Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-04-06
Personal AND POLITICAL NOTES,

leaving the Bench, and of his probable sue
cessOr.
Senator Cameron has so far recovered from
inc effects of the operation which he recent
~ underwent in Washington as to be able
to be up and about.
The skeleton ofth infamous Guitcau is
now placed in the Army museum at Wash
ingon, aud Is probably exultant and proud
OF the position, us his egotism was 80 intense
TINT he felt II in his bones
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette finds
drift Of public opinion pointing to Senator
Edmunds a. the next president.
Boston Corhett says that he has hccn di.
rcclcd by God to intlict daily corporal pun
.shmcnt upon himself as pcnance for
having taken human life.
Johann Strauss, who was an Austrian and
a Catholic, has been obliged to change his
religion and his country before he could
marry his present wife, Adele Strauss. He
IS now Unitarian and an adopted llungar-
Inn Such are the curiosities Of law.
Benz. f. Taylor, the graceful poet of the
west, is to write poem for the dedication
OF the John Howard Payne grave in Wash
ingt,n the 9th of June.
1t is said, apropos of the sudden return of
the Due d. Morny to Europe, that he offered
himself to a'young and rich widow al Muir
ray Hill, who refusd him In II manner that
sure must have been humilating.
The National Union League Of Philadcl-
phia is preparing fora vigorous campaign,
and speakers will be sent into the South in
the interest of the Republican party.
The spring is rifle late, IA State Legisla-
lures are yet in full blast-,hosc of Massa-
chusctts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio Delaware, Michi-
gan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Arkansas,
Tennessee and Texas
There is great competition for the location
Of the new capital city for Dakota, and the
talk is that the commissioners will come out
OF tue contest with money enough to enable
them to retire from political life and calmly
face the scorn of mankind"
AT recent sale of the personal effects of
the late General Fitzpatrick at Deckertown,
n. j., the amount realized was sufficient to
| pay of a mortgage on the real estate and
leave snug sum for the widow and chill
dren. The generals old army horse Spot
is to remain upon the place as long as he
lives, and will be well cared for by the ex-
ccutors.
Alexander Iamiltons old home, in the
upper part OF New York, west side, is about
to bc-not destroyed, though that is the nat
ural guess, but restored, and 10 trees which
Hamilton himself planted are carefully pro-
| tected while the work goes on. The old
houses of New York or Boston generally fall
without n hand TO save in the march OF bust
ness, and it is pleasant once in while to
lind an exception.
The operate stars are fitting to Europe
Nilsson sails the middle of April bat will
return to open the new opera house in New
York. That will bcher farewell to America
After that she says she will retire from the
operate stage and live in England, but will
die in Sweden, aud will be buried in the
churchyard of my little peasant church at
Scalof, near NeXle.
A. Oakley Hall of New York, who has
been mayor, lawyer, politician. playwright
and actor, dramatic critic and journalist,
has assumed the cditorshp of New York
| Truth, the paper of Morey letter fame. lie
says the paper will be independents espe-
| cially independent as to politics"
a Baltimore man has just died at the age
of &c, after being educated in Germany,
writing an opera in Paris and a volume of
poems in London, spending several years in
Mexico as civil engineer, acting for sea-
son IN San Francisco theatres, teaching Ian
guagos one winter in New Orleans, and
finally reporting for q Baltimore newspa-
per.
$. S. Cox is in Washington, and author
ICES the statement that he is in the field as y
candidate for the speakershp of the next
Congress. lie says Dorshcimer has with
drawn in his favor, and counts on the solid
New York State delegation and the New
England Democrats as the nucleus Of ITS
strength,
In the Pennsylvania House bill has been
passed by an almost unanimous vote prohi-
biting political organizations from assessing
any public officer, under penalty Of thirty
days Imprisonment or Sl06 tine, or both, ut
the discretion OF the court.
jeremiah Curtis, the manufacturer of
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" died at
New York the other day, aged 70. Mr.. Cur
It's was native OF Maine, reared TO excellent
business habits, well educated, and SO sue
ccsstul us to acquire large fortune. Mr..
Curtis married Miss Lucy Winslow, who
with two sons, Jeremiah, Jr, and George,
and two daughters-one being Mrs. Laura
Curtis Bullard-comprisedh his family.
Mr.. Foo, editor of the Chinese american
ut New York, is translating for publication
the most popular of Chinese novels, Fan
Yong, the Royal Slave" which was written
by Kong Ming 400 b. c.. and for 2200 years
has been favorte story iu the land OF the
cellstias.
Mr.. Frank james, the distinguished high
wayman and murderer admits thai he is 8
comparative failure. II have not an unkind
thought of Governor Crittenden," he says,
:'but If had been killed and Jesse left, Gov.
Cfittcndcn would have been in his grave long
ere this"
Another veteran is added to deaths mourn
fully long retired list in the person of Gen.
n. b, Buford, who is dead at Chicago. He
was a Kentuckian by birth, but sided with
the North when the war began. A retired
army officer, Ike Grant, lie re-entered the
service at his country's call and at Cor
inth, Nicksburg, and elsewhere did gallant
work. lie was scvrnty-six years of age.
"Shc lives in the fourth story Re-
firing 10 rest at 2 in the morning, she rises at
7. goes through her correspondence, then |
thrusts her feet under the CRATE, and, sur
rounded by her favorite cats, spends the day
in reading the newspapers" Such is re-
portcr's account of Louise Michel the terror |