Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-03-26
GENERAL NEWS.

Strawberries are for sale in Boston. In Phil
adelphia they are selling at three cents each.
There are said to be 400 Joint stock companie.
now IN process Of liquidation in London
Some bold fellow stole 81 900 horse at New
with his prize.
They say Yankee is trying to obtain permis-
SION to have cock fights in the Champs Fl ysees.
There are more busts and pictures of Grant
ana Lincoln in North Germany than Of all the
German princes.
In an old shoe picked up in Washington Coun-
ty, Missouri, by a laboring man, was found
$500 in gold coin.
An Iowa municipal election turned on the
question of billiards or no billiards in town. and
the no-biliard party won.
A western editor is sued for libel by a horse
breaker, whom the wicked types made house
breaker
/ There is a wonderful COW in Kentucky, whose
milk turns to solid butter on stirring it with a
| spoon.
The British private soldier is hereafter TO be
T
most hirsute has been compelled to sacrifice
Almost every considerable town in the State.
says Columbus, Ohio. despatch, has repre-
sentatiyes here lobbying for something.
New York paper suggests that Binekley
having lost his Office is inclined to go into the
whacks-works business.
Work has been resumed upon the Stevens
ItuH HFars 80 n d.
intendence Of its chiei engineer, General Geo B.
Mcclellan
dispatch from Rome stares that Lucien Bona
parte the youngest Of The Cardinals. is regarded
as the most available candiiate for the Papal
succession.
young lady in Manchester, Mass. has
mania for writing slanderous letters to herself.
mailing them, and then showing them to her
friends and feeling bad about it,
The salt Lake papers are making merry over
fight in the household Of a Mormon bishop, in
which the "saint 80 got fearfully thrasbed by
several enraEe1 wives.
There are lots Of American girls now in Eu-
rope to learn singing. Among them Miss Mac
kay, Miss Sterling, Miss Gibbs, Miss Laieuuesse.
and Miss Caman- And al are pretty.
The increae Of population in New York is six
/ per cent. yearly. in Chicago forty per c.nt.
Mn Iii . "iJ, M, .o,.i's uoIl 'l' oy Ioog she
0oo TTs-o,,,,57,l.;utt. i.--- -! -'
The New York -n1H speaks Of "Ouslow s
+ Ames, the HeWy elected G0vernoro Of New Hamp
/. oc +be - --'-''' nL nan. Ian u'ls ,lSsy ne
Leorl If hin, -. ''
Il is SAD that General Sheridan does not care
to @ 10 New Orleans, but would Ikea long leave
Of absence and that General Howard VIII prob
Seveuy thousand acres Of land in Florida.
owned Inder Spanish grants, are TO Dc sold AZ
Jacksonville early in April Some Of the most
valuabl land In the State is included .u the
~
fisA IT., proposes 10 transport PASSENGERS
from us Ere lAAioal pepo. III Ne" iorH 10
any pAt' " Ihe cry lof '. 'ei,l9 anu ms oFlei-
built in a French fashion. and e,rrv four rer-
sons and areasonabIe Ist Of bar-arp
D.. Ll"tls O4-noun' a reAu'e ei JoAh T.
N1ihoun' writes 10 the Rochester ~. .9i9.fH:
respects 70 rhe hest tea region of China. and f.r
many vearsihe ten served ut NV own table hqs
been exelusiely from NV own rlirt..'-
NO "oudel tne brilsA government Is tlei ll
the colonies wen 10 costs : le,''''pI n year TO
seppor, 'Ae "'ltlfy force I'D 'leiA' oi @AiiA tNe
tbt1 are-.en.f
me L-'A.p Ne" jersey II Is said' mas gwen
l.'le mat DE VII refuse az coutrmatiol TO .ay
MS hAAls upon ihe pies OF ialse htlr ana chi
Snoos which diugu-e the heads Of So many
-.ri l5pr.-In.5-
chicago i now Importing stocks Of teas from
China, wa New lrk, and Is making arrange
NAV, of Saw rr,-.;s[ 4s- i,,. - .r..-. +.
.1, rs l.-s
The young lady. H. Ialcott, who has been
IN trance III gsrs'y' i'y Tor the past lew days
is 'uppossl % nave dtd Iue>lAy evening SAe
continued Ia Il STATE syneopa nearly s-A days
So much more thauEas necessary was sent 20
the committee which received voluntary sub
seriptions 20 detray ta expenses Of Nlr. Clad
stones election, thai three-sevenths Of the
amount have been retu--ei 20 the subscribers.
A good deal Of amusement is had in Washing
ton over the fact that one Of the gentleman who
anticipated being called 20 Genera Grants ca
binet, anticipated So wildly, that ls hired his
mouse "nl enSl-el a COOK, ana selected his car
IiI-s am e'i7A5sl " oo11-i'li-n- Du' ''s' IKE
'nl Ae''len' he l'iiA iI-el d VAIN -l'h=-
Is the Milky Way diminishing in size. and has
II changed lis place IN the heavens WITHIN the
SS' u.y !yHs asa some ln'-As M
l5.' o' .le .-l..y GfHL..-.a., lo ",'''l 'L.
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'uT Judses u .ne supreme our a.
Hs'eh' s'ys l'lY CORES u'eLl o- 'He .'-,
ft., are a',..i i,si''' ''' '-'-' ''''' -''
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A'I'es 2" We" oll'-.l-9 ~ 80 n
IIefs OF o.d newSI an 'i my !i !ou'i
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Srs,r p ,rtb,r, ss,.s tl.t while .rs ,g,s
in the west nm her ie.turino tour. She had the
question personally, =. r.5nreI '' nine times. and
fv ncte ffteen tinss Tbev have courageous men
II, tIa yrest T. seer,s
r..,.,-.,..
descends to sneak Of modern fashionable Young
ladies' as a species of animated fresco
w H. I'y-gr' prominent produce lHe.o''..il.
az iO, O,VN'g, l. - va -.
4 Syracuse lady undertook q singular revenge
the other day. bv poisoning herself with corro-
sive sublimate. and then accusing her husband
Of having administered the poison.
Fhl-adelphh Is To nave colossal mar
statue Oh washington pr, presented 10 'Ie 0,'S ~
the public schools IL VIII be set IN place oelore
the fourth OF july
Psrer mill AGENTS are eoeLin, Z, Canada. to
bpv Wool IN he Tsed in the mapufacture Of print
inc and other raners some of these woods