Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-06

MarE IVAN d 20 bul4d MN house n H1ft
ford.
The English &c fls,ing girl eats little
New York State bls produced another masto.
don.
Australia is to have postal cards.
Won Moltke has shgore or since the gou
took him.
.. Sentimental rot is what an unsiai cri.i,
calls " Kit Carson's RIDE
Hamilton Hogg tried to drown himself in NeE
York, Sunday, but policeman saved his bacon
The place where all the errors Of utnkiui are
recuhed-the Newspapers.
/ Red Wing. Minn.. is the champion fever-sud
ague town in the West. Two hundred cases in
two weeks.
The stoue over Thomas Jsderson's grave Is 4
ruin, relic-hguters having Clipped ,a;o jt until
the very sLspe Of the o5eliaS has been destroyed.
/ A German cfi,er writes to the L1n3on Tels-
graph Indignantly denying Lord Sasftesbury 5
statement that piety prevails IN che Prussian
army.
i woman near Utica took her rights Of her
husband with a Whia-tree, sli j. ROW in jail
for murder
Satsuma has iutrodsaei beei eating z Japan,
but cut Of consideration flr popular prejudice
he has 70 c8,. il chicken.
Mrs. Elizabeth Caiy S;lntou's oldest con i. :
member OF the L1uisiana Legislature Sorry
for Mrs. Stanton
Paris prophe; iorstells the death Of Thiers
il six months by heart disease. Impossible ; be
hasn't the organ.
The favor of Budlll brandy -s so peculiar
that Euai.ouiau drank enough corrosive sub
Innate 70 all him before De discovered his His-
take.
A man q Zalesyi,le, Oh',, Nt5 has buried
three wiyes, has their photographs N 8 group.
within which his own pic-ure is tie ceatre q z
ure, and underneath is this touching ius;-ip-
ton, &c The Lord will provide"
Il Chicago really carries out its magnificent
scheme Of deyotng ali the fines, imp Used fr
crimire. oteuces,to the establishment Of public
library the AleIauirian collection will fade from
historical remembrance.
The milk dealers Of Pr1viieuca have fixed on
seven cents a quart IS the wholesale price "
thsi- commodity, which irighteu= consumers our
OF their segeu sentts
dreadful IuaisLmelt for cruelty % Iurt
animals is reported .u Buffalo. 4 little bog
tried 90 shcor ca: Ruich had taken refuge u1-
der = bed. lie did not k.l the cst, but be set
IRE 70 the bed and burned bis fathers house
down
Twenty-Five miles an hour is shown. by signal
service observation. 90 be the average velocity O..
a storm when il has ,sice thsi velocity il tc-
comes a tornado.
A householder il Florida, IL filing up bis
schedule. under the heading where born %
described one of bis children as b.In IN the
pN,or Gui the other up s-siE-.' 4 st-tc;
return.
The Republicans of Maryland have noui laiel
Mr. Tome iot Governor. Mr. Tome COS before
the public With Su The msteriAls OF popularity.
complete 10 oas volume,
A California paper SAYS tbs; a. indian hau--
i.g was conducted II the most orderly. sys-
teaa-ic manner. and the utmost respect vas
pad g. the Iui;aa's fesInes. for which the
worthy sle,d u lis assistants deserve great
credit"
What does De LuoN2" was ihe INQUIRY %.
business mau. wl1 wished 20 engage young
persoa a. ST assistant a." We.i.'' the parry in
quirei cf replied hesitaung.y, &c he is sres; q;
ecchre.' There Was &C engagement in that IN
stance.
Nj God disturbed a swarm Of buu.lle-bscs
= burying Of he own. The bees stung his uc-z.
Aui his throat svc.lei 60 that the whole family
have 90 take turEs feeding him soup with S
squirt-sun.
4 correspondent who has been sailing al-ue
the Massachusetts coast wonders WY Gloucester
is spelled the way it is ami il that is right
why shouldn't lobster 5e spelled '' loheestei 81
he thinks Of consulting Mr.. Websler's dictis q
sry on the subject
PIttshe.l. Mass, has develooei another eco.
gomiczl citizen. A young msu called az a slors
aai inquired for boot hozes, bat could not faI
one large enough ,auiit came out in,he couvers.
alton that he wsuici It for a coffin for fAlhe q
On an ancient heaistouc in graveyard 10
Ninsow, Ne, is inscribed ." Here les n.
body Of Rchsrd Thomas, sn Engiishman by
birth, Nhig Of '76, by occupation a cooper
now iold for worms ike an Old rum puuoaeor
marked, numbered, aud shocked, he viii o..
raised agsin ani flushed by his Creator
No better plan has been devised to keen but
Ter sweet than to put it in clean jars and cove
it with strong brine. No Kind Of vessel, or Ca
or tub Will answer go well as q jar. 10 tais wa,
it can be kept fresh and sweet for twelve months
young farmer asked an old Seolchman FOL
advice in his pursuit He told him what d.
been the secret Of his own success in farming
and concluded with the following warning
"Never, Saundie, never, above all thi1zs. ee
in debt ; but if you do, let it be for dung"
A London letter-writer says that the Prince @
Wales has Rot read book since he left COLLEGE
and that he declares himself unable 70 keer
awake over the cleverest novel more than dyi
minutes s; a time. There is evidently noth!r,
lett his Royal Ilighness but to become King o.
England. Once in that capacity and hs nee.
have 10 fears but his loyal subjects will kee.
him thoroughly awake.
1t is said that there are II ,OSI, 600 horses il
the United Ststes. Illinois has $40 $40 tame,
and untsmed steeds. the largest number owne,
in any stste, while Ohio follows very close will
LOO 600. Pennsylvania claims 9O2 800 ami
mails Of the equine race, among which are /
great number Of powerful draught horses. which
are hardly surpassed for size and workiug eusl
tiles by the famous breeds of Belgium NeE
York has lO3,l2O Of the useful creatures. Will,
Inlisna, Kentucky, Texas, Missouri. and Viz.
gina have within their borders in ronnd nun.
bers 100000, Gj9, 900, ,G00, COO, $40 600 and
$4,000. respectively. The returns from Other
States vary all the way from 5000 TO 800. .OOC
for esch
4 Rock Island constable makes the foIioUino
return - executed this speeuey by trying
TO read il to John Mack, but he WAS drivin, c,t-
tie on horseback and run faster than | could,
and kept up such hi OF hollerin [ don't
know whether he heard or not This is the best
| could do, and don't know whether the speenev
is sserved according to law or not
Attest ELI SMITH. Constable"
There grows iu Nevada species of wild pe.cb
which is exceedingly hardy and will live nearly
everywhere that the sage bush can exist 1t is
found especially frequent in Carson Valley, Hum
! boldt Valley, and on the hills around Reese
river The tree grows 70 about the height of a
mans shoulder in the most favorable localities,
out is frequently found not over foot high. In
the spring Of the year the plains are covered
with its beautiful pink blossoms The fruit has
the perfect form Of the peach, is greeuish, with
crimson tinge, and OF small size.
An eccentric, unmarried, venerable gentle
man IN Newport, r. l., who has had a tomb
stone erected IN readiness for his decesse, (lste
may he return to the skiss,) chsnced TO Re in
the cemetery the other day, when some ladies,
strangers and inquisitive, INQUIRED of him
where to find the monument erected bv The per-
son VINO was not dead. lie kindly pointed it
out, and listened to their Comments. which we're
not very complimentary.
They have just opened new hotel in a South
ern State capital. and one of the newspaper men
who a. assisted" writes "It is beautiful
house Amidst its bowers, It's frescoed, grand,
glittering parlors. the member of the Legisla-
tnre, at 50 dsy. can have his heaven, and lis
ten to the music of sixteen-string band and
the voice Of his nightingale, and enjoy the fell
cities OF the only paradise that perhaps will ever
be his