Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-17

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Ter, and Congressman Barlow's candidate for
Speaker is said to have been surprised when
he found that his party had ceased to exist
in Pennsylvania
Senator voorhees, having denied that he
ever said during the war that every Union
soldier should wear collar inscribed "My
dog, A. Lincoln" twenty ladies and gentle
men who heard him use that term come out
in card affirming that the noisy Indiana
Senator did make use of it.
The record of the evidence taken at the
trial of DR.. l.. p Blackburn (who is now
Governor of Kentucky at Toronto, Canada,
in 1864, for distributing infected clothing
through the North, shows that two witnesses,
both of Southern sympathies, testified that DIR.
Blackburn plotted to send President Lincoln
suit of black clothes, infected with yellow
fever, as "a present from the workingmen of
Manchester"
Mr.. Blaines wonderful memory for pco-
pie was brilliantly exercised in Ohio the
other day. Don't you remember me 2"
asked an old man. why, yes" said the
Senator, pronouncing his name, 81 saw Won
80 years ago at Caldwells Mills" NO."
said the old man, Il never was there; Won
are mistaken" mo, I'm not" answered
MIR. Blaine; and he named the day n many
years ago, and an incident of the day Then
the old gentleman frightened up and re-
membered that the Senator was right. Il
was there, " he said. ''and I've never been
there since. 'Nor either" said Mr. Blaine.
The Democracy of Troy, n. V. and of
Rensselaer, county are hopelessly divided on
nomination for sheriff. There are two can
didates in the field-Chief Ingram of the
Fire Department of the city of Troy, repre-
senting Mayor Murphy and his faction of the
party, and County Treasurer Fitzgerald who
has carried Il majority of the delegates from
the country towns
The Independent Democrats In New Or
leans have published an address in which
they assert that the ring Democratic man
ayers who control the registration in that city
issued 5000 fraudulent registration papers in
1873.
Thurlow Weed predicts that Gen Grant |
will be the Republican candidate for Presi-
dent, IL Congress proceeds AS it began at the |
extra session. If, on the other hand, it pur- |
sues moderate course, Mcssrs Blaine aud |
Sherman willbecome the prominent and very |
nearly equal asprants. Tilden he regards rs
''ciphcrcd' out AS a Democratic candidate,
and regards Bayard and Hancock as the most
promising Democratic candidates at the pres
ent time.
Chief Sachem Kelly of Tammauy had "A
great meeting at Troy, N Y, Saturday eve
mig, and ON the same evening two of his
llcntcnanis addressed IA large audience at
Bnghamton.
California is likely to have a contest be
tween two bodies of men claiming to be the
Senate of that State That portion of the
Senate whose term had not expired under
he old Constitution will claim to hold over
There is prospect of an exciting contest.
A Berlin correspondent reports that the
leath OF the Rev. DIR. Thompson was caused
~ the slandcrous attacks upon his good
name
Mary Anderson incidentally figures in
ragcdy far more startling than anything she
: called upon TO represent upon the stage
Her manager one 5. NJ. Hickey, man of ,
Dose morals had aroused his mistrcss's an {
Mss Anderson a declaration which that
ady says had no foundation So far as her in
'linatons were concerned whCrcupon his |
Mistress shot him and then committed sui
ide. /,
The Vicksburg HtsaM thinks the indie
endcnts will carry Yazoo county, which ,
'il show that Capt Dixon was put where n
c will do the most good.
The Unsuitable ambition of Samuel J. Til :
en-, remarks the CathoGc Times, is doing u
lore to destroy the hopes of the Democratic >
arty than the shotgun policy of the South Il
rn bull-dOzcrs has done since the war Be S
Ire the Democrats can hope to win the con u
dence of the people they must bury Tildcn II
} deep in the Golgotha Of dead political re- n
utation that even his ghost can never rise ST
gain TO haut them II
Very touching is the account of the death
the Russian General Lazcren, as descrb- Il
| in the columns of the New York UeraM ';
e was lifted out of the carriage and placed Il
D rug on the sands and there, on the d
Dad desert, with the convoy gazing sadly !,
I, the warrior closed his eyes and died" =, -,
he General hoped that the Tekke campaign III
ould be his last Il mean to give up fight te
&, he said. 81 shall make myself an !, u
merican general Il man of business in FIR
me OF peace, but ready at any moment to I'll