Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-04-26
sMisrrHaneons.
PERSONAL.

apron which Is one hundred twenty-five
years old.
Hon. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS has
placed the control Of his affairs in the hands
Of his son, John Quincy Adams, Esq
The published report that Mr.. Prescott
and Mr. Walker Blaine had been recalled
from Chill is denied at the state department.
The wife of Lieutenant Governor Tabor of
Colorado, Vermonter by birth, has sued
for separate maintenance on the ground of
infdeity.
THE admirers of General Grant in YER
mont will be gratifed to know that he re-
CARDS Senator Edmunds as the greatest liv-
ing statesman.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY faces the music
bravely. He says that he has committed no
illegal act, and that he has no fears that the
court can convict him of wrong doing.
ALTHOUGH fifty, Gustave bore looks but
thirty-five. He is sculptor, engraver,
painter, designer and water color artist, has
the head of poet and the frame Of al &C
robat.
CONGRESSMAN FLOWER is said TO be the
most popular man named for the democratic
candidacy for governor in New York. He
has "bar'l " and is both ambitious and
| liberal.
Mr.. GEORGE F. BARKER, who has been
with the Washington Post as editorial writer,
will go 10 Manchester, New Hampshire, TO
take full charge of the Union, Mr. Stilson
Hutchins' other newspaper.
EX-GovERNoR DANIEL II. CHAMBERLAIN
Of South Carolina, who has become a sue
cessful lawyer in New York city, has been
in very poor health, but is better and
will sail for Europe in May.
| Mr.. TENNYsoN received three guineas
line from the CornhM Magazine for his " Ii
thonus." MIR. Bonner went guinea above
the laureates price in his bid for Longfel-
lows Hanging of the Crane" which cost
him four guineas line.
A NUMBER Of Montreal gentlemen, incor.
porated under the name of the Missisquoi
Gun Club, have leased Metcalf island, at
mouth Of the Missisquoi river, as a game
preserve. They will erect handsome club
house, and keep game warden to protect
their rights.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN of Missouri is
gaining an unenviable reputation. Ia addi-
ton to his questionable action in the case of
Jesse james, he has committed to five years
the eighteen years sentence of Rev. j. Kee-
baugh, convicted of forging $4,000 worth
OF Howard county bonds, and his imprison-
ment has just expired.
NJ. r. HUBBELL of Wolcott has invented
a selfcoupling bar for freight cars. Sew
eral of them have been tested on the st.
Johnsbury and Lake Champlain railroad,
and proved a success. Mr.. Hubbell de-
serves high reward for his inventive skill
The loss of life in car-coupliug is very
great, and the man who can prevent it by
mechanical device is certainly public ben
efactor.
SENATOR THURMAN of Ohio, said to a
friend regarding his recent visit to Europe
al enjoyed myself very much, sir, very much,
indeed but | have one serious regret. |
am very sorry that did not have an oppor-
tunity of seeing Prince Bismarck aud the
Queen of England" "And why did you
wish so particularly to see them 7" asked
the friend in surprise. The senator, with a
sly twinkle in his eye, but with his utmost
severity of manner, answered "Because,
sir, after seeing them, might have been
able to say that | had met two people in
Europe who did not want a sixpence from
me-"
Mr.. F. A. PERRY of Keene, n. H., makes
a general and circumstantial denial of the
truth of the statements of the Concord cor
respondence of the Boston Journal in regard
to the treatment of the widow of Conductor
Markham, recently killed on the Northern
road, and says: Equally untrue is the in
ference that Superintendent Ii 1bart received
his first knowledge of the arrival of Mrs.
Markham from the sad inquiries of her little
daughter. He having been in telegraphic
communication with me all day, had secured
at st. Adams the care of the body by the
undertaken and made every arrangement
that the most thoughtful and loving interest
could suggest-and all this before my ar
rival there"
A WRITER in the Philadelphia Times, de-
scribing the wife of Jefferson Davis in con-
federate days, says mo presidential man
sion in America was ever grsced by more
brilliant woman than Mrs. Davis. She was
of commanding height, with dark hair, eyes
and complexion, and with strongly marked
and expressive mouth. 1t was a fine face,
indicative of intellect, energy and strength
OF character yet beautifully softened by the
gentle expression of her dark, earnest eyes.
Her manners were kind, graceful and affable,
her conversational powers brilliant, and her
receptions were characterized by dignity
very properly belonging to the drawing
room entertainments of the chief magistrate
OF republic"
CAMILLA URso, who has returned from a
musical tour in Australia, speaks highly of
the intelligence and cultivation of the audi
ences there, but says caste is az marked as in
England. The merchant will not conde-
scend to sit in the parquette if his " clark /"
is there, and the foreman of carpenters shop
would not sit alongside of one of his assist
ants. But in their treatment of artists they
show delicacy which is peculiar to them.
A bouquet is handed to the performer, not
hy ha thar in, I,,N . Ia.
donor. An elegantly dressed lady, the wife
or daughter of the governor, for instance,
will rise and walk to the stage and make
her present with the grace and dignity of a
princess, amid the " braves of the audience.
PRESIDENT SEELYE of Amherst College
states that hereafter the college edifces
which may be erected at Amherst are to be
fireproof if possible. The annex to the pres
ent library soon to be built is to be ALSO
lutely incombustible, 80 far as architects and
builders can make it. Within less than a
week after the destruction of Walker Hall,
the college had offers of money suffi ,iept to
restore the building, aud donations of min
erals which will go far to replace the great
Shepard collection. The valuable portrait
of DR.. Seelye, presented 10 the college last
summer by George ii. Holt, Henry G. De-
Forest, Waldo Hutchins, Elliot Sanford,
and Others of this city, has been transferred
from Walker Hall to the library, and es-
capped destruction.
The wife of Senator Bingham used to tell
pleasant story of the time when her hus-
band was trying to get votes in the Penn
sylvania legislature. He gave dinner
party to a number of the members, one Of
whom managed to break plate-one of an
exquisite set OF Sevres of great value. The
unhappy guest fell into an agony which Mrs.
Bingham at once soothed by saying, with a
careless air; alt is Of no sort of conse-
quence, for this ware is exceeding brittle
and breaks very easily; just look and to
illustrate her statement she took up another
of the priceless plates and placidly broke it
into bits with her knife, Fresh plates were
brought, and the clumsy member was so
pleased and relieved that, as soon as might
be, he voted for the husband of this woman
of tact.
Items OF Interest.