Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
DOMESTIC.


The Farmers Cheap Transportation Con-
vention met on the 18th, in New York.
Hon. Josiah Quincy of Boston was appoint
ed President, and on taking the Chair he
made very felicitous speech.-Many con-
fiicting rumors continue to be circulated
about the condition of the affairs of the At
lantic National Bank of New York city. 1t
is now said that great part OF the collat-
erals and securities accepted by the bank
are absolutely worthless, and it appears pro-
bable that the liabilities of the bank are
heavier than was at first supposed.
funeral of Chief Justice Chase took place
in Washington Monday. The services were
held in the Senate chamber and were deeply
impressive. The remains were placed in
Oak Hill cemetery.-The horse-shoers'
strike in New York is practically at an end.
There is nothing new in the Rhode Island
mill trike.-Judge Pierrepont, of New
York, has been rendered the appointment of
min .er to Russia. men were
kill, or wounded by the explosion of boil
err at Chicago on the 5th.-The condition
of affairs in Louisiana is such as to render
! it more probable than ever that the State
will have to be reconquered, and brought
back into the Union "by blood and from
to use Bismarck famous expression. There
has been lamentable want of sense and
energy in governments course, and we re-
joice to see that they are waking up at
| Washington to comprehension OF the
gravity of the crisis.-On Saturday
morning news was received of the disaster
to the Arctic exploring steamer Polaris, full
particulars of which we give elsewhere.-
1 The fire record of the week embraces one at
New Orleans, La, loss 100000; at St.
Louis, Mo-, loss SIS, 900; at Port-au-Prince,
Ilayti, where one hundred and fifty houses
were destroyed and six lives lost and at
Halifax, N S
FOREIGN.
/ A panic on the Vienna Bourse occurred
on the 9th, caused by the failure of lead
ing firm. The excitement was so great as to
stop business, and the government was ap-
pealed to for measures of relef.-The
Prussian bill to regulate and control the
clergy has become law, having gone through
the upper house of the Diet by large ma
joriGy. The clergy are not easily regulated
or controlled anywhere, and they may give
the Prussians trouble The measure is di-
reeted against the Catholics, Of whom the
1ohenzollerns seem to be very much afraid.
Kaiser William has returned from st.
Petersburg. His next visit which will be
to Vienna visit which will probably be
more agreeable to Francis Joseph than was
that of the kaiser's army in lo66.-A
railway accident occurred near Pesth, in
Hungary, this week, by which 81 persons
were killed, and 40 wounded The eilete
monarchies of the Old World are rapidly
rising to the lofty American standard of
railway butchery Vienna EXPOSE
ton is getting into running order, but the
attendance has not been as large as was ex-
pected, owing in part to bad weather. The
American department Is, if not bowling
wilderness, a wilderness over which there
is much bowling ,-bu it is in course of re-
clamation, and may reach to responsibility,
yet.-At a republican convention held IN
Birmingham, England, Saturday letter
from John Bright was read discountenanc-
ing republican agitation and emphatlcally
declaring that the writer had no sympathy
with those who sought to uproot British
monarchy capture Of the khiya Is
reported and the success Of further opera
tons is considered certain.-The corona
ton Of Oscar III. and Sophie Wilhslmine as
King and Queen Of Sweden and Norway
took place Monday in Stockholm. The
weather was bad, but brilliant demon
stration was made and the day and night
were given up to festivities.
THE NEUROLOGY OF THE WEEK
embraces. among Others, the illustrious
names of Chase and Mill. Salmon p. Chase,
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court Of the
United States. died on Wednesday last, May
It'll, in New York He was in his Goth
year, and his death was caused byapoplexy.
lie was man of great Intellectual powers,
and Of high character, and for almost
quarter of century he had been one OF the
most eminent Of our public men.-John
Stuart Mill. one of the greatest men Of the
age, died on Thursday, at AyignOn South
ern France), at the age Of 81 years
James Lawrence Orr, our Minister at the
Russian Court, died on Monday night, May
5th, at St. Petersburg, just one week before
the lcompetion of his fifty-first year.
Hon. Cakes Ames died on Thursday night,
MAY sth. lie was in his 10th year
Intelligence reaches Us Of the death, in the
Arctic regions. of Charles Francis Hall, the
famous Arctic explorer. lie died in an apo
plectic fit, August :, ISL.