Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-19
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Mr. F. ". Seward has declined the Rus
sian mission
Col Mcclure OF the Philadelphia Time,
writes from Washington that Sherman will
be out Of the Presidential fight before the Ma
tional Convention meets.
General Garfield is opposed to immediate
action in reference to the legal tenders. lie
suggests that We feel our way carefully
along.
Rev. Joseph Cook says Not d woman
sutfragist myself, am yet in favor of try
ing the experiment of both the temperance
and educational ballots in the hands of wo-
men
A conference of Eastern Democrats has
been called at Washington in the interest of
Senator Bayard's Presidential aspirations
Gov. Van Zandt's friends are said to have
made up their minds to bring him forward
as candidate for reelection as Governor of
Rhode Island for a fourth term. In case
Gen. Burnside cannot be reelected to the
Senate, Gov. Van Zandt will be urged for
that position.
| There are no signs of healing between the
Iilden and Tammany factions of the New
York Democracy
| Hon. Z. G. Spaulding, the author Of the
legal tender act, expresses the opinion that
it is not only expedient from financial point
of view to recall the greenbacks, but that it
is the legal duty of Congress to do so. The
reissue of greenbacks after the war, from
new plates, engraved for the purpose, Mr..
Spaulding said he regarded as an act with
out authority in. law, and he believed that
the Supreme Court would so declare when
the pending test case was decided
DR.. Howard Crosby of New York proposes
to limit dramshops to one for every 500
citizens.
Gen. Sheridan is again i'll and is threatened
with pneumonia.
Congressman Frye thinks the next Repub-
lican National Convention will be held in
Chicago.
1t is said that Col. Thomas A. Scott, the
head and brains of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, is 50 horelessly i'll that it is not ex-
pected that he will recover When he went
abroad he had paralysis of one side Since
his return he has become almost wholly dis
abled, being unable to perform any work or
to converse with intelligence on any subject
for fifteen pninrfac Tbaea ,ao,, - la,,I.
gave rise to the original report that he
would retire from the presidency of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company and be suc-
ceeded by Gen Grant
Alexander Ramsey, the new Secretary of
War, is II native OF Pennsylvania, was a
Whig in politics, and was in the Twenty
eighth and elected to the Twenty ninth Con-
gress- In 1s49 he was appointed Territorial
Governor of Minnesota. In 1869 he was
elected Governor OF the State, served in that
capacity until 1868, when he was sent to the
United States Senate, and was reelected for
six years, his term ending in 1879. He has
held office for twenty-six years. in the aggre-
gate.
DR.. Enoch Cobb Wines, the well-known
student of prison discipline and advocate of
prison reforms, died at Cambridge, Mass,
December 9, aged about 70 years. DR..
Wines was native Of New Jersey He was
educated at MidGlebury College and fitted
for the ministry. For a time he was settled
over small church in Long Island town,
and then started school for boys in Prince
ton, n. j., which became quite famed. In
1884 he entered the navy as chaplain. In
1869 he entered upon his work of prison re-
form, and became at once secretary of the
New York Prison Association, an organiza-
tion which has considerable power and in
tluence in New York prison affairs In 1870
he organized the National Prison Conven-
tion at Cincinnati, from which grew the In
ternational Prison Convention which was
held in London in the following year
1t is again reported that the President has
offered the English mission to Hon. Levi P
Morton, congressman from New York, but
that that gentleman has declined the prof
fered honor. The quidnuncs now say that
the President has considered the names of
ex-Govcrnor Alexander ii. Bullock and
Judge E. lockwood Uoar OF Massachusetts
The nomination of Massachusetts man is |
said to be contingent upon the resignation of |
Mr.. Lowell, the minister to Spain, who it is |
seriously contemplates resigning. |