Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-12-27
gTRRENT NOTES.

malign influence taints with corruption the
entire work of the session.
CURRENT NOTES.
The big Jubilee drum has gone to New
York to serve as sign for music store.
There are fifteen thousand square miles OF
coal fields in which Pittsburgh is interested,
and $4,000 900 of Pittsburg capital is in
yeste therein Probably S25, ,0O0, 900 more
is in ested in transportation, and the total
of al interests dependent upon these coal
fields cannot fall far short of the enormous
sum of SIe0,O00,0 ,000.
Brides in good society nova days avoid
most strictly the traditional gray and brown
travelling suits formerly in vogue, and dress
rs uncCnspicuously as possible, 50 that " all
creations needn't know we've just been mar
ried -
faithful brother in Fairfield (Ct)
church recently prayed for the absent mem
bers . W no were prostrated on beds CT sick
ness and chairs of wellness."
Very sh ort wedding trips are in fashion
Just now. and very short engagements.
Virginia, which didn't have cotton fac
tory before the war, has erected twelve Of
! them since
One Of he most unique uses to which
| oxen have hela put is to tow canal boats.
| If aHythi ne VII hurry up steam that
/ will.
! \ woma has sued Leayenworth Kan,
| for $1,000 because 4 crazy man, some
months ago, killed her husband while con
| fined in the city calabOOse. Two thousand
/ dollars have been offered her aS compr0-
mise, but the proposition was not accepted.
/ 4 prominent manufacturer in Philadel
| phia Is prepa ring plan for magnificent
column, thousand feet high, to be con
.structed entir ely of iron, in open work,
! from the summit of which the vast area of
Fairmount Park, and especially the imme
! diate grounds ofthe Centennial Exposition,
are to be illun ,inated by means Of a Drum
Snond light Should hissuggestion be prac-
ticable rs we learn scientific men say 1t Is,
it will be- the loftiest monument in the
world.
An Amherst, (AIas-,) lady ate oysters all
through the month of August, when she
could get them. under the supposition that
there was an - -" in that month, d" Or
gust" was the WY she spelled it.
\ coroner's jury at Quincy, H., found
that an old lady who died there Suddenly,
died of superannua ton.
/ Mrs Gwin of ofDauenport assisted the kitch-
| en- fire last week wi tn the kerosene can. The
/ heavy rain kept good many from attend
/ ing the funeral.
People who use candle for hair dressing
) should be careful to removes all yestigeot the
| wick before going into company.
Young ladies show their superiority to all
mercenary considerations by ordering five
/ hundred-dollar silk dresses from Paris, and
/ sitting in them on freshly oiled chairs at the
first party they 90 to
/ Wealth entails many mise-ie- to which
/ the poor man Is a stranger \ Chicago
| truckman who had worked for 81 80 a
! day was suddenly raj sed to gilded opulence,
not long since, By bequest Cf $40, 1000, and
/ had not been two days in possession Of his
new property before he wa~ knocked down
| and robbed of what he had about him. which
was s..
Nh BrrcurR's PrcrMARnIE>.-Mr
/ Beecher Is a mere creature Of emotion. He
/ goes by impulse and feeling. He never fur
I ni-hes his choir with the hymns He told
Mr. Camp. the leader, that he didn' know
{ when he went into the pulpit what be was
i going to preach how. then. could he fur
( nish the hvmns2 " Can't You give me some
clue2' " If did that You would know
what was going t. preach and ID You
&
no idea what HYMN he viii sing when the
sermon j. ended so the Plymouth choir
sing without the slightest rehearsal W hIlc
1 il is true that Mr.. Beechcr prepares most OF
I hi~ sermons on Sunday-ior hesay~ ne likes
hi~ bread hot he not untreq uentiy changes
| bis whole plan after he gets into the pulpit
I The Sunday papers often furnish with a
| theme Tor discourse. Mr. Beecher j. one oI
/ the fiji est talki-t> an the world ana ne can
/ talk q well on one Subject a- another, with
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