Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-08-08


most interesting of the kind ever witnessed
in this State. W. C.
PEHSU VAL.
Gen. Banks, on the way to Saratoga, was
robbed of seventy-fye dollars, Friday night,
between Boston and Springfield.
George p. Beard, formerly of Orange,
Principal of the Cumberland Valley State
Normal School at Shippenburgh, Pennsyl-
vania, and a graduate of the University of
Vermont Of the class of 1860, has been
spending two or three weeks in Vermont.
We regret to learn of the serious illness
of the wife of Col. Mason S. Colburn of
Manchester. 1t is feared she cannot sur
vive.
The Vermont delegation who have been
in attendance at the Good Templars Grand
Lodge, sail for home from Belfast, Ireland,
August Is, in the steamer Pennsylvania.
Several of mine host 0ryis' winter guests
at the St. James Hotel at jacksonville,
Florida, are sojourning at the Equinox
House, Manchester, Vt.
Henry X. Field of Montpelier, has been
appointed by Judge Timothy p. Redfeld as
hi, clerk in the matter of determining the
Indebtedness of the Vermont Central Rail-
road management that the Central Yer
mont Railroad Company is to pay, in place
-. T,,,o- Dab Jaol,roI
Hon. L. E. Chittenden and family are now
at Newport, r. |. They had intended pass
ing the summer in Vermont, but were
called to Newport by the sudden and serious
illness of Mrs. Chittenden's father, the
venerable and esteemed DR.. Horace Hatch.
Hon Charles II. Heath of Montpelier, is
the latest namedaspirant for the Republican
nomination for Governor.
John G. SAKE in a Saratoga letter to the
Albany Eraung Journal, says:
| may note that among the recent arrivals
at Congress Hall are no less than three
| Governors. namely. Gov. Dix, Of New
York, Gov. Hartranit, of Pennsylvania, and
| Gov Stewart, of Vermont. The last, the
Youngest and perhaps the most accom-
| plished man of the trio, is none the less ad-
| mired because his term of Office expired
nearly a year ago. So much the better for
" John''-since, with the honor Of the
| gubernatOrial Office. he Is exempt from
It's cares, and can listen to the delicious
music Of Bernstein orchestra, pleasantly
attentive to the lady at his side, with never
a thought of State affairs TO worry his TX
cellency in his summer recreation.
We are glad to learn that Rev. L. o.
Brastow, pastor ofthe South Congregational
Church of St. Johnsbury, has withdrawn
his declination Of the call from the White
sStreet Congregational Church, Of this city,
and accepted it. Mr.. Brastow commences
his labors here on the second sabbath in
| September, and Is to have an annual salary
Of 50 600, and $500 FOR the expenses Of re-
moyal to this city The CaledoHiqR says his
church were a good deal surprised at the
announcement Of his resignation last Sab
bath and says Mr.. Brastow has been set
tied over this church twelve years or more,
and pastor and people are warmly attached.
| The dissolution of such near and pleasant
] relntlNn>
Rev. W. II. II. Murray is to speak at the
fair of the New England Agricultural So
ciety, at Mystic Park, and General Butler
Is to be the orator at the New Hampshire
State Fair.
The charming cantatrice Pauline Canissa
Is rusticating at the Newbury Springs in
Orange county, and is the guest of Mr..
VIM. Clark. who has one Of the most de-
lightful residences in the place, famous for
its healing waters. \ correspondent of the
Boston TrqUeller, says:
The fair lady, as might be expected, is
/ the bright particular star of the place, and
Is almost worshipped by those who have the
pleasure Of her acquaintance. Most OF the
Young men have mounted new neck ties in
! her honor. and have become bowitched by
her peerless charms.
Senator Sumner is at Boston looking very
well, and says that he has not been in 50
good health as he Is now for three or four
years.
The late Hiram Powers, in commenting
on the proceedings Of Co. gress in relation
to Winnie Ream's Lincoln, said that Con
gress would do well to put Cupid on the
dome of the capitol, instead Of the Goddess
Of Liberty.
We are informed by one of the attorneys
employed in the prosecution Of the suits
against the Trustee and Managers Of the
Vermont Central, that there are but three
attorneys so engaged at present that OF
these one has never met Mr.. SanbOrn, Of the
Springfield Republican, another was at the
West when Mr.. Sanborn was in St. Adams,
and the third, who writes to US, communi-
Gated no ialsehoods to Mr.. Sanborn; said
nothing derogatory to the good name OF
Judge Royce, in whose integrity the coun
sci for the Vermont and Canada have conf
dence :" and :" said nothing but what the
most violent partisan Of Gov. Smith could
or would have said, if the same question,
had been asked Of him." As the false and
distorted statements communicated to the
Springfield Republican, correspondent, have
been attributed lit seems on mistaken in
eorma tion) in this and other papers, in part
70 the counsel against the Managers, they
orc entitled to this correction, and we arr
Glad that so complete denial can be made
n tho, behalf We do not wonder thai
resnectal lie gentlemen are unwilling to RESI-
upder the uspicion of furnishing the ma
terial for 81, III ISLANDERS as the Republican
has put in pri. 1t:
Hon. Horace Fairbanks has purchased OF
A s Hatch. of \ Few York, for the Art Gal
lery of the St. JOIN, roury Athcn@um' Bier
stadt's celebrated pgdnt ing, 1.-The Domes o
the Yosemite"
Hon. Loren W. Clarke o. Charleston, hai
been appointed Deputy Cole, ftor oil Inter
nal Revenue for Orleans and Is sex counties
He held the Office of Assistant As 'essor iron
September, 1862, till the Office was 'bollshe'
May Goth. 1873.
The health Of Prof. Silas II. Pearl / I'm
proving, and it is thought that he will d.
able to resume charge of the New Haml
shire State Normal School at Plymouth the
coming fall.
Hon. Philip II. Emerson. formerly of
Wallingford, but now one of the judges of
the United States Court for Utah, is to hear
the great divorce suit of Ann Eliza Young
nee Webb, for divorce from Brigham
Young, another Vermonter. Ann Eliza"
is Brigham's seventeenth spouse.
D. L. Milliken, formerly editor Of the
Brattleboro Record, is now located at Bos-
ton as the New England manager for 7. 5.
Arthur & Co., of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Eliza c. Wells, whose death is no.
ticed elsewhere, was the widow of the Hon.
VIM. W. Wells, late of Waterbury and
| Annnhtcr Of the late Dan Carnenter who