Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-02-20
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BURLINGTON, FRIDAY, FEB. 20, 1885.
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THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
g. q. BENEDICT, Editor.

THE FREE Pre- IS ASSOClA lON,
q. q. BENEDICT, Editor.
Terms--.S@.O0 IA year, always in advance.
Probably. the river and harbor bill is
"shelvrd" for the present session.
Mr. Cleveland gets about as much nd
vice from the sapicnt public rs the editor
OF a uewspapcr-and he pays just about
as much attention to it.
The extraordinary snow storms of the
present month, with the extreme and
long continued cold, will make the month
a memorable one in the records of meteor
oogiSts.
The first act in the New York comedy of
justice towards illustriouS offenders dis
appears behind the curtain. EX-MayOr
Edison has been granted stay of proceed
ings.
Mr. ingalls, remarked in the Senate FRI
day. that in his Judgment, nothing could
be worse for the country and all its vari-
GUS business interests than an extra sCs-
sion of Congress- Mr.. ingalls, seems TO be
levelhcaded on some points.
Guteau' 5 lawyer is before Congress ask
ing for an appropriation for his services in
defending that colossal criminal. Mr.
Reed has gone to poor market We are
afraid the American people do not apprc-
ciate his patriotic and disinterestcd ser
vices
Mr.. Joseph Cool; has resumed his
l. \InrrDtpiSI
in his popular course of lectures in Bos-
ton. Like many strong fighters, Mr.
Cook sometimes delivers a blow clean
over the head Of the adversary but when
he does strike low enough his blows are
commonly very persuasive.
Perhaps, if Gordon is not dead-as some
of our contemporaries insist on believing
it would be just as well to moderate ii
little the quantity and strength of the
eulogies pronounced upon him. There
should be some economy in antc-mortem
obituaries for they leave very little to be
said when man does actually die.
II is said that Gen. Wolseley is wont to
refer to Gen. Grant as Mr.. L. :. Grant.
1t once amused Lord Howe to direct Il
communication to George Washington
ESQ. Gen Washington, survived, how
ever, ana Gen. Grant is likely to survive.
Whether Wolseley will survive, will be
seen perhaps, when FL Mahdi gets through
with him.
Hon. II. c. Idle of st. Johnsbury denies
in "A communication to the CulcdoHidn,
that he has ever indicated, in word or act
any desire to be a candidate for licuten-
aut-GOVcrnOr, and the suggestion that the
new newspaper enterprise III St Johns
bury has had the remOtcst relation to any
such candidacy is pronounced simply alb
surd
French affairs in China have been rath-
er obscured, of late, by the English cam
paign in the Soudun. The public will be
reminded that there is more than one case
of the cat-playing- With-the-mouse, by the
official telegram from General Briere dc
IIisle, stating that the Chinese army has
been routed at Kulua, and that the French
tiag now floats over l.ungson.
The St Adams Trust company, under
the honest and able management of Re
ceiver Rich, seems likely to come out bet
ter than was expected. Indeed it has al
ready discharged more of its obligations
than the public had courage to expect al
the outset. This is not u common thing
in settlement of the estates of broken anC
defunct banks.
In order to acquit jefferson Davis anC
his confreres of the charge of treason the
Charleston S. c., NCUS and courier dis
tinctly enunciates the doctrine that 9TH,
moment that State withdraws from th'
Union no citizen of that State can be gull
ty of treason against the United States.
State sovereignty was not more clearly rs
serted, % years ago
Lord Wolseley's friends in London de
clare that he disapproved of the Nile
route to the 5oudan, preferring that b.
Suakin. This involves the assertion tina
the longer route was forced upon him b.
the English war department. Yet it wa
said when he was appointed to command
the expedition and has not hitherto beef
denied, that he only consented to take tn
command, when given carte blanche as t
the details.
Few, perhaps, were aware that job
Boyle . Reilly OF the Boston PLtot was
political fugitive from British authority
till the telegraph mentioned that he ha
asked and been refused permission to lee
ture in Canada He was tried for hig
treason in Ireland in 1866, and banished (
Australia for twenty Yeas lie escape
from there in 1870 and made his wtt I
this country. In view of his invitations
Canada and of information that Mr. Nj
Donald, the Dominion Minister Of Justic
would not modest him ne recently wrut
to Secretary of State Frclinghuysen to rs