dwelling Totally Consumed
at WiIliamstown.

ST. JoHNsBvRY, Vt, Nov. 22.-The
most destructive fire, with one exception,
in the history of the town occurred this
morning at about $3.50 O'Clock when the e.
q I. Fairbanks Scale company's great
combination store with all its contents was
destroyed. The fire ORIGINATED in the attic
supposedly from spontaneous combustion,
and, although heavy rain prevailed at the
time before the fire was discovered and an
alarm sounded, the building which IS very
old, was entirely wrapped III flames and the
fire beyond control The store will not be re-
built on the present site but already plans
are being made for larger and more
modern building to be constructed on Main
street nearer the business part of the town
Large crowds visited the scene of the fire
this morning and assisted IN clearing away
the debris. The loss estimated in round
figures at $4,000 is insured for about
oue-half that amount.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-11-29

WAsAlNGroS, NOV. -2.-T4a following
Vermon,ers we're granted pensions to-lay:
Original, William II. G4lchri,I, Acludoes
RAILS, Marcus r. Russell, North ClaI -li3n,
Lorenzo w. SLedI, Montpelier, israe. Fidel
Brandon. George W. Mason, Island Pond:
Increase, Josiah Smith, BIooAieid, Aiploulo
Chaplain, Bennington, Freeman Gauthier,
Lidllesex, father Of Silas l.. Chamberlain,
West Randolph.
WAsmSGroN, Nov, 24-The following
pensions have been granted 20 Ne4monters:
Original, Invalid, Moses Nas5, Crotou, VIII
liam Fitzgerald. West Barnet; Increased,
Lafayette Richardson, Berlin; William Mas
say, Canre Rutland; /. d. Savage, Alex
w. Terrill. UnderhiA; reissue George w.
Do,y. Monisyile, Edward y. Drake, Plain
field; re-issue all Increase, jeremiah Bish-
op. island Pond.
WAsH1NGroy, Nov. 91.-The following
Vormonters have been granted pensions.
Original. Joseph Brooks, Burlington; in
crease, ". ". Keith Norm Cambridge;
Abran Powell, Anlover; Buzzel Leazor,
Plainfeld Thomas B, Burdy, Rutland;
bernard 4. Mckenna, Montpelier; Eras-
tus G. ColIister, Barton; Abel T, Wimau,
South Dorset
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-11-29
Poultry and Eggs in New England.
From the Boston Record

Do people appreciate that whole train
Ioa Is of butter and eggs are brought every
week TO Boston from Missouri DO they
know that more than half the eggs used
here come from the W est, and that growing
them la New England can be made very
profitableY Women make handsome in
comes in some New England towns raising
poultry and eggs for this market What is
the use of talking about worn out farms in
New England when with any kind Of man
ageD,enu they can be made very profitable
raising poultry, and nothing else, with an
always sure and steady market Instead Of
going West, the men who are looking about
to make living in outdoor pursuits can do
it within 100 miles of Boston, and have a
siro prospect Of success.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-11-29
GRAND ARMY NOTES.
Department Commander Tracy will visit
Grand Army Posts.

Grand Army Posts.
Department Comman der Tracy is to visit
the following places on the dates named
during the month of December,
Rochester, December End; Pittsfeld, 3rd
Plymouth, 4h; Ludlow, 9th; Weston, 9th;
South Londonderry, 7th: Chester. 9Th;
Springfield, 10Th; Felohvilie, 18th; Wood
stock 18th; Windsor, 18th; White River June
ton, 14th; South Royalton, 10Th; Tun-
bridge, 18th; Chelsea 18th; Brookfied,
10Th; West Randolph, goth; Northheld, 2lst.
Capt. o. E. Eldredge Of Warren, is to
take Col. Tracy around this circle with a
fine span of horses he has.
Mrs. w. c. Wbipple president of the
Woodstock Relief corps, inspected the Tun-
bridge Reiieg corps Thursday evening, and
the Chelsea corps Friday evening.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-11-29


V"eh"ei' !" 'o''' ""' Jan
Two Lincoln men, Ne"cll Aashln'
Hollis Atwood, we're arrested lheie
day nl2ht by Deputy CA'teu states -t
shall Thomas L. tahey, 94er.I ho"~''
Ciarf ana Deputy 2neIlH '" -, -,, I-V y" -''-'
OF b"=e2i. ana We're taheh 10 Mlao4ebtr.-
where ,'eJ arrived ABOUT hllahishI' H"a-
tlhs A.4 % nearing SATURDAY ul.7 loJ" &C.
lore ''mullssioner G1ofSe r. JouHs'u ol
BGt A-lon ana was hsld ID SOW pohus 10
aWali iAa acUlon oil the SrHnu jury DO
could MOI procure sutet1ea ana was
conu!l'td 10 J"il Al NlU'licn4Iy' us
ulct Attorney flufnief or NorVnHelui
app. afeu ior tHe So''rilI'el'' 'l' - l.
upper es't' Ior '.'e I17Ion '9H-'
IL was aeNeloped a1 uhe nearing VnaS ,tne
two "ortnles nave l'nS peeA suspected ny
reilefll7 Oh LA1s.lu vi nl"Hi"S couHcelIeiVs
oI SILVER com ana recent oulgiarI-s III LIN
coin led Sherlh Cars VINO llVe' there 10
5earch pue Hou9e Vl one oI tHelu IoI s'olen
goods ne louud, ainoA5 olner uulh5s, d
lo0 Oh remains "+ hri't1Ait SPOONS I"Is
ma aroused Dis au'pic''hs' "Atcu We're
StIeh5 5uAeueu Ie" uaJ ~l1eA Oh let't iliHes
IAaO ldshihs 9oll n',' li4e-' ~ pass d. co"l
SeflelU len-c cent pl7ce 4or cdu"5 ~ UA' 4ocu
store.
0nerih C4aTh aI Cnce 97Ao "oIH 10 Di5-
trlcl attorney FluLnIey VINO uI ol'5 iHaus
out warrants ana placed thGin IN ne AaAdS
Oh DepulJ Nlatsutl J a44eJ lAe 4'-'oi Sc
cured 'Ne alt Oh tne Au''son Couiil5 o.lce,S
anu "ehU 10 lldsAlhs AoAns' v, nel o4O9ely
questioned py Depu'y ralieS' -l'''h us aI-
mlted that he haa used lAe spuI'oua com "nich
ne salu hao peeh gwen ~ nm oJ -4O"ood
The mousse was seerchea put no com or '.ieS
De IOuIlu eACG pL LlliU III lil5 ij'lSSt-eSiDn
OF the authorlUles' hashIns WIS Put IL IRONS
and Ielt the CUSTODY OF bepuIy 9herlH
Lawrence ana the olheF t"o oiICerS "ehO 10
Atwood nome ABOUT lnlle Instant "Hefe
they arrived ABOUT oaIk.
Atwood at hrsl dshleu Vh"V NE uau maze
counterfeit money, buV "hen ne learned
that Hasklns mad betrayed nun h9 confessed
his gul!t lie sald that he mad been engaged
N the business Tor eiGht or zen years anu
uad turned OUT cohslUei a"e aAlloun'' a
portion OF II nau Oeeu Ci'c-HdItN III lio
nelghborhood puu ne had sent qul'e It large
amount away. he gave quantity TO
FRANK W ms VINO Went west some years
since. Ills method Oh operating was 10
make thlcA paste or ashes anu some otner
1latsIlal from WHICH UA5 HouIu' "elo luale'
Nhlle 1he piochs We're piasIc com "Atcn
he wished to counterIeit was Piaced Ns-
tween them anu they were press" loSeIher
ana al4oWea 10 ury' ne inau' "'4ar' hH1-
dollar, quarter dollar pieces dimes
| and haH ulllies anu many U IneLn
We're quite wen executed ne Said tuat
lie oesfoy eu ms lAOuGs a9 soon Us lie n'd
got through "'th tneH' me V.ucel7 7-1tcL-d
the mousse thorouShly Us OAgy d-'. o'ueF houses,
Dul couId unu no apparatus iiOI co--4S' 9A-
cept few on his person. -AI" was also
searched and toId TO get reauy lor = jour
fhIr "a. SD
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-11-29
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
summary OF the New, from all Parts Of
this Earth of Ours.

snow storm. is reported on the y;ov ,ro,n
the northwest
Tho Iowa house of repre,entatives is SAID
to be n tie politically. and there are pro,-
nects of a liyelv time over its orpanixatiou
1,lito,. C.,orlas Nv p.,rosa of )o.or,t
J,4oh has baen 1odyad in mil for contomn
nj co,rt in refusing 10 tell how many wives
he has
T,vo bandits rifod on ev,rase car on tlo
tTissorri Kansas and Tsy.e railway o+
pn,.,,, t,rsss SUNDAY ,,iybt ond cot avov
win $40 coo
Mr. Maroi,is late democratic caudidate
f,, ,1in,,tensi,t :. .,,o,,.rno, of ohio snnolncas
+bo+ bo ,,IIl ,,1ole 4, c,,,,t.e+ f,, th, lieuto,-
an+.oroyo. ,orsbin
C.., ,r-.., c.-, II, ,t- nal.
y, toi poi a. nm. ''iu Ooi' " D'li'i'J,
orp,sd a co.nortnorshin in tbe nension and
claims business Mt WASHINGTON.
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b,a-1ad . san4o n. ,,,1.,a,,,,ar frni, ,r
Ill s4a+ior in tha CIioI.,s,r, r,,ti,,,
sn,,,,..d Lat,,ao,, zoo ooo and zgo ono frnr,
+Io. a,.,,,,oss oo, a,,,l ,,(9r,od
W. GlI,., % a., 1,;,.4 N-a4;.,,o,
t,aI, - ,,'ll1 b.. ~ a n,,r.a,i-I
nt-,llo,,, il, +1,o Nratt1,1ist ch,,,c1, Of lsv,n
ton ~ the ,,,,,,,or,- ~ HE tatho, tba Ist..
ytrillio,,, so,,I.g r,rc died at tho+ rI,o,
-. tf.I, .'4., 4llg
u ilo' 4'ii i4|s
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- - - eiII .t; -;
"ooN ''io 1oioHoo Ia
/
ueliUe i ~ ITouSVai l- ooui' nao i.i l''i
un',l I Uiii' .rliuAyl inofni"s' "nen IouiiS0i
WIZ pgsi'i " SUI" up
| a ChIcaSo paper says 'ne lineage oas
'ruat' mas III the las' Ie" ooo9' ua9s' oot"lueN
aosolule eontrol oi tV'Voo acres UL sa9
iauos IA inuiuna anu io'iUenL 'ii!inea ~
saVis"eu tlat ihsiue Oh year Tue Guy WIN
De 9uPPi'ou WIN n"'uIai gas
The n ational grange in session at Sacra-
mento, California, passed a resolution
IaVoflng The election OF United 91ate7 a'H"-
/ tors direct by vote OF the people a reso-
! iuIion was adopted reducing lneMDe snip
lees Tor men from 60 to 81 ana referred 10
the State oranges. lhe grange adjourned
TO meet next year at Atlanta
Charles Montgomery of San Francisco a
man well-known on the Pacific coast has
/ been swindied out of $50, 900 and forced to
make an assignment by young man Civ
ing the name Of +. Glencross Grant who
had identified himself with the Young
Men Christian association. Grant turns
out 10 be confidence man named Glencross,
whe committed similar offences III London,
ana hcd TO THIS country Ills Wnei 5apouIs
are unknown.
Persistent runners were affect in London
Friday that revolution was in progress
i,,t tt,f 1s,,l 't4f, t,t,..-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-11-29

WASHINGTON, Nov, 22.--Fomsh class
postmasters were to-day appointed for
Vermont as follows NJ !. Day Of Pip
ton and c. T.. WhIoy OF Sharon.
The profits from the Montpelier military
band fair, although not yet. fully settled
viii surely amount 70 over St2Q0,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-11-29
SHOWERS OF THEQUEER.
TWO MEN ARRESTED At LINCOLN
FOR COUNTERFElTlNG.

A Quantity Of Spurious Coin Found II,
Their rossessiou--A Number OF Nesr7
Covered by Their perations-Ahe
Offenders in Court and Jail.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-11

The president and small party have
gone to Chicago.
SECRETARY BLAINE has recovered from a
recent attack of lumbago and has resumed
work
DIR. EDWARD MCGLYNN lectured in Poult-
ney last week Friday evening to a large
audience.
Mrs. EMILY (HoLLEY) POTTER of Canal
Winchester, Ohio, has presented the town
of Bristol beautiful chandelier, to be hung
in Holley hall.
formation from reliable source that Gen
eral Boulanger has been engaged to lecture
in the United States.
BENJAMIN SARGENT died at his home in
Chester on November %, aged ninety-six
years. He was the oldest person in town,
and had always lived there.
JOHN L. PUTNAM, eighty-fve years of age,
OF Brattleboro, for forty years gate-keeper at
the toll-brdge crossing to the New Hamp-
shire side, died on Tuesday of last week.
IT is announced that Charles f. Graves
of Bennington has received the appointment
of inspector for Vermont on the staff of
General Russell A. Alger, commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army of the Republic
MADAME ADELINA PATTI, accompanied
by her husband, Nicolini, arrived at New
York last week Wednesday on the White
Star steamer Teutonic," On the same
vessel was also the famous singer, Nordica.
1T is reported that Queen Victoria is
breaking down rapidly. She is lame from
rheumatism, and her mind is not as bright
as it was. Since she learned that the Prince
of Wales has an incurable disease she has
failed rapidly.
Hon. w. b. MCMAsTER, United States
consul at Carthagenia, South America, was
in Bennington recently, the guest of the
Messrs, Tiffany. The Tiffanys have walked
up Carthagenia with little Yankee enter
prise in the form of line of transportation
steamers.
RUFUS THOMPSON of West SwanZey, n
H., the venerable father of the well-known
actor, Denman Thompson, was married re-
Gently to Mrs. Sarah A. Walker OF West
minister West. Mr. Thompson is eighty.
three years of age and the bride is eight
years his junior.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-11
Lincoln and Davis.

In the essential elements of states
manship Davis will be judged as the
rival and parallel of Lincoln. When
the two men came face to face, as lead
ers of two mighty forces, bitter was
northern sorrow that Providence had
given the South so ripe and rare a
leader and the North an uncOuth adj
vocate from the woods. But it was
not long before the North was to real
ize with gratitude the wisdom of
Providence in so ordaining it. Lincoln
steadily grew to his work. Flexible,
patient, keen, resolute, far-seeing, with
pathetic common sense and strange
power over the hearts of men, Lincoln
led and fashioned his hosts, never adj
vancing to recede, outmatching Davis
at every point by his diplomacy, his
knowledge of politics, his power to
wait as we'll as his power to strike
crushing blows. 1t is painful to con-
trast this nimble, subtle genius, adapt
ing itself to the mutations of every
hour, with the cold mathematics of
Davis, who managed politics upon the
barren dogmas of Calhoun and con-
Quoted war like tutor at West Point.
The man who saw the skies above and
the horizon about him was to over
master the precise metaphysician who
saw nothing but his tasks and lived in
the traditions of an antecedent genera
tion.-NeD York Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-11

number of men. was present. He said
Yes, think of asking letter-carrier how
far it is from the earth to Mars. 1 said
Now l am not going to deny that, but l
will tell you what / will do | will bet you
800 to $40, and put it up now, that you can
not show me any examination paper where
that has ever been asked of letter-carrier
or of any man seeking a similar position.
AT first he said that he didn't care to bet
Next he admitted that he didn't know it of
his personal knowledge, but friend or two
had told him of it. Then he admitted that
perhaps they had imagined it. And finally
he admitted that it wasn't a letter-carrier
that was asked and on still further exam
ination it proved to have been not letter
carrier, but an assistant astronomer"
OF "irrelevant and impracticable
questions" Mr.. Roosevelt says further:
" Six months ago the national civil service
commission published complete set of the
examination papers, complete set of the
questions that we asked in examination.
They have been before the public for six
months. Not one of our opponents has
pulhbCu Oubi VI Ndh )Olhb Oubi IL IuuS1lOu III
those papers that have been before them for
six months that is irrelevant or imprac-
teal"
The opponents of the new system
are fond of saying that a practical test
is better than any educational test. So
it is. The merchant who would hire a
dry-goods clerk, besides questioning
him closely as to his fitness, would not
be sure that he had found the clerk he
wished till he had tried him in his store
for awhile, and the government of the
nited States, under the new regime,
does not give its minor employees per-
manent positions until six months of
practical work have shown their capac-
ity for the positions assigned them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-11
Press Notes.

THE CongregationaHSt allows another
correspondent to call in question the
goodness and heroism of the late
Father Damien. Gu bono? The man
is dead; let him rest. 1t may be re-
marked in passing that there are Prot
estant saints whose lives would not
seem so heroic if they were viewed
through microscope. - New York
Tribune.
SECRETARY NOBLE isn't insensible
to the criticism made of our pension
system that, as now conducted, it
makes no discrimination between the
brave soldier who did his duty and the
one who was as dishonorably dis
charged. He defends it only on the
ground that it is in accordance with
the previous rulings in the department
and satisfies the law. That he doesn't
approve of the law, however, is shown
by his recommendation that distinct
act be passed prohibiting the payment
of pensions to such persons. That
would settle matter upon which every
body is substantially agreed. The rec
ommendalion deserves the prompt at
tention of congress, in order that pen
sions may be paid only to those who
deserve them. Boston Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-11
Forward or Rearward .

Almost simultaneously two import
ant episodes in civil service reform his
tory have occurred. Early last week
the national civil service commission
made its annual report 1t is with par
donable pride that the commission re-
fers to the fact that the classified serv-
ice now includes twenty-eight thousand
government employees, embraced in the
departmental, the postal, the customs
service and the railway mail service.
The aggregate salaries of these en-
ployes is about one-half the entire sal
airy list of minor employees of the gov
eminent. Within the year ending on
June 30 last the classified service was
extended to the railway mail service.
The commissioners emphatically say
that experience clearly shows that the
offices in which the merit system has
been most fairly tried are the very
offices in which the best public work
has been done. This is encouraging.
In the face of tremendous odds, the
commission and the cause have made
marked Roadway.
But despite these hopeful reports,
along comes Senator Farwell of Illinois
with a proposition to repeal the Pendle-
ton bill. and, instead of making APP
pOintments in the government service
dependent on merit, as shown by inn
partial competitive examinations, in
which the word "politics " is COM
pletey eliminated, he would have all
government offices peddled out to re-
pubiicans at the instance and discretion
of republican congressional delegations.
In other words, Mr.. Farwell would not
merely return to the old spoils system,
under which the president made all ap
pointments by the advice of congress-
men, but he would couple this eXecu-
tive function with the legislative duties
of congressman and leave to the presi-
dent " time for real statesmanship.n
Mr.. Farwell is frankie is so frank,
even, that he intimates that his purpose
may be quite as well served if he can
prevent an appropriation for the civil
service cOmmission-but his scheme
will not carry. Passing over the un-
constitutionality of his plan-and there
is nothing in the constitution that is
palmer than the complete separation of
the legislative, judicial and executive
functions-the disastrous effects of
such system as he proposes are evil
dent. While it would give the pres-
dent time for real statesmanship,'
what would become of the time of con-
gressmen for real craftsmanship? This
is desideratum noticeably lacking in
these days, and the annoyances of set
Ting controversies over appointments
are responsible in large measure for
the condition of things.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-11
Sic Transit.

Jefferson Davis is dead at the age
of eighty-one years. That he died a
natural and peaceful death, his wife
and near friends at his side, is fact in
which his worst personal enemies and
his most bitter political foes will re-
joice. No punishment that could have
been inflicted on him would have been
so effective in reconciling the South as.
has been the policy of leaving him to
the fate of receiving the continually
growing disapproval of the better and
progressive part of the South, Davis
represented the pro-slaverv and seces-
sion ideas of the days before the war,
while the educated men of the South
have long since rejected them and are
looking forward to something better. TO
see his comrades in the war gradually
outgrowing his political creed-to find
himself isolated by their advance-was
mental condition of far greater poign-
ancy than physical suffering could
and South that no vindictive policy was
pursued toward Davis and his generals
AS to the generals, there is probably
now but one opinion on this point. AS
to DAVIS himself, there is not so great
unanimity of feeling. Mems recollec-
tions of the war are still acute. Its hor-
rors, its sufferings, its enormous eX-
pense, the blood spilled, the hearts
broken, the wars utter wantonness at
the beginning and its prolongation after
it had become certain that there could be
but one outcome-for all this aggrega-
ton of cruelty Davis was justly and
personally held more or less directly
responsible. After the loss of Vicks-
burgh and Lees defeat at Gettysburg,
every soldier slain was because of
Davis unwillingness to yield to the
logic of events. He could have stayed
the effusion of blood then and there.
One word from him could have miti-
gated the horrors of the charnel-house
at Andersonville. To satisfy his AFRO
CANT spirit the useless strife continued
at Chattanooga, Nashville, Atlanta, in
the march to the sea, and along its
CHASTITY course from the Wilderness to
Appomattox. He was the incarnation
of secession, of rebellion, of the war
and all its wrongs, and many people
believed he should hang-and some,
not without reason, believe so still.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-11

have no disposition to quarrel with its
want of candor, for the CdledOnidn is
rarely candid and its idiosyncrasies
would keep one forever on the rack.
But in a public matter of so much i'm
portance as the new school law, which
is on trial before the people, we hold it
little short of sedition to be stirring up
dissatisfaction by any means, and
particularly by erroneous statements.
1t is unpatriotic, it is not good citizen
ship. If the supervisor for Caledonia
county summoned all its teachers to
st. Johnsbury for examination, that
might-or it might not, according to
circumstances-be a matter for criti-
cism, but not for criticism of the law,
which specially provides for examina-
tons at convenient places in each
county,