Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-11
Personal AND POLITICAL.

on his publications amounted to less than
$50 last year.
Belva Lockwood counts Michigan in her
list of States that will soonest adopt WON
an suffrage.
DR.. Tanner who gained some notoriety
by his prolonged fast, has now announced
his conversion to the theory of faith cure.
Ex-Presidcnt Chester A. Arthur has
forty-fve public dinner engagements on
hand.
Edwin Booth, the actor, has placed a
window in the new Berkeley chapel at
Newport, II. l., in memory of his wife.
Canon Farrar will be accompanied to
America by the venerable ArchdeacOn
Nisey and brother of Jean Ingelow, the
pOeteSs.
The Rev. DR.. Newman Smyth is visiting
friends in Bangor, and intends taking II
hunting and fishing vacation trip with his
son at MOOsehead Lake.
Mrs George w. Childs has given Gen.
Grants daughter beautiful mourning
chain of onyx and gold.
James jackson Jarves, the we'll known
author, art critic and collector formerly
the vice-consul at Florence, Italy, is now
at the Roman watering place, Senegallia.
He will make Il professional visit to
America this fall.
/ Secretary Bayard announces that Mr..
Kelley is still United States minister to
| Austria, that he has not been recalled, and
| that his return is entirely on his own
motion. This would seem to encourage
| Mr.. Kelley i'll the idea that he can retire
peacefully to Richmond and draw $1,000 Il
month for doing nothing, but this will
prove to be Il fallacy. -BOStOn JouIhn.
James Gordon Bennett contributed S35,-
600 toward the building of the American
yacht Priscilla, to compete with the Eng
fish sailor Genesta, and prevent her from
carrying off across the Atlantic the
! Queens cup, so CALAMITY won by the
America in British waters tnirty-four
years ago.
President Cleveland's companion, DR..
| Ward, it is stated has the implicit conf
dence of people and papers at Albany,
| where he lives and it is stated that Ward ;
word as to the exact length or weight of
| Il trout may be taken to the one sixteenth
of an inch or an ounce.
The indianapolis Times is authority for
the statement that Gen. Lew Wallace has
read the proof sheets of that part of Gen
Grants book relating to the battle of
| Shiloh, and is perfectly satisfied with the
that battle, as recorded by the general III
command.
Daniel lie Roy, long relic of the old
Knickerbocker society of New York, who
lived Il life of leisure, bought pictures
travelled, and knew people worth knowing
and died at his cottage in Newport the
other day, was Il brotherin-law of Haml-
ton Fish and his sister, Caroline LeRoy,
still living, Is the widow of Daniel Webs
ter
Mr. Whiting the Democratic nominee for
governor in Iowa, is ON record as having
publicly declared during the war that If
any men in that State went into the aboli-
ton war he hoped that they would never
live to get back. 1t is believed that
enough of them got back to bury Mr..
Whiting this fall.
George b. Bacon, a naval officer who
won the rank of Lieutenant Commander
during the war, was appointed to the Gus
toms service i'll New York in 1869 and ha,
been one of the most efficient officers il
the service, was notified Saturday that 1t
must either resign or be dismissed. He
asked if there We're charges against him
and was told that there We're not. Hi,
place Is wanted for Il Democratic worker
) The New York TtulCS, which tells TIN,
story, says that Boss Mclaughlin want,
+ the office for one of his subordinates, tina
1t may be used to help the machine.
The Augusta (Ga) Chronicle dem
l thinks that Secretary Lamar has Il chance
to duplicate President Cleveland's lette
about improper recommendations for ap
pOlntment, and mentions the fOllOWiu.
! cases "A noted and ignorant politician
7 named Lee has been appointed by the In
, terror Department, Superintendent of III
= Indian school He is understood to haV
wrllten back to his friends that he 'ha
went over his new field OF labor and 'ha
i | 'aW that Il great work may be accom-
y plished for reform III the schools undo
t his charge
Il Bolton Jones, the New York artist, ha
;. been up to Mt. MacGregor this wee
+ painting "A picture at the order of Nh
DreNel, which shall take in the hous
wlere Gen. Grant died. The house il
Itself is not very picturesque. Mr.. Jones
however, has succeeded in making somt
thing of the subject by making the hous
" II mere incideat of the picture. He ha
taken i'll the vista down the valley belo'
e the eastern ouClook, and has brought GU
Y the handsome trees in front of the hous
- so that the picture contains enough beaut
"a to more than overshadoW and weigh dow
e the plain, ugly, unornamented cottage
l. libdHY JOHrHdt.
=. General > Is. Buckner had very remarki
t, BILE staff during the war, and his miitar
'e family has furnished the Episcopal churc
with three Observation-Disclosures of keI
lucky, who was II lieutenant colonel an
ID assistant adjutant general, is now bisho
OF Louisiana Elliott, another kentucl
, ian, captain and aide-de-camp, is bishop {
II Texas Harris of Georgia, aide-de-caml
1T who is bishop of the Michigan dioces
he was first promoted to this high dignity
Nv The church.
er The growing prominence of the pract
~ cal business issues before the State al
r. the country has been attested by the nun
20 Der and ability of business men who nav
n been discussed as able and fit candidate
Is for the governOrship. Certainly the In
of pire State would have an executive alb
re- and determined to guard her interests
ar either lie Grand b. Cannon, Cornelius
of Bliss, OF Joseph W. DleNel should
ps elected to the 9oVernOrship.-N J, Ma
Uud Express.
Nil Ruskin, in his autobiography, 40
III course of publication, states that Il
~, mother Established his soul in life /