Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-06-20
PERSON Al.

Hon. Benjamin H. Steele has resigned
his position as member of the Board OF
Education. on account of ill-health, aad,
by the advice Of hi, physician, started for
st. Paul, Minnesota, saturday. He has
been i'll for some mon his, but until within
the past two or three weeks, his health was
apparently returning. when he again ex-
perieaced a relapse, and Is now to try the
pure, dry air Of Minnesota, with the hopes
Of receiving permanent benefit theretrom.
Among the graduates at the forty-eighth
commencement Of the Newton Theological
Institute, Wednesday, was john Skinner
Hutchinson, Of Windsor, who delivered an
Grafton on The church-the grand society
of reform and progress"
Hon George Nichols, Secretary Of State,
left home Tuesday, for a Western tour of
tx or eight weeks.
By the lamentable accident on Marsh 5
Pond, in Calais, on Sunday afternoon, al
rea 1y described in our columns, one en-
tire household was suddenly cut of, Mr..
Ti-hout t, his wife and child, who were among
the drowned being all there was Of his
family, except two sons who have not lived
at home for a number Of years.
The gr,'at Barnum was with his show at
Fort Edw ard, Friday, and made speech to
tho assent led thousands.
Henry c. La Point of St. Adams, has Just
graduated at West Point He ranked as
twenty-eigh th in a class of for:y-three.
There has been much anxiety the past
week among the few who have known the
facts concerning the alarming illness Of
Vice President Wilson. His attack was
followed by partial deafness and partial
blindness, and the general character Of his
SYMPTOMS Was such as to threaten lossofhis
life. lie is now improving, but is by no
means out of danger He has been sojourn-
ing in Boston for some weeks under the
care of Dr. Clark a distinguished physician,
and has seen very few Of his friends.
Rev. {. L. Goodell, late of New Britain,
Conn, was installed as pastor of the Pill
grim Congregational Church of St. Louis,
on the 9Th inst. The church e1ifice lisa fine
stonei structure, seating 1900 persons, and
| is call ed one of the most tasteful and COM
modio US churches in st. Louis. I he church
| is pre- sperous, and during the five months
that Mr.. Goodell has been supplying the
| pulpit, 81 new converts have been aided to
/ its nu mbers. The exercises of the IN s1alla-
ton ere of especial interest. Rev. w II
Beecht r, brother of Henry Ward Bee cher
preside d over the council. The churei
was be autifully decked with flowers. The
following diyines participated in the conn
ell L. NJ. Post, d. D., Rev. j. Rice, Rev
W. II. Beecher, Rev. VIM. Perkins, Rev
DR.. Roy and Rev, NJ. j. Savage. The ser
mon was by Mr.. Savage, the charge by Mr.
Beecher, and the right hand of fellowship
by Rev. T. NJ. Cruickshanks who was :
classmate of Mr.. Goodell's at Andover.
Rev. d. C. Roberts, formerly of Mont
pelier, has accepted call to become tn
Rector of st. Thomas church in Brandon
Among the graduating class of the Rens
seiaer Poly technic Institute is c. P. Harris
of Rutland, whose graduating thesis is
review of he Hoosac Tunnel
1t is run nored that Gen. Buffers admirer
are ende avoring to procure for him al
honorary degree of D. d. in addition to hi
doctorate of laws.