Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-02-04
In Brief.

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Sick people down South are coming North
to find warmer weather.
The Prince of Wales, model husband
telegraphs his wife daily from India.
Caleb Cushing was seventy-six years old
last Monday.
New Jersey has no debt, except the war
debt, and that amounts to only 81 1896. 900.
A petrifed girl has been discovered in an
Arkansa. cave.
Charles O'Conor is making collection of
" his last words, as reported by the news
papers.
David Crockett's commission to act as
justice of the peace has just been found in
Tennessee
The woman Boyon, who killed six of her
children ara one grandchild by sticking
needles into their bodies, has been hanged
at Bourg, France.
The Brooklyn and Chicago gas companies
have redCced their rates, the former Is per
cent and the latter to $3.50 per thousand
A Virginia school marin has her husband
for one of her pupils.
Strawberries plenty in New Orleans.
Small pox is raging in New York city.
Drownings while skating are common.
By the close of January there will be
fourteen well-armed monitors ready for sea.
Bessie Turner got more for her novel
than Shakespeare for his plays.
Ten thousand silken flags are to be used
IN decorating the main building at the Cen
tennial Exhibition
Fifty Otoe Indians have been massacred
by the Sioux Indians
1t IS said that the Millennium has been
set down for 1876, by Mr. Moody, greatly
to the delight of DR.. Cumming.
The Danbury Nelrs has noticed that the
homeliest men wear the finest rings.
Wolyes are killing sheep at fearful
rate in Clearfeld county, Pa.
The London Times calls the Constitution
OF the United States the " most sacred
political document in the whole world"
The Tredegar Iron Company, 0: Rich
mond, which suspended last week, was the
largest concern of the kind in the South
Miss Bell B)ynton dropped dead in the
streets Of Concord, n. H., while going to
a fremen's ball, Friday evening
The anniversary of Gen Robert F.. Lees
birthday was celebrated, last week, in near
ly every city of importance in the South.
Russia is said to be moving troops Turkey
ward in great masses.
The Michigan Supreme Court declares
unconstitutional the law prohibiting the
sale OF liquors on Sunday.
PAY your debts if you have money to DO
So Do not hoard your money through
slayish fear of hard times
\ man was arrested in Massachusetts,,
few days since, who has four wives, the
fourth Of whom has four husbands living.
Much Is said of there being ffty-three
Saturdays in lS7G. while little seems to be
thought OF the fact that there are also fifty
three Sundays in the year.
\ recent fog. in Boston. was 50 thick that
carpenter who was finishing up a piece
Of roof shihgled over, by mistake, two feet
On to the fog.
Lord lloughtcn, the last British traveller
in America, is going round reporting that
we are about To erect statue of George
III, as one Of the incidents Of the Centen-
NAL Year Oh
Queen Victoria Is expected to open the
next Parliament in person.
John Mary John Baptist Peter Pelegrine
lsodoro Mastei-l lerretti j. the name Of Plus
IN
Father IIyacinthe has decided not to vis:;
this country this year.
The present winter is unusually severe in
Russia.
Antonelli, the Pope'4 prime minister, has
had relapse, and his recovery is considered
very doubtful.
The Pope has concluded not to resist the
inspection Of the Catholic seminaries by
government officers.
\ blind mendicant in Paris wears this in
scripjion around his neck " Don't be
ashamed to give only 4 sou. can't see"
The governor of Virginia pardoned
criminal, the other day,on condition that he
shall never use ardent spirits wine, or any
other intoxicating beverage.
Miss Bidwell was married to Mr. Bod
well, last week. by a Boston clergyman.
Somebody suggests that the change Is % all
IN her tl eye"
Gail Hamilton advises girls to pick out
husbands a shrewd boy chooses his apple.
She tells them to take to good-looking, plump,
/ lively fellows or none.
The French peasant treats bad cold by
/ putting tallow candle in quart Of red
wine, and boiling it till the tallow melts (;
then the unhappy patient has to swallow
| the mixture.
\ formidable movement of the French
speaking people Of New YORK and Montreal
is taking place. it Is said, under encourage
ment from the Brazilian government.
The Poughkeepsie Press speaks Of a wo-
man " so cross-eyed that when she weeps,
tears from her left eye drop on her right
cheek
\ Philadelphia hotel clerk has been held
in : 600 for trial for violating the civil
rights law, by refusing a colored clergyman
room on account of his color
Ten mills make one cent-but not any
ten mills in this section.-Ne,c Bedford
| Mercury.