Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-04-27

Rev. N. w. Alger, pastor of the Baptist
church at Passumpsic, has resigned. Mr.
Algcr has been there eight years.
Maj Benz Perley Poore, the veteran
Washington correspondent of the Boston
Journal, has severed his connection with that
paper.
The First Congregational Society of Gard
ner, Mass, has called Rev. Lawrence Phelps,
of Barton, VT, at n salary of $4,000 year
and use of parsonage. Mr.. Phelps is a
graduate of Middlebury College and son OF
Prof. Phelps of Andovcr Theological Scmin-
ary aud has been settled at Barton Sin
years.
"Will Mr.. Tilden be the man for the Dem
ocrats 7" Senator Edmunds was asked lhe
other day. 81 think not" YVES the reply.
'IIc is too OIL. The life insurance compan-
les wont take risk on his life for year.
and doubt whether he would last through
an administration. No; | feel pretty conf
dent that Mr.. Tidcn will not he the man,
though who will he the nominee am sure
don't know
Several of our State exchanges have COM
mcntcd very favorably on the labors and sue
cess of Gen. Grout in Congress and are anx-
ious, evidently, to do him honor by inch
tioning" him for Governor in 1884. THIS, no
doubt, so far as the compliment and good
will are concerned, is gratifying to Gen.
Grout, but we have reason to suspect that he
will not under any consideration be cindi-
dale FIR GovernDr.-BdrtOh Monitor.
Daniel &. Thompson, the New York law
yer, announces the system of Philosophy,
on which he has been at work for some
years. 1t will be published before the clos
of the year by Longmans, Green y Co.,
London, in two octave volumes. MIR. lhomp-
son is n son of the late ID. Z. Thompson OF
Montpelier one of the early American novel
lists lie graduated at Amherst in 1869 and
after some years teaching rs assistant in the
high school in prnItield was admitted to
the bar in New York, where he has since
practiced law, the present work being the r.
or, alton Of the hDuls not devoted to an en-
crossing profession.
care you candidate for the Presidency.
Mr. Edmunds p no. sir, nor Will b.. |
am glad to say that | AIN not afflicted with
that kind of fever. The Office is one do
not want" "Iou seem to have number OF
friends who wish you to become candi.
date" 81 am certainly very much obliged
10 those who have so compimented me, but
must say to them that it is a loss of time to
urge me for the office. 1t is out OF the ques-
ton. | will not lie candidate" 'But sup
pose you are nominated any wayI' There
is NJ likelihood of that. No Presidential bee
has yet annoyed me. "-IHterrieW IN 81
L9ais GloJe-Democrdt.
Roswell Haskell died suddenly at his resi-
dencc in Windsor, Tuesday morning, April
1G,h, at the age of rs years. Mr. Haskell
was native OF Weatherstield, VT, and was
born July 3, 1903. One of ID children, at
the age of IL he left home to seek his fortune,
f,ttt.r tn n -1Ir hp "a
a situation as cabin boy on packet boat.
lie shortly became steward, then captain of
one of those boats, and was afterwards cap
tain of one of the pioneer steamboats, on the
Hudson River plying between New York
and Albany. He then became interested in
hotel business in New York State, at
Sharon Springs, Newburgh, and at one time
was associated with the Leland Brothers in
the. Metropolitan Hotel, New York city. He
was one of the organizers of the New York
Times and its first cashier. Later in life he
was stock broker in Wall Street, finally
retiring on account Of failing health to farm
in his native town and State, and coming TO
Windsor TO reside last fall. lie married
Charlotte Jonc dc Forest niece of the late
Commodore Vanderbilt, who with two sons,
John d., prominent lawyer in Norfolk,
Ncb, and Louis v, principal of Windssr
him. Windsor journal.
The operation which is expected to save
the life of Gen. Joshua l.. Chamberlain,
president of Bowdoin college, was one of the
most novel and daring in the history of sur
gerry. For come months Gen. Chamberlain
has been suffering from serious complica-
tons resulting from wound received dur
ing the war, when ball passed through his
body from hip to hip. A difficult operation
at the hands of DR.. Joseph II. Warren,
President Lincoln's physician saved his life
At that time, but recent ahsccss in the alb
domiual cavity was followed by sloughing
away Of about two inches of the urcthral
canal. Natural healing was impossible and II
was decided to attempt the unprecedented
feat of building up the missing section with
transplanted flesh. DR.. Warren of Boston,
with two assistants, performed tic operation,
The process occupied two hours, during
which time the patient remained under tue
influence of ancsthclics. The abdomen was
laid open and slowly, bit by bit. the living
flesh was cut from not vital parts and scwed
into place in the shape of the missing organ.
Inflammation was guarded against by con-
slant stream of antiseptic spray upon the in
tcrnal organs, and finally, after many care
ful stitches had been taken in the internal
construction, the out ward opening was clos
ed and the operation was successfully com
plctcd The patient rallied better than was
expected and it's expected that the mcol!an-
ical union of iransplanted tissue will become
vializcd, and If no mishap occurs all danger
viii be passed in a week or ten days.