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

ed TO hear he has already gained an excellent
practice.
Charles l.. Goss of Brandon was admitted
to the lar of Rutland county Tuesday. Mr.
Goss is 4 son of Dcpuiy-Shcriff \. W. Goss
| is 4 graduate of the University OF Vermont
in the class of 1873, and has studied for his
profession at Boston and in the Office OF
Ormsbcc n Briggs of Brandon.
Col Samuel b. Sumner of Bridgeport,
Conn, has been appointed TO deliver the
poem at the annual reunion of the Army OF
the Potomac at Hartford in June next.
Mrs. Lincoln has never recovered from the
shock of the martyred Presidents death. In
1868, unable 10 live quietly at home, she
crossed the Atlantic, and has since resided
most of the time in Europe. At present she
is in this country, having returned in Octo-
her last, still broken in health and spirits.
Mary Anderson travels in a SPECIAL palace
car, in which she has an upright piano, a
small library, file Of papers and swinging
hammock.
Judge Choatc of New York, states that he
has resigned the judgeship of the United
States District Court because the salary,
$1,000, is not commensurate with the labors
performed.
u. l.. Moody, the evangelist, is set down
for visit to Europe in the fall. lie will
hold 4 sort of select camp meeting for ad-
vanced Bible scholars at Mortified during
the summer.
All the New England Senators except
those from Vermont have signed recon-
mendation for DIR. Loring for Commissioner
of Agriculture. Senators Edmunds and
Morrill, are reported To favor the retention of
Mr.. lie Due
Victor Hugo, ON the seventy ninth anniycr-
sary Of his birth, stood at an open window
at his residence in Paris for six hours TO re-
ccive the salutations of his friends. 1t is
said that five hundred thousand people pass
ed, as it were, in review before him, throw
Ing flowers before him. OF course he made
speech. 81 salute Paris. | salute this
immense city. | salute it, not in my own
name, for am nothing but in the name of
everything that lives, reasons, thinks, loves
and hopes here below'-and ,much more of
the same gush, which sounds well enough to
French ears, but is a lit boshy to American
cars.
A statement has found extended circula-
ton in the press of the country TO the effect
that the last Year was n losing one to the
publishers of the Atlantic Monthly and
that this fact had something 10 do with the
retirement of Mr.. llowells The sum lost :
on the magazine during the year is variorsly
stated at from SEQ, 900 To $4,000 On the
contrary the Boston journal says that the
last year was not only n profitable one for the
-iHiHti,, but that it was the most profitable
one which the magazine has known since
1874. Mr.. Thomas Bailey Aldrich is to be
entertained at 4 public dinner in honor of his
becoming editor of the magazine.
Lasi September Matt Carpenter wrote TO
Professor David, Swing: whoever will
read Cicero's Twilight SHcculations about
Duty and the Future Life, remembering that
perhaps he was the fullest man of an antiqui-
~, the ripeSt scholar and student of the
highest period Of Roman civilization, and re-
that from the birth of Cesar To
the birth of Christ the only change that
came To civilization was decline, and that
Jesus belonged 10 IA out the My people
4. people apart from the high tides of human
~. apl will rnnl bn