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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

The Mr.. Rogers, who has been playing
into the hands of the Bell Telephone com,
pany for some time past, has at last gwen
up writing letters and has openly brought
suit against Mr.. Garland and others whom
that gentleman inveigled into the Pan
Electric enterprise. The trouble thick ems
about the guileless Democratic statesman,
and he probably wishes by this time that
Franklin had never flown his historic kite
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

There is we are confident, no ground
for the suspicion that Mr.. Bates of st
Johnsbury was hired by Col. Fuller to
present Mr.. Fairbanks 5 name. Mr.. Bates
was an entirely gratutous boomerang.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

Senator Jones of Florida attempts to eX-
plain his neglect Of his duties at Washing.
ton, in long letter to the Jacksonville,
Florida, Times Union. 1t is probably the
most difficult job he ever tackled, with
the exception OF obtaining the hand of the
young lady who has infatuated HIM.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

Mr. Morrison's tariff bill was hustled
out of the way in short order. 1t is pretty
evident that the present House will not
debate the measure all
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25
No Biographies Needed.
u. Y. Mail and ENDLESS. !

If there is any political potency in APT
alterations artful aid" Gen Gordon
ought to be governor of Georgia. We
shouldn't wonder if he would And if he
is elected the whole country will know
hinrrn nhleS-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

The only criticism we have to make on
the adoption of the system of electric
lighting by the city of Burlington, is that
it ought to have been done long ago.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25
LETTER FROM SENATOR tpMuNps.


WASHINGTON, ID. C., June II, lSs6.
Dear Sir; | have yours of the 18th inst. If
you had been better informed on the subject
of the oleomurgarne bill, think you would
not have written me in the way you have.
As am on the ground here, ana as have
been interesting myself to promote what the
farmers of Vermont wish, all swintcr,.and
trust have done some service, | must Ice eX-
cuscd tor having an opinion MS to what refer
enCc of the bill, when II came to the Senate,
was best for their interests. The bill can only
stand constitutionally as taN-hill, and do
not propose, tor one, to give it a black eye by
! acting in such a way as to show that AS a tax
| bin it was cheat and humbug. and merely
intended TO discriminate against one kind of
| II product and in favor of another
! Again, 10y the practice of the Senate, rev.
| enue bills (Which must first come from the
| House of Rel e.cntativeS have always been
sent to the committee on finance, where they
belong, and of which, as you know, the repre-
sentative of the Vermont farmers, Senator
| Morrill,, Is the chairman. II was great
| weakness on the part of some OF the 1rlends
of the bill to raise the implication by voting
to refer to the committee on agriculture,
| that it was not tax bill, and that il had not
strength enough as II tax bill TO go through
| the Senate in the regular way. happen to
| know that some of the strongest opponents of
| the bill voted to send TO the committee on
agriculture. Their motives you can readily
guess.
think the foregoing will enable you TO un-
derstand how l. n working and active friend
OF the bill, thought was doing my duty to
vote as did, and have sufficient confidence
! in your intelligence to believe that you will
now agree with me.
Respectfully yours,
GEORGE +. EDnUNDS.
This letter ought to bring blush to the
cheek of any Nermonter, capable of blush
ing, who has been aberating the course of
our senator's in this matter. We know
that some of the agricultural papers, pub
! lshed in New York State, have insisted
! that it was all-important that the bill
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

Congressman IIolman's fences were a II
right after all. His Indiana constituents
have renOminated him for Congress for
the fifteenth time, on the fourth ballot
He addressed the convention at length,
emphasizing his objections to civil ser vice
reform
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

Ex-Gov. st. John doesn't seem to be in
such Il tremendous hurry as some of the
Prohibitionists. He has set the date for
the party to elect its presidential candi-
date as 1892.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

Professor sumner of Yale does not seem
10 find the young gentlemen of the pres
ent senior class of that institution As
plastic material as usual, This year lie
has succeeded in making only 80 free
traders to GO protectionists.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

Strange as it may seem, Massachusetts,
Democrats are actually talking of again
placing Gen. b. +. Butler at the head of
their ticket in the next gubernatorial con
test. They seem to have curious ideas
about rotation IN office, but with a party
that is scarce" of both men and prin-
ciples, this may possibly be a pardonable
sin.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

Missourians are all saying that it seems
like good old times. An editor was shot
at his desk in st. Joseph, last week.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

New York State has just got around to
entirely abolshing imprisonment for
debt. II seems strange that it should have
prevailed in the Empire State to any eX-
tent mp to the present time.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

A Dill was recently passed by the Sen
ate, legalizing the incorporation OF nation
al trades unions The bill makes trades
unions, which file articles of incorpora-
ton in the proper office, corporations I'M
der the technical name by which they de
sire to be known, and gives them the right
TO sue and be sued, and to grant or receive
In their corporate name property, and the
proceeds and income thereof for the oh.
jects defined in their charters. There
were no legal grounds, of course, upon
which this bill could be opposed, but it
seems TO give certain sanction to trades
unions on the part of the government
which is to be regretted. 1t would have
been iirst-rate bill to smother"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

To be free from sick-hoadachc hiliousness
constipation, etc, use Carriers Little Liver
Pills. strictly vegetable. They gently slim
ulate the liver and free the stomach from bile.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

or course the two or three Vermont pa
pers which have been occupied for months
in endeavoring to disseminate falsehood
and calumny about Senator Edmunds, do
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

The Maine Prohibitionsts have succeed
ed, as usual, in getting ticket into the
held, which is about as far as they ever
go Every vote cast for a Prohibitionist
governor in Maine, as elsewhere, is vote
either thrown away or worse than thrown
away. The political Prohibitionists are
such effective allies of the Democratic
party. that it could well afford to pay all
the expenses of the prohibition canvasses
in the field of politics.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

The joint resolution for the considera-
ton by the States OF constitutional
amendment extending the presidents
term from March to April 3d. and the
congressional term to the same extent
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

We submit that with all its other meth
DDS of delaying legislation, the members
of the Democratic party in Congress
might dispense with the practice of apollo
giving at length for their own blunders.
Congress has two little time left for such
men as Congressman Wheeler and Dunn
and Senator Brown of Georgia to waste it
by explaining away" their foolish and
OiIensiyely partisan utterances.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25
Respectfully yours,
GEORGE +. EDMCNDs.
Reuben ChafTee, Esq,
West Euosburgh, VT.

The reason the Senate co ld do nothing
o. course was that under the constitution
of the United States, tax bills, like the
bill taxing oleomargarine, must originate
in the House. Two weeks later Mr.. Ed
munds wrote as follows to a Windsor
county farmer:
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

The modest and sensible way in which
Mr. George w. Childs of the Philadelphia
Ledgcr disclaims all aspirations to the
presidency, and assures his friends that
the honor which they would confer upon
him is not only one for which he is not
fitted, but which he does not desire, will
add to the universal esteem in which that
gentleman is held. At the head of one of
the most popular newspapers in America,
he is the right man in the right place and
he knows enough to ''let well enough
alone"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

Those who read President Cleveland's
message to Congress will remember that
he dwelt particularly upon the Indian
question, and recommended the early and
serious attention Of Congress to this mat
ter. With the enormous accumulation OF
unfinished business now on hand, and at
this late day in the session, it Is hardly likely
that the presidents recommendations will,
or can, be followed by Congress The bills
granting land in severalty to Indians, and
regulating the right of way through the
reservations, should have been brought up
earlier. 1t is now reasonably certain that
these measures must lie over until the
next session.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

The Grand Army of the Republic is very
naturally and very properly concerned at
the wholesale discharge OF Union soldiers
from the public service and the appoint
ment of eX-Confederates in their places.
All appeals to the president have been in
vain. AS regards Gen. Black, the com
missioner Of pensions, II committee of
veterans in protest to the president says,
1--WE conclude that he has wantonly pros
tituted his Office to the promotion of per
sonal and partisan ends and that for viO-
lation of the civil service act and the rules
hereunder he should be subjected to the
penalty of dismissal from Office under the
fore of rule "a" The demaAd is just, and
the appeals of the Grand Army cannot be
disregarded by. the Democratic admins
ton with impunity.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

President Cleveland's appointees seem
to be making him ne end of trouble
Another of them has been detected in
guile, Mr.. s. II. Brooks, sub-treasurer at
san Francesca, who was appointed last
summer. Some time ago the treasury de
partment discovered the t1ifiing shortage
of $4,000 in his accounts, and an agent WAS
sent to san Francisco to look the matter
up. The agent reports that the $4,000 are
"clean gone and $1,000 more which We're
overlooked in the first estimate. Here is
an excellent opportunity for Mr.. Cleve-
land to try how Democratic civil service
reform works
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

Mr. Beecher has frankly owned that his
chief object in going to England at the
present time is to replenish his purse by
means oflectures, and possibly by supply
ing some of the English pulpits during
his tour. Although he has a large salary
as pastor of Plymouth church. his bene-
factions and charities have been very large,
and he now finds himself in his old age,
with little to fall back ON save his Peeks-
Kill farm and Brooklyn property We
trust that our distinguished pulpit orator
will meet with as cordial and generous Il
reception in England as his English CON
temporaries have found in this county.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

not stick at asserting that the result of the
State convention was adverse to the return
of the senator They would have claimed
the same, whatever course had been taken
by the convention. If the strongest pos
sible Edmunds resolution had been adopt
ed they would have asserted that it was
passed by II minority; that the securing of
such an endorsement showed that the
senator's friends were alarmed for his
chances and so on What these papers
may say has ceased to be of consequence.
The convention took its own course, nom
mated its men and adopted its resolutions,
without any reference to their past til
rades, and the State and the country quite
well understand what the results was, in
spite of all they are saying or can say.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

PUBLISHED BY
THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
q. q. Neutrality-suspicious..
rerms-S2.0O IA year, always in advance.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25
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PUBLISHED BY

BURLINGTON, FRIDAY. JUNE %, lsS6.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-06-25

The Boston Record needn't sneer at
Senator Edmunds's fisherman constituent
cy. Lake Champlain is full of wall-eyed
pike.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-04-16
PUBLICATION NOTICE.

State of Kansas, Barber county, in the District
Court of said county. Albert N. Horner and
Levi u. Condor. as executors of the last will
and testament of Alexander H. Condor, de-
ceased, plaintiffs, versus Frank +. Horncr,
defendant.
Said defendant, Frank F. Homer, will take
notice that he has been sued in the above
named court for upon four certain judgments
rendered in the circuit court, for the county
of Carroll state of Maryland, August 18th,
1877, against said defendant, plaintiffs testatOr
and others, in actions on q certain bond or I'M
dertaking in which defendant was principal
and PLAINTIFF testator was surety, afterward
paid by and thereupon assigned to plaintiffs
aforesaid.
Also for upon certain Judgment rendered
timore, state of Maryland, ON July 9TH, 1888 in
favor of the plaintiffs herein as executors as
aforesaid, and againt the defendant herein in
an action upon certain promissOry note made
by defendant to plaintiffs testator.
And also for that the plaintiffs testator as
traitor bond in which defendant was principal.
was compelled by Judgment rendered by the
supreme Court Of Baltimore city, MARYLAND,
February 4th, 1879, in an action against said
PLANTING testator as surety on said bond. to
pay and did pay thereon large sum, to wit:
$l,060ll, with interest and costs. and said de-
within action by said plaintiffs as executors as
aforesaid. on or before the 9th day of May,
1885, or said petition win be taken as true, and
Judgment rendered for plaintiffs I'm said action
for the sums of s256.S5, 1915, S256s5, and
$l56.S5, with interest on each of said sums
from August 18th. 1877, at the rate of o per
$e67, $lo-Io, 1857, $40 10, $S.67, for the sum OF
$le7 -, with interest thereon from July 9TH,
1888. at per cent. per annum, and the sum Of
$l1-50. Also for the sum OF 81 ,O00.lI, with in
terest thereon from February 4th 1873 and the
sum OF $9.90. with interest from March lst
1873, Mt said rate, and the costs Of this action
And IN the attachment herein granted an order
viii be entered for the sale OF the attached
property accordingly.
Attest: a. M IxoRAHAM
Clerk OF said county.
A l. NOZZLE, Atty for Plaintiffs. IS
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-04-16

land OfiIce 90 Lnrncd, kas., March 2. 10
Notice q hereby given that the following
namec settler has fled notice OF his intention
thar said proof viii Be made before neuben
Lake or ~ A Noah. n r. "a Lake City, Kns., on
May 10, lsoi. via; Dow $. Jonee, for the sc Z
lot 2, section !. twp 10. range - w..
He names the following witnesses 20 prove
Of said lHnd. via.
Noah WarnelaG, Henry Warnsfad, Newton
61rIFnr, John DIIchcr. al o. Lake City. Kama
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-11-20

/ have sought the fossils of dead and crystal
lied lizards of the steamy wet days when
trilobites had to wear rubber oVercoatS ana
gigantic reptiles with cold, smooth tails
roamed around in the warm mud and wrote
their autographs in the oOze. have pierced
under the great circus tent of the universe
and studied the menagerie of every cline,
bat l believe there is big gulf between the
baboon and the man 1t is as wide to-day as
ever it was; 10 doubt wide thousands OF
years ago as it Is to-day. That is why hope
that my parents did not chatter and squeak
at each other in bygOne centuries. II they
hung to the tropical vines and played circus
all the year round and wore nothing but sun
light | am glad did not have to witness it.
If they cavOrted through the forests Of those
primeval days and went IN swimming in VIC
lation of the city ordinances, and remained
ont late nights and roasted III the trees, am
glad that did not survive the sad sight.
"Nothing would pain a1fectionate and
loving child like this. Nothing would so
crush the pride of a fond son as the spectacle
of his parents, old enough to know better,
yelping through the forests, turning hand
springs in the grass, hanging from the droop-
ing boughs of outrageous trees and loatlng
through the bright and blooming days OF life,
like a consolidated aggregation OF geological
wonders.
not W0aD you NlSnJ term d newer
of wood or a drawer of water, of course. Yet
l am opposed to Incidence. l do not care for
it. have had every inducement to become
INDECENT if | would. but | would not. l am
believer in a certain degree of progress in
each mans lifetime, and for that reason l am
striving to acquire knowledge.
ayes, we ought TO strive TO do something,
no matter how unimpOTtant it may be-
have featured on phrenology, Travelled with a
large educated bear for Two years, at the
close of which time fed him with my left
arm have sold glue to the vulgar herd,
soap to the masses, and to the young dark
red rubber balloons that collapsed in the
cleaning. l have seen mankind in every
light and shadow. l have tasted of life gin
gel'ly or guIped it down greedily until L see
how hollow it is. Oh, 50 hollow, so fiat, so
transparent, so false"
As he wrung my hand and went away at
the Union depot, there was n little crystal
tear trembling ON his lashes, while the corners
of his mouth dropped and his chin quivered.
He went away with my deepest sympathy
and Is Waterbury watch which was presented
to me by the government when | resigned
nv position as postmaster at Laramie City
and allowed that corner Of the great national
fabric to fall OH other shoulders. l did not
value the watch, but how viii l explain it:
absence to my wife.-Bll Nye in Sunday
Mercury
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-11-20

wonderful retentive faculties has succeeded IN
retaining his great secret regarding the pole,
together with the man who came out there to
find out about it. So up to 1880 a large mum
Der OF namelesS explorers went to this cele-
brated watering place, shot few pemmlcan,
ate jerked whale shuddered couple OF
times and died. 1t has been the history OF
Arctic exploration from the earliest ages
Men have taken their lives and few dough
nuts in their hands, wandered away into the
uncertain light of the frozen north, made
few observations-to each other regarding
the backward spring-and then cached their
skeletons forever.
In 1880 two Italians named Lem took
load of sun-bissed bananas and made a voy-
age to the extreme north, but the historian
saws that the accounts are so conflicting and
as the stories told by the two brothers did not
agree and neither ever told it the same on
two separate occasions, the history of their
voyage is not used very much.
Years.r rolled on Boys continued to go TO
school and see in their biographies enuclng
pictures of men in expensive fur clothing
running sharp iron spears and long, danger
Gus stabknives into ferocious white bears and
snorting around on large cakes Of cold ice
and having a good time. These inspired the
growing youth to rise up and do hkeE1se, 30
every nation meath the sun has contributed
ILIlleillS u NlLJAN0J Wine
second hand clothes to the remorseIass NAV
of the hungry and ravenous north
And still the great pole continued 10
squeak on through days that were SIX months
long and nights that made breakfast seem al
most useless.
In1417 Columbus went up that way, but
did not succeed in starving TO death. He got
a birds eye view of a large deposit of dark
blue ice, got hungry, and came home.
During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth cen
turtles the northern nations of Europe, and
especially the Dutch, kept the discovery bust
ness red-hot, but they did not get any trag-
ments of the true pole. The maritime nations
of Europe. together with other foreign
powers. dynasties, and human beings, for
some time had spells of visiting the polar seas
and neglecting to come back 1t was the
/ custom then, as it is now, to go twenty rods
| farther than any other man had ever been,
eat a deviled boot leg, curl up, and perish.
/ Thousands of the best and brightest minds OF
all ages have Welded to this wild desire TO live
on sperm oil. pain killer, and jerled walrus
keep little blue diary for thirteen weeks
/ and then feed it to a tail white bear with RED
1 gums.
That is not all. Millions of gallons OF
whisky are sent to these frozen countries, ano
/ used by the explorer in treating the untutorec
Esquimaux. who are not, and never will be
voters. 1t seems to me utterly ill-adviSed anc
shamefuliy idiotic-Bin Nye in Chicago
News.