Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-07-07
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General Order No. ., from the office of
Adjutant and Inspector General Peck,
announces the appointment by Governor
Farnham of Lieutenant Herbert s. luther
ly, First Cavalry, L. S. A., Professor
of Military Tactics in the University OF
Vermont and State Agricultural College,
to be aidc-dc-camp on the staff of His Excel
lency, the Governor of Vermont. with the rank
of Colonel This Isl well-descrved honor. AS
Military Professor Colonel Tuthcrly has per-
formed his duties with degree of industry,
tact and success, and has infused into the
young gentlemen Of the University an amount
of interest in his department, worthy of all
praise. As soldier and a gentleman he has
won the respect and regard of all with whom
he has been associated We are glad to see
his merit thus worthily recognized.
A despatch from DIR. Billiard, Gen. CIRCUITS
physician, on Saturday evening, gave us the
cheerful intelligence that Gen. G. was out Of
danger.
Dartmouth College has conferred the hon
| orary degree of NJ. A. on Hon. George W.
IIendee of Moriisville.
Assistant Surgeon-Ge Crane has been
nominated Surgeon-General, disappoint-
medt to DIR. Baxter. Crane is a native of
Rhode Island aud was appointed surgeon
| from Massachusetts in 1S4S.
Byron Murray, Esq, proprietor Of the
| well-known Summer resort at Clarendon
Springs, died, at that place, last week, from
the effects of the heat, aged 80 years. Mr..
Murray was for many years in business at
Vcrgennes, and leaves many friends 10
mourn his demise.
On Saturday next Rev. Moses p. Parme-
Ice, with his wife and daughter Isabella, sails
on the Inman steamer City of Richmond
from New York for Liverpool, en- route to
Trebizond, in Turkey-in- Asia, where he will
resume his arduous and self-denying labors
as missionary. The famiy's many friends
in this city will follow them with their best
wishes.
Ex-Governor Ichabod Goodwin, the first
war Governor of New Hampshire, after II
conspicuous life of more than four score
years, died Tuesday night at his home in
Portsmouth, N. H., aged SO. lie was a del
egate to the national conventions which
nominated Clay, Taylor and Scott for the
Presidency and was Vice-Prcsident of the
two first named bodies. lie was elected
Governor of New Hampshire by the Rcpub-
lcans in 1859 and 1860, his last term eXpir.
ing in June, 1861.
The many friends of Miss Laura ii.
Brownell have read with interest the an-
nouncement of her marriage to Mr.. John A
Collier, which took place in Williston, tho
other day. Mr.. Collier (who is brother OF
DIR. Peter Collier) occupies the position Of
chemist in a large manufacturing concern al
Patchoguc, l.. l., and their future home will
be in that place. A wide circle of friend.
will wish Mr.. and Mrs. Collier Il long ant
happy married life.
Middlebury College has conferred the fol
lowing degrees NJ. A., Juba H. Allen
lockwood Barrett d. d., Henry NJ. Laid
Il. ID. G. Robbins LII. d., L. p. Morton
Stephen A. Walker A. M. in course, Il. II
Brainerd, j. w. Atwood, III. 5. Baker, L. L
Phillips, Ii. w. Hubert A. b., upon thu
: members of the graduating class,
, 4 Rev. Samuel w. Dixie has resigned his pas
torate at Royalton, this State.
r Colonel Asa Wentworth, wcll-knowi
citizen of Bellows Falls, sustained n sever,
G fracture of one of his hips by falling on tn,
e sidewalk, at that place, Sunday. Owing I,
| his advanced age, he being about SO, it il
4 feared that he will not recover, He was 70
many years president of the Connection
River Mutual Fire Insurance company.
/, Once more the regular annual effort la
y been made in the House of Lords TO pass tn
= bill making it legal for man to marry hi
: deceased wife's sister. The wild, uncontrol
liable desire, the eager, uncomfortable ambi
!, ton, the one unfading dream of an English
y mans life, to marry his sister-in-law, i
!, something that is not felt and can not be an
:, preciated in any other country in the world
1t has been wild struggle for centuries L
get this bill passed, and why it was not in
a corporated in the magma charta, or the gun
powder plot, or something of that sort, W
= can't understand. We suppose, II this bill
8 ever does pass, and the unfettercd English
!. man is suddenly turned loose upon hi
n mother-n-law's family, there won't be
q deceased wife's sister" in all England lief
unmarried within thirty minutes after tn
d passage of the BILL burlington Ha,ckey,
n Somehow people who say they enjoy
thunder shower always want somebody /
g be present to enjoy it with them. -Lone