Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-28


best call around" American yacht, is to
have the honor of contesting the cham
pionship with the English "Genesta."
The race will probably be the most exct-
| ing in the history of yachting, since the
| America beat the Englishmen on their
own waters and will attract the attention
| of lovers of aquatic sports all over the
world. 1t is not much over II hundred
years since our English cousins were en-
gagged in u more serious sort of Il contest
with the Puritan.
Mr.. Evarts according to u current news
paper report has declared that he could
| not, under any circumstances, consent to
be Il Republican candidate for governor of
| New York. nor would he accept II nOmi-
| nation if it were rendered him. If this Is
| true, the nomination is likely to lie be
| tween President White of Cornell, Levi p.
Morton. Joseph w. DrcXel and Col Cam
non. But perhaps Mr. Evarts will recon
slider the matter Mr.. Dcpcw has gone to
see him, at Windsor, and may possibly pre-
sent the case to HIM in such light as to
secure his consent.
The statement that Mrs. Grant will he
| the wealtnest widow of Il President,
which is going the rounds, seems to be
pretty wide of the truth. Mr. Potter Pal
mer of Chicago, who is connection Of
| the family, says the finances of the family
could not be in II much worse condition
| than they are. The Generals book, how
ever, promises to Eull them through.
| They will carry out Gen. Grants request
! to devote the first proceeds Of the book to
paying relatives of the Grants who lost
money through Ferdinand Wards rascal
| ity. Mrs. Grant, Mr.. Palmer said, would
go to live for a while with young Ulysses,
who has farm in Putnam county, y. Y.
The "Private Shooting and Trapping
BILL which has created so much i'll feel
ing in the New Hampshire legislature,
and which was finally vetoed by the gov
ernor, has been 'indefnitely postponed
by vote of rs nays to 43 yeas, upon the
question of passing the bill over the gov
ernor's Veto Some time ago the lcgisla-
| ture of Vermont passed a "Pryatr Shoot
ing and Trapping l}'l',' winch ha. since
become practically II dead letter. New
England is not yet qU.rv r.. ~ lo adopt
the ENGLISH custom Of private shuMi'..
of wealth and leisure. 50 long rs the
States game remains, thc poor mHn viii
probably have Il chance to ,rc' his snare, as
well as the rich and privileged
Though the late N,w Orleans NNpo-i-
ton was Il badly managed affair and Z,
financial failure. We have new" rr-.,r. q
that Vermont made a State tapr.p.tt.o u
for it. The Vermont exhibit WAS a hj 1hly
creditable one and attracted no utti. al
tentiOn and while SOM exhibitors Wule
dissatisfied and found a good deal Of GrIt.
others acknowledge that it p&'I them
well to be represented there, and hat they
perceive ii decided impulse to their Ausi-
ness, resulting from the advertising -c-
cured for their goods through the EXposi-
ton. Whether it will be possible to make
Ia pecuniary success of the new EXpOs-
ton, which is to be the successor Of the
former one, on the same ground, of
course, remains to be seen. But the man
ayers of the new organization must have
derived some useful lessons from the ex
perience of their predecessors and we GER
tainly wish them, and their Vermont rep
resentative and agent, Col. John b. Mead,
all success in their enterprise.
Some Republican papers are pretty Sc
we're on the 'mugwumps" but on the
whole the latter get bettertreatment from
the Republicans than from their Demo
cratic allies. The Atlanta Constitutions
(Dem.J is in the habit of abiding to them
as squads The New York Gr0phic
DemJ describes them as mosquitoes,
"diminutiVe but irritating,' and adds
"To placate that mosquito element would
ALLEVIATE ten times as many Democrats.
Amy concession to mugWumpry in either
platform or nominee will invite disaster"
The call for the Democratic State conVcn-
ton in Massachusetts, does not recognize
the Independents, Democratic voters only
are invited. But there are some Iudepeu-
dents, whom no amount of Kicking can
detach from the Democracy. They think
it a little more distinguished to call them
selves independent and perhaps tlatter
themselves that they have risen above all
party levels but they vote the Demo
cratic ticket, and applaud the worst Demo-
cratic appointments, as unerringly as the
veriest BOurbOns.
The decision Of the President that the
cattlcmen must leave the Indian territory
with their herds, is generally applauded
and there is no reason to doubt that his
order to that effect will he obeyed. But
that this will avert all further trouble
over the cattle lease question, is not so
clear y correspondent Of the New York
Times, writing from personal observation,
expresses his belief that the Cheyenne In
dams, whose interests are the ones most
affected will be more likely to complain
| after their lands have been cleared Of the
cattlemen than they have been heretofore.
These Indians have been receiving consid-
cradle money on their grass-range leases,
the loss OF which will not please them.
Then they are displeased because the gov
eminent agent in charge of their reserva-
ton wanted to secure an accurate enum-
GRAFTON of them as basis for the issue of
rations, They had succeeded in imposing
| upon the government an exaggerated
| statement of their number, and now that
| Gen. Sheridan has caused new count to
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