Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-05-04

E.The New York State canals will be opened
May 5th.
Navigation is now open between Montreal
and Quebec.
Pool selling has been made illegal by the
New York Legislature.
A negro was recently sentenced IN Texas
to ninety nine years in the penItentiary'
Anna Dickinson is to write new play
''The Critic on the 'Arth. -f Or!cr-J0HTRHi'
A monument 10 Virgil mot he of Nirgll's
ExpresS) will soon be erected at Mantua.
In Oregon they require purchasers oil ilq-
uor to take out licenses, not the sellers
thereof.
New York is to have battery Of horse
artillery, composed Of young men oil soeial
distinction.
Black IIiilsmen are moving to have their
home made into Territory, TO be called
Lincoln.
A PENNSYLVANIA has lately died of lock
law, caused, ii Is asserted, by his boot eha!-
ing his heel.
Union Pacific train was snow bound at
Granite canon, for twenty-.our hours, on
Wednesday.
Had Shakespeare lived till Monday, April
23i, (St. Georges Day. he would have
been 1913 years old.
New York's divorce suits average four or
five per day. Brooklyn had four before the
courts on Tuesday.
One of the tabernacle converts in Boston
recently restored Sl2 900 OF embezzlcd lhnds
in his possession.
The Burlington Hmrkcyc thinks it Is a
pity that Gath's mother lIspcd when she
named her baby.
Mr. Mitchell, the American geographer,
who was imprisoned by the King OF Abys-
sinia, has been released.
Hon. Caleb Cushing, Minister Plenipo-
| tentiary to Spain, arrived at New York last
| Friday, by Havana steamer.
A fortune teller in New York has been
sent to the penitentiary for half year. She
| couldn't foretell her own misfortune.
| A statstician has figured out from the
returns of irst-class railroads that 1t costs
3GI cents per mile to run locomotive.
C;csar's wife Is party to a New York di
yorce case, her husband. Mr.. August Cesar,
thinking that she is not above suspicion,
All the tickets for Rubinstein's six con-
certs in London, in May, are sold. lie will
net $40 coo during his English season.
Twins were born at Wales, Mas, last
week, the father of which year ago was a
widuwer of co, and the mother maiden Ct
so summers.
The "oldest Mason in the United State
died in four different cities last week. and
there can't be more than fifty or sixty OF
him left
The man who was horsewhipped by his
wife in Central Park, the other day. has ap
piled for divorce lie had been divorced
from one wife before.
Newburyport, Mass has 800 more wo-
men than men. 1t is small place, and 9:
wedding there creates almost as much sad
ness as funeral.
The sum on which Mr. Ruskn thinks Il
bachelor gentleman ought to live, or If he
cannot. observes speedily to die, - ex-
actly $500 year.
Morphine and opium have gone up to
nearly double the price before the outbreak
of the Turko-Russian war.
Think of having to record " 4 Battle on
Mount Ararat'' And yet it is among the
possibilities Of the Eastern war
Father Hyacnthe made his first address
to Partisan audience tor ght years, On the
18th ult.
The Delaware papers not only do not
prophecy the failure Of the peach crop, hat
actually say large yield is probable.
1t is stated that the Navy Department
can sell its large stock Of live oak for fully
twice wha. 1t cost.
The body found at Euclid. o., thought to
be the remains of p. p. Bliss. the Evange-
list, proves to be not that of Mr.. Bliss
A conhagration occurred Saturday, in
Constantinoplc, by which six hundred
houses were destroyed.
Blloir. the Partisan murderer, after some
delays to obligo the public executioner, has
been guillotined. lie bequeathed his srutl-
box to Presiden; Mcmahon.
A foo. ball match between Harvard and
Princeton teams took place at Cambridge,
on Saturday, in the presence Of $500 spec
tators. Harvard was declared the victor by
one goal.
Mtts are to be worn again this Summer,
by ladies, and some with blind idlotcy are
embroidered on the inside, as well aS out
side Of the hand.
Italy has declared its seventeen upivers!-
ties open TO women. and Switzerland, Nor
way and Denmark, have taken similar ac-
ton; while France has opened the Sorbonnc
to women and Russia its highest schools
of medicine and surgery.
George Coleman, OF Philadelphia, has
built a balloon, SIS feet high and 80 feet in
diameter, which is TO be inflated with hot
air and in which he promises to make a
trip across the Atlantic.
Robert l.. and Alexander Stuart, Of New
York city, who gave Sl50,0G0 for mag
| Lon Dripnnfnn ThpnloUIpal SpmI-
nary have the pleasure of seeing the build
ing completed and dedicated in their life
time.
The temperance wave has struck Erie,
| Pa, with great force. Since the appear
ance in March of band of Murphy mis-
sionaries from Pittsburg about eight thou
sand persons in Erie have signed the pledge
comprising nearly one-thlrd the entire
population.
The lost steamer Leo. like many human
bark, was destroyed by her cargo OF GIN
| A barrel burst By rolling about. The mate
| and two sailors went to investigate, when
the gin ignited from the lamp they carried.
and the vessel burned.
The death of Sir John Foster Fitz gerald
reduces the list of British field marshals TO
| three-the Duke of Cambridge. the Marquis
L
Stephen Barton, of Bolton. N. Y, while
snake hunting at Shelving Rock, Lake
George. Wednesday, was badly bitten by a
rattIespake, and his life is despaired of.
The contract of Mr.. Max Strakosch with
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is for 100 nights
of English opera, for which she will receive
cIOO.0OO. She will visit California for the
first time.
- EontrcLy w,s t,und dead with
several bullet holes in his head, and the
ostnte Jury summoned to hold an inquest
retnrnei a verdict Of death from undue
excitement"
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MIS-. "ehcIai onelnan' "no ,trih,t;ons
managing III 'hiS county =, May ncxt
Tor the rope 10 DO presented u. ' oI,rat;on '
on the hitie'n ahh h PN " ~, n IN hand
to the cpi>copa''' mas SI'''o' !" manu-
To be accused of larceny because she