Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-01-19
Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES,

Boston HerdM .-"Sonator Edmunds In.
one uncommon qualification for the Presiden
cy, ard that is his ind sposiiion to seek the
office"
Inc Democrats Of the Tennessee Legisla.
tlre Lave elected mn ex-Uuion soldier as
speaker.
The New York (ommercim 1dpeyttssy
pi'llily remarks that 'tcn rascaly swindlers,
ombezzlers and thieves turn up in business
circles to oHc in political life."
AT the Cincinnati Dramatic Festival, the
veteran actor Murdoch will play Hamlet,
and Lawrence Barrett, Horatio. 1t is also
promised tina! the latter will play Bencdicls
to Rhca's Beatrice.
The forty-onc members of the California
Senate are reported 10 be worth, nil told,
$4,000, coo.
Mr.. VIM. NJ. Springer of Illinois, who an
nounc d himself as a candidate for Speaker
some time since, has addressed n personal
letter To every Democratic member Of the
next House. soliciting his support, but very
iow Of them have replied, as they do not sori-
ously Look upon Mr. Springer in lie light of
q candidate - 80 says Washington CORES
pendent.
Mr.. j. NJ. BegOlo, the most distinguished
Observation-Disclosures in Michigan, left his
private residence in Flint on Monday morn
ing week, and travelled alone to Lansing.
lie found private carriage awaiting him at
the station, but he said quietly that he pre-
ferred TO walk, aud set out on foot for the
capitol, where he arrived in time to be in
augurated Governor Of Michigan.
Mr.. Joseph Cook hes begun, in Boston, a
new course Of Monday lectures. Mr.. Cook,
it seems, does not like 10 lie called names,
aud is offended because Mr.. John Fiske
styled him a chailatan. Mr.. Fiske," said
he, "cills me cLarla'an because do not
accept the Spcncelian philosophy will not
retaliate by calling lin a charatan. lie is
the echo OF charlatun.'
The Hon. Charles J. Faulkner Of Martins.
burg, West Virginia, has in his possession
well preserved, the desk and chair once long
occupied in the National House of Repre-
senatives by John Quincy Adams.
A report hy the State auditor of Alabama
for tie year ending September 80, 1881,
showed that the value Of gus, pistols and
dirks in that State was S4s, 600 more than
that OF mechanical tools ana farming nipple
mcnts combined.
Nilsson is one of the few amiable prima
donnas. On her way 10 San Francisco, she
sang freely wherever people assembled, and
without any show Of condesccnsion seeming
" happy in being able 10 please them. While
crossing Sau francisco Bay on the ferryboat,
the passengers crowded around her, and she
gave them "iiomc, Sweet Home, and ''Way
Down Upon the Suwancc RIVER On the
train she frequently entertancd the passen-
gers with vocalism.
Miss Mary Barrett, eldest dausherof Law
renee Barrett, is engaged to marry the Baron
Won Roedcr OF Stuttgart Miss Barrett and
a sister recently spent some time in Stuttgart
with Miss Howard author of "One Sum
mer, studying music and the languages, and
DOUBTLESS encountered the happy baron dur
Ing their soiourn. The lady is now passing
the Winter with her family in New Iock.
Under the feudal conditions Of society
which prevail in Missouri, Governor Critten.
den, of tina, State, is establishing for him
self unique reputation among governors.
Ills recent message was devoted chiefly to
.wo subjects, his own discreet efforts in
working up vendetta between the James
family and the Ford family, and in Klkcn-
ny fashion. allowing the two 10 kill each 9TH
er oil, thus freeing the commonwealth from
her uncnviablc name Of the "Robbcr State"
and second to Il suggestion that the legisla.
turc pass laws forbiddins contracts for leans
at higher than six per cent.
Mr. Herbert Spencer has Ind few add.
tional things to say about the American peo-
pie, and they are published in connection
with those of bis remarks which have already
appeared in our newspapers, in the COatem-
p0rdry Recie9 for January. Our over
activity results, in his opinion, from the fact
that there are here SO many valuable prizes
in life in sight to be abored for. In Europe
these prizes are much less attainabe, hence
people are more ccn,entcl with their lot than
they are here an! Lad easier lives. There is
nothing particularly profound about this, but
1t is doubtless true.
General Francis \. Walker advocated be-
| fore the Massachusetts teachers the other day
the carly teaching OF the elements OF science.
81 asked he said, "a pupil Of one of our
an excellent scholar IN tho h,rh". cia.s wv why,
is it that water rises the pump, and this
young person OF ID years had not the vcstige
OF an idea on that subject No teacher during
eight years of school had offered an expana
ton of tho phenomenon or ever called atten-
ton to it. hold that it should be made far
more di.crcditubc oa teacher to have pupils
ignorant OF the action Of atmospheric pres
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