Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-11
Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES.

ty.two years Of age, is talked OF for reform
Democratic Mayor Of New York.
Chalmers writes from Mississippi to Wash
ington that he will be elected to Congress
by IAN overwhelming majority"
General Sanger, editor of the Key West
democrat, is 90 years old, weighs 35 pounds,
and is 40 inches high. He was born in st.
Domingo, and raised in Florida.
There appears to bc no likelihood for II
pardon for Sergeant Mason. The great cry
in his behalf has seemed to have no other
effect than to strengthen the locks on his
prison door,
The New York Republican State Com
mittee have issued their call for State
Convention, 10 meet at Saratoga, on the 20lh
Of September.
Mrs. Woodruff is again on a lecture tour in
England, and again the English provincial
papers speak of her rs u candidate for the
Presidency of the United States
Mrs. Caroline Brown, the mother of Arte-
mus Ward, is finally recovering from the eff.
| fects of u fall which she received some weeks
since.
Anna Dickinson, it is said, made pat re-
mark when somebody deprecated her playing
the mans part-of Hamlet eyes" said she,
| 'but there are not three men in the country
who can play it; and it's time the women
tried"
letter addressed to "Mr Obedient Ser
i d..
reached the proper officer the other day, il
being q reply to an official communication by
a person whomistook the scrawled autograph
OF Its sender for e flourish under the name
The youngest bride ever heard of in the
United States is Miss Catoc who, though
only eleven years and seven months Of age,
was recently married to Thomas Payne by
regularly ordained minister in South
Carolina. Her husband is twenty years
old
| MIR. Barnum has forwarded TO the United
States Consul at Bangkok, for presentation to
the King OF Siam, formal petition for the
loan, on his Majesty's own terms, of white
elephant.
The death of the late George Z. Marsh re.
calls the fact that he was the Oldest of our
diplomates-th next 10 point of age being
Franklin. The latter was seventy-six wh.n
he returned from the mission to Versailles,
while Marsh was cighty-one.
Sergeant NIasons friends complain that
the President disregards the opinion of the
Judge Advocate General of the army, who
says the offender was not legally convicted
under martial law, and that the President is
guided by the advice Of the Attorney Gencr-
al. who opposes pardon.
On the suggestion of Mr.. Wheeler, the
New York Republican State Committee vot-
ed unanimously to reimburse Gen. N. NJ.
Curtis for his expenses in defending himself
against the prosecution of the Civil Service
Reformers, and to refund the one-thousand-
dollar fine in case he should he finally COM
PEELED to pay it. The executive committee was
authorized TO audit Gen. Curts's expenses.
The longest session of Congress was that
which lasted until September 3d. 1850, re-
sulting In what is known as "the compromise
measure Of 1850" But the other 'long SEES.
sions, including that of the present year,
which have extended beyond July, are six 10
number. 1t is probable, however, that Con-
gress never held longer session to accom-
plish less work than the one now inflicted
upon long suffering people.
Charles Courtenay, the Union Springs
oarsman, is now acting as prosecutor in a re-
markablc case at Elmira, N. Y, wherein
nearly seventy persons were poisoned by
tarter-emetc in the ice cream served at a
Methodist church festival at Union Springs
ON the Fourth of July. The church began
an investigation soon afterwards, but Courte-
nay swore out warrant and had John II.
Robertson arrested for the offence, and taken
before justice Of the peace, just as the
church investigation was about to reach
climax in the arrest of Courtenay himself.
An interesting if not credible story regard
ing Garbaldi has appeared in an Italian
newspaper, aud occasioned more or less COM
ment in Italy. The story asserts that the
great general was killed at the battle of AS
promonte Senty years ago, and has since
been personated by man whose resent
blance to Garibaldi had been widely known
and wondered at before that period.
The leading Democrats in various South
ern States appear to be preparing for some
new and desperate line Of operations for the
psS,Pose o, tnsurlng !ne Po,'lcai soldity
o,n e nd a. lae ~, Ion'iUi y, .ne S.a,e gov
septation by partisan Democrats of the old
ooutherh school. IL is, however, by no
means certain that they can succeed in do
| Gov. Foster says that 1t costs Ohio three mil
lions OF dollars year to support its poor, and
,ha, ,wo-ond half millions If tho, Ia d;roc,
no, Una, "',,''on' VI sn"' 10 -, .'ee'
y cha1geaole 70 the liquor trainc. Inc en-
t,re saloon interest," III the STATE pays less than
!hree hundred thousand uoilars IN taxes,ic av-
ing the resi- OF inc taxpayers 10 1901 the pal
| ance OF the COST OF Tree TRADE IN lntoNl.