Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-12
Personal AND POLITICAL.


Tuesday next.
William Walter Phelps has a fine full
length portrait of Mr. Garfield, and he
has asked Mr. Blaine to sit to an artist
for companion picture.
The London Ddiiv Ncus censures what
it calls Mr.. Gilbert's ill-mannered letter
to the Harper Brothers, and hopes that
Americans will not view it us specimen
of the courtesy of English authors
EX-Representativc II. b. Smith of
Smithville, n. j., captured II moose alive
in Canada last summer, and has since had
him trained to harness
Henry Ward Beecher is to enjoy a visit
this week from all his children and his
eleven grandchildren. Collector Beecher
OF Port Townsend, Washington Territory.
has already arrived in Brooklyn.
General Lew Wallace, whose name is so
frequently mentioned in connection with
battles that he did not win, is native of
| Indiana and nearly 5S years of age He is
Il lawyer by profession and something of a
| novel writer.
President Smith Of Trinity college ap-
| proves OF muscular developments, warmly
| tavOrs the erection of Il gymnasium and
| hopes ana expects to see a Trinity COLLEGE
| boat crew on the Connecticut river i'm the
coming spring
Mr.. Randall astonished a newspaper
| correspondent, who called on him the
other day in Washington for information.
by cutting him off very shortly and order
ing him out. He had an attack of the
govt.
John Bigelow of New York has in his
library the original manuscript of Frank
Inns autobiography. He bought it in
Paris, when he was minister to France.
The Prince of Wales gave dinner We'd
nesday evening to the leaders of both DO
litical parties and the foreign diplomatic
representatives including United States
Minister Phelps.
The death of Gen. David Hunter, u. S.
A. (retired) leaves Gen. w. Il. Sherman of
St LOUIS and Gen. II. b. Darlington of
Boston the only officers now on the army
roll who were promoted colonies on the
increase of the regular army, May H. 1861.
The other day the Globe represented
Mr.. Hoar and Mr.. Dawes as the tools" of
Senator Edmunds. Now the Washington
spondent of the Post alleges that Mr..
llUal - 10 he Leader of revolt" against
NJ. .dmuudS. What these Democratic
naprr- do not know concerning the pur-
r"N'" aud position of Republican senators
: scarcely worth learning Boston Jour-
ndl
Henry Clay Dean, the typical Northern
bourbon OF the war period and since, is
publishing "Historical Recollectons of
riHii% Years Ago. Mr.. Dean is a char
5ctrr He was formerly & Methodist min
iNter and at one time chaplain of the
touNo Of representatiN es. He long since
left that plane. He was the most violent
- n hn b..
the north contained.
The Hon. +. b. Washburne,s in the es
innate of the Chicago journal, is an ex-
pert diplomat. His experience as a foreign
minister some years ago served him to
good purpose in this respect He was
called MS u witness in the Storey will case
the other day, and being asked whether
he considered Mrs. Storey "a young
woman he replied, in the guarded
language of diplomacy, CAN women are
supposed to be young"
The rapidity with which the House hur-
ried through resolution of inquiry into
the telephone scandal without allowing
the mover of the resolution any chance to
speak, betrays lively sense of the incon-
Nenlence of premature publicity and dis
JOurndl.
At Il certain hour every morning George
Francis Train wanders into Central Park
and seats himself on one of the benches
near Madison avenue. Sometimes he has a
book, but he usually sits with folded
hands and talks gently to the group of
children who gather about him.
Few men," says the Washington CAPT
tai, lever looked into the awful chasm
which separates the two conditions of ex-
lstence with more GOODNESS or ndiffer-
he spoke of dying he did so as he would
speak of going to the Capitol, and when
the doctor informed him that his end was
near he replied Tell me some news"
Rev. +. b. Webb. d. d., president of the
Congregational club of Boston, telegraph
ed the following to the family of the late
DR.. Goodell Of st. Louis: The brethren in
Boston and vicinity beg to express to the
family and church of DR.. Goodell their
profound sympathy with them in their
sudden and sore bereavement.
Napoleon Louis Joseph Jerome Bona
parte, youngest son of Plon Plon, is now
in India, where Il hunting establishment
of 1000 men and $50 trained elephants will
endeavor to provide amusement for the
young man. He will 90 from India to
China, and thence across the Pacific to
San Francisco and New York on his way
home.
The death OF Rev. DR.. Goodell of St.
Louis was the result, according to des-
patch in the New York Tribune. of a
blow on the head from a sling-shot WELD
ed by street robber, about five years ago
There We're two assailants, but the minis
ter and man who came to his aid drove
them off. Pains in his head followed and
presently grew so severe that he was given
a vacation, which he spent in travel in
Europe and the Holy Land. An attack of
syrian fever followed, and he was very
sick for while in England on his way
home.
John w. Mackay, the California quad
rupleX millionaire, brushes his hair back
from his forehead, wearing it closely cut
all around the sides He is partial to the
white linen neektie, not the small ribbon
that the dudes wear, but the starched
linen of the family man ; and looks like
II quiet, studiOus man, thoroughly con
tented with his small way, rather than
the energetic tinancier that he is, fitting
across the ocean or continent between
moons,