Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-02-15

4 gentleman in Chicago who drew a
picture Of Mount Blank" has commenced
a suit TO develope the modus operaudi Of tile
Lee-Crosby transfer.
The Executive Mansion in Washington
has been completely renewed at a cost Of
forty thousand dollars with new carpets and
curtains from England.
The President called upon George Pea
body one day last week a. Z private cit-
zen, and paid him high compliment for
bis munIhcent gift 70 the educational inter
ests % the South.
Mr. Peabody says there is now a more
friendly feeling towards the United States
by the people and the government, Of Eng
land than ever before.
Kentucky has raised more than 81 Co.,
600, pounds Of tobacco II q year, or about
enough TO furnish two pounds to each per-
son in the United Statesmen, women, and
ehildren.
much depressed, owing 70 the low price Of
oil, which is now worth less than 81 90
barrel. One year ago It was bringing $40
q barrel.
The Tallman House at Ogdensburgh, was
entnely destroyed by FIRE, on Wednesday
morning. together with the house Of Mrs
Smith Sulwell. Total loss about SIS 900,
insurance Of $4,000.
j man out 10 Ohio was found the other
day by bis family stone dead. and laid out
in q coffin. An investigation brought 70 light
a note on the shop bench, which showed
that the deceased had taken his own life By
swallowing prussic acid, and that the coffin
was the work Of his own hands.
A document was published in Montreal
last month, nsrratlDg the miraculous heal
Ing Of q nun, in the Convent at Point Levi.
1t is stated that she was in the last stages Of
consumption, when the superior Of the con-
vent told her to pray for cure. She did
50, to the Virgin Mary. The other nuns did
the same, all with firm faith that New
Years Day would witness cure. On the
3lst Of December candles were kept burn
ing all day before the image Of Mary. At
O'Clock on New Years morning she arose
alter a refreshing sleep perfectly cured
The doctor certified that on the 5lst Of De-
cember she was in the last stage Of pulnon-
airy consumption, and that on the lst day
Of January she was instantly cured, and
that the cure was q miracle. The cure
did not last, however, and the last accounts
announce the death and bnrial of the nun.
a game Of chess for $1,000 is to be played
over the Atlantic cable by English and
American players.
A conscientious explorer has discovered
nearly one thousand drinking saloons in
Chicago.
The birthday of Abraham Lincoln was
made legal holiday in New Jersey at the
last session Of the Legislature.
The gale in Boston Sunday was the worst
one Of the season and the city was strewn
with signs, pieces Of slate, bricks, remnants
OF awnings and other materials not securely
fixed.
1t is said the Regulations in Pitts Co.
n. Z. have sworn to dispossess every negro
of bis property.
The worst FIRE in Mobile for thirty Years
occurred Saturday night consuming a whole
square of the principal business houses.
Inc loss Is estimated az S600, 200.
A temperance Society was orsapised
among the members of Congress on Saturday
With Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, a.
President.
A man fell Of the platform Of q car on
the lew Jersey r, Z. near the Bergen Cas,