Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-11-05

schools
The alleged circular assessing the clerk
in the First Pennsylvania internal rev
enue district, proves to be campaign
forgery.
In March, 1SsG, there were but II town
III Vermont in which a majority of thu
voters voted against the town system o.
schools.
The report is circulated that johann
Most IS acting as the agent of the German
government in this country. The repor
seems highly improbable.
"Barthold's Big Bronze" is what the
Boston Hcrdld called it which shows
that APT ALTERATION 5 artfu aid" Is still
invoked by the cultured head-liner of the
hub.
Chicago, having recovered from the
strike of the pork packers, is now afflicted
with a strike of beef butchers Chicago
meat men appear to be discontinued lot
Mr. Lowells friends now deny the story
OF his engagement to the Dowager Lady
LyttlctOn Most Americans would be
glad to hear positive denial from Mr..
Lowell himself.
Captain Scott of the Canadian fisheries
police says that the whole British navy
cannot keep the fishermen out of Canadian
waters. We suspect that Capt Scott is
right.
The Women's Christian Temperance
union, now in session at Minneapolis,
Mimi, reports membership of 924 500
This large membership represents an i'm
mense moral force in the community.
More than one-halt the people of New
England now use the town system Of
scho oils. The excess of those using the
towr system over those using the district
system is greater than the entire popula.
ton of Vermont
II Is probable that general rise in in.
surance rates in unprotected Maine towns
Will be a result of the recent fires. The
insurance companies are beginning to
learn that it doesn't pay TO take too large
risks for the sake of increasing their lists
On the last day of last June. according
to the official figures, the population of
the nited States was $4,000. FIFTY
millions in round numbers" will not an
swer much longer. 1t will soon have to
be sixty millions"
The English papers were not very en-
thus!astic in their comments upon the
dedication of the Bartholdi statue. But
who could expect them to echo with pleas
ure the oft-repeated names of Lafayette
and Rochambeau
Rev Henry Ward Beecher has returned
from Europe, and is being made much of
by his friends. He Is reported to be in
good health, and his business manager
asserts that his English tour has been a
tiuar cial success.
Matters have reached crisis in Bull
garla where war seems inevitable The
sobrHuje has been opeued, and the indie
pentence of Bulgaria declared. An inva-
sion on the part of Russia or Turkey or
both will probably be the result
1t is reported that the new silver certin-
Gates are to be called in by the treasury
department, because the paper on which
they are printed is bad. 1t is, however,
perhaps as near good a. the amount of
silver IN the dollar is to be proper amount.
The star of MOrmOnism, unfortunately,
seems to be again in the ascendency I'm.
migrants continue to pour in from Flu.
rope, while legislation against polygamv
IN tah seems 70 be at standstill Is the
democratic administration going to fulfill
lis promises
New York has about despaired of even
completing her proposed Grant fund. The
only contribution which has been received
Tor "a month was one dollar from some
body III Cleveland, Ohio. Only $l23. SOB in
all has been received of the proposed mil
lion leaving $50, 397 still to be collected
The Knights of Labor have undertaken
one good work, at least, and that is tn,
equalization of wages all over the coun.
try in favor of colOred labor mt the South
Equally skilled labor should bring eoual
wages, whether done By white or black
hands. There should be no industrial
color line.
The speeches which the condemned an.
archists made in Chicago at the time of
their trial have been published in book
torn and are being distributed through
ont the country by labor unions These
organization, might be in better business
than circulating the vuporiugs of murder
er- under sentence for their crimes
President Cleveland has taken the first
sep toward enforcing his order to federal