Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-07-20

Colorado beetles are found on the docks OF
Dublin, Ireland.
a scholarship of $4,000 has Just been
given to Vassar College, by DR.. Mcdonald,
of California
Mrs. Chisolm is going to bring the re-
mains of her murdered husband and daLgh-
ter North for burial.
The coinage at the Philadelphia mint, last
year, amounted to 10, $500 pieces, valued
at sd $40, co..
1t is estimated that over 200. 900 persons
have signed the pledge in Ohio since the be-
ginning of the Murphy movement.
4 fast mail is to be established between
New York and New Orleans.
Miss Kate Kelley, of Decatur, Ill, died
Friday, eight minutes after being stung in
the mouth by bee.
Ice is cheaper, in the cities, this season,
than it has been for many years.
The New York Commercial mourns that
the philologists have adjourned without Civ
ing us word Of explanation about - recru-
dcscence, 9. usuiruct," or :" incremable."
The remains OF Gen Custer have been
brought to Bismarck, Dakota. from the Big
Horn country and will be inferred at West
Point, \. \.
\ Philadelphia named Bity and a lady
named Phillips were drowned at Atlantic
City, N. j., July lith, while bathing. Baty
lost his life in attempting to save the lady,
who had been carried neyOnd her depth.
IIay-le is bad but let US be grateful
that ii never affects sewing women and never
assaults men, unless they are receiving an
independent income.
Sorrcr, says phonetic and philOsophic
genius. " kills moar pcple than green COOS
berries" Railroads kill fewer folk than We
hcleS. In 1874, there were slain by loco
motives in England l,249 persons, of whom
100 were trespassing on the track, while
,j2S were run over by, or fatally injured
while leaping from, carriages. Reduced to
figures, taking the average railroad journey
at ten piles, IT a traveller should spend ten
hours day on English railroad trains with
an average hourly speed of thirty miles, it
would he 2,7i9 years before his turn to be
killed came round.
SOrg of tho surgeon victim How
happy could ! be with either" Speaking
of AM, s Theti,~ and Chloe Reform.
Jim Jams known in aristocratic circles
as James Fitz james now christenod by
the Yonkers Gd:eHe James Preserves.
A Hartford auctloneer thinks that there
is food for reflection in the fact that at the
same sale ut which he sold u second hand
pulpit Tor - cents, a second hand gin
bar" brought SD
4 Mrs. Brewer, of Newark. who has
hitherto supported herself with her needle.
has fallen heir to 800, 600 in England She
Is now considered very beautiful.
Lets kill n man Just for fan, before We
60 home, was what Il ChicagOan heard
two Young men say the other night, and
soon after the report of pistol. Next
morning William Shanty. a quiet, hard
working man, with wife and i've children
were found dead on the sidewalk. The sup
posed murderers have been arrested.
The PoTAro STARCH INDUSTRY. Ono of
the important manufactured products Oh the
small country towns ol New England and
N,u y,rL state - r,,,,, starch IL il h.
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tatoes are frequently consumed per year in
the States of Maine, New Hampshire. Yer
mont and New York IN the production OF
potato s'arcn' ih's "iiuun' Is 'u'e' ,SntnS
three Innrtbs ms large as that of Now Uamp,
shire, three tiithS as large As that OF Yer
mont. onf-tenth ms large as that oil Ne"
~ ,S,, 81 u.,..',,busot,s and mn..h ,ar,sr
than the crops OF Connecticut or Rhode |
Island. There are about 10 factories en-
gagged IA the manufacture "i potato starch,
and probably all "l them with one or
two exceptions nrc located IN the States OF
New York, M'inr, Ne" Hampshire and
Vermont. fr"'ahS 't' average price PAM
Tor POTATOES hS starch manufactures dur
my the past SEASON ihS been :" cents per
hushel- The aggregate annual production
OF all the factories Is usually from 1000 to |
II ,Wo tons. \ hnNhri oi POTATOES general