Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-09
Prominent Personals.

a. A. Kendall of st. Paul, Neb., a
native of Woodford, has been appointed
one of the supreme c )urt judges for How
ard county, Neb.
Gov. Fuller has appointed Hon. Henry
G.. Root of Bennington and Hon. Edgar
N. Bissell of Shoreham to represent Yer
mont at the international wool convention
at Denver, Colo, this week.
Hon. Frank c. Partridge United States
minister to Venezuela, has been visiting
his mother, Mrs. G. F. Partridge, at East
Middlebury. 1t is probable that Mr.. Par
fridge will not return to Caracas.
Senator Morrill, has stopped patronizing
news clipping bureaus, for he found it
very monotonous to receive bushels of
items about his remarkable intellectual
vigor at 49," says the Springfield Republi-
| can.
Ozora Davis, White River Junction
! boy, has been awarded $1,000 scholarship
in the Hartford theological school, The
prize is paid in quarterly installments and
is to be used in defrayng the expenses of
! a two years course in Germany.
John II. Donnelly was appointed by the
! President as postmaster at Nergennes to
succeed John Norton Mr.. Donnelly IS
a member of the Vermont state Democrat
ic committee and took a prominent part in
the last campaign.
Capt. Seth Pooler of Rutland, the old
time schoolmaster of Lowell for % years,
twice member of the general court and
afterward a resident of Fall River, was
stricken with paralysis one day last week.
His age is 81 years.
DR.. and Mrs Webb have invited four
distinct series of house parties at Shell
burne Farms, each being asked to remain
ten days. All the guests will be conveyed
to and from New York by special cars. A
big toboggan slide has just been completed
on the place, and all sorts of winter sports,
including ice boating, skating and sleigh
ing will be in order
1t is a noteworthy fact that the presi-
dents of three Sons Of Vermont societies
are Randolph bows Here is a list: Col.
Ropert J. Kimball of the Brooklyn soce-
ty; A. w. Edison of the Worcester, Mass,
society, and NJ. II. Sessions of the Mime
apolis society: while George Partridge is
vice president of the Pacific coast society.
William Is. Hornblower, who was re-
iected by the United States Senate as an
associate Justice of the supreme court, was
married in New York last week to the
widow of Lieut.. Col. Anderson, L. 5. A.
The bride is a sister of Mr.. Hornblower's
first wife Senator Hill not there-Horn-
blower not rejected all around was the
Boston Globes facetious headline an
nouncing the event.
Miss Helen NJ. WinslOw, who began her
literary career as a local writer for the
Morrisville News. has been elected presi-
dent of the New England press associa-
ton. Miss Winslow now lives in Boston,
and is journalist and author of consider
able note, her writings appearing very fire.
quently in the leading New England peri
odicals.
VIM. ). Streeter, formerly of st. Johns
bury vice president of the Northwestern
Guaranty Loan company will not be tried
this term for his part in wrecking that
corp )ration. When the case is called fol
trial, it is understood that it will be con
tinued over the term without any specia
explanation. Mr.. Streeter is very i'll witt
BIight's disease and his recovery is doubt
full, and any excitement might hasten hi:
death.
The statement that Miss Constance FEM
more Woolson's death at Venice recent,
was due to suicide appears to be unwar
ranted. According to the statements o
relatives she was suffering from grip anC
, in delirium while left alone for
moment by the nurse Miss Woolson aros
from the bed, wandered about her room
; fell from a window and sustained injurie
which caused her death.
Tristram A. Mackinnon, general mana
r ger of the Concord Il Montreal railroad
= who is expected to become general mana
ger of the Boston ~ Maine, is native o
- Ireland. but was educated in Canada. Hi
aged parents have recently celebrated thei
5 golden wedding anniversary at their HON
= i'm this state Mr.. Mackinnon went t
Lyndon, this state, in 1865 to enter the en-
i ploy of the Passumpsic railroad, where h
p was succssively shop clerk, supernter
d dents clerk and acting superintendent
Il He was then manager or superintendent {
IS railroads in Canada, and in 1890 was calle
IS to his present position with the Concord {
.. Montreal.
IS Charles II. Hoyt, the playwright an
senior member of the Theatrical firm
= Hoyt Il Mckee of the Madison Squal
y theatre of New York, is to be marie
early in March to Miss Caroline Scale
II known to the stage as Caroline Miskel
V the beautiful Ruth of "A Temperate
" Town. Miss Scales is a niece of Judl
" Menzes of Covington and DIR. John Mu
: ply of Cincinnati. She was born al
u, raised in COvington, and Mr.. Hoyt mac
- her acquaintance when she applied
10 him for an engagement last summer. ii
III father, formerly prominent tobacco deal
-" of Covington, is now a resident of TOront
y Ont. Mr. Hoyt's first wife, known to Il
stage as Flora Wash, died in Boston
III little over a year ago and was buried
ID Charlestown, n, H., Mr.. Hoyts natl
y town and place of summer residence.
he
s Perhaps no local disease has puzzled and ham
Of the medical profession more than nasal catarI