Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-01-05

The total losses by fire tae past year
amounted o. over t9rty--Irec millions OBJ
dollars. against about twsn-s-ciZlt -ai
half millions the previous year
The Reading (PlJ Railroad Company
contemplate placing fur tracks yu --clF
ruai-twl .lr passengers all -vl i.r lre.5l'
They Rave ulw tarsc track.
TIE Grea, Eastern is g. make au attempt
10 Law lew Atlantic cable. next june, ana
will also try 90 raise the alt one aai splice
il thousand miles ot -aa latter are
proved by daily tests 90 te 10 perfect e-aii-
lion
Artcmus Ward ,not tine Snowman and
bis wife were found dead IN their s19m. ID
~ lrccst,r, Mass, ou Friday morning some
think they were sIi1cltei lrlm c-1- El7
ron q 20 Ste IN the room Others are oi tac
opinion that The wife figs. poisoned -tr bus
band and then committed suicide.
Eiwari B. Kstchum. The young Wall
Street Banker aud flr---, was sentenced %
Saturday by Recorder Hoffman. e. t11r years
and six months IN the STATE prison
RIB. Bradford. late public administrator
&c New York ciiv. sent communication 70
the board Of aldermen, saturday. mentioning
the pleasant little fact that his annual report
for lS6j would show q doicI- OF StO,uuu,
and c1uiussins that this amount OF the clty s
money had been lost by him IN stock sQecu-a-
tons On Wall street.
Secretary Seward left Washington Satur-
day. on the naval steamer De Soto, for an
. ocean trip % the southwark. The voyage Is
] Q q
Of lis health. and without any important
national object.
The progress and preclcity Of Young
America. l. indicated by the circumstance
that man was tired and sent TO the Peui-
tertiary in New York last week. ior keeping
a gambling house for children IL was ire
quented by boys OF from nine to fifteen
The last Boston notion l. a paper hat
company which will have a capital OF $50,
| 900. and own a patent recently secured. by
I which IL expects 10 manufacture durable,
/ waterproof paper hats Of any form or cI-Jr,
I at a cost Of eight 70 twenty-five cents apiece !;
/ and So rev1luti0nlze the bat business.
There Is vast bed of coal underlying
/ the city Of Ii Sale, Illinois The city
/ fathers propose TO sell tue right Of mining
/ coal under the city (Which hes AZ q depth of
500 or 400 feet below the surface 10 the
| highest bidder, and expect 70 get bonus or
royalty Of 20 per cents per ton tor the priv
/ Ilege. Ii is estimated that there are p 600
tons under each acre.
Only two survivors Of all those who par
ticipated in the war Of the revolution, 50 tar
as known by the Commissioner Of Pensions.
remain. nimely VIM. Hutchings, of Pen
obscot. Hancock County. Maine. aged one
hundred and one years, and Lemuel Cook,
/ o. Clarendon. Orleans County, New York,
| aged nnety-nine years and only five widows
Of revolutionary soldiers draw pensions from
the government at a yearly amount Of two
hundred and niuety-three dollars.
\ Providence paper says that the Mash
apaug ice houses are undergoing a thorough
cleaning out for the first time since they were
built, and a sixty pound chunk was taken
out which was placed in store fourteen years
ago. Ii retains all the freshness and purity
of its youthful days.
In New York on Sunday afternoon, Mrs
Rosannah Gahey, aged IS years, her grand
son Francis, aged wears, her son Francis,
aged % years, and her daughter Nancy A..
| Gahey, aged 81 years, were found sufOcated
in their apartment in house in Grand
| street.-the first two dead and the others still
alive, but unconscious. The fue of the Chin
nev above their room had been nearly closed
up By a fat stone, put into It, and the coal
gas from the stove, rushing out into their
room, sufocated them.
An infant, carried its nurse was scaided
to death last week, IN Albany by the nurse
running against the child's mother who was
carrying dish Of boiling soup. BY some
means few drops Of the soup fell on the
girls arm. She dropped the child on the
floor, and stumbled against the mother in
such a way as to cause her to spill the boil
ing soup all over the child, scalding it IN a
most terrible manner.