Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-03-29
Personal.

Hon GEORGE ". GRANDEy OF Eorgonnes.
has been appointed United States Consul at
San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. This may
be agreeable to Mr. Grandey, Is be carcs
for change Of air but how is Ycrsennes
gong to get along without the general?
1t is now stated that the Austrian Mis-
sion was not offered to Senator Foster, Mr.
Seward being unwilling to give him the
place and the announcement IL made Of
the appointment Of Gen. Frank Elair 70 the
place. 1t is not likely that the Senate VIII
consent to sec Frank Blair in Mr.. Mo.lo7's
shoes
We regret to learn, from Wal,on'- Jolra-
al, that Hon. Norman Williams Of Wood
stock, was stricken by paralysis on Friday
last, and, Up to Saturday evening, renamed
unconscious.
George \. Hunt OF Brattleboro, has been
appointed assistant revrnue ASSESSOR, IN place
Of Eben Howe Of Vernon, lately deceased.
Cyrus Field Is to have another medal. lie
got one in Liverpool, at grand dinner.
few days ago. and the Wisconsin Legislature
have voted him another
David Watson, 10 years Of age, d well.
known printer Of New Hampshire, died
yesterday morning at Concord The de-
ceased was city clerk last year, prepared and
"set up" the Concord Directories. and at
one tiEc published the Woodstock Y,)
Ol<(rT.
Report Gays Queen Victoria is writing a
life Of Prince Albert.
Brig. Gen. John II. Gleeson has been
confirmed as Major General by breyet. lie
is the present Head Centre Of the Ienians in
this country.
Gen. Grant, by order of the President, as
signs Breyct Major General John Pope to
command the third district under the recon
struction bill, comprising the States OF Geor-
gia, Florida and Alabama, and Gen. George
H. Thomas is assigned to the command Of
the Department of the Cumberland. This
Is done at the request OF Gen. Thomas.
Madame Paterson Bonaparte lives in
Baltimore boarding house, in a rather par
simonious manner Though she is seventy
eight years old, she retains the liyeliness Of
her air and all the elegance Of her ancient
regime manners.
4 letter from Paris says that person
called George W. McCracken, native Of
Illinois by birth and Bohemian Of the seed
lest description by profession and in appear
ance, and whose pretensions were Of des-
cription which makes it probable that he
was the ''Peeping Tom correspondent Of
the Government, was the object Of the char
tiles of Americans in Paris, and that he was
sent home at their expense.
There are three Barnums running for
Congress in the Fourth district of Connecti-
eat.
Gen. Halpine, on examination before the |
judiciary Committee on Saturday, in refer
ence to his conversations with the President /
on the subject of reputation, denied that he
intended to intimate that Mr. johnson fav-
Ored the policy Of repudiating the national
debt
PERsoNAL.-A correspondent Of the Wood
stock Standard, describing the recent golden
wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Del Billings OF
that place, says
The father and mother Of Mr.. Billings, and
the father and mother, and grandfather and
grandmother Of Mrs. Billings, lived over ffty
years in harmony together. but " golden we'd
dings'' had scarcely been heard Of, on this aide
Of the Atlantic, in their time
The month Of March in which the festival
vas held, has, for this family, q deep interest.
Their first ancestor IN this country, William
Billings, who came over about the middle Of the
eventeenth century, died at SIonington, Con-
lecticut, on the 10th day Of March, 17IS. In
iarch, Mrs. Billings. her daughter Laura, and
er son Frank, were born. In March, Mrs.
Filings. her daughter Laura, and her sons
frederick and Frank, were married. Mrs.
Fetherbee, the mother Of Mrs. Billings. and
harlies Billings Allen, her grandson, died in
larch. And the 18th Of March, 1867, was j
lie birthday Of DR.. Parmly, fsther-in-law to
frederick Billings, so that the " Golden we'd
ing" held also "Golden Birthday within
Ne circle Of its hours Of JOY.