Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-06-19
Personal AND POLITICAL.

hObby-horSe rider.
Mr. William u. Dayton, United States
minister at the Hague, had II farewell au-
dience with the minister of foreign affairs
Monday and presented his letters of re
call. Upon the same occasion Mr.. Bell,
the newly accredited minister, presented
his credentials
Col. George w. Hooker of Vermont is
quoted as saying vermont lifts herself
up about two pegs since Senator Edmunds
was called to England to testify before the
House of Lords, and he will be his own
successor without doubt"
The new Democratic chief of the bureau
of statistics at Washington, is one Swift
Ter. On assuming the Office he called his
subordnates together and told them all
about himself ending up with the strik-
ingly picturesque remark, THAT'S the
kind of hairpin | am" He has already
earned the name of "Hairpin Switzler.
| Ex- Gov. Horatio Seymour reached his
seventy-fifth birthday anniversary sun
day Mr.. and Mrs. Seymour celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary on the
same day. The Hon Roscoe Conkling
presided at the dinner.
! Ex-Secretary, now Senator, Teller of
| Colorado declares that his State will con-
sent to no compromise on the silver qltes-
| ton. The silver must be coined, he de
clares. There is no objection to that, pro
vIded that hundred cents worth OF 1t
be put into a dollar But that is not what
the mining and smelling senators of the
Rocky Mountains are ''here for "-BoStOh
| Transcript.
7. p. Cheney, L. s. pension agent at
Concord, n. H., formerly superintendent
of railway mail service for New England,
/ hut nn
! failure of Ex-Governor Hale. Mr.. Cheney's
property has been attached and he is re-
ported as saying that Governor Hale's
failure leaves him 5000 worse off than
nothing.
The Brooklyn Union says that it is
hard to say whether the Mugwumps are
more energetically hated by the Republi-
cans, who cannot forgive them for de-
feating Blaine, or by the Democrats, who
cannot forgive them for electing Cleve-
land" To which The New York sun re
torts, that it was Roscoe ConklinS and
Brother Burchard who defeated Mr..
Blaine
The World's Washington correspondent
depicts Secretary Bayard as looking ten
years older than he did before the 4th of
March He is represented as Il disappoint.
ed and unhappy man so absent minded
made, and promises the same office to dit
ferent persons and finally, as possessing
no executive ability. The IVOrld does not
like Mr.. Bayard, and probably makes his
condition to be worse than it is.
Chief Justice Waite and Associate JUS
tees Bradley, Miller and Field will all
reach the age of seventy years, at which
time the law allows them to retire with
full salary, during President Cleveland
~ :
judge on the Supreme Bench and Mr.. Jus
tice Bradley is the wealthiest.
Ex-senator Edward G. Ross, the newly
appointed governor of New Mexico, is a
printer and was quietly setting type when
his appointment was made known to him
He will now receive salary OF S25oo a
year.
1t is announced in London that the
terms of the settlement of the Islander
case of Charles w. Adams against Lord
Coleridge have been arranged rs follows
The Lord Chief Justice settles an income
of 1900 yearly on his daughter, Miss Mil
dred, on the occasion of her marriage tt
Mr.. Adams, and the legal disputes are tt
be referred to arbitration.
Archbishop Bourget, the oldest Roman
Catholic prelate in America, and will
only one senior in the world, died in Mon
treal, Monday evening, aged eighty-tve
He was born in 1899 and was a native o.
the Province of Quebec. Hismother was
a woman of great piety: He was ordain
ques, first bishop of Montreal, and in 1888
was consecrated bishop of Telmessa and
coadjutor of the bishop of Montreal. UpoI
the death of Monsignor Lartiques III 1874
he succeeded to the bishopric of Mon
treal
OF Gen. Rosecrans's appointment as re
gister of the treasury, the New York Pos
says that 1.-The only excuse that can b
assigned for the governments giving
to him is that he is old, out of Il job, ant
needs to be taken care of"
When jeff Davis was Secretary of Wal
he had for his personal messenger on
Jordan. When Davis was elected to tn
Senate, Jordan was given similar pos
ton under Jacob Thompson, Secretary o
=, the Interior. At the outbreak of the re
bellion Jordan went with his State,
a and so lost his place. All these years Jol
: dan has been waiting for vindication, an
t it has finally come. Secretary Lamar ha
f appointed him to be his personal messeI
Y ger
The New York World says the Kelley
are to be frozen out at Vienna. The tia
guese minister will follow the cue an
5 the Austrian official will take ever
e means of resenting the imputation that
l. diplomatist who will not pass muster 4
e Rome is good enough for so ancient a caI
ital as Vienna AS for Mrs. Kelley, sh
will not be tolerated at court for an il
e slant, since marriages between Catholic
G and non Catholics are not considered vail
- at the Austrian court.
t The two colored cadets at West Poir
o make very creditable showing. One {
Il them, Alexander, stands will on the rec
r ord in all points of study and di.ciplin,
= and Is quite popular with his white assC
: ciates. The other negro, Young, is nc
= popular and has not so many merit marks
u but his chances of getting through al
: good. 1t is probable the days of persecr
j. ton on account of color are over at tn
! military academy. The colored cadet
!, stand comparatively better than the whit
y cadets as whole; for seventeen of tn
u latter have been found deficient and di
> missed from West Point, though non
= of them is a member of the graduatin