Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-26
Personal AID POLITICAL.

Count Won Moltke chief marshal Of the
German empire and chief Of The general
staff, is seriously i'll.
Goodwin Smith has sold out his interest
in the Toronto Week. and will henceforth
live in England. He will return to Canada
in the autumn
The New York Hcrdlds Washington
correspondent has been told bya Democrat
that the Southern Democrats in Congress
are making an alliance with the Demo
Gratis of the West and antagonzing the
Democrats Of the East.
Gen. Hancock has double in New York
The resemblance was quite remarkable,
the only noticeable difference being that
the general was the taller Of the two.
Mr.. Deacon, one of the election judges
in one of the many precincts of Cincinnati
in which the Democratic heelers commit
ted the frauds planned by the local
leaders, is announced to lecture in Ohio
on the nature Of these frauds.
The latest acquisition to New York So
ciety is Mrs. Barrios. widow Of President
Barros of Guatemala. She is described
us charming and handsome, and the
mother of n remarkably lovely" dauSh-
ter.
Theodore Thomas has used mis- right
arm so much in conducting his orchestra
that he is said to be threatened with Il
new kind of paralysis.
Mrs Dolly Madison was once invited by
resolution, to II seat on the Senate floor,
the only lady who ever received that
honor
Loyal Farragut, Il son of the late Adj
mral Farragut, has offered to return to
Captain James ID. johnson of Savannah
the sword he surrendered to his father on
the 5th of August, 1864, when the Con
federate ship Tennessee was captured in
Mobile Bay. The offer has been thankful
ly accepted.
General Hancock, says the New York
sun. was the only honorary member of
the Pickwick club of New Orleans. On
one occasion the club wanted to give the
general a reception, and, in order to make
him their guest suspended the rules Tor
once, and elected him member.
Mr.. Clevelands nominee for the Office
of associate justice of the Supreme Court
| ui Dl,tuC, Of Columbia is the same
| Judge Mcrrick who at the beginning of
! the war refused to administer the oath of
| Office to United States Treasurer Spinner,
| because of the latter's loyalty to the
| tu,ui.
Congressman Maybury of Michigan will
present President Cleveland the petition
OF Carl and Amnia Dettlotf of Detroit,
| asking the president to permit them to
| name their twelfth boy, born January 6,
| Grover Cleveland DettlOf, and asking
| MIN TO stand slCnsCr for the same.
| Ii seems rather unfortunate that the
| Selate should consider Il protest against
! the confirmation of the collector OF Gus
| . Ilpn1ncIHfS
very plentiful in Vermont, and this looks
! like premeditated attempt to deprive the
| people of the fruits of the victory of 1854,
| However, we will have Democratic col
lector in Vermont, if we have to import
material from Missouri.-k0nsdS city
| (MOD Times.
Everybody who passes through the
main corridor Of the capital, says the
Washington correspondent OF the Phila
delphia Record, stops to look at large
photograph OH the cigar stand. 1t is Il
picture of a sanity face, clear cut, smooth
shaven, delicate and refined, with silvery
hair, which gives it Quaker air. There
is no name on the photograph, and SO most
people take it to be Dean Stanley's or Can
Ton Farrar's. But Is Senator Arthur T.
Germans.
at was down in Virginia." says vet
eran in the Lewiston journal. II was
placed on guard over "A barn and was
taking it easy, when Il lieutenant came
along, probably to see what his guard was
doing. | ought to have saluted him, but
| didn't. Soon ] saw large, nice-loOking
man coming toward me. He wore nice
uniform, and noticed as he approached
that he wore IA lieutenants straps.
wasn't going to pay any further attention
to him, but when he came quite near tC
me | saw that there were two stars inside
those straps. | jumped up and presented
arms as quickly rs could, for | saw that
it was Major General Hancock. Never
mind that for me- said he, with wave OF
his hand. Il don't care anything about
it, but always do it for the little fellows.
He passed on | suppose the lieutenant
had reported me, and he came down tC
see about it,.
Rev. DR.. PaXton's remark about Han
cock in his singular speech at the recen,
dinner of the Typothetn is worth recalling
at this time AT the battle of Chancel
lorsville was private soldier and stood
with my musket trembling, little fellow
IS years old, The Chancellor House was
burning, the Confederates had broken oul
llth corps and my regiment was held tC
support five pieces of cannon | wa:
scared to death and would have run
Shells were bursting, men were groaning
| the dead were lying here and there ! Was
rs frightened as if at the mouth Of hell
Suddenly in the midst of our collapse
: man on Il horse rode down the line. |
, was awful, but that man rode down the
} line, tall, magnificent, the incarnation o
} IA hero, the grandest soldier He rode OF
the horse, not a muscle quivering, anC
looking us in the face, said, Gentlemen
he called his soldiers gentemen-'we ar,
left to keep them in check until a secont
line is formed. Hancock relies on the ole
LIST brigade | became hero by tina
5 mans influence. No Plutarch could hay,
9 done that for me-"
A Marble Interests and the Tariff.
The marble men at Rutland are slight,
disturbed over the proposed change in tn