Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-05-22
GENERAL NEWS.

s ln lrt-a-e has just been recorded in New
York By the Farmers Loan and IruS; Com
taiv. as trustees. of the real estate. franchise
rolling stock. ami all other appartenanee- of
al, Erie Lair.al for so 900 900. 10 secure
f.. cr-,.il---i mortgage bonds.
It. near-t railroad project on paper is in
combination o. iuc.udt the Mon Pacific and
>eteral other roads necessary % form q con-
rua1u- line from New York 20 >ln Francisco.
According TO the alleged programme i i- the
desire If the moving spirits In Union Pacific
20 create new through route which viii
leave the Mon Pacific at Fort kel-uey and
carry freight over the y. Joseph. Denver
CITY. Hannibal. 81 Joseph and the Toledo.
Wabash and Western Railroads. This en-
q cement viii extend the line H. far east
ward a. Toledo. from which point the Cana
On Southern Is 10 Doe utilized a. far Is Bli-
alo. whence, if po-,ibie the Erie Railway
Will be made 10 serve aS far a. New York
This arrangement. it j. reported, viii cut
of the Chicac, and Northwestern. the Chi
ca-o. Rock Island and Pacific and the Lake
lore Railroads from any share in the bust
ness
The war between the Baltimore and Ohio
and the Pennsylvania railroads has ended.
aud the travel between Washington and
New y rk i TO he divided between them. \
special train Of Pullman cars with q re-taIr-
ant car Is . leave each city at $40 IN,
and make the trip in six hours and forty
minutes, the fare to be so.
4 monument to the Confederate dead was
unveiled at New Orleans the anniversary Of
Lees surrender. 1t consists of statue
ai "a private soldier standing upon pedestal
Irln which are busts of ten. Robert t. Lee.
>,onewal jackson. Albert Sidney Johnston.
and Bishop Polk.
Suicide was committed in an extraordinary
way by a Young man at Paris. Bear lake
Valley. L tab lately lie deliberately drove
n mai, into his head and died in a few hours
after. This was serving himself a. Jaei in
Scripture served Sisera.
New Orleans ha- lost thirty thousand in
haaitant~ in Two years, and has six Thousand
unoccupicd houses and stores.
Congressman William A. Phillips. of Kan
81. received despatch from hi- home iu
>l.ina. the other night, saying that his resi-
i-nce. valued at $1,000, had been totally
destroyed by fire, hut, through great exer-
tinn. most of the library. which was worta
sic. WIS saved.
The Jews in England are highly pleased
that TWO of their race obtained distinction IN
the military examination at Woolwich. !
There are only fye Jewish officers in the /
Bri-ti-h army.
\ news agent on the New York Central /
Railroad. named Miner. jumped off the train 1
NJ lIerkimer, recently. for the purpose of /
visiting Young lady. In the Performance I
he fell under the cars, which cut of an arm
and q ler. causing death almost instantly
The poor fellow had ri~ked life many times
before for the same young lady. and bad
been warned by the conductor to stop it.
Two lads, twin sons of Patrick Heating.
Of Oneida. Madison county, y. Y. were
killed, recently. by the cars. They bad
crawied Undera freight train lying ou
branch track. and came ont a. the express
came along. One of the boys was thrown
distance OF thirty feet against a freight train
aud instantly killed The other received
less injury, but died the same night.
\ man named Newman. employed a-
night Waterman in Ciark's mill. OneiIa
county, y. y. while on duty fell through
hatchwav ana down two stories and base
nent. striking On some iron bolts. fastened
i'm the floor, one Of which imualed him. For
two hourS he lay in more than mortal agony.
when he WIS discovered At latest accounts
he wa~ still alive. though vomiting large
Quantities Of blood. and his death Wa hour
y looked FOR.
\ cremation society ha, recently been
l-mei in Berlin. The society in Vienna
ia> adopted the significant uame Of tho m.
\ hty seventy years Of age has i1ined and ,
lh~crihel $4,000 toward the Iaildin- of
Ne cremation hall. The flrnare for the /,
icnHa association l. 10 be- constructed 90 n
he plan OF Dr.. Reklam. Of LeiTsic. Ara
lte meeting of the magistrates Of Nurcm-
erC, Burcoma~ter Won >tr1ner moved that d.
he rroprioty Of erecting cremation hail be =
lnSider.d at the same time thar the mo- },
'ct for adding TO the churrh-vari of the y
burch Of 81. John i taken up. NJ OLE =,
ction was made To this motion. :,
4 letter from St Pierre Miquelon. an
land of the coast OF Newfoundland. men
1ns the statement of the captain of q
rench vessel Just arrived, to the effect that :.
the 10Th OF April be had passed large y
Gamer running near enough Il see thar !.
e had been abandoned. 1t would be ~
nu-ins if this should turn out 10 he the
s. steamer Europe. This seems 10 be the ~
aSon Tor salvage, and il would not be sur- "a
l>In- TO hear some day Of a vessel ,.eauin- ~
TO port with the Europe in tow. IN m
\ Minnesota man has invented linen fel
ate gram tube which he VIII warrarf +, sn