Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-06-24
pERsJSAL GOSSIP

Mcfarland hs. gone TO Madison, Wis.
CIV. ChsmHerlli1 has been invited to deliver
the Grafton 10 Portland, Ne, on the Fourth Of
July
Iriu'i BE evidence u George Francis Trains
iaslui'y is afforded 5y his project 70 start news
paper in Washington.
General B. T Butler Is sail 20 BE- dramati1ed
in ;le title role Of French plsy called '' Ihe
Ficui If New Orleans
Arcliucaess Sophia is sb1u; TO erect in the
suburbs Of Vienna chapel % the memory Il
her il.-fatoi sou NlEiui'au.
A Eraye-ii-ser Ia Narysyilio. California. has
gore crazy. Twice re 1is escaped fsom bis KEEP
crs, and been found 10 the cemetery resurreetiug
MS former iu;ermeuts
Senator Harlan las; year styled the reporters
the lazaroui Of the press AMI now calls
them " the clrouome;s-s Of public opinion"
4 timely change.
A witty exchange says that Brigham Young,
though no soldier, has commanded considerable
infantry for a man Of his sse.
William Geary, son Of Gov Gasry Of Penn
sylvania, snd Johnny Glen, the '' Drummer Soy
II Chickamauca,' have gone to West Point to
stand an eysmiuo'i'7 flr cale:sh;rs
E1-Secretary Seward says th,t his health,
which received a severe sh, ca IN coming down
the mountains from Mexico, Is slowly improv-
ing, but requires much care.
People q Wyoming don't know whether to call
their female judge a Justices Of the peace or a
justice OF the peactss.
Nilsson is called the most generous prima
donna in Europe. She has lately built church
in her own country, SEeiea, ami has si7ea each
Of SIX brothers and sisters a farm.
JetT Davis has been chosen a vestrym2a Of the
Church Of 81. Lazsrus, at Memphis The rec
tor is the Rev. John T. Wheat, who lost two
sons in the Confederate service.
Indisna has daughter named Louisa STRAIT
ton, Of Cass Coau'y, wh0 challenges any man in
the State TO pioNius match with her. The con-
iiuous are that each shall drive two-horse
team aud -o.d the pl0F.
All the Cdjcsc1 editors want 70 marry Lillian
Elgarton, and are getting divorces from their
prese1t wives for that purpose. Some Of them
are going 90 he DIS .rp,iutei
Il Is said that Paul llsrro-Harring, Danish
adyen.urer, who Wa friend Of Lord Byron,
and went on The Gre. k campaign with him, wss
excited 10 insanity and suicide by reading Mrs
Stoves Byron Book.
Dr. Blerng, sn American theologaa, vas
lately received into the Greek Church at s.
Psfer,hurgh. The Gernsu l.ngu.ge Vas u,.d
"a the certm1ny, for the frs; time, ru this occa-
sion.
The Sul'-u hs7 conferred the rank of lieuten-
sut-co'anei upon 3 Turkish editor for vriiiug an
eu'oc'stic leading article upon his Seieuity.
A man At Springfield. M, be, i've ladies a
new dress each, that they couldn't refrain {, on
talking for two hours. Oae Of them held
out for an hour Snd fen minutes, sud the
other wan the dress. They made it up on him
when tie time hal expirei.
\ young lady Of Cambridge, Mass for seve-
raj years lealing clerk in the MidileSex Reg stry
os Deeds office, has opened an office Cor the pur-
pose of carrying en- the business Of cUn' eyance
Of real estate.
\ Paris spsci4l states that Of II editors Who
started the N r,eiiiaiss last December. one
has been siied. > are in prisgn, sad The others
have ye- 10 receive sentences Fines have sl=c
been paid amounting 10 l2,z2l francs.
There Is bit Of romance connected with
Spotted Tai, the Sioux. chief Ii IS said that
his daughter. when dying. claspei her arms
ahou; his neck and made him swear never TO
take the life Of white man. Since then he has
often avertel the hard Of rspine and murder
from falling on tie deieuceiess settler.
The lady brokers Of Wall street now astonish the
public, We are tod, by appearing with Their
hair cut close TO their heads. genilemen' 5 or
binary round hat, sli costume that might
pass for 4 short sur,out- Anything for a pay
ing uotoriety i their motto and II S not theirs
exclusively, by any means
Nathaniel Hawthorne relates an anecdate oil
the origin Of Franklin's adoption Of the eus,o-
may civil dress when going to court as III
ploaist. II was simply that the tailor had dis
/ anpoiptel him Of his court suit, and he wore
bis plain one, with great reluctance because ne
| had no other Afisrwsrd, gaming grea
success and praise by bis nishsp' ne eonhnuea'o
] wear it from policy.