Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-12-12
CURRENT NOTES.

At.oruey-Geuerll Dinnezrepor,~ .hat ,he
~ igilautes' of Indiana extend over four coun-
ties and number about Geo members Their
hasine~~ is to hang men who don't behave
themselves. They profess 10 do the work
that The courts are too corrupt to do. Gov
ernor Hendricks has threatened them. and
they have promised to dishand
The Iaconia q. H. Dcmooqf tells tie
following singular incident We are told of
one of old who was fed by ravens. bat we
had not supposed until within few DAYS
that the miracles would be duplicated in this
age. \ few days ago a well-known citizen,
then living near the Neirs. was quite sick,
and diet of partridge was recommended,
20 procure which 4 son Of the sick man ira
yelled the woods in all directions, without
success, and returned home Disappointing the
household. Very soon hawk was seen hy-
ing over with something struggling in his
claws, and that something proved to be q
nice fat partridge, wounded, bat not dead.
that. while over the dooryard Of the sick
man. got free of the hawk : claws and
came tumbing down at the very door where
he was needed The time was when such
m event would have been accounted mira
Gle. now it only happened SO.
4 Pekin. H., coroner's jury rendered a
verdict that 4 man. whose body was found
in the river, came to his death by blow on
the head, (which was given either before or
after drowning"
IN English gentleman. recently deceased.
mpentiyely wilei that his wife shouid not,
after lis deceaSe, "otiend artistic taste or
blazon the sacred feelings of her sweet AMI
gentle nature hy the exhibition of q widow 5
cap.
Richard lackay, Colorado miner who IS
reported to be worth - , 900 to SlU0.t0O,
has lust been sentenced at Denver to eigh-
teen months imprisonment for man-laughter.
lie carried his case through MI the courts.
at an expense of $50, ,0O0.
says the Detroit Free Pt,,s \ New
Hampshire man was struck on the head with
an axe and made an idiot for life, and Yet
the man who struck him was fined only Sh3.
1t doesn't damage a New Hampshire man
much TO make fool Of him.
Chicago wants to have the next worlds
fair held there. I'm the first place says
the Boston Post. lit isn't certain the next
world will have fair, and in the second
place those who'd be likely to attend it will
prefer more pious town in which 90 celc-
brate it.
The lively little R.7ac of Peoria avs
We have not had n balloon ascension in
Peoria for many years, but the people of
this settlement are now standing in silent
awe. tearfully watching potatoes going up
ont Of sight, with a good start atSl.io
a bushel.''
The Washington papers are warmly com-
mending Senator Sprague's habit Of settling
half million on each of his children at its
birth So do we The custom is q beauti-
ful one, and no family should be without it.
Alta prayer-meeting in Maine. few
nights ago, one Of the members prayed a.
Lord. Thou knowest that Charles Iomp-
kins has sold poor boots to some of Us. Make
him DO the fair thing by the next buyer
\ conductor on the Hudson River Railroad
the other day absent-mindedly gave a pas
~engcr a roll of bills The passenger was
one of those who found il necessary to get
off at the next station and has not since been
seen.
Mention is made of n man in Phillips
| (Me) who has been nineteen times tapped,
and had $50 pounds Of water taken IRON
| him Some town that is anxious for steady
supply Of water should make a contract
with him.
Mr. Arch is sharp at bargain lie wants
To stock the American market with farm la
borers at twenty dollars head, and want,
the cash in advance to help bring the said
laborer over That i 4 big hoanty on immi-
| grafton.
\ Connecticut gentleman boasts OF having
/ in his collection of curiosities the nk-stand
used by Gen. jackson at the battle of New
/ Orleans. But what the dickens did Gen.
jackson want of an ink-stand at the battle
of New Orleans.-Sprmgfe'd Republican.
\ Greenyille, Tenn, quill-driver pleasantly
saws Of another writer Ills slandcrou-
soul Is imbued with the electric fire of he'll
his black heart emits the sulphurou7 fumc.
till his whole nature is absorbed in one
/ homogeneous mass Of hellishnesS, and th,
Norristown Herald man says admiringly
A man might 20 to the Yale School o
Journalism $50 years and not learn to wri''
that way.
The Giilroy (Cal.) people. in lit cf mora
alteration, the other day, formed the pro
prietors Of their dance-houses in line ana
marched them four miles out Of the town re
questing them not TO return.