Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-10-27
Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES.

number of their Congressman from one TO
three half the delegates.
Editor Cockerell, Of the st. Louis GloJe-
Despatch, who shot Col. Slayback, was
drummer boy in the Union army, at the age
of twelve years.
William SHAKESPEARE is the opposition can
didatc for Secretary Of State in Michigan,
and Robert Burns has just been nominated
for Watch House Justice.
Ex-Prcsldent Hayes, while in Columbus
the other day, was asked if he was candi-
date for the Senatorial chair of George II.
Pcndlcton. lie said decidedly that he was
not, and that he was out Of politics.
Secretary Chandler has written to friend
at Washington "New England will send
solid Republican delegations to the next
House.
Tammany Hall has unanimously resolved
to expel Mayor Grace as a traitor and spy
and in league with the Republicans to bar
gain away votes.
Commissioner Raum writes to Washington
from Chicago that if the Republicans carry
the Illinois Legislature he will be elected to
the United States Senate.
Representative Bsbce of Florida reports
the Republican party of his State in a SPLEEN
did condition, and gaining largely in strength
from the Democracy. lie is confident of his
own reelection.
A grand jury in Georgia has just issued a
formal denunciation of general education, on
the ground that it units large element of
the population for the work they are best
adapted to perform.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, who will
visit America next Summer and be the guest
of the New York State Bar Association, is a
philanthropc man, rs well as an able iurist
and fine orator There was recently con-
secratcd church which he had given to the
village of Arlington, near lIcath's Court his
country seat. The Lord Bishop of Exeter
preached the sermon, and great gathering
OF people witnessed the ceremonies.
Wade Hampton is trying to Brighten the
Independents in South Carolina back into
the Democratic party by branding them as
traitors Il tell you," he said in speech
n Charleston last Thursday, that he who
$ not with lis is Il traitor to the State"
Ex-senator Wadlcigh comes down like a
thundcrbolt upon the Republican gubcrna-
torial nomination in New Hampshire. He
alleges that Mr.. Hale was nominated by
shameless bribery hateful to all honest men. ="
that Secretary Chandler stepped from the
deck of a war ship into the convention" and.
as ''thc lobbyist OF Boss Shepard, John
Roach and Jay Gould, is to be lifted to a
seat in the Senate of the United States" Mr.
Wadeigh thinks that the Republicans can
best serve their party by defeating such a
candidate He will address the citizens of
keene on the 25lh inst.
The late Edward Clark of Cooperstown
n. y, president of the Singer Sewing Ma
chine Company, bcqucathed $50 900 to Will
liams College, $4,000 each to his agents
Bunyan and Meckcr, $4,000 to two nepL-
ews, $3.50, 900 to his daughtcr.in.law, like
sum to her four sons, and the remainder of
his property, estimated Mt $50 600, 900 to his
son, Alfred Coming Clark.
People are perhaps tired of the "boody
shirt, but so long as such papers rs the
Charleston Ne'cs and courier openly aivo-
cate depriving the negro of the ballot by
force and fraud, and so long as such things
Happen as have lately occurred in Alabama
where dozen or more negroes have been
killed because one of them was, justly or un-
justly suspected of an intention to commit
CRIME, just SO long do they postpone the
burial Of an issue on which the Republican
party has been victorious for twenty years.
John d. Defrees, late public printer, died
at Berkeley Springs, Va. Thursday morn
ing. He was about seventy-two years of
age and has been hard working printer and
politician all his life. Many years ago he
published the indianapolis Jouraok After
ward he started another paper in lndianapo-
lis in opposition 10 the JourHdi. lie was
long one of the best known and abcst polili-
cal organizers in the State of Indiana Schuy-
Ter Colfax grew up under him, Mr.. Deirces
had for some years spent such Il portion OF
his time as he could spare from Washington
in the retirement of his pleasant country
home at Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
The New York Tribune tells of an old
Democrat who had fallen into a chronic state
Of hopolcssness and of distrust III Providence
induced by many years experience of the tu-
tili,y of Democratic hopes. In his cstima-
ton there was always false count, or a
ridculously universal prosperity, or some
other cause beyond their control, just suiflc-
lent to renew the waning dominion OF the
Republicans. The Ohio news very much
revived him, hut, reading farther, Ike came to
the astronomical article, in which it was
| predicted that the comet now visible would
fall into the sun and cause the destruction of
the world in 1888. Yes" grunted the old
gentleman, as lie threw down the paper IN
disgust, that's just what l supposed would
happen. Can't beat us this time with the
crops, and so they're going to mash US with
| comet
The public sessions of the tariff commits
sion have ended and the commission has re-
served seven weeks in which to make up its
report. The variety of views presented has
been very great, ranging all the way from
| that of the cement manufacturer who desired
the tariff to be doubled, to that of the few
ultra c-tradcrs who wish to see nothing in
the tariff which protects anybody. 1t is a
| question, how much benefit the commissioners
have derived from the presentation of pa
pers; but ii to be hoped they will report to-
Congress a new tariff which will be reason
able both in the rates aud in their adjust
ment and if this hope be realized the pre-
sent Congress may pass the bill submitted.
lucIc Is TouDic among the slhlWhrl lead
crs of Lancaster county, Pa, over the refusal
of A. Herr Smith, candidate for Congress, to
pay the assessment levied upon him by the
county committee, and threats are made to
retire him from the ticket if he does not pay.
Mr.. Smith alleges that the assessment Of
$1,000 is eXorbtant, and says he will not
pay mole than half of it. In n previous
campaign, when he was a candidate, the
assessment was $1,000, and the same trouble
existed, and an effort was made to force him
oil the ticket for refusing to pay. Mr.. Smith
stood his ground, and the committee was
Obliged to yield.