Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-01-10
MERE MENTION.

As 1868 is Leap year, the ladies' will not for
get thai for a twelyemonth they are privileged to
do the sparkling, pop the questions. and pay the
bills for the sleigh-rides
1t Is related that green justice Of the peace in
Kansas closed marrying his first couple with
these words, what have this night ioined to-
gether let no man but God Almighty put asun-
DER
1t is announced that Montgomery Blair will
come out publicly against Gen. Grant, which is
all that isueeleI to ensure the Generals nomins-
tion. IF Montgomery Blair were to come out for
Gen. Grant, it would throw a serious doubt over
his suitability for the Republican candidacy.
The Postmaster Of New York city is arranging
to have postage stamps kept for sale by drug
gists, stationers and others at convenient points
throughout the City.-so that they can be bought
without special application at the Post-offce-
which would he a convenient arrangement in
some smaller cities.
That was a profound and erudite opinion Of
the Nevada Court, which recently decided with
out qualification that man convicted by his own
confession of stealing quartz specimens from
ledge, ''must be acquitted, because a ledge Is
real estate, and real estate cannot be stolen
The Indiana Democrats are quarrelling like
cats and dogs over the election Of delegates 10 the
National Convention Of the party The rock on
which they have split is the question Of paying
the national debt in greenbacks The bondhold-
ers are charged with bribing leading politicians
to stand out for payment of the debt in gold
The NY. Citizen mentions as an Indication Of
the severity of the winter in New York, that Mr..
William B. Astor on Tuesday last cut down the
trees in front of his residence in Lafayett, Place
These trees, being naples of sixteen years growth
will it is thought, furnish fuel in such quantities
as to enable their owner TO look forward to the
rigors Of the ensuing three months with COM
placency.
John G. SAKE, in his lecture ou Poetry and
Poets ranks Bryant first, Halleck second, and
LongfeIlow third, among our American baris.
And where, We should like to know, does he
place Whittier?
The St. Johns, On. b. Globe thinks that at
the end of three more such sessions Of the Domin-
ion Parliament as the first had been, the Parlia-
ment buildings might be purchased for United
States arsenal at a figure much below cost
The man Spencer, who was arrested some
weeks since, in New York, on the charge of
counterfeiting Of 7-30 bonds, and whose wife
pulled $4,000 out of her pocket to bail him, in
court has been discharged, the evidence against
him being weak, or his money being strong.
An international joke, questionable propriety,
was that of the commander of the British war
vessel Chanticleer at Honolulu, who set his band
playing Dixie alongside the U. 5. steamer
Laekawanna The latter retorted with Wear
ing of the Green
Charles Lamb says: ''Of all sounds Of all
bells most solemn and touching is the peal which
rings out the old year never hear it without
gathering up of my mind to a concentration of
! all the images that have been diffusel over the
| past twelve-month; all have done or suffered,
| performed or neglected, in that regretted time
| begin to know its worth, as when person
dies
1t is related Of genius lately dead in Pnis
that he was so badly off for soap that coming to
a soiree, his dirty hands caused the lady Of the
house to remark that he had only to tie butt n.
| on his wrists TO seem TO be in black kids, and 10
address him at was useless your putting on
| your boots if you walked here on your hands -
An English counterpart Of this worthy was the
man who, sitting for his portrait, asked which
! paw was to be pawtrayel, as it was such waste
. to wash the other
Dickens is the most successful of all perform
ers. His readings bring him larger sum than
that received by star actors of the highest rank
First-class lecturers receive 500 per night.
Cough charges $500, and does Beecher.
Booth receives $500 for each of his representa-
tions of Shakespeare's characters. Jenny Lind
got about 500 for each concert but Dickens
sells twenty-five hundred tickets to a reading,
and, after paying all expenses, including Dolby,
clears nearly three thousand dollars