Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Senator Leland Stanford gets about
twenty-five begging letters every day of
his life.
NJ. Gounod has given Mr.. Longfellow's
poem, "Arrow and the Song" musical
setting.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has writ
ten Burglars in Paradise" in the style
of "The Old Maids Paradise"
General Sherman and Henry Ward
Deecher will deliver lectures in st. Louis
for the benefit of the Grant monument
| fund
A history of the Vanderbilt family will
be published in the early spring, the work
of w. a, CrofTut.
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett has en-
trely recovered from her recent illness
and has resumed literary work ut her
Washington home.
The wife of Adirondack" Murray, who
left him several years ago, is said to have
large medical practice in New Haven and
Meriden, Conn.
Col John Mosby has just returned from
China, where Gen. Grant first sent him a.
consul at Hong Kong, and has opened IA
law Office at San Francisco.
William Henry Hurlbert, formerly edi
tor of the New York lVOrli, is To De the
London correspondent of the New Gor
sun, and prepare the SUNDAY c'p'" t"l
that purpose.
General Sherman is about to remove
from St Louis, and the Spectator OF thai
city intimates that he has been fairly
driven away.
President Cleveland loves pinociue, aud
so does Mary Anderson. The Preside mt l.
unmarried, and so is Mary. Ain Cupid.
you rascal, what are you up t. :--iroH
Times.
The sum of 100000 has been paid over
to the Episcopal missionary societies ht
the executors of Mr. Nanderbilt's will. Il
will be invested separately and called the
William II. Vanderbilt fund,
Each morning at , O'Clock porter calls
Miss Mary Anderson, the actress, and at i
O'Clock she is on the street on her way to
early mass, Il ceremony she never misses,
no matter how cold or stormy the
weather.
The father of one of the Newark boys
who went to pasteur signed Il contract to
put the boy on exhibition for two weeks
at il dime museum in New York. But he
|
William W. Astor. who has been added
to the number of American novellsts, is
40 wears old He is tall and slender, but
muscular, and devoted to all kinds of
athletic sports : he Is Il good boxer, an ac-
complished swordsman, fine and fearless
| hOrSemal.
Representative Cole of Maryland will
push in Congress ii bill appropriating $50
600 to build in Patterson Park, Baltimore,
Il monument to Francis Scott Key, author
of the Star Spanged Banner"
DR. Cyrus Hamlin was surprised on his
seventy-hfth birthday, January ,, by re-
ceiving the sum of $500 from a few friends
towards paying for his new home in Lex
ingtOn, Mass.
Mr. +. W. Nades, one of the busiest
and wealthiest contractors and builders in
Baltimore, has become an evangelist,
leasing a centrally located place of amuse-
ment for his own on Sunda, 5, and holding
revival meetings Sunday afternoons and
evenings. He pays all the expenses, takes
up the collections, and says the meetings
are for talk and prayer but not for preach
ing.
The Lewiston journal reports that
there is Il general unanimity among the
Maine people in favor of biennial cleo
tons and Legislatures, and observes that
allnOuBn lntN want SOillc pOllllCS W iut
square inch, they do not want it all poll
tics to the square inch
Gen. Warner of OHIO, one of the ablest
of the silver advocates i'll Congress, say,
there can be no doubt that the coinage
committee will temporiZe by proposing 4
bill to limit or temporarily suspend the
coinage of silver dollars but the house, he
says will not be effected by the opinions
of the committee.
General Banks will be seventy years OLD
on the Both of the present month. Iii,
friends will celebrate the day by a dinner.
1t is stated that Mr.. II. p. Hubbard, the
enterprising advertising agent of New
Haven, is under financial difficulties
with liabilities rs high AZ S225, 900.
The Chicagoans will have their monu
ment to Gen. Grant erected on Lincolr
park before New York gets within gun
shot of the funds for hers The commit
tee on designs are now AT work, and have
arches, statues, towers and terraces Il
! select from.
The Democrats in both branches of Con
. gress appear to be in great haste to pu
| themselves on record against the presi
, dent on the silver question. All OF thu
prominent Democrats are confident tina
; nothing will be done in regard to silve
: coinage by the present Congress. Boston
! journal.
E Mrs. Virginia Hanson has been nomin
ated for reelection rs State librarian o
Kentucky. So well has that excellen
lady performed her official duties, says tn
Louisville COuriGT-JOUrHdl, that her nom
inatiOn and reelection follow as a matte
, of course.
jefferson Davis has felt called upon t.
say that he never was a Free and Accepted
Mason, but his father was He is of tn