Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-10-12

Already there are signs of the next Presi
dental campaign. Several men at Yonkers
have organized Mrs. Tilden ant-temper-
ance society,". Y. Herald.
A politician who sued the Springfield,
H., Journal for $4,000 damages for calling
him an intolerable nuisance, has been given
By an appreciative jury q verdict for one
cent. Even this the paper refuses to pay,
and threatens to appeal the case.
General Alfred 7. q ,shorn, of Cincinnati,
director general of the Centennial exposi-
ton, has been knlghted by the Russian
government for the attention he bestowed
upon the Russians who attended the ex-
position.
Warren c. Wheeler, for thirty years a
well-known resident of West Roxbury,
Mass, and member in good standing of
the Orthodox church, has fled, taking with
him $4,000 or $4,000 raised On bogus
mortgages, notes, etc, which he negotiated
with banks and individuals.
Moukhtar Pasha telegraphs the Porte that
the Russians have fallen back to the foot Of
Karatool. abandoning all their positions par
alel with the Turkish lines. The Ottomans
place the loss of the Muscoyites in the three
days battle at 10000 in killed and
wounded.
There is a little daily newspaper published
in Monroe, La, in the handwriting Of the edi-
tor by an electric pen, the whole edition
being duplicated from the first manuscript.
News, kilograms, editorials and advertise
ments are all in writing. 1t is called the
Duty Electric Letter, and it is the first of
the kind.
The Congressional library now numbers
about 1000 volumes. and the need of q
larger building is more seriously felt than
ever, over 81 900 volumes being piled upon
floors. The copyright business of the library
shows more entries thSp last year, about
| 900 copyrights having been granted since
January |.
Congressman Smalls (cOlored) OF South
Carolina, has had preliminary examination
of the charges against him. Woodruff tes
titled that he paid Smalls 5000 as bride
to vote for a measure before the Legislature
in 1873, and Smalls was held to bail to an
syer the Indictment in the Circuit court,
which meets on the fourth Monday in Octo-
Der. Maxwell Senator from Marlboro
county, in default of bail wa. imprisoned on
similar charge.
Fourteen new cases Of yellow fever and
four deaths at Fernandina, Fla. since last
report The epidemic is traced to the filthy
condition of the southwestern part OF the
city, which is due 10 the economical
spirit Of the authorities in refusing any ex-
peDditure for drainage. The deaths have
been only 8 per cent of the number OF those
attacked, but the plague is now extending
among the colored people, and the mortality
will probably be much greater among them
than among the whites, as they are poorly
prepared TO resist the disease. Two new
cases of the fever have been reported at
Port Royal, 5. C., since Saturday. and one
death. There are AZ cases in all.
Possibly the fate of Sir John Franklin's
expedition may yet be fully established.
Thomas Barry, second mate of the New Bed
ford whaler A. lloughton, which was lost in
IIudson's bay last June, arrived in New
York last week. bringing silver spoon with
the coat of arms of Sir John franklin,
which he had obtained from a party of
Esquimaux from Cape Englefeld. at the
mouth of Fury and llecla straits. Some Of
the Esqumaux had seen but two ships in
their lives, and one of these, from the de-
scription of the captain,-"a big man, is
supposed to have been Franklin's. They
have quantity of his books and writings,
and say that his vessel was stove in, and the
natives helped the crew ashore. Sickness
broke out among them. provisions failed,
and the party all died. Franklin is suppos-
ed to have reached the place by way of
Dayis's strait and Eclipse or Lancaster
sound, The Esquimaux say large number
Of white men are buried near their homes,