Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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Judge Thurman of Ohio is suffering
severly from neuralgia.
President Cleveland subscribes for u
copy of Grants personal Memoirs"
bound in Morocco.
Joel Chandler Harris makes $500 II year
5000 from his books and $500 from the
Atlanta Constitution.
DR.. McCosh declares he will turn Prince
ton into full-hedged university within
the next five years.
Ex-Speaker Randall says his reported
conversation with the President about the
House rules never took place.
Paul PhilippoteauX, the eminent painter
of historical subjects, has determined to
become an American citizen.
Rev. George c. Lorimer of Chicago is
about to publish book entitled "Prac-
tees, Principles and Problems
Colonel McClure's libel case with the
Louisiana lottery people still hangs fire.
The colonel says the lottery's days are
numbered.
President Bartlett of Dartmouth college
| fell upon an icy slope in the college
grounds Monday, and sustained IL fracture
of the right arm.
Mr.. William II. Vanderbilt has definite
I ly decided not to issue any cards of invita-
ton whatever to his picture gallery this
winter.
The Presidents message will not be sent
out by telegraph as Mr.. Arthur's, but will
be sent to the newspapers through the
postmaster's hands, in printed form.
IL. L
niece of Mrs j. A. Garfield, has been
elected professor in the State university
OF Kansas.
Samuel b. Griffin, managing editor of
the Springfield, Mass, RCpublicdH, is re-
ported to have struck it rich III a silver
mine, the Las Anmos. IN which he is one
third owner, with ;. w. Dorsey as II
partner.
The late Elizur Wright was an earnest
advocate of ee-plantint and only few
/ IS before his death wrote letter for
pdpiication on the subject, which was
probably his last essay.
The New York State constitution pro-
vides that every twenty years the Legis-
allure snail submit to the people the
! question OF II constitutional convention.
'his Guty will devolve upon the legisla-
ture which meets next January.
Mr.. Smalley says, AS disestablishment
is not one of the issues in the present
English canvass, it is idle for Englishmen
OF distinction now in America to discuss
its present bearing on English politics
Mr.. Glndstone's admirers in England
have been widely circulating laudatory
pamphlet, on the cover of which is his
, portrait framed in IL blood-red heart. Its
} title j. - he Heart of Midlothian" and
the meaning of the device on the cover OF
course is !hHt the aforesaid heart is the
statesman > best nome.
Saloon-keeper Sterling finds new and
) substantial obstacle in the way of his am
bition in the person of Mr.. Leaycraft, the
! present incumbent of the office to which
Sterling was appointed. Leaycraft hold.
1t is understood, says the Chicago inter
oceans Washington correspondent, tha
Senator Logan will make Il vigorous figh
: against the confirmation of Postmaster
Judd, but that he will not contest the con
tirmatOn of other Chicago officials.
1t is announced that Secretary Manning
will make no bond calls until Congress.
has defined his position upon the question
of silver coinage. 1t is now more than
fourteen months since the last bond call
Twenty-Five monuments to Napoleon
shoe Napoleon was not worthy to unlace
/ is still without II fitting memorial any
; where III this broad land.
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner has jus
lectured in the course at Amherst college
/ He is II member of the Psi Epsilon frater
| nifty, and during his stay was entertained
by the Gamma chapter ut their house.
,, The New York State Senate, ACCORDING
1 tp no hnr Ii of no OLE Will
contain 20 Republicans and 70 Democrats
One of the Democratic seats, that for the
f. eighteenth district, is contested by the
Republican candidate. OF thirty-two Sen
t ators, nine are new TO public life.
EX-Gov. Charles Foster of Ohio denies
; the statement to the effect that he hat
purchased the Cincinnati Sun. He is said
/ to laugh at the idea of his running agans
: Sherman for the Senatorship, concedn!
l Sherman's election.
> Joe Mackin's first breakfast ration il
= Joliet prison consisted of pan contain
. ing a pound of fragrant prison hash, gar
: niSned with two slices of white bread ant
: Il quart cup of coffee. a loOker-on says
: "Mackin eyed the steaming hash rathe
Y critically, while dvspeptic look cam
+ into his eyes. He toyed with bite of tn
5 bread and took several swallows at tn
Il coffee, but did not touch the hash. Jo
n probably thinks stutiing ballot boxes mucl
a better fun"
h 1t is estimated that the new Democrat
. civil service commissioners, MesSrS. Edg
}, erton and Trenholm, will soon max
:, changes in the civil service rules whicl
| will make them more in harmony wit
the Democratic idea of civil service rt
FORM
King Theebaw of Burmah is describe
rs man of twenty-siN years, tall, wei
h built and rather good-l0oking. He has
l. fair complexion, good forehead, cleal
steady eyes Il firm mouth, IA chin rathe
heavy and sensual looking, but ON tn
whole II fair appearing sort of Il chap Iii
mother is one of the ShaunS, the hi
t tribes, who haze the English bitterly.
It 1t is astonishing how ia,t and lar
|, blunder viii travel. Not long ago Il Ncl
.r mont paper said of Senator EdmundS tina
|. he was born in Richmond and that h
t. practiscd law there after attaining hi
IS majority. Within few days after, dol