Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-05-25

The farmers in some quarters are planting |
fax seed in their potato hills to keep out the
Colorado beetle.
The semi-annual whipping of petty erlml-
mails, i'll Delaware, came off Saturday.
Thomas Grape and wife, of New Bedford,
Mass, are fools enough to try to cross the
Atlantic in n thirteen-ioot boat.
II is thought the yield of the Delaware
peach crop will this year be 1000, 600 bas-
kets, % per cent greater than ever before.
Western reports say that the prospect for
small grains was never better than now.
Iron rails, which in March, 1875, sold IN
the English market for Is per ton, can now
be purchased for % los.
When one meets friend our absurd AmerI-
can custom makes 1t meet and drink Tor poth
of them.-N,lr Iorl' Md.
The inhabitants of Mineral City, Col,
looks down upon the rest OF tho habitabie
globe. They are 1900 feet above the sea
| level.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of fresh
| beef was thrown to the sharks from the 'Clty
of Brussels" when the ice gave out
The name of man who runs hotel in
| Gonzales county, Texas, is MIR. Pod lie
spells it with apea
The up towing business on the Hudson
| river is much greater this year than II was
| last. The quantities of coal moving north
| and west are unprecedented at this season OF
| the year.
| "God knows who was right, is an inscrip-
| tion on a tomb in Virginia over the graves OF
| two brothers who were killed fighting IN The
opposing armies of the late war.
VIM. Z. Dodge has withdrawn from the
Union League of New York city because IL
quors are sold at the bar of the club house
| to the members.
VIM. H. Vanderbilt has gone to Europe to
establish n line of steamers to Liverpool, to
prevent discriminating against New York IN
grain shipments.
The will of the late ii. I. Sedan, of Gin
cinnati, involving $500, 900 is contested. he
had several families in that city maintained
in luxury. while his true wife and children
lacked the necessaries OF life.
Three Molly Maguires were sentenced to
death at bloomsbury. Pa, on Monday, for
the murder of Alex. Rea, mine boss, who
was killed near Mount Carmel nine years
ago.
Fortunate chap, the Duke of Edinburgh.
He commands one of the British iron-clads
and enjoys the prospect of being ordered to
throw the biggest kind of bombshells into
the land of his mother-in-law.
About five o'clock Tuesday morning, May
Is, tidal wave five feet high, came rushing
ashore at Port Stanley, Ont accompanied by
a loud kissing noise. 1t was quickly reced'
ed, followed at intervals for an hour by
smaller waves. Very little wind was stirring
at the time, Lake Erie being almost calm.
Nine. Gallaudet, mother of Professor Gal
lnudet, President of the Washington Dea
and Dumb Asylum. died there Tuesday o.
apoplexy, while sitting in a chair at family
worship. She was the first mute educated IL
the United States.
Athree hundred and seventy pound beal
was killed at Boylston, Oswego county, n
Y, on Saturday of last week. He had eater
about sixty sheep and lambs before the farm
ers killed him.
A few days since quiet, unotfending mar
in Troy N. Y, was going to his morning
work when he was set upon by three mel
and shot The only offence of which he wa
guilty was working for Fuller, Warren X Co.
stove manufacturers, without having first OBJ
tanned the consent of the moulder's union.
A Young Indian girl who had curiousl!
watched the process Of marking barrel-head'
in Touring mill iii Winona Mimi. stole il
one day, and taking possession of the stem
ellis. ornamented her blanket with the word'
"Ellsworth's Choice" and paraded the streets
to the disgust of Mr.. Ellsworth, who is 1
bachelor.
George Peabody did much for Tennessee
He left fund of over a million dollars to bt
used in educating the new South. Tennes
see has drawn thousands of dollars from thi'
fund; this year it expects to have Sl5,OOO o
the income But what does Tennessee Dc
| 1y's
: refuses to pay the interest on 1864, 900 il
Tennessee bonds, which is part of the en-
dowment fund of Peabody Institute. BaltI
more.
The Sun says that Mr.. Beccher has mad
S4O, 900 by his lectures the past season.
One OF the Presidents private secret,rie
does nothing but supply the demand Tor MIR
Hayes's autograph.
Ex-County Treasurer Mann, Of Washing
ton county. N. Y. has been sentenced Il
the State Prison for five years Tor forgery
t Several Young salmon that have beef
taken in the Connecticut river are evident
" fish patched in 1875, which have return
. ed from the ocean.
The secret of long life. according to tn
venerable Peter Cooper, is plenty OF sol
7 money, a soft bed. and eight hours sleel
out OF the twenty four.
I The Methodist convention at Baltimor
A decided to call an ecumenlcal council OF al
: branches of Metbodism.
$ Ex-Gov. Warmoth. Of Louisiana, wi
n marry the daughter of James Durand.
Newark ieweler. at Trinity Church, New
ark. N. j.. May 30.
d West Virginia debating society has th
+ three cornered question up for discussion
\ "Whiskey, tobacco, or the Democratl
: Party-which works the greatest evil
society,"
The Great Eastern is to be tranfcrme
into a huge floating refrigerator. and use
v in the conveyance Of American meat to Eng
+ land.
At public meeting, at Grand Arm
~ hall, in Baltimore, resolution Orderin
is the decoration Of the Confederate mont
a ment as a testimonial of the bravery an
!, gallantry of the confederate dead, was 10:
!, lie to 100.
= An ancient custom prevails in Swede
: relative to the burial of spinsters. A sms
e looking glass is placed in the coffin so ths
/ when the last trump sounds the occupar
b may be able to look to her hair before goin
= before the heavenly tribunal.
One party of Harvard students propose
II spend the Summer vacation in trip anon
the islands OF Lake Champlain anOthe
q will charter yacht at Chicago and cruis
through Lake Superior while still thir
will make a pedestrian tour through tn
:. White Mountains.
The unwilling Of the statue of Fitz-Green
= Hslleck, the poet, in Central Park. Ne'
York, last week, was a worthy tribute t
=. the merits of one OF the founders OF Amer
q can literature. The Grafton was deiyere
q by William Allen Butler, an address wa
), made by William Cullen Bryant, poem
U written by John G. Whittier, was read. an
: President Hayes, unwilling the statue, mad
the presentation in few well-chosen words
An abandoned woman has been arreste
in New York, for stealing valuable gol
watch and chain and a check for 50. 10
from ex-Congressman James NJ. Cavanagh
formerly of Missouri, while he was in
maudlin state of intoxlcation.
A lad visited DR.. Westlake's Office, il
Railway, N. j., to have a tooth drawn, an
f the doctor being absent. his son. Warrel
/ Westlake, while halt intoxicated, attempted
to perform the operation. lie gave younl
, Lewis such quantity of chloroform as t.
kill him in the chair, and has been indicted
, by the grand jury for malpractice.
The supposed iiOness wandering around
: near Hanover. Va. has been shot, ant
t proved t. be large brown dog eros
between Newfoundland and a Mount st
| Barnard, which had recently been brough
to the country and had strayed off into thu
woods. The military forces and hunting
parties have been dlebanded, and Hanover
once more rests quiet.
! There is struggle in New Hampshire fol
the large hand championship. A Mr.. Brac
kett, of Greenland, seems to hold the biz
palm at present The other day he filled
one hand with eggs; they were then count
: ed out into box and marked two dozens
and four, or % eggs. This he did in pres
ence of a number OF persnns common
sized hens eggs and no tricks were om'
ployed.
, A bit OF gossip is circulating about the
widow of Commodore Vanderbilt. Ii is, in
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