Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-22
Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES.

Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES.
The Ithaca Journdi. published ut the home
Of Governor Cornell, nomnatcs him for Pres
dcnt in 1854.
The Michigan Changers are moving ior the
election Of Jonathan J. Woolman TO the Uni
ted States Senate
The opposition 10 two-ccnt postage will,
it is said, come rom Democrats who ito not
wan, the next Congress 10 have deficiency
to make up.
New York Democrats, are quarrciiing for
the privilege of running Govcrnor-eect
Cleveland. They all concc'!e that he is to be
run" by somebody.
Hon. William d. Kelley of Pcnnsy lvania,
has named the 12lh Of April, his seventeen
birthday us the date for a complimentary
dinner rendered TO him by promincn, citizens
of Pbiadelphil.
Indiana temperance leaders are determined
to use every effort TO secure the submission
of the prohib;tofy amendments AZ a special
election, and in order To attain this end an
enormous number Of petitions Will be PIE
seated 10 the legislature.
The man who hes been long postmaster
or than any other man in the United States
is james Gorlon If Pc ria, Wyoming cour-
| ty, o who il known as "Uncle jimmy
| He has been postmaster of Peoria for - con-
secuiyc years.
Governor stephens of Georgin, is fast earn
Ing the reputation OF the champion pard0ncr.
| lie has turned loose more murlerors and ras-
Gals in his brief term than II Judicial cNccu-
i've would in five years.
The resignation of Mr.. Gladstone of the Of
flee of Chancellor of the Exchequcr does not
carry with it his resignation as First Lord of
the Treasury, his official designation as
Minister Up to this time he has held both
Offices and hcnccforth he holds only the
| Premiership.
The Idaho Council Stands six Republicans,
three Mormous, two anti-Mormon Democrats
and Democratic Mormons. The House
stands twelve Republicans, seven Mormons,
aud five Democratic Mormons. The Nor
mon issue is AS bitter in Idaho as in Utah.
Several well-a,tcndcd meetings have lie
Gently been hci in Baltimore for the pur-
pose OF organizing movement TO secure the
prohibition of the sale of liquor in that
city. The "loctl option law now prevail Is
in fourteen of the twcnty-threc counties of
Maryland.
What would be the fate of GchLardt, who
fascinated Langry So completely, if thrown
among the aesthetics Of London: Doubtless
they would make of him u vertablc Bun
thoine enchanting Inn with wrcaths of
flowers, and, following him about, sing
ppaus Of pras, to his wUndorous beauty.
Wilhelm Stcinitz, the famous chess player,
Saturday, in Philadelphia played four games
simultaneously, blindfoldcd. This week he
will 20 to Baltimore for series of games,
and then to New Orleans. lie does not wish
| to leave this country until he has played
thirty games simultaneously. but as yet NJ
club las been able to muster that number OF
players L. meet Inn.
A Washington despatch says that Dor
mau b. Eaton, who is there looking after
the civil service reform bill, says there is nc
doub, Of the passage of the Pcndleton bill ms
| soon us II vote can be- reached. lie is not 50
couiidcnl Of its passage in the House. kas.
son, he says, insists upon his bill and Will
not permit the substitution of the PcEdletou
bill for his if he can prevent it.
Apropos of civil service reform, the Sun
tells the following story; \ young relative
once went to Chief Justice Chase u ask him
for government place. I'm give You hall
| "A tl..,( So
Justice, "bu | won't get you Il government,
office. I've ruined two or three young mci
that way and don't expect to ruin any
more
Col. George l.. Godfrey of lowaa member
of the Utah Commission, expresses an opin
ion that the Edmunds law will eventually
suppress polygamy in the Territory. Tho
Younger men among the Mormons, h,
states, are not inclined TO become polygam
lists. The Mormon church, he believes, is il
danger Of dissolution.
w. IL. Vanderbilt testified before tht
Senate committee on grain corners at New
York, that he was not stock specuator,ant
that he never bought share Of stock Il
speculate nor sold share short. lie alsC
gave his opinion of newspaper men, and or
the whole thought them very good lot Of
fellows, even though they did sometimes tel
wicked stories about him, in order TO exc on
an existence.
Great ado is made in some quarters be
cause the Indiana campaign cost the Repub
licans, two years ago, $4,000 1t is prob
able that General Buffers campaign in hi
State, the present year, cost the general AM
. the liuuor interest at least as much as TIN
amount above stated. 100000 is said t
have been raised by the brewers and distil
0 lers of Ohio TO carry that State for the Dem
ocrats in October.
0 Every man in Europe who has polilica
grievance is sure to rush over ~ the Unite,
r States US soon as he becomes notorious enougl
to attract much attention, Herr Most TN
editor of Freiheit, whose imprisonment 70
encouraging sedtion in his articles concern
inu Nihist assassinatiOns is familiar TO all
has arrived in New York, where Juslus II
Schwab and other Socialists have received
him with open arms. But Herr Most is mis-
taken If le expects to find that the people %
I the United States feel any sympathy will
, him in his Socialisic schemes. This cauu
try is no friend to Nihilsm,
Hon. Albert Palmer, mayor-elcct of Bos
ton, fought his way upward in the ranks o
life by hard and unceasiug work. His boy
hood was spent on farm, but he diligently
studied until at the age OF 10, he was able Il