Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-12-21
Personal.

! Ex-Governor Hilsnd Hall Of Ben.
nington, is spending the winter in New
| York.
Hon. Henry G. Root and family OF
Bennington, and Henry B. Kent, Esq, OF
Dorset, spend the winter at Jacksonville,
Florida.
Governor Stewart, Generals P. P.
Pitkin and Thomas o. Seaver, have &C.
cepted invitations to be- present at the
Officers Reunion at Burlington in Janu-
airy.
H. s. Marcy. the competent general
freight agent of the Renssel aer and Sara
toga railroad, has been app ointed to the
charge of both departments of the Della
ware and Hudson Canal company, viz {:
the Albany and susquehanDa and Rens-
selasr and Saratoga.
Rev. Mr.. Huugerford of Colchester,
has received call to the G ,ntre Congre-
gstional church at Meride u, Conn. Mr..
Hungerford with his famil y are spending
the winter in Brooklyn; but we under
stand be has decided to ancept this call,
and will remove TO Meriden in a few
months.
General Chester A. Arthur. the new
Collector of the Port of New York, was
born in Fairfield. franklin county, VT.
in 1899, and is therefore forty two years
of age. His father, who is still living, lie
a Baptist clergyman, and resided in
Hinesburgh after his residence in Fair
field, and previous to living in Fairfield
he resided in Burlington, and was for
Rome tine Principal of the Academy
there. He will doabtless be remembered
by on older citizens.
In a late biographical sketch OF Ste
rhen Pearl Andrews, the free lover, in-
ventor OF "Universolory," "Alwato," etc,
it Ia stated that bis father was Rev. Elisha
Andrewa, Baptist clergyman, and that
"Col. Stephen Pearl, of Darlington, Yer
mont, who distinguished himself in the
war of 1919, in the defense of the Lake
Champlaiu repi IN from British invasion,
aud whose exph onious name this young
eat son of the Baptist preacher inherited,
wss his great uncle"
Hon. G. Fl. Williams, who succeeds
Me-. Alderman as Attorney General, is
native of Now York, forty-eight years Of
age, and eelf.educated lawyer. He lived
ia Iowa several years. holding several
Judicial offices. In 1853 he was appointed
nv President Pierce Chief Justice of the
Territory of Oregon, and he has lived
there sinee. He entered the United
States Senate in 1864 as q Republican.
and was IF great service on important
committees At the close of his term last
soriug he was made q member of the
joint High Commission, where he served
With credit The new Attorney General
married a Rutland county lady, tbeI
daughter of the late Rev. Henry Bigelow
of Middletown.
Miss Emma L. Hoyt, of Montpelier,
has been elected class poet by her mates
at Vasssr College.
-Hiram Atkins Of the Argus ard
Patriot waa chosen one of the Board of
Trustees of Norwich University.st North
field. at the recent annual meeting of
that institution.
j. A. Blake, formerly of Franklin
county, ia city clerk of Denver, Colorado.
and associate editor OF the Denver Tribune.
ston4 Brothers, from this county, are
lumber merchants at Denver.
Hon. D M. Camp, proprietor of the
Newport Ezpress. has sold one half of the
inter est in that establishment to Hon. 4. |
A. Stewart Of Derby.
The Free Press says: A. G. Ballard,
Eco, who left home last week for the
South, writes ia from New York, where
he arrived last Friday noon, that on Sat-
urday he had decided SYMPTOMS of hem
orrhsge, and on Sunday and Monday
quite severe attacks of the same 4; and his
attending physician, DR.. Burdiok, who
socomp MED him advises him that he is
not in fit condition to continue his
Journey Mr.. Ballard may go on to Wash
ington, on matters Of business, but will
probably return home in few days, be-
lieving that perfect rest and home oen-
fort will be better for him than the incon-
veniences and uncertainties of a life
among strangers, even in milder climate
He does not yet experience much incon-
vpnience from his difficulties, but remem-
bers the debilitating effect of like at
tack last June, and is naturally cautious.
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