Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-02-15
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feet gave way, partially filling up the canal.
The Grand Jury of New York on Friday
made presentment against lottery, gift
and presentation ticket schemes, and re-
commended the authorities to take measures
to abate them at once.
\ Louisville man who had purchased four
Of the Crosby Opera House tickets sued the
agent of whom be bought for the $50 paid,
and recovered it, the court deciding that tn.
sale was in violation of the law.
The lake tunnel at Chicago is now com
pleted the chambers having been walled up
and the whole bore lined and cemented. In
day or two the link connecting a temper
aiy well with the tunnel proper will be fin
ished, and Chicago will be furnished with
pure water. The whole works will require
several months, however. for their final com
pletion.
\ new Atlantic telegraph company is now
forming IN England with the intention of
laying sub marine cable by way of the
Azores 70 Halifax.
The Pope proposes TO canonize Christoph
er Columbus for discovering America.
Molly Trussell, who killed her paramour
the noted horse faneier Geo. Trussell. in
Chicago some time since. has been pardoned
by Gov. 0glesby after being under sentence
only month.
The total cost Of the Central Park up to
Jan. lst, including cos; Of land and improve
ments, is Sl0,0l4,S79 Is
In Topeka, Kansas, one OF Qu.ntrell's old
band Jack Mcdowell, who was in the custO-
dy Of the sheriff for stealing a span of horses,
made threats TO burn the town and kill six
teen citizens whom he sand he had marked.
The citizens snaked him out and hung him.
The Tennessee House Of Representatives has
concurred in the Senate resolution, request
Senator Patterson to resign.
An * was sold at Manchester, n H.,
Thursday. for Sl7l-s sum which a few
year, ago would stock a small farm
a Baptist church in Lexington, Ky,
was burned Monday morning. Loss about
SIS 900
\ Ere at Marblehead. Mass Monday
night consumed Halnes & Sons shoe factory,
the Baptist church and three dwelling
houses. Loss 100000 Over coo men
were thrown ont Of employment.
\ man attempted TO commit suicide at
Cincinnati on Monday, by jumping from the
Suspension Bridge at its highest point, but
was taken out OF the water uninjured.
The gunboat Gettysburg, Admiral Porter.
with Frederick Seward, returning from q
secret mission, has arrived in Chesapeake
Bay.
The Tennessee Legislature is Inquring
into the truth of report that a plot has
been entered into by rebel sympathizers to
asSassinate Colonel Stokes and other radical
leaders in that State.
Tie Pennsylvania coal digsers are on
- strike They have been receiving a
cents per bushel for getting out coal, and
averaged about 50 per day wages. The
price, fixed when gold was at $3.50, the
mining prOprietOrs think too high, and Its
reduction to ) cents has brought about the
" strike.
The streets Of Boston are getting thawed
out a little. and some of the horse cars, It
was expected, would be able to run on We'd
nesday.
Somebody recently served the Chicago
mans with thousands OF cans Of oysters at
fifty cents per can, less than half the monop-
oily price. They were ali bought readily,
and when opened were found to contain each
three oysters swimming in quart of dirty
water. The ''sell'' was SO extensive that it
takes rank with the Opera House.
There was tremendous exodus of swine
from New York and Brooklyn, Saturday.
that beng the last day allowed by the Board
of Health for the removal Of all piggerles,
within the city limits.
The steamship R. R. Cuyler was seized by
Collector Smythe, at New York Saturday,
having on board men and heavy guns, and
with a schooner loaded with powder along
side. 1t Is alleged that the vessel was IN
tended for prlyateering purposes in Chilean
waters, against the commerce Of Spain.
A young man in Iowa, after his fathers
death married his step-mother.
The Kentucky House of Representatives
prays for pardon for John Z. Breckenridge,
A Tennessee paper says that the last
Tennessee Vendetta" story is an "infernal
lietta."
The Parkersburgh, Va. Times says
"Vote for General Harms for Mayor, who
was ten years old before be either wore
pants or shoes.
The Boston Post thinks the Harvey-Mot-
ley controversy is diplomatic poker heated
at both ends; one end burns Radical fingers
Il bo or1
The Country Gentleman Is informed. that
nothing is better for withdrawing the frost
without injury to frozen ears, cheeks and
fingers, than the immediate application Of
kerosense-rubbing it on gently.
In Decatur, III Ms. Merry, an elderly
lady. attended church. Remaining IN a
kneoling posture at the close OF a prayer,
she was presently approached and found to
be h!eless.
The n. Y. Herald thinks the time has
come when the government might, prOfta-
bly, to til, Treasury and the country, put
into the small currency 4 new ten cent coin
of nickel and copper.
A white man in Kentucky murdered ms
colored mistress the other day but be ex-
planned that be was afraid she would tell |
his wife that he had child by her, and |
Kentucky justice was satisfied.
A lad in the Institution for the Blind. at
South Boston, was found Feb. 3 in a closet
hanging by strap. quite dead. 1t is sup
posed he attempted to pretend hanging to
righten bis comrades
single firm in New York, make for the
rade tins year over tl0O-dnd-d-haH million
ranging in price from three cents
o 800, the total value of which, as
old at r-tail. is more than three hundred
h0usand dollars
The city OF Augusta, Maine, has been
by the legislature of that State
0 make loan of $500, 900 In order to Sc
ure the development of its water power.
The colored residents Of Washington have
ominatei Mr.. Cook, President Of the Freed
ien 5 Relief Association, for Mayor, and
1T. Cook, who is a colored man, has accept
d the nomination.
A Scotch Earl, Lord Fife. gave Madame
'estris thousand guineas to allow cast
} be taken of her leg the Earl died, and
be cherished leg was recently sold for half