Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-26

I Mrs. harrington says she does wish they
would hurry up sud psss the silver-service bill
I in Washington
There is = Mormon society Of fifty members
among the miners ct Scranton. Penn.
There are sos prisoners in the Toombs, New
[ FORK, s;owed swsy in AS cells.
The recent rains have relieved al sppre en-
I sious Of a water famine in New York
| There has been large fire in Valparaiso,
| Chill, accompanied with lots Of life.
/ . Commercial Travellers Union - has been
/ organized in New York
succeed Seuor Moreno.
An s1ti-Ilssonie convention is to be held 1T
I Normal, H., in May.
Srpernumeraries il the city employment Of
New York haye been thoroughly weeded out
Wa has been declared by GaAtemsla sgsinst
Honduras sni San Salvador
Prepared pes; is very generally used Tor
feel in Minnesota It costs les than four dol
lars per ton.
A Cincinnati drug-elerk gave arsenic for
a seiiiitz poSler, '' by mistake, and killed biz
msn.
The ladies' Of Augusta, Georgis, viii make
efforts TO erect a monument to the memory Of
the Confederate dead at that p!see.
The vaccinating corTs q New York city
Eaie II, lSl vaccinstiCut during the quarter
ending March 30,h.
An animated discussion with deringers caused
Ge5rgia colorei wedding to be follosed imme-
dia;eiy oy funeral.
\ convention Of ,bose interested in the build
lug Of nzrrOv-gSuge railroads Eill be held in
81. Louis, June 10.
During a high ainI At Pitsburg, Pa, on
Wednesday, Philip Reii.y sss hlosn into the Al
{ eEhany aud drowned
Something very like ye low fever has been ra-
g.ng in Florida the past winter, quite out Of sea
sen, .ni proving very fatal il some districts.
Minnesota has a sehool fund derived from the
sale Of her school lsnis, amounting to the hsud-
s1re sum Of S2,375,267
The insuticiency in The number Of cars run
by the Metropolitan HoT5e Railroad Company is
still cause Of complaint.
There are only thirty-0ne convicted murderers
in tie Michigan State Prison, but then it's not
much Of ye.r for murierers cut thsre.
Grisvoli, the Fat Contributor, sAys that
nothing relieves comic lecturer 50 nsch as m
I occasional joke.
| The streets Of Nev York arc said to be in a
I worse condition than ever before, which is saying
good Gesl.
\ man .nd wife disl in Jackson, Fla, on the
I 10Th ult Of lockjs1, csusei, Il is alleged. by
| taking coll in vacci1atei srns.
Governor Gsary of Peunsylvsnia has signei
the bilI permitting pertons accused Of minor
I crimes 10 testify in their own behalf
The hired girls Of JAzesville, Wis, threaten
20 strike. unless all the kitchens are provided
with rocking chairs.
/ Some California journals are advocating the
p-opTiety Of making the office Of State School
| Superintendent eligible to women.
/ Tne question Of tunneling the Niagara river
near Buislo. which TSs sgitsted some years
ago, is revi7ei.
4 Little Rock paper takes pleasure in Ar
rouuciny the erection Of a pssnutery, a. AZ eyi-
deuco Of the na;eriS! progress Of the city
A fra in Ciucinns-i has contracted with the
Memphis water works company to furnish iweu-
ty-Jwo miles Ct iron pipe
The lows LegislSture has just passed an anti
liquor law more stringent thsn any previously
enscted IN any Other State
Chicago women complain that the pretty ones
receive prompt sid from the committees, while
these who sre palmer are left TO freezs, suder or
starve.
There j. uncommon s,tiyity il the ship-y ards
ofPh;lsielphis AMI vicinity ; ,eyenty-fve vess-
els are in process Of building and more will be
begun shortly
Revolution har br0ken out in st. Marc, Hayti.
The troops we're GlsssAcrting the insurgents by
wholesale Citizens Of the United Stated were
protected by the French consul.
The Brooklyn painters strike is gradually
coming = an ind, number Of employers having
already seceeied 20 the demands Of the journey
men for eight hours, aud 50 per Jay
A committee otoue huairll citizens has been
formed in San Francisco, under the name Of the
.s Committee Of Safety" TO guard the interests
OF tao city against rNilroai monopolies
Several of the smaller lakes Of New York
State are being re-stockei with hsh under the
direction Of Seth Green, the 1ell-known and
successful piscicuiturist.
The expenses Of the Pennsylvania Legislature,
iust Sliournei, were much less than usual, and
The coat Of running the State government the
coming year is expected to be $500 600 less than
last year.
Several boys have b,en arrested in Rochester.
n Y, for throwing stones st ptssing railroad
trains One Of them named Harper succeeded
in knocking brakeman from the platform u q
car.
Governor Hoffman, by proclamation. has sP-
pointed SPECIAL snd extraordinary Court Of
Oyer sui TeruiiGer. TO be he'd At Auburn, Asy
18th, an3 has designated Justice james c.
Smith, Of the "a rene Court, % preside.
The dsmsnd for skilled labor in Chicago has
been fl'>d 90 repetioa 1hafe who hAve con
templated tmisrating to the burnt city for the
T. 4. kaa
this fact IN u.iud.
Sportsman are realinc rich hs7vss; along the
Massachusetts, shore nov. Sea losl are abund-
ant. and the guuners come in from their eIcur
SONS, bearing VIII gsese, brsu,s aud ducks as
trophies Of their success
An Arkansas nan thinks he has found the
secret OF perpetual motion, and has badly beaten
his wife because she presumed TO doubt his DIR
eovery The resul; IS he hss been Locked up IA
jAil, when he ought TO have been sent to an ia
sane Atylum.
The BAsswool bland quarry his recently pro-
dueed he largest stone ever qusrried on Lake
Superior. in = solid mas. Il II 10 feet long
AMI , feet thick it is most beautiful sPec-
linen Of brovn store, without crack CT olsy
pocket in il.
Two public executions took place in Tennessee
/
nearly twelve thousand people, who seemed 10
enjoy 8 general holiday. The people Of that
State are not quite up TO the standard Of eivili-
zation.
A competent and sell-knosn pomslogist who
has recently been on = prospecting tour through
New England AMI New York State, pronOunces
the indications favorable :or large fruit crop
the coming season
The leading journals Of Texas insist that il
the United States Government intends taking
Mexico, it should give the country u Texas.
en- indemnity for the COWS aad horned cattle
generally stolen from that State hy the
"greasers"
Letters from Lone River, California, ray that
the whole Of ONeas' Valley has been moved
southward fourteen feet. Over seven thousand
shocks Of earthquake hsd occurred TO date, and
they still continued, but not with great fierce.
A C.liforni. court has granted divorce to
husband on the ground that be wss insane when
he married The judge has the immediate pros
pect Of an inmense business, and the Pscihc
Railway Company is making provisions for Az
extrlordinary travel westward during the
spring.
II has become a question of some moment
whether the mind should be fed at the expense Of
the stomach, or the stomach to be fed at the ex-
pense Of the mind. 1t is stated that hearty eat
ing is inimics to high intellectual culture, and,
ON the other hand that deep stujv ruins the