Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-03-06
;M,!he Etee 2ress.
BURLINGTON, FRIDAY, MAR. 6, 1885.
PUBLISHED BY
THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
G.G. BENEDICT, Editor.

PUBLISHED BY
THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
G.. q. BENEDICT, Editor.
Terms-S2.OO a year, always in advance.
The new administration has come in,
and the government at Washington still
lives.
The war cloud thickens in the East A
war between Russia and England would
make a decided sensation
President Arthur is preparing to do the
handsome thing by Mr.. Cleveland. 1t re-
mains to be seen if Mr.. Cleveland will do
handsomely by Mr.. Arthur.
Mr.. Cleveland must have got serious
admonition of what is before him, from
the solid vote of the South against his
recommendation that the coming of sill
yer be suspended
Now that the newspaper fatalists have
succeeded in killing General Gordon, they
have turned their attention to Lord VOL
seley. a story is abroad in England that
he has committed suicide.
The English government claims that
the vote of last Friday has settled the
question of its future policy. There will
be no ministerial designations, and the
contest in Egypt will be prosecuted to its
bitter end.
The almost unanimous election of Coun-
~ Commissioner Wright this year would
seem to show one of two things. Either
the rum party or the temperance party is
asleep. The Temperance people are
plainly awake.
1t is reasserted that John Langdon, the
first President pro TEN of the United
States Senate, in announcing the election
of Washington used precisely the Ian
guage of Mr. Edmunds in announcing
the election of Cleveland.
Mr.. John Boyle O'Reilly seems likely to
stir up trouble in the British family Eng
land says he shan't lecture in Canada, and
Canada says he will, if she has to protect
him herself. What will the old lady do
with her refractory daughter?
The Prince of Wales proposes to visit
Ireland. and the Dublnites threaten vio-
lence If the Castle flunkeys organize any
mock demonstrations of enthusiasm"
Perhaps Wales had better remain at home
for the present.
The United States has Just five cities
which are out of debt Apparently it is
not considered an evidence of the highest
prosperity to be out of debt, in Il country
like ours, where public obligations pay
large dividends TO individual investment
1t doesn't pay to break the rules at
Annapolis. \ dozen of the naval cadets,
who went skating without permission,
have been imprisoned for month Some
how no one ever hears anything pleasant
or creditable about the naval school at
Annapolis
A despatch from Ottawa announces the
defeat of the curious proposition before
the Dominion Parliament for the REIN
bursement of the liquor dealers for losses
resulting from the enforcement of the
liquor laws. The most curious thing about
the proposition was that all ofthe Cabinet,
with one exception, voted for it.
Mr.. Henry NJ Stanley the African cX-
plorer, says he thinks the reason why Gen
eral Gordon did not make his escape from
khartoum by steamer was the fact
that he was a tatalSt. His death STANLEY
considers more serious than the fall of
khartoum. Had he managed to escape,
his life and presence would in the end have
secured victory for the cause he represent
ed
The town of Wilmington, VT, adopted
the town system of schools a year ago :;
and now the school board report that the
town has better schools, greater equality
of taxation and greater equality of school
privileges, together with IA money balance
of Sll3 in favor of the town system, rs
compared with the previous year The
system in other words has justified itself
in practice-aS it always does when fairly
tried.
In a speech at the annual dinner of the
Harvard Club, in New York, Mr.. George
William Curtis jokingly outlined the prin-
cipal requirements of Harvard College
thus That those who aspire to enter it
shall know as little of the daily course of
life as they do of the Greek tongue, and
that the shins of undergraduates shall be
saved from brutal abrasiOns at football. Z"
Furthermore, he said, he hoped soon that
the Harvard OYerseers would see the wis
dom of printing the quinquennial cata-
iOgue in English.
The row between the two Houses of
Congress, over the inaugural proceedings,
was caused by the fact that the Senate
took control of the preparations, and the
Senate committee of arrangements gave
each Senator and SenatOreect five tick
cts, while each Representative got but
two, and Representatives-elec none at all
The House thereupon got up on its ear
and came very near voting not to attend
the ceremonies at all But the resolution
L. Il.