Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-11-30
News Items.

Washington, Monday.
A specimen of .back hair" Is to be cx.
hibited at the great Paris exhibition which
is valued at $4,000.
Admiral Semmos has at last sunk a
ship. The Mobile Gazette could not buoy
him as editor, and has gone under.
Mr.. McCulloch thinks. with proper Legs
lation, he may return to a specie standard
within eighteen months.
A negro lady IN Pittsburg, Penn, was
safely delivered of four children. Her hus-
band is as well as can be expected.
Mr.. Morrissey has had interviews with
the President, Secretary McCulloch, Gen.
Rawlings and other. gentlemen Of position.
Tie newest Yankee notion is an umbrella
with gutter around the edge and spout
at one corner.
Brigham Young is luxuriating in tie
honeymoon of his forty-filth bride, bcauti-
iul Danish girl Of seventeen. HIS twenty
fourth wife died recently, and was buried
without ceremony.
The Empress of Mexico Is recovering.
She drinks milk. embroiiers, says her
prayers. smokes cigarettes, and Is becoming
Tranquil in her mind and sane.
Kate Lyons, aged eighteen years, was
conveyed to a Boston Police station, Friday
night, just in time ito save her infant from
dating Its existence in the street,
An extraordinary celebration Of the Free
masons took place at Baltimore last week, at
which the President Of the United States
appeared in Masonic regalia. lie vas 81
next day owing to something be had
taken.
Jennie Page, aged sixteen, drowned her
self IN the canal, at Rochester, y. l.. on
Monday. She was a cripple, Obliged 10 ~
upon crutches, and something had been said
which wounded her sensitive nature
Apples are $50 barrel in Washington,
aud shippers who sent cargocs there expect
ing to get S5a barrel are shipping them
back north again.
The Tennessee House OF Representatives
has tabled hill providing for impartial suf-
irage and universal amnesty by q vote of go
70 -. The East Tenncsscraus voted almost
solid against u.
Gen. Grants income is $I,.67- Ter year
and Lieut.. Gen. Sherman = Sl3.jlc. Each
has an allowance Of fifty horses. \ MAJOR
General gets $500 and an allowance os
five horses. The pay of BIisadivr General
is S5,9i0.j0.
An interesting astronomical event will oc
eur on the 9th Of December, $500. VIZ.
The sun, Mercury, Venus, and the Earth
will be in conjunction, tlet that VA. uJt
occur again in several centuries
Government spent $1,000, 900 a year lor
coal during the war. Now it buys Er
years stock. j0,o00t0us. at SOL rcr TN.
delivered al Philadelphia.
\ kitten caused the death OF a cili in
Brooklyn the other day, by dragging ol the
table cloth with lighted lamp into tie
ehild's lap, iIom which rs clothes took fire.
IN attempt to trot the celebrated horse
" Capt, MCGOWAN twenty-onc miles within
the hour. at Riverside Park. resulted iu the
victory Of cold Father Time aru-, horse
flesh
\ man IN LcvI-buTg. Ohio. having died
OF dcliTium tromcns. bis wife brought ,lIt for
damages against two men of whom Pc bad
been accustomed 90 bay liquor. Ih, County
Court awarded her $500 from one 90 the
men and $500 from the other
The New York Naaog having expressed
doubts Of the good taste OF Gen. Butler IN
eating the dirty apple thrown al ham by one
OF the New York mob. be writes % that
paper 81 pared that apple. Do y0a erer
cat apples or eggs without pairing 90
sItlsll, the once famous rebel Minister %
France. recently applied 90 the Government
Cor pardon through our Minister no Paris
TIE reply Of the Government was that no
intercourse or correspondence % any kind
could be held with Mr. SlidcI.
One hundred dollars was paid DO New
York the other day for Golden .' History
Of the Five Indian Nations Depending on
the Province of New York in America. - /
This j. one Of the first histories %. new
York, being printed and sold by Wm. Brad |
ford in New York in l727, and is one Of the |
four copies known.
In Whitehall, on Tuesday. an OLD she'll |
used as an Ice house, was set ln FIRE hy some /
person and was quickly in O blaze. From I.
this the flames spread TO block Jc old I
buildings on the main street running up /
from the depot, which was nearly consumed. /
The Baptist and Methodist churches caught /
ire also. but the flames were stayed after /
these cdifces had been somewhat damaged. |
As the election Of Gen. Logan Of Illinois.
Is Congressman at Large, puzzles some
people, it may be well to say that an act Of /
Congress allowing Illinois one more member
than she previously had, she preferred to
elect only thirteen Members of Congress in /
separate districts, and to have the fourteenth /
elected by the vote Of the whole State. This
IS the CONGRESSMAN at Large" for which
office Gen. Logan has just received q majority
10000.
Frauds to the amount of one and half
million dollars are alleged To have been re-
emily discovered among the liquor distIllers
n Brooklyn, y. Y. They compounded tur-
lcntinc with alcohol and passed 1t upon the
as burning fluid, which Is ex-
'mpt from tax. 1t was an easy matter 70
Extract the turpentine after the inspector
lad passed upon the article. and thus throw
Eeir alcohol upon the market clear Of duty.
IN twenty days the profits Of this business
cached 100000,
Patrick O'Rourke was preparing for
shooting excursion, IN Philadelphia, the
ther day, and accidentally dropped his
,owder-flask IN a tub of water. Be
NJ Of an economical disposition.
lie concluded to save his powder by
rying 1t. Accordingly, pouring it into a
rying pan, he held it over the fire for
While. and shortly afterwards picked him.
elf up in the back yard, feeling somewhat
ltigued, with his halr, beard aud eyebrows
inged of as closely as If cut with a knife
The cornerstone of the old Masonic tenn
lie IN Baltimore was removed the other day
, be Incorporated into the new one. Ii was
id II 1914. and when it was opened, not
ithstarding the care taken to transmit to
osterlty The history of the building, two
oins of gold. half eagle of 1895, and an
agile Of 1871, with the inscription on the
iarble, were alone found to be unimpaired.
he silver was blackened and defaced. the
CURES on the copper had disappeared, and a
)me remnants OF decayed binding were all l
rat testified IN the r1rinted volnmcs that bad