Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-01-26
Personal AND POLITICAL ,OTEs.

Inc Grant medals, COmmemordtDg Tic
contest at Chicago, were designed by Senator
Don Cameron.
Wendell Phillips is said by his friends to
be getting feeble in body.
The elder Mrs. Garfield passes several
hours each day reading the recently publish
ed volume of the works of the late President,
her son.
To the proposition to erect as'atue to Pc
ter Cooper in front of the Cooper Institute in
New York, the venerable philanthr)pist de.
murs, saying that they can do as they please
after he is gone but he wants no statue while
he lives.
&c Business os well as politics mixes men up
strangely some times 1t is reported that
Benjamin +. Butler, old Simon Cameron,
| RcpudiatOr Malone, Gov. Cameron Of Nir.
GINA, and other politicians Of various shades
have formed "a powerful syndicate and
sent strong lobby to Tallahassee to push
through the Florida legislature the charter Of
the Florida ship canal company. 1t is pro-
posed to lave the peninsula cut through
from ocean to Gulf, with a ship canal prob.
ably south OF Tampa Bay ON The west side
and south Of Indian River on the Atlantic.
CALIFORNIA; new State Senate is composed
of four editors, eight farmers, one miner,
four capitalists two merchants five mcchan-
; les, one contractor, one doctor one viticutur.
} list aud fourteen lawyers.
Gov. Begole, who was elected By fusion
of the Democrats and Greenbackers Of Mich
igan, is in hot water. The Grecnbackers held
meeting at Lansing last week and denounc.
| uI M IN 10 q t,r
tor, who had declined to give them any Of
fees.
1t is sld that the life Of the poet Whittier
is much disturbed by women One wealthy
widow actually proposed to him, and other
women have made violent love to him with
out avail.
Rev. DIR. Talmage, preaching on "Evolu-
tiOn,' said In the dinner to Herbert
Spencer, the banqueers chewed beef turkey
and roast pig. According to the doctrine Of
z evolution the banquctcrs were eating their
C own relatives, slicing up their own cousins
carving their beloved uncles, and daubing
+, mustard and Worcestershire sauce on their
loved ones.
r. 1t is the opinion of the Macon Ga Tee
/ qrdph that any roll of pensioners Of the Mex
lean war that does not contain the name Of
y LETTERS IN Davis will be IA lying, shameless,
n coHardly fraud, and that any southern Cor
l. gresham who consents to such an outrage is
something less than man.
The Department of Justice has decided to
ii pay the experts in the Gutcau trial tie uni
il form rate of S25 day, with ordinary wit
/ ness fees in addition, but no other allowance
Is for expenses. The whole amount to be paid
re experts, exclusive of ordinary witness fees,
+ will lie about Sl3 900. 1t is ntimated that
IL the experts especially connected with tie
preparation OF the case may receive addi-
= tiOnal allowances. These are DIR. Gray of
,e Utica Drs, MacDona!d aud Hamilton Of
J.. New York, and DIR. Kempster of Wisconsin.
N The National civil service reform associa-
he ton has sent out an address of Generalization
IL on the passage Of the Pendeton bill by Cam
k. grcss, and explanatory OF its provisions. Tbs
II opinion is expressed that the opponents Of
" the new law will 'obstruct in every way It's
IN bencicent operation" and that every fraud
III and loss in the service all the offences Of
r. wrongdoers all the results of Negligence, in
n capacity and dishonesty, wherever they ar
rs pear and to whatever cause they may be due,
r. will he attributed to this measure" The
n. friends of the law are exhorted to be watch
nd full as to the manner of Its enforcement AID
I'd recommended TO urge that the same prinoi-
, pie be adopted in making appointments I'M
IN der State and municipal governments.
r; Mr. James Russell Lowell is TO have the
nk honor of unveiling the bust of Fielding
sn which is TO be erected in the novcists ma
ell tive country. Singulally enough, consider
VI ing the feeling about Longfellow in West
C. minister Abbey, there doesn't seem t. be any
objection in England to thus distinguishing
mere American.
ell 1t is said that there will be about fifty con-
u tested seats in the next Congress.
~ The Iowa Prohibitionlsts are not dishcart-
n ened because the prohlbitory amendmcn; TO
in the State constitution has on technical grounds
~ been declared invalid. They will fight the
)O battle over again, and will commence forth
ct with to organize for the contest.
I'd The application of the Mormon Territory
IN of tab for admission into the Union as
$. State has been again presented to Congress,
w just as it has at every session of that body
a. a, for the past twenty years aud with as much
Sn chance now OF success as there was at tile
~ beginning OF that period.
V. The French surgeons have found out tie
ne cause of the death of Gambetta The autov-
w sy on his body declares that "hc succumhed
r. to IA pertyphylits, complicated by pcricol-
he tits, to which was added slight pcritonits
IS manifested during his last moments 1t i'll
of Inmates that his case was hopeless from the
be beginning.
Ar| President Arthur receives the monday WIS.,
No itors three times week, Wednesday, Thurs
II. day and Saturday, in the library, where he
st sits, except on cabinet days. Visitors pass
through the cabinet room into the library,
% shake hands with the President and pass out
re of the other door and in this way they avoid
in confusion. Tie crowds that have visited
&c, the White House since New Years day have
rs gone well up into the hundreds every day.
'is The House Committee of Ways and
IN Means at Washington has at last completed
IL its revision of the tariff, and had the bill
Is printed TO he reported to the House. 1t is
's' expected that by arrangement of political
u leaders about twenty days may he allowed
- for the discussion of the subject But time
~ is growing precious, and the business inter
=, ests of the country will be only too glad to
VI have the whole subject finally disposed Of
This may perhaps be fastened somewhat 10y
the efforts of the Senate 10 dispose of tariff
and tax bill pending in that body in advance
IS Of the action OF the House.
= The process of compiling and arranging
-, the census returns, which is so slowly pro-
IA ceeding, is costing great deal of money.
ID When the bill was passed under which the
al census OF 1850 was taken, II WAS thought
ne that an appropriation Of $4,000 900 would
al cover the expense of the whole business
S. Snbsequen, developments have shown that