Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-01
PERSONAL.

Trinity church, Montpelier, releases Rev
Charles Parkhurst, formerly of this city,
from his pastOrate in order that he may
carry out his long-cherished purpose OF sew
eral years study at theological seminary.
Rev n. Fellows of the n. f. Conference
takes the place Of Mr. Psrkhurst until the
session of the n. f. Conference.
Miss Laura b. Chamberlin Of Poacham has
been appointed by the American Board OF
Foreign Missions to go TO Sivas, western
Turkey, in Asia Minor, four hundred miles
beyond Constantnople. She expects to sail
August Cd from New York city, in company
with DR. Bush of the American Board and
Professor Mifilingen and wife of CONSTANT
nople.
The Paris correspondent Of the New York
Tribune, as well as several other writers,
say that the great interest taken in the
Prince Imperial by the English Royal family
is explained by the fact that he and the
Princess Beatrice were in love with each
other. Beatrice refused to marry any one
else, and the Prince of Wales, whose French
friends are mostly Bonapartists, took his
sisters part when she was blamed for her
unfortunate preference. The Queen was
brought round To accept the French Prince
as son-in-law if the consent of parlia-
mentary majority to the match could DO
assured. Hence the efforts made by seer
tain daily and society" journals to place the
sutton in a favorable light and to represent
the Republic as being on its last legs, and the
determination of the young man himself to
defend English civilization against African
barbarians at the Cape. The tidings of
Louis Napoleons death reached Chisel-
hurst. day for day, ten years after the news
of Maximilian's execution was made known
to the Emperor and the Empress Of the
French, at the Tuileries.
The Boston Traveller says that Larkin G.
Mead, our Vermont sculptor, has made a
happy hit in his bas-relief of the surrender of
CORVALLIS for the Washington monument.
Plaster casts have been ordered for the art
SCllOOlS Vi ldhtioeOl hAu
the work has received the very highest COM
mendation of Florentine critics of the fire
arts.
Gov. Talbot of Massachusetts and two of
his brothers made Dandy, this State, flying
visit, the other day. Their object was to
find the burial place of their father, who
died there over fifty years ago. The Cover
nor left town with his mother at about the
age of seven years, but remembered distinct
" the scenes of his boyhood days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius L. Eldridge of New
Haven celebrated their golden wedding July
eth.
Ira d. Sankey. the evangelist, arrived at
New York Saturday. d. l.. Moody, his
fellow laborer in the Gospel field has also
gone there from his farm in Mortified,
Mass, where he has been resting during the
Summer months Mr. Sankey has been in
Europe since last November, and has been
singing in different parts of Great Britain.
Sunday afternoon and evening the two evan
gelists assisted Mr. c. W. Sawyer in his gos-
pei temperance meeting at Cooper Union.
The story is going the rounds perhaps for
the twentieth time, that Longfellow and
Fields were making short pedestrian tour
some few years since, when, to their sur
prise, an angry bull stood in the pathway,
evidently intending 10 demolish both poet
and publisher Il think" said Fields, that
it will be prudent to give this reviewer wide
margin YES" replied the poet, lit APP
pears to he a disputed passage" In the in
terests of modesty We would inquire who
made that story public, Longfelow, Fields or
the bull. Boston Post.
Edwin Booth is aged 46 lie accompanied
his father, the celebrated tragedian, on his
starring tours when very young, expeditions
which, while they had the advantage OF I'M
tiating him into the mysteries of stage bust
ness, had the Disadvantage of precluding him
from a complete education. He is unread,
and has no taste whatever for literature. He
has poetic presence, graceful micn, an
apt eve for pictorial effect, and all admirable
natural elocuiinn Iii. first successes were
made in California. Thence he went 10
Australia with Laura Keene, but returned
without performing there. His first New
York success was made in the Winter Gar
den Theatre when he performed Hamlet for
upward OF 100 consecutive nights, II success
which was subsequently, swclled by the I'M
fortunate notoriety of the name. His attrac-
ton has, under bad management, recently
rather waned. hut he is most the popular and
paving star through the country, if not IN
New York Ills first wife was Miss Mary
Devlin of Troy, II cousin OF the clothiers of
this city, most charming actress, by whom
he had II daughter now touching woman
hood His present wife was the adopted
daughter of Mr. McNicker, the Chicago
manager Mr.. Booth is gentle and amiable
in manner, melancholy in temperament, and
of most blameless private liie--Ne1 York
Sun.