Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-01-19

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
| by the will Of T.. w. Goldman Ifar-
ward. %. who died December 81. Harvard
| University received a bouucst of $50 0O
Bishop Farct Of Maryland will cole
hratc Sunday Monday and Tuesday next
| the twentieth anniversary of his consc-
Grafton.
l.. Hagsn's 4i.ooO-acrc ranch on the
American river. California. has been
bonded for Sg.2oo,o00. IT is now devoted to
the raising of horses
! Budyard Niplmg's lungs are too weak
| to stand an English winter. lie has not
been strong since jan attack of pneumonia
caused apprehension Years ago.
Sir Ernest Casscl Of England employs
an orchestra to follow and play for him
wherever he goes. The conductor is per-
mancntly in his lordshp's employ.
frank =. Flint. the now senator from
| california, was bora in Massa chusctts
| but removed to california with his par
onts when hc Was seven years Old.
William p. Richards. who has just
been appointed surveyor of the District
of Columbia WAS born in Milford, Del,
ana graduated at Lchigh University.
Leslie Marmadukc of s.. Louis. repre-
sonting Il syndicate of St. Louis capital
lists, has selected site for a large colony
Of Missouri farmers near Tampico. Mex
leo.
Freeman T.. Miller, editor of the Still
water. Okla, advance" and "A former
member OF the oklahoma Senate, is rap
idly coming to the front as a poet of
ability.
Prof. +. -. Bryan head of the dc
partmont of philosophy of Indiana Uni
Vcrsty. has been offered and has accept
cd the presidency of Franklin Coll, &c,
indianapolis.
Mrs. Mariah Vance, the oldest coiorcd
woman in Ncrmilion county. Illinois, ana
doubtless i'm the State, has just died. For
years she was u servant in the home Of
Abraham Lincoln.
y. ". Maxwell for II long time chair
man Of the iowa democratic State COM
mittcc. has just established republican
paper in Randolph county. the only one
of that faith in the county.
Manuel Euriquez, one Of the Oldest
pioneers OF california and tho last sur
viVor of General Frcmonts battalion in
the Mexican War. has Just died at Los
Angeles. He was born in Peru
1t Is rumorcd in Brooklyn that Bishop
Mcdonnell If that city will be made
coadJutor of Archbishop Williams of Bos-
ton. 70 this promotion would also be
added the right of succession.
Judge Peter G. Prtchard, former United
States senator from North Carolina. has
sent to President Roosevelt a golden eagle
which was captured on Bald mountain
and measured four feet from tip to tip
Herbert l.. Hapgood, of Athol Mass,
has the largest private collection of al
MANAGES in the United States. Many OF
them were printed in the eighteenth GEN.
tury and the oldest one is dated 16S5.
Longfellow's "Evangcline" has been
banshed from British Columbia schools
The reasons given arc that the poem
is tainted with an anti-British spirit and
it is becoming stale to the teachers from
long use.
John Morley who has just returned
to London from America. when asked
what IMPRESSED him most, said: Nj
agara Falls and the President; both give
YOU the Impression of going on forever
} or hettor. the activity of both seems
ccasclcss.'
David y. Turner, proprietor Of the ST.
Joseph, Mo, "Gazette," the largest frui,
grower in Missouri is in Colorado in
spccting the country with the intention
of establishing in that State the largcs st
fruit farm in the world.
TO be the first Indian woman to study
law is the ambition of Miss Laura NJ
Cornelius, who is now in Los Angeles
getting ready to enter the law depart
ment of Stanford University. She is al
Oneida girl, who until recently has taught
in the sherman Indian school.
Frederick y. stock. who was Theodore
rhOmas's assistant director of the chi.
cage orchestra, has been made dirccto,
permanently of the orchestra The lat,
musicians musical library WILL in all
probability, be bequcathed to the orchcs-
ira instead of to the people of Chicago.
Governor Durbin of Indiana, is consid
cring the adVisability of sugg sting Il
the Legislature that the State appropri.
ate money for a monument in Arlington
cemetery to the memory of Genera
iioury w. l.awton. a statue in his homo,
VIII be erected shortly in indianapolis.
Mis- Amelia Weckcs. at one time 4
famous German actress, has just died il
St. Louis, at the age Of 81. She spent
so years of her life on the stage Whor
only il years old she began her theatrl
cal career of Trieste and when she wa.
- was one of the loading actresses ir
Germany.
Professor Jaeger Of Harvard University
is To lead an important geological cy.
podition to ireland, 1t is expected {,
start from Cambridge about May %
I'll re Will be about 80 men in the party
which VIII have as an object observation
of the volcanic and glacial formations
etc.
The Joint wedding gift of ono hundred
cities of Prussia to the Crown Prime,
Frederick William and the Duchess CO
ella on the occasion Of their approach
ing marriage will represent about one
cent apiece from each Prussian city
dwollcr It will be II silver table service
for fifty persons to cost $1,000.
"1hoodorc Thomas; A Musical Autib
ography," is the title of II book that viii
bc published in April. George r. Uptoi
has edited the book, most OF which was