Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-11-06

BURLINGTON, friday, NOV. II, lSSb
PUBLISHED BY
THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
GG. BENEDICT, Editor.
Terms%2.OO IA year, always in advance.
Secretary Endicott is opposed to grant
ing further encouragement, on the part of
the government, to Arctic exploration.
This is a wise decision. If any more adj
venturers want to commit suicide in the
region of the North pole let them pay
their own travelling expenses thither
The yacht Genesta has reached home
safely, after rather rough and dangerous
voyage. She was greeted most enthusas-
tically, as she sailed into Portsmouth har-
Dor, flying three first prize flags won in
her contests with American yachts. The
Englshmen threaten to send better boat
next time, but they have got to make one
first and perhaps the Yankees are not
quite through building sloops.
The man who attempted to assassinate
NJ. de Freycinet, the French minister of
foreign affairs in Paris, claims that he
did it to attract attention to his wrongs,
which had been deliberately disregarded
by the courts of justice; and inveStiga
ton seems to confirm his assertion. If
this be true, Il dangerous precedent has
been established for the righting of pri
vate wrongs.
Since the correspondence between Mrs.
Grant and Mayor Grace of New York city
was made public, there has been no fur
Their doubt Us to the permanent character
of Gen. Grants burial place in Rivers ide
park Now that New York is sure of
holding the honored remains of the hero
against all possible rivals, she ought to
brace up and put new life into her Ian
gushing monument fund
AS was predicted, the advent of cold
weather only increases the ravages of
small poX in Montreal There still con-
tinues to be determined resistance to the
authorities as regards vaccination and
cleanliness, and the same laxness on
the part of the city officials seems to
prevail. Under the circumstances the
proposition which has been made, to call
in some outside advisers, seems quite SEN
sible.
1t is interesting to note the gingerly
way in which the Southern newspapers
handle the memory of General Mcclellan.
There is such an Interviewing of political
and sectional lines in the case, that the
subject becomes somewhat embarrassing
to them. On the whole, however sec
tional feeling is subordinated by the
Southern journals-though not, perhaps,
so generally as in the case of Gener al
Grant
Carl Schurz has been interviewed, with
respect to his reported purchase of the
Boston Post. He said that he had made
an offer for the paper, but that the pur
chase had not yet been made, and that
the figures which We're published as his
offer for the plant are not correct. The
Post has changed SO much within the
past four weeks that we hardly recognize
it; but what will it look like if Mr. Schurz
gets hold of it?
Does the following utterance of Sena-
tor John Sherman possess the sanguinary
hue so offensive to our Democratic
friends Perhaps" said Mr.. Sherman,
in his recent speech at Petersburg, sit
was as we'll that after Il long lease of
power by the Republican party, the Demo
cratic party should be on trial for four
years. Here is much charity and toler-
ance in nut shell. Why should not our
Democratic contemporaries make "A note
of it?
Fraud and corruption never pay, in the
long run, whether. practced by individ-
uals or communities a Cincinnati paper
says that the business men of that city
are so disguised with the corruption of its
government and the scandals of its poll
tics, and are 50 hopeless of relief, that
some large mercantile houses will probab-
ly be removed to New York or other West
ern cities, which are better governed
Contrary to expectation but doubtless
in accordance with abstract justice, judg-
ment has been rendered against Mrs
Langtry in England, in the recent suit
brought against her for the amount OF
certain debts to dressmakers, which she
tried to make her husband responsible,
for. 1t remains to be seen whether Mr.
Langtry would not have been wiser tC
have paid them. The result may be t.
deprive him of his annuity
At last the disgusting Taber divorce
case in Boston is ended, and the public
will have to forego its daily surfeit o
scandal and filth from that source. Tn,
reports of the trial, illustrated by tn,
newspaper artists, might well be publish
ed as an appendix to the Pan Man ca
zettcs exposures. 1t is Notifying fact
that this is the kind of literature which
a considerable portion of the public seem
to appreciate best, nowadays
vote as you please-but vote is tn
motto which the Springfield Rcpublicm
offered to its readers on the morning O