Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-06-05
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Hon John Bigelow is soliciting funds
for the erection of II monument to Will
liam Cullen Bryant in Central Park, New
York.
Miss Kate Bayard, daughter of the sec
rotary, is said to be the most daring and
fearless horseback rider in Washington.
Lord Granville and Bradley b. Smalley
Of Vermont are in accord. They both
pronounce Minister Phelps great man.
We trust that all criticism of our new
minister to England will now CEASE
Boston TrdCCllCr.
General Lew Wallace has been present.
ed by the Sultan with The grand order Of
the Medjdie.
Among the Senators VINO are more or
less given to editorial writing are lIawleS
of Connecticut, Ingalls, of Kansas, Dawes
of Massachusetts and Malone of Virginia.
The Boston Journal suggests that the
most offensive partisans' with large
part of the Administration, made them
selves so in lSGl-65 as Union soldiers.
The New Orleans Times Democrat
thinks that the election or Gen. Logan
renders it impossible for the Democrats to
get control of the Senate before lSSS.
The family of Benjamin Greenleaf, the
mathematician, who graduated from
Dartmouth College in the class of 1913,
are having an oil portrait of him painted
for the institution.
Alta netting of the business men of
Lawrence, Kansas, it was decided to give
Secretary Thomas +. Bayard II grand
banquet and reception the evening OF
June S, after his address on "Thomas
Jefferson, In the State University build
ing.
A new chain was attached the other
day to the bell-pull at General Grants
house. The one removed had been in use
only three months and was worn out.
When Mr.. James Russell Lowell de-
livered his Grafton at Cambridge, England
on the occasion of the unwilling of the
bust Of the poet Gray, he said it was
probably the last occasion on which he
would address an English audience.
President Cleveland is said to be afraid
of badness and obesity, with both of which
he is threatened. He has gained twenty
pounds in flesh since he entered the White
House and has Just discharged his stew
ard and French cook.
Senator Fryes brother, consul general
at Halifax, loses his office, despite the re
cent Endorsement sent to the President by
Phelan, who succeeds Frye is Il prominent
st. Louis Democrat who was for several
years State Senator and edits the CuthD-
| lie western Waterman newspaper
Phelan was born in Halifax.
Ex-senator Thurman, though i'll the
best of health with the exception of a
| Slight rheumatic attack, says that under
| no circumstances would he accept the
nomination for Governor of Ohio. At his
time of life, he could not afford it.
The reports repeatedly telegraphed to
America that Mr. Lowell will accept the
Merton professorship at Oxford, are, on
his authority, absolutely without founda-
| ton. Mr. Lowell declined being a candi-
date when he was first asked. He has re-
fused steadily when strongly urged to CON
slider his decision.
Judge Wallace of California, wAom the
President has been urged to appoint as
minister to China, has sense enough to
see that it would be unwise to appoint
any one from that State. In a letter to
secretary Bavard he says: "To exclude
| the Chinese themselves from our shores,
and at the same time to successfully in
wife larger share of their trade than we
now enjoy, would be, underany circumstan-
ceS, suppose, a diplomatic undertaking OF
some delicacy, and requiring the most ia
vOrable conditions as Il basis for success. |
! believe that the interests of my fellow
! citizens of California on this subject, too,
would be best promoted by the appoint
ment of an able man with broad states
manllke views from some other part of
the United States"
Two eX-senators of the United States
were appointed to office by President
Cleveland Saturday. Ex-senator Ross of
Kansas, who voted against the impeach-
ment of Andrew johnson, was appointed
governor of New Mexico, in PLACE of Gar
fields friend, Lionel a. Sheldon, whose
term has expired. Ex-senator 7. w.
Upton of Nebraska who joined Sumner
and Schurz in 1872 in supporting Greeley,
was appointed receiver of public moneys
at Bloomington, Neb. Both he and Ross
were IN Washington recently and saw the
President
Mr.. Henry l.. Nelson, clerk to Speaker
Carlisle, well-known newspaper cor
respondent, will, it is said be appointed
to an important diplomatic or consular
office in a few days The Massachusetts
Democrats are represented as favoring
Mr. Nelson's desire to obtain a position
abroad, and will add their advice to the
recommendations already received by
Secretary Bayard,
Ex-Congressman Rogers of New York
appears W NC tIle pIOillSlHS Cdliuiuult
for the office of public printer. His
strongest competitor has been John b
Stoll of Indiana but it seems that the
Indiana delegation are not pressing hi,
name with vigor, perhaps for the reason
that his ability is not regarded as of the
sort to fit him for 80 extensive an estab
ment.
The will of the late Professor George
lde Chace of Providence, r. L., gave
Brown University $4,000, to be devoted tC
the support OF two scholarships, the frs
of $1,000 to be named the Abby Wheaton
Chace scholarship, and the second of 5000
to be named the George Ide Chace schol
arship the Butler Hospital $1,000 to bt
devoted to the beneficiary fund, and the
Rhode Island Hospital $4,000 to be de
voted to the support Of three permanent
ly free beds.
One of the prominent government Off
Gals in Washington was 50 sure of his
place being filled by II Democrat within
thirty days after President Cleveland
inauguration that he graciously said tt
his wife that she should have all the pay
he received after he first of A Dril Near