Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05
NUMBER II.
CURRENT NOTES.

i'd Experiments have produced sugar from swe
ice corn but 1t will not pay as business
M The people Of Nevai. say they h,ve sA
'9i enough to supply the sh,e world
~, The capital vested in manufactures in Low
~ ell, Mass, Is said to exceed 81, 900 900
,ht French photographers ssk three time. tn
for prices asked 10 the United States
I'D Elder Knapp, the revivslist, has returned t
st MS homeln Rockford, H., in very poor healtt
o. Warehsm, Alass, tenis some 6ffv bushels o.
" oysters daily to consumers IN Boston.
~ Manchester, n. H., has become famous for il
. manufacture Of powerful FIRE s,esm engines.
Re, An army Of American tourists will visst Eu
Is, rope the coming season.
TX West Chicsgo's town collector has abscorde.
= with twenty or thirty thousand dollars
= Two young Stntee Indians have recently er
- tered GrisWold College, Davenport, Iowa
ID The mayor of city in Ohio was arrested re.
ii Gently toT carrying sluny-sh5; in his pocket
T Carl Apple German youth aged nineteen
y drowned himself on MoniAy, al phi.aielpha.
Eight hundred Of the employees in A T. Stew
~ arts establishment were vaccinated T1esiay
. The British Museum Library contains some
T. 53O.OO0 bound volumes, and about - 900
manuscripts
;, Il If uoS the exception for thrifty sai careful
e citzsns not to possess policy Of life iusu-
d rance
d The Virgins mountains were early covered
b with Snow, and have long retained thei. cover
4 ing this season.
. IL is "ionislins how complacsnt.y cit 2ud
listen % sermon and spportion II to our ueizh-
bore Sc our SitheTs sre uusrung."
, II is reP5rtet Of Quincy On J clergyman.
that he recently recommended the trustees Of his
church 70 REFUGE his siAry one thousand dol
lars
a monster fish, reIeab,ing in all respects an
elephant, bat covered with scales, ha, been
washed ashore near Cape Hatterss Itisthirty
feet long
some Of the wise political seer5 are procnosti-
eating but one dynasty in Europe ty ant by.
and that dynasty Russian
IN cthsious s'omssh pump iuterferei matsri-
ally with ;he plan of Mr. wilson, Of Louisville.
In the strycanine line
The virol seas5n is setting in ssaia. A zeal
ous woman threw vitriol a. her rival in New
York, destroying one II her eyes, snI lots Of
good clothes
Music msy slota the savage beast. bu, il
don sl0ih lle brsssts Of operate performers.
wac are very quarreisou-
a L1csFort Nee York, farmer cent =. 100
barrels Of sppe, 20 usrket, last f4'l and realized
$500 per barrel, a.. from oue Jrcnsri
A tree which was cut Iozu recently In Kansas.
contained two bushels ot oees ami three hundred
p5uui- o. osautiil. transparent honey.
The pas, year A4s been remarkable for earth
tuazes among lae .s.auis Of tae Pacd,. anil IN
one OF tF0 instances for v1l;snic erupjious
Tle ,5sn of sgamussltt. Ass... asss.se= t,xes
upon over tso million of dollars wl-,h OF pro
pesty.
Two valuable diamonds were lately fjunl in
The crop o: West lni.an pea-aeu. ou board
chip
suuriss Dana is the name of aa IuIian pre.,h- /
er 10 New LoudJn. lie IS sad to be a regular .
Aurosrer
Hla- Henry 7. Bos IS presented fr Woe .
Ffesl-nt 1y toIe 90 the Missouri Republi- .
cans.
Coi. Holnes Colbert, representative of the .
Chickssw nati0n q Iniisne, 1iei IN Washington
on Sunday Of tgphoii pueumaai-.
Nearly two thousand farms were tak1n ami .
improved 10 Washington Territory as; year by .
sctual se,,.er,
gushing sh5qmsa hangs ou; this pl.,srI .
" Our custom is enormous bIt % il cannot
stale our infinite variety ''
IN loZ7 = Chinese eiitor causei some false r.
te.lsence TO be inserted IN hs paper, and sutfsr-
ed 'he death penalty iu consequence.
Sprinsdeii, one oi the most thrifty Of our in
land critics. is rapidly growing IT It's business re-
-st'0ns snt its humber OF inh-oiJsnrs
It is believed that the Cb.r,estown. Mas.
State Prison is model institution in poilt Of is
retorma'ory character and discipline
The lager beer saloons ia Chicago are opposed
70 having the public library open on Suntsys-
It hurts their business.
Present appearances Indicate that authrsci,e
coal Will be cheaper next summer than it has
been before for eleven yeNrs.
A note or any other instrument no, duly
stamped, Is yahd by the StsJe laws, By dec.s-
ion OF the Supreme Court
An Ep'scopsliau divine Of New York has been
detected IN pur0iniug books from wel.-snowa
publishing house in broadway
The woman who discovered a broken rail on
the New York Central mas been presented with
hve thousand dollars.
4 number Of Americans are speuiinc this ses-
son 10 Munich, where the cost Of living s SAID 10
be less than in any ether ty in the world.
Detroit woman marched her waywari ;
daughter ou, Of iisrepulsb.e house the other
tsy 81 the uuzzle Of pistol
friend @. ours S.says has bis apple dump .
lues opened before coming 90 the table since tie
Minnesota girl was killed by the bursting Of
nince PIE.
Omaha has our Wsrm5st sympafhies in her
seArcn aiier lght she is osiiei by the gas COM
pany, which is monopoly there as well a.
here.
81. Petersburg letter ssys thAt The Russian
press slmost universally side with the United
states IN their views Of the Alabama claims IN
der the treaty OF Warrington.
The youth who stole watch. aui returned It :
to the osuer. who promised Sc no questions ask r
Ell, Is IN jail The owner was ss good ss his d.
word, bu, be arrested the youth without asking =
any questions. !.
Horsce F. Clark, the new President II the o
Union Pacific Rirosd company, has snnullsl 4
all passes heretofore issued by Col. Scott the re- ii
firing President, snd proposes TO run his rcad on
an econouica. principe L
Mr. Storey. Of the Chicago Times, saws that s.
biz paper has made more money in three months o.
since tue TIRE than In any one year previous he a
expects 20 cover ms Losses in two years, Nnd n
have = better building than he lost ct
4 Second Aiventist in New York stste Ia. "
been f4ttenung OK Cor the past ten years. for =
Z -
should appear lie has spent nearly all his pro .
1erty IN feeding and purchasing food for that =.
x. o'
Old nayiga'ors say that they never knew 50 ia
much ice on Lake Erie Ss now. Fo- eight miles 90
ut from Buffalo the ice three feet and M
TX inches thick. Tesms are crossing st points
lever known before Ii is feared navigation will -.
lot be opened until late in May \,
The Assets Of the bankrupt New York and n,
Boston Express Company smoGnt to shout n
: $4,000 sil tod. all Of which is covered by Di
lesyy mortgages, and yet the Erie Railroad tried -
few months since to force the concern of upon m
mother express company for Sf,00O.0O0 la
The new hotel ST Saratoga, not yet namei, has &c
een let 10 parties in New York for ten wears, kr
Or 81 800 per year. II brick, Eve stories op
Ugh, $50 rooms, and will offer lower scae Of 40
rices than those Of the Grsud Union and Con- fei
Tess Hal lsst year ju
English suthors Appear nov disposel to DO vi
all justice TO this country. DR.. Macauley, con-
edes that the United States beat the world s,r .h
ogs, and the London Spectator, i1 a Two column
eyiew Of the book endorses the statement This
racious concession viii undoubtedly DO much to nj
ettle the AlsbsmA difficulty. col
Two or three academic students recently took -
ONE young Aies into the Sheffield Ssien,ic 'u'
chool Observatory to gsIs st the pale moon. ,I "a
me Of the latter, observing through the teles- ~ ~
ope the jagged ends Of the orb, exclaimed nc
Oh, how divine Il looks exactly ike Ham ~
urg edgingr' ms ms
Robert Sixbury, Of the town OF LeAry, has
lst passed bis hundred and eighth birthday an,
ne Wstertown Times ssys that he has csmpei the
u; more nights in the North wOOis. and killed vii
lore deer than any other man ia the ate, and the
nat to-day his sight is cesr, and aim cure, TO
any man Of half his age. via
All over India sweeimsats are consumed ME
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