Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-26

The United States Senate will doubtless |
be glad to learn the presidents reasons for |
removing MIR. Garland.
Some of the late Gen. Hancock's eX-
pressions regarding other soldiers were
fairly epigrammatic. Grant, he said, was
too big hearted for pigmy critics to APP
preciate Sherman was 'dogged,' and 'un-
shakable and true : Robert f. Lee.
fought like an honest gentleman and
Phil Sheridan was "a whirlwind with
spurs.
The hope that the Manchester, n. II.
strikers would return to work en- mdSSc
on the opening Of the gates of the Amos
keag mills on Monday, was not realized,
though a sufficient number of them to
run the mills on moderate scale resumed |
their looms. 1t is pretty evident that the
company has the advantage in the con
test.
Statistics show that very large pro
portion stated even as high as 90 per
cent, of the fires occurring in this coun
try are due to incendiarism. 1t is an
like such a proportion of the destructive
fires in the United states can be traced to
criminal causes. More attention will have
to be paid to the connection between in
surance and arson.
Mr.. Edmunds' S report on the duty of
the president not to withhold from the
Senate the information it requires in the
discharge of its duty in cases of appoint
ments and removals is regarded as very
strong and able document. The Albany
journal voices the general verdict of the
Republican Press when it says: Both
as declaration of the abstract rights of
Congress, and as an assertion of the prin-
ciples of justice, Mr. Edmunds's report is
unanswerable e."
The American Steamship companies do
not appear to be disturbed Ivy Postmaster
General Nilass attempt to compel them
to carry the mails for nothing. They say
that if his bill passes the House it cannot
pass the Senate, and if it should pass the
Senate it would be declared unconstitu-
tional by the Supreme Court, Mr.. Villas
has put his foot into it, in this matter
of carrying the foreign mails, and the
sooner he backs out the better it will be
for the administration of which he Is a
member.
Mr.. w. s. Gilbert, the English author,
who made such a fuss over a modest
check sent him by the Harpers, gets
sharp hit from the critic. The critic
says that before the right Of free stealing
from French play rights was abridged In
England, Mr.. Gilbert was among those
who used it most unscrupulously. 1T
would be interesting adds the critic,
''to know whether he ever paid NJ Den
merry for the use of L'Escamoteur, NJ. La
biche for the use of LeChapeau de Paille
d'Italie, or NM. Meilhac and Halevy for
the use of lie Roi Candaule and lie Reveil-
Ion. 1t would be interesting, too, to know
what NM. Dennery, Labiche, Meilhac and
Halevy would think Of Mr.. Gilberts let
ter if they should happen to see it,
Collector Smalley informs us that while
the collections in this district are increas-
ing he does not need to increase the force
except as to what are called navigation
men" at Wind Mill Point. The force in
this district is in his opinion, ample to do
the work, except during the season of
navigation, when two more deputies may
be required. The reduction heretofore
made in the force is, he says, not tempo
rary except to this extent and was not in
tended TO take the district out Of the civil
service rule. it is only fair to Mr.. Smalley
to state these facts, and to say that we
shall watch with interest his efforts to re
duce the expenses of his district, that we
shall welcome whatever he is able to &C
complish in the way of genuine and per
manent retrenchmcnt and that we hope
that his expectations in that direction
will he fully realized.
The death of John B. Cough deprive,
the temperance cause of its most eloquen
and successful speaker The temperate
cause, With him, was both gospel and life
His heart and soul were given up to ii
advocacy. No example Of greater success
as public lecturer can be mentioned
yet, as recent lecturer in this city said
John b. Cough was not the same man Of
the public platform when speaking OF
miscellaneous topics AS when fired by hi
all-absorbing theme of Temperance
When speaking on general topics he gay
the impression of a man of tair intelleC
lIdl JONCl' W liOI opClhlhS va tNi'iPNi
ance he was Demosthenes in eloquenc
and St Paul in earnestness and patho,
The work of enforcing the Edmund
law in Utah goes on, and spares not eve
the sanity leaders of the saints then
selves The Mormons are evidently st
riously talking of moving ont, bag an
baggage. Their official organ, the Sal
Lake Herdld, says in a recent issue;
During the past month very little ha
been sad about the purchase by Mo-
mons of the GOO miles square of territor
in Australia; but all understand that I'll
land has been bought and paid for an
arrangements are being made for char
ering a line of steamers to carry Il fe'
hundreds of thousands of Mormons an
their goods and chattels to the sixth col
tinent. We did not intend to give away III
Honduras scheme but the newspapers al
talking aboutit, and now the facts migi