Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-04-02

and the l4th of April, " Charter Day. are to
be observed as holidays at Cornell.
Sugar planting has been very successful in
Louisiana this season, and the crop is estimated
at from 100000 to 100000 hOgsheads.
Dry goods clerks are so plenty in New Orleans
that half dOzed were hired off the streets the
other day as hotel walters.
The Hon. John Conness, ex-United States Sen
ator from California, was married last week to
a daughter Of the Hon. Wendell 7. Davis, of
Greenfield, Mass.
The funeral expenses of gentleman. who died
in New York few days ago were $4,000, the
flowers alone costing $500. Death is an expen-
siye luxury in that city.
James Fisk, jr., is said to be trying for the n.
Y. Times. His first offer being refused, he has
this time proffering 81 ,025, 900 for the esta-
blishment.
Memphis jury, having found man guilty
Of numbering a citizen who is alive and well, are
deliberating whether to reseind their verdict or
let the convicted man kill the citizen.
Cornell University possesses a collection Of
shells numbering 5000, 600, representing 1900
species, which took their collector thirty five
years to gather.
At a recent funeral at Weldon, n. c., color
ed woman claimed the rope with which the coffin
was being lowered as stolen clothes line.
According to the annual registration report,
the fatality Of consumption has decreased nearly
twenty-five per cent in Massachusetts during the
past fifteen years.
Thomaston, Ne, intends to build this year
10000 tons more of shipping than in 1868 The
largest ship ever built in the State (2.200 tons)
is now on the stocks in that town.
Some Of the white boys at the Brooklyn News
boys Home had the insolent audacity lately to
demand the expulsion of the few colored boys
who were among the dodgers there. The re-
quest was not complied with.
Morgan Grant, a prominent citizen of Cato,
Cayuga county, has been sent to the Utica In
sane Asylum. His arrangement was Occasioned
by excessive use Of tobacco aggravated by re-
ligious excitement
The New Orleans TINES " freely and frank
ly" recommends Messrs- Dumas and Joubert,
both colored, for government officers in that city
The brother Of Wallace, the man Dr. Darden
killed at Warrenton, Georgia, expresses his warm
gratitude in a recently published card to the men
who took Darden out Of Jail and killed him.
The majority of the fever passengers of the
emigrant ship James Foster, ir., who have been
placed in the hospital at Wards Island, have
not been improving but are dying off at the rate
Of two each day.
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their sbrapjs Titbonf sssistsnce iok;no mean
vrh,fa about the esEf - Of fhesa garments
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at his post
Respectable people on the American side Of the
Niagara Falls are arousing themselves to the ne
cessity Of protecting strangers from the rapacity
Of hackmen, curiosity dealers and other banditti.
Energetic reforms are promised.
4 Capt. Armstrong. Of the fever ship James Fos-
ter. Jr- who diei Wednesday morning last. was
at one time deemed almost certain to recover. but
on reading A newspaper narrative of the ALLEGED
outrares he became Violently excited, denied the
truth of the statements, and suddenly relapsed.
Ihe snow an! water mas oeen ABOUT RS5 S, iee'
Head Lake. and it has been impossible to trans
port provisions for the loggnf teams. In sever
al cases it mss been found necessary to feed the
horses with flour.
1.;son i,terstiny fac, that the disnotcb from
TonIon announci7g the MASSAGE Of .be hin for
disestablshing the IRISH church, was dated at
- O'Clock, and 1t reached New fore before
. O'Clock Wednesday morning.
c;-orI c,I1e,,a IL IN u opan5arv The will ot
-. s,T,r5er re,,iras that grad1otas shan be
b1,,+I ,,rt n Iearn a snit,ble traJe bnt 20 few
aprrentices are wanted now that the college is
oyerhowing with boys who have gone through
the whole course and can I be disposed Of
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A young woman whose name Is uhAno~n
ridlng through Ihe streets oi Jersey Cny ia'ei
IN hOTse car "as SCI uPog y a ISinan, VIZ
draSge1 her from tne car anu HlAue on win M
priAe' 'nouEu 'ue uIi'ei' ule eon-uo'Ii 1"1 @'-I
passenger "ete l. Is in.eneu - P-.
sent tIe uouEn.Liy tiee VII q sa.','oie
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The Pennsylvania coal miners are irving I,
devise a plan for raising prices. They contenl
that there is already surplus of coal, and thel
contemplate adopting plan whereby the mine
shall be worked a certain number OF months II
the year, and the rest Of the time remain idle.
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He 80 g. ~ o.,r,,s,i,,, q
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.ne sORleis 't1. ID haiS co,s fr eocl
W my yneI 49, -. - - he ,g1
c-,;,,,.y .Dd presented for redemntion ~ Tha
ought to bring them.
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ute was oeihg nreu On ooiiI 'he s'e'..el :,
poIs' on 'he ocIsiou :, ~ ehe 81 VI e.
hnlne'' 0a-1iu as ,,,lJa, ,aS acc;
eraihen'o NI'y, Aes "a -
dentaliy e1ploded' anu sIiue eisn'een ~
persons lnJureu Ane 00a' was 'O''s''''' ''''
dainageu'
Minnesota man. VINO had dislocatel ms "a"
I;.;.aI ",,har sst -;rb, To nre
10. -. oolI;s;o,, ,ha s,,-geop,s assistan
;s;'a1 o irssrtin, he tbnmb IN the natent'
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g., aad rIacsl n ros;iion a stont splinter
IT.a ..o,ri;l tbe ia,T Il respmed lis riobtfl
- ;,t srl 80 a. To snan the stick asun
dsr xbareunon the student reioiced that he ha
r;.i ~ -, - r. ,bnrb
VIM '"- = IL, s,,- d.ns .,o
made over the telegraph lines between Harvart
CoIIeye and San Francisco, show that the travel
inc time REQUIRED by electricity is as follows
from Boston To Buffalo AMI back, o. 10 seconds
To CHICAGO and back, &. 20 seconds. To OmaL
and back q. az seconds. To Salt Lake and back
q "a seconds. To Virginia City and back, OF
seconds. To San Francisco and back, 0.74 Sc
conds.
A remarkable story IS reporter from iotness
England bachelor became enhinoIed ol IN
wife OF man lVing AT Di,ushAln, anu "esO0.H - "a
tons were concludeu Ior hcr PuIcnaSe toh W