Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-01-11
Personal.

Mr.. Edward ). Sears, for the past year
railroad and electrical editor Of the Boston
Daily 1drertiSer, has resigned that position
to accept the appointment of assistant gen
erdl manager of the American Electric and
Illuminating company. In his new capacity
Mr.. Sears Will assist the president and
general manager, Mr.. Edward II. Golf, in
attention to the varied interests Of that cor
poration.
Minister Lowell has decided to resign the
lord rectorshlp of s.. Andrews, the techni-
cal objection to the office being held by a
foreign minister proving more formidable
than he ANTICIPATED. The resignation is
therefore Offered in order TO relieve the au-
thorites from the necessity of deciding the
points that have been raised.
Gen. Edwin h. Yale died of malarialfeve
at Bennington, Sunday. Gen. Yale was
born August 8, 1904, at Meriden, Conn,
and was descendant Of Thomas ale, the
brother of Elihu Yale, founder of Yale col
lege. He rose to the rank OF brigadier
general in the Connecticut militia, and about
1896 purchased the United States hotel IN
New York. Several years afterward he
assumed control of the Mansion house,
Brooklyn, where he remained thirty-tive
wears, when he retired to his estate in Ben
nington.
The family of the late Senator Carpenter
has decided not to use the epitaph written by
Judge Black for the monument about to be
erected at Milwaukee, but II inscribe upon
the base simply the words, TO the memory
of Matthew Hale Carpenter" The wisdom
of good taste which dictated the rejection of
Blacks panegyric will be commended ny al
true friends aud admirers of the distinguish
ed orator.
Mr.. George William Lane, president of the
New York Chamber of Commerce and one
Of the Aqucduct Commission, died suddenly
Sunday morning, at the age of 6t.
Private letters from Paris, state that the
wedding Of Prince Poniatowski and Miss
Ely Goddard, of New York, will take place
in tina. city the last Wednesday IN January.
Judge McCrary of The United States Cir
cult court for the eighth circuit has resigned
his office, to take effect March |, to accept
the place of general solicitor of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad with salary
of $50 000 His salary as judge is $4,000.
lie was secretary of war in President Hayes
cabinet and is one Of the best lawyers in the
northwest.
A Dover, n. H., despatch of Wednes-
day says: Rev. George Z. Hall of Yer
gennes, VT, who recently accepted call to
the First Congregational church here, was
installed this evening. The services were as
follows: Sermon by Rev. George Is.
Spaulding, D. d Of Manchester prayer by
Rev. Edward Robe, D. D., of Greenland;
charge to the pastor by Rev. y. IL. CUNT
d. D. of Dover; charge t. the people by
Rev. Edward y. Kinks of Audoyer. The
church vas organized in 1888, Mr. Hall
being the twentieth pastor.
Mr.. Joseph Longworth, the well known
public henclactUr, died at Cincinnati Sunday
aged seventy yeats. lie gave large sums for
til, building OF Music hall and for the pur-
chase of the great organ in that hall But
his favorite scheme was to build up an art
school for the people in Cincinnati Nicholas
Longworth, his father, had given large
tract of ground on Mt. Adams for the Gin
cinnati observatory, founded by o. NJ.
Mitchell, but the grant was so conditioned as
to revert to the Longworth estate IN case the
premises ceased to be used for observatory
purposes The time came only few years
ago, when it did cease to be used, and then
Joseph Longworh, for the Longworth estate,
gave the proceeds of the sale of the Mt.
Adams observatory property about 500, OOO)
to the city, to apply the interest OF II FOR
ever to the use OF the McMicken School of
Design for employing instructors.
Dom Pedro, tue emperor of Brazil, is re-
ported to be extremely III. He was fifty
eight years old on the End of last December,
and that is not long life for a man who has
done so much for his country. 1t will be
dark day for Brazil when he dies, for many
reforms of which he is the author are yet not
wholly accomplished. He has no son, and
his successor will be his daughter, the Prin-
cess Isabella, married to the Count dEu,
son of the Duke of NemourS, ard grandson
of the late eX-Klng Louis Philippe Of France.
The lady, who is in her thirty eighth year,
p ,ssesses a good deal OF ext culye ability and
has acted as regent of the empire during Dom
Pedros visits to Europe aud North America.
But she is strongly influenced by her hus-
band, who is decidedly illlberal reactionist.
Moreover neither of them is popular with the
Braz liaus, and if the princess should come
to the throne there would be danger OF pot
cal disturbances. Brazil has advanced inn
mensely under Dom Pedro, but there is
growing Republican party which looks with
some envy upon the more rapid progress
made by the Argentine republic the near
neighber of Brazil, which has also popula-
ton peopled from the Latin race OF southern
Europe Brazil is the only monarchical
power on the American continent, and there
axe prophets who say that il will not contin-
ue to be a monarchy long after the death of
Dom Pedro, whose political sagacity, pro-
gre,sve ideas and personal magnetism have
won him friends abroad as well rs at home.