Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-01-26
News items.

A Paris Cafe has On its card among Other
wines and liquors the word " Cberl-gobler. y
The wedding linen OF the Princess Anna
Murat (lately married in Paris) cost $780,
| 600
Sir Morton Pcto has sent an elegant box
of Confectionery to the wife Of President
johnson as New Years compliment.
Rogues out West administer chloroform
to pigs and then carry them off without Gre
ating any disturbance.
The Connecticut reform school at Merider
has had an average of go inmates the past
year, and cost the State but 100000. hi:
Is an average Of SS7 to each scholar.
The State of New Hampshire is erecting a
mon ument at Winchester Va, over 80 brave
men of the 18th n. II. Regiment. who fell
there on the 10Th Of September 1864.
The President, as a means Of cheapening
fuel to tie poor of Washington during the
cold weather, has ordered the large quantity
oil IRE wood belonging 20 the Government 20
be sold in quantities less than ten cords. at
s. so per cord.
On late trip of q Carlifornia steamer a
crazy lrishman came on deck with revolv-
er and declared he would shoot any man
who was not Fenian. Two Englishmen at
once denied having any Fenian proclIyities
and he shot them both. He was wounded
himself in turn and jumped overheard, but
was rescued by the crew.
At the time Of Senator Douglass decease,
his estate was 60 encountered that it was
believed that there would be nothing left for
his family. During the war, however, the
price OF real estate in Chicago, which be-
longed to him, appreciated so IN value, that
Its sale has paid all Of the debts and left his
family handsome competence.
Prof. James W. Mapes, who for many
years has been prominent in the Agricultur-
al world, died at Newark, \. j., last week
HIS farm when he bought it was considered
one If the most barren and worthless farms
IN the State, but under his careful superin-
tendence it has returned, according to gene
raj report, an annual income Of 500, 600 to
Its owner.
4 sheep in Canada has just been dressed
in New York, the live weight Of which was
400 pounds, and neat weight 243 pounds,
and yet there are thousands who will not
believe that hind quarter of mutton 80
pounds weight was ever seen, although they
are frequent in England.
The Collectors ofCustoms, who have been in
session at Washington for several days. have
agreed on bill to put an end to smuggling
on the Canadian frontier, which Secretary
McCulloch will Immediately submit to Con-
gress.
The custom Of selling eolored people in
Delaware for term OF years as a punish
ment of crime, Is still kept up, thou Oh now
1t does not amount TO much. Four persons
were sold few days since, and brought
from twelve to fifteen cents each, and their
purchasers Immediately let them 20.
The Hartford Press says: A ragged
little fellow was seen skating on one OF our
ponds lately without shoes or stockings, his
skates being strapped upon his bare feet.
who said that it was jolly good fun, and
that his feet were warm enough if he kept
on skating"
\ Chicago clergyman missed his stockings
On Christmas morning, and after a long
search found one on each horn Of new
mich COW, which had been presented to him
by his parishioners. As they couldn't get
the cow into his stocking, they put the
stockings on to the COW.
In Walworth county, Wisconsin, on the
9th, three men entered the house Of a man
who had just sold his farm for $1,000, muir
dered his wife and child, and proceeded to
ransack the building. While thus engaged,
a person living near by, hearing suspicious
noises, went to the house, saw what had
been done, and shot all three Of the assas-
sins, killing one, and MORALLY wounding
the others.
4 few evenings since three burglars visited
the residence OF Col. McKendry, formerly
Of the Second Massachusetts Cayalry.) in
Milton, Mass. Their noise alarmed the
Colonel, who seized two loaded revolyers. and
without stopping to put on his clothes went
INTO the yard and confronted them. They
allowed themselves to be driven into shed,
where the Colonel held them at bay with
his reyolvers until his clothing had been
brought to him, and rope to tie the men
together, after which be marched them to
the lookup.
Niggers can't take care Of themselves
says the CoPperheads everywhere. At the
Ohio River village Of Smiths Ferry, a color
ed man named Orme, with bis two sons,
sunk an oil well last spring, which they
sold for S26, 600 cash, and invested SO 1000
in one Of the best farms in the county.
They sunk a second well. which proved to
be of great value, and sold last week for
: 40, 900 cash; so that these black men in
addition to taking care Of themselves. have
got themselves in the way Of taking care OF
Sl65 600, made within the year.