Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-06-26
Personal AND POLITICAL.


Ex-senator Dorsey is i'll in Chicago.
DIR. Newman Hall, the famous London
preacher, is seriously i'll.
Mr.. Lowell, it is reported, will imme-
diately begin work upon his "Ilaw-
| thorne."
/ Dr. Wesley Miller of New York is about
to prepare vaccine matter for use in pre-
venting cholera.
The New Hampshire legislature is flood
ed with petitions for the enforcement of
the prohibitory law and the suppression of
the sale of impure literature.
Ex-senator Roscoe Conliling will sail
for Europe to-day. He is going to visit
Carlsbad for his health, which has been
sacrificed to hard work as n lawyer since
he left the Senate.
Proceedings against Carter Harrison
| have been begun by the citizens of Chica-
60 They aim to show that he obtained
! his reelection to the mayoralty by fraud,
and that the opposing candidate, Judge
Smith, was duly and rightfully elected
Warren Edgarton of St. Louis has been
appointed by the Postmaster-G General chief
of the New England division of the post
office department, with headquarters at
Boston.
The venerable Professor Stowe is i'll at
Hartford, but the report that he was in a
dying condition is incorrect His wife is
with him.
Mr.. Kiuki, the japanese minister has
gone to NewYork to present in person the
Mikado's message of sympathy with Gen
eral Grant in his illness.
Rev. Mr. Barclay, pastor of st, Paul's
Presbyterian church, Montreal, has re
ceived a command from Queen Victoria
to preach before her on his visit to Eng
land in July or August.
The leading merchants of Montreal
have II high opinion of United States
Consul-General StearnS, who has just
| been superseded, and will give him fare
well banquet June IS
Prof. Swing, the noted Chicago preacher.
advocates not allowing anybody to vote
who is possessed of less than $500 worth
of property. 1t is suggested to the broth
er by the indianapolis Sentinel that TINS
would have ruled out the Master and all
the apostles except Judas.
The Prince of Wales has been holding
another conference with Minister Phelps.
The State of Vermont is cutting some
thing of figure in British politics just
now.-Phil ddClphtd Press.
Architect II. II. Richardson of Brooklyn
is to build Cincinnati's new chamber OF
commerce. Architects from New York
Philadelphia Chicago, Council Bluffs
Cincinnati and Pittsburg competed, but
Mr.. Richardson's plans caught the com
mittees eye
The Congressional Appointment bill has
been killed in the Pennsylvania legisla
ture, and the Legislative Apportion-
ment bill is likely to share the same fate
This will postpone any new apportlonmenl
for two years.
1t is rumored that James Russell Low
ell may take the place of DR.. Elliott as
acting president of Harvard University
and that it was for this reason that he de
clined the invitation of Oxford.
The meeting between President Cleve
land and Senator Logan the other day
was cordial and friendlyin the extreme
The President has not yet received hl'
punishment from the Democratic press
Hon. John :. Williams, one of the few
hungry Democrats in Indiana who ha'
been fed. holds the Office of Third Audi
tor of the Treasury. He is also the edito
of paper III Lafayette, where he was re
Gently assaulted by II woman whom M
paper had assailed. In his defence hi
struck her with light cane, The woman
is a temperance lecturer.
Now that Gladstone is out of business
we trust that Mr.. Edmunds may persuade
him to come over to America. This coun
try is something near the grand old man
size. -Philddelphid Press.
The Washington correspondents Civ
Hiram Atkins's opinion as to the Law
| ,al, III rNtt dc rlf
Minister Phelps differ before the Hous
of Lords. This is important, of course
but as Hiram agrees with Phelps, it is t.
be feared that the Montpelier editor car
res his partizanship into his law-Sprtng
, field Republican.
The degree of doctor of laws which tn
University of Chill has just conferred Oh
, DR.. Logan, our minister at Santiago,
, the first it has ever given to foreigner
. DR.. Logan, who has served twice as min
lister there-first under President Gran
and then under President Arthur
awaiting the arrival of his successor, Mr.
Roberts, and then will return to tn
. United States.
President Andrew ID. White OF Cornell
University has placed his resignation il
; the hands of the trustees of the Univel
sity. President White has been connect
ed with the institution for twenty years.
The indications seem to grow more pre-
nounced that j. Edward Simmons will b
appointed collector of the port of New
York The World says "the adminstra
ton might go further and fare worse.
' A despatch Washington states tina
Mr.. Simmons is the choice OF the Pres
? dent for the position.
t The literary fellers have been recoe
nized in the last lot of diplomatic appoint
$ ments, Richard Henry Stoddard gong I
f Athens as consul, and Mr.. Alden of tn
! New York Times getting the consulate Il
f Rome. Mr.. Stoddard is of National repu
! tation as poet. He is Il singer, not stron
, but sweet \ man may make an exec
f lent dIplomatist without the capablllty
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