Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-12-20
General sum mary.


The trial of the City of Glasgow Bank di-
rectors begins on the 10th of January.
Over in England they are still considering
the question Of granting patent to hiIson
VIM. Winklcy, of Philadelphia, has given
Dartmouth College so, geo Tor Professor
ship of Anglo Saxon.
A tunnel is proposed under the North
river between New York and Jersey City,
to b, three miles long and to cost ten mil
lions of dollars
ten. Grant has sold his Fourteenth street
circle property in Washington to an Ohio
lady for $4,000 The property cost Gen
Grant $4,000.
John S. Morton and S. p. Kuhn, the en-
bezzing president and treasurer of the
Market Street Railway Company OF Phil
adelptia, have been sentenced TO State pris-
on for ten years.
Judge Hilton sent word last week that
Mrs. Stewart desired to contribute $500 to
each Of three Hebrew charity societies. Ono
society declined the offer, and the other two
have given no answer.
The West of England and South Wales
District Bank has hopelessiy gone under.
The whole capital and reserve land is lost,
and the sharchold will lie liable for 4 fur
thcr deficiency of 81 5000
The body of Mr.. WrIy. ,hG missing
preacher, Of New Brunswick, n. j. WAS
found in the New York morgue lie was
arrested in the street while under the intlu-
encc of opium and sent to jlil for ten days
for drunkenness. Afterward he was taken
to Bellevue Hospital, where he died.
Fifteen years ago diphtheria entered the
family of William Gerh:s, of Berks county,
Penn, and carried off all five OF the children
in two weeks. Since then six more children
have been born. Several weeks ago diph-
iberia visited the family and again five chill
drcn were carried of, the eldest, boy OF
twelve, alone escaping.
Mrs Mary Jane Sweet, wife of car con-
ductor, hung herself in New York the other
day. She first offered the rope to her little
son and urged him to hang himself. lie
ran from the house and notified several per-
SONS that his mother was hanging, but they
declined to interfere, on the ground that
they did not wish to appear In court.
Obituary: Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow,
German novelist and dramatist, aged 81 -
B. P. Cunningham, well-known Boston
merchandise Col. B. $. Alexander.
senior officer Of the Engineer Corps, United
States Army and the builder of the MInvt's
Ledge Light house John il. Almy, tinan-
cial editor of the New York Sun.
A few weeks ago cremation society was
formed at Indianapolis, and among the rea-
sons assigned for this step are that cremation
of the bodies OF the dead puts an end to the
H. N,l.a
for the purpose of supplying dissecting shops
with subjects, and that the present exist
ing mode of conducting funerals is such as
to bear with terrible weight on the poor, usu-
ally at time when they can least afford to
meeet the expense.
Nearly three thousand slaves have been
emancipated in Cuba during the past thirty
days by planters who were engaged in the
late rebellion.
In one week in November the receipts at
Liverpool of American fresh meat amounted
to 1868 quarters Of beef and l ,37S carcasscs
of mutton.
At Hereford, Penn, the other day, while
Mrs. Emeline Wagner was standing with
her back to the fire, her dress became
ignited, burning the back part of her body
and her arms almost to a crisp.
In the freight Of the French line ship
Canada, which sailed for Havre on We'd
nesday, were il2 cases of silk-worm eggs
from Yokohama, Japan, valued at $500 900. |
and consigned to the agent Of the line, to be |
forwarded to Italy.
Berry Worms, merchant of Jewett, Texas,
was terribly wounded with buckshot, beaten |
over the head and left for dead, near Jewctt, |
while attempting to recover some stolen |
goods. The sheriff ,nd Worms friends went !
to the scene, killed one negro aud arrested |
two others.
The largest orchard in the world is that
owned by Mr.. Robert McKinstry, of Hudson,
Columbia county, n. Y. The orchard is
situated on the cast bank of the Hudson
river, on high, rolling table land, and con-
tains more than $4,000 apple trees, LOO
pears, 4, 900 cherries. 800 peaches, 200 pums.
200 crabs, 900 vines, COO currants and 200
chestnuts.
In answer to the demands OF GOV. CARRIER
for aid to re-establish order in the western
part of Nebraska, he states he is entirely
helpless. In order 10 pursue criminals men
must be hired, and he has not cent at his
disposal for such a purpose. lie might call
upon sherffs, but the counties in which the
occurred have no funds. The
Omaha Herald states that nine murders oc-
CURED in a single week. Desperadoes mob,
kill and burn alive at their pleasure.
Louis F. Therasson, a lawyer of New
York city, was found guilty, the other day,
If swindlIng Mrs. Zibriski out of $4,000.
The criminal was her most trusted adviser.
In 1874, he loaned the above amount which
ne subsequently appropriated on property in
Harlem. The next year the mortgagors were
'eady to pay, and Therasson induced his
'lient to sign satisfaction piece on the
,round that the security was insecure, and
promised to re invest the money. The mort
,age having been satisfied on the record,
he lawyer obtained the money and applied
t to his own use. lie lost it all, and then
ave Mrs. Zabriski fifth mortgage on his
louse, representing it was the first.