Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-02-14
NEWS ITEMS.
Dickens dined with Senator Sumner al
Washington on Monday.


Washington on Monday.
The stock of lumber on hand in Albany
Jan. LIST 1865 was - GOO goo feet
The Gayosso Savings institution, the oldest
bank in Memphis. suspended last week II
is understood that the liabilities exceed 3d.
00O, 1000.
The coolest temperature of the season at
New Orleans, has been 80 o,-tWo degrees
below freezing, one day last week.
live fish. five inches long, was found in
an oyster shell recently opened in Nashua.
which the New Bedford Mercury pronounces
too much to swallow
There are twenty drinking saloons to one
eating ditto in Boston, which seems to indi-
that Boston is more given to thirst than
anger,
A man escaped from the moving ice in the
Mississippi River the other day, only to be
robbed IF $1,000 by the humane individual
who pulled him out of the water
The Fenian circles in Boston have voted to
work on st. Patrick's Day, instead Of march
ing in professions. and to devote the earnings
toward revolutionary purposes in Ireland.
Two of the worlds wonders are getting
out If Joint The Strasburg 'clock Is giving
out. and the leaning town Of Pisa Is in dan
yer of falling to pieces.
The pew rents in Mr. Beeeher's church
amount to Sl2.o0o. The premiums offered
at the renting the other day amount To $50
736.50. making the total income Of the
church SIS BE, 80. The pews average about
$50 each.
German woman in Cincinnati died on
Friday. and was buried. On Sunday after
neon the vault was opened, and it was found
that She had been delivered Of twins The
presumption is that the mother was buried
alive.
Snow fell five inches deep in Rome. Georg-
ia last We X. the deepest by two inches that
has been known there in many ycar-.
Near the Sierra Nevada last winter the
average level of SNOW was fifteen feet full, /
and t1rtv-ipur feet and seven inches fell dur |
ids the winter. The drifts are often sixty |
feet high
The new way of doing the lair is To roll it |
up into "a large fat cartwheel on the top of /
the head. coming TO within an inch of the .
forehead
Mr. Dickens concluded his readings in
Washington on Friday evening The house
was not crowded any night
Some one asked Thad. Stevens Wednesday
afternoon what he thought of Gen. Grant
now. His reply was. e. He is bJlder man
than | thought him wewill let him into the
church now"
Two Missourians in Linn county had "A
fight the other dav, about a mule Phillips
discharged his gun at Sibert instantly kill
Ing him, and also killing biz child in its
mothers arms and a COW belonging To
Sibert.
An Irish PAPER reports that Down Cathed-
raj, the mother church Of a diocese which
contains nearly enc fourth of all the Protcs-
tants in Ireland. is to be closed for the want
Of funds to carry ON the service Tie Bishop
Of Down ENJOYS an annual income of about
so, 900.
Romeo the murderous elephant in Pcnu,yl-
yania is still rampant lie has c1t one leg
out of HE fetter. and demolshes everything
that comes within his reach. 4 huge pen Of
planks- through which sharp spikes are driy-
en-. backed 10y a heavy bank of earth ha,
been erected about him.
The Maine Temperance Convention stood
firmly in support Of the " advanced legsla-
ian' Of that State, while in the New lamp
shire Convention the opinion prevailed that
the cause had suffered there from the want of
such legislation. The prevailing feeling in
Zach Convention was, that prohihitory legi--
lation is the only efficient safeguard against
intemperance.
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wounded IN Winesburg. Ohio. Saturday week
by the explosion Of q gallon can If kerosene
oil. While one held n burning candle. anoth
er undertook to pour out the inaamnable
liquid.
4 portion of the body Of a negro woman
was found in a bale of cotton at Memphis. on
Friday On examination Of another bale it
revealed another portion of the body. The
cotton has been stored for the past two wears.
The remains are shrivelled up like a mummy.
\ gentleman in Hartford. Conn. lately
cooked crow as an experiment invited
twoof bis friends To dine with him. and they
pronounced iJ the best partridge they had
ever eaten. lie Is elated at having discover a
e.i q new game bird, and otler- fifty cents
piece for crows.
Tie sales of dry goods by II. b. Cnfin,
during the rast three wears have been in
doo no6 ';'' IS =, ~ ~, ooo +,.ai
ia noo. oon ~ $50. .,l.. 81,
W. 5''-' ~ 6oo
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a.. IL. -. t, -, aI,,+ IA
uno 400 .'-' INV
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The importation Of hop poles from Canada,
has grown INTO quite lretentlous business
along the frontiers o. II. Lawrence county ]
Ne" ork' osdensn'rsh ana V."eso are d
the PRINCIPAL ports Of entry ior TINS ciaS7 9i z
merchandise prices on entry ranging all
the way from 50 to 80 per thousand
gold.
,.-:l...-;-..;.. 49, -. e.. p...+,u
\ l'''SD' a., car Il 'h ~ way ~ il'.l I-'.'n
Pacific Railway. 1909 miles west Of Chicago.
m car ill a., tl,r,,1rb a total distance of
.O5o -nroIablv the LONGEST trim ever
made in one direction, h, = railway car.
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