Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-06-07
PERSONAL.

The sudden DEATH at Montreal, Sunday,
is announced of the Hon. Wilfred Dorion,
Judge of the Superior Court. and a young
or brother of Sir Antoine Anne Dorion, for
many years leader OF the French Canadian
Liberals OF Quebec, Administrator of the
Province during the illness OF Lieutenant
Governor Caron in 1876, and Minister of
Justice from November, 1873. to June. 1874.
at which latter date he was appointed Chief
Justice Of the Province of Quebec. Judge
DoriOn was the third son, We believe, of the
late p. A. Dorion, of Champlsin, who sat
in the Lower Canadian Assembly for many
years. lie was in his usual health the mo-
ment before his death, which is attributed
to an unsupported disease OF the heart.
Judge VIM. +. Allen, of the New York
Court of Appeals. died Monday afternoon,
at his home in Oswego, of affection OF
the brain. Judge Allen was elected Judge
of the Court of Appeals in 1870, and his
term would have expired by limitation of
age at the end of the present year. He was
born in Windhsm. Connecticut. about seven
ty years ago, and settled with his father in
Duanesburgh, Schenectady county, IN 1916.
Graduating at Union College about nine
years later, he removed to Oswego and en-
gagged the legal profession in which he has
won wide reputation, ranking among the
of Assembly in lSi3 and 1874, and United
States District attorney, Northern District,
in 1916. During sixteen years subsequent
~ he occupied seat on the Supreme Court
Bench. and in 1867, he was elected Comp
troller OF the State. lie has always been a
Democrat possessing large influence snd
popularity.
Professor Asa GRAY has a face which Is
thus POLITICALLY described by Washington
correspondent of the Commercial of Cineiu-
natl The Professors head is bowed. not
by age. but because he has so long looked
down into the faces Of the tiny flowers; his
eountenance reflects only the delicaey and
purity of the wild birds, with their fresh
flush and modest glow. The same cores
pondent sees Professor Hilgsrd, OF the
Coast Survey, Is "a moon lace, softly pink.
surro unded by full, short beard of white -
and Captain Esds as a man with delicate,
winning, refined features, small of feet, and
dsintily neat. This writer's sings likewise
these small idy,s: Il saw also Larkin
Mead. the sculptor, and his pretty Italian
bride, whose cOurtship was as romantic as
any fiction ever penned. They met first.
believe. on the blue Adristic, and so little
need has love for words to tell its passion
that the two were betrOthed before the lady
could speak six English words; and while
the sculptor was graphing manfully with
simple primer sentences of the musical
Italian, he picked out the syllables which
spelled his love to tho dark-eyed Nenetians
Hester Clymer sat close to the
Speakers desk, and held, poised between
thumb and finger, twig, on which perehed
and swayed twin roses on a single stem
They eau bit the eye of the Hon. Benjamin ~
Batter. Whenever he sees flower he starts
for it, like starved rooster for a grain OF
corn. lie left his seat, and made for Clymer.
put his hands behind his dress-coat tails.
bent his bald head. and dipped his dainty
nose into the scented petals lie snuifed,
and looked. lie held the rich
crimson roses In his own pudgy hands, and
aid them Ito watch the etfect) beside the
pink rosebud that always ornaments his
appel