Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-02
Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES,

~ "''"ss ulsastcr on an innocent Nation,
ONO voters will hold town elections this
fights
Inc Governor Of Kentucky, it is said, par.
"oHeu IN year and half five hundred
anu hVe persons imprisoned for murders,
attempt on life, and preparations for taking
President Andrew d. White of (ornoll
says 'iia' smart boys show up better at exam
nations Than smart girls, but that the girls If
you strike the average, are the better. more
industrious students.
The will Of Pope Leo XIII has been de.
posted In the Apostolical College at Rome
Considerable comment ismade on the scan.
,lness Of its public requests, which seem to
be already known
The new temperance law in Arkansas pro-
vdcs that If majority Of the adult citizens
oil both sexes petition to that effect, the sale
OF liquor within three miles of any church or
school house may be prohibited for two
years.
Mr.. Vanderbilt told Cleveland gentleman
mat his income last year was over $50 OOO,-
900, and he was bolhcrcd 10 find some way
OF investing it 50 that it would be safe, and
'he pubic not call him Il thief and robber.
Ex-Governor st. John OF Kansas Is making
speeches throughout the country in favor of
prohibition.
The funeral ola Congressman who died
recently cos; Sl0G7. In the opinion of the
boston dE25e some people might say that it
would be money in the cDuntry's pocket to
appropriate $4,000 apiece and bury the whole
lot
General Grant recently said he hoped to be
able TO arrange his business so az to spend the
next two years abroad
The sum of $40 was recently given by a
London firm for Photographic negative Of
the Prince of Wales in Masonic dress.
This is the highest price ever given for sin.
gle negative.
lsmall, the ex-khedive, is going to live in
England. He has purchased Caen Towers,
Higbgate luxurious mansion with twelve
acres Of ground, for $3.50 600
Gen. Sherman and Joe Johnston are great
friends. Gen. Sherman undertook to make
Joe's acquaintance during the entire Fall of
1854 and the Winter of lSG4-j, and chased
him all over Georgia and into North Carolina
IN order to get chance at him; but Joe was
bashful even to girlishncss and always ran
away from his admrcr
Blackburn of Kentucky, it is announced,
with some show of authority, will shortly
Withdraw from the Speakership contest and
cast his strength to Carlisle The latter's
friends claim 10 votes for him ON first bal
iat. IL elected, they say, he will make Ran
dali chairman OF the Appropriations Commit
tee, and Morrison of Illinois chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means
The real working editor of the North
dmercan Rerieo is Mr. l.. 5 Metcalf, to
whom, it is said, large part of the credit
ducthe recent grow tn of that periodical is
for The nominal editor is Mr.. Allen
TLorndke Rice.
The best people of the South, says the At
lanta Constitution, do not shoot each other
or settle their difficulties at the muzze of
revolver. At the same time there is woful
lack OF the operation OF public sentiment IN
the direction of teaching a Class Of young
men that 1t is cowardly TO 20 about with pis-
tolls in their hip pockets.
The man whom the Chattanooga Democrat
wishes to see elected President is the man
who, having demonstrated his mental and
moral fitness in long experience in public
affairs, has spirit enough openly to aspire to
the Chief Magstracy, aud at the same time
principles to prevent him from a resort to cx-
pedlents unworthy OF the exalted station.
The government Of Canada has formally
thanked the Uni ed States for the services Of
Captain Stoddei and the revenue cutter Wal
colt in quoting the Indians at Metlakathla,
in British Columbia, who were on the rampage
and threatened 10 kill the Bishop Of Gale
donna. Captiin Stodder made the Indians
understand that they couldn't have every.
thing to please them, and the show Of force
brought them to reason. The Canadian au-
thorties Will pay the expenses of the trip.
Il will now ask my esteemed friend, Mr..
William Z. Dodge, to preside. said DR..
Zackhos at the Cooper Institute the other
night the doctor not being reader of news.
papers had failed to hear Of his death This |
is not quite 81 had rs the incident related Of |
an eminent English nobleman who was pre- |
siding nj Il press dinner. lie concluded his |
few feeble remarks by proposing the Health |
of Gutenberg" Some one pulled his cot
tails and whispered that he was dead Il
regret continued the noblemau, 80 an
nounce that intelligence has just been received |
that Gutenberg is dead
Mr.. Jennings, the correspondent in Lon
don Of the New York World, forecasts that
in the course of the present year an cmigra-
ton from Great Britain to the United States
will set in such as has not been seen since the
days Immediately following the discovery Of
gold in California. lie bases his prognostica.
ton mainly upon the fact that England has
more people on her soil than she can sup
port agriculture has become prccarlous
occupation the cotton and iron trades have
seen their best days; there is growing dis
position Tor a higher life than that of the
lifelong plowman or operative. No mere
enfranchisement of the rural population in
proportion to that of the boroughs In Eng
land and Scotland, or modification of the
land laws in Ireland, will answer the pur-
pose.
Senator-elect Cullom of Illinois says his
lucky number is six, aud he figures it thus
Six years as page in the Illinois Legislature
eight years a member of the Illinois Legisa-
ture, during four of which he was Speaker
of the House, making an average Of six for
each slN years governor of the State of Hi
nois six years n member Of the United
States Senate-that is to be.
NJ. Jules Ferry, the new French Premier,
was at the head Of the ministry which was
formed on Sent m tSsO and which nrncnI |