Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-02-08
NeMs Items.

There are twenty-five bald heads 10 Ca.
gress.tvo wigs and fifteen pairs Of mls.
taches.
Horace Greeley has urged universal s.
frage lpOn the President, in an interyis7
an hour.
At Trinity church, New York, Fu!s,
Rev. DR.. Nicely was cOnseerated Epis,o-s
Bishop Of Maine. Bishop Hopkins presiI1i
and Bishop Potter preached.
1t is claimed that about fifteen huad-..
liquor sellers in Massachusetts, were hreed
discontinue the traffic last year. OF whom
upwards Of FIVE hundred were in Boston.
Poor Canada" pays SI,2O head to sl.
port 'royal" Governor, while in q,
United States, We pay twelve cents each o..
the Presidents salary.
Miss Nellie Dean figures IN a Pit,sb-..
skating pond as a professional perform
and gets $500 week and her expenses.
There Is prospect that Congress 81
amend the Internal Revenue Law 50 as
exempt incomes under $1,000 from ta1st.-
The Canada papers mention the birth Of.
child in Ottawa having but one eye, in d.
centre cf the forehead. The child IS 0,.-
wise well formed and in good health.
A Mobile paper says: 'Night before lie.
Mr.. Harrington shot az Mr.. W05is1l az.
killed Mr.. Farragut. Such accidents f
these are not uncommon COOL
The question as to whether bank s-.
ponsible for trunks kept in the safe o. 6.
same, is pending betV cen a Boston firm e.
a New York bank, the former having
large amount Of bonds from the safe o..
latter.
The wide spread prevalence Of SLOW s;l--.
this year is well illustrated By the fac, -
it has fallen during the present season O.
Louisiana, for the sixth time only during
present century Snow fell there IN =,
lSOO, 1917, 1922, 1881 and 1852.
storms of 1852 and 1892 were the CHIEF a
the others slight.
Capt. Mullen, commanding a New y .-.
steamer that lay frozen in below Washing
undertook TO 20 up to Washington On Sc.
with sails the wind changed, and IN b.
deavoring 10 to turn around the It sled tiTI,
over, catching the head Of the capll-
mangling it terribly and killing him iustl-.
ly.
Two of the church family Of Shakers
Enfield, n. IL, have severely fractured O.
rules Of their order. Deacon John ". O..
lev Of that family recently exchanged .
Shaker uniform for ''stOre clothes me.
appointment and married keziah Lyman.
Shaker schoolma am, and started IVES; ISL
her on a bridal tour.
A recent contest over the nomination o..
representative from the town Of Au1e...
Mass, became IN the end denCmils- -..
quarrel between the Episcopa!ians AM Oh.
Congregationalists, led By the profess.
Amherst College. The Congregari-ul.se
beat.
Scientific men have maintained ,hat
race Of Beavers was extinct in New ~
State. but the hunters have known Of -.
existence Of a family on the west brau-l
the s.. Regis, and have caught several E...
in two OF three years. One has been rsls-
Iy trapped by Mr.. Thomas.
Ia Cincinnati, the injured wife Of a ...-.
inent builder, named Mclaughlin, a--
him 10 bed with ms kept mistress, q N=
Thompson, and seizing a poker ma
luds on the latter which caused her
in q few hours
One Of the eonvicts Of the Pennsy.yl-l
Western PeniJenJiary. named HOLMES. g.
Gently INDUCED in the most blasphs-5-s
language eursing everybody. eursing Chs.
cursing God and pronOuneing God the 11t.-
Of all sin, and ridieuling the Bible. Viii
thus disappearing be was suddenly s-1ucs
down with apoplexy, and remained uncl-
seious until the next day, when he died
The Presidents action in the case Of "a
Lamar Of Georgia has just come to Lg..
He was arrested and tried in October a.
November, 1865, for fraud and bribery a.
for stealing government cotton, found u
and sentenced 10 Eve year ImPrisonmoa
and fine OF S25. 600. The sentence W
set aside by the President, and Mr.. LamE
goes at la-Cc unmOlestet.
Wall street has had an old fashioned rl-
ic. 1t began with & quarrel between Van
derbilt and the Central Railroad. Il GU
minated last week Ia the failure Of one
the oldest and most trusted banking bcu-.
IN. New York. Rumor brought down lalil
dozen houses, the strongest in the CITY J.
three hours Cumberland Coal stock can
down from % to p, and everything else t
lowed suit.
One person has at last been convicted
Sonth Carolina for killing freedman. T.
conviction took place near the home Of q
Orr, and the murder having been accom-
led by robbery under the most aggraya-
circumstances, the Governor, had deter
ed that the murderer should be hung.
the keeper Of the Jail IN which be
imprisoned allowed him to escape.
Father Gavazzi, the ox-priest, who
promised 10 be leader Of a new Ref.r-s
ton in Italy, has not been heard Of s.rss
short time after the battle of Custom
was bold fellow, nothing 10th, as be sa-T
ed in Canada when mObbed by the T.
Catholics, TO use physical force il bis
tense, and he has employed his great ~
cular strength many times in the Iu-4
cause. He was virulently hated by ,1s
man Catholics.
The only government in the v5rll e
recognized the rebel Coniederacv was t5li
the Sovereign of Rome The only sg7s-
ment in the world that denies today
right Of worship to American Pr0tesE
within its capital is that of the Sovsrig
Rome.
A Montreal special says all Of tie tl-
at SherbroOke are still guarded night
day in consequence Of information recaI
from Washington Of an ln,enied F--
rad.
A Maine paper tells how drunken 2
IN Saco dropped from his mouth pee
cracker he was eating, when a little d.
mediately picked it up and ate 1t, o.
less than an hour swelled up AMI diel
a lecture committee in Buffalo throl-
sue the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher ir
ing to keep an agreement to lecture, M
to test the question whether elergymsa
not be held to a bargain the SAME @; -
people.
At Antwerp little girl, nine ysss
who found her stocking empty b
oversight Of Santa Claus, went and :
herself into the canal On being 5ss'-
and promised chunk Of ginger'r7-
consented to live little longer