Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-12-12
Personal AND POLITICAL.

An Arizona editor thus pays his RESPECTS
to his neighbor: 1.-The miserable scare
crow who tries to edit our diScstcemrd
contemporary is lying, as usual We
don want the postotlice, but we are in
the hands of our friends and by the c:cr-
nal they'll see that we get It, whether we
want it or not. &c
Poor Old Mr.. Beechcr had bat 500 per
sons in his congregation THANKSGIVING
day. where in previous years there have
been 5000. He lccturcd in Boston the 9TH
or day To halt II house, and third of those
present left the hall before he was half
through his lecture The sooner he re
tires from both pulpit and platform The
better for him.
Private letters from London say that
Bret lIarte Contenplates resigninc his
consulshlp AT Glasgow, having been FOR
some time anxious to come home, and
having his anxiety increased by change
in the administration.
The impression that. since the defeat of
the Democratic attempt to steal seat in
the Illinois Senate, the legislature of that
state will be tie when it comes to the
choice of United States Senator on Joint
ballot, Is not correct 1t is true that the
Republicans have one majority in the
upper branch and the Democrats one ma
JOrity in the lower, but in each case there
is counted with the regular Democrats
one Independent Democrat. OF course. if
these two Independents vote with the
Democrats there will he IA tie but if one
of them goes with the Republicans. the
latter party will be able to capture the
Senatorship. The balance of power there
fore, rests with these two men. and the
Republicans are comforting themselves
over report that one of the couple is dis
posed to vote with them.
Mark Twain and George W. Cable are
making RATS of money ON their tour
Last week their receipts rose beyond ST
coo, the bulk of which money goes to Mr..
Clemens. There has been a great deal of
curiosity expressed as TO the iinauCla. ar
rangemcnt between these gentlemen.
learn from an entirely authentic source
that the venture is wholly Mark TWan's
property. He pays Mr.. Cable $500 Il week
and all his travelling expenses on this tour.
The business l. managed by Major Pond.
who is the best of lecture manipulaturs,
ana who takes Il percentage Of the gross
receipts RECEIPT Tor MS work when the cX-
what Is left. This has been running in
the vicinity of $1,000 a week ever since The
show started.-N. Y Cor
Professors sumner and Eaton. of Yale
College, who have been prominent free
traders and Independents, have been re-
warded by the Democrats of that city. for
their political services, by being noniua-
ted for hog haywards. As such they will
be entitled to twelve cents for each stray
hog impounded.
on e
pires to be the Warwick of Mr. Clevcldnd's
administration, is described as Il short.
thick-set, smooth-faced man. with q Hi
herman face. He began life rs Il page in
the Senate. He managed to retain place
under the Government through the War,
and III 1866 was appointed by Andrew
Johnson as Internal Revenue Collector of
the Fifth Maryland District In $50 he
became state Senator, and IN 1850 was
elected United States Senator at theaLe of
tOrtN-One His whole career has been in
tlmntely associated with Baltimore poll
tics, in which plug ugles' reign supreme
1t was here that German displayed mis-
first great political hand. II was in SO,
when there was Democratic revolt which
promised 10 elect j. VI. Harris Governor
over John Lee Carroll, the regular numi-
nee. In the municipal election which pre-
coded the state election by IL few DAYS,
Baltimore gave only 2i3 Democratic ma
jorty This was taken as II fair iudica-
tion of Mr. lIarriS'S election and he al
terWard carried the State outside of Bal
timOre, by 300. But when the Baltimore
ballots were counted in the guberna;orial
contest, they showed Mr. Carroll 1000
ahead, 1t is "A noticeable feature OF this
exploit of GormHu'S that the Democrats
in that election We're credited with cast
ing 81 900 votes in the city of Baltimore,
yet AT the November election of this year,
with the Presidency at stake, they cast in
the same city only "a POO votes
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