Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-12-27
General SUMMARY.


OLcary and Campana have started on six
day> walking contest, AT New York.
The quarrel Of the doctors in the Michigan
medical schools has been amicably adjusted.
Twenty-Five persons have been executed Oh
the same gallows At Fort smith. Ark, within
two wears.
Brooklyn i 10 have rapid transit, n company
hay ing been formed for that purpose. with Il
capital of million.
\ Montrcaler ha, been blessed with triplet,,
and has asked permission 10 christcn them
Victor, LOrne and Louise.
A verdict for the defendant has been render
ed in the case of James +. Whelau against
Gen. Sheridan, the f4OO,O1 suit.
Modjeska's full name is Countess Madrijew-
SIGH ChiapOwski Bozenta. II was shortened
10 MOdjeska 10 accommodated the printers.
Fries third rall has been completed, making
a narrOw-gHuge from Buffalo TO New York.
Regular trains will be put on the line. begin
ming next year.
\ Reading. Penn, confectioncr has manu-
featured n candy elephant weighing $40 pounds
II i five feet in height, seven and One-half feet
in length and two and One-half feet wide.
Meliok STATES, of Bloomsbury, y. J., has
varied the monotonOus record Of crime by
throwing u large stone down from forly-iiNe
feet embankment upon Joseph Dull, inllicting
fatal injury.
The HerqlFs cable despatch ~ays that ten.
Grant contemplates Visiting Ireland about
Christmas time, accompanied BY Ministers
Welch and Moves, his last iaunt before his de-
parture for India.
Martha Washington wa, the only woman
who ever enjoyed the franking piNilcge in this
Republic. April 3, ls00, after her husbands
death, Congress gave her free use of the mails
during the rest of her life
nIffu.r,- Ilu-.rI Collin Stu. ,.ri,,.s,.,,I
Of the American Asylum iOrDeai and Dumb, AT
Hartford, Ct, aged 39.-frank 5. Bracket,
prominent merchant of Brattleboro, Vi. aged
GD.-Eliot lnrke, Member OF Parliament from
CHmbridgeshre.
The proposed reduction Of IL ~ per cent in
the wages of the coliers of South York shire
and North Dcrhyshre affects 100, 900 men.
monster meeting will be held during the holi-
days, when The scheme for striking cn masse
at the commencement of the ycHr " III be- li--
cu~~cd.
When the Duke Of Arg,l's son i preparing
to retire this Winter, and stands in his bare
feet, with his -uspcndcTs hanging down his
back, >tuting rags into the window cracks with
an Old ca-C-knilc, he will wish himself back
by the bonnie blue boon. Cincinnati f"m-
mcrciu.
On the 3l-i Of December. nj midnight, the
normal hours 10 be- liked throughout sweden.
All the government, railway and telegraph
'lbfkN are 10 hf sci simultaneously In some
places, ~ for instance, in Stockholm. the
clock, will have To be- put back n much H. -
minutes.
The Russian authorities have caused the ar
resi- OF one hundred aud fifty college boys on
account OF Ipprchcndctl danger To the govern
mcni- which would seem TO Indicate that
something is very rotten. Russia, however,
trcmb' AT the mere mention Of Nihlism
and fears That these students may turn out
as leaders.
4 telegram to l.oEdon from Lord Lytton,
iccroy Of India, saws MAJOR tayagnHri
confirms the news thut the Ameer Of Afghan
i.tan ha, lied from 'ahul to Turkistan. His
son. Iykoub Khan. was released from cOnfine-
mcnt and left at Cabul, The Amer had lost
nearly all control at that place and his soldiers
were deserving"
A suit has been brought on behalf Of credit