Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-01-16

VERMONT HORSE SrocK CoNPASY.-At the
annual meeting of the Vermont Horse Stock
Company, held at the Mayors Office, in this
city, Wednesday, the following named gen
tlemen were elected directors for the year
ensuing:
II. G. Root-Bennington
l.. c. Observation-Disclosures.
Henry Spencer-Burlington
7. w. Park-BenningtOn ,r,..
C. II. odgett-Burling.o
j. ii. Gates-Burlington
James A. Shedd-Burlingto
). G. Holyoke-St. Adams .-,l.
David Observation-Disclosures - pa
W. A. Wced-Shelburn
l.. S. Drew-South Burlington.
H. H. Baxter-Rutland. ...-
John W. Cramton-Rutiand.
At a meeting of the directors subsequent
ly held the following officers were elected :;
Presidential G. Root.
ice-President-EIenry Spencer.
Secretary-H. n. Newell.
Treasurer-L. c. Dodge.
Executive Committed. II. Bl0dgett. j
A. Shedd, W. a. Weed.
Appraisers-George T. Davis. +. VI. Van
Sicklen, John n. Baxter.
Auditors-G George j Stannard. f. NJ
VanSicklen, Edward low.
THE LATE s. ". Butler, NJ. DIR. 5.
W. Butler of Philadelphia, well known in
the medical profession as the editorand pro-
prietor of the Medical and Suigioal Reporter.
died in that city on Tuesday morning the
9th inst. lie was the son of EliZur Butler,
who was one of the early mission
arie. of the 4. b. c. +. NJ. among the
Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, then resd-
ing in Georgia, where he was imprisoned
for long time by the authorities of that
State. and suffered many cruelties at their
hands. lie and his companion missionary
DR.. Worcester were compelled at one time
to march n long distance with ropes round
their necks tied to their captors' saddles.
Dr. Butler was born, we believe. in Georgia,
and was brought up in early life among
those Indians, in whose welfare he always
took lively interest. He was graduate
of the Medical Department of the Uniyersi-
ty of Pennsylvania and for 4 time was en-
gagged in active practice in Burlington, n.
j. Here he became interested in medical
journalism, in connection with the New
Jersey Medicdi Reporter, first as publisher
then as editor and proprietor. In l55S he
removed to Philadelphia, desiring a more
extended field Of operations for his journal,
and on the first day of October of that year
changed Its issue from monthly to Il
weekly under the name of the Medical and
Surgical Reporter. This was a new phase
of journalism in medicine and the prophecies
of his failure in il were many. But under
his management its subscriptions increaS-
cd rapidly. its influence extended widely
and the Reporter soon became the leading
medical periodical n the country. Its pat
rons are in every State of the Union, and
he leaves 1t, at his death, with It reputation
world wide in Its extent, rs monument of
his restless, untiriug industry, AMI uncOn-
querable perseverance amid embarraSSuents
that would have appalled, men Of much
larger means, or less determination, and a.
4 rich legacy in all its thousands of pages,
replete with his life work, to his medical
brethren in this country and across the
ocean. For n year or two he was physician
to the Blockley Hospital for the Insane
spending the working hours of the day
among the crazy ones of that institution
and of the night, ill the small hours of the
morning came, wIh the correspondents OF
his pet journal, a model of self-sacrihcing,
and almost unrequted devotion to the best
interests Of his loved profession. Wearied
and broken down by th, excessive
labor, he spent the Summers Of 1871
and 1872 with his relations in Essex,
Vermont, enjoying to the full the mag
niiicent scenery and health giving air Of the
Green Mountain State, and returning home
from each visit pretty well recruited for
the work of his busy life But he had no
power To shake off the disease that preyed
upon his yitals, and his over-worked frame
and brain finally slccumbed to the death
messenger On his dying bed, when unable
to speak above 4 whisper, he was still plan
ming and giving directions about the com
pletion and issue of Medical Directory Of
the Uni.ei States. upon which many hands
were bu-ily at work. He died before it. pages
had passed through the press. y 4 man
prominent in medical journalism and litera-
ture, he Will be missed by the fraternity
wherever his journal is known. The journal
he lived and died to maintain, will continue
to visit the homes Of its many thousand
patrons, but those who have welcomed it
these many years, Will miss the earnest.
caust,c betimeS, ter>e, inci-ivc, bold and in
dependent ema nations from his pen. which
ina e is page SO attractive and effective.
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