Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-12-04
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enforced in New York.
Personal
" Mulle.t. -" said Cabinet officer to the
supervising architect of the treasury de-
partment, the day after the rumpus Whiea
ended in his resignation. d" You are man
Of ability and Of genius. but why do you
allow your temper 10 run away with yon?'
~ Do Won suppose, - said Mullett, . that
can have the discretion Of Judge OF the
Supreme Court and the amenity Of mem
Der of the Cabinet for thirty-fye hundred
dollars a year ?"
Charles N. Wood, of Brandon, United /
States Consular clerk. has just been reliev-
ell from duty at the Consulate in Lyons
France. and transferred to the Consulate
General. ar Paris. Since ,ir. Wood enter
cd the service he has distinguished himself .
for proficiency in modern language. He /
wa, for some tine attached to the Consu- /
late at Naples, Italy and later TO the Con .
sIlate- General At Rome.
Piiny NJ. Corbiu, of Troy, died Sunday .
morning, after long illness. He was bern [
at Crah>bury. Vt, in ls0I. After having
graduated at the University of Nermontntle .
class Of Isaa. he became clerk in tie Bur
lington branch Of the United State Bank. T.
After short term Of service he assumed
the duties Of cashier. Ten years sabs7-
auently after President jackson had vetoed,
the law renewing the charter Of the United
States bank. Mr. Corbin removed to Orwell,
Vt.where he became cashier Of the bank In
1910 he accepted a call from the bank az Ian
singburgh to become It's cashier. Here ten
wears Of his life we're spent. About the
year 1851 he become cashier of the Union
Bank Of Troy. now known as the Urion
National Bank. which position he held az
the time Of his death In HI earlier Co.
nestle relations be was singularly afflicted.
He b aried his first wife while be lived IN
Lansingburgh OF the Ave children, the
issue Of that marriage. not one Is living.
II Is second wife. who with daughter sur
wives him. Is the sister OF the late Dr.
Bla:chiurd. He bad the unb0undcd conf
denee oe all Ms business a~-1ciateS. lie
was for many years member OF the Second
Street P.esbv. erian Church, o. Troy, IN
which be held be Office OF elder
William F. lIavemeyer, late Mayor Of
New York. who died suddenly, Monday,
was born in New York in 1904. and gradu-
ated at Columbia College in ls23. Upon
graduating Ny. Hayeueyer entered into
business and retired in 1912 with a hand
,me fortune. In ls4i ne began to partici-
pate in the politics Of that day. He was
Democrat. and. in connec ton with james
T. Brady and Gustavus A. Conovcr. was
delegate 10 the Tammany contention. IL
was about this time that he ran lor the
! Msy0raty, and was elected tor the hrst
time to that Office. la ISIS Mr. Havemeyer
was reelected to the Mayoralty. After the
close of this term he retired from politics.
and became President of tie Bank OF North
America In 1853, however, he WIS H.
duced again to run for the MayOralty. lie
was the nominee of 1ammany, and was op-
posed by Fernando Wood. the candidate OF
| the Mozart Hall Democracy, and by Mt.
| Opdyke. who was supported by the hepub-
licans. Mr.. Wood was elected. and Mr..
Haveneyer suffered his first political defeat.
When Iammany had sunk beneath the
weight of the revelations that were made IN
ISL, Mr. Hayemeyer was found IN the ranks
o. the reformers and he acted - Chairman of
tn mas meeting at Cooper Institute IN the
fall of ISL. when the COMMITTEE of Seven
ty v as appointed. In conjunetionwith Mr..
lid N. Mr. Havcmeyer struck the blows
that resulted in the overthrow of the
ring " and when the work was done he
resigned tom the craftsmanship of the
Seventy and Vas chosen Mayor OF the Nc
tropolIs.
1t seems that Lo. ,don had quite a genu
inc scare a fortnigb ago, over a Fomor
that Queen Victoria vas dangerously al,
and even dead. from an a tack of apoplexy,
but the story proved to hay no foundation
The fact that she has stayed 30 long on the
Highland, this year. had led people to
think she might not be quite as WI as
usual ard lent probability to the rumor oil
her sickness, bnt the court journals say her
health is very good.
Gen. Fitzpatrick is said to be at work upon
a new war drama. with the assistance of
Ma shy and Mark Twain.
G.,rrit Smith has just given $4,000 to
Hami,' ton College, making 100000 bestow-
ed BY rim during the year. The money is
given for the general uses of the college.
Mr.. Smii graduated there some fifty years
ago.
Ex-Goy, rnor seymour. in a recent letter
to a friend says: You will see by the pa
- - I -. 49,. candidate r.r tho ofree
OF United States Senat Or. have made up
nv mind that il ma who has reached
the age of 60 is not as influential out of
Office as he can be in oiicia position, be has
failed TO make a good ehal scter ana record
At and after that age he shO uio hoid an I'M
selfish relation to affairs | mean 10 take
an interest in public affairs. and to serve
my country to tine extent of " abilities.
and shall do 30 in private stat. ou- IL my
experience or c0unsels or exertio Us are OF
any value, they will be gwen to uphold
those principles which deem to be rlsht.
Mr.. Stillman Fletcher. for many years
market reporter and assistant agrieul 'ural
editor of the Neio England Farmer. " no { Ted
at Reading, Vt, recently, was born in Ply
mouth, became printer and worked at his
eIcOG ythis III pidCc-- III 1907 ' !
he did the press-work. at Kirkland, Ohio,
for the second edition of the Mormon Bible. A.,
He then published for two years the Cour-
Ter at Pontiac, Mich Returning to Yer
mont he worked at his trade for nine years t
and then went TO Boston, where he soon s
became connected with the Farmer as a re- il
porter of the Brighton cattle market and be 5
made that feature more valuable than any a
similar report in any other Boston paper. t
In 1862 his health began TO decline and v
from that time to the day of his death he u
was able to perform but little labor He 5
was :. clear writer. careful reporter,
editor and good man. t
Ex-senator Harlan has returned to Mount
Pleasant Iowa, and will make his home !
there hereafter OF him it is said: "He is n
nearly 20; reads without glasses, has quit I
drinking brandy eats, sleeps, and smokes /,
his cigar like mnn with clear conscience :
lnd plenty Of gresntacks" {