Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-11-27
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Mr. d. l.. Moody is preaching to crowd |
ed audiences in Williamsport Penn.
Chief Justice Waite has worn out five
satin robes since he first took his place on
the supreme bench.
Senator Pike of New Ham shre is
better, and will 90 to Washington Dec. l.
He attributes his recent illness to over
work.
a Louisiana paper says Mr.. Joe JelTcr-
sons orange plantation, which now has
between eight and nine hundred trees, is
flourishinS finely.
II. G.. Bunner the poet, is to be married
in January next to Miss Alice Leonard,
sister OF Walter Leonard Of New London.
Col. Nat. Tyler, who is Il candidate for
doorkeeper of the next House of Represen
tatives, has returned to Washington from
trip to his home in Virginia and is now
engaged III his canvass for that Office.
General p NJ. b. Young of Georgia. re-
Gently appointed consul general in Russia,
has sailed for Liverpool on his way to St.
Petersburg.
Gen Grants diary of his tour around
the world is to be published in the North
american RCUielU.
The Duke of Edinburgh played the VIC
lin at II recent concert at Brighton in aid
of the funds of the Royal college of
music.
Sunset CoXs nephew tells Washing
ton correspondent that his uncle likes his
new quarters in Turkey that he has been
received right royalty by the Sultan, and
is correspondingly happy.
Dr. Gregory the ci I'll service commits
sioner, and Mrs Gregory will spend the
winter in Paris engaged in literary work.
William ID. Bloxam, who was appointed
surveyor general in Florida was former
| ly governor of that State. He was offered
the mission to Bolivia by the present ad-
ministratiUn, but declined.
Mrs. Compton Readc, Charles Reade's
cousin by blood and niece by marriage,
who has been long known to the circulat-
| ny libraries as a writer of novels, now
ues on the stage.
The daughters of the late Francis A..
ntXel, who are worth, 1t is understood,
| Jar our million dollars each, and are
'nscquently the three richest young la
e. III Philadelphia, have erected IL SUI
rrb marble altar over the crypt in the
uapel at orrestIale, in which the bodies
her patents lie.
a voune of essays selected from the
apers OF the late Prof. Lewis h. Packard
Yale will soon be published under the
tie OF Students in Greek Thought"
jefferson Davis has promised TO con
nbute to the creole department of the
New Orleans Exposition IL portrait of hi,
Youngest daughter, Winired, as a com
panion piece to the portrait of Julia
daughter of StOneWall jackson.
Judge Thoman, late civil service com
missioner, has received an offer of tn,
New York management of a non-explo
sive boiler company about to be formed
He saws he Will accept the offer and go t,
New York about Dec. /.
The lecture of Archdeacon Farrar, en-
titled Farewell Thoughts on America" i
to be delivered in Philadelphia under tn
auspices of the University of Pennsyl
Vaula.
Mr.. Bright, in speech at Birmingham
instanced the condition of the Episcopu
d church in America as proof that tn
church of England could maintain it
rights with state alliance.
"The mugwump President, the vacilat
, ing Secretary of the Treasury and tn
t weak-minded Collector Hedden" Is tn
+ Brooklyn Democratic association of WhiC
= Mr.. Sterling is IL member.
= Mr.. George w. Cable is an acquisito
to the church life of Northampton, Mass
:, taking special interest in the Sunday
I school work of the Edwards church. Las
: Sunday he organized Il large class of youn
y men and women, of which he will becom
; the regular teacher
, Elk Secretary Frelinghuysen's famil
|, have settled down in their Newark hon
u for the winter. Mrs. Frelinghuysen ha
i recovered her health, but Miss Title, VIII
~ was so prominent i'll society circles i
+ Washington last year, is n great suffere
. from the injury she sustained in the kno
. last Mach.
= December the Nineteenth Cenury clu
/ is to nave tilt between the Rev. NJ
/ IIaweis and composer George +. Bristo
{ over the merits of the late Richard Wa!
g ner Mr. Haweis is a devout believer
. the tonepOems, and Mr.. Bristow isn't.
V The official returns of the Iowa electiC
is are all in, with the exception of Wrigl
county, and Senator Larribee's majori
is for governor will be almost exactly 500
y Hull, for observation-disclosures, will ha,
4 1900, and and Akers, for superintendent
lie instruction. 5000
IA lHllu ASSISTANT secretary Oh STATE liu
5 ter, who has been very i'll in WashngtC
he for more than IA week, is now restil
* comfortably, and his condition is thong
Id TO be less alarming than day or tv
N since, His age, however, renders pc
n manent recovery somewhat doubtful. |
n entered the service of the State depal
ment fitty-six years ago.
er William f. IIarrity, appointed pc,
~ master at Philadelphia, is lawyer
d. that city, and about thirty-ive years
k, ago. He has been an active worker
III Democratic politics, was chairman of t
of city Democratic committee, and is said
IN be man of high character and ablit
mt He was Endorsed by Mr. Randall and
IS all the Democrats of prominence in Phi
he delphia.
ne Adirondack" Murray is coming ba
al from Montreal and will make his home
On Burlington, VT This is pretty tough
he the United States; but if Canada W
he keep the small poX and our bank emb,
nd zlers, we'll call 1t even,-Tr0y Times.
N Senator Pendleton has written to
* friend i'm WASHINGTON that he likes Rnr