Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-03-20
PERSONAL,

An old officer of the British army. Cant
Maunders by name. who had earnel a pro.
motion and seen boys ranking him, wear
after year, by the corrupt system of pur-
cnaslng commissions, took strange but
ehectuai way, recently, to get his grievance
before the public. Walking, one fine dav
IN Hyde Park, he deliberately slapped H.R.
IL. the Duke of Cambridge, nominal COM
mander-in chief, square in his royal face.
Of course he was tried, and then all the
facts came out. Capt Maunders was not
however, kindly forgiven and promoted
that's not the Guelph style. lie was SEN
fenced to two months Imprisonment
When Prof. Fawcett first entered the
House of Commons, Disraeli found him in
the dining groom connected with the House,
went up and took the blind mans hand
without introduction, and asked permission
to dine at the same table; thencef0rth the
two were warm friends; but Gladstone
could no more do that sort Of thing than he
could write Hamlet" As leader in the
Commons, Disraeli is always ready to hold
back that his comrades may have an oppor-
tunity to make their mark Gladstone, on
| the contrary, makes nearly all the govern
ment speeches and replies, and overshadows
his ministers and snubs his young ad-
herents Concdyin Cincinnati Commercial.
Henry Il. Pease, recently elected to fll
the vacancy in the United States Senate,
caused by the resignation of Gov. Ames Of
Mississippi, enlisted from Ellington, Conn
as aprivate in the 25th Connecticut regi-
ment in the late war. In February, 1865,
he was discharged in Baton Rouge to take
command in colOrcd regiment, one of the
first formed in the gulf department. lie
was very soon assigned to IL position on
Gen. Andrews staff, filling the positions of
corps inspector and assistant judge adyo-
cate. lie was then appointed superinten-
dent OF education for the State, with head
quarters at New Orleans, which position he
filled until the State was again admitted to
the Union. lie then went to Mississippi,
and was elected Superintendent of Eddca-
ton, filling that. position satisfactorily for
the past four years.
Henri Rochelort is one of the recent ar
rivals at New Caledonia, whittier he was
exiled some time since, and 4 correspondent
from Sydney describes some Of the humilia-
tlons that the wretched man has to undergo.
His spirit was broken by four months close
confinement on the convict ship, where he
shared the degradation of the low st,
besides having TO hear the scorn and jeers
of his companions in misery, notw ithStand-
selves hardly a degree above the brute>.
Upon his arrival ct the penal station also.
his first experience was sentence of eight
days solitary confinement for violation
OF some of the police rules, 50 that his cup
OF bitterness was hardly sWeetcned by an
escape from the horrors of the convict vessel.
In C00perstown they tell about an Eng
llsh Joker who dinei with Fenimoro Cooper
before hc died, in lsjl. Cooper was then
the most conspicuous man in the little
town which nestles at the foot of a high
mountain, and reposes on the shores q! the
Otsego. One day, while NJ. Cooper was
dining with the Englishman. he pour
ed out some native wine-wiac troin grapes
raised ii his own garden. Taking up
glass and boxing through il with pride.
Cooper remarked Now, Nr. Stebhins, |
call this good, honest wine" "Yes. NJ
Cooper, | agree with You; it j. honest
wine-'poor, bat honest Mr. Cooper
went on telling his ''Injun" s.orice