Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-02-26
la Brief.

Charles Francis Adams, Jr., thinks the
granger movement is dying out.
The Hollanders are said really 10 Ike cold
schnapps.
LIGHTHOUSE Strawberries are selling, in
NewYork, at SO per quart.
Dr. DeKoyen has accepted the Bishorric
of Illinois.
The city Of Albany has distributed 900
tons of coal among the poor this winter
The next Congress will be the first in
| good many years without member OF the
Washburn family in it.
Japan has appropriated $4,000 Tor ez
| penditures in connection with our eenten
NAL.
| The hotels in the White Mountains are
not "at present" paying running expenses.
The Jim Fisk Grand Opera House, New
York city, is to be converted into hotel.
A New York jury cannot agree whether
the can can IS an immoral dance.
Bishop Doane, of the Albany "a. "
Diocese, has issued call for prayers for
rain.
Serious oyersight-Mr. Tlton was not
asked his opinion OF - Paradise Lost or the
transit of Venus.
The United State already pays twice as
much in pensions As any other nation in the
world.
\ Connecticut man drank fee glasses of
whiskey on bet, last week, but it was his
asst drink.
\ conaagration, which caused the death Of
tifty-one persons, happened Friday, in 4
match factory, At Gottenburg, Sweden.
New York milliouaires own and crui=- in
sixteen steam yachts.
Emigrants arrive il such small numbers
at New York that the emigrant boarding
/ houses divide up the business, at the rate of
one and two-thirds Of an EN- grant pei day to
each house.
An eminent chemist is reported As youch
ing for the fact, that placing frozen potatoes
in cold water for six days previous to using
viii make them as good a. new.
Tilton wanted the children clothed in
calico, and now, remarks the Chicago Times,
they're in prints all over the country
From the ear Of lawyer Of indianapolis,
Ind. few days since, piece of : late
pencil was extracted which had penetrated
lhs organ III '''yl'A "oi'c' seventeen years
Dei1fe'
Western people need not AXE any stock
in the statement that the ice crop Of New
England has been destroyed Jy lie gras>-
hoppers.
The search tor Charlie Ross stu CON
tnue-. but with smaller and smaller pro-
! Iect Of success
All the women who have symmetrical
hslre7 are rejoicing IN the new fashion oi
corset "a'7''-
"spo-in one u The iaf1ra "a he Eesther
Hilton ea'9 should dc and they should have
10 r"' cut anu ''g'n again
The tanaliAns axe considering The que
Iion oipurcha''ng 4 portion OF tue territory
Of Alaska
lhe Albany A'yt4 s4la that tios. IA pea
etrated INTO The earth 70 4 greater depth
than ever before known IN that city.
An excursion ra1tv u seals from Latr,-
dor, passed down the last river one day
last week On a big cake Il i,e. charterei tz-
.fassly Tor the irip
Tha .ce embargo la, so delayed the tran--
portation q goal that there is almost = fuel
famine IN SONS % ihe interior Massachusetts,
towns
The Philadelphia Gig election =, summed
up by the h14u''r1 a AN Overwhelming
kepnhii'an victory Cause, good n'nina
tons
\ member oi the legislature oi Illinois
has introduced bill making it penal
offence tor one person 10 treat another O.
any intoxicating drink.
ben ! 1ngStre5t has abandoned Louisiana
and sought farm 10 White county, TIA, I
where De VIII engage in sheep missing.
Mr. Charles O'.onor write 10 ,ie A.,
4...- tbat he Je-rairs n ..seprin,- LEGISLATION
BY which the c.sll suits asains; Tweed aal
lngersoll c.n be- pr5secctei successfully
Bv Tie census Of l,-d. ul..ut sis million
dollars worth of starch wa. manufactured
In the United state. About one-twe.fth.
or halfa million worth. Wa made ia New
Hampshire.
Since tie 1islr,earanee oil Charley Rl..
eleven kiiuapnei children have l.een recover
80 hy their parents through the agitation
cause- by the reward.
Ten az III seyenteen titut,..t,l
smend,neY.s nrop..s, Ir m. Maine C,a.ti-
tu;ional Convention bar. been rejected iv
the Legislature
jesse Pomer5v. Boston. The b,y-tof.a..r.
has received the sentence Of the Inv fJr he
murda, n Iittie Horace Nillen death liz
hanging.
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