Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-07
AND POLITICAL.


The widow and son of the late Dr. j. G
Holland are at the house he built at the
Thousand Islands.
Walt Whitman is rapidly recovering
from the effects of prostration by heat.
In appearance he is hale and hearty.
Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher will make
possible hay fever the excuse for spending
the month of August at Twin Mountain,
n. II.
Governor Harrison of Connecticut is at
Lake Dunmore, near Brandon, VT, where
he has summered for the last twenty
years.
1t was strange and sad coincidence
that General Grant and his old chief of
cavalry, Judge Dickey, both died within
ten hours.
Admiral Seymour sailed on Saturday on
the steamer Servia for New York, on his
way to take command of the British Pa
cilic squadron.
The estate of the late S. IrenHus Prime
will, it is estimated, amount to something
like $500, 900, most of which had come
from the Observer.
The death of Gen. Grant leaves Gen.
Mcclellan, the only survivor of the men
army of the Potomac.
EX-President Arthur's face has lost it's
care-worn expression and is now browner
than berry. Wading trout brooks and
boat fishing for salmon did it.
A rumor comes from Saratoga that Mrs.
Alexander Z. Stewart is quite i'll from the
prevailing heat, and that, as she is past
eighty, her friends have doubts about her
recovery.
Emperor William takes short walks dali
| ly. 1t is noticed that he has a STOPPING
gait. He talks sparingly, although in
good spirits He retires ut O'Clock and
sleeps well.
Buchanan Henry, who was the private
secretary of his uncle, President Buchan-
an while he was III the Executive Man
sion, is with his family at the Lake house
Lake George.
The Republican State committee did well
to select Senator Hoar to preside at the
State convention. His republcanism will
be simon pure, and his common sense is
beyond question.
According to Mrs. Langtry, Lord
Lonsdale and Sir George quarreled because
one of them possesses portrait of me
painted on china, which the other thought
ne ought not TO keep
General Burdett, communicative chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic, says
that one hundred thousand Grand Army
men will attend the funeral of Grant
wherever it takes place.
Mrs Cramer, sister of General Grant
accompanied by her husband, lately
United States minister to Switzerland, ar
rived in New York Friday on the steamer
Wieland from Hamburg.
\ citizen of Detroit has placed his
steam yacht at the disposal of the Presi-
dent for a trip through the rivers and
/ lakes of Michigan, but the offer was de
clined in view of already matured plans.
! 1t is asserted that PostmasterG General
/ Villas has issued another confidential cir
cular to Democratic Congressman telling
| them how to get Republicans out of office
! The contents have not been made public
AS yet
| If all Senator Edmund's enemies We're
living in Vermont he probably would not
| be returned to the Senate. 1t is said that
he finds some satisfaction in the fact that
about all of them live in other States
/ Surdnndh (Gd) NcUS.
Mr.. Charles 7. Russell, the new United
States consul at Liverpool, will shortly
give farewell banquet to Senators Haw.
ley and Edmunds, Mr.. Cyrus w, Field
and other Americans who are about to
return to the United States.
Fewer men would now pick out Mr.
Bayard as pre-eminently qualified for the
presidency than held that opinion before
the 18th of March. a good many opinions
as to Mr.. Garlands great legal abilitie,
have been Standardization Evening Rec
ORD.
John c. Fremont says that he camped
where Chicago is, where Minneapolis is
and where Salt Lake City is, before there
was house at either place. He also tried
to camp where Cleveland is, but wa,
driven off at the Buchanan's mouth
LOlrcU Times.
Colonel r. f. Barr of Massachusetts
Judge advocate and military secretary OF
war, has asked to be relieved He has
held his present position for the past tiv,
years. 1t is understood that the vacanc,
to be made by Colonel Bars depart ur
will not be filled.
The Buffalo Express blunders when i
says that Bayard Taylor.s father, VIII
died the other day at patrarchal age
never saw Il canal boat, locomotive o.
= street car. The old gentleman visited tn
, Philadelphia Centennial exposition. -
, HdUtOu COurunt.
Judge Colburn of the Supreme Cour
remains in an unconscious condition near
ly all the time, and his end of life is mere
, ~ question of physical endurance. ii
, may live n week or more, but his death i
expected ut any moment
: Henry Ward Beecher says it makes lii
tie difference to us whom he leaves be
hind, where General Grant may be buried
= and that mo place in all the land can b.
q chosen for his tomb but that will becom
E for years and years and years the yer
Jerusalem of PATRIOTISM
a Ieizo Koyano, IA japanese Christian VIII
n was graduated from Amherst college i
> the last class, and enjoys in high degre
the confidence of the Amherst faculty, il
. tends to pursue cOmse of theolOgica
, study in New England and then return "A
= Il preacher to his countymen.
e An Iowa correspondent reports that tn
h Democrats in that State are industriousl
: monUuVIing to cOncOct a platform o
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