Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-10-11
CURRENT NOTES.

\ man who was recently put of the
Newark and New York railroad for refusing
t. pay his fare turned a switch 50 that the
next train would have rushed on to destruc-
tion if his crime had not been discovered.
4 well of pure carbon ga. has been opened
at Springfield, ILL.,
II is reported that in one district in 81
IBERIA alone, 500, 900 cattle have fallen vie
tins 10 this cattle disease this year.
4 very strange death occurredat St Omer.
H., last week. \ young man commenced
bleeding AZ the nose. then at the lungs. and
finally the blood o1Eei out of the pores of
the skin In this condition he fingered
three or four day>, and than died.
Mr.. McCarty. the oldest inhabitant" of
South Wilhraham, Mas. died last week
lie was supposed to be 10 years Of age.
Mr.. l.. NJ Penweil. well known school
teacher in Su-col Valley, Cal. committed
suicide at Oakland. recently. She left her
husband in the afternoon. telling him she
was going % san Francisco To see . physi-
cian for Aer lung difficulty. Proceeding to
Oakland. She took room at a hotel, wrote
"a letter to her husband in which She said
that her sickness and cough impelled her to
the act and then shot herself through the
heart Her husband eapa =, OAKLAND with
M. two children nezt day expe,.tin., 10 meet
her and wa. dreadflIlv shocked to lind that
She had taken her ND,
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or a eanrer tbe arm wbirb was induced
by a friends nlayfllIv pipcbin, him about
l. months no.,
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promise paying audience.
The New CbieaOo Directory l,a. IA 900
p,.r,. names than that If Ia.t Je,r
\ mode. bill, made out by an old farmer
against bis nrighbpr, reads aS follows
Neishh'r \. DIR. 30 Il to horse and wagon
gln tp mill once since and twice before,
one d'l''f-
4 correspondent Of q kentucky paper
tells Of a cat belonging t, an invalid lady
whose condition wa. such that She required
a game diet. that would bring in Young rab-
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The granite for the New York po-t-oiiice
T., being quarried at Dix island. Me. where
the blocks are cut and trimmed according to
the working plans, and BY the aid of steam
hoiStins machinery two men are able to lay
tue ''''A' a' 'i'' lis oo" can quarry 'heih-
\ st. Louis working-man cut his throat
with % case knife. recently. while in the de
irium of smallpox The entire family con
~i-ting of the wife and five children. were
prostrated with the disease about the same
time. and had been left nearly destitute of
help. the neighborS fearing contagion.
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Frap,i. rerot tbe ,r,;n tieid XIII fthe d. pa-
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in that land Of plenty. The crop in the
Liyermore and san Joaquin valleys. Is
from II 900 600 to Is 900 600 bushels. one
field in Liyermore valley containing Is .OOC
acres.
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600 To san Francisco by mail IN registered
| letter; ana Wrote on me outside what 1t con
tanned, - surprised because 1t has not
reached its destination
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