Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-23

DOMESTIC

Mr.. sumner was divorced from his wife
on Saturday. the 10th 1t was q silent
tra.lsaction. and was put through most ex-
pedit iously The ground for the divorce
wa. de crtion by the lady, who appears to
have been a conscnting party to the deci-
,ion.-Tl,c new Postal Cards are a great
success Very large quantities of them
have been sold. and they seem to meet with
great popular lay or.-Ailair- in Louisiana
are much more quiet than they have been
for long time. The forces have dishanded
which have for So long time opposed Gov
Kellogg authority. aud it seems at last
that peace and quiet WI be restored.-
Apparently considering the example OF
Louisina a suitable enc to follow, the Gov
ernor and Lieutenant Governor of Arkan-
sas are cudcayoring to plunge that State
into anarchy. At present the Governor
seems to have the inside track. having gain
ed control of the militia, and fortified the
| STATE House, where he remains with his
Prrtorians with no one to modest or make
him afraid.-During the week the hang
man has satisfactorily disposed of four vie
tins of emotional insanity, viz; John De
vine. at san Francisco, on the 18th; Luigi
Lusignani, in New Jersey, sthe 18th; and
Joseph O'Neal in Illinois, and Michael Nix
on in New York. on the l6th.-The week
furnishes its usual quota Of murders, seven
being reported in New England and the
Middle States, the most horrible Of which
is the murder of white woman in New
York city by her colored paramour.-James
\. Coe, n Boston broker. has been detected
in " irrcgularities" by which sundry con-
fiding business men have been swindled out
Of sums aggregating 5000, 900, or more
The Rev. b. H. Paddock, Of Brooklyn, n.
Y. was elected Bishop of Massachusetts on
the Ijth.-Border outrageS are again re-
ported in the neighhorhood of San Antonio,
'rexas.-The Erie investigating commit
tee of the New York Assembly have made a
pl ain spoken report, in which they severely
censure the conduct of the eminent moral
reformer. Daniel T.. SickleS find that the
dividend was warranted by the earnings OF
the rord and commend the action of Wat
sor and condemn the buying out of the old
directors. They presented a bill providing
that parallel roads shall not be under the
same management, that foreign corporations
shall not lease our roads, and that connect
, ing lines may be leased by vote Of two
thirds of the stockholders.- Edward,
Pierrepont has finally declined the Russian
mission. The President has appointed a
minister resident to the Central American
states Col. George Williamson. of Louisiana,
an ex-offcer of Kirby Smiths during the
,ebellion, bit since then a supporter of Re
| l bliean principles-A gallery in Sing
pu. prison. New York, fell Sunday morn
Sing ., Hing one convict and woundine
ing, X others, two seriously. \ coroner :
eighteen turned verdict in which tn,
jury has +, found culpable in not proyid
ing means to 7 -rible catastrophe goes OF
@One more tie. eady too fresh with adj
the list which is air, = inst. an explosion
ditions. On the l3ti- 1mond coal mine il
took place in the Drul tia. by which pro
| Picton county, Nova Sec The mana 90
badly forty lives are lost. Iont the nun
and assistant manager and Il. the Dit who
Der of workmen named were in der work
| it occurred. The Acadia pow liEx N
at Waverly, eleven miles from Ha- terri
S, exploded Saturday night, causing Iiya
! Die utSlTuCiIpu ~ pi'iVi'9' '"' II"
were lost.
FOREIGN.
The Carlists won very respectable vic
tory on the 9TH Of May, IN which they lost
only So men, killed and wounded, while the
Republican loss was 4lS. The details of the
action show good generalship and great gal
lantry on the part of the yictors.--Bnd
weather continues at Vienna, and on We'd
n gsday there was a bitter storm which dam
NO. ed the Exposition building and some oil
the contents, and injured a number of per
sons and reduced the grounds to mud
Thus far, the show makes bad show, anC
* n fai lure, the citizens being cast down.
partly in consequence of the money PAM
that has come upon old Wien. The frs
Quarrel about the Exposition was betweel
the Arc hauke Charles Louis and Baro
Schwart Z. The Archduke was patron of tn
Exposit' on and the baron its superIntenc
emit al I'd tn, quarrel related to the delay
getting the aiIair into working order. LII
two dis nitariesi appealed unto Caesar, an
Cesar, lecided against his relative ,-probi
blv bee ,use he is his relative,- and Il
Archd, Ike took the decision so unphilosoph
cally IS to leave Vienna. There will
other luarrels, it * probable, as men Al