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p. m.
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Municiral Debt.

The Census Bureau has nrcnared an inter
estinr statement in relation 10 thc indebtcd-
ness If the cities of the country. This
shows that 300 cities and towns, with a
population of II. $50. ,,2 inhabitants. have a
total bonded debt of. SGGi. GAG. gl3. making
A debt per capita of S.. So. The greatest
pronor,ion of this treat burden falls on the
Middle States where - cities hear 4 debt
of s9-7 aGs o2o with n nor conta rate of
s,651 of This New York city alone fur
n,sbcs s13G 600 600 or n fifth of the whole
municinal Indebtedness The Eastern States
come next with - cities. having Sl13.-
l63 1873 and A rate of Ga.1S. The Southern
S,s,es with rs cities. owe SO 9G4 OIL at A
rate of s5j Sc NOR capita while the Western
S,a,cs nresent the hest exhibit of any sec
,;,, Tbrea hundred and fifteen citics have
a doh, of only STA III 3a- At . rate of
so, 90 rho ;,,,or,s, ,r u,is dol,t r,r,,s =,
hoov,, TOW -, nroror,v Owners Only ahout
.,- ooo ooo ,,oou, Loo, ,b.,, f,o nor CON,
Ill 500, ooo 900 ,,o,. civ. onl .,,-or GOA
ono ooror mar con, or ovor some r,nrinr nc
h;,,b &c ,o, and ,weIve ner rent Not long
since Judce EelIv startled ,hr country by
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General Sherman, who is sixty-one, says
be enjoys being us old as LIE il, because he
feels privileged to kiss all the pretty girls.
There are only three ladies living whose
husbands were Presidents Of the United
States. Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Tyler and Mrs.
Lincoln.
N. B. Stevens, formerly proprietor OF tic
Berwick House, Rutland, and more recently
OF the Marlboro Hotel, Boston. died in tina;
city on Monday.
Miss Jennie Robertson, who Teecltly died
at Nashville, Tenn was known As soldier
Charley" She served for several years in
the Union army, in male attire.
Richard Taft, the well-known proprietor
of the Profile House, White Mountains. died
there Monday. lie was born in Barre
Vt, March II, 1872 and leaves a wife ami
one daughter, Mrs. e. =. Eastman of lIttlc-
ton, n. Ii.
james Gordon Bennett, according to
Gath, eau draw a check for $4,000 on
the New York Herald every week and still
have surplus ut the end of the year IL.
W. Grady of the Atlanta GA Constitution
says Benefits net profits are $50, 600 year
and that 80, 900, 900 has been vainly offered
for the Herald.
y.
bergh, Assignee of Chas. H. Noorhis, the
bankrupt New Jersey Congressman, it ap
pears that he received total of S662. 81. and
paid out S216.63, leaving balance of : i5d.-
-, from which is 10 he deducted S3.l.G,i,
assignCe's fees and allowance and counsel
fees balance in accountants hands. Ss4 sc
The total amount of claims presented was
81 $50. 10
Al a recent sale in London Of a select pOr-
ton of the Earl Of Clarc's hooks, Mr.. Hen
~ Stevens purchased for an American prin-
cipal the original manuscript of Guy Man
ncring" for about - 900 in our money, u
first copy ,l640) of Shakcspeare's Poems"
for SEQ and Horace Walpoles own copy of
his own Anecdotes of Painting, with his
manuscript notes on the margins for $50.
As Senator Edmunds SAYS, it is sufficient
answer to the insinuatiOn concerning the
place of Gen. Arthur's nativity that had hc
been constituiionally ineligible for the office
Of Vice President by reason of his foreign
birth, he would not have accepted the nom
nation Gen. Arthur is both Il man Of honor
and man of common sense, and in either
capacity he would have been incapable Of the
folly attributed to him Brooklyn Ed1'
Dem).
The late Mr. Sotherns comical c0ntrivln-
ccs were endless. His pockets, in addition
to the piece of soap which for wears he car
ried about in order TO startle unwary friends
by making their looking glasses So as TO give
them the appearance OF being cracked across.
were always full of labels marked poison,
and So on, and these he affixed, whenever an
opportunity afforded, on likely objects. On
the ratings of a London square hg saw one
day n newly painted board with the ins iiN-
~ IL L
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-02-18

SENATOR WALLACE has introduced 4 Con
stitutional amendment for new method of
electing President and Vice President. 1t
provides that each State shall be divided, I'M
mcdiately after each census is taken, into as
many electoral districts as the state, under
the superintendent, has Representatives and
Senators; that in each district IN elcctor
shall be voted for, the person having the
greatest number of votes 10 he elected; that
the final canvass of the district votes shall he
made in each State 10y the Governor, Chicl
Justice and Secretary of State. who shall Ger
tify the result to the Senators of the state
and to the President OF The Senate, and this
certificate shall be final AMI conclusive upon
Con.ress Finally the certificates shall he
opened and the votes counted in joint SEES
sion and the persons having the largest
number of electoral votes shall he declared
elected, no matter if they have not major
ity. This amendment has Al least the merit
of eliminating almost every source If trouble
or dispute regarding Presidential elections.
1t leaves to the States, each Cor itself, 10 pro
vide for 4 legal method oG testing the legal
ty of the election of cl, c:ors where there is a
dispute, and makes the States certificate
final so that there would he under this sys-
TEN NJ danger Of Congress rejecting electoral
votes 1t gives the people a greater power
over the choice Of President AMI prevents
any possibility of having the election thrown
into the House Of Representatives because a
plurality of the electoral votes eject. 1t is
not probable that this or any other amend
ment will be submitted by the present Con
gress to the States, but the subject is sure
to be pressed on the next Congress.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-02-18

The pension appropriation bill, as amend
cd by the Senate, and now before the House
appropriation committee, appropriates $685.
2S2, 3O6 6S-the largest pension appropriation
bill ever perfected, either by this Govern
ment or any other. and the total being more
than all the pension appropriations of all the
governments on earth combined. This is
not entirely owing TO the arrears OF pensions
law, although before that was enacted the
pension expenditures were annually less
than one-half the amount now about to he
appropriated. The wholesale pensioning OF
the survivors of the war of 1912 has helped
to swell the aggregate There are now on
the roll over 81, 900 widows and survivors oil
that war, and it is said TO be the opinion at
the pension office that no one engaged in
that war has died in the last half century.
The effect of this immense swelling Of the
pension roll is TO postpone indefinitely the
pensioning of the survivors of the Mexican
war. A convention of the survivors is to
meet at Louisville on the 22d, and strong
memorial will be sent to Congress asking
that the claims of the Mexican soldiers he
considered. The business of these claims is
generally acknowledged, but there is gen.
eral indisposition TO further increase the pen
sion budget 1t is estimated that there are
only 5000 survivors of that war, but, from
the way survivors of the war of 1912 have
turned up, there must be about 100, 900.
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One of the most extraordinary examples oil
woman's folly ever recorded was consummat-
ell on Saturday. when the marriage was sol
cmnized Of the Baroness Burlctt-C Coats, aged
sixty-sevcn and " lillian Ashmoad Bartlett,
aged thiriy-four Her great wealth and her ex-
traordinary benevolence have together made
the Baroness Burdcit-C oultsa famous woman.
Her philanthropy has been broad and far
reaching. There is hardly 4 charitable in
stitu,ion in England but has been enriched
by her unbounded libcrality. She has built
schools and churches in every part of the
country and aided the Church Of England
missions all over the world The industrial
schools all over England owe their existence
mainly to her active zeal and liberal purse,
and the sewing schools for adult women i'll
the poorer quarters of London. She is also
the organizer of the Shoehlack Brigade, of
London, which takes neglected boys from
the streets, teaches them cleanliness and order
and finally enters thcmin ethcrthe royal navy
or in some honest mercantile or manuiactur-
Ing GAZING. licr llDerallty IN cslabilshlnS
corps of nurse under Florence Nightingale in
the Crimcan war is familiar to every one.
The Turkish compassionate fund was found
ed by her, and she sent ont thousands of
pounds TO the distressed people on the line
of the Russian march. Even this list docs
not exhaust her public charities, and in pri-
vate she is reputed TO be not less muniiiccnt.
The bridegroom, Mr. Bartlett, is an Ameri-
can, the son of Philadelphia merchant, but
has lived in England since he was twelve
years old. He was educated ut the expense
of the Baroness and since graduation at OK
ford (where he distinguished himself solely
by proficiency in athletic sports has been her
private secretary.
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AND now it is alleged that George Eliot
did not write her own books. A careful
study of them and of he life of Miss Evans
induces the conclusion, it is claimed, that
from first TO last the works of George Eliot
were written under the influence of Mr..
Lewes, consciously or unconsciously brought
to bear upon them. The acquaintance OF
Miss Evans and Mr. Lewes, antc-dated these
books, and it was George II. Lewes who sent
to Blacknood the first of the works of fiction
which bear the name of George Eliot. Miss
Evans wrote before their acquaintance, and
wrote well. But she did not write novel
until she knew Mr.. Lewes. and she did not
write noyel after Mr.. Lewes died. The
claim was not made by her that she was the
author. The books were sent forth under fic
titious name, which might as well have stood
for partnership as for an individual. Such
is the "anti- Evans" argument. Blu. is hardly
strong enough to shake the faith of a single
sentient being. There is Of course no doubt
that Mr.. Lewes exerted powerful influence
over his wife's literary efforts, but only to
their injury. He possessed no single spark
of genius; and to attribute to him, directly
or indirectly, any considerable part in those
novels which are among the glories of con-
temporary literature is simply absurd. 1t
may be added that Mr. Lewes once tried
novel-writing himself and achieved amagniii-
cent failure.
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An inn eritivc duty which will devOlye on
the next grsss will be that of making the
needed changes in the constitutional provi5-
ions gov, T ling and regulating the elections
Of Presidents and Nicc-Presidents Of the
United States and the declaration Of the re-
sIlts. 1t IS admitted 10y all that it is unwlse
and unsafe to leave these matters as they
now are Only the unmistabably decisive
result of the last Presidential election pre-
vented a reoccuricucc of the serious troubles
attending the final electoral count in 1877
and if there had been the least prctext for
making trouble about the declaration of the
election of Garfield and Arthur, the Demo
Gratis would have improved it. In this most
important matter, nothing should he left to
chance or in doubt. The provisions Of cOnsti-
tuition and law should BE- made SO explicit
that there can he 10 question raised as TO
their inn ort OF force, and so ample that they
will cover all possible contingencies. Sena-
tor Edmunds has llbprcd faithfully during
the present Congress to secure some proper
action for the amendment of existing law on
this subject. bni the Democrats have defeat
cd all his efforts The next Congress will
be controlled 10y the Republicans, and they
will he seriously dclclict if they do not effect
the needed reform.
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An interesting illustration of the manner
in which Democratic voters are manufactur-
ed in New York city was furnished Saturday
in the course of Supervisor John l. Daven-
ports defence in the Proceedings instituted
for his removal from office. On that day
one Patrick Golf, one of the men employed
by the Democratic managers in obtaining
naturalization certificates, testified that In
1868 he obtained naturalization certificates
for eight to ten thousand persons, having
contracted TO furnish certificates in large
quantities, About twenty clerks were en-
ployed in the basement of the City Hall fill
ing out blank applications. Witness was
furnished with list of names without resi-
dences, and the clerks inserted any resi-
dences they pleased. Golf further stated
that his name was filled into blanks as wit
ness for persons who were thus supposed to
have applied for naturalization. Under such
circumstances i; is little wonder that the
Democrats have large majorities in New
York city nor that they are exceedingly
anxious TO depose Mr. Davenport, who was
the first man who had the sagacity and
courage to expose and check these frauds on
the ballot-box Thus far, however, MIR.
Davenport rot only holds the fort but has
carried the war into Africa, producing EVIL
dence at the hearing like that we have re-
ferred to, confirming every essential fact he
has alleged in respect to tho naturalization
frauds and putting the Democrats strictly on
the defensive
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warmly by the hand and said: Good bye
we shall soon see you back again" knew
however, that if he didn't succeed in Indiana
it would be bad job for me in New York,
and said to him: Senator, if you go to
that ranch, will there be room enough there
for me ?" TGreat laughter.
Well, he went out there, and short time
afterward we had the news from the FIRST
election-we had the news from Maine. You
recollect the old song about Maine having
gone 'llcll bent for Governor Kent. Mr..
Acton will remember it. Laughter Well,
she went then Hell bent" but not for Gov
crnor Kent. We consoled ourselves, how
ever. by saving that it was Il blessing in dis
guisc, and | think it was blessing in dis
gusc Applause | think Mr. Dorsey
would appreciate that fact, and great
many gentlemen would so look upon it, for
it ncryed us all up and enthused us 10 renew
ed efforts and, it may be, had we not met
with that obstacle We would not have arrived
at this result.
Mr. Cannon heard the news from Name.
He left his farm in the North, and came down
10 the CITY lie spent his afternoons in Wall
street, and his evenings in the club, and he
with others took certain measures, which
must say in the eud were very Ell
fcctual not only as To Indiana but after
wards as to New York. Applause.
1t is very well now to talk of it as a blessing
in Disguise, but the result of that election in
Maine was such to the Republican party.
Instead of proving damper and an obstacle
in the way of success in Indiana, it was a
great help and great aid. The gentlemen
in NewsSIork stood nobly behind the Ma
tional Committee and responded actively
and enthusiastically, but Mr.. Dorsey with
his power for organization, his tlreless EN-
crgy, his wonderful courage and his cool
head, was able to accomplish the result which
he did in Indiana; and that result more than
ANYTHING else saved New York 10 the Re
publican party. Applause And though
| New York had for years been considered a
| doubtful State, it was more Democratic
than Republican but l repeat, that if one
thing more than another secured our success
| in New York, it was the moral effect and
support given to our cause by our success in
! Indiana, which was more largely due to
Senator Dorsey than to any else. Ap-
| plause
Mr.. Dorsey responding to toast, paid a
| high tribute 10 Garfield and Arthur; and
speeches were also madeby Senator Window,
Mr.. Beechcr, Whitelaw Reid, Emory a.
Storrs, Geo c. Gorham. Chauncey NJ. Depew
and others. Letters were read from Gov.
Cornell, Secretary Ramsey, Senators Blaine,
Conkling, Cameron, Blair, Carpenter and
Anthony Gen. Devens, Governor Foster
and Governor Rice.
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wAsE!IaToN NOTES.

Ead,' subsidy scheme is believed to be
killed for this Congress
The Senate judiciary sub committee has
voted to report judge Rillings's nomination
adversely, Lamar and Garland voting aye,
aud Ccnklng favoring favorable report.
Warrington society las been profoundly
st:rcd-onc report says horritied-by the
story that large number of tickets to the
Inauguration hal had been purchased by col
orcd people. 1t turns ont, however, that on
ly four tickets have been thus disposed Of
and the The purchaser of these was Senator
Bruce, to whom society has opened its door,
"on crack" at least. Eight thousand ball
tickets have already been sold
In general raid on the gambling dens ear
" Thursday morning, two Senators and six
Representatives were captured.
1t is about settled that no apportionment
bill will be passed this session, and some
| apprehension is felt that an extra session may
be- necessary.
The Senate committee on privileges and
elections has been furnished with what is
SAID 80 be- evidence, which it refuses to re-
veal that Gen. Chester \. Arthur is not eligible
10 the Nice-Presidency. Whatever the real
evidence of his foreign birth is, it is said to
have impressed some members of the COM
mittcc as important enough to justify an in
vcstGa;ion. with the view to prevent the as
| sumption Of the office by Gen. Arthur, if ii
be found he is constitutionally debarred.
Cot John Hay, now Assistant Secretary
Of state. was offered hy Gen. Garfield the
position Of Private Secretary and has de
clined it, Col. Hay was Private Secretary
10 President Lincoln.
The correspondents report that there is
unmSiakahle alarm among the Democratic
| Senators, over the statement that Senator
Malone intends TO vote with the Republicans
to rcorganize the Senate, to the extent at
ocrals vino have held positions Of trust in
the Senate for some two years or more. The
intimaton is now made that if Senator Ma
hone does so vote the Democrats will prevent
the reorganization by refusing to vote and
thus leaving the Senate without quorum.
Ii Senator Malone voted with the Republi-
cans. the parties will be evenly divided, and
it will require the casting vote of the Vice
President TO carry any political matter
| through. The Democrats hold that the Vice
| President Cannot vote on the question of a
quorum, and that there must be majority
of all the Senators voting in order to make q
quorum, and this the Republicans cannot
hope To have. Counting the vote of Senator
Malone the Senate will still lack one of quo
rum, il all the Democrats refuse to vote The
most prominent Democratic paper in Nir-
giuia the Richmond Despatch, says emphat.
ically that the Democrats might as well mak6
mp their minds now, rs later, that Senator
Malone Will vote with the Republicans il
the Senate.
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The Massachusetts Legislature after an
minated debate, refused to remove the dis
ability of atheists TO give testimony in
courts which shall be regarded as worthy Of
credence as the testimony of one who believes
in the existence of God. Singularly enough
that Unitarian ex-clergyman I. w. Higgin-
son led the minority and a Roman Catholic
the majority. The question is an old one in
Massachusetts In 1880 it was referred to a
committee of the Legislature whose chair
man was clergyman. The report was long
and elaborate, taking strong grounds against
atheistic testimony. In 1S371.a bill was re-
ported in both branches of the Legislature
for the admission OF atheists to the witness
box, but it failed to pass. Finally qualified
bill was passed under the provisions of which
the testimony of an atheist might be received
and given such weight as the court might
see fit to allow it to have after carefully con-
sidering it in connection with the circum-
stances surrounding it.
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The colorcd exodus from the South still
continues, though the prominence of other
matters has of late thrown ii into the back
ground At present there are at least 60,OOO
of these immigrants in Kansas, against less
than half that number at this time last year !;
M about Is, 600 are scattered through other
Northern States. In other words the South
has lost IS, 900 of its laDoring class. Con-
trary to what might have been expected, the
refugees are doing surprisingly well. They
haze gone to work their general behavior
is good not one has been arrested in Kansas
for stealing. and none of the number has be-
come tramp TO secure living.
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umns" will be composed of one troop OF royal
cavalry, one division of royal horse artillery
with two guns, and four companies of in
fantry, each consisting of 200 non-commis-
stoned officers and men, detachment oil
engineers aud sappers, all fully armed and
eouipped. The authorities maintain that
when the coercion bill comes into operation
there will be isolated disturbances, which
will only be quelled by the presence OF an
imposing military force. The utmost vigi-
lance is being shown by the military authori-
ties, who are guarding the barracks and pub
lie buildings in ireland, and everything is in
readiness to meet an attack from any quarter.