Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-17
Personal AND POLITICAL.

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hundred newsboys on the Fourth
A leading Democrat from Texas declares
that there is not a party man in that State
that believes i'll civil service reform.
1t is reported at Chicago that DR., Galu
sha a. Anderson of the Chicago Baptist
University has been apo nted president
OF Nassarcolltge.
Governor Harrison of Connection. will
spend the summer at Block Island The
governors of Rhode Island and Vermont,
and their immediate predecessors in Office,
will also be there.
The Quaker poet, John G. Whittier, is
recovering from his recent illness and will
spend the rest of the summer in the wild
erness at Holderness, n IL.
General Grant and family have been
feastng for several days on fine twenty.
pound salmon sent tothe General by b. =.
kidder e. Co., of Bangor, Me.
A dlsgruntled Texas Democrat expresses
his dissatisfaction with the Cleveland
administration by saying Why, have
killed niggers when it was necessary yet
l could not get the smallest office to-day"
Whitelaw Reid, editor OF the New York
| Tribune, has offered to give $50, 900 for the
founding of a college at Cedarville, Ohio,
near which place he was born, if the citi-
zens Will increase the amount to $500, 900
Senator Sherman pronounces the pros.
poets for Republican success in Ohio this
year exceptionally good, and he is sang
uine also with reference to notonal
| politics that last years detection in the
Republican party will not be permanent.
Time fails to heal the dissensons in the
Democratic party of Tennessee and makes
more prominent the differences which ex-
| lists within It's ranks Protective princi-
pies have taken too strong a hold upon
the organization to be shaken off.
1t was natural that the Democratic
press should pitch into and abuse eX-
Governor Noyes, of Ohio, because of his
appointment by the President as one of
the Union Pacific railroad commissioners.
He lost leg on the ant-Democratic side
in the late unpleasantness.-N y. Tclc-
gram.
Minister Phelps is giving the strictest
attention to his grave official duties, and
seems to be duly impressed with the sol
emn responsibilities of his position. He
was at uulld HAL yesterday to see the
freedom OF the city of London conferred
on Prince Albert Victor of Wales. 1t is a
source of pride to the American people
That their country was 50 ably represented
on so important an occasion. lVuShinqtOu
Republican.
The Democrats do not find the third
party prohibitory movement nearly so
amusing when 1t invades Il solid Demo
cratic State. The State prohibition con-
ventiOn at jackson, Miss, was attended
by 800 delegates, representing fifty two out
OF SeNenty-fOur counties. The chairman
concluded his address by saying that the
party which would altogether ignore pro-
hlbltion in Mississippi might as we'll 90
into liquidation.
George Moberly, bishop of Salisbury, is
dead. He was born in st. Petersburg,
Russia, and was graduate Of Oxford
University. lie was on several occasions
after taking orders in the church, one of
the select preachers at Oxford. He was
appointed bishop OF Salisbury in 1869. DR..
MoOerly was the author of II number of
published works, and was one of the five
clergymen who published revised versions
of several books of the New Testament
The Chapel Royal, Savoy, was densely
crowded on Sunday to hear Dr. Phillips
Brooks preach his last sermon In London
during his present visit to England. The
multitude was so great that DR.. Brooks
might have initiated the practice of a for
mer chaplain of the Savoy-the renowned
Thomas Fuller-and re-delivered his ser
mon in the garden which surrounds the
chapel, to the disappointed audience out
side.-LOndOn truth.
General Rosecrans was presented at
Washington, Wednesday afternoon, by a
half-dozen Texas eX soldiers, with "A pistol
captured IN rand on Rosecrans' baggage
tram in the summer of 1861 On the hilt
OF the pistol there is an inscription des-
crlptive Of the battles in which General
ROSeCranS was Victorious among others
Rich Mountain, CarnifaX Ferry, Iuka,
Corinth, Murlreesboro, etc.
Gen. Grant reads or has read to him all
the New York papers. The news from
Mt, MacGregOr is the first that he turns TO,
frequently with pleasant remark that he
desires to learn how be passed the night.
and in what condition he ought to find
himself on getting up" He is very sen
SltlVe 10 the reports of the correspond
entS. Hopeful comment cheers him, and
a gloomy story from tn cottage depresses
him. Nevertheless, he has the newspa-
pers as regularly rs his medicine.
The Democratic statesmen of Chicago,
1t seems, are not wholly hopeless that they
may, after all, keep their brother states
man, Joseph G.. Maxim, ont of the peni-
Tertiary, They ask for new trial ON the
ground that one of the jury was of I'M
sound mind, and on the allegation that
previous to the trial. These are slender
grounds on which to work. but the Dem
Ocrats are desperate over the prospect of
losing from their ranks so fine" work
rs NJ tcHln .-BOSton Transcript.
The malignant pursuit of eX-President
Hayes in his retirement, in which Ger
tam class of papers delight to indulge, has
had It's latest exhibition in the report that
he was the owner of building at Omaha,
NeD', used as liquor saloon from which
ne derived an uncOmmnOGly high rental.
ne editor of IA Brooklyn magazine has
taken the pains to ferret out the truth in
me matter. The slight foundation for
inns attack upon Mr.. Hayes appears to
hinge on the following facts Twenty
years ago in company with Gen. X, u.
BucKland, tOwnsman and neighbor, the
eX-President bought by way of investment
several lots in the growing western city
lhese nave been leased at times by IA local
real estate agent to parties who have
pullt upon them for various business pur-
poses, the leSSees owning the buildinps