Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-03-21
CURRENT NOTES.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Clemens is one o
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Marcus Tullius Cicero Clemens is one of
the selectmen of Rome, Ga
An Athol, Mass, boy who has been long
sojourning IN California, has, after court
ship of % years, returned to his native
heath to be married. Ten years ago he
started hOmeward for the same laudable
purpose, but was waylaid and robbed of his
all. He went back to the Golden state,
gained another fortune, and this time has
reached home safely.
\ pleasing little instance of luxurious
pauperism is furnished by Il Norwalk,
Conn, family. 1t consists of five per
sons, who together spend $3.50 for opium
per week, and apply to the town authorities
for coal and bread and butter
A number of boys are on trial in London
for trying to poison their school teacher
They put " insect powder" in his physic
bottle. One of them told and the rest con-
fessed. They will be men before they go to
school again.
4 Buffalo man named G. W. Ward has
won an OK which weighs three thousand
and fifty pounds, in n rattle, and now doesn't
know what to do with his prize.
\ Washington correspondent announces
that lemonade is provided for thirty Con-
gressmen in the cloak room of the House,
and adds There is man who squeezes
Congressional lemons all day long, and he is
paid salary under some head stationery,
believe-a graceful allusion to the un-
moving qualities of the drink he prepares,
and the lemons and sugar are paid for as
fuel and gas"
The commune in Nonzeyille, in France,
must, in domestic sense, constitute the
most stagnant aggregation of human beings
on the face of the earth. During the year
1872 there were neither births, marriages
nor deaths within its charmed precincts.
An eastern journal never known to exag-
gerate, asserts that a rural visitor to Angus
ia, Me-, who read the sign, Look out for
the locomotive, at railroad crossing for
the first time, climbed to the top of the pole.
and gazing up the track, anxiously wanted
to know where it was.
Correspondents say that Dennison, Texas.
was wilderness five months ago. Now, it
has population of 500 houses are going
up in all directions its streets are 100 feet
wide hotel containing 100 rooms is near
ly completed, and there are three banks, an
opera house, and an immense freight de-
pot.
Erie, Penn, is one of the .liyeliest towns
IN W estern fennsylNanlh. anu Is great
railroad centre. Last month the freight re-
ceipts at this point were two boxes Of sar-
dimes and bag of oats, but this month it
will be nearly double that.
A Newburg editor wants one of those
persons W no are so liberal in the matter of
pub. docs. to send one to that place, as there
is no city along the Hudson that needs q
public dock more than Newburg.
A Kingston youth has frozen his nose
seven times this winter, pacing in front of
his sweetheart's house, waiting for - the
other fellow" to leave.
A boy was arrested Sunday morning, in
Bridgeport, Ct, for hitting young lady in
the eye with a piece of candy, while in a
Methodist prayer meeting.
A Connecticut firm is about to ship 200
boxes Of clocks to the I" Heather Chinee.''
Old LADY, see that you recover umbrel-
as. Ayes nm lots of 'em. Old La
dy-I want the one lost last Monday.
A rash carpet baggcr, addressing col.