Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-21
Personal GOSSIP,

The oldest Senator in Congress is simon Cam
eron, who was born in 1893.
Carlotta Patti is conyaleseent. She will give
concerts in Cincinnati this week.
George D. Prentice's illness is from pneumonia
brought on by cold
Two sovereigns out Of situations, isabella Of
Spain and Francis the Second Of Naples. are now
residing in the same house in Rome.
Ramor hath it that young Brigham lost -
900 at cards in this city As in Moses time
Faro's false profits got the better Of him.-.N.
/ y. U'orii
Mazzini says he is growing old. He canno:
write At night without pain to his head and eyes
aud his days work is only half what be wishes
/ it to be
Mr. John Savage, President of the Irish Re
public, denies that Mr.. John Martin the recent
/ ly defeated candidate for Parliament from Long
ford county, Ireland, Is a fenian.
1t is expected that Mr.. Goodwin Smith will re-
turn to England during the present year. Ac-
corling TO the Scotsman, the American climate
/ does not agree with his health.
] Madame Rattazzi has recently written letter
| TO the Emperor Napoleon, in which she asks him
TO restore to her the full privileges, rank and in
come Of an Imperial Princess
Miss Minnie Hauck has been singing at Mos
COW, where she seems to nave created an extra
/ ordinary sensation. In Faust" she wss called
/ out ten times after the church scene, and SIX
| times at the end Of the opera.
/ Bam-me- no-do-no-kiad, who reported that he
was an 0jbeway chief on his way to Washington
/ TO see his Great Father, was arrested in Balti-
more on Wednesday for being drunk. Being
drunk vas not an unparionabe offence, but his
! unearthly yells, which he called his war Whoop,
alarmed the children in the streets At the sta
ton house he expressed his disgust at the lodge,
and finally, on being released, went away, say
ing, "lnjun sick in head; bad fire water; lnjun
fool 80
Mr.. Abraham Lincoln IS living in Frankfort
on the-Nain. and the story Of her intended mar
ris-e is denied by correspondent Of the New
York Times, who adds ''She occupies a small
apartment in the immediate neighb0rhooi Of the
boarding school attended by her youngest son,
Tai. She lives in the humblest style, does not
mingle in society, wears mourning up to the
present day, receives no gentlemen visitors, has
never resided in the Grand Duchy Of Baden,
a r been at or Lear the Baden Court, and j. en-
tirey unacquainted with the Count with whom
her name has been coupled
Ia the Washington letter TO the NY. Star. We
read that among the lobby women last Winter
was the daughter Of present United States Sen
ator, whose father years ago refused TO let her
marry the man Of her choice She eopel with
him. he deceived her by a mock marriage, be
having two other wives, so-cal.ei. living. he took
all her Jewels, and even most Of her clothing,
and abandoned her. She went 10 the bad head
long, refused all overtures 10 return home AMI
the father and daughter used to pass one another
IN the Capitol a year ago-she wanton and he
a Seuat0r-and lever SPEAK Nor did either
ever bttray the event & any one. He ctilel her
dead; she consented to be dead even to him"
Mr. Alfred H. Louis. formerly the proprietor
aud editor of the Spectator Of LonIon, has come
to the United States to live, and mas declared his
intention 10 become an American citizen. lie
will reside IN New York, and practise his pro
tessiou AS a lawyer there Il is his conviction
that the United States Is 10 become the centre Of
the English race, and that Great Britain and all .
her colonies are destined at no very distant day
to form very intimate relations with this repub-
lie Ihi, opinion, formed after years Of study
and travel in every part of the globe where Eng
lish is spoken, has led him to establish himself
on this side Of the Atlantic
1t is said that three Roman ladies, the Prin-
,esses Borghese. Niano, and Rospigiiosi, and the
Duchess Sdlvistif, represent together more than
i've millions OF dollars in diamonds These lew
els are the accumulated wealth Of centuries. and
are strictly entailei. When they are to be worn
he owner for the time being gives receipt for
he same TO the custodian. a confidential servant,
= hose father and grandfather before him have
probably died in the same office. The lady may
wear them when and where she peases, always
With the f0rmality Of receipt; but she must re-
urn her jewels next day; she may not take them
'ut Of Rome; in short, they are loaned to the
VIE OF the head Of the family, and are consider
d almost in the Light Of Crown Jewels
The Rome correspondent Of a New York paper
'ays that among the students Of the Propaganda
5 jet black negro, one Of the contrabands Of I
south Carolina, who was taught his hic. hrc, I
l0c by a distinguished Catholic priest of Charles
on, sc. The sable theologan is one Of the t
,esi students il the college, quick. has very {
etentiye memory, well up in languages and an
EXCELLENT scholar in divinity.