Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-01-28
In Brief.
Texas has green corn.
Mrs. Ross thinks Charley is alive.

le1as mas green corn
Mrs. Ross thinks Charley is alive.
Fashions of 1776 are to be revived; bu
bow-leggsd men cant strut around in kne
breeches.
The Sierra Nevadas on the line of tn
Central Pacific are piled with snow eigh
feet deep.
Mosquitoes are plenty and savage in New
Orleans.
In Pendleton, Oregon, there is a grand
mother, aged 80.
Over twenty sailing vessels were wrecked
on Lake Michigan during the recent gales
and several sailors perisbed from exposure
Nine daily prayer meetings are now car
ried on in London.
Brooklyn finds that she entertained so :
900 tramps, last year.
The Hudson river ice harvest is two weeks
behind hand, and 5000 men are waiting for
the work to begin.
The New Haven Journal suggests that the
Centennial coffee pot will probably be ex-
hibited on the ''grounds."
report is current that the fast mail
trains will soon be withdrawn, because the
railroads are losing money on them.
The trial of Lands, for the murder of the
late editor Carruth, of Vineland, n. j., is
in progress.
The Michigan numbering interest is suf-
fering from an over-supply, and two of the
heaviest lumber firms in the State have re-
Gently failed.
After we have hanged Writ, it would be
simple qualification" the Nation thinks,
to amnesty his military superior, Mr.. Davis.
Mayor Wickham has withdrawn his nomi-
nation of Fitz John Porter, for the commits
sionership of public works of New York.
The saddest story vet Of the ravages of
| diphtheria comes from Newark n. }. where
one family by the name of Bauer has lost
eight children by the disease.
A despatch to the London Times says
that 800 Turkish soldiers were frozen to
death, the other day, at place called
Douza.
\ great revival is in progress in Milford,
n. II. Whether it has reached the Blan-
chard family is not stated.
Governor Ludington, in his message n
| the Wisconsin Legislature. recommends that
the Potter railroad law be repealed, and one
be substituted similar to the Massachusetts,
law.
The exodus of negroes from Georgia to
Mississippi and Arkansas continues. \
Columbus paper says that all the labor has
left some sections near there.
The vicerog of Egypt himself sends the
contribution Of that ancient country TO our
centennial fair. and it has already arrived
Il comprises 5000 articles, and viii be one
Of the most interesting displays in the exhi-
bition.
The Cornell girl who took the first prize
/ in Greek. in the intercollegiate contest, is
now styled By the defeated Young fellows
''the Greek Slave" They declare that they
could not know Greek like one from
Ithaca. -
Gray's harmonic system of multiplex
telegraphy was tried at Milwaukee Saturday
eight messages being sent and a. many re-
ceived, at the same time, over single wire,
t. distance of 200 miles.
Murat Halstead and Henry Watterson re
marks the New York Herald on each side of
Grant, deny that be IL the Saviour of his
country.
Orange culture in Georgia has been tried
with success, and the fruit Is said to rival
that OF Florida.
A Chicago justice wouldn't believe a wo-
man who ascribed her staggering to the ei-
feet Of a very tight pull-back skirt.
\ bill has been Introduced into the Leg
. .'4fn ff MfS.fs.frrf fo ta OK Rra ffry
compulsory throughout the state.
The daily papers are congratulating Mr..
Bennett Of the Herald on his engagement tc
be married.
Mormon women to the number Of % 36C
have peti'ioned Congress virtually to legal
ize polygsmy.
Dom Piatt, Mary Francis and other 'noto
rious characters, who are among the heir:
Of Cincinnati millionaire, named Kirby
deceased, are fighting The will.
Great Britain, France. Germany anC
Russia, are reported to have responded fa-
vorablY to President Grants proposition t,
bring pressure to bear on Spain.
The Egyptian army under American gen
erals is achieving successes over the Abys-
sinians under English commanders.
The warlke preparations continue, th'
naval vessels are concentrating at Por
Royal and military stores are being gather
cd at ST. Augustine.
The fsur great nations of Europe hav'
trained, or have in training, for war, 600,
900 men from the ages of seventeen to forty
five.