Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-05-25
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Sweden Is going to send the world another
nightingale. equal, it is said, 10 Jenny Lind
She is named Marie Taskatt.
Marie Taglioui. the dancer. and Prince
" inliscngfai4 OF Berlin axe TO be married.
81, also, are great many other people.
The wheeler Wilson Sewing Machine
Company at Hartford Is laying the fouuda-
ton Of a new factory, 80 by $40 feet.
Tie contract for constructing the Gettys-
burg Monument has been awarded O. james
@. Patterson, Of Hartford. Ct. The mo9u-
llent a. ~ cost s5J.UJr.
The first vessel propelled ~ screw vas
made fifty years ago in Rhode Island hy
Jonathan Nichols. Vermont blacksmith,
and Davis Grevc tailor. The screw oper-
ated successfully, but the vessel failed Tor
want of keel
\ curious accident occurred the other day
IN Chesterfield, Va. by which lli-s Clsucin
Ames lost an eve By the explosion 1t au rli
Dominion coffee pot.
The effect Of q recent order OF the Pr,-i-
dents has been that the Freedmen Eg-
rcau has letn compelled % part with the
greater portion Of Oh, property once under
property have been restored 10 their former
oEners, ami HOSP a.res OF iall allotted o.
freedmen have been restored.
It is quite the fashion now in New ur-
leans for every spectator az theatre O. t.
presented with a bouquet on entering The
door. The effect is to make the audi .,rilm.
n DOOR and appearance, resemble q huge
flower garden
An exchange relates how j. p. G1y.a BAD
about twelve years Of age, residing wi,h bis
parents in Providence, was So much excited
b. the passing Of a menager.c AMI circus that
be went up into the atuc and hung himself
lie was dead when discovered tbs was
curious occasion for suicide.
There is something amusing ia the legal
style of the Indictment found 40 Norfolk
against JEFF. Davis. The head OF q four
yeass gigantic rebellion Is 20 he arrligned
because De On the ls,h day OF June, 1861,
did, with ga great multitude Il ry.sous.
Ito tie number Of five hundred persons and
upwards, armed with ''cann0n, muskets.
pistols, swords, dirks and other wariike
weapons, ''array and dispose themselves
against the United States Of America
sterling ling q notorious hCrsc thief and
rebel sly ami who made confession some
time since. declaring that he was an accom-
plice in the assassination Of President Lin
coin, died On Friday. on board the steamer
plying between Louisville and Cincinnati.
by voluntary starvation, De having refused
all but the merest m0rsel Of food for the
past forty days.
Probst, the Philadelphia Hend, expresses
SORROW that he killed the children bat that
he slew Dcering he admits Of no regret
The only curiosity or anxiety he has yet
manifested was on a single occasion, when
he asked keeper if be had ever seen anybody
hung, and what was the probable duration
OF consciousness after the rope had been
stretched by the weight of human body.
Miss Edmonia Lewis, lady Of color, hes
taken 4 studio in Rome, and works as a I
sculptures in one Of the rooms forme. IL oc- /
eupied BY the great master Canova. She Is |
the only lady Of her race in the United States I
who has thus applied herself to the study 1
and prs ctlce Of sculptural art Her mother .
was an Indian and was born in Albany, and .
her father was a negro. She is now at work .
upon marble bust Of the late Col. Shaw .
Of 54th Massachusetts regiment.
Another mammoth has been discovered in
the frozen soil Of arctic Siberia. in the
neighbOrhood Of the Bay Of Tax, the eastern
arm of the Gulf Of Obi The animal was
found but partially exposed, having Its skin
and hair complete. A naturalist has been
sent by the Russian Imperial Academy Of
Sciences 10 make an examination ofis. Great
results are anticipated from the examination.
which will doubtless bring to light the
character Of the animal and the contents Of
its stomach.
The General Assemblies Of the Old and
New School Presbyierians met in St. Louis
on Thursday.
Gen. Sweeney says he believes that Ste
ghens, the Head Centre Of the Fenians, is an
English sPy.
DIR. PGsey, the celebrated English divine,
whose name has become so familiar. Is ex-
peeted soon to visit this country.
a train Of cars was presipitated from the
bridge at arksville, Tenn, yesterday, a
Instance OF one hundred feet, into the water.
One life was lost
\ gentleman in Clockville, Madison Coun-
y. has a turkey gobbler weighing fortv-
'hree pounds, and standing over four feet in
eight.
The steamer Lion, while on her last trim /
thursday afternoon, exploded her boiler Oh
osite Hochelaga, two miles below Montreal c
" lives were lost and seEen persons severely Il
blurred.
!" thin the past month -four has been /
rought to New York from France and sold =
very handsome profit Ten thousand
ushels OF American wheat returned to this =
'untFy from Liverpool last zeeL. :
The Postofice Department has issued ord. ?
s to discontinue the delivery of the mails. "
al Offices in South Carolina, where there p
e no regularly commissioned postmasters. al
his will compel them to look up somebody "
at can take the oath, in a number Of
aces. NJ
In Nashville, May 18th was observed as a al
y OF lasting and prayer on account of cho- n
"a, IN consequence OF a supposed prc clama- nj
N OF the President, which it was founi
I, before the day was over, had never been in