Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-06-21

A man in Paris Is creating great noise
n the world by playing on seven drums ar
,nce.
A man in Cairo, running against barber
pole the other night, pulled oct bis pocket
book, threw it dcwn and ran, supposing he
was attacked BY robbers.
Two men were arrested in New York
Wednesday, on suspicion Of being connected
in the great fur robbery One thousand Of
the stolen otter skins have been recovered.
As Mrs Davies OF St Johnsbury,Nt., was
looking into 4 shop window in Boston, ned-
nesdav. a young man passing with the crowd
seized parcel, containing dress pattern
she had Just purchased, from her hand and |
made good his escape.
There are IS persons reported killed, |
wounded and missing, since the explosion IN |
Philadelphia the other day. eight Of whom /
are supposed to be yet buried in the |
ruins twenty-eight We're killed, and only
eight persons escaped Of all that were in the
building Ii is said the connection between /
the boiler and safety valve was shut
An unusually large number Of icebergcs
have been lately seen IN the North Atlantic
One vessel had 20 san nearly 200 miles IN
southerly direction along a perfect continent
of ice. while others have met enormous Ice
berscs much further south than they arc
commonly found az this season o! the year.
A father ami SOD named Enkelberger hg-
ing near DAYTON. Ohio, died recently, sud
denly, at the same hour. and the friends OF
each despatched messenger to the house OF
the other with the intelligence. The mes
sengers met at a tOllgate. Just halt way be-
tween the two residences.
Two colored men have been appointed to
Offices by the City Council Of Washington
\ Convention Of the Republican party Of
North Carolina is called for September !.
Gen. Hunt Of Colorado has been authoriz-
ed to raise troops by Gen. Sherman, who, IN
his letter, says that prudence on the part
of the whites will prevent trouble with the
Indians.
The expedition intended 70 take possession
of the newly discovered island in the North
Pacific IN the name Of the United States
sailed on Tuesday last from San tranciSc'-
Ninety-nIne one thousand dollar bonds
have recently been reported missing from tie
Treasury Department. No clue to them has
as yet been discovered.
In one Of the suburban graye-yards are
headstonos showing that in the last century
man died, whose wife was born when hc
was forty three years Of age, that she died
at the age of twenty-seven years, and that
he lived thirty years after her death.
A Peruvian surgeon, who has attained
fabulous wealth IN his native country, by
making ladies feet small and delicate merely
by shaving off tine little toe, has been I'M
ported by fashionable hair-dresser Of New
York, who intends to add this new branch
10 his establishment.
It's rather remarkable that while several
thousand feet are required TO make one rood,
a single foot. properly applied, Is often SUN
cient to make one civil.
.Pa. why can't Mr.. Smith say dressing
gown" Say dressIng-gown my son,
what do you mean - "Wby, when Mr..
Smith was here the other day he told you
you had burnt hole IN your concern, and 1
don't believe he can say dressing-gown -
A correspondent of the Country Gentle
men has discovered use for that universal
abominaton, old hoOp-skIrts, -hangsi' en- in
his strawberry bed for scarecrOws. There E
nothing made in vain
Three japanese ports-Ycddo, Osaca and
Negato- will be thrown open to foreigners
on the fret Of January, ls6S. Gradually
the japanese oyster Is getting opened.
The Canadian Confederation act was
signed by Queen Victoria on Friday, and the
new dominion Of Canada comes into existence
on the LIST Of July. Twenty-one members Of
the Senate under the new act have been ap-
pointed
A lazy in Portland, Ne, applied at the
Police office on Monday in search Of lost
cat. She said she would give 81 900 to have
the feline returned to her, as it was one she
brought from England, and set q great deal
by 1t. The cat had gold necklace on that
was worth $40.
lie Canadians are to have q grand ma
tiouai rife match IN August.
An immediate supply Of additional rolling
stock for the Grand Trunk Railroad and a
number Of engines are being made IN En-
gland and will be sent out IN season to be
available Tor fall traffic.
4 caee has recently come before tine court
in Chicago IN which a woman testified that
every day for I3 years her husband has
uuarr,led with and beaten her, she living
during all this time in constant fear of death.
The New York market Is literally gIuttcd
with strawberries from Jersey. and the
wholesale price II down to l. and % cents
quart Iherc Is Az immense crop u straw
berries this year.
The Troy Lane CT river steamers has re
ducc tie fare to New YORK s 81.
Ia North Carolina. Chief Justice Chase
has ordered the sGmmoning Of grand and
re,it Jurics without distinction OF color
The Montreal bakers were on a Strike las.
week and for two days the PEOPLE wsre
forced to live upon biscuit.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railroad Las jd-t been M 5rtLaged TO John
!. stewart and Wm. II. Osborn Of New
York. for the cum 81 nire million dollars.
The rc,cuuc stamps amounted TO nine thou
sand dollars.
Tfe great billiard match between Joseph
Dion of Montreal, AMI McDcyitt 1f New
York. iur tie championship of America and .
a stake Of $1,000. took place at Montreal
last week Dion Won easily, and made one
run Of 6l6 points.
Pike from L.k. '-am,laIu werr Jlac,d 1
in a pond at Conc ri, \. H., wednesday
\ Western g,uiu- i.a, invented "a machine I
lur Aiiing Tho potato tug Two wheels F.
drive i Ian. W icn sucks up the insects and f.
dashes them against board.
Two Hundred pounds of powder have
been found stored under the stairs OF iha .
Pougi kc,r,ie Ci'y Hail, where It had been 4
for Nv" ycars.
jane Wood, h;tle h,Y four years OILS. /
was drowned in the canal mar the Lodi 4
locks Saturday afternoon lie had al in 4
iantile alteration with "a boy Two years bis 1
senior. which resulted in Jimmie b,ins .
kicked and pushed into the canal. The boy 4
who pushed him in then clipped it home,