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BURLINGTON. FRIDAY. JULY 80, 1886.
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THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
G. G. BENEDICT, Editor.
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English cabinet making seems to have
become quite a flourshing industry.
1t is a curious fact, that some hurried
American editors actually refrain from
quoting good things from their contem-
porares because the names of these jour
nails are inconveniently long. Long
names for newspapers are getting to be
old fashioned
There were more people in Albany on
Thursday than were ever before seen
there. That ancient town has changed
some since it was described by local
historian as a place of 100 houses and 5000
inhabitants, all with their gable ends to-
ward the street.
The Brattleboro PhuntC gives no Gre
dence to the rumor that Col. Geo w.
Hookeris permitting a still hunt to be con-
Quoted in his favor and against Gen. Grout.
in the second district. The story was a
very improbable one, on its face.
Mr.. Mooney, who has been appointed
postmaster at ST. Adams, is a respectable
Democrat, of the anti-McGettrck and
anti-Atkins faction. His appointment
looks as if the Democratic bosses in this
State were slightly losing their grip.
The bill to pension the widow of General
Stannard, as passed by the House. reduced
the amount of the pension to $50 IA month.
AS the two houses disagree on the amount,
the bill has gone to conference commit
tee which we trust will restore the
amount to the sum fixed by the Senate.
a ruling made by speaker Carlisle, last
week, which practically places the entire
legislation of the House in the hands of
the three Democratic bosses, is cited as
confirming the suspicion that Messrs.
Carlisle, Randall and Morrison are in
league to defeat all Legislative measures
which do not meet with the approval of
the spoils Democracy.
The West has no 'frst-class literary
magazine" but Miss Cleveland is to pro.
vide it one in Literary Lte-so she says.
Yet we cannot help fearing that Liter
arg Life will prove to be good deal like
the Chicago CUrrCHt and other mushroom
literary ventures of the West-a preten-
tious publication filed with hack writ
ers trash and school girl poetry.
Hubert O. Thompson was perhaps the
most influential Democrat in New York
State after John kelly's retirement
from politics. Thompson was shrewd
political manager aud an interchangeable
partisan worker. 1t is suggested that the
deaths Of both Kelly and Thompson may
be followed by substantial union of
Tammany and the county democracy.
The female crank who presents flowers
TO criminals, doomed up very prominently
al Chicago last week, when a fashion
ably dressed young lady presented a
huge bouquet of flowers to each OF the
eight bomb-throwers on trial but had no
flowers for the mutilated policemen who
lost arms ana legs in preserving the city
from anarchy and rapine. Such false sen
timentalism, is simply ineXplicable.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Commercial .1dUCrtiSCr al
ludes to what he is pleased to call the de
cline of Mr.. Edmunds's chances for the
presidential nomination. He thinks Mr.
Edmunds will never get any higher than
he is now" AS Mr.. Edmunds has never
wanted any higher office than he now
holds, he is probably not particularly cast
down over this prediction.
The first anniversary of the death of
Gen. Grant has passed and as yet no
monument is rising to his memory If
the several cities which are raising funds
for this purpose would contribute the
amounts to a national fund, magnifi-
cent national memorial might be erected
at Washington, in honor of the hero. Can
they do better than to do this
Some of the pictorial newspapers are
publishing likenesses of the Apache chief
Geronimo, 1t is of course, impossible tC
say whether these portraits were obtained
by instantaneous photography at a range
of 10 miles, or whether they are reproduc
tons of the picture OF some Indian doctor
minus the wig
AS feature Of the great b-centenna
celebration at Albany, the following in
scription has been placed on the city gate
Ye north gate of We city
Ye create road to ye Canadas.
The new eXtradition treaty renders thi
inscription sadly inappropriate and out o
date.
Detectives have succeeded in trappin.