Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-03-29
Notes and Comments.

Washington specials say that the soft
money men are talking about giving up ths
agitation for more money and their plan fol
postponing the date of resumption.
The excise bill in the New York Legisla.
ture, in the interest of the New York city
liquor dealers, met a sudden and fatal check
last week.
The Louisville Couier-Joundi thinks il
strange Harvard College shoul1 spend $780,
900 on a new Jamesnasium when halt the
students arc actually suffering for bosom
pins"
The English House Of Commons have
voted that a widower may marry the sister
of his deceased wife, and anxious souls are
do with the bill.
A picturs of the Kentucky Legislature.
drawn by itself: "Mr. Spun. of Madison,
called the attention of the Speaker to the
increasing practice of throwing paper wads
by the members, and demanded its suppress
sion."
Secretary Sherman's proposal to receive
greenbacks for customs after October first is
directly opposed to all his former policy. and
declarations.
President Hayes writes to his Vermont
mer. if possible, but he is anxious to make a
Southern trip.
Women's Rights seem to have lost snoth-
er point. The House Committee on Ter
ritories has agreed to report a bill with
drawing the right of voting from women in
Utah.
A New York paper is trying to get up
sensation about new invention for making
gas out OF water. When we learn to make
water out of gas some of these metropolitan
editors can be condensed into i Spring fresh
ct Boston Herald.
Whatever may be said of President Hayes
no one will deny that he is magnanimous
man. The other day he appointed Parke
Goodwin one of the commissioners to the
Paris exposition, and yesterday he named
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., as one of the
governing directors of the Pacific railroads.
If there are any two men in the country who
exhibited more mean maleyolence towards
Mr.. HAYES in the Presidential campaign and
since than the two individuals named, we
would like to know who they are.-Ner
York Commercial.
Mr.. Blaine thinks that some folks may be
Rocshians and some folks may be Proc
shians, but that the hardy railroad corpora
ton of the western wilds should not be
charged more than fifteen cents a cord fJr
all the wood it can steal from the public do
main. That, however, is a matter of opin-
ion. The comparative areas of Montana and
Prussia, however. lie within the province of
fact, and as Montana has an area of l43, 80
square miles, We fail to see how the kingdom
OF Prussia can be "l50 900 square miles less
in extent than the territory" Perhaps,
though, Mr.. Blaine believes that If Montana
were rolled out fat its area would be mate
rally increased. We fancy that Mr.. Blaine's
allusion to Prussian spiss and pimps will be
heard of again about Juno, 1880, when it
may 90 long way toward securing the Ger
man vote for the Senator from Maine.-N.
Y. World.
The Secretary of the Treasury assured the
Senate Committee on Finance that of Sl3l,-
3ls ,l56 coin reported in the last debt state
ment, tho Treasury held Sl25, ,0SS,7 ,755,
either in gold coin or gold bullion, in solid
yellow rollers and ingots while for the re-
S6,229 .40l, it actually possessed
50, ,l03 ,6l3 in silver coin and bullion. Judge
Kelley must feel rather small under the
crushing weight of such an answer to his re-
cent challenge. The Government really
owns the second of the mightiest treasures
Of the world. The Bank of France, of course,
comes far the first, and, indeed, distances
but the Treasury of the United
States leads both the Bank OF England and
the Bank of Germany. We give below a
table OF the present condition of the three
great State banks and the Treasury:
Spece in Bank OF France. $39' ,i26.76e
specie in United States rreasury------. i4.l9.,36s
Specie 10 Bank Of Germany III 395,2J9
Specie in Bank of Ensland.--...-..---- lls.eO7 6S5
1t will be seen that the Treasury was not
only on the high road to resumption in gold,
but actually stood inside the gate when the
silver conspirators turned the country astraY
to follow their will-o'the -wisp money into
the quagmire Of ruin and the slough of dis
grace. Boston Herald.