Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-04-03
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Congressman 1Icwitt's wife has private
/ fortune of S2,OO0,OOO
/ Sunset Cox is Il graduate of Brown.
President Seelye has so far recovered
ht health that he has resumed in part his
college duties.
| Rev. DR.. Newman visits Gen. Grant
daily, and expresses his belief in the Gen
erals ultimate recovery.
Miss Murfree Charles Egbert Craddock)
has been rendered reception by the fac
ulty of Wellesley college.
1t is said that the newspaper pictures of
Hon. t. j. Phelps give him Il strong re
semblance to the Boston portrait painter,
/ Harvey Young.
The names of Senator Evarts and lie
Grand b. Cannon are added to the list of
| Republicans who are talked about for the
gubernato rial race in New York this
fall.
Rev NJ V. b. Knox, Methodist, of lie
banon, n. H., has declined Il call to the
presidency of Il college in India.
1t is said that Mr.. Gladstone hates the
big bunch of flowers that always adorns
his coat lapel i'll Parliament, but his
wife makes him wear it. AS to his collar
! Punch eXaggerates only little. 1t really
is so high as to touch the lower lobes of
his ears
Osman Dgna is Il Frenchman, a con
vert to Mohammedanism, whose former
name was Alphonse Nivet. He is a son-in
law of FL Mahdi.
General Sherman's pay and allowances,
in his retirement has been $4,000 per an
mum. General Grants, being without al
lOWanCeS, is Sl3 800 per annum.
The greatest cheese and butter maker in
the United States Charles w. Gould of
Elgin, H., has failed for $4,000. He was
interested in twelve factories for making
butter and cheese at various points in
Illinois and was one of the founders of the
Elgn board OF trade.
DR.. Francis Horton of Philadelphia,
whom Secretary Bayard has appointed adj
wiser to the State department on points of
international law, Is Il well known legal
lecturer and author He is connected
with the Boston University Law School as
lecturer on the conflict of laws.
John Kelly has been in Washington, on
his way to Florida. He did not call at
the White House and says he is out of pol
itics.
Mrs. +. b. Crocker, sister-inlaw of
Charles Croker, president of the Southern
Pacific railroad, will give san Francisco
pictures worth 500 900 if the people will
give Sl0OOOOto erect Il gallery Tor them.
Captain Daniel Arnistead, aged 90, of
Virginia, has witnessed twenty presi-
Dental inaugurations, undoubtedly an
experience Of which no other American
can boast. He remembers that Jefferson
was dressed in brown clothes, and spoke
50 low that the people could not hear him.
Madison wore home spun, and that seem
ed to create more enthusiasm than any
thing else.
Gen. james McQuade died at his broth
er's residence in New York Wednesday
morning He was twice mayor of Utica,
Il member of the State Assembly of 1860,
colonel of the Fourteenth regiment of
New York Volunteers during the war,
inspector general on Gov. llOtfman'S staff,
postmaster of [ tica under President John
son, quarantine commissioner ut New
GOrk for two terms, manager of the State
lunatic asylum from 1872 until his death,
Il founder Of the Loyal Legion and depart
ment commander of the Grand Army of
the Republic III 1879. His funeral will
probably take place on Friday.
Governor Porter of Tennessee, Mr.. Bay
ards assistant secretary is said to have no
knowledge whatever of diplomatic affairs,
does not speak any language but English
to initiate that old Tennesseean who ON
being introduced to foreign minister at
his table asked him to say grace us the
one duty appropriate to his sacred office.
James Russell Lowell has done himself
and the nation honor by giving his sue
cessor most favorable public introduc-
ton to the people of England This flat
tering compensation from so high, a
source Will be of Unreasonable
~ CT % tC NJ
Lowell's own diplomatic services abroad
there can exist but one opinion. They do
him infinite credit, and compare favorably
with those of our most eminent ENJOYS at
the court of st JameS-NCW York
Graphic.
Judge Samuel s. Phelps, father of Hon.
i f. j. Phelps, minister to England, was a
, descendant of the first of that name who
landed at Nantasket in 1870, some of whom
, afterward settled in Vermont, and of John
Phelps, assistant clerk of the court which
: condemned Charles First to death.
The appointment of Hon. S. S. Cox of
New York better known as "Sunset" Cox.
| to the Turkish mission, is well received,
, especially by the Tammany men. 1t is
. understood that Mr.. Cox, who has not
been in good health for some time, has
, been anxious to represent the Government
abroad, and that his choice was to 20 as
81 minister to Turkey.
Senator Edmunds is the peculiar char
acter in public life to-day. Some one
ought to write magazine article about
him, for it is subject too rich and varied
to be dismissed in newspaper article
, lie is the greatest man on great matters
and the most persistent on small ones in
the Senate. The other Senators regard
5 him as an Indispensable adjunct of the
t Senate, but not one knows whether he is
, a friend or an enemy, or pretends to pre-
5 dict what he will do tomorrow. But he
70 is, so far rs one person can be, the auto
crat of the Senate, and whether he takes
up Central America or the newspaper re-
: ports OF secret session, the rest generally
G fall in behind Washington Cor Sprtni-
I feld RCpublicdn.
5 To Democrat Congressman who eX-
T. pressed surprise at Vermont being given
70 50 high an honor the President said it was
p his selection and that nobody else was re-
0 spOnsibe lie said he met Mr. Phelps
l some years ago and was very mucl
1 impressed with him that after he became
President, and while talking with Mr.