Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-06-11

in Chicago broke up in row. caused bya "foul'
on the part Of one Of the Contestants, who spit
on the boots instead Of in The blacking-box.
A San Francisco truckman resented viola
ton Of etiquette n the conduct Of a friend who
came to his house uninyitei, by whipping his
eyes out
Rust has appeared in the wheat in tAa vicinity
Of Richmond, Virginia, and the crop will pro-
badly be reduced one-half IN co1seq lence-
The London Times estimated the amount Of
United States bonds he'd in England at ESQ.,.
000, 900 and now a correspondent Of the New
York U-0rid thinks that the whole amount he'll
IN Europe is Ell ,00O,0 900, or some - .sVI,
O00,O 900 in our greenback currency.
Rev. Z. L. Rexfori, UNIVERSITIES Of Cincin-
natl, o., preached, Sunday. against the prac-
tice Of decorating the soldiers graves He would
have the money and .ab0r expended IN substan-
,ial aid for the s,l1jers widows and orphans.
The public worlmen Of Madrid, says the New
York Tribune, IN digging for place to plant
column TO Liberty, uuearthed the bones Of
thousands Of victims Of the Inquisitiou. In
fortunately for the Tribune, the bones unearth-
ed prove 10 be those Of horses The place -
been an equine cemetery.
The Continental hotel at Long E-44.h, Y. J.,
week, for $4,000. The house vii be imme-
iia'ely opened for sumner business.
Last week taere was a stampede Of nearly
fifteen hundred cattle near Manteu0, Illinois.
The drivers we're tramplei upon and one Eas
badly hurt Nine Of the cattle were killed aud
others seriously wounded. The dr5-- Jas very
much scattered, but has been m1srly collected
again.
Publisher Carleton, proprietor Of the Worth
House at New YORK., has accedei 20 ;le demand
# bis walters for an increase Of pay, but insists
that they must appear in the dining room wear
ing dress coats, white cravats and white gloves.
Work j. going on rapidly in preparing the
material for the great bridge across lac Missis-
-ippi AZ s.. Louis Owing to tze high state Of
the water, nothing eau AZ present be done in the
construction Of tAe piers anil ahutments, bat
work vii. he resumed about the middle Of iu-
gust.
Mr.. Sumner is not only assaulted by John Bull
but by Bulls generally, bis speech having rus.1s
the fortune of d" Bears CA All the stcsx .aar-
kets Of Europe, not excepting Gal-t.. ia Turkey.
where the Turkish consl.s .el- . per cent. on the
publication Of his speech.
John y MaHit. commander Of the late rebel
pirate Florida, has begun legal Vrocsiiucs at =.
Paul. MINI 10 recover = 900 worth Of pro-
uer,y conf,cated in the United States marsh j
for about : 900. AI4fh, is living at Whining
ton, y. G., IN reduced circumstances,
The conductors of the Ere pa Republican.
recently discharged is Union printers and filled
their places with " rats. Ihereup0n the mem
hers Il the TyplEraphicl. Society published the
usual circular, ienouucing the editors as unfair
employers, and warming members If the Union
Sc sr.
editors Immediately instituted libel suit against
the Printers Union,
An impecuuious Ho0sier, who has been hunt
ing office in Washington since the day Of the H.
aururati1n, called on the president on MONDAY,
and related to him the story IF bis suferinEs,
ami cooily asked his e1celleney FOR free pass on
the railroad from Washington 70 Chicago The
president turned him over to Gen. Dent, and
Dent turned him out
The ghost which has been making such sen
satieu in one Of the Washington hotels has ~
last been exercised by throwing some water from
the river Jordan upon him. The water was
brought from the Holy Land years ago. AMI was
owned by a prominent government official. who
himself exercised the spirit
Iulara has Judge that ought TO move TO
New York right Of. At Greensburc, lawyer
named Ewing. in arguing a case before Judge
Bonner, usei lauguage that was distasteful TO
the Judge, whe-eIpoH the latter assaulted the
former, ufictiuC dangerous Il not fatal injuries.
The judge was arrested, and Is now in jail await
ing the result Of Ewiug's injuries.
The Mauch Chunk Ga-a.s thus gives The e.-
feet e the miners strike on transportation al
that single point: About 1900 boats on the
Lehigh canal have stopped running, by which
5000 men are thrown cut Of employment The
Lenigh aud SusQuehanua Railr1nd has now but
one coal train running On Wednesday twenty
nine coal trains were discontinued. throwing out
ia men. or six 10 each train All the regular
coal trains on the Lehigh Valley Railroad have
been discontinued
A countryrnan exposed his watch on the corner
Of O. street in New haven on Wednesday, when
a bys,ander offered to bet s. that it was not
gold. C-uutrymau accepted the bet, and u was
taken 90 "a jewellers and pronounced a gold one
The stranger handel the countrymIn the money.
saying, e. you won here's your money and
watch, and then left After be had disappear
ed the c0uutryman found himself in possession
Of a galvanized watch instead Of his gold one.
A living worth Sos per annum was recently
put up at auction in England, but did not fetch
the reserve price, notwithstanding there was in
the ueichborh00i, the aucti0ueer stated. good So
ciety, good hunting, and allowing el00 year
20 a curate 20 DO the dirty, disagrecabe wlrs,
such As attending 20 the sick AMI dying, there
would remain A net profit Of about $500 a year
for the rector. The outside sum offered for he
privilege Of attending TO the eternal salvation Of
the inhabitants Of the parish in QUESTION was
only 4,s09.
The story Of the burning Of Briggs livery
stable in New York Is q strange one, AMI not
altogether creditable 20 human nature. Il ap-
pears that during the time when the person who
set FIRE to IL was arranging the price he was TO
get for the job he coolly talked the matter over
to his creditors, promising TO pay his debts out
Of the proceeds, and the creditor II turn talked
It over with others, and finally dii not get their
money.
Heavy rains have caused turbulent fools in
the Waite and Wabash rivers Of Indiana. The
factories. mills and dwellings on their banks are
flooded, and in many places the White rivers
overflow has made the country vast lake. In
meuse damage has been done to the crops, fenc-
ing has been swept away, and live stock have
been drowned.
At meeting Of the Working Women's Asso-
citation Of New York, last week, Mrs. Kirk, a
delegate TO the recent Labor Reform Convention
in Boston, reported that the meetings were very
largely attended, but that instead Ct discussing
questions relating to labor, they spoke on spirit
uaiism, free love, socialism, women suffrage,
and every other known or supposed reform, but
very little about labor reform.
\ San francisco paper remarks that the wheat
crop j. exhausting the soil Of California, and the
Chicago Tines notes the fact that the yield Of
the grain-groEing districts Of Illinois, and Of
Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota, Is perceptibly
1asa ID 10 B.
occurs wholly from the wholesale exhaustion 10
which the lands have been submitted
The famous Israel Putnam adventure was par
alleled in Irving, rs, recently. James Cooley g
ks were hunting depredating wolves and
running one to earth, Cooleys little son, des-
cended INTO the den, his father holding him by
the heels, caught the wolf by the hind feet, AMI
both we're drawn out together. But as modern
meddlers have declared the Putnam story IA
Die, We don't expect any belief in this.
The authorities of the Central Pacific Railroad
announce that no pro rata passenger tickets, nor
coupons issued by other railroads will be re-
eeived by that road, and passenger fares from
Ogden City to Sacramento viii be ten cents per
mile in gold, or about fourteen cents per male in
currency When we consider that this railroad
has been built wholly at the public expense, and
that in its construction the stockholders and
managers have been enriched at the cost Of the
people, the outrageousness Of this extcrtionate
policy becomes more conspicuous.
A correspondent Of the Cincinnati Gazeite
accounts for the recent explosion Of the gas
holder in that city by saying that it is custom
airy, after gas holder is filed to a certain ex-
'tent, to introduce chemicals for the purpose of
increasing the bulk of the gas, without adding
to its Illuminating properties This operation,
he thinks, was overdone, and hence the explo-
sion.
When a train of cars, on which there was a
h.-.a Of 49, stonr.al pr.r..o.... c.