Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-05-14
GENERAL NEWS.

All the steamboat lines running to Maine are
now in operation
Hanson Cab Company has at last been in
corporated for the city of New York.
An otter five feet long was recently canpbt in
kaskaskia River, ILL., What a whopper
France is ordering Remington rifles in this
country. This looks ominous for the vaunted
ChassepOts.
Business in Idaho is languishing. At no time
since 1868 have such dull times been known.
PATHS concert, given for the benefit of the
poor Of St Petersburgh, netted $4,000 in gold.
About seventy telegraph wires have been run
through the Chicago River tunnel since it was
opened.
police judge in Pittsburg descended from
his lofty position and kicked a threatening wit
ness into the street.
A New York police captain has been mulcted
in the sum Of , 900 for an unjustifable assault
upon a citizen.
Two colored gentlemen settled an affair Of
honor in Savannah, Ga, the other day, by
s. butting contest. "
DR.. Horace Bushnell has a book in press
which he calls '' Woman Suffrage the Reform
against Nature"
come Stranger" found by the desp tiring min
ers Of Donolly, netted tn finders S4s, 900.
The Pike county railroad, which penetrates
very productive part Of the State of Illinois. Is
being rapidly built.
Building Is going on So largely in Jackson
vile, Florida, that the labor on new houses is
the most fourishing branch of business.
4 Detroit constable is in jail across the lire At
Windsor, on the charge Of Kidnapping. He
went rather too far in his pursuit Of Il thief
The Prince of Wales Is so extravagent that bis
monogram, " A. f. D." has long ago been render
ell in London as Awfully Expensive.
The statement Of the Philadelphia Protection
League that its funds are nearly exhausted, is
not productive Of poignant grief
Recent rains have so flooded the rivers Of
Michigan and Wisconsin that the lumbermen
expect to be able to float all their logs TO market
The man who caused the arrest Of Rehoe, the
Indian ciubbist, in New York, publishes card
declaring kehoe's entire innocence Of any rob
berry.
1t viii cost Kentucky three-quarters Of a mil
lion dollars TO remodel her State House accord
ing TO the plan that has been adopted.
Chicago boasts Of having received in one week
weight Of pork greater than the weight Of the
entire human population Of the city.
\ steamer has just been completed at Pitts
burg, Penn, for the navigation Of the Magle-
Iona River in South America.
The German Catholics sent two and half
million dollars 70 the Pope On the occasion Of his
jubi ee. and the addresses to him were signed by
a2j,eO1 persons.
Rosa Bonheur's f.yorite doe ran away q short
time since and was shot by a laundering sports
man. The loss caused the painter to pass day
in womanly tears.
\ contemporary speaks of an individual who
buys one or two shares Of stock in every rail
road and bank, in order to 90 TO all the annual
elections and eat all the annual dinners
F. P. Kingston has written '' The Genial Show
man, supposed to be a life Of his late princi-
pal, Artemus Ward, for publication in London.
A clergyman in Ohio. who recently ran away
with the wife Of parshiouer, has brought suit
agaus, the husband for telling Of It, auI actual
ly had him put under bonds
\ paper calleI She Southern hpsriolist,
similar in style aud character to the one Of that
name now published in New York, viii be start
ell at Memphis, Tenn, July ith. Has the great
y. P. anything to DO with it,
On the lSth Of April there were one hundred
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liana Is like TO be left in the shade.
enc uoIioh bennett ~ mas appTo pr-l7i
for conspicuous ami me-iforlous service in he
fire department.
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vor Of the rsreal
A dis,ousolate husband Of LYONS. France.
whose wife had deserted him. sent ten barrels of
-four to the rious ro1rof the CITY. soliciting their
prayers that the trulut might not return.
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Of Jos consecutive hours at New Haven on Sa--
uriay nc Il O'CLOCK. winning $3.50. but present
inr specimen Of one Of the most usel-ap inii-
viiuals imaginable
A railway tie Of polished California laurel
wood mounted with solid silver. and a spike Of
pure gold. has been forwarded to the end Of the
Central Pacific Railroad. and will be laid to-day
SATURDAY. thus completing the road
D,~-n, the mast v,ir.er r,. d, fl ,ls ,f s-,,,v- rI
in Portland OREGON Orl, tb-se nv f.,r,r ,,i-b.s
4;d i,e forr, ar5 rber oDIy ~ tho ,r;.l.nass ~
window gl,ss S5wipr and rlantir,, were 7oip.-
an aIl winter.
million dollars worth Of boots and shoes have
been shipped from Boston, an excess over the
same time. last year. Of over sever and 4 half
millions
Ata reccrt sale Of ,u+o,r,,b. in T,rIo, ,
letter written by Daniel Defe, the author Of
" Robinson trus1e, brought two hundred dol
lars, and one Of John Dryden produced one hun
dred and nifty dollars.
4 C,lif,-pi, r,rsr calls White Pine .. str-
pendous perhaps There is less mining than
selling As vet AZ soon as ore Is struck IN a
claim, work is stopped for fear it may peter
out, and the mine is for sale.
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$500 prize for the best design for monument
to Gen Mcpherson Of the Army Of the Tennessee.
The monument is 10 cost Sl5.O00
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custom nan an ms cooAihs uoie l 'he ~, oeroous
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never before was ouluIns SO act'e ID fh,ia-
deiphia An exuoerant reporter says thAt
houses are rising ever "neie n i 'ue corlrac-
like Nlos.s's frops AGAINST contumaciou. Pba-
roah.'
Al the ne" opera mouse IN Lonion the loot
lights, instead oil burning up ourn with DOWN
ward name into ron 1ues' under an aruacial
pressure oil ar Which also heips 10 carry on the
400
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