Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-02-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

1t is claimed that President Hayes would
like to 60 into the Senate.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says that he has
just declined an offer of $500, 900 to lecture
one year.
w. II. F. Lee, the oldest son of General
Robert f. Lee, is successful farmer in Vir-
ginia
General Garfield is said 10 be the first ac-
tive Knight Tempar who has ever been elect
ed President
Gen. Hawley is going to give the vase re.
Gently presented to him for his centennial
services to the Connecticut Historical So.
ciety.
| With various emphatic adIectives Mr..
English refers to his foolishness in accept
ing the Democratic nomination for Vice
| President
| Mormon colonies have been planted in Ne
vada and Colorado, and In Arizona. New
Mexico. Idaho Wyoming and Montana
territories.
| The next United States Senate will con-
tain at least three members of Irish birth
Jones of Florida, Fair of Nevada and Sewall
of New Jersey.
| Harriet Hosmer is now residing in London,
and has left the domains of art for those of
science, giving up all her time to the expert
ments necessary for the study of the problem
| of perpetual motion.
The estate of the late Nathaniel White of
Concord, N. H., one of the pioneer express
men of the country, is estimated by some of
| his intimate friends at one million seven
| hundred thousand dollars
Kentucky has large and growing white
Republican vote. The colored people COM
prise only 1G 47-lOO per cent of the popula-
| tion, while the Republicans polled 80 79-100
per cent of the entire vote last November.
The Baltimore Sun has carefully revised
| the popular vote for President at the Novem-
| Der election, and gives the result as follows ::
Hancock, 4,444 ,3l3; Garfield, 4,437. .9S1 !;
Weaver, 3O7, ,063 Plurality for Hancock,
6,332
Judge Billings, who succeeds Judge Woods
as Cnited States Circuit Judge for the Louisi-
ana District, has been heartily supportedand
warmly praised by the bar and press of
Louisiana. He was member of that ia, l.,
mcus Yale ''class of So" most of whose
| members have been favorites of fortune
A Chicago paper tells of a man who was
complaining that he had invested rather
large sum of money in Wall street and lost
t all. A sympathizing friend asked him
whether he had been bull or bear He
replied. Neither; was a jackass"
A son of Hugh J. Jewett and son of ii.
B. Payne are mentioned as Democratic can
didates for Governor of Ohio, when the
young Democrats obtain power. In the
mean time they might practice the duet en-
titled 'Dinna fret and bide wee"
Secretary Evarts declining an invitation
| to attend the dinner of the Vermont residents
of Chicago, wrote al shall soon be again
and one of the pleasures of my expected
emancipation will be an opportunity to see
something of men and things in the great
| West and the new South
Representative Frye has said to his friends
that he would prefer 10 be Speaker of the
House rather than go TO the Senate in case of
the removal of Mr.. Blaine TO the State De-
partment, but that he is convinced that no
New England man could be elected to the
Chair. Hence he withdraws from the con-
test
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has written
to her northern friends that the hard frost
on the night and morning OF Dec. 30th caus-
ed the loss of all the oranges in her orchard
| at Mandarin, Fla. on the st. Johns river.
The fruit dropped, and lies. 100, 900 in num-
ber in heaps on the ground.
The Meridian Miss Mercury reports that
the negroes are leaving the prairie belt of
Alabama in considerable numbers, and pass
ing through Meridian en- route for the Mis-
sissippi bottom and Western Louisiana. The
bulk Of them. it says, ure from around
Uniontown, Ala, where the crop was fail
ure last year.
They say that by the bedside Of George
Eliot was found after her death an open copy
of the Limitation of Christ" which is sup
posed TO have been the last book in which
she read. Surprise has been expressed that
q free thinker should be engaged with book
of devout meditaiions There is nothing sur
prising in it. Nobody can have read George
Eliot without discovering that there was Il
strong religious side TO her nature.
Hon. VIM. E. Chandler names Garfield's
Cabinet as follows: For Secretary of State,
James G. Blaine for Secretary of War.
Charles Foster; for Attorney General, Judge
Greaham of Indiana; for Secretary of the
Interior Kcnnett Raynor of North Carolina !;
for Secretary of the Treasury, VIM. b. AL
lison of Iowa for Postmaster General, Thos.
l.. James of New York Tor Secretary OF the
Navy, A. c. Harmer of Pennsylvania.
Judge Tourgee says the spirit of kuklux
ism is merely lying dormant in the South.
Were Republican governments in control i'll
the Southern States ii would quickly spring
into hideous life, and blood would dow, and u
carpet baggcr," ''scalawag" or ''nigger'
would find it just as hot for him as it was
in the frightful days SO wildly described in
"a FOOLS Errand" and Bricks Without
Straw"
The dissolution of the social features of
the Oneida community ont in New York
State, consequent on its resolving itself into
a io;nt ctncL ,nmpapv nroducps some ne