Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-12-01
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Good hard wood sells for So per cord in New
Haven.
Fashionable New Workers. now tie their era
watts in the knot Alexis.
Butter shipment from ST. Adams, russd'y'
was $50 tubs.
The Masons of Troy have nearly completed
Masonic Temple at cost Of $4,000
An Iowa court has decided that woman
can sue her husband for money borrowed OF
her.
The Massachusetts, Temperance Alliance now
employ nine agents in public schools, introdu-
cling the pledge.
Alexis is Grand Duke of Russia and the Amer
leans will endeavor for the next few weeks 10
make him Grand Dupe Of Americs.
Some Of the recent fires in the cities have been
caused by mice among the matches. Moral ;
Keen YOUR mice and matches in different dishes.
What stride the Vermont Central has, one
foot ia Long I,land Sound at New London, and
the other in Puget Sound. come three thousand
miles away
Some foppish young men. with more means
than brains. affect hree-buttoned gloves, point
lace neck ties, and rufaed shirt bosOms in fall
dress
Lucy Stone has been elected President Of the
decent branch Of the Woman Suffrage Associs-
ton. and Julia Ward Howe chairman Of the
Executive Committee.
The Young ladies' must be sure to hold on to
the arm of any gentleman they walk with tc-
day. very tightly, for it is so slippery you
know.
Mr.. Dunton. who has kept the depot restau-
rant at Ogdensburg for several years, is now to
succeed John Nelson in the depot restaurant at
St. Adams.
Charlotte CushmSn is creating perfect furore
in Boston. The -1dreriiser says the Globe
Ihe.tre is nightly crowded to the outer doors,
hundreds standing up and listening with breath
less attention.
Young man found skunk in the cellar at
Barnstable, Mass, and carefully let down piece
of meat covered with arsenic. IS be thought to
the floor. twas aftersarl found that the bait
hsd been lowered into the pork barrel.
CHESHIRE RAILnoAD-REDUcTIoN OF Fam
The managers Of the Cheshire railroad on the
first Of November reduced the passenger fare
over their road to three cents per mile for
through. and three and half cents for local
travel
QUICK WORK In five hours time one day re-
Gently. Messrs F. B. and G. A. Morte, Of Est
fillmore. with one Of Lanes Mills, stabbed and
sawed 600 feet surface measure Of spruce
lumber, handling and piliug the logs and lumber
as they sawed.
Those who have tried it say that attempting
to DO business without Advertising is Ike wink
ing at a pretty girl through green goggles you
nav know Whist you are doing, but no one else
does.
At lat accounts by telegraph frcm Omaha,
the Union Pasih, trains were snoE-b5uud At
iiaerent points between Cheyenne and Omaha.
I The whole country from the Rocky Mountains to
tho Missouri River was covered with coating
Of heavy ice causing the downfall Of telegraph
lines and much interruption Of travel
The Ttusyiue, Pa, Herald says the modists
of that city report that dresses are 70 be msde
lo5ser in the back than heretofore. This Is to
countcraet the influence Of low-priced oil, and s
light money market, for now when the wives and
daughters are refused money, they cAn get their
bsckr-up without distressing themselves,
A curious experiment was tried IN Russia
with some muriertrs They were placed with
ont KNOWN, It, in four beds where four persons
had died Of the cholera They did not take the
di,esse They were then told that they we're TO
,,eeD in beds where some persons had diei OF
malignant cholera, but the beds were II iac'
new, ard had not been used st 81, Nevestne-
less three Of them died Of the disease within
two days.
The Legislature Of Wyoming seems likely to
take the back trscs on the woman Suffrage ques-
ton. in spite Of the testimony Of the governor
hist women make good jurors Indeed the
House Of Representatives has already voted to
repeal the woman suffrage law. The Republicans
opposed the repeal, and the Democrats IN s ooiy'
supported it. A, the latter have strong mi-
jority in the House, they have carried the day
there what the Council will DO with the bill
remains to be seen.