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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11
POsIOlliCc Chances.

\ list prepared at the pastollice depart
mcnt shows that since March last 524
postmasters of the presidential class,
needing confirmation by the Senate, have
been removed, out of II total number of
2295 In the thrty-siX such Offices in
Maine, there have been Scrcn changes in
Massachusetts, with ll9 such Offices, eight
changes in New Hampshire, thrty-one
offices, eight changes Rhode Island eleven
offices, no change Connecticut tifty-four
offices, twelve changes Vermont twenty
seven offices, ten changes New York
PIC offices, forty changes. 1t is interest
ing TO note the fact that vice-presdent
Hendricks may be credited with securing
the removal of nearly forty per cent forty
three out of ll9, of the Republican post
masters i'll Indiana, while Secretaries
Manning and Whitney have ordered the
removal of only about twenty per cent,
of those in New York. This proportion,
however we may be very sure will be
rapidly increased, when the State election
is over and the immediate necessity for
keeping the mugwumps good natured has
passed.
There have been changes made in
600 out of 4S,42l fourth-cass Office APP
pointments which do not need contirma-
ton by the Senate. This is IA somewhat
smaller proportion than of the Presiden-
tial offices. 1t should be remembered
however, that fully onethird of these 49,
600 offices are mere neighborhOod conve-
niences, with not enough salary to be
worth the taking A very large number
of these-nearly all of that class in the
South-are now and always have been
held by Democrats. In the fourth class
postofIces more changes have been made
in Vermont than any other State in New
England, the changes being as follows {;
In Connecticut twenty-eight Maine,
sixty Massachusetts. twenty-eight New
Hampshire, lOl Rhode Island, SIX ; Yer
mont, ll6 Total, 339. The small proper
ton in Massachusetts is explained by the
fact that her ollice-seeking machine is
paralyzed by the chickering's and factional
divisions of the politicians. On the
the whole, the record shows that taking
the country through the Cleveland official
axe has been quite AS busy rs was that of
Taylor, Polk, Lincoln or Grant Doubt
less it will be still buster, as the headsman
gets experienced in his work
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

lem revived Another is the growing
trouble on the Pacific coast about the en-
forcement of the anti-Chinese law. At
the last session Of Congress ar&mend-
ment to the revised statutes was passed,
allowing an appeal in habeas corpus cases
from any circuit court of the United
States to the Supreme Court. The bear
ing of this amendment upon the Chinese
question does not seem to have occurred
to it's trainers, but it appears likely to work
IA complete revolution in the matter
of restraining Chinese immigration.
The following is case in point
Two coolies who recently arrived at San
Francisco were arrested on the ground
that they had no right to be in the coun-
try They obtained writs of haheas cor
pus, and were taken before Judge IIon-
man of the United States District Court
He ordered them sent back to China, he.
cause their evidence of II prior residence
i'll CHS country was unsatisfactory. They
took an appeal to the United States Cir
cult Court, which affirmed the decision OF
the District Court. They then gave no
tice of an appeal to the United States Su
preme Court, under the new provision re
S'i"i''- ''O" "PPe"lS, anu inc JUICY
granted them the right to take the cas-,
before that tribunal, on the ground tha
the act made the right of appeal absolute
and left him no discretion to deny it il
any case In the ordinary course of lcga
events it would he two or three years be
fore the supreme Court would reach de
cisiOn, and meanwhile the Cinnamon viii
be allowed to remain in this country OF
bail.
Plainly, unless Congress speedil,
changes the law or, the statute agains
Chinese immigration, it is liable to be praC
tically nuililied in many cases. lFron
present indications, the Chinese problem
is anything but settled.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Prof. Huxley is going to Italy to live,
Archdeacon Farrar is on his voyage to
Quebec.
Victor Hugo's property is found to be
worth Sl.OOO,OOO.
The Boston committee ON the Grant
eulogy has been obliged to change the
date from the 29th to the 22d of October.
Mrs. Patterson, daughter of Editor
Medil of the Chicago TribUC, is a guest
OF The Blaine mansion in augusta
Abram ;. Hewitt of New York is at
work upon tariff bill again He has
made many failures, but hopes to succeed
this time
General William 7. sherman, who ar
rived at It. Louis, Saturday, declined to
accept the presidency of the local Grant
Monument association, to which he had
been elected during his absence.
Frank Happensberger, the designer of
the Garfield monument in san Francisco,
has been presented by admirers in that
city with gold medal bearing in bias re-
llef upon Its face portrait OF Garfield
The Lowell citizen says that the falling
of of 6!'2 in the number of polls in Lowell
undoubtedly means that the city Is Re
publican by II large majority.
y congregation measured only by the
capacity of Plymouth church, Brooklyn,
filled that editice Sunday evening yo listen
to Rev. DR.. j. p. Newman's address to
young men on the Moral characteristics
of General Grant.
Archibald Forbes, the English war cor
respondent, is engaged to u daughter of
Quartermaster General Meigs. He was
with her at her home ut Mount Desert
this summer 1t is said the wedding will
take place this fall.
Regarding the relations between Sena-
tor Eusts of Louisiana and Mr. Cleveland,
Major f. a. Burke of New Orleans, who
is now in st. Paul, says that they are
sull somewhat strained and that the Sen
ator is not making amy recommendations
to the administration rs To political APP
pointmentS.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

The Chinese problem bids fair to be re
vived, with more than its former serious
ness and complication, by events which
have recently occurred in the West. The
old trouble between white and Chinese
laborers has had terrible renewal in the
massacre of Chinese miners which lately
occurred in Wyoming territory. The
stories of this brutal outrage have been
published all over the country, and have
naturally excited universal Indignation
and horror Yet the outbreak ON the part
of the white miners who committed the
massacre, was only such a development
us might have been forcseen, and which
is likely to occur again and again, so
long as the present relations between
white and Chinese laborerS on the Pacific
coast subsist Cheap Chinese labor is
something which the wild Western work
ingmen of other races, Will not tolerate,
The spectacle of thousands of industrious
and unnaturally frugal Chinese laborers
swarming in the mines, and along the
railroads, and monopolizing labor by I'M
derbidding their eau casian rivals in the
field of toll, is one, which the labOrers of
the stronger and less lawful classes will
lol tlluuIc. L ne w SbllliS bHlldllltli
upon whom the recent outrage was com
mitted, were employed in mining coal for
the Union Pacific Railroad company. The
miners who assaulted them, look
ed upon the inoffensiye Mongolians as
nterlopers and dangerous rivals. In a
certain sense, the Chinese laborer is an in
terloper. He comes to our shores under II
ban. 1t is considered by many of our best
Legislators that any large increase of
the Chinese population of the country
would be detrimental to its best welfare.
While this new Wyoming massacre can
not be held to be excusable in any sense
whatever it is at least easily accountable
for 1t was not altogether the spontane-
Gus outburst of race prejudice or passion,
but an eXhibition-brutal and criminal,
to be sure-of the prevailing senti-
ment among white laborers in the West
toward the Acknowledged Asiatic.
This is one phase of the Chinese prob
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

The head of the Goddess of Liberty has
been dropped from the new postal card.
Its designer apparently considered it dis
grace enough for one young lady to have
to be identified with the eighty five. cent
silver dollar.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

Should Spain and Germany come to
blows. France would undoubtedly take Il
hand in the contest. There is nothing
she would like better than to get II good
fair whack at Germany without being re
sponsible for the occasion.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

One of the consequences of the penny
wise course pursued by the postotlce de-
partment towards the steamship cOmpa-
MES is that goods shipped from Cuba
sometimes reach New York before the in
voices sent by mail. Recently the Havana
mail sent by way of Key West, reached
New York four days later than the goods,
which went by steamer. No invoices ac-
cOmpanying them, the goods had to be
stored to await Uncle Sans convenience
in forwarding the letters and drafts.
The New York merchants who suffered
from the inconvenience and expense in
volved at this delay do not perceive where
the business-lke element comes in.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

New York city, in Il locality occupied by
the poorer class of Hebrews. The city,
however, has been placed in an excellent
sanitary condition, in expectation of
cholera, and but little fear is felt that the
epidemic will spread.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

Rejoicing over the terrorizing effects of
the small poX at Montreal upon embez-
Zlers, proves to have been premature. A
Chicago man, connected with the large
commission house of Dawson a. Shook,
has skipped" thither with all the availa-
BILE cash Of the frm-about six hundred
thousand dollars. He thus runs some
risk of suffering the seventies of the law,
to the extent of being vaccinated.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

The cattle ranchmen have at last moved
away from the Indian territory, bag and
baggage. This is the first genuine triumph
of the Democratic administration, on
American soil.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

Prominent New York merchants, who
have been interviewed as to the outlook
for the fall trade, say that all the indica-
tons point to a steady and continuous re-
vival of business. New York city is I'M
doubtedly the best place for feeling the
national pulse-for business perhaps, and
it is safe to assume that when the current
of trade shows quickening there, it de-
notes a livelier condition of business af-
fairs all over the country
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

President Cleveland's absence does not
seem to have discouraged the Postmaster
generals first assistant. Seventy-fiVe
fourth class postmasters were appointed
in one day, last week.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

One of the strongest charges brought
against Collector Wells, upon which his
removal as an offensive partisan was Sc
cured, has been understood To he that one
of his deputies was Il candidate for sheriff
in Franklin county last year. That Gen.
Wells should have condoned such crime
as that, by emitting to discharge the Of
Tending deputy, was held to be an offence
properly punishable by removal. But
now Collector Smalley reappoints Deputy
Kelley and it is all right, Verify what is
sauce for the goose is not sauce for the
gandcr, nowadays. Consistency is any
thing but IL jewel in Democratic eyes. 1t
is no otfense for Collector Smalley to APP
point man, who was so offensive par
tisan that omission to remove him, was
an otfense. And we suppose there will be
people who will think 1t quite out of the
way, if the United States Senate fails to
be impressed by the force of charges, from
which the Democrats have themselves
knocked all the stuiling
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11
mhs E.ree q tess.
BURLINGTON, FRIDAY, SEPT.ll, 1850
pUBLISlIED-BY
THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
G. G. BENEDICT, Editor.
Terms--&2. 90 "A year, always in advance.

Osman Digna is now again reported
killed 1t will he safe to take at least two
months in the preparation of his obituary
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

The committee in charge of the yacht
race decided that the Puritan was wholly
in fault for the collision and offered the
race to the owner of the Genesta, If he
chose to sail over the course. This he de
clined, saying he wanted il race and not a
walkover The owners of the Puritan
have offered to pay all the repairs to the
English yacht, and the arrangement now
is that the first race be sailed on Friday,
the second on Monday and the third on
Wednesday next.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

The remarkable prevalence of tornadoes
throughout the country, the present sea
son, has aroused the signal service depart
ment to the necessity of some practicable
method of forewarning the inhabitants OF
localities in the probable path of these
violent storms, of their approach. Itli.
suggested that Congress should place al
the disposal of the bureau a fund sufficient
for establishing system of tornado sig
nails, to be displayed at a certain hour in
the morning in those districts liable to be
visited by a tornado in the course of the
day, If there is any probability that
such system can work successfully il
certainly ought to be tried
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

There is not Il little excitement anon
the insurance men in New IIamp-h hire
over Il law passed by the last Legislature,
This provides that the State lueurauc,
Commissioner shall provide Il STANDARD
form OF policy and contract, to which all
companies must conform before licenses
shall be granted, and that in any suit
brought to recover for loss sustained by
fire or other casualty the measure of dam
ages shall be the amount expressed in the
contract as the sum insured. The inSur-
ance companies declare that as the value
of property is constantly changing, cases
continually occur in which it would be
njusl to them to exact the full sum men
toned in the policy that the law is an i'll
centve to incendiarsm and that they can
not do business in New Hampshire under
it.
The leading companies of New York
and Hartford have already notified their
agents in New Hampshire to cease doing
business, and it is thought that the 800 in
surance agents in the State will all close
their offices. Parties desiring Insurance
are asking where and how they are to get
it, under this condition of affairs, and all
in all there is lively row over the matter
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

The lad who recently shot himself after
reading the sensational story, Dying on
the Point of Honor, was evidently craZed
by the sentimental nonsense which he had
imbibed. People who write such UNI
natural and exciting stuff have II great re-
sponsibility to account for. a goodly
number of the suicides which occur in
this country, as well as other crimes, are
caused undoubtedly by the false ideas and
unnatural emotions aroused by reading
flash literature.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

The notorious insurgent leader, Prestan,
who burned Aspinwall and was subse-
quently captured by the Colombian gov
eminent, suffered the penalty of his crime
on the nth ult. He was hung at Aspn-
wall, by sentence of cOurt-martial, in
the presence of an immense crowd of peo
pie of all natiOnalities. In a speech from
the gallows he protested his innocence
but accounts of the affair say that nobody
believed him and that there was but one
voice of approval, when he was swung
off
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

John Kelley and Mr.. Tilden decline to
be retired. They have both had finger
in the political pie lately, and Will prob
ably be heard from again. Mr.. Kelley
has written letter to the Tammany Hall
chiefs, telling them who should be nomi-
mated for sheriff of New York The old
chieftan, whose health has improved
amid the pious influences OF Clifton
Springs, still feels capable of directing the
counsels of the sachems.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

The suggestion is made 10y Il druggist,
who desires to have some general method
adopted by pharmacists against fatal
laundering in the preparation of medical
prescriptions, that in view of the fact that
several of the poisonous as well is innocu-
Gus drugs have the appearance ola white
powder, and may easily be mistaken one
for the other, Il law might be passed max
ing it compulsory to have drugs which
are not readily recognized, colored in some
way so rs to instantly attract attention.
This might be done without in any way
impairing the usefulness Of the drug for
Us legitimate purposes, while it would
furnish valuable safeguard, both to the
compounder and the possible purchaser.
This may be very well but nothing will
take the place of experience and extreme
care on the part of the druggist.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

While it is, as we think, easily demon
Strable that Il well drawn prohibitory law
is the fuirest, most efficient and most east
ly administered method of restricting the
sale of intoXicants in communities like
Maine and Vermont, and various coun-
ties in the Southern States, where there
is strong and prevailing temperance senti-
ment to back it. 1t by no means follows
that it is the best for all communities.
The law, like all laws. is dependent on the
public sentiment and purpose back of it,
for effective administration. When it has
no such backing, and becomes an abso-
lutte dead letter, "prohibition ceases to be
restriction and becomes free rum.
\ recent issue of the New York Voice,
the official organ of the National prohibit
ton party, gives some facts bearing upon
the working OF the new prohibitory law
in Iowa, which enforce this familiar
truth. The Voice sent letters to prumi-
uent business men in Iowa, asking their
opinion of the law and its working in that
State. The majority of replies received
recognize the necessity for stringent re
strictve legislation, but express regret at
the uetliciency of the law in its practical
working The Indifference and careless
ness of the local authorities i'm enforcing
the prohibitory law is generally given rs
the principal cause FORTS inctliciency. The
sale of liquor is still openly carried on in
many cities and towns in Iowa, and the
extraordinary statement is made that the
number of saloons has actually increased,
and that by II large percentage, since the
prohibitory law went into effect. what
do these facts signify ~ asks the voice
They signify what we have iterated, and
reiterated week after week, and what
every one of our readers ought to have so
by heart by this time that he can say IT IN
his sleep Prohibition, without Prohibi
ton party behind ii, is III perpetual dan
ger of becoming monumental farce.
Look at these cities One-half of them
with mayors who knolr, and say they
know, that the law is openly, systemati-
cally, and continually violated And the
MAYORS of the others knOW and say they
know, that the law is violated every day
by clandestine sales. These mayors are
the men that are sworn to execute that
and all other laws. But they are, one
and ALL out of sympathy with this
prohibitory law" Lack of SYM
pathy then is the key to the whole
matter. The prohibitory law cannot be
made IL success, in any State, unless the
majority of the law-abding people ac-
lively, earnestly and honestly desire and
sustain its enforcement. No handful of
men here and there however earnest, can
accomplish this greatest and most difficult
of all social reforms The people must
Marm into sympathy with the work and
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

EX Gov. ID. II. Chamberlain, the last of
the "carpet-bag" governors of South
Carolina, over whose alleged iniquites in
that position the Democratic press of ten
years ago used to go wild, has been inter
viewed by the Boston .AdrcItiScr on the
political situation. lie is as he has been for
some years, thoroughly down on the
Republican party and designutcs the Re
publican leaders as Bourbons. He consd-
ers President Cleveland, 1.-THE bravcat man
who has sat i'll the chair since Lincoln, -
and he thinks the Democratic party, as
represented by mis- administration, stands
better on most public questions than the
Republican party. Asked what he calls
himself, he answers "Never mind
names. Mugwump is good enough, indie
pendent is perhaps better but / confess
| thought the -ldrCrtiSer had neat and
descriptive word, the other day, for us,
'non-Democrats,' only would add non
Republicans, too" Why wouldn't yet
another word COMPREHENSIVE cover the
"nondescripts"?
One of the stock assertions of the Demo-
cratic organs is that when Lincoln came
IN IN 1861, Il clean sweep was made of all
the offices, great and small If he had
done so there would have been some rea-
son for it, in the fact that so many of the
Offices were held by secessionists and
copperheads. But the facts are that many
Democrats remained in Office A case in
point, is the vacancy in the postohice at
Ashland, Mass, caused by the death of
postmaster Jones. Mr., Jones was ap-
pointed in 1851, and was found in Office
when the Lincoln administration came
in. He remained there through every
succeeding Republican administration
until he died. And there are hundreds
of other cases like unto it, President
Hayes appointed many Democrats, es-
pecially in the Southern States. And if
the assertion quoted above We're true, it
is also true that Mr.. ClevelaId's admins
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

The Washington correspondents have
laid out the Presidents plan of work for
him, with more or less of unanimity-an
act of courtesy which Mr.. Cleveland I'M
doubtedly, appreciates, as it will save him
a good deal of trouble in arranging the
accumulated mass of Official business 1t
is asserted, for one thing, ION apparently
excellent authority" that the President
Will make no recommendation for the
amendment of the civil service law. And
for another thing, the Presidents position
on the silver question is said to be tavora-
bic to the policy of compromise, though it
is added that the details will he left main
ly to Secretary Manning. The latter as
sertion is doubtless quite true. Mr.. Man
ming has powerful say on IL good many
things, with President Cleveland.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11

tration has made more changes thus far
than Mr.. Lincoln did in the same period
of time.
The case of Editor Stead of the London
"the bitter bitten.' Mr. Stead, having eX-
posed the vices of the London nobility, is
now himself accused of the very crimes
against which he has inveighed, and the
case is soon to be brought to trial. OF
course. Mr.. Stead's friends believe that
the charges are all "trumpcd up" but it
is only fair that they should be thorough
ly investigated. 1t is possible that Mr.
Stead may he guilty. There is good deal
of truth in the saying that at takes Il
thief to catch thief