Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-02-19
In Brief.

without one.
Mile Albani is to visit Canada at the close
OF her tour through this country
Bishop-elect De Koven declines to say
whether he will accept his new position.
The Potomac is again frozen over from
shore to shore.
Long Island Sound was filed with ice on
Wednesday and nearly all the Sound mar
bors frozen over.
Three men have been frozen to death near
Little Valley, Cattaraugus county, n. l.,
within q few days past.
Mr.. John Mitchell is announced as a can
ddate for member OF Parliament for Tip
perary.
Peter Weber, of Chicago. is the happy
father of four little daughters, all at one
fell swoop.
Snow-shoe elubsare very popular in Can
ada, some Of their tramps extending for q
distance of 80 miles
Bills to abolish capital punishment are
receiving the death penalty all round this
year.
kilograms from China say that civil
war in that country Is considered immI-
nent.
The proposed reciprocity treaty will come
I'D in the Dominion parliament on Tuesday
next.
Penobscot Bay. in Maine. is frozen over
for the second time in 25 years, and people
walk across from Castine, IL miles.
Mrs. Bowman of Brooklyn was killed,
Wednesday. by the explosion of the water
heating apparatus of her kitchen range.
And now Little Mac wants care on his
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neckl lace. lie is up the Nile with the hhe-
dive, and high in favor.
Illinois appears to be suspicious of her
financial officers. The Legislature is con-
sidering the adyisability of rendering city
treasurors ineligible for reelection.
Reports from Prince Edwards island
state that the whole island Is now an I'M
mense saowDank. and almost all kinds OF
work are at stand-still.
in the vicinity Of Utica, n. y. the snow
drifts are impossible. christening party
| with q clergyman was showed IN Tor
three DAYS, ut the house of the happy
parents
\ New York correspondent says that
hundreds Of consumptives, acting on the
advice Of eminent physicians, visit the
slaughter houses there daily for the purpose
of drinking the warm blood from an OK.
The train of cars which passed through
the Hoosac Tunnel. on Tuesday, consisted
Of three gravel cars and box car with
about one hundred passengers. The passage
was made in thirty FIVE minutes.
Sou-in law Sartoris is the lion of the day
among the frequenters Of the Washington
gymnasium, having recently twice badly
worsted Charley Collins, a bcrly ex-pu-
IL. ia af -rIp a
tnat institution.
The courts are to have a chance to de-
eide whether New York can indulge in the
"eau-can" openly. a test case having been
made of the arrest of the proprietOrs OF the
Metropolitan theatre, and 10 ballet-girls,
who were taken while going through the
performance.
According u d report of the Mobile
Board of Trade the centre Of the grain pro-
duction in the United States in 1850 was
near the centre Of Indiana. in 1860 at the
centre of Illinois. and in 1872 near The
centre of Missouri.
Ii is hard times with the ocean steam
shio companies. Passenger travel to Europe
has almost entirely ceased. and emigration
to this country has greatly fallen of. More
than three hundred steamships are idle in
British ports.
The steamer from Portland to New York,
on Monday, had to force her way through
ice in Long Island Sound, so strong that
men jumped from the steamship to the ice,
and walked about on it. and parties came
over the ice 10 the steamer from vessels
frozen 10 a mile away.
Nast's illustration Of ''the whirlgig CT
time. in the last Harpr's Weekly, Is cap
ital II is Andy johnson once more enter
ing the Senate chamber. and Mast once
more after him. portfolio in hand. His
Dow. as he SAYS 70 the circuwnavigatOr Of
the circle Here We are again, is all
politeuess, but there Is a malicious twinkle
in the corner Of his eye.
Chicago thinks it Is her turn to have the
Republican national convention again.
The peach crop all about Grand Haven,
Mich, j. ruined by the cold.
In more than two hundred Of the Con
grecatilnal churches OF Massachusetts there
were No baptislns Of infants last year.
= cheese weighing fourteen tons will be
ons Of the contributions from Ohio TO the
Philadelphia centennial.
Gsorge NJ. Pullman, now in England. has
sent home for > new sleeping ears, to be
put upon the English roads.
The State constables are officially abolish
Ell in Massachusetts the lst Of March. and
the governor Is 70 substitute for them State
detective force Of thirty men.
The national grange, in session at Charles
ton. : c.. on Saturday, adopted Il res7lu-
ton tavoring a Southern Pacific railroad.
There i nothing ike experience to set
men morali.ing \ plumbers bill for 81 80
for twenty hours work has served to make
the New York Express reflective.
Rev. Mr. kalloch Of unsavory reputation,
now of Leayenworth, Kan, has received
cal from two Baptist churches in San Fran
cisco which propose To consolidate and pay
him $1,000 year
Salmon in the Connecticut again seems to
be one Of the near probabilities. Afect
500 900 young Penobscot salmon were placed
in the tributaries q the river last year.
lone can hardly doubt" SAYS Oliver
Wendell Holmes in the last number Of the
Boston Medical and Surgical Review, - that
Spenser breathed habitually more slowly
than Prior, and that Anacreon had 4 quicker
respiration than Homer.
Boston has cheaper rates on westward
bound freight than any other city on the
eaboard, : ; cents a hundred being the pre-
sent rate Of the Boston and Albany The
Boston and Maine is carrying westward
freight to Portland to the Grand Trunk for {
| cents ton.