Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-06-14
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NUMBER FIFTY.


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to church
Chicago has one thousand rats to every
! inhabitant.
Mr. Beccher's "Gnaw-wcod" is hard
chewing.
Hanging in Nevada is called ''early ris-
ing"
There are only about 400, 900 taxable in
comes IN the United States. t-lNtt-
The stranded steamer Santiago de Cuba
waS got aaOat Friday only slightly damaged
1t stated that in Indiana 'cold feet are
regarded as a good cause for divorce.
1t is exceedingly bad husbandrY to har-
row up the feelings of your wife.
"Pride goeth before fall It often
goes before a waterfall.
Gov. Hartman of n. Ii. wa: inaugurated
TO Office at Concord yesterday.
A boy in Buffalo reached a fatal "pint''
in his career last week when he drank pint
Of rum.
Over 5000 immigrants arrived at New
York on the 5th inst. Two-thirds Of them
were from Germany.
The N Y. Times observes indications of
decline in interest upon the part of the
public in the game Of baseball.
Mr.. James Wick, of Rochester, N. Y,
has in bloom now field OF tulips containing
10000 specimens Of 800 varieties.
Fred. Douglas reports a taxable income of
S6,ll6, which. with the deductions, repres-
ents seven per cent. basis OF over 100000.
\ monster in human form" says that
the only time woman does not exaggerate
is when she is talking of her own age.
Montreal is the most unhealthy. and Lon
doD,C. W most healthy Of Canadian cities.
For every ten persons who die in London,
p die in Montreal.
The wife of se1agenarian in Portland,
Me, not out of her teens, gave birth last
week to four children, a fair start for iami-
ly.
1t Is a notable circumstance that serenity
three members of the British Parliament
have just cast their votes in favor of female
suffrage.
A man and wife at North Brookheld, Mass.
were caught shaving the hair from the tails
Of their neighbors' cows for hair to sell to
TIN peidlers.
A young lady of Montgomery, Ala, who
was recently caught smoking a cigar, gave
1t as her reason for the act, ''that it made
it smell as though there was man around"
The Emperor Napoleon has presented to
the Catholic University at South Bend, In
diana. a superb and powerful telescope
valued at 25 900 francs.
steam hair brush. which cleans the
head, and fans the customers, at the rate OF
800 revolutions minute,is one of the latest
Inventions, in use in New York and BOs-
ton.
The first white child born in Wisconsin
lived sometime under the heavy cloud Of
Wisconsinia Peck 1t is probable that the
poor girl has long since left this vale of tears,
and gone where there's nothing in name.
There is domestic paradise in Worcester,
Mass. lt Is a One-stOry house, in which two
Irish families reside, happy and contented,
with twenty-four hogs, twenty-five hens, FIVE
ducks and one cow.
The editor Of Western paper is in favor
OF woman suffrage, because 1t will be so
pleasant to 90 around and pick up the
voters, or because be calculates to stay at
home on election day and let some fair can
yassers come after him.
The Fenians Flood and Duffey have been
sentenced in Ireland to fifteen years penal
servitude, Cody to twenty and Conolly to
seven years. Mooney has fifteen months
and Smith twelve Of imprisonment at hard
labor.
Robert Hendershott, known as "a the drum
mer-bOY OF the Rappahannock, eioped from
Poughkeepsle, n. Y, with a rich merchants
daughter on Friday last. They we're mar
ried at Newburg The pair are scarce nine
teen years old.
The English Admiralty have just issued
an order prohibiting officers from wearing
whiskers - Of such Inordinate size and length
as to resemble heards" The Lords do not
state a: what point the whisker ceases to be
a whisker and becomes beard.
Roman Catholic paper, May IL, an
nOunces in these terms the miracle" Of St.
Januarius at Naples; Yesterday, after
twenty-eight minutes of prayer, the pre-
cious blood of the saint was perceived to be-
come gradually liquefed.
The y. Y Tribune has become the re-
cipient Of the immense advertising patron
age of the N. Y. city Corporation. This
plum is worth fifty or sixty thousand
dollars and will make good the loss on sub
scribers who have stopped their papers since
Horace went bail for JEFF.
They are enjoying sensation in Liverpool,
where a youth of seventeen, disguised as
young lady, has, by the conniyaEce of the
lady principal teacher, been residing for
year past IN a fashionable girls boarding
school, patronized exclusively by the aris-
tOcrscy.
Women Of thieying propensities in New
York make the bosom of their dress a recep-
tacle for eggs. a market detective noticing
the full development" of q customer, Land
hands upon her, and crushing the concealed
eggs allowed her to depart with the embryo
Omelet.
The American Missionary Association
have purchased farm of $50 acres on
Hampton Creek, near Fortress Monroe, tor
so, 900. and design to establish training
school for colored teachers. If that sue
ceeds, college for colored people will be
started
We are beginning to get returns from
Custer's cavalry campaign. So far, 300
men, with their horses and outfits, are said
to have deserted. This will do pretty well TO
start, with considering that this disappear
anee has all taken place within month,
and the whole force was only from l.GOO to
1000 strong
Rev Joel Lindsey, who whipped his lit.
tie boy TO death, after being once convicted
Of his crime was granted a new trial at
Albion, N. Y, last week, and the jury failed
TO agree. Lindsey was then good enough to
plead guilty to manslaushter in the fourth
degree, and was sentenced by the Court to
pay fine OF $3.50
A conductor on night train from New
York to Washington, last week, who asked
a man standing on the platform for his
ticket, was promptly pushed OF the car by