Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-04-22
PERSONAL.

Mrs Hammond Billou is holding revival
meetings at North Bennington.
Mr. Asa T. Barron, the wel-known hotel
man, lies ut the point of death.
The Malone PaiLtiium says the report that
Hon W. \. Wheeler is going 10 Europe in
June is premature.
The total of Mr.. George |. Seney's gifts 10
educational and charitable institutions To
date is S1lS, 800. Mr.. Scncy is President
of the Metropolitan National Bank, New
York.
Ii is announced that when the deadlock
ends in the Senate the President will nom-
nate Dr. j. II. Baxter, Medical Purveyor, 10
be Surgeon General Of the Army in place OF
SurgeonGeneral Barnes.
DIR. Henry Darling OF Albany. an alum
nus of Amherst, has been invited To become
President of Hamilton College, in place of
President Brown, resigned. DIR. Darling is
the leading Presbyterian clergyman in Al
bany and has n salary ot S6oOo. The salary
of the President of Hamilton has been
$1,000; but ii is intimated that it will he
raised if DIR. Darling accepts the Office.
Toward the end of July the Governor
General and suite will leave Ottawa for the
Northwest. They will stop at Detroit, Chi
cago. Milwaukee, st. Paul and other Amerl-
can cities, and will travel by SPECIAL tram.
the Governor Generals magnificent eur, the
Canada, which is IA marvel of neainesS and
convenience, making one of the train. They
will do the Northwest thnrnushly going MS far
wcst as Edmonton, on the Suskat atchewan
and keeping as near To the proposed route
of the Canada Pacific railway as possible.
The doctors are quarrcllins over Lord
Bcaconsticl,ts draih-hrL DR.. Qulin has
been called upon To ,irlrnl himself before
the College of PHYSICIANS for consulting with
DIR. Kidd. who is an eclectic practitioner.
| DIR. Ouain explains that before seeing Lord
Braconsficld he had received letter from
DIR. Kidd saving that hr was treating the
case homewpaihically, and that every diTcr-
tion and prescription of Dr. Quain's would
be faithfully carried ont. From u letter "i
DIR. Kidd To medical journals, II appears
that Sir William Jenucr absolutely refused
a consultation prior 10 the su mmonins "f
DIR. Quan.
The wife and little son of Prot II. NJ
Seely of Niidlebury are lying quite Ill from
some cause not apparent. They were h'th
taken i'll II week ngo last Saturday alter tea
| one an hour or two after the Other, Win
| similar symptoms, which became quite ali'thl-
| inp After n few days they became better,
/
caused their friends considerable anxiety.
| Their SYMPTOMS seem To he those of blood
poisoninr. manifested chiefly in the lace ami
| throat. and attended by grave constitutional
| disturbances No cause - certainly Known
| thcugh il is coniccturcd from the circum-
| si,nrrs connected with the first mnnilcsta'
zion of the disease, that some article ot food
m,v have affected them prS woodward ol
Brandon and Thayer OF this city have been
| called in consultation.
Rev. W Morley Punshon. the wcll-known
| English Wesleyan clergyman, died IN Thurs
day, AGED - years. The son of Donrasirr
draper, hr curly became impressed with The
desire to study Tor the ministry, commencing
| his career at Sunderland when sixteen wears
old bv undertaking the duties Oi local
| nrcacbcr." Four years lntrr, after passing
short term as prnbaiioncr n: the WESLEYAN
| Collr~r in Richmond. he accepted hlS hrSt
nnstor,l charge mt Marden, III Kent Ills
| ,rr,,t success induced the conference ot lSlb
10 nppnInt him to the ministry ut Nhiirha-
ven in Cumberland, and, although but
twenty one years old. hS reputation was
such that people tlockcd from all parts IL
hear him In 1865 hr went to Canada, AMI
during his residence there was five times
President of the Canadian Conference. Re
turnipr To England in 1873, Dr. PunShun
was the following wear chosen President "l
The WESLEYAN Conference. lilS pn'l~h'd
sermons and lectures are very popular, par
ticularly the dissoursrs upon John inn-
van and The liuyucuois lie also pun
lshed "A volume ot verse