Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-02-25
FOR EIGN NOTES.

The hArbor Of Rio aneiro is crowded. with ship
ping, but the Stars and Stripes are invisible
One hundred and ninety-two persons wer'
killed in the streets Of London, last year, BY
horses or vehicles.
The Tiber has left its bed twice to inundst'
Rome since the Ecumenica Council has been il
session, and a third overflow is anticipated.
During the year 1869 there we're nineteen
births, seventeen deaths and seven marriages in
the royal families Of Europe
1t is reported that the crown jewels of Spain,
which have been missing FOR some time, sre in
pawn at the national -u5nts De Pis2aa, in the
city Of Mexico.
A young CIR, Of St Petersburg murdered her
lover the other day, packed his body IN a trunk,
and sent it by express to his parents at Moscow.
completing her oarbarity y marking it c. o. b.
Oser one hundred Americans asked Minister
Washburne to present them a. the Court Of Ma
poleon Ill this winter. only few were &C
cepied The expense Of the ceremony is several
hundred dollars
NJ Emile Olivier, the Prime Minister Of
France, is studying a new law on dueling. He
proposes 90 fine all the parties implicated, to the
extent Of 100 900 francs, or 100000, which Will
perhaps tend to cool down the bellgereut spirits.
Munich requires every dog to present itself
twice year for sanitary inspection those
sound in body and mind TO receive health cer;i-
dcates, VII eh they wear on their necks; while
the OLD, the imbeole, the insane, crippled and
bei-riddeu, are condemned to death
The English Admiralty have dispatched
stringent orders TO the West Indies and other sa-
tons where the yellow fever prevails, that As
soon As the epidemic makes its appearance or
board any Of Her Majesty ships the captains
and other commanding officers are upon their
own resp visibility to run 90 the north, even if
necessary to touch the ice, 70 as to kin the
disease
brass door, weighing 1876 pounds and cost
ing $3.50, has recently been manufactured in
Eaglaud for the Wolf Rock lighthouse, INTENDED
to replace solid YAK door four inches thick,
which had been shattered INTO fragments By the
force of the waves
The French government has made concession
to an architect in Paris, who proposes to establish
subterranean passages across the bouleyaris, So
as to enable the people TO cross the street with
out danger from the vehicles TIE entrance will
be by kosas, and the depth will NOT be more
than that Of al ordinary iyht Of stairs
The Liberals Of No tn Germany have recent
ly published a pamphlet on the suffice, Of capt.
tal punishment, in which they assert that az
least one-tbIri Of tn. persons beheaied or hung
in Germany and Austria during the last twenty
Ave years were guiitisss of the charges on which
they were tried and sentenced To- death
modern Trenehman, holding the opinion Of |
Napoleon that the most deseryin. woman was /
the one Who had borne the most children. has |
just petitioned the French Senate for = law be-
stoWing rewards On those parents who have the
greatest number Of children, and levying tax
On old bachelors. The Senate grayey consider
ed it for an hour o- two, but l4id it aside.
Recent travellers through Italy. who ale capa-
bic men, report that the severe political and &C.
clesisstica struggles which the kingdom has IT.
Gently bad to pass through u acquiring her ma
tienal aud religious indepenleuc combined With
the effects of previous misg1yernment. and The
expense of ) large standing army, have much
impoverished her, and thar the present amount
Of taxation presses heavily upon ,be people
Railway prospects in England for $50 are
The Ruhr.y .Ness savs capital
$ abundant, trade improving, the disastrous ef-
ecis Of the late crisis passing away, and con-
nercial enterprise slowly hut surely recovering
iself Hitherto one Of the great draw backs to
he improvement Of railway property has been
he constant additions made to capital expend
ure for worSs not aiwsys Of productive char
cter. With few slight exceptions outlay Of
bat kind mas ceasel Almost all the leading
Ompanies are applying for power to abandon
be construction Of lines which they had pre,i- {
uslY obtained power to make, but which, on
aim and mature rtaection. are now considered
Improbable.
As all public gaming tables IL the North Ger }
nan Confederation Will be closed 10 1872, the &,
government Of Baden ha- resolved to prolong
be leases OF those within IT'S power till that date
fter which they viii be entirely done away with.
n order to provide Baden with a sufficient fund
D carry out improvements when It has been de- +,
rived Of one of the chief sources OF its revenue,
be rent paid by the proprietor Of the tables has
cen raised, for 1871 ami 1877, from 100000 b
Jrins a ear to 100000 aJrius Besides this B.
hey have undertaken TO expend 2000)) forms y
the two years on improvements, such as !,
-ater works ami the construction Of lighthouses. a
nd to raise their annual subscription to the u
leAtre from 400 forms TO 5000 forms BY =
lese means II Is hoped that the reserve fund t.
i'll be increased till it amounts to ,0Oo. 900 cl
lslers in 1872. The new steam-ba,h at Baden :
to cost 100000 f1rius. and a waterba,h Is to O..
, erected at Wild5ad for $50, 900 forms to
A recent issue Of the Leraut Herald speaks e.
Ramazan course Of lectures at the Darul CO
unOOn, or University Of Consisntinople, at st
hich Aziz Edeni, medical professor. lectured -
/ chemistry and climate Wahed Efendi, on ye
e relation Of cemeteries to public health; la
.lim Edeudi, on the planets and Mount Eden- al
Presidentof the Council Of Public Instruc- ~
IN, on the industrial progress Of the M
arks. Mouuif conducts magazine, in w
hch lately appeared very crelitsble paper -, -,
the use Of paper money among the Moslem ~
'tions-an article which probably could inter
some Of our own Aryans. The Turks, ike
OrientAls, are fond Of literature, and their %
lers seem nov disposed to get them out of their "
ng lethargy in order 10 compete, as far as they c.
sy, with the intellectual ,novenert of tbs o
aours. az