Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-11-06
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

increasing and to trouble him seriously.
Mr.. and Mrs Pcnncll are preparing for
the century, an illustrated account of
their recent tricycle. journey from Flor
ence to Rome
Senator Vest travelled ncog. through
st. Louis the other day, so as to give Office
seekers the slip.
NignauN, the French blliardist, re
quires the services Of an Interpreter to
make himself understood.
United States District Attorney d. 3.
Searle of Minnesota has forwarded his
resignation to President Cleveland
Archdeacon Farrar and the Rev. DIR.
Phillips Brooks will be the guests of
General Neal Dow while in Portland.
Major NJ. G. johnson recently argued at
Frankiord, Ky. case that has been on
the dockets for seventy years, and he has
been engaged in it for nearly fifty years.
Florence Blythe, who bids fair to be ac-
knowledged as the heress of the $1,000
900 Blythe estate in San Francisco, is
little girl of eleven years.
John b. Cough is suffering severely
from neuralgia, and has lately missed
several of his lecture engagements.
Ludwig of Bavaria is not the only ex-
travagant monarch in Europe. The EN-
press of Austria has just finished hunt
ing lodge that has cost 81, 10000
Secretary of State Bayard was overlook
ed by the President in making an official
announcement of the death of George b.
Mcclellan.
Secretary Manning has accepted the
resignation of Assistant Secretary Coon
Postmaster Pearson must feel very lonely
as the sole remaining example of Demo
cratic civil service retorm.-TrOy Press.
There is a lively quarrel among the
Democrats in Michigan over the United
States pension agency at Detroit, and as a
way out the difficulty, a movement is on
foot to give the place to Mrs Elizabeth
Custer the widow of the cavalry general.
In the opinion of Senator Colquitt of
Georgia "the South will not differ with
the President on the appointments he may
make, although here and there it may be
thought that the appointments are not
what IN all cases they should be,
The Rev. II. r. Hawes of England, who
is now on Il visit to this country, has been
strongly impressed by the pulpit utter
ances of Henry Ward Beecher. I'VE have
no such orator in the English church, he
writes. AS thinker Spurgeon can't
touch him.
1t is predicted that Prof Timothy
Dwight, now holding the professorship of
sacred literature in the theological school
of Yale college, will succeed Dr.. Noah
Porter as president of that college.
Mr.. George w. Childs is having his
"reminiscences of Gen. Grant, that were
recently published, printed in pamphlet
form. He takes that method of supplying
- Ia, lif4tn
come to him daily from every part OF the
country
RussiavileHnd claims to have resi-
dent, Mrs. Golfer, who was sister of
Commodore Perry and was born in Della
ware in 1869, making her present age ll6
W RS. She is also said to be the oldest
Methodist living, having been united with
tl,C church seventy-five years.
The New York sun, whose editor was
the assistant secretary Of war, pays high
tribute to Gen. McClelan's character, but
would not claim that he was born with
ali those gifts that 90 to the making of a
successful man." and thinks the charge
that he was the victim of hidden opposi-
ton and of bad faith in Mr.. Lincoln's
Cabinet unsubstantial.
Canon Farrar delivered his lecture on
Dante in the Y. NJ. c. A. course of Port
land, Me-, Monday evening. Rev. Phillips
Brooks accompanied him when he took
his place in front of the reading desk. At
the conclusion of the address very few of
the great audience that filled city hall left
their seats, and a gentleman arose and
suggested that they were waiting to hear
Mr.. Brooks, but he defined to respond.
Professor Richard A. Proctor, who was
seriously i'll when he left this country,
writes from London that he has quite re
gained his health. Il have" he says.
given forty-three lectures in the last
eight weeks with any amount of travel
ling have made four new books ready
for publication in OCTOBER have prepared
one new book ito appear first in serial
form for the American market; have
written articles for dozen magazines and
many for newspapers, and have all the
time edited my weekly knowledge, soon
to be made monthly
First Assistant Postmaster General Ste
venson has removed a Mr.. Price from the
Berlin, H., postotiice and appointed his
wife, Mrs. Price. Mr. Price is n very ac-
tive Repu blican and was removed for
offensive partsanship. Mrs. Price is an
equally active Democrat, but has never
taken the stump during political cam
pagns. Curiously enough, some of the
parties who wanted the husband .leposed
backed the wife for the place-Phtlddel-
phid Times,
Lieutenant Eisenhower of Arctic fame
is an instructor of the naval academy,
Annapolis and is a great favorite with the
cadets, who, nevertheless like to play
Jokes at his expense. Very frequently
their jokes miscarry, and he appears to
have an occult FACULTY OF discovering the
perpetrators. One night they laid two
cannon on the parade ground where they
supposed their instructor, who has poor
eyesight, would fall over them at parade.
But Just as he ought to have stumbled, he
|pnll II n IA aN OF NIh "a haA
taken il hand in the job, and ordered them
to take the guns back where they belong
ed. They did so, while the other cadets
looked on and snickered.
Walt Whitman, the poet, has for sever
al days been unable to see anything clear
ly, His sight is now improving, however.
For some time he has been SO lame that it
has been necessary to assist him in getting
into his carriage.
1t is understood thar Rev. Henry Ward