Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-15
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
1t is believed that Mr.. Cox will not de-
cline the Turkish mission.
Senator Hawley is talked of for presi-
dent of Hamilton college.
Senator Cameron is rapidly gaining
health in Southern California.
Oxford is thinking of comforting the new
degree ID. d. doctor of the Drama upon
Henry Irving.
DIR. Ferdinand Hitler, the celebrated
German composer and pianist, died at
Cologne, Monday morning. He was born
at FrankfOrt-on-the Main, of Jewish pa
rents, on Oct. a, 1911.
S. Corning Judd, the new postmaster at
Chicago, was once city clerk of Syracuse
While acting as such he abolished the
cholera by bulletin, and is windy remem-
bered there as the man who wrote, mo
more cholera, by order of the board, 5.
Corning judd Clerk"
The son of Senator Vest, who has been
connected with the State department a
few weeks, has been appointed by Secre-
tary Bayard to travel over the world and
inspect the condition and report the needs
OF our consular posts.
For the long term vacancy in Yale col
lege corporation, Hon. William NJ. Evarts
has been nominated, he alone receiving
the votes of twenty-five alumni.
Editor John NJ Francis of the Troy On.
" Times and eX-minister to Austria will
travel through northern Europe before re-
turning TO the management of his paper.
A bust portrait of eX-Secretary Lincoln
is being painted for the war department.
The collection of portraits of war secre,
tarles is more complete than that of the
secretaries of any other department. 1t
was begun during Belknap's administra-
ton, and contains every eX-secretary of
war except Griswold and Graham. Many
of the portraits are copies, and others have
been painted from engravlngs.
Judge William ID. Kelley is in Wash
ington looking up the records to help him
in reply to Gen. McClellan's Century
story, in which Mr.. Kelley says he has
made some misstatements, and has I'M
justly raked up the bones of Lincoln and
Stanton.
Mr.. f. o. Graves, assistant treasurer OF
the United States, has been appointed
chief of the bureau of engraving and
printing.
Secretary Manning makes a bad matter
worse by following up the selection OF
Pillsbury to be collector of Boston by ap
pointing one Cameron a special treasury
agent, on Pillsburys recommendation. 1t
turns out that Cameron has served Il term
of Imprisonment for SWindling a relative
out OF several thousand dollars.-1rol
Times.
The foreign appointments of this ad
ministration are showing up handsomely
The wife of j. Ernest Metre the new con
sui at Nagaski, Japan, has just obtained
a divorce from him at Centreville, Md, or
the ground of cruelty. He is the fellow
who recently Insulted Commodore TruX
ton at Washington, and gloried in his
career as rebel.-Albdny Express.
One of the hardest problems that Presi
dent Cleveland has to deal with it is sale
is the Government of the District of Col
umbia. He wants to fill the offices witt
men who live in the District, and yet ther,
| is hardly "A Democrat in the city who i,
! Il candidate who is not Objectionable.
/ Some of the self-constituted delegation!
/ that have called on Mr.. Cleveland wer,
composed of robbers and jobbers, whc
ought to have been driven out of the
country years ago.
The Virginia Democratic State conven.
ton has been called for July 20 to nom
nate IA governor and other State officers
! The Republican State convention ha,
been called for July 10 for the same pur
pose.
General Cassius NJ. Clay does not stand
as erect as when he represented this couu-
try at the Court OF the Gar But he at
tends personally to all the business of hi,
large estate, and takes keen interest il
current events.
Minister Cox called on the President to-
day to announce his determination to e
to Turkey. Speaking of his proposed
will be bound in Turkey" 81 hope i
will not be entirely Turkey red," replied
the Decentralization Daily ADDER
tiScr.
President Cleveland appointed brothe
of Senator Blackburn as a collector of in
ternal revenue in kentucky, and Score
tary Bayard gave the consulate at Maya
saki, Japan, to Ernest Meier The lattel
turned out to be drunkard, dead beat
a domestic tyrant, and an unreconstructed
rebel, while Blackburn was the author o
a letter in which he declared his desire tC
make the Union men of Kentucky fee
the edge of my knife" invoked hell "a
his portion if he ever spared one of them
and expressed his hope to ''see Unior
blood run deep enough for my horse Il
swim in." The appointment of both thes
rutiians have been revoked, president
Cleveland declaring that such men wer,
unfit to hold any office.
The President appears to have made an
other selection of the Phelps kind in hi
choice of Mr.. Lothrop of Detroit for tn,