Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-04-09
GENERAL NEWS.


market for a twenty-pound salmon.
Fire engine companies in New Orleans contest
publicly for prizes on Sunday.
A gossiping New York letter writer says that
William Cullen Bryant is about to marry again.
Ten per cent. of the population of the city of
Mexico have been in prison the past year.
The home Of the late Mrs Sigourney, the poet
ess, at Hartford, has been sold for a railroad
station.
California pays premium of one dollar to
any one who plants shade tree by a roadside.
Just in time.-A woman over one hundred
years old was recently converted at a revival
meeting in Iowa.
\ negro woman in Alabama had twins lately,
one Of which was black and the other white.
The Plymouth church are going to send Beech
er to Europe, and are raising $4,000 for that
purpose
Washington dispatches assert that the harvest
Of the soldiers bounty swindlers is at an end.
Mrs. Laura Guppy, the spiritualist lecturer,
has been divorced and remarked within a short
time.
The miniature ship, " Red, White and Blue -
recently arrived at New York, as Sc passenger -
on board Liverpool steamer.
A Philadelphia reporter correctly predicted
the storm Of Monday by ''the cereal barometer
in cur left boot
1t is reported that Mrs. Stowe and her sister,
Cathe inc Beecher, are to establish school for
girls at Aiken, S. C.
4 juvenile thief in New York, arrested sor
stealing briar-woOd pipe, alleged in excuse
that he was so hungry"
The New York Herald gives long descrip-
ton of ''Our Equine Palaces being some Of
the more elegant stables in New York city.
1t was stated lately in the House, tha, from
1850 to 1865, inclusive, 76 men had been killed
and 10 seriously injured by coming in contact
with bridges while upon railway ears.
There is q bill before the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature forbidding the employment Of persons in
drug stores who are not graduates Of some col
lege Of pharmacy.
\ man at New York, is learning to ride the
velocipede on the tight rope and proposes in that
way to cross Niagara on his machine this sum
mer.
\ Rouen, France, literary society has found
el a prize for the best Historical essay on the
Cheyalier de Ia Sale, who discovered the mouths
of the Mississippi, and Canada
\ bill is now before the New York Legislature
making it an actionable offence to charge wo-
man with unchastity when the charge cannot be
proven.
1t mas been legally decided in Cincinnati that
it is impossible to steal an umbrella, and that
possession is in all cases evidence Of ownership
A Norwich doctor has been imploring Grant in
poetry to quit smoking. Grant replied in prose
that the position of physician to the White House
was already filed.
/ 4 contemporary thinks 1t a remarkable fact
that each one Of the four great through lines Of
I travel from the seabord to the interior is the
shortest route to the West.
The Houston Telegraph recently noticed fel-
low wearing very large ring with brilliant
setting; but he wore it in rather queer place
for a ring-around his eye.
Thomas Mast, the artist, makes from $500 to
$500 week by his cartoons and sketches for
Harper's Weekly and other illustrated periOdi-
| Gals.
Montreal papers contain news of the dispatch
thither of more troops from England, in appre-
hension Of trouble with the United States.
An oyster was recently ished up at Stanford,
/ Conn, which contained III pearls; and one at
New Haven which had 293, varying in size from
that of buekshot to a mustard seed.
/ A Partisan duellist was hit the other day in one
/ of his left ribs. The bullet then made a circuit
of his body and was found in his right hand
waistcoat pocket.
| A New Orleans burglar donned female appar-
/ e on entering house, and not only secured a
/ good "sWag,'' but affectionate kisses from the
| young lady of the house, who supposed the in
4 terloper to be her aunt from the country.
In the Pacific Railroad fight lately. Mr.. Tracy
/ said that the Company had expended $4,000,
I 900, and that Mr. Field asserted that a ring had
realized 16, 900 mile, which they had distribu-
/ ted among themselves.
/ Children playing around pond on Eighteenth
/ and Federal streets, Philadelphia, last week,
/ found the bodies of seven prematurely born in
fants therein.
! J. Mather Jones, of Utica, the publisher Of
| Y. Drych, the Welsh newspaper, has secured
nearly 100000 acres of land in Kansas, and
proposes to settle the tract with his cOmpatriots
| The land is the choicest portion of the State.
! The New England Agricultural Society has
/ determined to have trial of moving machines,
reapers, tedders, horse rakes, hay forks. and
1 other hay-making machines at Amherst in the
month of June next.
The marriage engagement between Mrs. Par
/ ker of Boston, and NJ. De Champs of the Chi
nese Embassy, has been broken off. De Champs
wanted sole control of his wife's property, and
Mrs. Parker objected
! The order of the Knights of Pythias have
offered 81 900 reward for the detection of the
murderer of Smith, their fellow member, at
I Girard Hall The case is still involved in Inys-
terry.
! Fernando Po, where the Spaniards send all In
surrectionary Cubans that they can lay hands,
/ is an island volcano in the Blight Of Biafra,
Western Africa. To live upon it is worse than
/ death.
Col. Kurtz's endorsement of the detectives Of
his force suggests an inquiry like the following,
in one of Bulwer's works " Abu Rafe answers
for this. but who will answer for Abu Rafe ?''-
Boston 7rarelier.
Bulwer NAV have said it, but Gibbon did be-
FORE and it is just well to credit to the proper
authority.
Miss Anna Dickinson lectured for the library
association of Lawrence, Kansas, on a recent
evening. and some Of the seats, sold at auction,
brought S4 apiece. and the association netted
s532.
In consequence of the fears growing out Of
the lynching operations in Seymour, Indiana, an
ordinance has been adopted which forb.ds any
person to stop there for more than two days
without some regular employment.
Rodney French, of New Bedford, Mass, who
wears wig and dyes his whiskers, recommends
the friends Of the Prohibition law in the Legisa-
ture to sit there until they are gray before &C.
cepting substitute.
To visit Washington the surveyor general o.
Idaho had to walk 90 miles to get round th'
snow blockade OF the Union Pacific railroad
through snow drifts some 1000 feet long. and al
ways 20 feet deep.