Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-04
POLITICAL AND Personal NOTES.

1t is rumored that United States District
Attorney WoodfCrd is TO succeed Mr.. Marsh
as minister to Italy.
The Nebraska prohibitionists are about to
enter upon an active campaign to secure
constitutional amendment prohibiting the
liquor traffic
Secretary Of State Carr thinks that Gov
ernor Cornell will he renonln ated without
contest in the convention.
The opposition to the denomination
Goycrnor st. John, OF Kansas, is growing
active. $. .. Thatcher leads among his
opponents.
Judge Poland's Democratic opponent in
the Second District is g. L. Fletcher, who
is described as 'lawycr of small practice
who greatly enjoys the sound of his own
voice"
Congressman Caldwell, Knott and Phis,er
of Kentucky decline a denomination. Mr..
White, the only Republican Representative
from the State is candidate for rcnomina-
ton.
The hrhansaW Traeellers aged coored
person says! My idea of de better worl is
whar dar is a election goin' on all de time,
case den de white folks is alters pcrllght."
Apropos of current report that Carl
Schurz is TO be candidate for Congress in
New York city, Mr.. Schurz says he would
not accept Congressional nomination if il
were offered TO him unanimously by both
parties.
A Dublin despatch says that Miss Anna
Parnell has almost entirely passed the criti-
cal point of her illness, and will be about in a
fortnight. She will have to abandon work
for month.
Jack Lincoln, son of Secretary Lincoln,
Was amusing himself by copying the names Of
the Presidents aud, pausing, looked up from
his work and with great naviete remarked
why, ever 50 many of the Presidents were
named after streets in Chicago
The Duke OF Westminster was married to
the Hon. Catherine Cavendish at Iolkham,
England, Saturday. The ceremony was
private. The bride is thirty.two years
younger than her husband, and the Dukes
eldest daughter is the wife of her brother,
Lord Gresham.
John A. Brooks, president Of the Missouri
Prohibition Alliance, is Democrat. He says
those most actively engaged in the prohibit
ton movement in Missouri are, with scarcely
an exception, Democrats. This is truly an
age OF wonders.
large number of Southern States -no,a.
bly, Texas, North Carolina and Kentucky
have local option laws whereby any county
or community can submit the question OF
prohibition to the popular vote, while others
prohibit the sale Of liquors outside Of the
town.
The Alta CabJornia ventures the pre-.
diction that 'the time will come when the
politics of the different States will be un
affected by any issue connected with the late
rebellion, and when we shall hear no more Of
bulldozing colored voters and classifying re
turns; but that will not happen during the
lifetime of the present leaders of the Demo
cratic party down in South Carolina"
The nomination of Milo White for Con
gress in the First Minnesota district defeats
Mr.. Dunnell, who has sat in the Forty-sec
ond, Forty-third, Forty-fourth. Forty fifth
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses.
| The St. Paul (Minp,) Pioneer Press say,
| that in his time of need Mr.. Dunnell fount
the ofilce-hodcrs, whom he treated as his
servants of no more avail against public
sentiment than if they were sheep.
In good old Democratic Kentucky there il
hone of that greed of Office which character
ICES communities infested by Republicans
In Grayson county they had hoped to be abl,
TO find man to fill the highly lucrative an,
responsible office of road inspector, but thu
far only Al candidates have loafed into sigh
for it.
The life OF Lord Spencer, at the Vicerega
Lodge, Dublin, forms almost a parallel t.
that of the Emperor of Russia. All visitor.
are closely watched by armed copstabes
from the moment they enter the gates OF tn
park. Mounted policemen patrol the road
of the park, detectives Turk 10 the bushes
and British soldiers guard the approaches
When Lord Spencer goes to Dublin Castle h
always chooses different path from tina
followed on the previous visit When h
goes out for a drive he is accompanied b,
dragons, and the friends who may rid
with him are warned not to start withou
their revolvers.
The Hon. Thomas L. CliDgman OF Nortl
Carolina, who has been in politics for half
century, and is not without honor in his Owl
country, makes the truly remarkable proph
ecy that Bourbonism will be showed under il
his State this Fall by $4,000 anti Bourbon
majority. Mr.. Clingman is an experienced
enough statesman not to give utterance L
rash statements, but the prophecy may b.
qualified considerably and still wear cheer
full look. A tidal wave is sweeping over tn
State, in his view-al caused by the corrup
ton of the party in power. If his prognos
tications are correct we may expect in du
time to see South Carolina yield to the con
tagon.
Charles Challle Long Bey, the American
consul at Alexandria, after serving in til
war of the rebellion here, at its close went t
Egypt and took service with the Khedivc
Life in the Egyptian army being too quiet
he joined an exploring party into the recesse
of the desert. He was the first white ma
who ever visited King M'Tesi, and wrote a
amusing book of travel, entitled Make
Truths of Naked People" On his retur
he became consul, and appears to have beel
of great assistance. not only to Americans
but to the people of other countries, previou
to and since the bombardment. His know
edge of the Arab language enables him t
deal directly with the natives. without tina
compulsive recourse to the interpreter which
seems to have been the cause Of much dis
aster
General Warner of Ohio is reported as say
ing of the list of Democratic candidates 70
the Presidency There are but three me
whose names appear in such category
Thurman, Pendleton and Payne. Thurma
would no doubt be the choice of the party i
Ohio If his health and his age permit him L
be candidate. OF the others, Pendleto
leads in prominence just now. l don't know
what strength his strong and decided con
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