Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-03-23
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Personal.

Postmaster General Key has thirteen chill
drrn.
President Hayes is said to be a good bass
singer.
Mrs. Sartoris has made Gen Grant Il c
grandfather of bouncing boy.
The Boston Globe, Friday, announced
that uoyt A. Wheeler had been nominated.
BY the President, for United States District
Attorney for the northern district of Ohio !;
and, Saturday, that Hoyt ii. Wheeler had
been confirmed as United States District
Attorney of Vermont. The Boston Herald,
of the same day, announced the coufirma
ton of % Asa Obediss of Vermont" as
Southern Claims Commisssner.
George p Baldwin. who did Friday
morning, at Bradford, Vt, at the age Of ..
was leading Democrat OF that town, and
had held many political Offices. lie was for
long time Judge Of the County Court.
Edward s. Dana, of Cornwall, has pur-
chased the farm in New Haven owned by
his father in-law, Deacon Calvin squier,
an. is about to remove to that place.
Hon. Z. II. Bennett, of Taunton, Mass,
| Is prominently mentioned for the vacancy
on the Supreme Bench. in place OF Judge
Devens.
The many friends Of DR.. &. p. Conn, of
Concord, N. H., will learn with pleasure
of his handsome election as Railroad Com
missioner, of New Hampshire, in Tuesdays
State election.
Hon. VIM. NJ. Esarts was retained in the
Vanderbilt will case before his name was
mentioned in connection with the Cabinet.
His retainer was $50, 600, and to earn this
large fee required of him only a journey
| from Washington to New York and an at
tendance of an hour in court.
1t is now stated that W. IL. Vanderbilt
paid million and half to buy off the con-
testants to the will.
The fortune left by the late Oliver Ames,
(who was q brother of the late Cakes
Ames) of Easton. Mass, is estimated at
from seven to fifteen million dollars.
Gcv.-Gen. Duiferin, of Canada, slipped
and fell on pavement at Ottawa. one day
last week, and come off no better than if he
had not been lord. One OF his ribs was
broken and be was otherwise injured.
DR.. Bartlett, the new President of Dart
mouth College, is now So years old. lie
was tutor in the college in 1898 and 1899.
He afterward studied Divinity at Andover,
and was for time settled az minister at
Monson, Mass. Afterward he was for some
years Professor Of Intellectual Philosophy
and Rhetoric at the Western Reserve Col
lege, Ohio. and then Professor in the
Chicago Theological Seminary.
FERRIsBURGu.-A E. Bell has rented and
moved into the tenement belonging TO Alvin
Ball, known as the odd Rogers place"
Rev. H. G. Day has rented tenement
belonging to Hon. N. j. Allen, at the llol-
low, " here he will hereafter attend exclu-
sively to his subscription and insurance
business as also to the raising OF fancy
poultry.
Geo. P. Collins. NJ. D. has his new barn
nearly ready to be raised.
On Saturday the l7Ih. fire broke out
in the roof Of the new house belonging TO
ohm Parker. 1t was soon extlnguished.
Miron Day, of Monkton, is to carry on
his farm alone the present season.
The total attendance at the NJ. f. Sunday
school last Sabbath was So; collection So
cents. There was an interesting Sunday
school concert at the NJ. E. church on Sab
bath evening. IL.