Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-02-02

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ed from his wife because She used pound
OF tea a week.
\ hog was exhibited at q Fair in Indiana,
lately, weighing lis lbs. The fact Is well
hcrticatcd.
\ man found human finger in the bolog-
ma on which he was lunehIng in Hartford
saloon, few days since
Three Of the choir of young ladies who
greeted Washington as be entered Trenton
in l7S9, still survive.
4 comparison of the statements Of the
public debt, at the close of the month Of
August and the close of December, exhibits
a decrease Of 81, 100000.
Willie Wait, Portsmouth IN. HI boy
of eleven years, ruptured a blood vessel in
the excitement Of snow balling. the other
day, and dropped dead in the street.
Whisky has fallen IN Mobile from twenty
five to fifteen cents drink, and the bibulOus
Of the Gulf City are happy. Every time
man takes 4 drink there now he makes ten
cents by the operation.
4 counterfeit twenty dollar bill on the
First National Bank Of indianapolis turned
up at the Treasury Department Saturday.
This il the hrst specimen Of spurious issue
found among the notes Of the national banks.
Two hundred and seventy-fve cases of d.
yorce have been granted in Chicago the past
year; the devotion TO the union - very
weak there.
In Philadelphia the other day, the '' Iowa
Giantess, on exhibition at a Museum there,
who weighs 5S5 lbs, was married to Ger
man Iamed Rein. who is below middle sta
turc ana weighs less than 40 lbs. Il was
a case Of love at fret sight on his part. The
Philadelphia Press says the bride did not
ialgcr OF tremble during the marriage ceTe-
mouy. How 1t was with the groom !. not
stated.
Everybody is pleased with the modest way
in which President JohnSon's daughters,
Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Slower, do the
hOnors OF the White House. To a visitor
Mr.. Patterson said - We are plain people.
from the mountains Of Tennessee, and We
shall not put on airs because we chance TO
occupy tins place for a short time
The Congregational Westinghouse in
WIlliamstoWn. Mass, built in l79s, IN
which the Williams College commandments
have been held for seventy years, was total
" destroyed by fire last Sunday afternoon.
Loss so 600; insured for 81 600.
The immense engine Of the Utica q. "
steam cotton mills fell TO pieces on Tuesday
morning. The walking beam tell with a
tremendous crash, and made complete
wreck OF the engine. It's original cost was
$50 eco.
It has been finally decided BY the courts
that the New Haven Railroad Company
must paw tine bonds sraudulently issued BY
Schuyler, and tie Directors have voted to
increase the capital stock of the road to
5000. Geo. which viii raise enough finds
to meet the amount The capital stock Of
the company was Formerly $4,000, 600.
The amount u fraudulent bonds was 81
100000
Rev. c. c. Pinckney, Of Charleston, ; c..
writes that at the capture Of Columbia by
Sherman, the communion service Of his
church sent there log safety. was carried of
Each piece was engraved - Grace Church,
Charleston. The record book. one hundred
years old, j. also los, and was e. last seen
going North. lie asks that friends who
hear OF them may notify him.
ON the 18th INST. lady living near
Raleigh, y c., who had been sick. was pro-
noGnced dead by her physician, and placed
IN a coffin. Two days after, while prepara-
tons Tor her funeral were in active progress,
she GOT out Of her q. fin, and Is now as well
as ever. She had her senses most Of the
time while IN the trance.
In a recent railroad catastrophe near
Nashville, Tenn. a c0lored woman was
crushed by a red hot stove in the overturned
car, and literally cooked 70 death, before as
sIstanec could be rendered. A man IN the
Baggage car at the same time was killed BY
a coffin, metallic casket which fell upon
him.
The farm Of VI. L. Sullivant, Of Cham
Qlisn County, Illinois. consisting Of 20 900
acres, p 600 Of which are under good fence
and IN active cultivation. is said 10 be the
largest farm IN the world Much Of the
work Is done By machinery Mr. ; gives
employment 10 two hundred farm hands,
two hundred horses, and large number of
oxen.
\ young and handsome German gIrl.
named Emile Mass, committed suicide in
Chicago on Thursday last, BY taking strych-
nine. She had been seduced and BETRAYED
IN her home in Germany by her lover. and
fled to this country TO hide her shame and
save her parents from disgrace. She left a
letter TO be sent 70 her parents, and another
for friend, in which she requested that her
lovers picture might be buried with her.
Twenty steamships arc now plying be-
tween New Orleans and Texas
The Italian opera in Paris had to close.
Its frequenters were frightened away by the
cholera.
Boston paid over two hundred thousand
dollars for admission to places Of amusements
during the last quarter Of 1865.
Three boys in New Haven less than hrelre
years Of age have been detected in post Office
robbcries and forgeries.
\ boy sir years old has been arrested in
Brooklyn for an assault, and the case was
sent to the Grand Jury.
Senator Gunthrie, Of Kentucky. stated in
the Senate, the other day, that the losses to
the rebel States BY the war, were ten thou
sand millions of dollars.
The proprietOrs of the London Times found
their profits so large at the end of '65 that
they made every man in the Office a
present Of two weeks additional salary.
The subscription price Of the Times is SIS |
per year.
During the past year, conscience money.
,arying IN sums from one cent to one hun |
ircd dollars, in the aggregate amounting TO
wenty thousand dollars, was deposited in
he vaults OF the U. S. Treasury.
In Mercer County, Ohio. a prominent
member of the United Presbyterian Church
las been suspended from the privileges of
he church on charge of having voted for
'aliandigham as Governor of Ohio n man
notorious for disloyalty."
A thousand laDOrers have been engaged to