Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-09-24

/ \ man may buy Co!d 100 dear
Fred Douglass, Jr, IS Washington po-
lieeman.
Greece will participate in our Centennial.
That insures its running smoothly.
NO ballot, no babies, was the ultima
tum presented on transparency at a re-
cent woman's rights meeting out West.
\ man who recently appropriated an
other mans umbrella on rainy day has
been sentenced To three months imprison-
ment but it was in England.
Who shall say that the young man in
Virginia has not struck the root OF the
p.ollem, in celebrating the 18th year he
has not been married?
The civilized Indians of the Indian Ter
ritory, decline to sanction the settlement of
white men among them.
of sixty-two counties in Kansas in which
the census has been completed, thirty light
show a gain and twenty-three loss.
\ new kind Of potato bug. half to three
quarters Of an inch long, and with mouth
as big as his Colorado brother. has appeared
in Dakota county, MINI.
The capital invested in the lumber bust
ness amounts to about $500 900 900, and its
operations extend from Maine to Oregon.
Over one hundred Illicit whiskey stills
have recently been broken up in Northern
Georgia, and ninety-eight persons have been
convicted for running them.
The Detroit Free rsSs says that William :
Cullen Bryant probably never put up
stove in his life. What does it suppose made
him write THE Melancholy Days Have
Come -
Gen. Fitz Hugh Lee has an offer from the
khediye of Egypt, who wants him to reor-
ganize hi, famous Black horse cavalry, for
a body guard to the Egyptian ruler.
While the government debt has decreased
since the close OF the war, the state and town
debt of the country Is now, in 1875, nearly
ten times as large as it was nine years ago.
1t isn't often, even IN these bankrupt
times, that railroad goes for such song as
50. but that is all that Gen. Leslie Coombs
paid, Monday, for the track of the Elizabeth
town, Lexington and Big Sandy railroad.
pietro Vain. the suicide artist, left 500
900.
Florida expects to market million pine
apples this fall.
The passengers on the Moravian, which
was nearly sunk by collision with an iceberg
in the Straits of Bell Isle, last week, counted
over eighty icebergs, both great and small.
NJ. Schichkin, the new Minister OF Russia
to the United States, is en- route to Wash
ington, with all his Schichkin-fxins.
SIX muIderers, young in years but old in
crime, were hung on one gallows at Fort
Smith, Ark, in one day last week.
They are trying in Montreal whether the
Bishop or the government governs. Up to
this time the Bishop is clearly ahead.
Wine and women were what ruined Sooy,
the defaulting state treasurer of New jersey
after long life of usefulness and honesty.
In the craw of a quail lately killed in
Ohio were found one cutworm, twenty-one
striped vine bugs and one hundred ehinet
bugs, but not single grain OF corn.
"Thirty-nine lashes on the bare back" is
proposed in New Jersey for any man who
accepts an Office the duties of which he knows
himself incapable of performing.
The iniquities of the Kentucky lotteries
have been so thoroughly exposed, that it is
predicted the next Legislature will abol-
ish them.