Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-02-08
Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES.


vises her to marry and then she can lecture
all the time.
1t is the complaint o. the great and wick
ed Iugersoll that we are living in the tamest
portion of our national history. Small men
are at the head and helm, and mcdoority is
at premium. But blessed is the nation, SO
runs the proverb, that has NJ annals.
The Nebraska City Ne@ wants to know
why it shouldn't be Flower and Villas
1t is believed that Louisville will with
draw from the contest for the Nationn
Democratic convention. A grand inter-
state dog-6ght has been booked for that town
IN June, and that Is ne good thing a. Louis.
vile wants. y. Graphic.
A canvass Of tine Texas legislature shows
that Mr.. Thurman is the first choice of the
Democrats of that body for President.
A new Congressman describes Huntington
as big, half-faced man, who looks as though
he might be drover or farmer. To some
of the old members he looks like an angel.
Governor Holdly of Ohio appointed ex-
Governor Foster trustee of an insane asylum,
but the legislature rejected the nomination
The Ohio Democrats do net mean to let any
of the spoils go out Of the party.
Mre. Quincy Shaw of Boston, says the
Chicago Tribune, spends $4,000 annually
| out of her private income in support of 30
kindergaItens an 20 nurseries which she has
| established in those part of the city where
the toughest and most squaid features reign.
In addition to this she spends 5000, 900 a
year in other charities.
| Police Superintendent Wallng Of New
York is sure that the world ih better than il
used TO be. lie says 81 am satisfied that
there is less crime to-day than there has
ever been before since the war. 1t is certain
that the number IF arrests each week is
smaller than formerly. There is not much
difference however in the amount of drunk
| enncss.
| The school superin'cndents will meet r
Washington, February 10, 10, and A. undel
the auspices Of the bureau Of education
Among those wLo will speak are Genera
Armstrong Of Hampton, B. G. Northrup o.
| Connecticut DR.. W. f. Harris, State Super
|
| b. Joy tffrics Captain Pratt Of the Indian
training school at Carlisle, Dr.. j. L. Curry
of the Peabody fund, Superintendent A. p
Marble Of Worcester
a rcfson hitherto known rs Elizabetl
Rebecca Payne pear Winchester, Va, anC
well known in society az a woman has a
the age OF 40 years obtained a certlicat,
| FRI a. ~ h. /
SIX and applied for n license to marry
young girl in the neighb1rhood.
The Connecticut Prohbitionists have de
CT led to hold State convention 10 Hurtfor,
in March to eject delegates to the Nutions
convention in Pl,tsburg, Penn.
The Providence Journnl says that Sena
to: Anthony has steadily gained il healtl
since he went t, Washington, and that. witt
the exception OF a certain degree Of weak
| 4 lss, consequent upon recent severe illness
h. is nearly in his normal condition o
health
Seven members of the House who wer
elected to the Forty-eighlh Congress hav
died since their election. They are Herndon
Alabama: Cults, Iowa. Haskell, Kansas
Heron, Louisiana Pool, North Carolina
Updegraff Ohio, and Mackey Of South Car
DINA. Mr.. Mackcy was the OUly one of tn
seven who lived long enough to occupy hi
| seat
An olfice-seeker at Washington name
Green Durbiu finally stole an overcoat fror
the Capitol. He received an appointment
| the next morning which will last him 70
some time.
Several Southern papers have assured MI
Watterson that there is no boom for Josep
E. Mcdonald in that section. "The peopl
down yer are foh de nominee OF &c conven
ton, sab
The Albany Ecening journal calls the a
tention of the civil service commissioners t
the fact that on the same floor Of the capitC
on which their own office is situated tn
doors opening into two committee room
bear the msspelled signs, Miscellaneous
and Grievances"
Although eighteen presidential postmas
tiers have resigned since January let, not on
of them was stationed in Ohio. When Obi
office-holders begin rosigning President Al
thur will be seen making garden with a pal
of overalls on.
John Kelly predicts that the Democrat
nominee for President will come from Ney
York, and in his newspaper, the Star, says
THE selection of nominee from New Yorl
will be the very best means of uniting an
encouraging the party in this State
ha /, 10
have been delivered by Mr.. Matthew Arnold
during his stay in America, will be published
directly upon his return home aud hea
that in the autumn we may look for n volum
in which will be recorded his impressions
of the United States aud their Inhabitants.
OF course.
A farmer from Pocahontas county, Yves
Virginia, appeared in Staunton the other da.
searching for an auction block and an auC
tioneer. He was dumbfounded when toll
that there were no slave auctions in Virginia
He returned to his mountain home unable t
sell the two slaves that he desired to sell
He had cultivated his farm all these years il
ignorance of the emancipation proclama
ton.
j. S. Moore, who is Democrat of lonl
standing, gives up the Democracy as tn,
party of tarlf reform. He shows that wheI
the Democrats have been in power-in 1875
80 and in 1S76-thcy have failed to reduce
taxation, rejecting all measures from thei
own statesmen to that end, save the bill for The
reduction of the tax on quninc wherea!
| he Republicans cut down the war take!
$50, 900, 0O0 in 1868 Gin the repeal of the in
| come tax and the tax on gross TtceiDtS), dnC
last year cut Off some SAC. 0J0, 900,