Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-08-01
Personal.

Sir Edwin Landseer, the famous animal
painter, Is insane.
Garibaldi has written the following |
am of the same opinion as Gen. Grant, that
Europe will finally adopt the republican form
of government. Yours, 6. GARIBALDI.
Caprera, May 10, 1873.
The late Horace F. Clark, of New York,
who graduated from Williams College in
1893, left SI5O,OOO to that institution.
Father Chiniquy lectured in Halifax on
Friday Of last week, and was afterwards
stoned in the streets, together with the Rev.
Mr.. Goodfellow, his friend, and they had to
take refuge in a neighboring house.
Whitelaw Reid, of the Tribune, is used
up man, and Miss Anna Dickinson did it.
4 report had gained considerable circula-
ton and credence in New York city that
Mr.. Reid had proposed marriage to Miss
Anna, and had been given definitely to I'M
derstand that he was not the looming man.
Wounded in his dignity that gentleman
wrote to her, requesting her to GLOW him
to DENY through the Tribune, the rumor
that he had been " fatty Tilted by the emf
nent lady," Anna proved herself equal 10
the occasion, as the following answer fully
proves: IF | can stand the rum0r OF
such proposal, certainly you should expe-
rience no difficulty in bearing the report OF
the .jilting." Exit Whitelaw.
An ex-member of the Connecticut Legs
lature, Francis Platt of Wallingfol'd, who
eloped last year with young woma I, leav-
ing his wife to earn a scanty livelihood by
working in n factory, has TRANQUILITY return
ed with his inamorata, whom he intr oduceS
as Mrs. p, having obtained a divorce in
Indiana months ago without the knowledge
of his abandoned spouse. And now the
biEoted residents of Wallingford, Incapable
! of approaching Indiana advanced ciylll-
zation, murmur menaces Of lynch law and
compulsory travel by three-eornered rail.
Sylvester Brown. Of Ashtabula, o., when
adiudged not guilty of the murder Of his
wife, rose up and said - Gentlemen, |
think can stand the soda water on this -
The fact that Senator Conkling, who al
/ ready has a comfortable residence at Wash
| ingt0n, has Just purchased a large residence
! lot. Is considered confrmatory ofthe rumor
that the Chief Justiceship has been offered
| to him.
The Chicago TriJuHe suggests the names
of Thomas Drummond, now United States
Judge ofthe Circuit en- bracing Illinois, In
diana and Wisconsin. end the Hon. W m. VI.
Evarts of New York, rs candidates Tor the
vacant Chief Justiceship, remarking that
| the people of the West will naturally pre-
fer Judge Drummond. The Tribune would
| be satisfied with either Of them or Judge
Hoar.
1t is said that the Shah scratches his head
with the corner Of salt-cellar, and that he
offered $40, 600 for three English ladies
| whom he saw and admired, but did not get
/ them Mothers of manageable daus hterS
| have evidently advanced their figures. The
! Worlds London correspondent also writes;
| 1t is quite true that the number of the
Shah's suite Will be Increased upon his re-
turn to Persia. Five ladies from London
viii be in his train perhaps an equal or a
greater number viii join him in Paris. But
it is not true, believe, that these ladies are
to be lodged not very far from Herat, at 4
place which viii hereafter be known as
Sherat.
1t is said that Paul Morphy is going to
the Vienna Exhibition to play chess.
The inventory Of the estate of the late
| Hon. Cakes Ames as fled in the Probate
/ Office, at Taunton * as follows: Real e.
tate, S2S5, 500 personal property, s. Jos, :
75i total, 1913, PSI. This does not in
| clude his interest in the works at North
| Easton which Is contingent.
General Howard, for frauds disco yered in
the Freedman's Bureau, is 10 be tried by
colrt-martial
Long John Wentworth owns 700 acres
Of land within twelve miles of the Chicago
/ Court House.
Judge Dunleyy, whom gossip ass. gns to
Lieut.. Col. Fred. Grant as papa-in-law
was for seventeen years a Judge in Central
Ohio, and has been very intimate with Rob
ert c. Schenek. Re is wealthy man, and
has recently made a large amount Of money
in real estate.
The late Chief Justice Chapman Of Mas
sachusetts was for twenty years the law
partner of George Ashmun at Sprin gfeid.
lie became Judge Of the Supreme Court III
lo66, and Chi eff Justice in 1865.