Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-12-24
PERSONAL.

Mr.. $. b. Petteng,ll OF the ST. Adams
Messenger, was married in Louisville, ~,
Wednesday, to Miss Sue Harry Claggett,
daughter of the late Judge Claggett. of Keo-
kuk, Iowa. Miss Claggett is well known in
the West as a contributor to the press, and
has written articles printed in the Messenger,
entitled ''Summering in Kentucky, Life
in the Black Hills" and The Story of the
Earth
Rev Theodore Irving, who died on Dec.
20, in New York, was born in that city May
8, 1909, and was the nephew of Washington
Irving. When he was nineteen years old he
joined his uncle in Spain, and spent three
years in Madrid, Paris and London, study
ing modern languages and attending lectures
After returning to the United States he was
appointed, in 1886, professor of history and
Belles-lettres in Geneva, NOW Hobart Col
lege, New York, and he held that position
for twelve years OF late he lived in retire
ment, and died of advanced years and bodily
intirmities. He leaves behind widow and
four children. Mr.. Irving published Con
quest OF Florida by fernando de Soto
1885 and devotional works entitled, The
Fountain Of Living Waters (lS5G. Tiny
football" 1859 and More than Conquerer'
1S73).
Senator Morrill, has been appointed a yisi-
tor to West Point.
Mrs. A. +. Stewart leads rs quiet and
amiable a life rs any rich woman in the coun-
try She is much attached 10 the Episcopal
church, and solely sustains the Bishopric of
Long Island, 10 which appertain the cathe-
| dral and schools of Garden City As an in
vestment Garden City is complete failure.
like many Of Stewards purchases The
whole settlement has not above three or four
hundred persons. Mr.. Stewards New York
real estate is also badly located. The body
of Mr. Stewart has never been recovered.
A London letter says that when Lady
Burdett- COutts asccrtained that she could
| not marry Mr. Ashmead Bartlett without
| losing large part of her fortune, she settled
with him by giving him half u million dol
lars-s present that most young men would
prefer to d bride old enough to be his mother
DIR. Glenn's harvest in Colusa county, Cal,
is just finished, and the total yield is 400 900
sacks of wheat The doctor reserves 60 900
for seed and has shipped the rest.
The marriage of Victoria Woodruff to q
London banker has been postponed because
| of reports assailing her character, and she
will commence libel suits against her sland-
| erers.
A curious case Is thut OF Joseph lIartz, the
magician, who recently gave n series of en-
tertainments in this city. He has been liy-
ing in the town OF Newcastle, WcstchesIer
county, n. Y, since April /, 1879, and has
never uttered a word to n living soul, nor has
| he left his room lie lies on his back in a
| bed in Il room whose windows are darkened,
| sgnifyng his desires by writing. Whene yer
| his attendant or any stranger OF member OF
the family calls to see him he closes his eyes
and never moves muscle. Ills food and
| linen are left in his room at the bedside and
/ he eats unohserved and silent lie reads
| constantly, when no one watches, by the
| light of spirit lamp. He is very wakeful
and watchful, and never can be betrayed
/ into uttering syllable lie sometimes
talks to himself about his wife and little
daughter, but ceases The moment he hears a
sound The cause of his trouble is thought
to be brain fever, contracted three years ago
in Mexico while travelling.
| Judge William II. woods OF rtotGld,
whom President Hayes has nominated To be
au Associate Justice of the supreme Court
in place of Judge Strong, resigned, ia now
the Circuit Judge Of the Southern Circuit,
which embraces the States of Georgia Ala
bams Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and
Texas Judge Woods was born in Newark.
Ohio was graduated at Yale in 1915. studied
/ law was speaker of the Ohio House IN 1857,
entered the army in 1861 as Lieutenant
Colonel of the Seventy seventh Ohio, and
before the close of the war attained the rank
OF Brigadier General and Breyet Major
General When the war was over he be-
came a resident of Alabama In 1866 he
was chosen chancellor of the State, but re
signed the office to accept the tnited States
| Circuit JuiEcshn.