Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-12-15

baked beans in the city Of their former
glory.
The wardrobe OF the Chinese minister a
Washington is valued, according to cor
respondent, at $50, 900. lie never appear
twice at receptions in the same dress, ant
they are all Of the richest silks and satius.
Preparations of every conceivable kind 70
a BETTING national celebration of the up
proaching silver wedding of the Crown Prime,
and Princess of Prussia are Under way. TIL,
leading idea is TO raise fund to be- ON
ploycd by them after their own judgment ant
pleasure in the creation or in furtheraice o
a number of benevolent Institutions pruc
tice cminently to their taste.
y movement is on foot among the ladc
of New York TO induce some enterprisin:
theatrical manager TO scour Europe fora per
iectly formed and Supremacy handsome man
and to bring him to New York TO take tn,
leading part in II series of popular plays.
The Philadelphia Times has found occu
patton for Frank Fraync and thinks h,
might practice shooting cigarettes from til,
mouths OF unfortunate young men. Tn,
only trouble about this is that Frank is alto
gc,her too good shot
Only about one of every ten Negro
cabins in the South has windows Whci
the occupants want any daylight they wall
out of doors.
Joe Coburn, tie noted prize fighter, hi:
been released from Sing Sing prison to
which he was sentenced for ten years fol
shooting two policemen. lie had three anC
II half years deducted from his sentence loi
good behavior, and the governor commutct
the nine months remainder for the SAINT
cause. Coburn was intoxicated and in row
at the time of the shooting.
Mr. Corcorln, in arranging for the removal
OF John Howard Paync's remains supposed
that he had no next of kin living. but his
brothers only child is the wife of Rev. Lea
Luqucr (by whom she has two sons and a
daughter Episcopal minister of Bedford,
Wostchcstcr county. Mr. Liquors father
was the representative of family long
seated on lands around Gowanus Bay, now
absorbed into Brooklyn, of which he became
one Of the real estate owners. He was nearly
allied to the Lcifcrts family, and his widow,
still resident in the spacious old mansion, is
a daughter of the late Dominick Lynch of
New York.
Montrcal's winter carnival which iourn
al of that city says ought to be made scarcely
second to the carnival of Venice, is to con-
sist, 50 far as asctrtaincd, of tobogganng,
skating, snow shoeing and curling exercises
hockey matches, a concert, an ice palace, and
so on. The journal mentioned advised that
the ST. Lawrence be made for this occasion
our "Plains of Olympia" our snow capped,
pinc-clad mountain forming a splendid back
ground to the plain" of the ST. Lawrence,
beyond which the land rises until 1t attains
the heights of Mounts johnson, Belui and
Boucherville, which, with the rising slopes
of the Green Mountains, make Of our river
and its boundaries matches amphitheatre,
with the brilliantly lighted city OF Montreal
AS one of the finest of auditorums. Which,
in brief, means that all the sports and
demonstrations ought to be On the river,
Islands made Of snow being decorated with
Chinese lanterns and evergrceus. Venice
will he green with envy.
Vanderbilt has eight children and eleven
grandchildren. His four daughters are mar
ried to New Workers, and two have been
presented with small palaces costing SOUO,
900 apiece, while he is building houses for
the other two at the corner of Fifth avenue
and Fifty fourth street, adjoining ST. Thorn
ass church. The ground for the two build
ings cost S400, 900 last spring, and | suppose
the houses will cost double that. His two
eldest sons, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., who
seems destined to occupy toward his father
the same relation that William ii. held to
the Commodore. and William X. Vanderbilt
the second son, are already millionaires in
their own right, and are now finishing
palaces which even eclipse the new home
which Vanderbilt moved into last year
Cornelius Vanderbilt is the tinancer among
the sons, while William X. is the aesthetic
member of the family, having employed
Richard NJ. Hunt TO build his white stone
chateau at the corner of Fifty second street
and Fifth avenue, and having paid S2S5, 900
for the carving alone on the inside of his
house. The house has been three years in
building, and has occupied the whole time
of two architects, working under Hunt, and
six draughtsmen. The designs for one of
the mantels alone required three months
work by two mcn.-N Y. Cor.