Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-06-10

Mrs. Garfield may go to Old Orchard this
Summer.
A Springfield ILL.,, despatch says that Mrs
Lincoln is dying in that city.
Norman Williams, formerly well known
Vermonter, but now resident of Chicago,
has been appointed by the President as Com
missioner to the International Electric Con
gress at Paris.
Mr.. IL. q. Vennor has presented Jeh.
Davis with full set of his almanacs from
the beginning. Thus does time bring about
its revenses.
General Sherman says he has left all the
data for correct history of his own military
career, thoroughly prepared for the historian,
and will leave it with his children.
L. W. Rcdington, Esq, of Rutland, will
deliver the alumni address at the coming
commencement of Williston Mass Semin-
airy.
Dr. F. X. Ainsworth, late house physi-
clan of the Mary Fletcher Hospital, is locat-
ed at Prescott, Arizona, where, beside large
and lucrative general practice, he has charge
of a hospital conducted by the Sisters OF St
Joseph, in which many patients are treated.
The fatal illness of the late Hon. A. j.
Crane Was of but four days duration. 1t
was pneumonia, resulting from cold caught
when going to meet his family, on their ar
rival from Vermont.
We are sorry to be obliged 10 chronicle the
resignation of Prof r. A. Rice, of the Uni
vcrsity, which takes effect at the.close of the
present term Prof. Rice has filed the char
of modern languages with marked ability
and his departure is the loss 10 the lnivcr-
sity Of Il thorough instructor and a cultivated
gentleman and scholar. He leaves to accept
the chair ef modern languages in Williams
Collcsr
The death is anzounced of Macmillan
Paul Emile Littre, publicist and philologist,
and one Of the most eminent of French saw
ants, AT the age of 50. Ills great work was
his dictionary of the French language. This
was commenced in 1874 and its publication
was completed in 1872 1t is n most com
plctc and valuable production. embracing
not only careful definition of the truest sig
MITIGATION Of words, but full analysis of the
derivation as far back as modern research
extends The work comprises true the
saurrIs of the French language, ami is "nc of
the highest authorities extant.
Minister Andrew Z. White at Berlin, who
is also President of Cornell University, has
purchased and presented to the college col
lection Of medallion and other casts relating
to history and art, including $500 casts of
ancient engraved gems, 700 casts of selected
mcdaiOns of engravers of the Middle Ages,
200 portrait mcdaions of rulers of the lead
ing countries Of Europe, number OF casts
Of statuary and about 1000 photographs OF
important edliices in Europe.
Alfred Billings Street, n well known poet
and for many years the New York State
Librarian, died at his residence in Albany,
Friday. lie was born ut Poughkcepsie
December Is. 1911, read law in his fathers
office AMI in 1889 removed to Albany,
where he has since resided lie began his
literary career while young as n poetical
writer for magazines. Ills first volume,
The burning Of Schenectady and other
poems, was published in iSi2; drawings
and TintngS,' in 1914, and his longest work,
''Fruntcnac, II tale of the lroquois, in Lon
don in 1919 lie long held most honnred
place among American poets of the era prior
To the war Of the rebellion. Ills works Won
from the critical pen of MIR. IL. 7. Tucker
man the following notice ;-''Strcet has an
eve for nature in all her moods. lie has not
rnamcd the woodland in vain, nor have the
changclul seasons passed him by without
leaving vivid and lasting impressions In Il
foreign land his poems would transport
us at once To home. lie Is empha-
tically an observer. In England we notice |
that these qualities have been recognized;
his Lost Hunter was finally illustrated in II
recent periodical thus airording the best evil
dcnce of the picturesque fertility of his name.
Many of his pieces, too, glow with patriot
ism. Without the classic elegance of Thorn
son he excels him in graphic power"