Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-11
1.-The Eree g ress,
BURLINGTON, FRIDAY, DEC. II, 1856,

PUBLISHED BY
THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
G. G. BENEDICT, Editor.
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The late Vice President, it is said, was
very kind to reporters. This Il rare virtue
in public man.
President Cleveland disposes of callers
at the rate of two in one and one-fourth
seconds One might suppose that Mr..
Cleveland had served an apprenticeship in
a newspaper office,
Secretary Whitney evidently made his
report a labor of love. 1t is very excel
lent treatise on an important subject. But
sometimes carefully elaborated theories do
not work in practice.
The silver men are naturally very angry
over the ungloved manner in which they
are handled in the Presidents message
But they do not succeed in offsetting his
facts, or answering his arguments.
The movement to compel a reduction of
telephone rates in Worcester Mass, by a
general removal of instruments has failed
No one of trade would take out his tele-
phone unless all of the same business re
moved theirs.
1t is mentioned that the government is
selling the last of the lint left over from
the war. 1t is wonder that the vivid
imaginatiOns of some of our Democratic
contemporaries do not lead them to con
slider this another resurrection of the
bloody shirt"
Six Newark, n. j., children who were
bitten by mad dog have been sent to NJ
Pasteur at Paris, to be treated by his al
ready famous virus incubation process. A
fund has been subscribed to defray their
expenses. The experiment viii be watched
with great interest
The department estimates for govern
mental expenses during the ensuing year
are rather appalling. They amount to
grand total of $500, $50 BOP. But then we
must remember that this is a great coun-
try, and produces an extraordinarily large
number of oflicehoders.
Recent captures of mediums while in
the act of personating departed spirits are
casting fresh odium upon go .rG"sm.'
Either spirtualism itself 5 ia or 5
leading professors are frauds-and there
{ not much to choose between these 2lter-
natives.
Senator Hoar's bill providing for the
Presidential succession in the case of the
death of both the President and the Vice
President is to be taken up again early in
the present session, and will probably be
passed. The Democrats can have no pos
sible objections to it now that they are in
power.
|; remains to be seen whether Jay
Gould can retire from Wall street After
Il life spent in the daily whirl of financial
excitement, will it be possible for him to
find any rest or satisfaction in domestic
and social life; Some have tried if before
him and failed, If Mr., Gould succeeds,
it will be his greatest achievement.
Congressman Bland announces to a re
porter that he expects TO defend his dollar
il Congress, not because he Cloves it So"
but because his western constituents are
so strongly in favor of its continued com
age. \ legislator who regards men rather
than principles is likely to get left, in the
long run
Hon, Bayless w Hanna is writing some
gossipy letters from the Argentine Re
public to his "hOme journals" Diplomacy
seems to leave man plenty of leisure for
writing-that is in certain quarters of the
globe. Having little chance to win bays
as diplomatist, Nh Hanna is bound to
get some rs a writer. Baylcss does not
care to be bayleSs
Probably not one person in ten ever
reads a Presidents message. But tn ose
who read Mr. Clevelauds, with any care,
must realize the fact that our ship of State
is a big concern, and that he who stands
ut the helm and undertakes to guide its
course and to care wisely for the multi
fariOus interests concerned, has no light
task upon his hands. The position of
chief magistrate Of this republic is not an
enviablc one.
of al Engishmen who have visited
America, none has left behind him
pleasanter impression than the distin-
guished gentlemen who sails for home to-
day, Canon Farrar has proved himself to
he true friend of the United states He
came to us with Outstretched hands and
departs with words of eulogy Of America
which we trust he will never have occa-
sion TO consider Oyer-draWn.
one of the heaviest items of expense in
running steamships is that of coal The
fast Cunarders, Etruria, Umbria and Or
egOn burn between 300 and $50 tons each
daily. But there is an American steamer,
OF the Cromwell Line, having a speed
within eighteen per cent Of that Of the
fast transatlantic vessels and carrying
more freight, which makes the round
trip from New York to New Orleans and
back, ten days Of steaming, with the same