Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-30
Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES.


judges than Great Britain.
Rev. lleber Newton of New York Is to
have an ecclesiastical trial for heresy.
Alabama is to have Department Of
Agriculture. Georgia has one Of the best
in the world
In a lecture delivered recently, Charles
G. Leland says that "no word covers so
much humbug as art" 1t can not be
that Mr.. LELAND has never heard Of "Democ-
Cracy."
At the March term OF Howard County
Circuit Coult, Maryland, Ex-Governor John
Lee Carroll, the great grandson Of Charles
Carroll of Carrollton, was appointed fore
man of the Grand Jury, on which are three
ColOrcd men.
Miss Sarah Brown, daughter Of "Ossa-
watomic Brown has been appointed to
position in the United States Mint at San
Francisco
NJ. y. Conway writes that there have al
ready been some consultations in England
looking toward the erection of memorial
statue of Emerson besides that of Carlyle on
the Thames at Chelsea.
The Tennessee legislature has passed bill
pcnsioning all Confederate soldiers who lost
au eye or eyes during the late war aud Fed
cral soldiers not pensioncd by the United
States Government.
II is one hundred years since the people
Of New Hampshire adopted constitution
and the coming legislature will doubtless take
steps for RECOGNITION of this important
event.
The Providence Jou,na says the story that
Spraguc, while governor raised and equip
ped the first Rhode Island regiment at his
own expense has no element of truth except
its frequent reiteration during the last twenty
two years.
The story goes that General Gordon of
Georgia who resigned from the Senate a
couple of years ago, has changed his resi-
dence over TO Florida. and will attempt to
succeed Wilkinson Call in the Senate from
that little State in 1885.
The Churchman secs one Of the strangest
marvcls of tie present time in the fact that
while the world processes to pay little or nc
attention to the prophecies of scripture, it
listens with curiosity, if not confidence, to
the loastiul guesscs of Virgins, one OF the
| least Of its Scientific prophets"
,,.....
''N'S pelsoue' l"'''c'cu io' clce''oi il"u"9
are on trial in the United States Circuit
Court at New Orleans, before Judge Billings.
Tie, cry of political ,pcrsecution,is not rails
the acctlscrs us well as the defendants arc
| Democrats.
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| 10 tnusc VIII cfiticisc bcn' Du'ici ioi Piae
| ticing law while Governor, he remarks
| ,Governor Talbot did not sion his voolleu
| mill dr,i,o lie tam, uhv ehouId I e,o,
my jaw mill :"
The Baltimore Sun is sure that in som,
Of the Southern States, notably Virginia
North Carolina, Louisiana and Florida, III,
po.,,,,,ia,,,, ,.,.o t,i. o,,,noo 81 s,oooss :,
~, ,,eiu0'o'n' i'''' i''' 'N'N'o VI Su''''' Il
''0i'
'he oI'io c'cc'lo" III oc'oucr Will oc ~
''a'o "iilcc's q"" W. "'''''oeis Vi '"e hcS'S
'N'"'c' lne Legislature VIII choosc sue
ceSsor 10 oehu'or rchue'on'
! The Tennessee Legislature has passed
hir H., ,ro,o,, ,,,o coll, ~ ;,,ov;co,;,r ,io,or
-, ~ -,
u Hihors WITHOUT INC "riItch CONSENT
who are habitual drunkards, unless with til,
consent OF their wives,
Miss Florence A. Smith, Philadelphia
belle, is 10 be married., on the 2Sth, t
Rn,rn w. ~ n;cI' he viii tronsfcr hi
bride after their marriage. The baron hold
the position of chamberlain to the Duke o.
Oldcnburg. Miss Smith Is the third Phlla
dclphia girl who has married German no
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80 ,,0''' 80
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f n, ii n! III tna' uniec.Ion. nc "l
nul i0ht" .ItSS recently euli,a'ueu ion=
eCitorlu, III wliiSh h'sn hcensc was earn
esly adNoc"'eu'
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49, o pso;na $780, H. Nm ~ $500 rJ.
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SIAN onI Ly rbiaf Ins,ico Waite and Iustic,
1:rav nt ,hn sunror,n C,rrt Some hu,Jrod
Of n,;ins os ,ha in,,rno,. nnrst hn nal, ~,
" '.i,D' VI luz JO''"'S '''''' 'o ii'''''o VI
'u''se Jerry pi''h gives 'ne hepuo''eans
ne" n''''e us i'e."en''"' o"nu'ua'c-
ator oonger oil MicliSan' encle Jerry
candidates are seldom elected.
sam. handaiis piadorm' as announced
from Washington, is to let the tariff severely
alone, while Mr. Carlisle will prosecute hi:
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