Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-09-26

The negro exodus viii, unless all signs
fail, attain immense proportions next sea
SON Gen. Conway osiimt'rs thai at least
one hundred thousand n,.,,,, will emigrIie
from the South to the North aud West. lie
says that he has application l.rlaborers from
all the Western States ami could even now
/ find homes for twenty thousand.
The female suffrage movement in Massa-
chuSetts doesn't boom to any remarkable
extent. The women of the State, as our
readers know. have the ballot for School
Commissioners thrown open 10 them this
fall. But although election day is compara-
lively nigh at hand only $50 Of them have AZ
vet registered in Boston and hut about two
thousand in the entire State
GENERAL FEANcI, y. WALkEE, Supcrin-
tendent of the Census, has issued Il circular
giving Instructions with regard TO enumera-
tions, the points Of which are briefly a.
follows: Enumerativc districts cannat cX-
| cecd 1000 inhabitants. The month Of Juna
only will be allowed for the enumeration OF
districts and in cities Of over 10000 thr
census must be completed in two weeks
from the first Monday in June, and the Who'll.
census must he completed in the four weeks.
The superintendent for most districts will
name certain sum rs the maximum 70.
each inhabitant enumerated, each death re
ported, each farm, shop, etc, returned. In
other districts the compensation will not cX-
coed Il per day Of ten hours east Of the Tooth
meridian and So per Gay west of that line
Superintendent Walker recommends the en-
ployment Of township assesSors, postmasters
at small offices. country physicians and
schoolmastcrs, rs such are familiar with
making out reports and can generally do the
work.
ArEorus of Gen Ben Buffers numerous
nominations. the New York Her,ild rcyives
John Van Burens story of the lady who was
so very tall that he had To be introduced to
her four or five times before she would re-
cognize him. General Butler has found i;
necessary To have an equal number of intro
ductions 10 the people Of Massachusetts in
order To get recognized AS a Candidate for
governor. First. he caused convention OF
his Greenback followers to be held, which
gave him Il regular nomination Then he
summoned together another lot of Green
hackers, called them Democrats and from
them received an endorsement. Then he
got together convention Of removed Office
holders, disappointed office seekers and dis
gusted politicians. called it an ''indepenL-
ent" convention and received another nomi-
tion and be nominated once more. How the
men were drummed up to make the rank and
fill up these conventions, is thus told by the
Boston Journal: If there was a man in
for a Republican because Lc was a Butler
man, he was visited and urged to he present.
If there was 4 man who felt that his merits
had not been appreciated. he was found out,
Butler oil poured into his wounds and urged
to attend the Butler meeting. If there was
a man who had been trailing along in the
rear or hanging on the flanks of the Republi
can party in order to secure what he could
get, he was looked up and inspired with the.
Of Il new deal il lie would join
the Independent movement"
By all these conventions and nominations
General Butler is cndeavorin@ TO create the
impression that he has vast ani varied fol
lowing. 1t is 4 varied following; hut no
rs yet held in Buffers behalf,
except his first one, represents any very large
number of voters If he should capture the
regular Democratic nomination. rs lie tried
in vain to do last year, and should be able to
hold together the various discortlant factions
who form his army. till election, he will I've 4
formidable opponent: hut we dr not
believe he will be Governor of Masachu-
setts yet a while.