Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-31
MIsCELLiNEOUs ITEMS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The two leading newspapers OF Oswego,
the Press and the Adrerfiscr, are about to
consolidate.
Niagara hackmen have increased their
fares in consequence of Prof. Agassiz' init
nation that no cataract will exist nineteen
centuries hence.
Bridgeport infdels will celebrate the l36th
anniversary of the birth of their great
leader, Thomas Paine, on Wednesday the
Goth.
On the Goth of last month the Storied
Bagne of Toulon, France, was closed for
ever, and a new disposition made Of the
forty-one life conyicts 1t contained.
The whole number of hogs slaughtered in
Cincinnati the past week was $4,000 Tho
whole number since Nov. was 52S, 900.
The colored people of Louisville, Ky,
are about to start a weekly paper, to be de-
voted to the development and education of
freedmen The title of the paper will be
the Planet, and it is to be entirely devoid Of
political bias.
\ company is to be organized at Streator,
Illinois, for the purpose of putting into
.
$50, 600 having already been pledged.
The quantity of lumber surveyed at Ban
gor between January LIST and December
eth. 1872. was 2i6, Asa, 6i9 feet. against
227, i9l ,675 feet in 1871, and 202 OH 1872
feet in 1870.
The recent report of the Newark, y. j -.
School Superintendent says that the entrance
Of colored children into the higher gram
mar schools produced only momentary
sensation, and even that has subsidized.
The manufacturers and business men ia
[ PENNSYLVANIA are beginning to express their
/ alarm at the impending monopoly Of the
/ great coal combination which the Reading
Railroad Company, under the direction u
/ President Gowen, have been laboring q
| effect.
Last year san Francisco imported S33,-
/ COO 600 worth Of various articles, including
I SO, 900 GOO worth of wheat. Among the
imports there were 100000 pounds Of
sugar, i6, 900 900 pounds of rice, and b.,
GEO 600 Of coffee.
Smith * Wesson, Of Springfield, Mas.
have concluded contract with the Russian
Government for the manufacture of 20, 900
pistols This l. the second contract given
10 this firm for the same number of pistols
GOO men in their employ in filling it.
Compulsory education l. one ofthe things
most widely thought of and talked about at
present. The last argument for it, adop-
tion uy any one State comes from Missouri,
where, however, the majority are not yet in
favor of it.
The Tombsa New York has reduced it,
list of inmates charged with homicide t.
fI hrrf
bound volumes Of criminal romance Three
are under sentence of death, one i, await
ing a new trial from the disagreement of
the jury, and the remaining nine have not
been tried bat expect acquittal.
The celebrated Cor>ican brigand Suzzoni.
who was killed last month in a fight with
gendarme-, was the ablest of the brigand,
of that island. He had four times been
sentenced TO death, Yet his favor among the [
poor people and his daring courage hafied I.
the attempts Of the gendarmes To catch him |
for five years.
\ public school official in Massachusetts, /
recently INDUCED in some very reasonable /
talk concerning the time 10 be given to the .
study of each Of the ordinary branches I
Geography he Justly called the great ana /
conda which has hitherto swallowed up far |
too much time in school lie thought that
il should be taught orally for the first six
years, and then by book.
\ Green county, y Y. farmer reckle,>ly
published the following challenge u I
Will bet Si2 - that nv hired man can take
longer to 90 to the harvest field, get back 10
dinner quicker, eat more do less. and bear
down harder on the panel Of the fence, than
any other hired man within fifteen miles of
the flagstaff in jefferson. lie was imme-
diaseiy taken and several hired men in Green
county are in training for the trial, which
Is to take place on one Of the long days in
June next.
For the first time in history the farmers
are cutting the spectators with their own
weapons. California brokers put up
Sc corner on ships, contracting for the car
ryIng capacity OF all ships that Will touch
san Francisco up to the harvest of 1873.
Ihereupon the farmers, fortified by sales of
wheat, have cornered on corn. and oblige
the spectators 10 pay douhleprice for grain
wherewith to load their waiting vessels.
At Nebraska City, recently, the Sunday
schools rendered a religious drama, in which
the principal tableau was to be Belshazzar'-
east Everything went smooth until the
least came, when 1t was discovered that old
Belshaz, " could not get his pants on
md to crown all, laundering local artist ,
% whom had been intrusted the producing !
II the handwriting on the wall, made I
mistake. and the sentence seen in letters of
ire was " Don't give up the ship, and be-
onged TO another tableau.
The famous suit Of David Clark Of Boston
gainst the Rev. DR.. Scudder. Presiding
.ider in the Methodist Church Cor the East t
Jew York District, and involving the own fl
rship of a cottage at Martha's Vineyard. t
D. build which DR.. Scudder has maintained :.
hat Mr.. Clark gave him S527 as a gift.
bile Mr. Clark has claimed since the suit
as begun that he employed Scudder as an =
gent, has been settled by the withdrawal =
Clark from further prosecution. a
\ singular suit against the Nliddlesex i,
lrse railroad company, at Boston, has Just "
zen before the supreme court. Ellen Viii Il.
m, with several other girls, was invited II
i summer, by the driver Of a car to ride
! the front platform ; but as they were
'tting on, the driver started up and Ellen y
as thrown under the wheels and severely Y
iured, for which negligence she recovered IN
1000 from the company. The case was ~,
pealed and has Just resulted in n decision
the supreme court, leaving the original -
rdict TO stand.
Mrs. Agassiz gives sorry picture of the
dams Of Terra del Fuego, with whom she
-aped passing acquaintance in the course
her recent trip on the IIassler. Though
e has looked upon savages north and
Iti, She states that she has never seen 4
y - repulsiye As these. Their bodies are 4
t Of proportion almost to deformity. =
Fir expression is bestial, their manners are +.
cOuth in the extreme, and their tastes APP { (
-ently of the lowest description. Their T.
petite for tobacco Is strong, and their +
king is like the chattering of 50 many IS
nkeys. q" They wander naked and home -
in snow and mist and rain, a. thew have y
lie for ages, asking of the land only
p Of beach and handful of fire of the
an, shellfish enough to save them from Nj
-vatiOn.' cIe
9th,
100
he prayer question has co ne up again in Rye
gland in curious though not altogether j.
aspect. The island has been the sub -