Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-07

eral Grant, and by General Porter has
been loaned to the Union League Club of
New York for use in its display of mourn
ing made in honor of General Grant.
Judge Chapman of Michigan has decid-
ed not to grant divorce in Il case where
a woman moved into that State to gain u
residence and secure legal separation from
her husband. He found that there was
sufficient grounds for a divorce for cruel
ty, but would not tolerate the manner in
which the woman had sought to secure
it.
Only two persons are living who wit
messed the marriage of Jesse II. Grant
and Hannah Simpson. They are Samuel
Simpson, u brother of the generals mo-
lher, residing at Bantam eight miles
from Batavia, o., who was born in Mont
gomery County, Pa, Oct 4, 1906, and
John Page, aged ninety years, living
near Saltar Il few miles from Mr.. Simp-
sons.
1t is reported by Southern men that
General :. b. Buckner of Kentucky, who
recently visited Grant and published the
interview which expressed Grants Joy at
the reconciliation between the sections,
wrote to General Grant when the Fish
Ward troubles first began. enclosing a
check for $4,000, which he wished him
to accept as loan us personal favor to
himself.
The remains of eX-United States Minis
ter Phelps, who died recently at Lima,
Peru, will be sent to Washington from
Lima the LIST proX. They will arrive the
latter part of August. Information re-
ceived in Washington is to the effect that
Mr.. Phelps suffered for nearly three weeks
| prior to his death from an aggravated at
tack of perniciOuS or OrOya fever con-
tracted during visit to the mountains.
John =. ST. John in this year of grace
1885 is under engagement to stump Ohio,
Ostensibly for the Prohibition candidates,
though, as everybody knows, really in the
interest of the Democratic party On the
Both of september, 1881, John u. St. John
wrote to Professor Calderwood of Ohio ::
The PrOhibitoniSts of Ohio are hurting
ting with the worst enemy temperance
ever had-the Democratic party"
When Mr.. Whitelaw Reid was out on
the Carson and Colorado railroad the 9TH
er week he called on the editor of the
Hawthorne BuiIctin, and that journalist
wrote IA complimentary notice of him,
ending as follows "lf he had a larger
field and Il paper of his own, Mr. Reid
would make his mark in journalism. He
has ability, is Il hard worker, and if con
nected with the Nevada press, would soon
be admitted to the Press Association"
Gen. Logan has just purchased of Gen.
Miles the commodious old-fashloned man
sion on Clifton Heights, the highest pro.
montOrY overlooking Washington, on its
northern border The building is sur
rounded by an acre of land, and was the
homestead of the Stone estate, taking its
name from one of the oldest families OF
this region. The conditions of the pur-
chase are that Gen. Logan is TO pay $40,
l.
per cent interest.
The only dscordant note in the univer
sal demonstrations of grief for the death
of Grant came from member of the
Georgia legislature who protested Vehe
mently III an old-fashiOndd rebel speech
against paying tribute to the man who
was 1.-THE author of the misery" of the
South. He was so promptly Kissed anC
howled down, however, that he had tC
Withdraw his protest, and the resolutions
of tribute went through with applause.