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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-04-17
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
The Record ofthc Wnr.

Some time ago we told the Story Of the
remarkable work being done by special
committee appointed by Secretary Proctor
in completing the Record of the War of the
Rebellion. The need of funds to carry on
this work to completion while so many of
the veterans of the late war are alive and
able to aid directly or indirectly in the
work has been long apparent. The House
committee has but just reported a bill for
printing copies enough for the first five
volumes Of this Record TO complete the sets
of the succeeding volumes which have been
issued. This will be fortunate for those
who have the later volumes, but it offers no
encouragement to applicants for complete
sets who failed TO get them dur
ing the Forty seventh Congress.
The W ashington correspondent of the
Springfield Republican says that it
is impossible for anyone to obtain this i'm
portant publication now without hunting
through the book stores and paying cxorbi-
tant prices for certain volumes. The rea-
son that more are not authorized is the con.
siderable sum which it will cost. The esti-
mated cost of printing and binding an edl-
ton of 5000 copies Of the first five volumes,
to complete existing sets is S22, $50 This
was recommended by the officer in charge
Of the record and by Secretary Proctor,
and Chairman Russell of the House com
mittee has just reported bill. 1t is doubt
full if better Use could be made of the same
amount OF money and it should be prompt
" voted. Secretary Proctor has been con
fdeut that if granted the needed funds this
work could be completed during his term Of
Office as secretary of war, and it is a work
that can be done now much cheaper than in
the future.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11

New England hills which has of late de
manded so much attention. After speak
ing of the large attendance at the public
schools fifty and more years ago he said:
There is the best of reason why our dis
trict schools in years gone by were thrifty.
We had the scholars. One district in town
contained three families who had n grand
aggregate of thirty scholars. Thirty eight
families were at one time living in town
who had total OF 31i children. No
family was considered respectable unless it
had at least six children, and the average
for long series of years ranged from six to
ten. We are accustomed to lament the
feeble condition of our schools at the pre-
sent day but if we look ut tho families of
half century ago we shall see the true
cause of our unhappy condition. The old
law of supply and demand governs this
problem IL we have the scholars we shall
provide the schools. 1.-The fault, dear
Brutus, is not in our stars, but in our
selves, that we are underlings."
Morristown's celebration of the Glorious
Fourth was a fitting one, and the addresses
timely and profitable.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
Vermont Il CpnIurN ArO

Judge Powers's historical address Mt the
Morristown centennial celebration Fri
day was not only an able, scholarly effort
giving evidence of extended and com.cicn-
tious research, but presented a very graphic
picture Of New England life of one hundred
years ago What Jacob Walker was to
and did for Morrstown other equally brave
and courageous men have done for every
New England village and town. 1t re-
quired peculiar kind of courage in those
days for a man of twenty-four to attempt
the task of building up for himself a home
amid the rugged hills of northern New Eng
land, but the times furnished the
men for the emergency and in this
instance Jacob Walker was the man
He was typical New Englander, man of
intense religious feeling, honest to the core
and yet when the rivalry between the cold
centre and the corners resulted-as it
resulted in so many New England villages
in the removal Of the real business centre to
the corners" the good deacon was I'M
righteously mad, and refused to contribute
a cent to the new church which his own
people desired to erect at the buster and
= IN
tiles he was recognized then as a worthy
man and as the years go by he is held in
remembrance as one who bulded for the
future and builded well. Every Vermont
town that has made for itself worthy
name has its Jacob Walker-all honor to
the Jacob Walkers
And this matter of the deacon and his
church brings up another very interesting
feature of the religious life of other
days if our so-called liberal friends of to.
day are surer of one thing than of another
it is that the New Englanders of fifty to
one hundred years ago were intollerant to
the last degree and yet we find these Morris
town New Englanders establishing a union
church, and in order to prevent any over
reaching by either denomination agreeing
that there should be flfty-two pews repre-
senting the whole number OF Sabbaths in
the year and that each pow owner should
have the unquestioned right to designate
the kind of preaching he preferred on one
certain Sunday in the year. Thus it was
possible to have fifty-two different creeds
advocated in twelve month. Trese I'M
sophisticated churchmen fondly expected
that this little device would work out the
great principle of religious liberation which
has vexed the craftsmanship and bahled the
zeal of the best thinkers of the age for cen
turtles, but we are not at all surprised to
learn that the scheme was failure, though
the persons interested in it certainly showed
disposition to satisfy men of all creeds and
of ffty-twc separate beliefs
Va hov onIx 20
other point covered by Judge Powers, one
touching directly the school question: but
indirectly the matter Of depopulation Of the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
Protection Iignres.

free trader asked the Metropolis the
other day to give him some evidence that
protection had cheapened the price Of ar
ticles to the masses. lie wanted figures
and he got them. Here is portion of the
answer that our farmer readers will appre-
ciate The self-binding reaper, which sold
for S315 in 1850, is sold for $3.50 in 1890
The seeder, which cost $35 in 1880. is worth
but $13 in 1890 Pumps which were worth
$l5 in 1880, sell at Sc IN 1880. Like re-
ductions are notable in nearly all things
used in agricultural work. Barb wire
which cost 10 cents per pound in 1880, sells
for cents to-day. Window glass, of the
duty on which free traders complain SO
fiercely is cheaper by % per cent than it
was ten years ago, Coal is half its old
price The ''tn cup" of the duty on
which the free traders complain, is now
worth 3 cents, against 10 cents in 1880.
Chains which used to sell for % cents Der
pound, now Sell for 70, and even zinc.
about 1.-THE trust" on which we hear so
much, sells ut 10 cents per pound, against
10 cents in 1880. These are the sort of fig
ures that talk for protection,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11

Although Tuesdays storm was one of the
most severe that has visited this section i'm
recent years, our dispatches show that no
! great amount of property was destroyed
at any particular point. The loss is so
widely distributed, however, that it must
aggregate "A very large amount. But it is es-
pccially worthy of note that the loss of
live was remarkably small when the dan
gers involved are taken into consideration
The loss OF life at Rouses Point was prob
ably due to circumstances that were un-
avodable, although the storm gave warn
ing of its approach an hour at least before
it burst upon the lake. The single life lost
off Bluff Point was due to gross careless
ness on the part of the victim, experienced
boatmen having warned him that it was
not safe to go out. At CHS writing no
other fatalities in this vicinity have been
reported and it is hoped that no additions
TO the list will be made
We think this a remarkable record and
that it speaks volumes for the care and
good judgment exercised 10y the command
ers of the pleasure craft on the lake. The
day was oppressively warm, and large ex-
cursion parties from this city and from
Nergennes and other points were on steam
ers on the lake when the gale was at its
worst: but not life was lost or on
dangered and no accident of any kind to
any OF the eXcursonists has thus far been
reported. Lake travel is an important fea-
turo of Lake Chamrlain's Summer bust
ness y and it is gratifying to know that it
is in the hands Of capable and careful men.
Pleasure seekers may rest assured that on
no body of water in the country can steam
boat travel be enjoyed with greater degree
of security than on Lake Champlain. Add
ed to this the fact that no lake scenery
equals that to be found about Champlan
and we can easily account for the large
numbers that are being attracted to this
vicinity the present season.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
Mr.. Cleveland Writes Another letter

EX President Cleveland is writing letters
again. lie wrote letter to his Taumany
friends July 4, in which he said that those
who love their country may well remember
with comfort and satisfaction on Independ-
ence day that the disposition of the Ameri-
can people to revolt against ma-admin,s-
Tauon still remains to them, and is the
badge Of their freedom and independence,
is well as their security for continued pros
perity and happiness. Every good repub-
lean may safely subscribe to that scnti-
ment, and point with some degree of pride
to the more recent instance OF revolt on the
part of the American people, which
resulted in retiring to private life Mr.
Cleveland himself. This letter writer
well says that the American people
twill not revolt against their plan of govern.
ment, for its protection and preservation
supply every inspiration of AmerIcanism
But because they are free and independent
American citizens they will, as long as their
love and veneration for their government
shall last revolt against the dominion OF
any political party which, entrusted with
power, sordidly seeks only its continuance.
and which, faithlcssly violating its plain
and simple duty to the people, insults them
with professions of disinterested solicitude
while it eats out their substance" We
question if the circumstances that led to
the deposition of the democratic party, after
trial of four years under the leadership of
Grover Cleveland, could be better stated
He may rest assured that the people will
be very slow to again trust themselves in
his hands or in the hands of his
party. Mr. Cleveland says with a mea-
sure Of truth that the peoples peril
lies in the lease with which they may be
deluded and cajoled by those who would
traffic with their interests" but the same
people cannot be deluded and cajoled by the
same person twice. To paraphrase Mr.
Lincoln's famous remark, he may deude
all of the people some of the time, and some
of the people all of the time, but he cannot
delude all the people all of the time. Mr..
Cleveland is a back number, but he doesn't
seem 10 be aware of the fact.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
The several towns in the county will be en-
Pen Picture Of Judge Wheeler.

iII'll INC New Ofh tribune.
Judge Wheeler. who presided at the in
surance trial IN the Circuit Court, is a Yer
monter, with long, untrimmed beard He
has the appearance of a farmer but when
the city lawyers try to get the better of
him they find themselves unsuccessful.
The usual hour Of adjournment having ar
rived, the court will now ad journ until to-
morrow morning, he will announce, and
some lawyer who is not acquainted with
the judges peculiarities and who is deeply
engaged in the ss-eXamination of "A wit
ness will say, "If your honor will wait a
few minutes, | will eud my examination -
but he is interrupted by stern repetition
Of the announcement made with Il little
added force, and he understands that the
judges direction is to be regarded. Judge
Wheeler is liked by the lawyers as being
prompt industrious and fair. He presides
for part of the year in the Circuit Court
in this city, and devotes the rest of his
time to the District Court work in Yer
mont
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
Another Word About the Roads.

We have over and over again urged upon
our readers the need and the value of good
roads both in the town and in the country
Travellers are quick to find where the good
roads are and to travel on them, and where
the people travel there you generally find
business good. "What direction shall /
take for ride, " we overheard stranger
ask in this city the other day "Go out to
-- was the answer, you will find an ex-
cellent road there On the other hand
the writer passed over country road not
six miles away, within a week, so quilted
out by the rains Of the early spring as to be
almost impossible; it was only by walking
the horse that this piece of roadway was
passed over without accident No sensible
man would think of buying a place and
settling where he would be compelled to
pass over that roadway. He could not af-
ford TO do it if a farmer, and he would not
think of doing it if man of means who
was buying place merely to live in. That
particular piece of roadway is proving an
expensive luxury to the town in which it is
located. The direct outlay is nothing, to
be sure, but the indirect cost to the com
munity in the reduction of real estate values
Is great. The American Cultivator states
the situation admirably in the following
paragraph:
The more successful the farmer IL the more
ne has TO market, and in the same proport ion
tho more he is affected by the character of
pubic roads. But the value OF farm and village
property IS affect ed iniurlousy by poor roads
IN stun another way. There is an increasing
tendency on the part OF rich menwho have made
ther money in cities 10 own country homes, il
hon how 4
from dong this by the impossible character of
many country roads during large portions Of
ne year than by anything else. City men
nave become used TO the easiest and most
RAPID means OF transit, and are the more intol-
Grant or enforced slowness anywhere. So they
20 by rail- ten, twenty and thirty miles, rather
than trust the roads for five or six 1t is i'm
portant 70 country and village prosperity that
more or the city wealth be brought thither
ana distributed IL is sure to be to some extent
whenever a wealthy man moves into a coun-
try district. No better means of inviting such
wealth can be devised than by making coun-
try places as easy of access MS they can be by
road improvement.
We all desire to see the so-called aban-
doned farms Of Vermont occupied and i'm
proved. This will never be done until the
roads are so improved as to make the APP
proaches to them easy and agreeable Good
roads pay.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11

The first man in Vermont to experience
trouble from refusal to answer the cen
sus questions so far as has been learned is
Ezra La Pointe of Lincoln, who declined to
make the proper answers to DR.. j. A. Cush-
man, the enumerator. He was arrested
aud brought to this city Saturday by Dep
uty L. S. Marshal Thomas Failey for an
examination before L. $. Commissioner
George f. johnson. DR.. Cushman testified
in relation to La Ponts's failure TO an
swer the questions propounded to him but
no testimony was taken in behalf of the
defence, The prisoner was held to await
the action of the grand jury at the October
term of United States Court to he held in
Rutland. Bail was fixed in the sum of
$50, which was furnished and La Pointe
was given his liberty. District Attorney
Plumey appeared for the government and
j. f. Cushman for the respondent.
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speaks volumes for the Nermonter's grit,
and that is the accomplishing spirit with
which he lcars his losses when they como as
a direct result of his own foolishnoss. We
hear frequently Of the collapse of these
speculative enterprises and humbug "mu-
tual relief companies and know that many
Nermontors are interested in them. but it is
rarely that any Ncrmonters can be found to
complain of losses. When the collapse
comes nobody knows the persons who have
lost. II is pity that this courage if it
may be so-calicd could not be exercised in "A
better cause-in an effort to build up the
waste places of Vermont, for example
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
Hnmhnp Schemes

One OF the State papers speaks of another
mutual benefit society that is seeking to es-
tablish a footing in Brattleboro, we be-
lieve, that by the annual payment of S25 a
year for Eve years, S125 in all, every mem
Der will at the end of that time receive
$780, and also that in case of sickness
they will receive $50 a week. 1t is astonish-
ing how easily Vermonters are taken in by
these schemes u seems sometimes as
though the harder the effort necessary on
the part of Vermonter to earn the money,
the greater the ease with which
It Is 'fnvested'' in these clap-trap
devices. We want no better evidence OF
the possibilities of tho Vermont farms to-day
than the readiness with which the money
Is forthcoming from Vermont to bolster up
every speculative scheme imaginable, and
still the country is not altogether Empower
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
Republican Nominee for Congress from
the First District.

Hon. II. II. Powers, who was nominated
yesterday by the republicans of the first
district as their candidate for Congress was
born at Morristown, May 20, 1885: edu-
Gated at Peoples academy, Morrisville, and
graduated at University of Vermont class
of 1870; admitted to the bar, Lamoille
County Court 1853, and settled at Hyde
PARK. He represented Hyde Park in the
Legislature of 1875 and was postmaster of
that town in 1853; was elected States at
torney OF Lamolllc county in 1861 and 1862.
In 1859 he removed to Morrisville where he
has since resided. In 1869 he was mom-
Der of the council OF censors; in 1870
member of the constitutional convention
and chairman Of its committee of the whole.
before which committee the amendments TO
the constitution were discussed. He with
f. j. Phelps of Burlington were jealous
advocates of the change to biennial elections
and to them the change was largely due
In 1872 he was senator from Lamoille
county. In 1874 he represented Morris.
town and was elected speaker Of the House.
At this session he was elected a judge of
the supreme Court, which position he still
holds. In 1883 he was made trustee of the
University of Vermont. lie is and has
been for 20 years director of the
d.amolle county bank and for two years a
director of the Merchants bank at st.
Johnsbury.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
OUR KALEIDOSCOPE.

A close questiou-"Can't you drive with
one hand -
New Hampshire farmer made his toilet
in printing Office at Dover, the other day,
and now they say that the hayseed in his
hair has sprouted in the office towel.
SPACE ALL TAKEN UP.
Editor, Ito his two daughters - "Why
didn't you give your young gentlemen cal
lers some music last night, girls ~
The girls - eve couldn't papa. The
pressure on our spinal columns was too
great.
A NEW LEGAL POSSIBILITY.
Mrs. Backlot-"They say Silas Slick got
off on that indictment Of his'n?''
Mrs Bascom-'Nes.n
Mrs. Backlot-'H How'd he do it 2'
Mrs. Bascom-"P Proved an albinon
THE BLACK VOTE.
Robinson-"What do you think about
the black vote Jones ~
Jones-''Don't think much OF it,
Robnson-"Why so -
Jones-"Was black-balled myself once, "
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
I'arlm MOrtgnTCs

The census returns are not all Of a lugu-
brious nature. Some Of the big clustering
cities East and West are making them-
selves generally disagreeable over the fig
nres the enumerators give them but facts
are coming in of greater interest and more
real and vital Importance to the country
than the comparative size of Chicago, New
York, Minneapolis and st. Paul. We re
fer to the worl; of the enumerators with
regard TO mortgage statistics. 1t has al
ready been announced that the farm
mortgages in Kansas do not represent NOR
than one fourth as heavy burden as has
been declared, and now comes the Maine
enumerators with report of the same gencr-
al tenor. Those engaged in the State Of
Maine in procuring data in relation to
the number of mortgages, have already ar
rived ut the conclusion that the amount of
mortGaged property in that State has been
greatly over-estimated, and that the people
owning real estate are very much less in
debt than has been supposed No one has
claimed that the work of the enumerators in
this department of the census bureau is
taultless, or that the results will be ab.o-
lutely correct but they viii be approx
mately correct, and will at least furnish
more reliable data on which to reach con
illusions than the guesses Of economic agi-
tators who would have US believe that
every farmer is "A slave and every farm so
encountered with debt as to be practically
worthless. As we have repeatedly main
tanned, the farmers of New England are en-
joying fair degree of prosperity, and have
reason to look forward to tie future with as
much hopefulness as men engaged in mcr-
camille or professional pursuits.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
DIED.

LYNCH.-In Shelburne, VT. July 2d, at
the residence of Edward McNaley, John II.
Lynch, % years months, formerly of
ellington.
In this city, July5, Rosa F., wife of
W. j. 81, tie, aged d years and months.
HAYEs.-In this city, July :, Of paray sis,
Catherine Quilligan, wife of Patrick Hayes,
aged Is years.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11

Upon Vigorous Health and rugged co-sti-
tuition viii depend largely the future hap
plness ana success in life of child the choice
of food IS therefore of tho highest import
ance. Me Inns Food is rich in blood forming
brain-forming and lCne-forming com pounds
aud Is rec mmended by tho highest medical
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-07-11
Washington County conxentiop.

The republican voters of the county OF Wash
ington are requested to meet h convention.
ny their delegates. at Capital han, Montpelier
O'Clock "a. M, to nominate candidates for two
senators, two assistant judges of the County
sheriff, high bailiH AMI county commits
sloner; also to elect county communities.
II is rccomiucnded that primary meetings for
the election Of DELEGATES lie held uniformly on
saturday, July p, 1881. at such hour of the
day as the town committee -everally may
designate. Delegate asking lur special
on the day of the couy,n tion, can obtain them
for fare one way of the ticket agent at the
railroad station a. which they take the train.