Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-16
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


sure to be attained.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Gov. Hoadly and Judge Foraker do not
seem to have been much troubled by the
southern question in their joint debate
Springfield Republican.
Surgeon General Murray has notified his
clerks that they must pay their debts,
as he cannot be annoyed by their creditors
The report that Miss Cleveland is writ
ing a novel is emphaticaly denied by the
lady herself. She is not engaged in liter
AIRY work of any kind at present.
1t is said that the historian Bancroft is
one of the two Americans now living who
ever met Goethe. The other is George ii.
Calvert, the scholar and poet, who is
eighty-three years old.
The cordially with which Senator Ed
munds was received at the Vermont legis-
lative reunion augurs the erection of the
stone at the grave of that and Edmunds
boom. -BoStOn Transcript.
The clause in one of the Massachusetts
Republican resolutions urging Congress
to appropriate money for educational pur-
poses i'll the Southern States Is construed
as IA "slur ON Tennessee" by the Demo
cratic Nashville american.
"Skae works" is the way Jones of Bing-
hamton spelled it in big letters on his fac
tory for years.
Davenport, Iowa. was named in honor
Of one of the family of Ira Davenport,
Republican candidate for governor of
New York.
The new president of Bowdoin college,
the Rev. w. De w. Hyde, writes a cores
pendent of the kennebec Journal, is be-
coming very popular with all the students,
and those reciting to him are especially
enthusiastic in his praise.
Nyron w. Whitney, the basso, an
nounces that he will return to operate sing
ing after the conclusion of his engagement
with Theodore Thomas 1t has been
stated that he intended to devote himself
exclusively to oratorio singing henceforth.
Franklin Simmonss model of statue OF
Longfellow, accepted for the Portland
monument, represents the poet sitting in q
cha'~ holding Il roll of Ms. in the left
hand.
Among the audience at one of Missions
recent concerts in Sweden was one of the
great singers brothers, an honest peasant
| who never had left his native place anC
never before had heard his sister sing.
1t is rumored that Sir John Macdonald
| Canadian prime minister, will soon leave
for England to confer with the impera
authorities i'll regard to the reciprocity
eXtradition and fisheries treaties. Tn,
right of Canada to regulate her own com
mercial treaties will also probably de dis
| CuSSed
h,, > . , Col
lowing letter to Col. Lamont in answer t.
the inquiry of correspondent: 9TH,
President is Democrat and it is strang,
that any person should question his posi-
ton. He earnestly desires the success o
his party in the pending elections, III New
York as well as elsewhere, and any aSsel
ton to the contrary is utterly and mali
clously false"
ARENAS Martin, the newly appointed
head of the computing bureau of tn
coast survey, has received honorary de
grees from several leading educational in
situations III this country and England il
recognition of his achievements IN mathe
MATES, and is well versed in other depart
ments of science and general literature
He also edits and Misunderstanding tn
type with his own hands-a valuabl
mathematical periodical.
Canon Farrar, in the criticism of tn
Philadelphians, clocks like a man who il
his young days at King Williams colleg
swung a cricket bat and kicked Il football
in as mastery style as he now thinks AM
talks. He is six feet high, broad should
cred and deep-chested. His face is broad
the forehead high, and the hair, brushe,
well back, slightly gray
Ex-Governor Chamberlain of Soutl
Carolina we'll known in Burlington, AN
wi hp ~ "A
advocated equal rights in South Carolin
on platforms surrounded by red-shirteC
mounted, armed hostilities," issues a fer
challenge to Senator Hoar IN colum
letter to the HdreniSer to discuss tn
matter of the South with him on an
, stump lie may choose.
Funny, isn't it but the New Yor
J sun and other organs which have oppose
President Cleveland most vigorously, an
denounced him the most unsparinglv, Gr
now trying to gain votes for Hill by claim
ing that he is carrying out the reforms il
/, itiated by President Cleveland when GOV
ernor.-BOStOn TrdrcllCr.
The New York park commissioners hav
decided upon plan for that part of Rive
. side park in which is located the tomb c
: General Grant The plan was arrange
by Calvert NauX, the well known lanC
scape architect, and Samuel Parsons, Ir
| the superintendent of parks, 1t is said
be i'll every way appropriate to the pul
} pose.
Senator Hoar's speech is the whole go,
pei of the political truth of to-day, and
should be read by every candid man i
the Union, and especially by every homes
, man who thinks the overturn in the na
tional government last year was not
mistake by every sincere friend of civ
> service reform by every one who b,
lieves in fair elections and the rule of tn
. majority, and by all who wish to see tn
United States hold their place in the var
guard of civilized nations. MdnchcStt
Mirror.
The Richmond correspondent of tn
= New York Erening Post says 9Th
Democrats have all of the election mt
chinery and returning boards in the Stat,
This is certainly worth great deal Witt
/ ont committing any violation of the Law
) all familiar with politics and the name
2 of conducting elections know that hun
dreds of votes can be rejected by tn
/ judges of elections when it suits them t
/ do So Not only that, but the local board
> upon whom devolVe the duty of canvas,
) ing the returns may reject any district c
precinct upon the slightest informality o