Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-14
IN GENERAL

Sleighing in Chicago was never better thar
now.
Seal-skin parlor mats are late fashione
bic aiectation
There are but twelve military companie
in Michigan.
Philadelphia millionaire Of third import
ance Is a butcher,
An Iowa hen is bringing upa kitten il
the way heshould 60.
Chicago -iloon-keepel. complain that PEG.
pie have no money.
Gold and silver embroidery is a new orna.
ment for ball dresses
Rabbits have done damaging work in the
young orchards Of Kansas.
Philadelphia editors are comparatively the
richest in the country.
\ cathedral is to be built in the midst Of
the South African diamond fields
\ western jury recently brought il a YER
diet of 81 justifable breach of promise"
Governor Baldwin of Michigan pardoned
forty-eight conyiets in the last two years Of
his term.
proposition for taxing sleeping cars is
soon to be brought forward in the Michigan
Legislature.
Ii Is believed that with the death Of the
| English iurist, Stephen Washington. persisted
the secret Of the Byron scandal Sir Stephen
was Lady Byron's counsel and assured her
she had good grounds for n divorce. but
steadfastly refused to tell the public what
those grounds were.
ChaIles Atwood was sent to prison from
jacksonville. III. two years ago, sentenced to
| y YEAR imprisonment for the murder Of
yoans SN,>le. lie protested his innocence,
and recently letter has been received from
the true murderer, confessing the crime and
urging Atwood's release.
Theirs proposes to abolish the Jardin Ma
bile, and Americans who consider it their
duty to see the wickedness Of Paris are in
dignant
This Is how Justice of the United States
supreme court divides lt day that he NAV
be able 10 attend to his social as well a. his
judicial duties He rises at a. m. takes
cup Of coffee and goes in his dreSSing-gown
10 his library, where he remains writing his
opinions and studying up cases until half
past 9, when. on his servant informing him
Of the hour, he goes to h. dreSsing-room
and prepares for breakfast lie takes this
meal at 10, and then prepares for the sitting
Of the supreme court, which he attends at
IL. At p. m, when the court adiourns,
his work Is over for the day, unless some
thing Of more than common Importance calls
for his attention.
4 Kansas man got up a private earth
quake the other day, by placing several
pounds Of powder in the stove to clear the
SCOT ont Of the pipe. To make it all 90
out of the pipe, he shut the stove door, and |
placing his feet against it, heroically awaited |
the result. As that was the only house |
within five miles, the funeral over the frag-
ments was held in the open air.
TIE wife and three children of Mr.. Grain
were killed by falling tree, at Mayville. \. |
j., a few days ago. They were in sleigh
at the time, and the man who was cutting
the tree by the roadside, seeing them com
ing just as the tree was lettering, shouted for
them to stop. Mr. Grain did not hear him,
but stopped opposite the tree to speak to
the man, and, just as he had stepped from
the sleigh, the tree crashed down upon it,
instantly crushing to death his entire fam
lily.
4 sailor got 50 drunk in New York, the
other night, that his friends had to lock him
up in his room, but confinement being dis
tasteful to him, he knotted the sheet, and
tried to lower himself to the ground The
slipping of the knot made his descent some
what more abrupt than he intended, and
when his friends picked him up, surprising
he WAS fatally injured, they sent him to the
hospital. The doctors couldn't find sign Of
an injury, but strange to say, the shock had
entirely deprived MIN of speech.
young man OF Cincinnati has just reached
the bottom dollar of the $4,000 he stole of
his father, last summer, to 90 touring with
one Of the fascinating divinities of lydia
Thompson's troupe of blondes The blonde
dropped him and picked up Nevada poll
tician, as soon as he became impecunious,
and he now takes his lodging in the Kansas
City (Mo.) Jail.