Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-08

While other sources of news sometimes
fail, the regularly recurring accidents on
the st. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain
road furnish the struggling Vermont
newspaper man with an unfailing supply
of incident. 1t is to be hoped that the
new owners of the road, will find means
to change this-even though it should de-
press the rural news market for time.
A Russian corvette, the Strclok, or Ar
cher, is in New York harbor, and the New
York papers are specializing about the
damage she might do to the English
steamers sailing from that port, in case of
war; and on the chances of fight be-
tween the Russian and the English man
of-war Garnet, which is in Hampton
Roads. The Garnet carries more guns
but the StrelOk is the faster ship.
Germany seems very anxious to have 1t
understood that she will not act as medi-
ator between Russia and England. What
Germany is itching for is to see France
step into line with Russia. Then Ger
many would "take sides" with England,
and the four great European powers would
have a fundamental settling of affairs
that would shake the whole continent.
Dispatches from Washington Territory
convey the interesting information that
an immense deposit of carbonate of lead,
rich in silver, has been discovered within
three miles of the town of Cheney, and
that, so far as the ground has been pros
pected, the quality of the ore is equal to
the best laid bare at Leadville, Colorado.
Should these reports prove true, there
will be an immediate rush for Washing
ton Territory
English dispatches state that the move
ment to offer the Merton professorship at
Oxford to James Russell Lowell is gain
ing strength daily. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Lowell has signified his willingness
to accept the honor if its proffer is made
unanimous. The salary attached to the
chair is $500 per annum
Editor Mcclure of the Philadelphia
Times stands bravely to his colors in his
impending suit with the Louisiana Lot
terry company If we are not mistaken,
Mr. Mcclure has the law on his side, not
only to refute the charge of libel brought
against him, but to convict the Lottery
company of having transgressed the laws
of nearly every State in the Union.
Western Democrats are boiling over with
ind gnation, because all the important
offices in the treasury department are be-
ing given to New York State. 1t must be
admitted that the Democrats whose lodges
are toward the setting sun are having II
pretty hard time of it, under the admins
tration of Mr.. Cleveland. But let them
cheer up. The frost is not yet out of the
ground. 1t may be that some genial rays
of partisan favor may yet penetrate even
their cherries abodes.
Prof. II. II. Boyesen. of Columbia Col
lege, the eminent novelist, is before the
public in a rather unenviabe light, just at
present, as the defendant in suit for
damages, based upon the charge that the
Professor boxed Il lads ear so violently
as to cause incurable deafness. The Pro-
fessor does not deny the slapping, but
claims that the deafness previously eX-
listed.
that proposition will be made by Ger
many at a future meeting of the silver
conference to have the production of sill
yer limited all over the world since it
would be impossible without such meas
ure, to fix the relative price of gold and
silver. 1t is the opinion among officers of
the Treasury Department that. this coun-
try will refuse to endorse any such prop
OSitiOn.
The stories of the present eruption of
Vesuvius read almost like chapters out of
Lord Lytton's novels. The lava is said to
be pouring down the side of the volcano
| in great streams, while the inhabitants of
| the villages at the foot of the mountain
are fleeing from their homes in terror
They may well dread the fury of the fiery
monster, whose eruptions have destroyed
SO much life and property in the past.
1t is now announced that Mr. Kelley OF
! Virginia has been appointed United States
minister to Austria, instead of to Italy. He
ought not to have either mission. We quite
agree with the Boston Hcrdld and with
other papers. that Mr. Kelley is not suit
able person to represent this country
abroad. In fact Southern man who still
holds that the authority of the Union over
his State is founded on gross anG
bloody violation of public rights" is no
a fit person to receive any federal appoint
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