Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-03-18
PERSONAL.

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, Rev. L. A. Arthur recently resigned tn
rectorship of the Episcopal church at Islam
Pond, but was induced to withdraw his res
ignation and take vacation instead.
A New York despatch says: Police Com
missioner W. +. Smith has resigned. 1t i
rumored that the Commissioners have beel
cited before the Mayor to answer charges IL
connection with mismanagement OF the Stree
Cleaning Bureau.
The death is announced, at Chicago, in hi
4lst year, of Robert l.. Smith, son of the lat
Rev. DR.. Worthington Smith president o
the L. V. NJ Robert l.. Smith was tint
tenth of the twelve children who survived
the father six sons and six daughters, o.
whom all but one daughter survive him.
London Truth learns that the explana
ton of the failure of George Eliot TO leave
any of her property to her husband is thai
such an arrangement was entered into pre-
vious to her second marriage by the express
desire of Mr.. Cross, who is himself wealthy
Every section of the great San Juan coun
try is bound 10 come very rapidly to the
front this summer Col. j. B. Erhardt OF
New York city, spent last year in Rico. lie
is now in New York and has formed com
pany TO develop the mines Of that growing
district, in which he invested last season
Col. Erhardt has interested some Of the
heaviest capitalists of New FORK in his great
enterprise Denrer INininy Reriec.
| Hon. Levi p. Morton, who has been con
firmed by the United States Senate as minis
ter to France, is native of Shoreham, in this
State, where he was born in 1924. He be-
gan mercantile business at Hanover, n. III.
in 1913, removed TO Boston in 1850, and to
| New York in 1854. In 1868 he engaged in
banking with houses in New York and Lon
don. lie served in the Forty-sixth Congress.
and is a member of the Forty-seventh Mr..
Morton is man of large wealth, which he
liberally used in the cause of the Republican
party. He.is nan of high ability rs a f.
nancier.
The Cleveland Herald publishes an author
lied statement of the savings of ex-President
Hayes from his salary The aggregate of
his salary was S200,000, and the expenses Of
the position for the four years were S134 900.
Had Congress refunded the $4,000 he paid
for the expenses of the visiting statesmen to
Louisiana, his Savings would have been
$4,000. As it is he went out of Office with
SOC, 900, to be carried from his account as
President 10 the benefit of his account as a
private citizen, When he became President
he was burdened with debts to the amount of
$50, ,0C0, mostly on account of bequests
charged upon the Burchard estate OF this
amount he has paid $50, 900 out of his Prcsi-
Dental salary.
1t is the talk in New York financial circles
that ID. o. Mills of California has cleared
something like SIG, 900, 900 since he came to
this coast, and he is assessed for S22, 900 000 1t
is his daughter who is engaged to be married
TO Whiteaw Reid of the Tribune. A New
York letter says: There is no doubt but
that Vanderbilt and Gould are both laying
for ID. o. Mills and James X. Keene-not
that they have anything in particular against
either of the California operators, except
that they are opposed 10 all successful job
bers in stocks, and delight to see pinched all
who dare to crawl under the canvas of the
Wall street menagerie Apropos, keene and
Mills both got in on the recent deal in
Western Union, and cleared IN more than
million apiece"
In speaking of the comment that has been
made upon the long absences from Washing
ton of William A. Wheeler during his recent
term us e-President of the United States,
a correspondent states that he has really
spent more time in official duties in Wash
ington than any of his predecessors. The
statement that he has spent many months in
each year in his favorlte pastime of angling
is pronounced wholly false in fact he has
not cast line in the water for three years.
Most of the time he has spent away from
Washington has been passed at the bedside
of a sick friend. His reluctance to minge in
the social life of Washington is explained by
the death of his wife, which occurred Just
before his nomination, and by the death of
his sister and only family relative in the mid
die OF his term. Whenever he has been ab-
sent froG the Capital it has been when there
was not even NE shadow of necessity for |
his presence there.
Our city has a modest but very sweet ad- |
dition TO its population in the person of Sen |
ator Conkling's daughter. Mrs. William G. !
oakman, who hos I"ie;ly taken up her resi- |
dence here. Mr.. Oakman, who was Superin-
tendent of the Delaware and Lackawanna |
road at Utica, has gone into business in New |
ork rs a dealer in railroad supplies. The |
young couple are extremely happy in each |
other society notwithstanding the fac |
the imperial Senator takes no notice of them |
and always speaks contemptuously Of his |
only chid's husband as Mrs. Conkling's SON.
in-law." Mrs. Gen. Mcclellan and other |
leaders of society will do their best to make
Mrs. Oakman happy in her new sphere but |
the latter is very quiet and retiring, and her |
tastes arc artistic and literary rather than |
social.-N. \. Ger. Wash. Post
Dickens used to tell inimitsbly story |
ABOUT Carlyle, the scene occurring at a dinner |
held at Proctor's, where were present among |
others, Carlyle and the well known editor of |
a review. The editor had enunciated some |
weighty opinion on the subject under dis
cussion-as Dickens used 10 say, treating |
il in the usual - Rteieio manner, wrapping |
it up in a small parcel and laying ii by on a
shelf us done with forever and a dead silence |
cnsued. This silence was, to the astonish-
ment Of all, broken by Carlyle, who, seated
opposite the editor, looking |
across at him in a dreamy way, said, as
though TO himself but in audible tones,
''Eh, but you're puir creetur, puir,
meeserable crectur :" then, with
sigh, he relapsed into silence.
The administration is or soon will be
disposed of as follows The ex-President
has reached his home in Fremont, Ohio
where he expects to remain for some time.
MIR. Evarts and family remain in Washing
ton till May, when they will return to New
York Mr.. Evarts is said to be greatly
pleased with his appointment as chairman of
The United States Commission to the None
AIRY Conference at Paris. Ex-Attorney- Gen
eral Devens resumes law practice in Boston
next fall ex-Secretary Schurz is to give at
ention to his st. Louis papers interests
ex xPostmaster-General Maynard and ex-Scc-
retary Ramsey will find solace from politics
n property cares in Tennessee and Minncso
IA. Ex-Nice- President Wheeler contemplates
An extended European tour. Ex-Secretary
ioif, in resuming his old office rs district
attorney of West Virginia will, with Mr..
Evarts he all of the old Cabinet who remain
n the Government employ