Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-04-27
Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES.

Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES.
The Minneapolis city council has raised the
license upon saloons, which has heretofore
been 500 to $500.
1t is said that the late A. II. Stephens of
Georgia loaned money to one hundred and
twenty young men to enable them to get an
education. Most OF the money was repaid.
THE Democratic party must do something
or die" says an exchange. Possibly dying
may be the something needfdl.
Ex-Represcntative Eppa Hunton Of Viz
ginia thinks that Mcdonald of Indiana will
be the next nominee of the Democrats for The
Presidency.
g. W Gable has definitely relinGuish.d hia
commercial occupations in New Orleans, and
will venture forth upon the. sea of itera-
ture.
It marks the change in the relation of the
sexes in this country that Mrs. Martha j.
Lamb is 10 assume, with the May number,
the editorial direction of the Magazine Of
American History, in place Of the retiring
editor.
Wilkie Collins, who IS suffering from al
attack of govt, has finished his latest novel,
chiefly remarkable for strong study of q
vivisectipnist Of the most cold-blooded type.
President Arthur will dine with the mem
Der CT the New York Chamber of Commerce,
at Delmonicos, on the Sth of May.
Rumor has it that John c. New contem
plates. 1T an a.,rly day, rendering his res
ignation as Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury.
Oscar Wilde is writing play for Mis-:
Mary Anderson. The scene is laid at Padua,
so as to Introduce gorgeous and delightful
costumes"
Mrs Louisa Il. Stephens, widow OF Il. D.
Stephens, has just been elected to succeed
her husband us president of the First Nation
al Bank of Marion, Ia, and is said TO be the
FIRST woman ever occupying the position.
IL. II lILCut tStutS III SuiSS3O AtNN' opSNpA
Cook said, 'ths time has come when VT
must take American journalism and reform
it, and if we do not, break its neck and choke
lis sensational utterances."
George and Edmund Gravely are twin
brothers, 05 years old, residing in Henry
county, Va, and their friends gravely claim
| thpiy are the oldest twins living.
Fred Douglass has good office at Wash
ipgton, and some of his relations are in like
manner provided for lie is the luckies
man OF his race il this country.
Bismarck, it is said, was much affected by
the news of Prince GortschakQf's death
'Beaconsfeld and GorlschGkof." he re-
marked to those around him-'the only mer
whom | could bCcomiDgly recognize as an
agoni,ts-both disappeared Friends, my
turn 70 coming"
- great many Northern papers, says
the Memphis Tennessee Appeal Demo
cratic, 'are commenting on the fact tina
the Mormon elders in the South make n,
negro converts We rise TO inform Ties,
| Journals that if they Will read up on Mormon
| theology they Will tind ~. tia; No Negro
is eligible to membership In Mormon
church."
| The Prince of Wales's new railway car
riage is a marvel Of aesthetic decoration. L
is fifty feet long and contains saioon, study
two bedrooms, two dressing rooms and {
bati-rosm, TING Primers bedroom is huns
-t.. - -N's -'"~ 500 49, s---'.
holstered TO match. Mirrors are let into the
door panels and the whole suit can be lighted
either by candles or by electricity.
The latest dodge Of the Bourbon county
tax collectors in Virginia is 10 refuse to assess
taxes, in order that by the enforced closing OF
| the schools, discredit may be thrown on the
management of the public school system by
| the Readjuster authorities.
The Rhode Island general assembly at the
session Just closed passed forty-seven public
acts and forty-nine acts of interpretations,
ameneed thiriy-two others, and continued
| forty-siX to the next assembly under the pro-
vision of the constitution. There have boeu
few, if any, radical changes in the spirit OF
the statutes of the State. The compulsory
education law is one of the most important
measures passed.
MIR. j. X. Parkinson of Cincinnati who
was the other day admitted to practice in the
Supreme Court of the United States, is prob
ably the only deaf and dumb lawyer evei
admitted to that court, He has had an ex'
tcnsivc practice as a patent lawyer, and II
said TO he both accurate and wonderfully
ready with Information concerning patents
1t is to be hoped in the interests OF Eng
fish taxpayers, that England will not have 'c
carry on really important war-at least
Ldurng the lifetime of Lord Wolseley ano
| Baron Alcester For their conduct OF the
insignificant Egyptian campaign these two
officers were rewarded with titles and Win
something like $50, 900 each in money, and
now the House of Commons has passed a
vote giving to each of the heroes and thclI
heirs forever $4,000 yearly.
Downing Vaux, the young gentleman
whose engagement 10 Edwin Booths daugh
ter was announced some ago, has been serl
ously III in consequence of gas-poisoning
| The gas in his room was left burning low a.