Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-07-04
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DR.. Charles II. Rawson died Friday at
Dcs MONIES, Iowa, of malignant form of
malarial fever. He was born in Orleans
County, VT, in 1928, and after practising
medicine in Canada completed his studies at
Bellevue College in New York city. He
was surgeon of the steamer s. s. Lewis when
it was wrecked near Acapulco. He then
became surgeon of the marine hospital in
San Francisco, where he was located for
two years. In 1856 he settled in Des
Moines and in 1861 was made surgeon of
the Fifth Iowa regiment. He was of high
repute both as citizen and physician.
The silliest Of all silly stories is that said
to have been sent to the Boston Herald from
Washington, that an eminent journalist,
acting as an cmissary of Mr.. George William
Curtis, inquired OF President Arthur whether
lie would accep. the nomination of the indie
pendents and upon his refusal made the
same inquiry of Mr.. Edmunds with a like
result. Journalists are not in general fools,
though of course there are exceptions, among
whom is he who publishes this story as ap-
parently authentic though ''queer," and to
ask the public to believe that two OF them,
Mr. Curtis being one, were foolish enough
to make such proposition to the President
and Senator Edmunds, is a larger draft upon
the creduity of mankind than any confidence
man would venture 10 make, - Worcester
Spy.
Prof Richard Claverhouse J,bb, LID,
the orator of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of
Harvard University this year, is one of the
most prominent classical scholars in Europe
and is Professor of Greek in the University
of Glasgow, Scotland. He was born in Dun
dee, August ~, 1SIl, and YVES graduated as
senior classic in 1862 at Trinity College,
-, 10 lNan, 4 In
ton of interest in classic al studies and has Civ
! en- much attention to the Greek Ia oguage end
literature, his servirec in the announcement
| of Greek studies being recognized in 1878 by
the King of the Hellenes, who conferred upon
him the gold cross of the Order of the Sa.
viour. Professor Jebb is the author of two
volume work on The Attic Orators" and OF
other works connected with Greek literature;
and has contributed to the press number OF
| important articles on classical history, litora
ture, and archaeology. He has been engaged
some time in the preparation of complete
edition Of Sophocles. The Boston Tran
script remarks "No scholar in this coun
try is gifted with such special crudition a
to have been able to produce the Grafton de
livered before the Phi Beta Kappa yestcrda,
by Professor Jebb, and no one of our publ,
speakers would have delivered It so poorly.
In Summer, the last volume of selection
from Thoreau, he tells the story OF DAME
Webster seeing the sea serpent betwee,
Plymouth and Duxbury, and making hi
boatman promise secrecy, lest he should b
tried to death with questions about it. TIL
common Plymouth version Of the story wa
that aftera dinner party at Plymouth, MI
Webster was returning in his boat to DuA
bury, and saw the sea serpent at the meetip
of the tides. He told his intimate friends G
1t and they all agreed to keep the matte
secret, because nobody who saw the sc
serpent could ever be President of the Uni
ed States. Worcester Sry.
DR.. Joel Foster died at his residence i
New York on Sunday. He was born {
Bunard, Vt, in 1902. His ancestors wei
among the original settlers, and he was III
eighth generation of the family born In II
State. lie moved to New York in 1888!
lie was one Of the founders of the Ne
, York Academy OF Medicine, the Society f
the Relief Of Medical Men, and Infal
Asylum. OF the last institution he WI
Honorary President. He was the oldest Ii
! member of the State Medical Society.
politics he was an Abolilonist, and was
. member of the first Wing convention,
which William IL. Seward was chairma
l During the war he was one of the voluntc
S SURGEONS from the New Eo.k Academy
, Medicine and was in the front in the secDr
engagement at Bull Run.