Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-07

The records, it is said, show that Mr.
Cleveland has made more important party
appointments, in the four months and a
half that he has been in office, than any
other President has done in the same time,
since Mr.. Lincoln
1t is rumored that the home government
will recommend that the sentence of exc
cution pronounced upon Riel be commut-
ed to imprisonment for life. 1t is feared
that if Riel were hanged it would cause
serious trouble with the French speaking
population of Canada.
Royalty, it seems, is subject to the same
little blunders and misunderstanding as
the rest of us. Queen Victoria, misunder-
standing the date of the funeral of Sir
Moses Montefore, sent no one to be her
representative on tins occasion.
The London Sdt,uddU RcricW makes
waspish attack on the Dean for per
hitting the commemoration services over
Gen. Grant to be held in Westminster Alb
hey, thereby "conceding him. the one
mark of honor an Englishman holds the
highest attanable, and that is peculiarly
English"
1t has wisely been decided to abandon
the plan, originally proposed for General
Grants funeral, of having the entire pro-
cession march over the seven-mile route
to Riverside park. Only a portion of the
column will march the entire distance.
Had the original plan been adhered to,
great fatigue and many casualties from
the heat, would probably result.
1t is said that the treasury officials have
distinct information that there are private
minis in various parts of the country
where standard silver dollars are being
coined in large quantities. If this is II
fact, it is IA serious matter, and the utmost
effort should be made to discover and con-
vict the guilty parties. The country can
not stand compulsory and counterfeit
coinage both at the same time.
The sum of 1925, 600 paid to an injured
husband, has wiped out the Sir Charles
Dixie scandal, according to London re
ports, and London society has signified its
willingness to receive the titled adulterer
again. But it will take more than 1926, 600
to sweeten the social circles contaminated
by the recognition of the noble rakes,
whose crimes and indecencies are taking
so much of the public attention, on both
sides of the water.
The American association for the adj
vancement of science, will hold its 34th
meeting at Ann Arbor, Mich, opening
September 20 and continuing for two
weeks. Papers of unusual value will be
read on mathematics, astronomy, physics,
chemistry mechanical science, geology
and geography, biology, economic science
and statistics, microscopy and anthrop-
ology, and the philosophers and scientists
will have good social time together.
| The verdict of the committee which in
vestigated the disclosures of the Pau
! Mall Gazette could have been surprise
to no one. The charges, from their effect
upon the guilty parties have been seen to
he true from the beginning. One English
nobleman has gone down under the terri
BILE shame of the exposure and public in
dignation does not spare even princes
and garters." 1t is a sad reform which
righteous England is conducting, but all
the more, for that reason, IA necessary one
1t was "A 'foregone conclusion" that the
rebel Riel would be convicted of high
treason. The defence was practically
broken down by the indiscretion of Riel
himself, who if there had been any doubt
on the subject, proved in "A very few min
utes, to the satisfaction of the jury and
everyone present, that he was not ''in
sane" But there is no reason to suppose
that the plea would have had any weight
with the jury in any case. a man sane
enough to lead a rebellion b likely to be
considered sane enough to accept the con
sequences.
ExPresident Hayes suggests that every
post of the Grand Army of the Republic
raise an amount of money equal to the
aggregate of one dollar from each member
for the Grant monument. This is an eX-
cellent suggestion, and we hope that every
G. A. r. post in the United States vii
adopt it. Certainly, no member of thu
Grand Army of the Republic feels that Il
dollar would be too great a sum to express
his reverence and love for the departed
Commander-in-Chi and the aggregat,
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ment to the departed General.
A good many one armed and one-leggeC
men have been turned out of office in tn
; last month. And one one-legged man ha
got in. His name is Barrett, and be go
the postofice in Charlotte, Michigan, OF
account of hispure Democracy, his Drawer
in battle, and his lost leg. Later inquir
has developed the fact that instead OF hay
ing been left on the battlefield, rs tn
Congressman who got him the appoint
ment in such glowing terms related t
f Col. Villas, Mr. Barrett's lost membe
was dropped in an accident brought abou
by the falling of Il scafIold in 1850!
There is prospect of row in the Cor
servative party in England. Lord Ran
dolph Churchill, member of the Salisbur
cabinet, refused to speak at Conserve
tive meeting in Liverpool because tn
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