Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-12-07
Personal.

The Spring field RtpUb!icdn reports an i'm
proyement in the condition of Mr.. Samue
Bowles. lie takes nourishment every hour
and if there is no recurrence Of the stroke
he may yet rally.
ID. 7. Corbin, who was the contestant
with Butler for the seat IN the United States
Senate. formerly occupied 10y Robertson. OF
South Carolina, is NeTmonter. lie had
Charleston for a number OF years, and was
made United States District Attorney by
General Grant, ia 1863.
W. ID. Howells is translating a Spanish
play for Mr. L. F. Barrett and Bayard
Taylor is engaged upGn an adaptation OF
Schiller's Don Carlos" which the actor
hopes to produce during the present season.
Brigham Young's grave is said to be
watched day and night by Mormons living
for the purpose in tents near the spot
Boston is to have an exhibition OF 500
ladies in horticultural Hall, and q gold
watch. a necklace. and diamond ring are
to be given to the three handsomest.
Charles Fechter was so drunk when he came
on the stage in the "COrscan Brother"
the other night that the play had To be
stopped and the audience dismissed.
A Washington man recently was married
burned out of his home. had a fight with his
father in-law. and put in divorce papers all
seeing life, what is?
DR.. Edward Hammond Clarke, the famous
Boston physician. died on Friday OF last
week. As writer upon sanitary topics he
held high position. HIS book. Sex in
Education. was republshed in England,
and has had a wide circulation IN this
country. He was an active worker in every
cause which promoted the good OF his fellow
citizens. lie was formerly Professor OF
Materia Medics at the Harvard Medical
School, and at the time of his death was an
overseer of Harsard College.
The Royal Society of England have award
ed the Copley Medal to Professor James
Dwight Dana. of Yale College. for his
biolog zeal, geOlOgi zeal and neurological in
designations. carried on through halt Il cen
tury. and for the valuable works in which
his conclusions and discoveries have been
published.
William Pitt Kellogg. United States Sen
atOr from Louisiana. was born in this State,
in December, 1870. was educated at Nor
wIch University, went to Illinois in 1878
and became lawyer in ls5i. In 1852 he
voted for John p Hale, for President. lie
was an elector ON the Fremont ticket. and
took 50 prominent G part in the Lincoln
campaign that he was appointed Chief jus
tice of the Supreme Court of Nebraska,
from which onice he retired to accept the
colonelcy of the Seventh Illinois Cavalry,
in which capacity and higher military posi-
lions he served with credit. In April. 1865.
President Lincoln appointed him Collector
at New Orleans In July, 1865, be was
elected United States Senator for the term
ending March 4. 1873 10 1872. he was
declared elected Governor of Louisiana, and
that office he held for four years.
Gen. NJ. G. Butler, the new United States
Senator from South Carolina. is nephew
of Senator A p Butler. who will be re-
membered in connection with that famous
controversy with Senator Sumner which
eliminated IN murderous assault upon
the latter, by another nephew. Preston
Brooks. lie WAS educated at the South
Carolina University, became lawyer, en-
tered the cavalry arm of the Confederate
service and lost a leg in 1868. Since the
war be has been engaged in planting, the
practice of the law and politics. ln his
political views he represents the extreme
States rights, Bourbon school. lie enters
the Senate under circumstances which lead
many intelligent people to believe that he
was largely responsible for tho bloody affair
known as the Hamburg .lassacre. The ties
timony of one side makes him the leader
and instigator of butcherv scarcely paral-
lelled in the annals of frontier massacres.
lie is the first man who was ever permitted
to enter the Senate with such reputation.