Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-07-28
Personal.

Professor s. B.. Whitney, the organist, will
return from Europe in time TO conduct the
choir festival to be held at Brattleboro early
In September.
Mrs. g. L. Waterman of Hydepark has re-
Gently received from the St. Johnsbury and
Lake Champlain railroad company $500 for
injuries received few years ago on the Port
land and Ogdensburg.
Prof. ]. NJ. Hit remains at the head of
the Northfeld high school another year and
Miss Carrie Chase of Morrisville has been
engaged as preceptress.
w. w. Benjamin, principal of Mount
Pleasant Academy at Sing Sing, N. Y, died
on the goth, aged Sc. He was native Of
Bridport, Vt.
The ordination and installation of Rev.
j ohm l.. Sewall as pastor of the First Con-
grcgational church In Westminster took place
on the 10Th
The Vermont Towards seem to know no
end In well-doing. Miss Louisa Howard of
Burlington has just given to the University
OF Vermont $4,000 for the establishment of
five scholarships to be known by her name.
--Harpers Weekly.
Mr.. Daniel A. futile, at one time a we'll
known manufacturer of writing paper, died
at his home In Springfield, Mass, the 18th.
Born In Vermont in 1916, his boyhood was
passed at Bellows Falls, and there he learned
something of the business which he after
ward followed.
Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell of Connccti-
cut passed through this city, the other day,
with his mother who at 81 years of age can
not forego her usual Summer tour to
Sheldon Springs, Vt, where other Hartford
people will greet her with kindred from Bos-
tOr .
field.
Rev Norman Clark, Baptist clergyman,
died at Chelsea, suddenly. lie was bornin
New Haven, VT, Sept "a, 1916; gradual
ed at Middlebury college in lS42 and had
been pastor at Swanton, Ira Jamaica, Fair
Haven, Vt, Marlboro, N. H., and Wendell,
Mass. He retired number of years ago
on account of i'll health. His remains were
taken to New Haven for burial.
Mrs. George p. Marsh has acquired some
distinction as an author Her published
writings are THE Hallig or the Sheep
fold in the Waters Tale of Humble Life
on the Coast of Schleswig,' translated from
the German of Biernatzki, with biographi.
cal sketch of the author and volume emit
tied "Wolfe of the Knoll" and other poems"
NJ. Giffard the wcll-known Partisan in
ventor, lately deceased, left to the French
Government generous legacy, under most
singular conditions 1t is TO be devoted to
the establishment of suicidria, or public in
situations in which persons suffering from
painful and incurable diseases may bring
their own lives to an end, under the direction
of medical experts, and with the consent of
their immediate relatives.
Jeremiah W. Sanborn, b. S., superinten-
dent of the State College Farm at Hanover,
IL md an, thnAr atin al .,,I
tical farming, has received and accepted
call to the professorship in agriculture at the
Missouri University at Columbus. Ezra
Eastman Adams, b. s., of Manchester, a
graduate of the Agricultural College at Han
over in 1878 and son of Hon. James o.
Adams, secretary of the New Hampshire
Board of Agriculture, is mentioned as sue
cessor to Superintendent Sanborn.
The appointment OF a competent educator
to fill the important place just vacated by
Prof. Charles o. Thompson, at the head of
the Worcester Free Institute of Technology,
is matter of more than local importance.
The choice has fallen on Prof. Homer T.
Fuller. Ph. D., a graduate of Dartmouth and
student of theology ut Andover, Of high rank
in both institutions, and before this sought
for prominent New England college profess
orships His most considerable work as q
teacher has brought the st. Johnsbury, (Vt.)
Academy to high place among New Eng
land schools He enters upon his Worcester
field in the autumn.-C Ongregatonalist.
The Vermont Cpronicle thus notices DIR.
Safford's resignation Becoming the pastor
of the College Street Church soon after its
organization, DR.. Stafford has Loyalty and ably
served the body for about twenty-five years.
This long ministry in one of the centres of
our population and influence has, through
his exchanges special services and promi.
nencc in conferences, councils and conven-
tons, brought him into frequent contact and
gwen him large acquaintance with the minis
try and churches OF the State. Moreover, his
uniform courtesy and cordially and his clear
Christian integrity have drawn the brother
hood to him as to few Others Should the
bonds that bind him to his own people be
now dissolved, the separation will be cause
OF sorrow, not only to the church and con-
gregation that his ministry has nourished
from the first, but to his brethren and many
| friends throughout the State