Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-08-08

nominate a Democratic ticket, and make
vigorous fight. Interviews had with prom
inent Democrats of Ohio. all indicate that
the nominees of the convention can hope for
nothing from the Democratic party leaders,
and that the sixth of August convention
will ignore the movement and nominate
full ticket of their own"
This action of the Democratic party of
Ohio will be significant, as indicating the
probable action of the National Democratic
party in reference to any new movement.
In TACT all their new I" movements" are but
the " water movements preceding the
last stage of cholera collapse.
They had another corner on wheat in
Chicago last week. Friday the price fell
from $40 to Sl.19.
Where one man is Frustrated by the heat,
hundred are Frustrated by the eat, and a
thousand by the drink.
1t is the fashion now for ladies to buckle
their belts behind, which is not so becom-
ing as the way they used to buckle them be-
fore.
\ correspondent of the Boston Trareiir
says, Lemonade forty (4O) cents glass
at the Glen House, White Mountains, n.
H." With or without? Considerable of a
''stick" anyhow.
There is in circulation very dangerous
counterfeit fve-dollar gold coin of the issue
of 1872, and nobody knows where it was
made. 1t contains a large amount Of gold.
For some time past counterfeit new twenty
dollar gold pieces have been in circulation
in Wall street.
SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION. - Judge
Adds. of the Southern Claims Commission,
has ordered forwarded to him, at his home in
St. Adams. large number Of cases for his
examination during the vacation. All the
members of the Commission will work at
their homes during the summer. There are
now 81 600 cases pending before the Com
mission.
The CANADA ScANDAL.-REroETED AT
TEMPT or SIR JoHN A. MACDONALD TO CON-
NIT SuIcIDE.-A Montreal special to the
Boston Adrertiser says rumor was current
in that city on Sunday and Monday, that
Sir John A. Macdonald had attempted to
commit suicide. The government organs,
however. deny the story. 1t is certain
that the premier has been in low state.
Attorney General Williams, in answer to
delegation of eminent South Caroliniansr
says instructions have already been issued to
stop the prosecutions against the ku-kluz
offenders, except in very aggravated eases
and some of those convicted already have
been pardoned, and it was the policy Of the
President to pardon them all, keeping the
most aggravated eases, however, until the
last.
The Virginia Republican Convention met
Wednesday at Lynchburg. \ little sharp
practice on the part Of the minority. favor
ing the nomination Of Mcmahon as Govern
or. gave them the control Of the convention
but at last accounts Colonel Hughes was
nominated The primary elections in Viz
ginia indicate the nomination Of General
Kemper as the conservative candidate fol-
Governor. The State convention Of the new
party in Ohio was held Wednesday, and a
full ticket nominated.
The announcement made a few days since
that Mr.. c. NJ. Whitaker, whose jewelry
store at Brandon was robbed some weeks
ago, had recovered his goods and that the
thief had been arrested in Cincinnati,
proves to be untrue. Mr. Whitaker went
to that city, but found that the property
found upon the person Of the man arrested
was not the plumber from his store and the
thief was not the man he was looking for.
Mr.. Whitaker has returned home and is
still in quest of the robbers
The Whitehall Neirs cruelty persists in
throwing ridicule on the sarpent." 1t
says his career dates back before the dis
coyery of Lake Champlain by white men,
that he piloted the old French navigator,
Champlain, on his first voyage up our lake,
that he was with Ethan Allen at the capture
of Fort Ticonderoga, accompanied Nc
Donough at the battle of Plattsburgh, took
an active part in the late rebellion, and at
the close of the war went into retiracy in
the caves at Dresden
The Modern Athens seems doomed to des-
truction. East Boston was visited by fire
Thursday which caused greater loss than
the fire Of 1870, and has only been surpassed
since November last by the FIRE Of May 30 1t
broke out in the bonded warehouse of the
National Dock and Warehouse Company on
Lombards wharf and Lewis streets, East
Boston, and was not subdued until the
lower end Of the building was in ruins.
The loss will probably foot upa little over
800 600 The amount of insurance is not
at present known.
The PATRONS OF HUsBANDRY.- Kan
sas State Grange of Patrons of llusbandry,
at their recent session at Lawrence, passed
resolutions deprecating the prominence
given to horse racing at State. fairs, and
calling upon the farmers to more literally
support the fairs, 50 that there might be no
occasion for depending on racing as the
means of making money. Resolutions were
also adopted on the transportation question,
the most important of which was one de-
that either farming property be
taxed as railroad property is, upon the