Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-01-12


hopes are entertained of the return OF his
reason.
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Tyler celebrated
their golden wedding on the 2Sth ult. Mr..
Tyler has been thirty years town clerk OF
South Londonderry.
Rev. DR.. Lowell Smith and wife, who
were married at Brandon IN 1882, lately yelc-
bratcd their golden wedding at Honolulu,
where they have been missionaries Tor many
years.
Mr. George l.. llcrrick is the secretary of
Gen L. 4. Merritt, United States consul
general at London; and we are indebted to
him for a copy OF Gen. Merits Annual Re
port.
Alfred c. Chaplin OF the Brooklyn district,
who has been chosen speaker OF the New
York Assembly, is II son OF Il. n. Chaplin,
formerly supclintCndCnt of the Rutland and
Burlington railroad.
The understanding is that Senator Ed
munds is to succeed Mr.. Davis in tie chair
of the Senate. The election of Mr.. Edmunds
to that place would meet with universal COM
mcudalion.-N T., Eccaing Post.
Warren Walker, a prominent business man
of Bellows Fails, and senior member Of
the well-known brewing firm OF Walker
Dewey, Blake Il Co., died very suddenly
Friday from some disease OF the heart. lie
was over seventy years OF age.
Rev. Titus Coan died at llilo, Sandwich
Islands, ID, cember ., aied 81 Dr. Coan was
til, veteran missionary OF the American
board, aad has been known for years as the
apostle of the Sandwich Islands, having been
there for over fifty years.
llubclt lIerkomer, the English academic
ian, is 10 immorialzc Castle Garden, the
cmigrants landing III New York, by huge
painting. Tue canvass viii he eight or nine
feet long, and will cOntlin hundred hgurc'.
DR.. Cullen Billiard died Instantly, OF heart
disease, Thursday evening" at his residence
in New Haven, aged rs. lie wasa graduate
Of Gas Teton medical college, had been in nc.
tive practice for over fifty years and was well
known by the medical fraternity throughout
| the State.
There is no author more candid 10 himself
| han Mr. Ruskin His criticisms OF lis own
words are pcculilry unbiased. lie approves
of the ''Stoues OF Venice emphaiically, but
the "Modein Painters h. prDnounces the
MOST affected and weak Of all my books, full
of morbid violence OF passion and narrowncss
of thought" and doubts even whether the
sentences are Ineligible
The President has nominated :. G. w.
flares and consul.gere,al Of the United States
at Tchcran, Persia, the place declined BY tie
Rev. Mr.. Jessup. Mr. Benjamin is the au-
thor Of Il book on tie Turk and the Greek,
published in 1876 and of another on art in
| America" $50. He is also Il frequent con-
tributor to the magazines on yachting, ship
ping and miscellaneous subjects.
Robert Morris, the negro lawyer who late
~ died in Boston, left property worth
| 100000. There was something singular
about his profitable clientag.. lie went to
the bar when prejudice against his color was
very strong, and yet his clients were for a
long time almost entirely among the Irish
people, who hud great faith in lis legal pow
crs On the other hand, the ucSroes of the
city were rather Shy OF him, and he never
gained much practice from them.
A Washington letter says General Wood
| ford will soon be removed ftom the Office Of
district attorney, and that there is little
sympathy with him. lie is something of Il
timc-scrvor, and as lawyer does not com
mand rs much rcspCc. as some WHO have
held the Office. The President did intend tc
appoint Woodfo,d's leading assistant, Mr..
Albert b. licrrick, but his sudden death has
compelled General Arthur TO lDok else.
where
1t is announced that Mr.. T.. II. 1horp. foi
several Yeas past night editor of the Rutland
UejUd, has bought the interest of Mr. David
Smith OF Ferrisburgh IN the Middlcbury
RgistC and will assume the editorial control
of that paper shortly. Mr.. 1horp is re-
cent graduate of the University and is well
known 10 many Of our people. lie is good
newspaper man, an excellent writer, aud a
gentleman and under his capable manage.
mcut tn, Register sil he Il good newspaper
and will develop into n valuable property
Mr.. Jennings writes to the New York
| IlorM that the Englisl-reading pu lie want
something of Julian Hawthorne besides the
poshumous novel Of his father namely The
conclusion OF his story of Fortunes Fool,
which, like the tale of the cat and the fiddle
of nursery memory, broke of when halfway
through lis course in Macmllan's magazine.
Macmillan, Mr. Jennings alleges, paid in al
vance for the whole novel, and very oddly
thinks he ough, 10 get it. An explanation
from Mr. Hawthorne is in order
1t now appears that Il great wrong has
been donc I.eone Leon. NJ Rcinach, tht
intimate personal friend of VI. Gambetta
publishes II detailed account of the lattcrs
wound, intended to dspel various falsties
NJ. Gambetta, he states was trying IL new
revolver, when the breech stuck fast, owing
|
Holding the pistol by the muzzlc he endea
vorcd 10 close the brcech f1rcitly, when tho
cartridge exploded. Lconic Leon, 50 fai
from being the cause of the accident, nursct
him devoedly for 81 days Ii is to he hopct
that this will put an end to the scandal.
Mr.. Matthew Francis Whittier, the onl,
brother of the poet, died Sunday after l)nl
and very painful illness, al East Boston
aged 20. Mr.. Whittier was many years agt
knowing to the reading public as Ethan
Spike" whose satirical letters appeared il
the Portland Transcript and were widely
copied In 1865 he was appointed to posi-
ton in the Boston custom house where Ii
remained until year ago, when ll-hcaltl
compelled him 10 retire from activity. Hi
surviving family consists of widow ant
three children.
/ Elisha Hunt Allen, resident minister Il
/ the United States from the Sandwich
| Islands, who died suddenly at the White
5 House, Monday, studied law with his father
, Samuel C. Allen, and with Charles Adam
t in this city and began active practice a
Braltlcboro in 1895, wien he married Sarll
f. Fessenden. Having moved to Bangor
Me, he was elected TO the legislature il
1885, and served five successive terms. Tn,
year 1910 saw him in Congress, and six year,
later he was back in the Name legislature
Mr.. Allen moved to Boston in lS41 VIA
elected to the general court, and in 1919 he
: came consul to the Sandwich Islands. Til,
King Kumehamcha III, finally made lin
, his minister Of finance, and altcrward sen
him to the United States as envoy eNtra)rdi
nary and minister plenipotcntiary Return
ing to Hawaii, he became chief justice o
the Supreme Court and chancellor Of til,
| Inn far rnrIf .,