Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-25
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
General Logan has become IA Royal Arch

| Mason.
! Gen. Logan is to address the Grand
Army posts at Washington in October
EMS ,nator Stanford of California has
purchased the Calistoga hot springs.
! The late Hugh Conway's novel, "Aliye
or Dead is to be published in January.
Governor Hill is getting a very large
share of The delegates to the New York
Democratic State convention.
Gen Mcclellan is the only survivor of
the commanders of the famous army of the
Potomac.
General Merritt, late collector of the
port of New York, is added to the list of
Republican candidates for the nomination
for governor.
The Albany journal announces by au-
thority that Senator Evarts will not ac-
cept he Republican nomination for gov
ernor.
w. f. Poole, LII. D., librarian of the
| Chicago public library, has been elected
president of the Library ass Jciation.
The Philadelphia Times (Dem) thinks
that Mr.. Hendricks S speech at Ind ianapo-
lis on the Irish question was "indecorous
to the point of indecency."
Mr.. James H. Manning, son of the
secretary of the treasury, is said to have
distanced all competitors at fishing on the
st. Lawrence this summer.
Inspector General Nelson II. Davis on
his retirement from the active list of the
army this month will have performed CON
tinuous service for more than forty four
years.
Lord Randolph Churchill's health has
utterly collapsed, compelling him to can
Gel all his electoral engagements. His
physicians have given imperative orders
that he must remain quiet.
Chief Justice Waite, of the United States
Supreme Court, sailed for home on the
steamer Adriatic, which left Liverpool
Tuesday.
President Bascom, of the Wisconsin
University, is an extreme prohibitionist.
If he cannot have prohibition, he wants
free traffic in intoxicating drinks.
Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage, who has just
. returned from Il visit to Europe, had a
reception at the Brooklyn Tabernacle
Tuesday evening, at which Rev Henry
Ward Beecher presided.
, Secretary Manning has dismissed Jabez
Fox ii fourth-class clerk in the Registers
Office. Mr.. Fox is the pastor Of the Swe-
denbOrgian church on Capitol hill. The
t reason given by Register kosecrans for his
: removal is that ii was the pleasure of the
+ appointing power.
= Myron w. Whitney has signed a con
tract to sing in one hundred entertain
ments under the direction of Theodore
Thomas during the coming season. He
will 90 with Mr.. Thomas on his southern
= tour, beginning in il couple of weeks. anC
VIII sing about fifty times in the Ameri
can Opera company.
u Mr.. Ainsworth h. Spotford, the libra
= rian Of Congress, is described by Carp,
/ in the Cleveland LcddCr, as a curious
: looking man,-dark rs Il Spaniard, witt
y black hair and whiskers mixed with gray
|, eyes like jet and short, 1.-the, why
, frame, all muscle. George Bancroft ant
> ne are great friends and they often go OF
u long horseback rides together.
/ The news that General and ey- Governo
> George b. Mcclellan is to be entered as
' candidate for the United States Senator
1t ship against Governor Albeit on tn
/ Democratic side has raised quite Il littl
= political breeze i'll New jersey.
Il w. NJ. Quicker of Brooklyn has secure,
r. prize of $1,000 and the decoration of tn
e. Red Cross, offered by the Empress o
a Germany 10 the inventor of the best port
lc able field hospital. His invention is 3
e feet long, II feet wide and lOl4 feet hig
e mt the ridge. 1t is made of wood and fire
/ proof muslin. and is light, vet stable an
10 strong and can be put up by two men /
AZ an hour.
y In his recent speech ut Buffalo, Mr. 81
w. John remarked that there is about a
if much chance Of prohibition through tn
it Democratic party as there is of IA SHINE
n. entering heaven
AZ Daniel G. Thompson, formerly of Spring
M ~ field, Mass, is the author Of a system c
nj psychology which was not much though
ye of at home, but it has received attentio
j. enough abroad to secure the favorable III
v tice of Herbert Spencer, Prof, AleXande
ne Balm and others, who nominated MI
s. Thompson Tor election by the IOndO
Il Athennum club.
re The Washington correspondent of tn
-, Savannah NelUs, writing of the speake
if ship, says $50 far, three men have bee
so mentioned in this connection Mr.. Hi
it cock of New York, Mr. Reed of Maine an
Is Mr. Long of Massachusetts. Mr. Hiscoc
ne and Mr.. Reed entered Congress simu
w taneOusly Mr. Hiscock has been particl
cs larly identified with the work of the al
nt preparations committee. Mr.. Reed hi
nj been vcritable Rupert of debate"
or Nobody has pretended to deny that II
~ notorious Higgins was IL Baltimore gan
~ bier and ballot-boX suffer. Perhaps thu
ut is the reason that Sunset Cox sends pc
p tai card from Constantinope to Washin!
he ton in order to relieve his feelings by I'll
n fervent exclamation, God bless Higgins
ii With II large part of the Democratic part
nj Higgins is to-day more popular than Cley,
IL land-HdrttOrd COHrdnt
Us Is 1t Not singular
a. that consumptives should be the least Apr,
n, hcnsive OF their own condition, while all the
III friends are urging an beseeching them to
Ie' more careful about exposure ana Overdon
eS Ii may well be considered one of the mo-
IA alarming symptoms OF the disease, where Il
re patient is reckless ana will not believe that
of be in danger Reader, If you are III this con
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