Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-04

Rev. 5. X. d. Perkins of the Congrcga
tional church in South Royalton. has rC
signed.
Hon. Charles II. Joyce has secured room
In the Baxter bank building, Rutland, an,
VIII shortly establish his law office there.
Hon. W. II. II. Bingham is in c6nsidera
bly, improved health, and his friends conf
IDENTIFY expect that he will be us good as new
again.
Merrick y. Joslyn of Woodstock, III VIII,
has been selected as the assistant secretary o
the interior department, is Il lawyer A. year
OF age, and is of Vermont lineage.
The marriage Of Miss BERTHE Evarts, daugh
ter OF the cx- Secretary of State, to Mr.. Ed
ward Perkins will take place on Wednesday
al the Summer residence of the brides hther
| Windsor.
The Boston Saturday Epening Gasett
says Zone of the most striking turnouis al
Newport this season is that of Mr.. L. Ely
Goddard, who drives three beautiful Ethar
Allen ponies abreast in four-wheel dog
cart"
Philander Deming senior stenographcr Of
the supreme court of New York. has re-
signed, and Spencer G. Rogers former
s,enographer of Franklin county court, is
appointed to fill the vacancy. Mr.. Deming
is master of his art but is probably better
known as genial and attractive magazine
writer.
Referring to the late Hon. Geo. p. Marsh,
the Boston Journal says: His career teach
es, in very emphatic manner, the advan.
tage OF selecting trained and scholarly men
to represent us abroad, and of retaining them
as long as possible in the service which they
adorn."
Col. John C. Hamilton, son of Alexander
Hamilton OF revolutionary fame, died at
Long Branch Tuesday, aged ninety years.
The deceased had many OF the virtues and
characteristics Of his renowned father. He
was man of fine talents, careful, accu.
rate historian, and the master of n lucid his
torical style.
Milo White, who has been nominated to
succeed Congressman Dunnell of Minnesota,
is direct descendant of Peregrine White,
the first child born in the Plymouth Colony.
His grandfather went fronm Uxbridge,
Massachusetts, to Vermont, and Milo was
born In Fletcher, franklin county, Vermont
in 1880.
The wife of King Humbert of Italy, is u
highly cultivated woman. She appreciated
the eminence Of United States Minister
George p. Marsh as scholar, sought his So
ciety, and felt an especial friendship for him.
a despatch from Rome says that Mrs. Marsh
VIII continue to reside in Italy.
A congratulatory meeting was rendered to
Judge Poland by the citizens of 81. Johnsbury,
Thursday evening, at the st. Johnsbury House.
After music, Judge Ross, in behalf of the
people, congratulated Judge Poland upon his
nomination to Congress- Judge Poland
thanked his fellow townsmen for their de-
monstration of good will, and said that il was
not the prospect of entering political life
again that gave him satisfaction, but that the
people, of their own accord, had indicated
him by 50 unanimously setting aside the YER
dict OF eight years ago, and if he was elected
he would serve them to the best of his ability.
The Woodstock Standard says of Hon.
Geo. Z. Marsh:
Ills literarylproduction can not be enum-
Grated here. but concerning each and
all OF them, 1t may he said, they are
characterized by thoroughness of work,
richness and accuracy of knowledge,
that leave little further to be desired. Upon
any subject which engages his attention,
whether in conversation or in writing such
wealth OF information did he exhibit and
such imperial sway over it, as few men have
ever equalled, fewer still have ever sur
passed. Indeed, perhaps it is no exagger-
alton to say, that at the time of his death he
was the most learned man in the world.
Luke p. Poland was born in Westford,
Nov. !, 1915. Judge Poland acquired his
early education at the common schools
mostly, never attending an academy but one
term and part OF another in his life. He
read law, and at the age of twenty one was
admitted to the bar of Lamoille county on
the first day the court was ever held in that
county. He located and commenced the
practice of law in Morrisville, held various
town and county offices; was elected fifth
associate justice of the Supreme court in
1s4s, and with the establishment of circuit
court in 1850 was elected one of the Judges
thereof, which position he occupied contin-
uously Atill the re-establishmcnt of the
Supreme court in 1857, when he was elected
second associate justice, and in 1860 sue
ceeded to the chief justiceship of that court,
which position he occupied till 1865, when
he was appointed by Governor Dillingham;
an United States Senator, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of the Hon. Jacob
Collamcr. AT the session of the legislature
In 1856, he was elected to serve the remain
der OF that term, which ended March 4,
1877. lie was elected to the 40th, 4lst,
42d and Add Congresses from the Second
district of Vermont. In 1850 he removed
from Morrisville to ST. Johnsbury, and since
his retirement from Congress has resumed
an extensive practice of law, combining with
II the duties of president of the First National
bank in tina; place. lie was the leader in
the House in the State Legislature of 1878.
Judge Poland Is not quite sixty-sevcn years
of age.
Mrs, George r. Marsh is a most accom-
plished woman, not only well versed in the
literature of her own country, but also in
that of foreign lands In which she has passed
so many years of her life She also is Il
writer OF no mean rcpute. From an injury
to the spine she was for years unable to walk
was obliged to be carried from room to
room. Wherever she lived, she was the cen.
tire OF the most brilliant society. Lying on
her sofa, surrounded by the noblest of the
land, she conversed freely with all on every
subject that came up. One would naturally
think that her physical inflrmity would have
been barrier to moving her from place to
place. Not 80. She even crossed the Long
Desert, from Cairo TO Jerusalem, seated in II
basket strapped upon camel. or borne in a
chair by two Arabs through the mountain de-
files of that most interesting region. Her
courage in such undertakings was greater than
mine, even though had the freeuse of all my
limbs. At Therapia, few miles up the Bos-
from Constantinople, while herhusband
was minister to Turkey, their house was a
centre OF attraction to all the diplomatic
corps, and, lying on her sofa, looking out on
the sparkling waters of the Busphorus
through her latticed verandah, she held, as
il were, her little court, where great men and
honorable liked TO do her reverence. Her.
husband had indeed in her worthy help
meteor. Providence Journal.
The Second District Democratic conven-
ven,ion, at Wells River, Thursday, nominal
cd Geo. l.. Fletcher for Congress.