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

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attain lis majority on the 18th Of March.
Senator Powell CLAYTON. of Arkansas. i
called the game cock He comes from
an old German Methodist family below
Philadelphia, and, studying engineering
began TO practice 1t IN Kansas when the
war broke ont He was a good officer in Ar
kansas, and married fine girl in Helena
where his atability made him q iavoritc
with the old element, and he was made
Governor. by n series OF intrigues he was
elected to the Senate. and shifted the gubcr-
natorial Office on one of his creatures, 50
that he was absolute in the State and al the
head Of Its Influence in the Senate He Is
one-armcl. but the arm was not lost on the
field OF battie-mereiy in cunning. Clayton
is essentially a southern man in temper
mcnt, proud, helligerent. fiery, and, al
though poorly educated, he generally com
mand- respect for his physical stamina.
The rumor is revived that there is to be a
change in the State Department at Wash
ington. Mr.. Fish, it is stated. is TO retire
from the Secretaryship and 20 to the Court
of ST. James, and Edwards Picrrcpcnt is to
succeed him as Secretary.
Rev. Dr.. J. =. Thompson. formerly
minister Of the Broadway Tabernacle
Church. New York. it Is said, Is to be ap-
pointed minister 10 Prussia in place OF Mr..
Bancroft, who will resign.
Esquimaux Joe Of Polaris fame was upon
recent occasion called upon for a speech.
In response he delivered the following model
oration Ladies and gentlemen, | can't
talk anything bcin' A. | catch cold" and
sat down amid tumuituous applause.
Gcryit Smith has given, free of conditions.
the sum of $50, 600 for the benefit of Ilamil-
ton College, of which Isl graduate.
There are thousand gasiets in Talmage's
new tabernacle in New York, not including
Talmagc.
Nice-Presidcnt Wilson and Mr.. William
Craft of Georgia, dincd recently at the Mas
Sachusctts Club. Boston. Mr.. Craft and his
wife. Ellen, will be remembered as the first
in Boston to be singled out for arrest in
1850 under the fugitive slave law. lie Is
now striving to establish farm school in
Bryan County, Georgia.
William NJ. Evarts has agreed to furnish
4 copy Of the portrait by Earle of his grand
father, Roger Sherman, FOR vacant panel
in independence Hall.
Charles Bradlaugh was badly defeated in
the recent English elections.
| The Rochester Democrat says: " John
Morrissey is so great q man that he entirely
overshadows SaratOga--in the discussion of
| the regatta question, for instance. and the
time will come when John Morrissey will
be mentioned As one of the finest summer
resorts in the country"
The cause for the recent assault on Rev
Luther I. Beecher, at Nyack, n. Y, is SAID
to have been an act of impudence on his
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will. while calling at her house The lady
and her husband were highly indignant,
and the gentleman determined that his pun.
ishment should he open and conspicuous
Beecher Is teacher in a school attended by
young ladies of the first families.
Thomas c. Fields, the dcfaulting Ring
! Corporation Attorney, and ex-Govcrnol
Hoffman, who is travelling on the Cont.
nent. .lrecently met on the Place des Victories
in Brussels, where the former has perma.
nently settled. Fields passes all his time
between Brussels and Antwerp, not daring
to leave the Belgium Kingdom for fear Of
being kidnapped to the United States.
Mckay, the supposed author of the Stock
Exchange iorgeries. has been arrested ir
New York. He is relative of S. " White
of the Stock Exchange, who is thought to
have endeavOred to shield him. lie grad.
uated from Yale College'at the close of 1860
and was noted for his piety.
The name of Elias Brosions of Sunbury
Pa. will be handed down to posterity as
that of man who made link of sausage
As feet long.
This Is the way the Hon. Demas Barnes
of the Brooklyn Argus rails at the Hon
Thomas kinsella. editor of the Brooklyn
Eagle. This sneak and lickspittle, who has
threatened to assassinate us at least once a
month since we commenced publishing the
4ryas-this foul-mouthed blackguard who
boasts that he has no character to lose, and
that no gentleman dare throw mud balls
with him Is, we understand, known as
Thomas kinsella. We are easy to find. We
walk the streets daily. and do not carry
cudgels-or ride in side-saddles-and we
assure the seoundrel that pe are not non
resident. II any fair shooting is to be done
our weapon would he a musket at two
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