Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-04-04
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.
DOMESTIC.
The labors of the Tweed investigating
committee were brought to an abrupt ter
mination, Thursday, by the resignation Of
the distinguished gentleman whose conduct
was being investigated. The committee
was promptly excused from further duty by
an almost unanimous yote-thi> fraternal
harmony being ascribed by the worlds peo-
pie to a threat OF Tweed's, that if the in
vestigation was carried through some of the
conscript fathers " would get hurt. 49,
The Erie Investigation, by committee Of
the same legislature, l. still going on, and
some very curious and interesting fact, have
been brought to light. 1t appears that the
comp dcfat effected by the eminent reformer
Daniel f. Sickles, was by no means a tri-
umph of moral Suasion. but that vast sums
Of money (aggregating some eight hun
dred thousand dJllars) were expended in
procuring the resignation Of the Gould
board of directors and their attaches Also,
large sums of money We're paid under the
Gould regime to the Hon. William NJ Tweed
for " legal services though the precise
'' legal services. rendered cannot be accu-
rately recalled by the officers of the COM
pany. The mysterious murder Of Charles
Goodrich (Which, ~ingularly enough, oc-
CURED almost simultaneously with the exc
cutiouo of FOSTER which has for some time
monopoiized large share of public inter
est, seems to be on the point of solution. \
clue to the murderer was obtained by the
arrest of Mr,. Meyers Ga mistress of the de-
ceasel), and later developments render it
almost certain that the deed was committed
by jealous lover of this woman though
as to the murderer name and whereabouts
there are conflicting rumor>-In this con-
nection We are called upon to chronicle
list Of murders, lyuchings and executions
almost without parallel, for a similar
length of time, in the annals of crime. On
Monday night, March II, Mrs Ilousden,
widow, sixty YEAR, of age, wa, taken from
her bed. carried to the common gallows
erected for dressing hogs, and there hanged
till She was ljead. The perpetrators ofthis
brutal murder and their motive are alike
unknown Catharinc Kerwin, aged -, was
fatally beaten by her husband (it is aleged),
in New York, last Friday. On the same
day. Edward Clark, ofWarren Co., Va, beat
his wife to death with an iron ladle, and
then set fire to tho house, burning TO death
one of his children. Two negro murderers
were hanged Tor murder, on Friday last !;
Thomas Smith. at Louisville, Ky, whose
execution was witnessed bya crowd of 1000
persons and Charles Manley, at Washing
ton, Va. On wednesday morning George
Byron was hanged by n mob at Chillieothe,
Mo-, for the crime of rape. On Sunday
night a man was beaten to death on a street
in Philadelphia. On Friday night, Frank
| Hahn, Virginia drovor was murdered in
Washington, d. C.-An official report
! from Gen. Candy, commanding the forces
| in the Mod0c country, shows that the grand
! pOw-wOw of the peace commissioners and
or definite results, the chiefs having eVaded
or failed to answer all important questions.
| 1t is to be hoped that some vigorous meas
ures will now be taken TO subdue this band
| of robbers and murderers.-AbOut Sl0,-
600 has been subscribed for the proposed
| Greeley mOnument.-An Ohio Republl-
can county convention has shown its appre-
citation of Gen. Garfeld's course in the back
pay swindle by inviting him to resign his
| seat in Congress- Wilkie Collins. the IA
nous novelist Tom Hood. the humorist;
| Mr. Bradlaugh, the untamable democrat :;
and Miss Mary Carpenter, the philanthro-
pist. are coming to America to lecture, dur
ing the coming seasOn.-A panic occurred
in st. John 5 Church, Trenton, \. ,, Mon
day morning, a congregation assembled at a
funeral being alarmed by the breaking of a
kneeling-board. Thinking the gallery was
falling the people rushed for the doors and
Jam ensued in which eleven persons, all
emales but one, were injured, some of them
Sc 7erely- -
IN continues to be in troublous state.
~ 'p1 "a report of a Carlist victory in the
"o nav Of Catalonia on Sunday, March
% and n, ,f.'wn Of Berga was burned by
-. - ''i-~ Wv, 9 on Friday. The government
soldiers in tina pro, i,' az io'''--y1
are crises anon G the ~ ,''e'' ''-l'- ,,''1''1
Governments ar9 hostile to the new Kepuo-
lie. By unanimous vo, , '-.O rs 1.,9''ilD
has abolished slavery in P, ~ - $50 ~
conferred full citizenship on tn, w. +r;hpt,
ted slaves.-Servia declines to pa 49,,
any longer to Turkey, and the Tu Nv;
about to comrel its payment by force. :.
condition of affairs may bring about an a
tempt to settle that very old thing, the
Eastern question, which has waited so long
for an answer. Japan is 8 progressing
at rate which promises to make Of the
Farthest East successful rival of the Far
West. Not only has a special edict been pro-
mulgated, tolerating Christianity through
out the whole empire, but the entire coun-
try is to be thrown open to foreigners, and
a code based on the codes of Europe is in
process of formation. Last but not least,
a " Universal Exposition" will be held by
the japanese, soon, and their 1eddo is to
rival London, Paris, and Vienna in the ex-
hibi ton line-One of the great events Of
the ear, in England-the Oxford and Cam
bridge boat race-took place on Saturday,
March 80, and was witnessed by the largest
number of persons ever congregated to view
like co ntest. The race was won by three
lengths by the Cambridge crew-making
four wear in succession in which the Cam
bridge me have been victorious.
\ EcROLoGY OF THE WEEK.
The Hon.. James Dixon died at Hartford,
CT, Thursd ay, March 81, aged ffty-eight
years. He was U. S. Senator from Connec-
ticut from s57 to 1869, and was for many
years one of the foremost politicians of the
State.-Co Mt Bernstein, the German am
bassador to Or eat Britain, died March Goth,
aged 65 years, after long and useful dip
lomatic career. Counties Guiccioli, who
vas at one ii.n, brought prominently before
the public IN o Dnnection with the Byron
scandal, died in Paris on the Goth, aged
seyenty-tvoe