Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-01-25
Personal .SD POLITICAL NOTES.

General Grant goes abou. in his room on
his cruches every day.
The woman suffrage national convention,
winch was called to be held in Washington
this month, has been postponed to March 4.
Ii will continue in session, a. now planned,
three days.
Mr.. and Mira Matthew Arnold and Miss
Arnold sail for Epgaud on the eth Of Feb
ruary.
Mrs. Langtry's engagements in this coun-
try have proved so Unexpectedly satisfactory
that she has abandoned her contemplated
trip to Australia.
There are no lobbyists in France, and it
sometimes takes member of the House of
Delegates as long as five years to get rich.
Among the sayings of great men must be
recorded the following by John Mclean,
of Ohio; brains be dashed. 1t is money
that counts"
Mr.. Matthew Arnold is now telling the
people of the West that they are more intel
ligcnt, more civilized and more prosperous
than their brethren in the East Mr.. Arnold
is very popular out there and is making
money.
When Gen. Hancock was travelling in the
West rural genius innocently asked him
| where he was during the late war.
Mr.. Edison says that electricity in -four
years will exclude even 50 cheap compel
| itor as kerosene, and the electric light can lie
| furnished at less cost than any other illumi-
nation known to the world.
The Memphis Arclanete speaks of Gen
eral Hancock as 'rhat sagacious statesman,
and insists on the denomination of the Ole
ticket of 1880. Some people never gel
enough OF anything.
Somebody in Washington told General
Sherman that great many people wouC
like to see him President, and the general
according TO n reporter, burst out with
"What an ass | would be to take that-tC
give up the good thing I've got for life fol
four years of pursatory''
The Buffalo Courier, Democratic pape
which thinks the Ohio Democrats have ter
ribly blundered, advocates giving up all hop'
of carrying Ohio for the party, and vindicat
ing tho national Democracy and PendletoT
at the same time by nominating him for vice
president.
We cannot, however, admit the correct
ness Of the assumption that 1t is necessary TO
the Democratic statesmen at Washington
lust now to branch out in any new direction
to attract the attention OF the country. Slnc
Congress convened they have succeeded
quite well enough in that llne.-Nem f0rI
Sun.
Governor lIoadly had no Inauguration bal
or parade of any kind, but members OF TIT
Duckworth aud Jefferson clubs, two swal
low-tail Bourbon organizations, got into
KIN Jck-down and dras-ont quarrel IN one o
the hotels.
"rhc defeat of Pendleton,' says Mr.
Thurman, sis not SO much victory for
Payne rs it is triumph for that elcmen
which began its corruptng work at the las
Democratic S ate Convention and has beef
actively at work in the State ever since.
Henry Watterson's game is to get Nc
Donald n1minaled for President an'
himself for Vice President, 1t has taken
GOOD while to strike the trail Of the gentle
man from Kentucky, but it is now believed
that the country is not great ways behin'
George Hoadly has moved into the cIscG
tive mansion at Columbus, aud Charles Eos
fer becomes IA beautiful private citizen, AM
we hope will remain SO.
Gen. Sherman, who is now in Washington
saws lie is not inclined to give up his ''soo'
thing for iler for four years OF the Presl
dencv. and will not he candidate for tina
Office. This positive declaration will no
surprise his friends. lie has never had tn
Presidential fever.