Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-05-11

A Buffalo man has been held in $500 bail
for opening his wife's letters.
Mrs. Secretary Evarts wears black. with
thin sleeves, through which her beautiful
arms may be seen.
1t is estimated that s., GOO, ,OOO of proI
erty is annually burned in New York CRY
in cigars.
The New York grand jury has indicted
three persons for circulating false reports in
Wall street concerning the Delaware and
Hudson Canal company.
Wong Chin Foo, Celestial only &c years
OF age. has come to New York to preach
Conlucius to the Gothami.es.
The Iowa supreme court has shut down on
the practice of trying divorce cases before
referee. and insists that they be heard in
open court.
The permanent exhibition in what is
known as the Main Exhibition Building,
at Philadelphia, will be opened on Thurs
day next.
Mr.. Smith. New York police court
justice, has had the happiness OF tinipg a
woman who was his school l-mistrcss l5
years ago. and fogged him 80 that he left
her school.
Locomotive No 90, on the New York
Central railroad, has run 20, eco miles in IL
months without once going to the shop, a
thing never before accomplished is raiload
ing.
Young lady (who is tired of his company):
'lOu amt bit nervous, are you, Mr.
Post? All my other gentlemen aequsin-
tsnces start. when it strikes twelve"
In England recently man, after lying in
his coffin two days, rose up and took bis
seat in tho room. Tine mother had given
him some sleeping mixture, producing
stupor.
Orange peel has lately been the canse of
the death of wellknown medical publish
er in London, MIR. kimpton. lie slipped,
tell and received fatal injuries
The body c I an unknown man was found
in the river, near Dtkalb. St. Lawrence
county. Tuesday, fastened to a log. The
face was decayed. and one arm gone
The will OF R. H. Macy, wealthy New
York merchant. bequeaths an estate Ot from
halt to one million dollars to his wife and
and daughter. with 81 coo annuity 10 his
Incorporate son.
On account of the rdrCo- Russian war and
the failure of the American cabbage crop
last year. the genuine imported Turkish
tobacco used IN this country this Summer
will have to be made out Of plantain weed.
Crop reports from Ohio, Michigan. Indi-
ana. Illinois, Iowa and Missouri state that
the wheat prospects are better than for
years. Apples and small fruits will be
abundant.
Modistes, who go annually to Paris, say
the changes in styles are never so marked
there as they are here that when French
women purchase good thing they wear II
as long as it is good, no matter what novel
ties are brought out.
Allen Hannah, of Jersey City, was mar
ried recently to Miss Hannah Allen. Miss |
Hannah Allen is now Mrs. Hannah Hannah, |
and is, perhaps, the only woman in the |
world who can spell her entire name |
backward and forward with the same let |
ters.
A bill passed by the Missouri Legislature |
makes a serious business of the grasshop- |
per scourge, for the war that has been dc
clared upon it all able bodied male persons |
between II and TO years of age are to be |
drafted for two days in each week during |
the SpTing months, those who refuse to rt- |
spond forteiting dollar for each absence.
Master Alfred Cox, of West BOwdoin. |
Me, aged fourteen. had his ears boxed by |
his father for his misbehavior in church, |
whereupOn he went home. got out the fam
lily shot-g un and went cunning for parent,
bagglng Il hall-brace OF father. Probably |
because be was an orphan the courts have |
let Master Cox of with six years.