Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-28
GENERAL NEWS.

Five English peerages have been refused oy
naughty commoners within the last six weeks.
1t requires % shorthand writers to take down
the Ecumenics L Tin speeches
i Nevada editor was presented on Christmas
with Bible, and bottle of whiskey WAS added
to induce him To accept the gift
The divorce record at Chicago is becoming so
bulky that papers now refuse to publish it.,
owing to g lack of room
The fourth canto Of Byron's - ChiIde Harold
has been printed in Venice in the Armenian Ian
guage and characters.
\ St Louis husband applies for divorce on
the ground that his wife made him fast eontinu-
ally for religious purposes.
Out in Michigan they call an enterprlsing set
tier Il " railroad yes man. as be is pretty GER
tain to vote in favor of new railroads
/ The elevated railway from the Battery to
Thirtieth street. New York, will be in or Grafton
next month.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has set
aside a bequest made to the Infdel Society of
Philadelphia
/ The New York Tines says thst the citizens of
Boston deserve praise for the liberality with
which they support the Public Library, which
they claim, not without reason, to he the freest
in the world
woman in Mansfield. Ohio, recovered $3.50
from saloon keeper who had sold liquor TO her
drunken husband.
1t is stated thst Gen Robert f. Lee and some
Of the Trustees Of Washington college viii at
tend the funeral of Mr. Peabody. by invitation
Of the Committee of Arrangements, at Peabody,
Mass
During the past year over $4,000 worth Of
goods have been stolen from the Hudson River
Railroad by thieves who broke into the cars
along the route, and plundered right and left.
Boston paper says certain New York
horse-car and omnibus builder sends his manu-
lectures to Cuba, South America, England and
other European countries.
The planters of Mississippi are canvassing
the feasibility Of establishing cotton factories on
the cooperative principle in all the principal
tosns IF the state.
Petroleum has been discovered IN the Guess
u, on the east Of the Caspian, and - III Amer
lean m=thod' OF boring for it has been lop,el
win great success.
Among the papers of the member of New
York hrm whose outside specuiati0ns have
caused the failure Of the house, we're found
S25O,OOO worth Of petroleum and mining stocks.
That was their ostensi0le value Their real
worth is next to nothing
A private banking house in New Orleans on
New Years Day surprised two gentlemen, who
have slight interest in the business, by hand
ing them $4,000 each over and above their
shares Zach Of the clerks also received pres
ent Of $500.
The managers OF Niblo's have reprinted in a
small pamphlet Mr. Charles Dickens's -4tiaHtic
Monthly article ON Mr. Fechter's Acting.
and are sowing it broadcast as an advertisement
Preparations are already making for great
attendance at the Msrtha's Vineyard Camp
Meeting next summer Forty or nifty carpen-
tiers are hard at work building cottages
Little Delaware pooh-poohs the beast lately
made by California about having ave peach
trees to every voter, saying that it has more than
fourteen to every voter.
Very few foreclosures tqke place nj present
upon NOR cages on real estate in New York city
aud vicinity, property owners are so confident Of
ri-e that every precaution Is taken TO secure
Themselves s-sin-, losing their possessions
The Norwerians and Swedes arc losing their
uliseisal reputation for order and quietness in
Minnesota, where, during the last SIX months,
they have figured in every bloody ARRAY and as
sa4., that has taken place.
Certain Detroit ladies' who petition for the
appointment of female City physician LAY they
would regari womsn's suffrage as zone of the
most appalling evils that could fall upon the
American people
The E.m.ra -iirsr.i,sr saws So For a bakers
j zen OF pure corn fri eggs, our thanks are
hereby tenleyed to the unknown hen that laid,
AMI TO the unknswn friend that sent them.
4 dispute as 10 the relative merits Of sheep
aud goats meat IL n toEn Of Southern Califor-
ma Is ~ be settled by cooking tNo sheep sni
two goats, and duly serving them NJ Before a
committee Of twelve impartial judges
Prentice, seeing newspaper article OH '' Re
Hson in Chicago saws that if there was anv
religion iu Chicago At the moment the article
was written, the msn who carried It there must
have ief, on the next train.
Blossom Rock, 10 the nartor Of san Francisco,
where many Eastern vessels have been wrecSel,
to the severe cost Of unierwriters. l. being IL
pidly removed. The rock is soft. huge exct-
ytron has seen made TO DC, leaving only shell.
which will be destroyed w'tu powder.
Connecticut minister aas recently c,lel TO
mary Massachusetts, couple ia the last named
state, but found that the license was issued 10
Connecticut IS the couple we're urgent, the
party adjourned across The State line and in the
middle OF the road, Ugh; hands we're joined and
the ceremony accomplished.
John L FarweI Esq. cashier ofthe Clare
mout n. II NArioual Bank, has Just recovered
one thousand dollars and costs from H., Yer
mont Central Roilroad corporation. f,l being
pu OF the cars at Charles,own some years ago.
Il cl~ upward Of el5 900 to recover the re-
mains OF Nr Thomas Powel. the Englishmsn,
who. with his wife and others, we're murdered
in Ahyss.uis last spring Chiefs bal 10 be
ksu,
tian soldiers had to be employed in the service
Ia alluiing TO the recent s*inile Of one Of
the leading New York merchants by Cincin-
at Jeremy bidder, District Attorney Garvin
sail the business men Of New York we're annual
ly defrauiei 10 the extent Of from one TO FIVE
millions Of dollars by means Of false representa-
lions
little village in Ohio hiss been astounied By
the discovery that one Of It's physicians forged
diplomas from the " American University Of
Philadelphia - to uueiucated men who wished
to practice the healing art. the consideration
being 500.
In Yates Ci,y, III on Chrstrs~ eve,
croxi Of boys got drunk and we're put in the
calahoose The next day THE mayor, magistrate
ami al the policemen got drunk the saloon
keeper stole the cilaboose key from them and
liberated the boys.
\ Boston merchant complains Of the apathy
the part of the stockholders in banks and
insurance companies when a meeting Is to he
held for the choice of directors When an
- irregularity - is discovered, they are all
rushing around wondering how it could have
happened, and nobody know anything about
it before
During an alarm Of FIRE in schoolhouse in
Eiston, Pa, the scholars all waited till one of
their number, crippled little girl, had got
safely out, snd then they, with a rush, cleared
the room. They had been taught to give the
little cripple the precedence every day, and
when the hour of peril came they did not forget
their duty toward her, but remained perfectly
quiet till she was safe. II was a beautiful
incident
In every grand piano there are sixteen kinds
Of wood, namely, pine, maple, spruce, cherry,
walnut, white-wood, apple, bsss-wood. and
BIRCH all Of which indis disenous and mahog-
any, ebony, holly, cedar, beech. and rosewood,
from Honduras, Ceylon, England, South Ameri-
ca and Germany. In this combination, elasticity,
strength, plability, toughness, resonance. light
ness. durability, and beauty are individual
qualities, and the general result i. voice
In addressing Judge Straub, OF the Police
Court, in case recently, an Athenan barrister
made use of the following beautiful figure Of
speech: -FOUR Honor is sitting there on the
binch, the representative of the abstract 6gger
Of justis, which is supposed to be boind, how'd
ing the scales evenly ballinst, bethune man and
man, and woman and woman - Cincinnati
Commercial.
The Me@phs -Aualdnch, says the tide Of en-
igration from Georgia, East Tennessee, Yir-
gins and North Carolina to Texas, continues on
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