Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-03-13

The probabilities now are. that. in place
of three women upon the Boston school
board, next year. there Will be three or four
] times that numlcr-and We shall have the
/ opponents of their membership 10 thank
almost wholly for this result.-Bos'oH Cor.
HaHfori Cour01f
Ms, Stewart. daughter of the Nevada
senator. though only Is Is one of tire bril-
liant lights of Washington society. this win
ter.
If Dr. Clark book on feminine edu ueation
I has no other effect, it Is valuable a. evolving
statistics respecting that important subject.
/ \ letter from President Raymond of NaSSar
| gives the losses ly ili-health from the last
/ three graduating classes as follows: The
/ class Of - lost out of its whole number of
/ - students. the class of - lost out of
G1 ana the class Of IL out of j73. lost
only ;. \ fact not to be forgotten Is that.
Of these individual losses. all but three ar
rived at the college in poor or very delicate
health. Two of these three had fever there
and went home conyaleScenr. the third was
a case Of nervous breaking down from hard
study" which was entirely unexpected, for
the previous health had been good. This
ease and that Of graduate Of Il. who pre-
Sumed upon her apparently vigorous conSti-
tuition and exceptional talents by attempt
ing to oycrtakc Il class much in advance Of
her. are. President Raymond says, the only
instances of serious giving way Of the
health caused by study. And he emphasizes
the assertion. "Our hard students are a> a
rule our heal.hic~t students"
There are two sisters residing in Boston
who have a highly military ancestry. for
their grcat-grandfather and grandfather
were both captains in the Revolution, one
by land and one by sea. Their father. an
officer. wa~ wounded at New Orleans in the
war of - Their sons. it may be added.
were in the late war. one being killed and
the other disabled. Both are widows. work
for living. and neither has ever asked for
pension.
The Boston Journal SAYS On dit. that
a Young married lady of moderate means,
Mrs. Josie +. Burrill. formerly OF Maine but
now of Massachusetts, was much surprised
few days ago at a bequeSt of so ,000 from
very old and eccentric bachelor uncle, 4 resi-
dent of Montreal for about forty years.
The Rev. Mrs" Fanny L. Roberts,
Uniyer>ali>t clersywoman at Kittery, Ne,
had the satisfaction. the other day, of unit
ing her son and Miss Katie Gerry in mar
riage.
Mis- Mary Charlton, of Chicago. has been
elected third assistant clerk Of the Illinois
House Of Representatives Her competitors
were all men. She is - years Of age. ''eome-
ly in appearance and of ample form -
The diamonds and point lace worn by the
wife of the Hon. Benjamin Wood, at the
Roman Catholic orphan asylum ball at New
York, were valued at over Sl40,0o0.
The Springfield f-nion Is responsible for
this Railroad men are always meeting
with queer adventures, but one of the con-
ductors on the Southern road thinks a recent
one Of his little ahead Just before one of
the midday trains was starting for New
York, an elegantly dressed lady. (?) the wife
of one OF st. Loui>'s most prosperous mer-
chants. came into the ear with a great deal
Of parade, and, throwing herself into 4 seat,
called out. Conductor - That parsonage
at once appeared, when the woman said to
him. with the greatest nonchalance, Con
ductor. wish you'd button my boots; got
drunk last night, and haven't had time to
lrcS~ vet The conductor looked unutter-
able things. while the passengers smiled
audihly.
Mis- Phmbc Anne Lowcrre has obtained a
verdict Of SO, 600 against Andrew B. Chal-
merS. a Brooklyn lawyer, for alleged seduc-
ton and breach of promise of marriage.
Mr. Laura Fairs law affairs having been
finally settled. fortune smiles upon her in
the form Of a third husband, and profit of
$4,000 in Ophlr stocks. But she still
carries that little Derrinpcr
Josie Mansfield, with her face full of n
beauty which has been fatal to herself and
Others, has gone to St Petersburg.