Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-09-26
PERSONAL.

! Chicago gossip has it that the position OF
assistant general manager of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST. Paul (Which Mr.. John G.
Gault will leave to become general manager
of the consolidated Wabash. Kansas City &
Pacific has been offered t. Mr. j. W. Hobart
| long general superintendent of the Central
| Vermont Railroad Gazette.
In reference to the above the St. Alban;
Messenger says: Guess this is not true, and
yet it might be, TO their profit and our re-
gret. At all events Mr.. Hobart has not &C
cepted any such position yet.
Annie Louise Cary has been at Durham,
Maine, her old home. of late, but now has
gone. \ Durham farmer says: Armies
jest the girl she used to be. She don't wear
none of her fine dresses when she comes
back, nor her fiashil diamonds either. She's
jest as natral as natur, and don't put on no
airs. She Jest comes into the old church and
pipes us, and knows everybody Jest as she
did when she was school girl"
j. =. Hartley, the New York sculptor. has
just completed the model of his statue of
William Cullen Bryant, which is to be cast
in bronze and set up in Central Park. Mr.
Roswell Smith pays for the model, and a
subscription, in which George William Cur
lis is prominent, is TO be started in the Cen
tury Club, to defray the expense of the
work in bronze The model represents Mr.
Bryant sitting in stout rustic arm chair,
his head slightly inclined and supported on
his right hand, the elbow of the arm resting
on the chair. The left hand is claspcd upon
manuscript in his lap. The model and its
pedestal are about five feet high. Mr. Hart
ley is also engaged upon a bust Of Mr.. Bry-
ant
Under the heading of "a good man gone"
the San Francisco Bulletin notes the death
of DIR. John J. Gushing. who died at Blith-
dale, Marin county, California, Sept. LIST,
in the 18th year of his age. He was
a native of Providence, Rhode Island
was educated at Brown University, prac-
tised medicine in Illinois, and in lS49 or 1850
went TO California, where he took leading
position as practitioner in the HomGopa-
hic school of medicine. His practice he came
very large and the tax upon his strength
so great that five years ago he was compelled
TO abandon it on account of failing health.
The Bulletin saws of him He was man
of great force Of character and sterling prin-
ciples. He had an Unborn contempt of every
thing that was mean and hateful despised all
personal and professional trickery and be-
lieved it was better TO tail with truth than
win with error. Without being bigot. he
was consistent Christian gentleman. His
death will carry sadness 10 many hearts.
Few men were SO beloved his patients be-
came grateful friends, and his friends were
almost idOlatOrs." DIR. Cushing married the
Youngest daughter of Mr. Sidney Barlow of
this city, who survives him.
There are no iidings whatever of James
Redpath, who disappeared so mysteriously
two weeks ago. His friends have made most
complete search for him, sending letters and
kilograms to every place where, by any pos
sibility, he could have gone, but without
avail 1t is believed that he has committed
suicide, owing to sickness and domestic
troubles
j. X. Mckelvey, the temperance lecturer,
made an address at Laconia, \. H., the
other night, and stirred up its rum element
to such an extent that the representatives re-
taliated Ivy volley of stones and eggs as he
was on his way TO the hotel the next even
ing
Prof Henry W Haynes, of Boston, hav-
ing been suggested as a suitable appointee TO
vacanny in the Boston School Board, the
journal of that city says of him: His
whole life has been spent in tine studies that
best qualify him for this position He left
Boston some ten years since totake the profcs-
sorship of the languages in the College of Bnr-
lingion, VI. More recently he has spent
several years in Europe, in the study of
science and modern languages, and year
ago he returned to once more take up his
abode in the city of his adoption. A grand
son of Governor Williamson Of Maine the
wcll-known historian, himself brilliant
scholar, distinguished as a gentleman of
courtesy and sound judgment, such a select
ion to our School Board would he one pre-
cminrntly fit to be made"