Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-03-16

trade oil MASSACHUSETTS. Ii j. hNt s"o Sot- l
business that is depressed, Just now-F. X. !
Monitor.
Mrs. Ould has been convicted at Rich
mond, Va, Of shooting and killing II IL;
Meade, and fined one cent and imprisoned
one boar.
The Governor, of Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire have appointed Thursday, April
5sh, for Fast day.
The Virginia Legislature has appointed
Commissioners to proceed to West Virginia
IN negotiate 70, reunion OF the two States.
Il il said Governor Worth of n. Z. was
telegraphed by President johnson that the
Freedmen. Code bill ought TO pass without
the proviso declaring that it shall not 60
into effect until the Bureau Il removed
A Young man obtained divorce from his
wife IN the Litchfeld County (Ct Superior
Court last year, on account OF "ineomPauhll-
ity." few days since the lady tell heir
to S2I 600.
Miss Fanny ". Dayton, WHO was shot by
VIM ii. Russ, a DOOk-keeper IN n l., IN
December last, is recovering. She had
three bullets in her head, nearly all the
fragments of which have been extracted by
her physician.
About 5000 have been subscribed
toward the Lee endowment of Washington
College, of which Gen. Lee is president.
Colonel Theodore s. Bowers, Adjutant
General on General Grants staff, was in
stantly killed one day last week by falling
Ia 70 or
the train Just as 1t was starting from Garri-
some station Opposite West Point).
The article gong the rounds on the moon
less February is mostly lincolnshire. y
Just such Februarys occurred in 1909, 1873,
and ls47, and although they do not occur
once in nineteen years, months without tull
moon are not as rare as represented
The University Of Michigan is now ,he
larges. university in this country, contain
ing 1901 students, divided as follows
Medical department, 436 law, 500; liter
ary, 265. The institution is well endowed,
and tuition is Tree.
The disgraceiul fights between the sophie
more and freshmen classes Of Yale college,
which have been going on for some time and
were Occasioned by the freshmen wearing
tail hats and carrying canes without asking
permission Of the sophomOres, have been
stopped for the present by the suspension Of
seven members Of each class.
4 letter has been received at the Fenian
headquarters in New York. from Head
Centre Stephens, announcing that be was
ready 70 move the armies Of ireland when the
signal shall be gwen. Ireland has . ,0O0
men ready for the conflict, and has a signal
corps as efficient as any in the world.
Il Is stated that the bonds Of the M4honey
Irish Republic are being extensively coun-
terfeited
Half million pounds Of powder are to be
sold at the Norfolk NAVY Yard, next Thurs
day-a chance for the Fenians.
During the month of February the collec-
tions under the internal revenue law
amounted 10 Sl2O, 100000.
The Legislature of New York has voted
down tie resolution iayOring the eight hour
labor movement.
In obedience to instructions from the War
Department, the military districts OF South
ern, Northern and Western New York have
been discontinued.
Additional interest is lent to the approach
ing Connecticut election by tie fact that the
choice Of United States Senator to succeed
Mr. Foster is dependent upon it.
The Fenians are nearly as strong and
enthusiastic at the South as at the North
At Louisville, by the cause is receiving
the strongest encouragement. Subscriptions /.
of money and donations Of firearms, nun
itlons, &c, &c, are daily on the increase.
Some thirty distilleries in New York city
and vicinity were seized Friday and Satur- /
day by the revenue officers fer alleged viola 1
tiOn Of the revenue act. One of the officers. |
named Grifhths, while inspecting the /
premises of one Of them, fell into a vat and /
was drowned.
Six hundred and elghty-one books were
published in this country during the last six /
months OF 1865, Of which los we're reprints, I
ar three fourths pamphlets, excluded from |
literature proper. The number published /
IN England during the same time was $500.
In Savannah the other day Mr.. SamI X.
Head showed his skill with the pistol. He
placed bottle on the floor at distance of
twelve PAGES, setting cork on the mouth
OF the bottle and bullet on the top of the
cork. Mr.. Head dropped the bullet into the
bottle by knocking out the cork five times
out Of ten trials, and did not break the bot
tie.
A gentleman and his wife took passage in
the cars at Schenectady for the West, and
came away without their infant child, each
the other "toOk the baby They
were not long in discovering that they had
left something" and, getting off at St.
townsville, telegraphed back for the missing
responsibility, which WAS brought to them
by blushIng conductor on the next train.
The New York Evening Post, which sus-
tanned the veto of the President, complains
very decidedly of BIZ. appointments from the
Southern States. Ii says that a large ma
orIty Of the persons selected for Federal ,,
Jficcs were original secessionists. and are
even now opposed to the policy of the Gov |
,rnment. I
Two boys had a queer collision in Nor I
Sieh, Conn, the other day They were
running IN the street in opposite directions, !
hidden from each other by the enormous d. a
7. /
ounded this obstruction at the same time. I
md struck heads before they had fairly seen !
ach other. Ore Of them was knocked out
i hia senses and injured internally.
Boston Is to have new Hotel, to be built a
t once, at cost of 81 $780, 600 1t is to L
e half as large again and twice as elegant 2
s the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York is
be built of white marble, and to contain Il
etween nine hundred and one thousand =
Ooms, all Of which are TO be furnished in I.
lyle of magnifcence hitherto unknown in
le history Of hotels. 0,
few days since a woman with bundle :.
her arms, apparently containing baby, q
illed at the residence of lady in Boston. an
he stranger complained OF feeling unwell, isl
ating that she had recently been delivered sd
"a child and asked for glass Of ale or some TOT
her stimuiant. The lady left her own
he sleeping in the cradle, and started for
store to procure the ale. On