Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-01-27
GENERAL NEWS.

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death Of man, says be - leaves a wife and ehilC
a by former husband
e From Sept; to Jan. l, 5Os,7I9 bales Of cot
q ton were received at New Orleans, against AS, >.
$ o39 bales during the same time last year.
The streets of Louisville, Ky, were recently
posted with bills offering $500 in gold FOR vol
lnteers for the French army.
! An Eng.ishman at the fremont House, Bos-
] ton, did not like his room, which fronted Oh
, Beacon street, because il - looked out on a
blawsted lane
A Georgia paper notes that the negroes at
tend the circuses in less number this winter than
} heretofore.
= A Michigan man sold his wife for SO on the
} 3D. inst, and literally " threw in one Of the
, two children.
Schenectady lady school teacher is pardon
ably proud Of having inflicted 573 " punish
ments" last summer.
Michigan is called the Massachusetts, and Iowa
the Vermont Of the West. Minnesota is probs-
bly, the Maine.
The latest divorce complaint, made by a Chi
cago wife, contains the point that during seveu
years Of married life her husband had not kissed
her once.
\ lady wiring about NlJrmonism wants to
know il half husband. such as can be Oh
tained in these days, is not better than whole
one Why not Try it for herself,
Cincinnati hiss been depopuated Of cats By a
commercial traveller, who advertised in the
name Of Kentucky firm, oderiug SIS 4 dozen
for them.
The Detroit Free Prsss speaks Of loom that
Eeaves from 80 10 $50 yards Of cloth day. 1t
is the invention If Vermont man named Abel
New Bedford, Mass, lady alye-tises to re
ceive scholars for instruction in cooking, with
specis! attention to bread making.
Adam and Eve are being terribly cut up in
various parts Of the country by iconoclsstic lee
turers on subjects connected with the formation
Of the earth and It's inhabitants.
i lady writes to the Jackson (Ohio) Sianf-
ard s. /, sir, can always tell Sunday, or Sab
bath, from any other day in the week, By the
number Of men and boys, old snd young, with
guns and revolyers, making for the woods and
peoples flrms."
South Carolina mother, when che found too
late, thst her daughter had elopei with a mem
Der Of the legislature, seized her trunk at the
depot, and asserted he- vanishing authority by
burning its c)n'ents.
Mrs Il. B Stove says woman belonging to
the upper classes who uudertakes u Ct wealth
| By h3aest exeTtion ani Independent Industry
loses caste, anil is condemned by "a thousand
voices a. an cddity sud de-aagsi persoa.
/ A young msn a. Ii Crosse, Wis, Looked
through the key-ho.e Of girls bedroom, and
ever since the dooto.s have been trying 10 get a
knitting needle out Of the gitc- where Ai- eJe
used TO be.
/ The Regents of Michi-in University ssk :5r
an appropriation from the Safe Of $4,000 for
a new building for the literary dep,r,renr, TO
contain a chapel, rooms for lec' lr s. fcs.ltions,
&c.
\ MAJ, having a spite 30 . sIusaEe-.naker
rushed into his shop VIXEN crowded win cus,o-
mers, threw large deai cat upon the counter
and said That makes nineteen Wen settle
when you re not So busy i''
One Of gang Of robbers resently broken up
in Neyala. among other curious confessions,
sad that in ls57 the gang purchased quartz
mill for the purpose Of breaking up and work
ing over the silver bricks which they expected &c
stesl
Th4; ancient negress, Sli,urrsr truth, uses
this arscment DID Jeans ever say anything
against women Not w1Ii. Bur he did
speak ssfa hard things sesiust men You
know what they sere Ard He kuea them TO be
true. hut He d:in't say ncthilz 'glinst De
wons3."
The kiiiel and wounded on the rai,rca Is Of
the United STATES dnriag the yeIr ending Oct.
81. $50, we're Killed, lGS; wounded, 4o4.
Kansas leafs the slain with - killed New
York cones first il the w5ualel ii,t with Is.
4 merchant in Geue74. y Y, advertised.
stating that he wanted TO engage the services Of
8 small boy The next Jay bis yi.e presented +
him with two small boys. The msu says be
don't think advertising is profitable.
Ex-Miyor Shurtlef's typographical descrip- T.
ton Of the City Of Boston, whisl is shortly 10
he published by tire order of tie City Council, I
makes 4 volume Of over seven hundred rsges Ii /
contains large amount Of very curious matter. I
young man killed himself az Lancaster,
Penn, lately, half en- hour before the tine set
for his wedding, becalse he feared there vas too
CREST difference in s1cid ,tlniiug between
himself and the lady .e hsi asked % be his
wife.
The Oldest stove in ihe Uuitrl states i in the
Capitol at Richmond in Virginia. Il was msde
in Euglaad in 177O, and il WARMED tie House
Of Burgesses fer sixty years before it wss re-
moved 20 It's present location. I, has survived
three Briiish ml1a-chs.
The Virginia (Seyada) Enterprise says that
the timber supplies Of that State, which are now
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and destroyed with a rapiiity and rscklessness
which demands the serious st.snti5u of tae State
and national authorities.
Mrs Elizabeth Jackson, a color,I woman,
died in Lexington, Ky, list week, aged one
hundred and one years, AMI as sic " knew
Washington &c, one % the local payers ex-
presses It, great regret thar she j;tl', keep a
diary ~ her youth.
4 resident Of Providence. r l, las, h7
twenty years, summer aui wiatcr, takea a bath
every morning, minus ail c0;hine, in the
Woonusquaiuckei river, coing iat3 ,he water
several times Sheu the mercury vas be'oF zero.
Minister Bancroft has written 20 gentleman
in Pittsburg. Penn. that the ieiay IN the COM
pletion of he bust Of Humh,l.t ordered for the
public park in that city, hiss been csu-el by &C
cidents, which hal twice o;surrei, ia s;temp;s
10 make tie brouze clstue
\ Kansos paper tells Of Sc An rs,istsat quar-
tsrmss;er II the Untel States army whcse
economical habits eoablel Z IN 70 lav BY for a
rainy day over one huudrel aud d.ry housaud
dollars, in the shor. space o, fse years. On
salary Of one hundred AMI taen 'y-tve dclla!s per
month
Arrangements ha.e been effected a. ;hs War
Department with The Wostsra Union Telegraph
Company, by Shich on aad ai,er thc 18th III
slant weather reports flr the Nes Englsnd
Statts will be received st regular ho-rs Stations
for observations aul reports have been establish
ed as far north P3rilsui, Ne
The San Francisco Bullefiq complains feel
iDgly Of the amount of money realized by dealers
in what purport to be genuine Royal Havana
Lottery Tickets, but which are, if its inf0-ma-
tion is Trustworthy. spurious tickets printed by
the ream in New York and pediled all over the
country sIrreptitously by irresponsible agents.
Boston has rumor that some lealing temper
ance men in Massachusetts, have become con-
WINGED that prohioitory laws are not eliicscious
in suppressing ;ntemperance, and have organ
lied new party four1ed on the CID Washing
;onian principle, which will coon publish It's
platform.
short time since some gentlemen.dscoyered,
on the beach at Hog Neck. L. l., where the tide
had worn away the shore, the perfect skeleton Of
an Indian lying on its side, with the head resting
upon it's hand. This Neck was formerly occu-
pied by the Indians, and it is supposed the skel-
eton must bsve been buried there from two to !
three hundred years
A year ago Bonneville, lad, couple we-e to
be married, but the lady backed out after the
had assembled and the minister was
ready to begin. The trouble wss made Up, and
the 18th ult. fixed for the welding. Everything
wss ready, but the groom did not appear. To .
get square with the lady he had left for parts I
unknown. q
Anna Dickinson sIys that all women marry /
for love- Anna is mistaken. The statistics Of |
domestic happiness show that nearly oae-hslf OF I
hem marry for revenge.-.N. Y. Commercial.
A little four-year old had been intently watch
ng the process of corn-popping a stormy day |;
n the beginning of winter ; happening to turn /.
o the window, she observed Tor the first time
he falling snow. Amazed and delighted, she
an to her father and exclaimed, 4" papa do
COX at the funny rain, it's all popped out white" I
A few months sgo teacher in one of the Hart h
ord schools discovered that many Of the girls had
IMMORAL books in their possession. which they h
btained from Boston By answering advertise D
nents in a New York weekly psper. The post b
flee department has caused the arrest Of the h