Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-10-19

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The Brooklyn gossips say that Theodore
called at Elizabeth's house the other day,
and stayed several hours.
Senator Morton was removed from Rich
mond Ind. to his residence at Indianapolis,
without unfavorable result.
The Pope recently said to friend
Newspapers are, killing me daily | wish
you would tell them that have of truth
the most fatal of all diseases, 81 years and /
months, but that the lamp is not yet out. "
A skunk secu red entrance to the Academy
of Music in Fall River, during recent per-
formance, the usher thinking it a poodle-dog,
and the papers of that city are foil of recipes
for removing the odor from clothing.
The New Haven Journal thinks the row
between Harvard and Yale over Professor
Agassiz's course as referee in the last boat
race, gives the faculties of the colleges
splendid opportunity to lnterdict all further
races, which do no good, and have always
"heen productive OF bad blood, bad behavior,
quarrels, and little else
A woman. whose husband deserted her
at Buffalo two years ago, recently found him
in Spencer, Mass, and tried to get him ar
rested for not supporting her and her child,
now months old. The cour: subtracted
S from twenty-four, and told her that the
law did not make allowance for such a freak
of nature.
A Yorkshireman emigrated to Canada in
1872, and after establishing himself sent for
his wife. She would not come out to him,
however, 50 he married another woman,
l. e., g.
her maintenance. After twenty seven years
the wife de tdcio died, whereon the wife d,
Iure conquered her scruples, came out to
America, and was united to the husband of
her youth.
Gas is down to Sl.6j per thousand in
Chicago.
The proposed exhibitors at the Paris ex-
position Of 1873 have organized with Gen.
Joseph Hawley as president.
The third wife of the khediye of Egypt
has interested herself in the education OF
Egyptian girls, and several hourishing
schools have already been started by her.
The leaf gathering era is here, and soon
the inside of the house will look like an at
tack of delirium tremens.- Chiodyo JouHai.
At Marion, Mass. the other day, MIS-
Lucy NJ. Nye, was welded to Hiram Nye.
This is literally Nye for Nye.
Right and proper was it that DIR. Lamb
din should be the orator of the day at Ger
mantown. For that was the place we got
damned in a hundred years ago,-Phiiddsi-
phis Bulletin.
A boy was recently admitted into the
Melh,urpe bn.,it.l st,uar,nr fran, he objects
of chewing tobacco. lie became gradually
unconscious and partially paralyzed, and
died on the following day by narcotic poi
soning. Ntdicd Rooom
1t has been feared that a severe frost in
Florida, last Winter, had 50 I'M ured the
orange trees that they would not bear well
this Fall. These fears have proved ground
less there will be IA larger crop than ever
before.
In the years 1907, the State of North
Carolina produced lbs 900 bushels of pea
nu is Virginia $50, 900 bushels. and Tennes-
see 5OO,OO0 bushels. The United States
can point with pride to the fact that in
the last four years , 1920 900 bushels Of pea
nuts were harvested.
Three tramps, Sunday morning, stealing
ride on astrain near Grayeport, Ohio, cut
the train in three parts for the purpose of e.
Gaping. The train was on down grade
When near the bottom Of the grade the rear
section ran into the middle section, throwing
1T from the track. One tramp was buried
under ten tons of coal. and instantly killed.
Another had his leg broken the third cs-
capped The dead man had kit of burglar :
tools. and was well dressed