Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-15

IOr1ner.
Hon. S. S. Cox finished his book,
"Three Decades of Legislation" the other
day, and has since been giving his versa
tile mind to the question whether he
should go to Turkey or not. He will 60
All is not quiet on the Potomac. De-
spatches from Washington say that the
condition of the public revenues is decid-
eddy unsatisfactory. There is large de-
crease In receipts and a corresponding in
crease in expenditures.
The Illinois Democrats are busily en-
gagged trying to find some evidence which
will prove that Mr. Viewers election to
the legislature, last week, was fraudulent
ly obtained. They are looking for needle
in q haystack-except that in this case,
there is no needle there.
The conservatives, as was announced,
marshalled all their forces in the English
House of Commons, on Monday, to sup
port the motion of censure against Mr.,
Gladstone. The motion was lost, how
ever, by vote of 300 to goa perilously
narrow escape for the great statesman.
The virtuosi seem to be figuring in a
very bad light in the courts, of late. TIL e
case of Mrs. Weldon, the famous litigant
vs. M. Gounod, the world-renowned com
poser, has been decided in favor of the
plaintiff. M. Gounod is to pay Mrs. Wei
don sixty thousand dollars.
The Plymouth, Pa, plague has been
traced to the water supply of the village,
which has been found to be contaminat-
ed by the excreta of a person sick with
typhus fever. Thus more than one thous-
and persons have been poisoned by the
criminal carelessneSs of those in charge of
tine typhus patient, and eighty-iive have
died.
The question whether prohibition in
Maine has or has not been success, is
agitating the press of the country at the
present time. We think that anyone who
will candidly look at the results of the
policy in that State, cannot long hesitate
for correct answer Prohibition has
done more for Maine than almost any
thing else ON her statute books
Democratic journals are storming with
indignation at the party negligence which
suffered the Republicans to make such a
successful still hunt in the Thirty fourth
district in Illinois. The result is said to
been due to over-confidence on the Demo
cratic managers, and to the quietness and
effectiveness of the work done by the Re
publicans.
The advocates of reduction in postage
seems to be rushing matters. 1t is report
ed that q proposition will be introduced
into Congress next winter to establish
penny letter postage. The success of
every reduction so far has been so satisfac-
tory, that it is believed penny postage Can
be adopted now without any loss of rev
enue to the department.
Let the good work of the "dress reform
ers" go on They have now petitionet
the publishers of fashion plates to max,
thei figures conform to the moral stand
ard and the conditions of health" Thai
is good We have had enough of tn,
spider WASTED and bustle-deformed crea
lures in the ladies' magazines. Give IL
something classic and physiological, o y
powers that set the fashions
Convictions of leading Mormons con
tinue to take place. The law spares
neither great nor small. And hundred
of Mormons are fleeing from Utah, to re
moter places where the laws against poly
gamy are not enforced. But justice an,
the law will follow them wherever the
go. The doctrine and the practice of poly
gamy are both doomed, so far as this ma
ton Is concerned.
1t Is to the credit of some of our leading
Vermont Democrats that they seem t
give hearty approval to the appointment
of Mr.. Lothrop of Detroit, to the Russian
mission. 1t is certainly one of the yer
best appointments made by Mr.. Clevt
land. Mr.. Lothrop is not one of the Dem
ocratic workers" or wheel horses but
like Mr., Phelps, he is man of high cult
walton and character, with the improve
ment that he was war Democrat, durin
the civil war
Captain Paul Boyton's little Joke, in al
taching a torpedo to the British man-of wa
Garnet, last Tuesday night, was, at tn
same time, very foolish and very seriou
thing to do. Some of the English journal
are inclined to look at it as decide
breach of national courtesy, and with jus
tice. The nation can i'll afford to b
placed In an unpleasant light with Eng
land, or any other country, for the SAX
of a private individuals amusement.