Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-10-03

fair grounds, the last day OF the State iair.
PERSONAL
jefferson Davis has been dangerously i'll
at Louisville.
Cough, Bcccher, Sumner and Anna Dick
lnson are said to get 800 lecture, this
season.
Minister Marsh and family accompanied
Senator Edmunds and family in their visit
to Paris. Mr.. Edmunds sails from Liver
pool for New York October It'll.
Deacon Elijah Boardman, an old and in
lluential citizen of West Rutland, died on
Thursday.
Dr. W. MILES of Lyndon, died sudden
ly a few days since, . Fairhayen, on his
way home.
Mossrs. Fisk x Ilatcl. are confident that
their assets will not only cover all their La
bilities, but that there viii be a large sur
plus if they are left to settle their affairs
themselves.
Capt. VIM. J. Cain, son Of John Cain Of
Rutland, late of the U. 5. Cavalry, has an
appointment in the Office of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad, and has his
headquarters at Sedalia, Missouri.
Miss Fannie Brainerd of st. Adams, who
was beaten by burglar, recently, is recov-
cring from her injuries, which were feared
to be fatal
Prof. IL. NJ. Secley of Midilebury Col
lege, is to give some twenty or thirty lee
turcs in Rutland, on the subject of ana
lytical chemistry, commencing about the
first of January.
Miss Abbe Wadleigh, daughter of F. \.
Wadleigh of East Berkshire, has been elect
ed to the Profc@sorship of Chemistry in the
Pennsylvania Female College, Pittsburg,
with a salary of $500.
Benjamin Griswold died in Cambridge
Sept. 18th, aged 81 years. He was man
of marked pcculiaritics of character, and
had read one and the same Bible through
one hundred and sixty-fyc times, and had
kept tally thereof on blank leaf Of the
book
Some forty or fifty years ago, Eey. Alyah
Sabin of Georgia cut n stick from a poplar
tree, and after using it as whip in going
to and from gri.t mill, stuck it in the
ground on the hin west Of Georgia Centre.
The stick grew and Aouri-hcl, until now it
Is a tree $50 feet high.
James O. Adams, Secretary Of the New
Hampshire State Board of Agriculture, and
recently agricultural editor of the Mirror,
has become associated in the cditor-hip of
the 4nrH, the Dartmouth College paper,
which is to be enlarged and especially de-
voted TO the agricultural intcreStsof North
ern New Hampshire and Vermont.
Thomas Mast has again become connected
with Huya's Ua,lg, the last number
containing the first Of hi, now series Of ear
toons. The terms upon which lie is engaged
are said to be $4,000 year, carte b'agots
as to the choice Of subject, though he re
cciyc~ kindly, Of course, any suggestions.
] This seems an enormous sum. but the artist
is worth every penny Of it to lis employers.
Mast is lucky chap.
The late Hon John X. Whitney Of Frank
lin, was a man Of much strength Of cha
ractcr. lie twice represented the town in
the General Assembly in 1859 and 1868, and
also ut the extra session in the spring Of
1851. He was twice elected commissioner
/ for Franklin County, and twice County
Judge in 1869 and $50 lie was justice
of the peace for nearly score Of years.
and wa- active in tie temperance reform
and manifested a good degree of interest
in the social, intellectual and religious al
vanccmcnt Of the community.
The London correspondent OF the y. \.
Trl5iHe says that Ex-Secrctary Hugh Ne
/ Culloch. the head Of the London branch Of
the unfortunate house Of Jay Cooke AZ Co.,
who j. now in this country on visit, is
e man who inspires Englishmen with con-
flencc, which, with a complaccncy com
mon to the race, they cndcayor to express
by saying that Mr. McCulloch might him
self pass for an Englishman. lie is a good
American for all that, and the American
colony over here will be glad to see him
back as soon as You can CONVENIENTLY spare
him.
Rev. DR.. Carleton went TO the Union
Trust Company. for the purpose of redeem
ing some $4,000 of securities which had
been loaned him. 1t was then found ont
that the son had distracted the securities,
so that one of the officers of the company
took the reverend doctor's check, certified.
and when he got it into his hands Informed
him 1.-THE doctor) that the company would
hold the $500. 1t is stated that the
reverend doctor was exceedingly gricved.
He said that he knew that the sins of the
father were liable to he visited upon his
children and he was shocked that the
Union Trust Company should take upon
itself the awful responsibility OF reversing
Scripture in this remarkable manner.
Dixi Crosby, NJ. D., Ii. D., of Hanover,
y. H.. died at his residence Friday after
noon at five o'clock. lie had been in i'll
health for some time previous. lie was
born in Sandwich, y. H.. in l-Oo. and