Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-08-02
General Summary.

The wOman's rights congress is in session az
Paris, Julia Ward Howe being one of its
presidents
Northern Dakota boasts Ci wheat farms
comprising six thousand acres, whose yellow
seas OF grain astonish the beholder.
They propose to guard against body
snatchers at Columbus, o. by placing a
patent torpedo in the graves of departed
friends
| The skeleton of an enormous animal, fifty
four feet long from tFe root OF the tail to
| the joint of the neck, has jus. been dug up
in Texas.
The Democratic convention in the Eighth
Missouri district nominated John L. Grip
for Congress. on the two hundred and TWEEN
teth ballot.
DR.. David Creel. one of The jrrors in the
| famous trial OF Aaron Burr for treason, has
Just died at Chillieothe. o. He was, when
summoned to Richmond, near neighbor of
Blennerbassett.
Samuel Miller, a Virginia miser who used
to live in house where there was less than
$500 worth of furniture. left $3.50 900, or
half his fortune, to endow a manual labor
school for children.
A Paris paper, L'Egaiits, lately brought
out five brilliant articles on socialism, and
its editor has now nine years in prison in
which to reflect upon them. 4 fine of lS,-
600 francs Was thrown in.
The tales; story of the ST. Louis heat is
the statement of the Globe Democrat that
live chickens were hatched from eggs on
their way to the market, while packed in
close pasteboard boxes.
A French artist lately returned from the
Rhodope mountains, tells some horrible tales
of atrocities inflicted hy Bulgarians on in
surg ent prisoners. lie reports that in one
case huudred were nassacre1 in cold
blood, >evera Of whom were crucifed.
A boating enthusiast travelled one hundred
and fifty miles to see the late Ilaryard-Yale
regatta at New London. Conn, but had 80
good a time with the boys the night before
the contest that he oversight the next day
and never awoke till three hours after the
race had been rowed.
Four tramps were stealing a ride on the
under side OF frt ght car near Monticello,
Ind. the other day, when the car fell
through bridge into the river 80 feet
below, turning over, however, in its des-
cent, 30 that its valuable freight reached
the bottom excited but uninjurei.
Master Borden. of Fall River, Mass,
aged six years, and Miss Fash,
aged four. eloped last week, or rather en-
barked on train to elupe, when the caya-
lier's heart failed him, and he Jumped off,
leaving his inamorata to be carried to the
next station, whence the eunduet1r sent her
back.
The Massachusetts State Republican COM
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domination of State officers, ut Worcester,
Sept Is. A communication from the Sec
retary of the Union League, New York,
suggesting corporation wish the State
Central coAmittee in the coming Congres-
sional campaign. was referred to the execu-
tive committee.
Id. Atchison. who fell distance of 200
feet from the trapeze bar of his balloon at
E.mwood, ILL.,, last we9k, being killed in
stantly, was veteran aerOnaut and acrobat,
having replaced Donaldson with Barnuhi's
show. Some five years ago, while exhibit
ing in kentucky, his balloon burst at an
elevation OF 1000 feet, but he clung to the
pieces and escaped with his life, though be
was badly injured.
The ST. Paul Press remarks There is
Just now an immense demand for harvest
hands in Minnesota. Though a multitude
of men have come into the State for the pur-
pose of helping our farmers in their harvest
work, and all the surplus labOring men of
the cities have gone to reiuioTee this army Of
toiers IN the wheat fields, there is still
great scarcity of hands Nevertheless, the
tramp nuisance prevails
A Philadelphia correspondent says that
the Knights OF Labor IN Pennsylvania num-
Der ~ 900. and that the whole membership
numbers so 900, nearly the whole OF whom
are workingmen, who will, it is claimed,
control polItics in the interest of the Green
back National party. The California mem
bership is l4l 900; Indiana, lS,uOO; Ohio,
1000; North Carolina, es,OOO aud the
order is increasing at the rate OF s5,oooa
month.