Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-06-21
CURRENT NOTES.
Alexis spent s200, 900 in this country.
A iu bilant rcstcriut-P. s. Gilmore.

Alexis spent 500, 900 in this country
Ajubilsnt pcs,cript-P. :. Gilmore.
The latest African conaudrum-HAs Stanley
discovered Livingstone or vice yersa2
Fifty thousand fans have ttsn ordered for the
Boston Peace Jubilee
Through tickets srouud the world cost ST.
AS, gold.
Twenty-tso Mormon missionaries have arriv-
ed in Liverpool
The - Castle Of Incidence" is what Douo
PiAti calls the Smithsonian Institute
An Omsha sehool-boy lately defined lady to
be "a gro"n-up girl, who doesn't cuss nor
swear
lady aged thirly-fous his Just followed her
seventh husband to the grave. She is widow
to beware Of
When Mi,s1uri woman threatens to pour
hot lesd in her hus5snd's ear he begins to think
about divorce.
A sailor WHO has 'ca- which IS the result OF
dispute on shore many years ago. refers to it
Old land m2rk.
woman breaches the gospel in the streets Of
Cairo, H., Who claims 30 be haesl desc, ndsnt
Of John the Baptist.
Kentuckian being assei how much corn be
raised, answered; q" About 10 barrels Of whis-
key, besides What We waste making bread.
&c Academy Of Billiards is the la.e,t. - Uni
veTsliy Of Baseball next, and possibly " Ma
tl0usl Institute for instruction IL Marbles"
4 Milwaukee be-ssr Icing recently bribed to
SHOW bis dsy's eSrni1gs conuted out 500 AZ,
su& sad IL wasn't good day At all.
Eleven thousand dollars in U. : Bonds weIe
burned in TIE house Of Frederick Douglass at
Rochester TIE ctaer day.
Americans in Paris sre already making pre-
par.tious for the celstrstion of July 4th IN that
city.
The nsne Of Dolly Warden has tesn hopeless
ly degraded By is application to = new style Of
paper sbirt-fronts.
And now We hear OF = father, who. not be-
lieying in whipping, SHUT his child in the pig
I pen. iie says the pen il mighticr thsn the
rod.
1, is s,a,Ci that rygc vos,,3s are fitting out.
with arms a1d munitions Of war, ~ Baltimore
aud Philadeipbia, which are believed to be des-
tirei TO aid the Cubsn reyo.g;ionisu.
John Rose, Canadian, convicted of commit
ting rsps on girl eleven yeArs old, wSs sentenced
last week in Buffalo, to twenty years impri.-
onment n the Auburn State Prlson.
Tne fAvoIi;e combination Of colors th;s season
are dark green ami saluCn color, garnet and
rose pix, srd blue SuG light shade Of pink.
Soaking dog With kerosene and then setting
/ him en- fire, is the highest intellectual smuse-
meIt TO shich some Troy brutes can attain.
The Church Macs is d.sgosod to sccept as
| one proof Of the divine origin q the Episcopal
/ Church the fac; that it has been sble to survive
80 many years oi suffering fen quAEte'te sing
Ing.
/ A skif with three youngsters in it cArsized at
/ Selma TIE other dsy, srd one Of them came near
Drowning. One on bis way to shore, swsm
I through a" trout hne," and came out with
twenty-four fsh-hooks hanging n his ae,h.
An Indiana paper has this scandal - Ovens
burg Green county shipped one hunirei and
twenty barrels Cf whissey TO Kentucky last
week, TO te Manufactured into seventy yeAr old
Bourbon. TIE process viii occupy aoout forty
/ hours'
/ IN archaeological correspordent fnis evidence
1 Of the antiquity cf the game Of 6uchre in the
! passage cf the New Testluent which relates
that the priest snd Leviie passed" aud the
Samaritan - assisted
a Lawrence policeman on Monday morning
picked up woman in night clothes, marching
along the street with heavy No. 10 rubber boots
Gu her fe-', & raised parti5l over her head, and
Bible in her hand She WAS Mrs. J0ces.
sleep walking. cud thought she was going to
church.
IBfcruation comes from Lowell that Henry E.
/ Cal, formerly clerk with J. C. Aver left there
recently for Nss York, 81 he saii, to operate in
fancy stocks. lie as leit h.s friends minus sew
erEl sums Of money, sul is muea wanted by the
authorities. HE ul4iTimouiRl record is also ssid
10 be Int, resting. ne having courtei. married
and buried ladies of highly reputable families
at the rate Of tgo per Enuun. His last mstri-
monial adventure to5k place in Portland, Me,
last August, where he lcl 20 the bymeniAl altar
young and besutifdllziy Of that cify.
a little girl vas standing st the depo; to &c,
her father and gentleman friend OF, when she
suddenly obserycd 10 her father, referring TO his
friend. who was tall and laEk, " II the cars
run of the track, aad sny legs nust be broken.
| hope they'll be s!r II -" What's
that for naid the startled Il " Because
she adied, artlessly, e AUn; Msy ssys you have
pair Of spare legs"
An exchange ia puzzled by the question of 3
Correspondent - Whether the Nr. Jefferson,
who is playing Rip Van Winkle" AT the theatres
is the same man who vEs President of the Uni
ted Ststes, or is it his son - The anxious in
quirer OF this question should be put IN the
sauze category With the New Jersey man who.
having heard that Columbus was in Ohio. imme-
diately sia.iei West to interview tie old man
shout the voyage which resulted in the disoov-
cry Of America.