Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-05-18
General summary.

Theodore Tilton is lecturing in Califor-
MIA.
Boston has enjoyed east wind for seventy
one days.
Strawberries sell for twenty-five cents a
quart in New York.
Rev. DR.. Tvng. ST.. of St. George
Church, New York, is seriously ill.
The dogs of Mount St. Barnard. Switzer-
land, saved the lives OF forty persons during
the past Winter.
Scarlet fever. diphtheris. measles and
whooping cough are declared contagious,
even after death, By the New York board OF
health.
Five Molly Maguires are under sentence
of death in Pennsylvania. They appealed
to the supreme court, but 1t decided against
them.
Professor Thomas, of the National Grass
hopper Commission, is of the opinion that
the grasshopper pest has about run its
course.
The Graphic says John T. Daily, of the
Windsor Hotel, who committed suicide,
had not slept night since the Southern
Hotel at St. Louis was burned.
boy named Hudspeth. shot himself
lhldll1. III kNtN IOEh, Ou 4lOuuhN. tie udu
been corrected for staying out nights and
reading trashy literature.
The Troy Times commen. on the an
nOuncement that the widow Of the late
James Fisk, Jr.. is about t1 marry again,
is. Jim won't care,
George Vail, of Poughkespsie. while
watching for rats, Sunday night, drew his
loaded gun towards him. when the trigger
a l. l. a
gun towards you.
million of the Philadelphia Centen
NAL fund has been repaid to the Treasury.
and the remaining halt million will be paid
this month.
The poor man who put DR.. Mary Walker
out of the Treasury Department is dead-an
awful example. His shin bones have been
preserved.
Gen. Grant is said to be poor. A CORES
pondent says: He starts for Europe with
the nap on his hat worn q little the wrong
way, and Mrs. Grants travelling suit con-
sidersbly out of date.
Phillip Grouseau. Frenchman employed
on charcoal works near Berlin. n. Y, fell
into burning coal kiln Saturday night and
was burned to death.
The following advertisement recently ep-
peared in New Haven journal ANY per
son having five to fifty loads OF manure to
dispose of will please send word or drop it
thrOug b the p0st-Othce.
A poor man in Jefferson county, N. Y,
offered his saw for sale to buy food for his
suffering family, and took two-6fths of its
value in crackers and threc-ilthS in tO5ac-
co.
The New York police found John Brown,
his wife and child. starving in a tenement,
with an infant aged Is months, famished to
death The family had eaten nothing for
four days.
DR.. Cuyler's church has suspended eI-
Mayor Lambert, of Brooklyn. for missppro-
priating funds which belonged to his wild
owed sster-in-law. 1t was only $4,000,
yet they turned him of church.
The exports of olemsrgsrine during the
seven months ended March lst, amounted to
3,549, ,629 pounds, valued at SiSl.7i7.
To illustrate "femsle physical culture"
Mrs. Carrie Drake Collins, of Lebanon, N. |
Il. walked 25 miles in SIX minutes less than |
six hours on Saturday, taking but one rest |
of FIVE minutes.
The steamer Russia, from Liverpool. re-
ports tha. NAV ID, she spoke the steamer |
Sidonian, and found she had burst her port |
boiler on the Goth ult., killing the captain, |
three engineers and three hremen.
AIwinterport, Maine. woman. an inveter
ate drinker, could not get any liquor one
day recently. and accordingly concocted a
mixture of chloroiorm and kerosene, which
she drank, and died IN a short time.
A bill has passed in the Illinois Legisla-
ture authorizing railroad conductors to
stop trains and put off every body playing
cards for money or using obscene language.
A "Popofka is circular iron-clad
monitor. invented by Admiral POpof, of the
Russian navy, to pop off the Turks with.
,;eorqe Francis Train enlivened lecture
in New York the other evening by throwing
handluls OF roasted peanuts ut his audience
The Alaska Indians have grown extreme
" bold since the withdrawal OF the troOps
They now stand on the shore and make faces
at the revenue cutter every time she steams
along the coast.
San Francisco's water supply is running
short. ard the water company
has imported 1000 meters. and proposes tD
sell water by the gallon.
A Congressional commission are gather
ing grasshopper data. the farmers are
gath,rIng grasshopperS, and the grass
hnppCrs are gathering the crops out west.
The odds are three to one on the grasshop-
pCrS.
The new fashion at dinner parties in
London r,quires the Dismissal OF the sci
wants alter the fish, and the guests are
waited unun thereafter by the ladies OF the
family. 1t tends to make the dinner less
formal.
Union College has recently received a gift
of SO 900 Tor completing Memorial Hall.
The college has also received Tor scholarships.
s IN 900 from j sB. Corneli, at New York.
and s., 900 from Clarkson N. Potter.