Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-03-28
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70 OF Col. Charles Dillingham;, as naval Office
= at New Orleans, and Capt. John W. Clarl
IF as Postmaster at Montpelier. Both hay
n been faithful and excellent officers.
+ Among the honorary commissioners
/ the Vienna Exposition, appointed by tn
# President, we find the names of C. S. MOI
rill and Levi X. Fuller, of Vermont.
T Lieut.. Fred Grant has been assigned t
3. duty on General Sheridan's staff at Chi
cago.
I President Grant attended the sociabl
r given Tuesday night by the New Englan
Society of Washington, and was INTRODUCES
by Judge Poland, the president of the So
ciety
DIR. G. P. Conn, formerly Surgeon of tn
Twelfth Vermont Regiment, has been re
elected City Physician of Concord, n. II.
Judge Poland has been appointed one o
the visitors to the military academy at Yves
Point, on the part of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
Hon. c. W. Willard has left Washington
for Southern tour. He intends to visit
Florida and other portions of the South, and
will probably not return to Vermont before
the middle of May.
Among the naval veterans just relieved
from active duty by Secretary Robson, in
accordance with the recent act of Congress,
is Rear Admiral Theodorus 5. Bailey, of
Plattsburgh, who is a member of the Light
house Board. He entered the service June
l, 1878; sea service % years and 6 months :;
shore duty Il years and 5 months; in ser
vice 50 years. He has been one of the most
distinguished officers in the American navy
and retires full Of years and honors.
Capt. jesse Warren of Dublin, n. H.,
who has been for many years well known
cattle and wool broker in New Hampshire
and Vermont, died recently at the West
where he had gone on business.
Hon. Levi B. Villas, of Madison, Wis,
brother of VIM. r. Villas of this city. and
long prominent citizen of Vermont, is a
member of the present legislature of that
State and received the Democratic vote for
Speaker at the organization of the assembly
in January. He has recently had a sore af-
Fiction. in the death ofhis second son, Mai.
Henry Nilas-a promising young lawyer
who was found dead in his room at hotel
in a Kentucky city, whittier he had gone on
professional business, heart disease being
the cause.
President Grant, on taking the oath, the
other day, kissed these words in the Ilth
chapter of Isaiah "And the spirit of the
Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wis
dom and understanding, the spirit of coun-
Sel and might, the spirit of knowledge ami |
of the Lord; and shall make him of quick |
understanding in the fear of the Lord and |
he shall not judge after the sight Of his
eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of
his ears
Charles P Allen, of Irasburgh, a grand
nephew Of the hero Of old I'll, is now in
Havana, bat expects soon to return to En-
terpri>e, Florida, where he has been spend
ing the winter for his health.
Hon. Philip II. Emerson, formerly of
Wallingford, and president pro ten. of the
Michigan Senate, has been appointed by the
President and confirmed by the Senate, as
Associate Justice ofthe United States Court
n the Territory of Utah.
General Seayer is about to remove from
'roctorSyille to Woodstock, where he will
continue the practice Of law.
There are three ex-conlederate generals
4 The United States Senate. Alcorn of Mis- I
is>ippi, Ransom Of North Carolina. and
ordon Of Georgia
V. B. Denslow, late Of the editorial staff
the Chicago Journal, has abandoned the t
orrying slavery Of journalism and entered
pom the practice of the law
The late DR.. Godfrey, of Georgia, was il
ell known and and much esteemed in this [
ty. lie did not turn his attention to the {
udy of medicine until after he was thirty e
'ars ofage. He studied first with DR.. II. o. II
artlett, of Milton, and afterwards with :
rs. Thayer and Carpenter, of this city, p
I'd was graduated from the medical de n
rtment ofthe [. Y. NJ. & ;. A. c. in 1866. o
e successfully practised his profession at v
ushing, L. l., about four years, and at Il
'rfolk, Va, about one year, where his W
alth 50 entirely failed that he was finally m
npelled to abandon it. His funeral was
ended on Sunday last by a large con- ar
lrse Of his old neighbors and friends, and hi
= venerable Elder Sabin preached one of nj
most able and instructive discourses. N
Rev. Walter II. Ayers, who has been the NJ.
ing pastor of the Congregational church on
Wmooski, for the past year, will close ~
labors with his people upon the coming =,
'hath. He Is unanimously called to the -
ngregational church of Castleton, and +.
begin work there Immediately. -