Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-01-03

Indiana and Ohio are quarrelling As to
which have the most poorhouses.
Wedding cards in Denver consist of the
jack of diamonds and the queen of hearts
with the contracting parties names there
on ; II the brides mother is living, the ten
of clubs is included
The Chicago Post confidently expects that
OF the sixty five members of the Yale School
of Journalism. one or two may sometime
gaze ioolishly into the paste pot Of a coun-
try weekly.
\ woman in Rochester gave he- infant
baby teaspoonful of laudanum to check
diarrhoa. She got rid of the diarrhoa and
the child together
Twenty-one dentists are on tria. in In
DIANA Tor infringing the Goodyear Vulcan
lite Rubber Patent.
a specimen of abiect want was in New
York, Monday, soliciting aid. lie claimed
TO De from Boston, and to have lost his bust
ness by the fire. He was poet on the
HGreTley Magazine, and there eight thous-
ana more OF them thrown out on cold
world by the disaster.
ASyracuse deacon cast gloom over his
family and suspicion on his NOV ements BY
pulling IRON his pocket a button hook
marked " Lizzie His wife's name is Mary,
ana she never had button hook, having
always used hair-pin.
We have poetic production from one Of
the craft 1t is entitled, - The Printers
Love" 1t commences
" And Will my loved one leave me thus 90
We cannot say. She may or She may not.
Much depends upon the personal attractions.
circumstances or habits of the poet If he
writes such poetry as this. we should say
that she could leave him at once We are
puzzled about the thus" She NAV leave
him thus, and she may leave him in a
scratched condition, or minus his hair Or |
II the thus refers 10 her manner Of 20 |
ing, We may suggest that there are several /
ways by which she might leave him. She /
could walk, or ride, or hire a wheelbcrrow
On the whole, We would rather not have
such questions.-1ni. Ne7rs Reporter.
1t Is now believed that Prof. West. who
murdered the negro Turner in Dover. Del.
md after hanging the body in various
ways set fire to the building in the apparent
expectation that the remainswouldb be taken
or ms own, had at various times c0ntem-
plated the sacrifice Of other persons. Al
hough not drinking man he. at one period
hortiy before the killing Of Turner. cot
MO the habit OF visiting a lager beer saloon
where, in jocular way, he would compare
Us own stature with that ofthe proprietor:
vas interested in the saloon keeper weight.
which he said was about hi, own would
make measurement of the man chest. etc
nd used 10 invite the man to his Office.
' est acted in this way with the same man
our different times. lie also extended fire.
uent invitations 10 amulatto barber. whose
hop l. near his office. TO visit him. The
arher, however, never visited West in his q
ihce of course not from any suspicion Of $
nything wrong, but from not having time. I
lie also desired Others To visit him. only a
ny or 50 before Turner unfortunate visit. Z
ut none Of them. from one circumstance b
T another, entered his place To meet Turn n
: fate, as Is generally believed would have
zen the ease had any one Of the person, he
vited fallen into his clutches From all
at can De gathered, the belief IS that v
est had been planning for some time how
get hold Of the insurance money. and. +.
wing hit upon plan, the next thing wa, ~
W. to ret his victims, and having failed To- h
t one 10 suit his dimensions. a, a last re- l.
IT he seized upon Turner. /,