Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-01-18

\ Wes. Hartford cow eat four pounds .
tobacco. and died.

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\ Wes. Hartford cow eat four pouni- .
tobacco, and died.
Cyrus Fowler froze to death near Nev-
bulyp1rt rum did il. Jabes Pratt. c.--
ouor,
The tin roof Of an Elmira hotel biev G.
carrying an ITishman with it, who Was l1.-
ed in pri7y vault.
John \ Sarratt disappeared from 81.
world through the doors of . mon ...r
and re-appsared in the P3Eal army.
Dur,1g the past year. the number Of Gu.
vIcts in the New York State Prisons has Do.
creased by nine hundred and fifteen.
It Is reported chat Alexander Il. S.cra.--
has written a history Of the var, which v
soon he published.
The manufacturers Of Massachuse,,s -.-
Tlain ola very dull season. Many o.. Oh.
wooden mills are stopped.
y California paper tells Of a lady in Am.
who became grandmother on the day
was twenty-iolr years old.
Two Of the judges Of the Wiscou-ia 81.
prcme Court, Downar and Dixon, WI -.
resign On account oi the inadequacy Of Oh.
salary.
rle Cleveland Herald says that m.-.
money has been bored into the earth On .ie
oil regions ttan has come from the holes
made.
TIE President ye;, o. tie suffrage bill
was printed in New Orleans twelve hour
before it was delivered Do Washiug-au-
greatly 70 .hcjoy Oh rereis.
Jerusalem is to be examined this year ts
tn Committee Of the Palestine Exploration
Fund Of England. Hopes are enter-5iue-
that discoveries Of importance viii b. made.
Jones and his bartender. Fitzpatrick
..Shiuslc Hollow" hotel repute, who BAL
their tial 10 Troy, Y. \. under an in-.c--
ment for thc murder Of one Grace OF Be-.
ninct1n, Vermont, LAST August, were acqli-
ted.
The freedmen Of the South celebrated I'll
anniversary Of the Emancipation Proclaim
tion on New Years day, with procession.
specchcz and other demonstrations suited Cd
the occasion, and were not molestcd.
The steamer C5lorad5.bas gone from SauFraa-
cisco to China, the first Of the Pacific MAJ
Steamship Companys vessels 10 the far Els-.
\ clipper ship arrived at Philadelphia last
month from san Francisco Ia ninety-dve days
wiki q cargo Of 10000 bushels Of California
whi-e wheat, and 1000 bushels of barley.
John Cheney. O hunter of the Aiiron-
dIcLs. L.s pistol with which be claims he
has killed ! .jU0 deer, T. otter. / panther,
. bear. Itw0.ves, 24m91se and other game
Without n.maer in shigtY-cwo years.
\ lady in C.5a.,0l, kentucky, while
walking along the street, On Saturday, slip
ped down On the snow covered Pavcment,ani
crushed to death her year old baby, which
she was carrying in her arms.
The steamer Mobieln on her way to Bra
I'll, had her engine suddenly brought up all
standing by a mysterious stoppage, which
proved TO be q large porpoise, caught in the
propeller. 1t was bad for the fish.
During the past year nearly three hun
dred thousand emigrants from Europe have
landed on our shores Not much less than
twenty million dollars in coin and their
potential wealth Of bone and muscle.
\ Berks county PENN Dutchmau Sc.
gun tap in bis smoke house to XIII thieves.
lie forgot that the gun had not brains enough
to distinguish q thief from On honest man,
aud next morning, when lac opened the smoke
house door he was shot dead.
At Report, On the New jersey shore, tie
recent gale was sd violent tina. when the
New York business m.l came down to the
wharf to take the boat they found themselves
far inland. One could w1lk out in a straight
line for three miles on the beach beyond the
usual boat landing.
The wife Of Mr.. Aaron Ward, living near
Newark, was awakened by feeling hand
pushing under her pillow, and looking up
she discovered black man standing over her
and trying 70 secure two watches which
were under the pillow. She Immediately
raised herself, and demanded 70 know wha,
be was doing there. The fellow, without
answering turned and fred on her with a
pistol, the bali entering her body about an
inch from the heart. He has been since ar
rested, aud says he supposed she was a man
or he would not have shot her.