Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-12-22
PERSONAL.

Inc rev. II. u uouHc. M. ", VI OneA-
lotte. who died 10 that village, December
10th, began public life as q preacher but
soon lost bis voice and studied and practised
medicine until quite recently. when para
lysis Of one of his limbs compelled him to
retire from the regular duties az physician.
OF late years, having regaiDed the general
use of his voice. be has served As pastor
with great success In johnson. Vergennes
and Charlotte He leaves widow and four
children, two in the West. one in Maine, and
one-Dr. S. d. Hodge-in this city. The
funeral took place on Friday. December
18th.
An old crony of Tweed's in his palmiest
days says the Boss never touched alcoholic
drinks, smoked rarely and knew next to
nothing of faro. roulette. keno or poker.
1t seems quite likely that he paid the
strictest attention to business.
Mile. Jakoubowitsch is "pronouncsd" one
OF the mes. brilliant of the new pianists.
She has bowitsched th, critics, you know.
Uncle Peter Cooper is reported as happy
as tramp with whole mince pie.
Cronin, the Democratic Elector, who is
trying to get vote for Tiden in Oregon.
lived in Manchester. in this State. when a
boy. His father was blacksmith and lived
at Factory Point. He is brother OF 7. c.
Cronin, of Brooklyn. n. Y. who graduated
at Burr and Burton Seminary and who was
one OF the Hayes electors in New York.
Inspector General James A. Hardie, who |
died at Washington, Friday, was born in
New York, and graduated at West Point in
ls43. Entering the First Artillery, he was
appointed Assistant Professor at West Point |
in 1874 to 1876; was Major of the First
New York Volunteers in the Mexican war
Captain of Third United States Artillery, |
October 5, 1857, and was transferred to the |
Fifth Artillery in May, 1861. He was ap-
pointed Lieutenant-Colonel and A. d. C..
September %, 1861. and served on McCel-
lan's staff during the Peninsular and Mary
land campaigns. and on that of Burnside.
in the Fredericksburg campaign; and was
promoted Brevet Brigadier and Major Cen
eral, U. 5. A., March 10. 1865, for services
in the rebellion.
The ter m for which Liet. Frederick Rob-
inson, U. S. A. was detailed as Professor
Of Military Science and Tactics in the Uni
versity Of Vermont and State Agricultural
College, will expire next July, and orders
from the War Department direct him
and three other officers, similarly detailed, to
join their regiments, July l., 1877.
General William Francis Bartlett, who
died at his residence in Pittsfeld, Mass.
Sunday morning, was born in 1910. en-
tered Harvard College. class of 1862, and in
July, 1861. he received commission as cap
tain of company in the Twentieth Massa-
chusetts Regiment. Although his college
course was broken off by the breaking out
of the war about year before his time of
graduating, he was allowed to be entered as
a member of the graduating class of 1852.
and as such received his diploma. While
of Balls Bluff, Oct 20, 1861, and lost
leg before yorktown, April 2ith, 1862.
While the stump Of his leg was yot healing
he was experimenting the formation OF the
49.h. regiment, and at the desire of the
men composing that organization be was
as colonel of the same. He
accepted the command in November. 1862,
and was with it at the battles of Plains
Store and Port Hudson. At the latter place
he was wounded in the lett wrist and right
foot. Ia August, 1868, he was again trans
ferred this time TO the command of the
Fifty seventh Regiment, with which he
fought in the battle Of the Wilderness, May
G 1864. and where he was again wounded,
this time in the head. At about this period
he WAS promoted to Brigadier General for
merit1rious conduct. He was taken pris-
oner and for two month was confined in
Libby Prison. where be contracted i'll health
from hlch be never fully recovered, and
which may properly be said TO have formed
the basis of the complication Of diseases
which resulted fiHaly in his death. In 1864
he was promoted TO Brevet Major General,
and in ls65 he was mustered out of service
having gained for himself most brilliant
and envlable war record. For the last four
years he held the position of superintendent
of the Powhattan Iron Works at Richmond,
Va. Although General Bartlett won tor
himself a noble war record, he never held
public civil Office. though many an office has
been offered 10 him. and he has invariably
refused. He had six children. all OF whom
with his wife survive him. He was mem
Der of the Episcopal Church.
The medium d. D. Home Is mad. He
writes from Geneva. Switzerland. where he
seems to be tarrying, to the Cincinnati
Commercial, that be will give $4,000 to the
poor Of Cincinnati if NJ. d. Conway can
by satisfactory proof either of
the following assertions " Robert Brown
ing's story is different, being to the effect
that Home was detected in the mposture
of placing sponges dipped IN phosphorus on
wires at the top of the house. and confessed {
his imposture. Anthony Trollope is also
said to have some ugly "reminiscences OF
Home in Florence. and Adolphus Trollope
is credited with having once kicked that
eminent medium down stairs"
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