Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24
Personal,

Capt. William j. Cain, only son of John
Cain, OF Rutland, died at Fulton, Missouri,
| the other day from exposure while in the
army, in the 44th year Of his age. At the
breaking cut Of the civil War he studied law
| in the Q flee of Mes>rs. Prout u Dunton, in
| Rutland. lie accompanied the second Yer
mont reg iment to the field a. quartermaster-
sergeant, in 1861 /; was in the battles Of
the first Bull Run; resigned his position
and enlisted a. private in the United
States Light Artillery, in 1862 participated
in the battle OF fredericksburg, after
which he received a commission as second
| lieutenant in the Third Regular Cavalry in
| February, 1863 ; was promoted to first
| lieutenant October Q, 1865; was in the
battles Of Chattanooga. South Mountain,
Missionary Ridge and Atlanta was at the
side of the gallant General Mcpherson, in
advance Of our army, when the General was
shot down by rebel sharp shooter; and
was promoted to captain by brevet,
for meri,orious services. March l3. 1865.
Since the termination of the war he
was stationed at Memphis. Tenn, Little
Rock and Fort Smith, Ark. and Albu-
querqCe and Santa Fe. New Mexico. In
1867 he had command of cavalry escort to
General WrIght's surveying party from
Fort Logan. Colorado, through New
left the army and was engaged in surveying
lands on the Northern Pacific RAILROAD.
Later still he had charge OF the freight de-
partment of 700 miles Of the Missouri and
Texas Railroad. with headquarters at
Sedalia, Mo. lie leaves a wife and a two
years-old son
On the l0.h Of January, at Colorado
Springs, Colorado, John NJ. Hawrican. ESD,
recently OF Nergennes, bur formerly of North
Hero, died Of consumption. aged Al.
Hawrican was Tor many years clerk of the
county and courts of Grand lie, and was
States Attorney from 1868 20 1874
DR.. Henry Smith, LII. D., senior pro-
lessor in the Lane theological Seminary in
Ohio, died last week, aged seventy-three
year,. lie was graduated from Mddlebury
College in 1877. and from the Andoyer
Mass } Theological school. lie was for
merly president Of Marietta (Ohio) College,
and succeeded Dr. Beecher in the Lane
Seminary. His principal contribution to
literature was translation Of Crusius's |
Honoric Lexicon.
john Blair ScribDer. the senior partner in |
the book publishing house Of Charles Serb |
ret's Suns, died from pneumonia, Sunday,
at his residence in New York. lie wa |
about twenty-six years old, and probably |
was tho youngest man who has ever assum-
ed the management of such a great publish |
ing house. lie was the eldest son of the |
late Charles Scribner, and while still boy
took position a. clerk in his fathers pub |
fishing house. and made himself familiar
with every branch Of the publishing bust
ne-s After his fathers death and the
breaking up of the old house, he became a
partner in the new house OF ScrIbncr, Arm
strong Il Co. with Mr.. Armstrong and Ed
ward Seymour. On the death Of Mr. Sey-
mour, about a year ago. Mr. Armstrong
desired to withdraw from the house and
Mr. Scribner associated with him his
younger brother Charles.
Tho third commander OF the Army Of the
Potomac, Gen. Joseph Hooker. is living in
even moro o5scurity than either Burnside
OF Mcclellan. He has corner room in A.
L. Stewart hotel at Garden CITY, with
servant in a room adjacent, and there the
old General, who has paralysis la one 81 de
and walks with some difficulty, sits down
with his secretary and reads works on mill
tsry science and the memoirs of the various
Generals, Federal and Confederate. who
have been publishing since his day. Hooker
is quite well off: that IL, he has an income
Of perhaps SI5 900 a year and no posterity
or wife. lie lives with young man who
acts a. his clerk and groom. At the
close of the war he married a lady OF
amiable mind and excellent character and
fortune, the sister OF Mr. Groes-
beck, the Cincinatti lawyer. Not long al
ter the marriage he WAS stricken with
paralysis. His devoted wife nursed him 20
that she broke down and died,
leaving him her heir, and making the old
soldier Independent for the remainder Of his
broken dsys.-Csr. Exchange.