Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-08-12
GENERAL NEWS.


Brick pomeroy to ex-SurrOgate Gideon j.
Tucker.
Fisk has issued an order prohibiting the sale
OF the New York Tribune on any of his roads
or bosts.
4 man in Savannah has succeeded in rearing
grove Of banana trees, seventy in number, in
the heart of the city.
IN order has been received at the English
postal telegraph Offices that no messages are TO
be received in cipher for tran smission to France
Two certificates Of death in the San Francisco
Coroner's office read "Dei from rupture Of
the he'd, and - Suferocsted by eating poison ="
George Marks intends to employ one hundred
and fifty Cinnamon in his stone quarries on the
Adirondaeks.
The berry season helps the sugar business. 1t
is estimated that the several sugar refneres in
Boston turn out at the present time about 1900
barrels daily.
The crops in New Hampshire are said to be
suffering severely from the long continued
drouth Many fields Of corn have been COM
I pletely destroyed By the heat.
The Los Angeles .Nsus mentions report that
/ A I. Stewart Of New York has ordered six hun
drcl tons Of California blankets from the wool
leu mills Of that State.
The Chicago Times says that careful study
I Of the census figures, far they have been
! obtained, furnishes al indication thar tia p1Du-
lation Of that city is rather under ;hsn over
800, 600
The Chinese Imperial autograph on yellow
satin, attestng the D1sthum0us patent Of uobll-
it, conferred on the late SIR Blrliugame. hes
been Transmitted to the Hoe. Isaac LiyermoIe.
Il
as iayerhili. under the supervision Of Cen J.
6. Foster, t1r the purpose Of clearing it from
distractions. WORK Is TO commence at once
Among the 10000 inhabitants of San Fran
cisco. about 10000, or nearly a quarter. are
Germans. There are 2j Ge,man breweries.
which annually produce llo,0Ol barrels Of
Germsn beer.
the Watert0wn Arsenal state Of almost
entire repose exists There IL 10 call for war
materi.l, and the vast stock sccumu lateI since
the close Of the struggle. remains untouched.
4 FIenchman in St. Louis who lets a s.o.e 70
herman at $500 per snuum, offers ia ca-e
the Germans are victorious in the present war,
20 renew the lease at $500 ctherwi,s the
lessee Is TO psy $500.
Is one q the strongest incentives Go wlr, the
French journals said that if France had once
more submitted % De insul;ei and outEiIiei by
Bismarck, ' 40 woman Of character would have
consented 70 be seen on Frenchuau's arm
a Cincinnati woman, who lli sully made up
her mini 10 commit >lic!Ie. pr0gi led herself
with a quantity q oq.ga. a revolver. "a double
barreilei gun, pista. AMI a razJr, auI COM
meucei operations To her DISCUS she had
proceeded no further tGsu to take dose of
opium and shoot herself once, when she va,
arrested
The other lav a farmer IN the vicinity of Nor
sich, c., vho had extensively usel the fy pa
per of the per.ol, collected couple If pounds
% lead flies, and 81. Al eznerImeu, gave tlem 90
his hens for food The next isv he hai fourteen
pounds Ct dead chicken % his hanis
The New York society for The prevention Of
ntut-.ie' has ll'ilvel the fate ot The "-a-
c.efy OR the prevention q gambling ia the
ueryersiou to blackmaiiiur purposes twas in
corpor.;el less than a m nth ago, and already
the president AMI secretary have heea obliged 10
withdraw anil confess that they have been the
dupes Of less honest people
The Chictg1 Post says the only thing for Gil
more 10 10 now TO carry out his mes jubilee
plan is o. get up Al orchestra for the " theatre
Of war lie nigh; engage for the purpose the
trump % fame. thr symbol Of InhuiJy. the horn
o.; EnEiani's ileumi, the vials Of wrath, the
triangle Of the Milci1 and the ofi.jal ryan q
Louis Napoleon.
The fact thst s0rkleu had been employed On
the Thames eubaukmeut On sunday, was n.ticel
ia the British Parliament On the lth inst. aul
TIE saseruue-t 4nl he Board %: Works both
took pains 70 declare distinctly. Jhs- they were
200, responsible ;o- tli- violation or the Sabbath.
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N--Wanhee tTlel irr.a.e HaTbers- and --c4i
paper says thlt 90 out ei I'VE women who triei
10 gel h'ing by shaving three caught the i'ch
rom customers one g.t mar7ieI, sud the other
diIn T. but she should have undergone thti
.'e','s VI ''s '.s' ~.
lhe New Orleans Methodist Prnacners A.
s9ciiiion declares that cui0ret Churches are IT.
consistent with the Fifteenth Amendment as We.
as With the fundamental principle Of republican
government Establishing such churches they
say. " is, IN act only building a small back
Aiichcu s. SIS 90 prevent coloTet Meh,iisis
l'n s7..'u- 'H'o '-e i''nt 2'T''r oil ihr H'use
va uO''
Mrs stanton TANKS that cJIrtin- ought TO be
len entirely o. womel. She says ' caudIfly
believe tha; nature intended mea for lie rough
work OF life; 20 dig into philosophy, politics,
pAraleioErllls, and potatoes, aud humhlv %
wall IN his material here uatil selected hy the
queens Of the hesrihsione.' Mr. 5. thinks men
a fFIT rr 4rai d bon