Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-07-28
PERSONAL.

Ia 1889 Ebenezer Bastard enigra,ed from Ire
land to Louisville. KY, with SIC, 900, which. b,
dint OF shrewdness and good luck, he Las in.
creased to about 81 100000 Some relatives il
lrelsnd have inst had the unexpected grace tC
dc and leave him landed estates worth SO, 800.
OOO more, and he has now ceased to be an Amer.
icsn citizen, returning to the sod country tC
enJoy his immense possessions
Miss Ridley is announced as the present
belle Of Saratoga. and Miss Schomberg at Cape
May.
Nicholas Halpine, son of the late Sc Miles
/ O'Reilly," has been admitted into the Naval
Academy a: Annapolis.
Cyrus Wakefield has given Harvard College
one hundred thousand dollars for a new recita-
tion hall.
Those muscular Christians, John Morrissey
and John c. Heenan, were recent visitors at the
Round Lake Camp Meeting.
The Eaglish journals say that Lawrence Oil
phsnt. and not Col H4miey. is the author of
the ''Battle Of Dorking
Jubilee Gilmore is going to Europe to talk up
the great international musical splurge be has
in contemplation for next June
sam Bu;terworth, the friend Of General
Sickes in his scrspe with Barton Key, lives in
California and is worth two millions.
Lieutenant Hugh Mckee, who wss killed in
I the fight with the Coresns, was A native of Ken
tucky, and the son Of Colonel W. r. Mckee,
who fell at the battle of Buena Vista Young
Mckee graduated from the Naval Academy in
1865.
Five columns was the length Of Alexander II.
Stephens political leader in the Atlanta Sun Of
The llth inst.
Gen. Esell, of the Confederate States army,
Is onltiysting little garden spot Of 1000 acres
in Tennessee.
Fred Grant has been oierei the position
which he viii probably sccepi, Of civil engineer
on the Uaion Pacific railroad.
Mrs Dablgren is preparing for publication a
memoir Of hes son Uric, which the late Rear
Admiral Dahlgren nearly completed before his
death.
Mr.. George William Curtis has declined to de-
liver the orstion at the Scott centennial celebra-
ti1n in Chicago in August, and bir. James Rus
sell Lowell refuses to read 4 poem for the same
occasion.
Thos. Mast, the great caricltlrist, aided, as
a private in the Seventh Regiment, in SUPPRESS
ing the riots on the l2th inst His peacil
viii doubtless duly illustrate the events Of that
day.
One Of the S.amese twins is lying 81 the point
Of death At their residence in North Carolina,
and arrangements have been made for an imme-
diate separation Of the two when the event shall
occur.
Rochefort is pronounced To be insane
The house in which John Calvin lived and
died, in Genera, Is now ocelpiel by q Rom7n
Catholic school.
Walt Wh;tmla II ata Long leland farmhouse,
picking himself in the salt sea wsye for new
and mysterious carols.
M anil Mrs Tom Thumb, Commodore Nut;
aud Minnie Warren, are giving exhibitions ST
English provincial theatres.
Randolph Rogers, the sculptor. Is coming
home 10 take charge Of the construction of the
Michigan soldiers monument AT Detroit, sud is
soon expected.
Captain Msyue Reii, who left this country,
severNl mouths ago, in very bad health, has re-
covered in his Irish home, anl hss resumed
writing.
" Hsiolicus " (Veruon Hsrcourt) has been
making himself - obaOxious in Parliament 10
zone # his Toliii,l opponents that they have
dubbed him '' the Great Liberal windmill
Enms Adams, pretty female. and willow Of
the late NOTORIOUS pr.ze-dghteF, Tom Hyer, was
up before Judge Bedford, New York a;ely, for
theft She was released
Governor WArmoulh OF Lluisilnt Is now an
n0uncel out Of danger. lie hiss slso escaped the
raiafal operation Of having his FOO, amPuiatel,
which WAS at ore tims threatened.
Colonel Thompson. Minnesota farmer. has
steam plough which breaks up forty sores OF
Prairis lay.