Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-03-12

ThiIty-eight stars for the national bunt-
ing hereafter.
Been drinking too much Kissiugen water
in Brooklyn.
General Frank Blair is slowly sinking.
There are no hopes Of his recovery.
The public debt decreased So $50. 1888 dur
ing the past month.
The Able List, after long eclipse. has
reappeared in Rome in the concert of the
international Art Club.
The Rome correspondent OF the Pilot,
writing under date of February lith, says
that the Holy Father enjoys most remark
able health, reports TO the contrary not
withstanGing.
Flora Temple" the famous horse, i 30
years old, and her kind hearted owner Is
doing all that he can to smooth her path
way 20 the glue-factory.
Large docks OF snow birds are making n
living in Kansas in eating the eggs OF tne
grasshoppers, which the frost has heavet
ont of the ground.
The temperance feeling at Manis;ee,
Mich. is so strong that lawyers will not
defend liquor sellers, and the latter are
obliged to plead their own cases in court.
4 bill has passed the Maine Legislature
allowing women, holding the proper ofhces.
to solemnzs marriages, administer oaths
and take Acknowledgements OF deeds.
George De Baptis,e, who brought over
600 slaves from the South to Canada.
without the consent of their owners, pre-
yiors to the war of the rebellion, died in
Detroit on Monday last.
Bismarck has the pistols OF his two as
assins, Blind and Kullmann, in his study.
lie had to pay one thaler, twenty groschen
for the latter. to the thrifty Bayarian min
lister of justice.
A Montreal man sues grocer Tor obtain
ing $685. of him on false pretenses, the
grocer having sold him $40 worth OF but
ter, which the buyer alleges shrunk hity
per cent, when warm. on account IL snow
or ice IN it.
A 5O0-pound PARROT shell, in Peek skill f,
filled with water the other night, which
froze solid and burst the shell into three
pieces. The iron was three inches thick
The Philadelphia Press says that the
n orth will never forget or forgive the TACT
that the White Leaguel had "Eli Perkins
at the South and failed to kill him.
despatch from London. received ia
New York, last week, said that large mobs
in the city of Buenos Ayres have sacked the
Catholic Archbishop's palace. and burned
the hou ses of the order of the Jesuits
At Mount Vernon, n. Y, recently, a
Young WOMAN died. and wake was held.
during which large number OF persons
kissed the corpse. The girl had died OF
malignant smallpox. and the disease alter
ward killed five other persons
smallpox is an improvement On the scan
dal -B Boston Post.
Advice GRATIS to the dyspeptie-Chew
and eschew Punch.
California views unmoyed the first female
student of medicine within her borders
The Chicago Times thinks its better to
be living whatdoyoucall EN- than dead
eomethingorother.
\ Georgia editor illustrates The dePlora-
BE effects Of whiskey upon the human IN
tellect by nominating Aleck Stephens tor
president
The President, il i said, intends 10
abolish the civil service rules because OF
the failure Of Congress 10 adopt his Nug-
g 'tions
1r.e war in Cuba Is still wagei with the
utmc. resolution by the Spanards SHl Inc
Insurgents.
General relief will be felt from the news
that the differences between the hr-t and
second KIM of siam, have been satl7lae-
torily adjas.et
Advices from Asia Minor state that the
famine in that country Is causing terrible
di,trc-,. In one dis .riet 10000 persons GU;
of q population Of y 200, have died since
the conn. ,ncement Of the famine
The trouble at the Naval Academy at An
napolis Is at an end, all members OF the
fourth class Of miishipmen having gwen
written assurance that they viii not further
modest the colored cadet Baker
The latest clerical scandal is reported tun
knoxville Tenn. the unfortunate man being
Rev Archibald Hines. who j. accused Of
having stolen fifty cents from a bowl in the
cupboard of a member of his church Thirty
Witnesses have already been examined. Mr..
Hines declares that the whole thing j. a
conspiracy set on foot bya Knoxville Bowen,
and he ha~ begun suit for SANDER against
his accuser.