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

Secretary Lincoln was, for u period, on
Gen. Grants staff
Horace Maynard, who has Il moderate in
come, proposes to retire to private life.
The Rhode Island Senate has voted against
giving women the right to vote in school
matters.
Minister John \. Kasson has applied for u
letter of recall, and expects 10 return to this
country tins month.
The Illinois Legislature has adopted u
joint resolution thanking President Garfield
for the appointment of Robert Lincoln as
Secretary of War
Hon William T. Chandler of New Hamp-
shire is to lie Solicitor General of the Depart
ment of Justice.
EX-Nice- President Wheeler has gone South
for six weeks visit at its conclusion he is
going abroad to stay long time
Nebraska would not pass n prohibitory
liquor NV. but has fixed the license at
$1,000. and penalty of 800 for treating
The President has appointed Hon. Lot NJ.
Morrill, to be Collector of Customs at Port
land, Me-, and he was unanimously confirm
ed by the Senate.
Gen. and Mrs. Grant brcakfastei 6with
President Garfield and family on Wednesday.
Gen. Grant will spend the Summer in his
Long Branch cottage.
Gen. Grant will spend the sumher in his
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on the 1st of June. lie hus bought an es-
tate in New York and will make it his
home.
Professor Franklin Carter of Yale College
has decided to accept the proffered Presiden-
cy of Williams College on certain conditions,
which will probably be acceded to by the
Trustees.
James Gordon Benefits latest eccentric
performance is that of hiring Johann Strauss
and his orchestra Of eighty men 10 play for
his special qualification at Pau for one month
at 4 cost of nearly $50, 1000.
Miss Anna Dickinson will really play Ham
let. She would. it appears, like to do Mac
beth. but Mr.. Stetson says that she ought TO
adhere to Hamlet and Claude Melnotte, and
he does not see why she should moi take the
place of Charlotte Cushman.
The records of Dekalb County, Mississp-
pi, containing all the evidence Of the famous
Chisholm murder, were burned with the
court house, Inst week. The trial of some
Of the murlcrcrs wus about Ia begin but it
will now he abandoned This may bc u CO.
incidence
DIR. Nathan Allen of Lowell. says that
while he believes in the fullest exercise of
their rights by women, after IL somewhat
careful examination he has found that the
greater number Of women who are foremost
in the movement are unhealthy, and not
properly developed physiologically such
he held were really unfit leaders of so
ciety.
Bartlett, widow OF the hate Gen. ". +.
Bartlett, for the vacancy in the postoilice al
Pttstield, Mass. She is universally esteem
ed, and the appointment will he a very popu-
lar one.
Mr. T. L. White. editor OF the Providence
Press, says Senator Window favored the in-
tlation bill, which Gen Grant vetoed, not in
obedience to his own convictions but on the
mistaken supposition that the instructions 10
vote for it which came from Minnesota rep
resented the almost unanimous sentiment OF
the state.
There is at least one Ohio man who is
safe for some months to come. Colonel
Harrison q. Otis Of that State is Govern
ment agent at st Paul, on the principal seal
island of the Alcutian chain lie has COM
municaton with civilization only once
year. His wife joined him last Summer,
saiinr from San Francisco in May, and the
next vessel will probably 90 ont in May of
this year Col OTIS does not know who
was nominated at Chicago or Cincinnati, and
Of course, doesn't know who is now Prcsi-
dent of the United States, and will not know
till some time next Summer. His infOrma-
tion then will depend nn the eNigcncies of
navigation in northern waters
II was curiously characteristic "f Demo
cratic attempts nj legislation that the party
should have closed its six years possession OF
Congress by bringing about panic in the
stock market through an effort 10 improve
the credit OF the Government -Ndtfo.