Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-10-25

cured her, and he had continued to dose her
the same ever since, for what is good for her
when i'll Is good for her when well.-Hsnry
Ward Beechr.
| General Summary.
Seven out of ten blast furnaces in Pitts
burgh, Penn, are at work.
Lord Driierin presented IIanlan, the
carsman, with a gold medal and 20 guneas.
The Episcopal Church Congress is now
holding its fifth annual session in Cincin-
natl.
Lord Du1erin will shortly publish book
on Canada, and Lady Dufferin volume of
rerS de SOG6te.
miles O'Reilly's 5" brother, Prof IIalpinc,
late classical master at Huron College, Lon
don, Ont. is dead,
The friends Of Patrick Reagan. the Boston
Oarsman who was killed in the Old Colony
disaster, have raised 81 800 for his family
One of the seveIcst drouths ever known is
prevailing in the coal region near Pottsyillc,
Pa No rain has fallen since June last, and
several large towns in the Mahoning region
are ncraly destitute Of water.
The New Hampshire prohibitory conven-
ton, composed Of eleven men with creden-
tials and few outsiders, made the following
nominations Asa S Kendall, of Swanzey
for Governor; David Head, of Milford, j.
| NJ. Fletcher, of Nashua and Ira Sweet for
Railroad Commissioners.
The Concord IN. H. savings bank has
| closed its doors. 1t is believed the deposit
ors will receive about 20 per cent. 1t was
formerly a national savings bank, and suffer
cd heavy loss by the deialcation Of VIM. W.
StOrrs, Originally of Chelsea, W. , a former
treasurer, now fugitive from Justice.
Suit ha, been filed, in the Supreme Court
of the District Of Columbia by Henry
Stanley WetmOre against Admiral David
d. Porter. This suit grows out OF certain
of Wetmorc'S domestic troubles. Wetmore
was divorced from his wife in 1872, on the
ground Of her criminal intimacy with the
admiral, the ease being allowed to 90 by
default
j. ii. Burke, stakeholder of the Consol-
idatcd Virginia Mining Company, has
brought suit in San Francisco. to recover
from J. c. Flood. j. W. Mackey, j. G. Fair
and the Pacific Mill and Mining Company,
S26, ,OO0, 600, alleged to have been wrong
fully diverted from the stockholders of the
Consolidated Virginia by the defendants in
the manipulation of cres and the retention
OF tailings of the company.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, in an inter
view in relation to the TrlJune's cipher de-
spatches, says that he has no idea how the
Tribune obtained the dispatches, as they
were Ordered to be boxed and returned to
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
lie says that leaving tie dispatches relating
To tho Southern States aside. If the Senate
had sustained him in compelling the cashier
of the Third National Bank to produce Til
dcn's bank account, he believes he could
have shown the disbursement of between
81 l,OOO,OOO and $1,000 900 from Tilden's
private account.
Clarkson n. Potter declines the nominal
tion for reelection to Congress.
Minister Noyes has sent 81 900 from
Paris to Secretary ESarts for the reliet OF
the yellow fever sufferers.
The failure of Austin c. Wellington, Of
Boston, coal dealer, is announced, with lia-
bilities of Sl14 900; Assets, S5I 900.
The Boston Police Commissioners have
made an entire reorganization of the force
Samuel q. Adams has been appointed super
intendent of police, succeeding E. ii. Savage,
for many years the head of the force.
The affairs OF the Globe Mutual Life In |
surancc Company Of New York are being |
Investigated by Superintendent Smyth. 1t |
is claimed the company is defrauding its |
policy holders.
The German Minister at Washington has
received from the Eemperor William, of |
thr,, th l.. Il,
equal to 500 in our money. rs a conrr.bu
tion for the yellow fever sufferers in the
South.
Thursday, near kennedyyille, Kent coun-
ty, Md, George L. Nelson, while climbing |
fence, was instantly killed by the accidental |
discharge of his gun. Six hours after, the
news reached his mother and she died oil |
grief.
a recent decision of the internal revenue |
bureau that ersons who sell certain patent
medicines known ~ bitters, either by drink |
or in unbroken packages, are liquor dealers
and liable to special taxes as such, will take |
effect from and after January |, 1879, in
stead of November |, 1878, Us heretofore
ordered
The two mile sculling race for 81 900 be-
tween Evan Morris and Fred Piaisted was
pulled over the Hutton course at Pttsburg,
Friday, and won by the former, who crossed
the line about three lengths ahead of his op-
pOncnt. Morris time, claimed to be the fast
est on record for race of this description.
was IL minutes Is seconds, Plaisted being
seven seconds later.
At wedding feast of Willis Peele and
Alice Burdge, at Azalia, Ind. ten of the
party were poisoned by partaking of food
with strychnine in it. and the recovery of
three of them is doubtful. There is mys-
terry as 20 who did the poisoning. 1t is sur
missed that some disappointed lover might be
the guilty party as Miss Burdge had qlite Il
number OF suitors for her hand before az
ccpting Pcelc.
A letter from Mogador gives fearful ac-
count of the famine in Morocco. 1t says
1.-The famine here and TO the southwark has
been, and still is, something frightful.
You may see living skeletons OF mon. women
and children cropping in foul refuse heaps for
hidcous bits of oilal. Down ut the Water
port, poor starving wrctcheI are constantly
scratching and sitting sand, dust and mud
for stray grains of rice or barley. BrggarS
swarm in the streets, corpscS are often seen,
and smallpox is horribly rife among the
poor folk, who all huddle together"
The whole number of exhibitors in the
Paris exposition must have been about one
hundred thousand. Of these America had
but nine hundred and fifty two, and has re
ccived seven hundred and fifty awards,
leaving only two hundred and two who
did not receive awards. There were hut
about five thousand awards altogether, so
that there will he about ninety five thousand
icpOSitOrs who receive no awards but
America has received awards for almost four
iitthI of its depu-itors. These statistics sui
iicicntly show the superior relative merit,
numerically considered, OF tho American
contributions.
a CastletOn correspondent of the Hsrdid
says Fifteen bushels Of pound sweets. five
bushels OF Fall pippins. three bushels of
scek-no-iurthers two bushels of russct. and
six bushels oi common fruit have been
gathered from ono tree in tins village the
present Fall Tho tree is sixty years old
and eIrth- eight feet at the trunk. Ii has
stood On our little domain % years, and in
that time has supplied US with from five to