Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-08
Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES.

utc Ior PRESIDENT.
Thirteen persons have been indicted by
New Orleans grand Jury for election frauds,
and bail fixed at five thousand dollars for
each
The governor of Mississippi, in the Chalmers
case, and the governor Of louisiana, IN the
Kellogg case, are aifDrding evidence of the
INSCRIPTIONS character of the true dominant
Southern Democrats.
Senator Lamar has arrived at Washington,
aud expresses himself with unrcservcd Sc
verify in opposition to the attempt to refuse a
certificate TO Kellogg in Louisiana. lie says
that such M act will hurt the Democratic
party very much.
Arabi's life is spared. lie will be sent into
honorable exile, retaining hissword his rank
and cmoiuncns. Owing to the skill of his
English advocates and the immense mass of
discriminating correspondence with Constant
lnoplc which the willy leader had preserved
IL had become positively dangerous 10 hurry
him TO the scaifold No doubt the Sultan
will be sorry that the impenetrablc barrier
OF The grave is not to be put between his
conduct and the man whom he had used and
was ready to abandon.
Thurlow Weeds correspondence is to be
turned over to his biographer, Frederick w.
Seward. Mr.. Weed preserved nearly all of
the letters he received in his lifetime with
out regard to the subject matter lie had
them indcxed and filed away in his
house. Many of them are of historical
value, and the signatures would delight au-
tograph hunters.
Had the recent election been for President
and the States gone as they did the Elector-
al College, which, under the new appoaion-
mcni, will be made up of 4Ol members,
would have consisted of $40 Democrats and
10 Republicans, with II Rcadjusters.
Sir Garnet Wolscley is fond, like Napo-
con, of addressing himself directly to the
soldiers under his command "Now, my
man. he said, "if you were told to tighten
your kit by half a pound, what should you
throw away" 'Thc Soldiers Pocket Com
manion' (Wolseeys work., answered the
man, us he respectfully salued his COM
maluer.
The st. Paul Press prints the names of SO
members of the Minnesota legislature who
it says, are instructed or are pledged to vote
for Senator WINDOWS reelection. As 1G is
a majority of the whole legislature, this
looks as ii there could be no doubt of his
success.
The South Carolina Democrats will not
need any closure rules to keep the Republ.
can minority in the next legislature In good
order. The Senate will consist of ,hirtv-,wo
Democrats and three Republicans, and the
House Of one hundred and fifteen Democrats
and nine Republicans. The Republican Sen.
atois and Representatives are all coOrcd
and three of the Democratic Representatives
are also colorcd.
A recent visitor slys that General Butler
has taken new lease of life since his cleo.
ton as governor of Massachusetts The dcep
wrinkles on his face are filling up, and the
husky voice is smooth. lie is very busy now,
finishing up the law business lie has on hand,
and getting ready to assume the duties and
honors Of his high Office.
Hon. Robert W. Barnwcll, who died at
Columbus, S. c., the other day, at the al.
vanced age of 81 years, was cassmatc of
Ralph Waldo Emerson at Harvard, and ever
maintained with him the intimate friendship
formed during their college days. While he
was in charge of the South Carolina college,
be had under his charge many students of
note. Among them were Gov. Hampton,
Mr.. T. NJ. lIanckc and the Hon w. Allston
Pfingle of Charleston, and Senator Wgfall
OF Texas
Thomas LeClcar, n "A, "a well known portrait
painter, who died suddenly at his home in
Rutherford, n. j., was born in Oswcgo, n.
\ :, March II, 1918. No other American ar
list has painted 50 many persons of celebrity
as Mr.. LeClear has. Among the persons
whose portraits have been painted by him
may be mentioned Presidents Fillmore, Gar
field, Grant and Arthur; Daniel $. Dickin-
son, Edwin Booth in the character Of Ham,
let, George Ticknor Curtis, +. w. Slough
ton, Chief Justice fancy, William II, Sew
ard Rev. Drs Bellows, Osgood Dix and
nor j. Gregory Smith, George Bancroft,
Bayard Taylor, DR.. Norvin Green, President
Chadbourne of Williams College, and Pro-
foss0r o. c. Marsh of Yale College.
The Governor of Louisiana, McEnery, de-
clines to give William Pitt Kellogg certif-
cate Of election TO Congress from the third
district of that State. There is no doubt that
kellogg was elected by majority of nearly,
If not quite 5000. 1t was the original inten-
ton to dispute this majority, and the Demo-
craiic canvass<ns began their work by throw
ing out the entire vote of the two parishes, or
counties, which gave him the largest majori- |
ties But this job was too bareiaced TO be
carried further, the local Democratic election
officials refusing to certify to the bogus COM
plants suggested, AMI accordingly the scheme |
was devised of refusing Kellogg his certiti- |
cate on the ground that he lived in WASH |
ington and was not resident of the State.
Hon. James S. Pike of Calais, Me-, died
suddenly, Wednesday. Nov. Goth. II, was
at one time attached to the staff of the New
York Tribune as its Washington correspon-
dent. President Lincoln appointed him
minister to the Hague, which Office he held
about eight years In 1872 he warmly sup
ported his old friend Horace Greeley for the
presidency. About this time he visited
South Carolina, and when lie returned pub
lished book assailing the Republican rule
THE PROSTATE State"
Jonathan I. Updcgraif, Congressman-elect
from the nth Ohio district, whose death has
been announced, was born in Jefferson coun-
ty, Ohio, about sixty years ago lie served
in the army rs II surgeon during the latter
part Of the war, but the latter part of his
time was given TO agricultural pursuits lie
was n Presidential Elector in 1872, and in
1872 and 1878 he was "A member of the Ohio
Senate. lie was delegate to the Cincinnati
Convention in 1876, and was Republican
member of the 4Gth aud 47th Congresses.
lie was elected to the 4sth Congress last
October. lie had been sick for several
months.
Henry c. Murphy died Friday, in Brook
Ign, N. y. lie was well known in political