Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-09-08
personal AND POLITICAL NOTES.

energy as though this were not an off year.
DR.. Reyburn is said to ask $500 for his
attendance upon President Garfield.
Gen. Grant, it is slil, will decline the po-
sition of commercial commissioner to Mex
leo.
The friends OF Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury John G. New expect that he will
succeed Judge Folger when the latter re-
tires.
Senator Beck predicts that Alexander ii.
Stephens will be Ben IIirs successor IN the
United States Senate
Ex-senator Harry Gcuci, better known in
his palmy days as prince Hal" has opened
saloon in New York.
Oscar Wilde says that in this county oh
trusivc impudencc seems to characterize pref
ty nearly the best classes of society.
The new Duchess of Westminster, wife Of
ricd in dress of white foulard, costing Is
cents yard.
The Michigan Republicans have renominat-
ed Governor Jerome The platform Of the
convention has plank on the liquor traffic
which notes the fact that the parties are not
agreed among themselves, and calls for the
submission of prohibition to Il popular vote
The New York Post thinks that if the
Administration intend Secretary Folgcr as
their dark horse, there is danger that his
prospects will be ruined by pressing HIM too
early in the race.
Hans Makart, the eccentric painter of
Vienna has married a ballet girl secretly and
gone off on wedding tour. His former
wife, who had black hair, loved him 50 dcvot-
! cdly that when she learned that he admired
red hair she dyed hers that color.
There is likely to be some fun in Missis-
sippi before the canvass in that State is
closed. Congressman Lynch, wide.a-wakc
colorcd orator, av.ng been nominated for re-
election, has invited Judge Van Eaton, the
| Democratic candidate to stump the District
with him. and the Judges friends insist that
he shall accept the invitation.
The late Deacon j. G.. Within of Whitins-
vile, Mass, who died last Spring, had given
directions for the drawing up of will which
he was to sign on Monday, but he died the
Saturday previous. Though this instrument
had no legal force, his family are carrying
out his wishes expressed therein, and have
given twenty thousand dollars to the Ameri-
can Board, and twenty-five thousand to the
Massachusetts Home Missionary Society.
The Republican State convention Of Cali
forna adopted platform demanding the en-
forcement of the present or similar Sunday
! law. prohibiting all unnecessary labor on thai
day. The other mos. prominent plank wa.
that in regard TO railroads. The resolutions
were quite extensive, but tie main point wa!
; opposition to determinations in favor of OF
against particular places or persons, and
demand that railroads be put under govern
ment control. The Chinese restriction bill
was commended, and declaration made it
favor of civil service reform and economy o
administration
Captain John Ericsson, who completed tn,
scvcnty-ninth year of his age on July 3lst
q seems to carry the years that have been add
i ed to his thrcc-scorc and ten without tn
labor and heavincss that usually accompan
them, and he follows his accustomed routn
of daily toll with hearty enjoyment. He
: in splendid mental and physical condition
1 Few men have accomplished more than Cap
[ tain Ericsson has during a lifetime whc
covers the whole era of modern naval pro
gress with which his own name and reputa
A ton are so intimately identified.
In n neat white cottage among vineyard
a on Put-iu-Bay Island, Lake Erie, there i
, now living John Brown, Jr., the eldest sol
, Ii TT 81, Al
: son is II man Of sixty years of age s,ron
: ana vigorous looking, with long silvery hair
= Residing with him is Owen Brown young
er son, who was with his father when tn
l latter made his attack on llarper's Ferry. =!
4 daughter of Johu Brown, named Rutl
= Thompson, lives near by, and another son
A Jason Brown, at Akron, Ohio. Mrs Brow
e is still living, residing in California.
Gen. Singleton, who was recently dcfcate,
for denomination to Congress by the ''regu
|, lar" Democrats of the Twelfth District o
4 Illinois, will not only take the field as an In
4 dependent, but proposes to expose the unfai
A and dishonest methods by which he was Sc
4, aside. In an open letter to the voters of tn
district, Singleton declares that he intends t.
a visit every city, village, town and township
V interested, armed with evidence to substan
tiate his claims. He is now over sevent
years of age, and there is neither honor no
profit to him in being returned 10 Congress
What he seeks To show is simply that politi
cal jobbers shall not trite with the rights o
4 the people.
Jay Gould naively says Il am indie
Il pendent of either party in politics. hav
/ large interests at stake in this country
Nearly all my money is embarked here i
, various enterprises, and all want is homes
l government | am being continually struck
Q as they say, by politicians" Pointing to
G nest Of drawers, he said, those pigeon hole
are filled with the demands, the threats, tn
cntrealies of politicians, men of all partie
+ and no party Republicans, Democrats
c an,i-Eonopolisls. If you were worth mi
hon dollars and directing agent in some &C
y operate interest you would soon find out an
!, understand the force Of what mean
; The New York World reads the Demo
= cratic party lecture, admonishing it tina
= the trouble is that 1.-THE people do not believ
= its profession" and have good reason not &c
In the late Congress, 1t points out "ther
! was scarcely job during the whole session
u except the contested election cases. whc
Z did not muster more or less Democrat
}, votes, and upon the most conspicuous job @
u the session, the River and llarbor bill, til
y Democrats were disabled by their own actio
T. from taking advantage of the Republica
= proHigacy which Republican President Ia
; rebukcd If the Democratic voters have tn
!, good sense to leave at home all the Demo
II cratic Representatives concerned in the Re
Z publican jobs, they will do more for thci
= party than they could do by adopting fror
y now till doomsday platforms in which I'll
y noblcst sentiments are clothed in the mos
u u exquisite language"
&c A Philadelphia artist who saw Arab
J. Alexandria last Winter draws this sketch c
e his personal appearance - tall, heavy
J, faced man, sullen, swar,hy with onlya prett
Al clear eve to soften the general harshness q