Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-11-15
General sum mary,

Cape May had 100000 incendiarY fire,
Saturday.
R. Ii. Stodiard, the poet, writes with his
left hand the other il paralyzed.
The unprecedented total of ,593 900 hogs
were packed last year in Chicago alone.
\ brave, bold Washington young man has
sloped with a woman and her six daughters.
About $50 900 day is paid out in Balti-
more for shucking oysters from October to
March.
A Seville despatch says General Grant
arrived there ON Thursday and was received
with grand honors.
The California wine crop this year will
probably not exceed 1000 600 gallons, or
TWO thirds of what it was in 1876.
London has 3 ,55777 ,304 inhabitants Paris,
1883 SOC; New York, 1884 ,52S; Berlin,
l,0l9, 900, and Philadelphia, sc, lis.
A young man named Raymond Gauldin
and his l9-year-old sister Ellen, of Liberty
county, Ga, have been sentenced to be
hanged for murder.
Another railroad war has broken out. and
passenger rates have been reduced from most
all points in the West to New York, Phila-
delphia, Biltimsre and Boston.
The Republican Congressional Committee
having lost its chairman through the defeat
of Eugene Hale, the defeat of Senator Bar
mum Chairman OF the National Democratic
Committee, makes things even.
W. ii. Anderson, sheriff of Dallas,
Texas, attempted to arrest William Collins,
of famous band of train robbers. in Penn
bina, Dakota, when they exchanged fire and
both dropped dead.
For the relief of yellow fever sufferers.
Philadelphia subscribed $l32, OS2.72; this
was all donated except SlS2, which will be
used in printing report to the contributors,
the only expense incurred by the commit
tee.
The Surgeon Generals abstract of sanitary
reports for last week shows that yellow fever
has comparatively disappeared, there having
been but ii new cases at New Orleans, 81
at Mobile, at Chattanooga. with 30 deaths
at Memphis
At Bellefont, Pa, the other day. fire
broke out in small tenement. and two
children, Agnes and Freddie jackson, col
ored aged hive and three Years, were burned
to death The mother had gone to work,
leaving the children at home.
Three girls and three boys have been ex-
PEELED from the college at Oberlin, Ohio,
for clandestine courtship. One of the pro-
fessors of the institution declares that he
would rather have had all the buildings
burn to the ground than had such a thing
happen. 1t was bio. upon Oberlin, an in
Jury to the college, and a blow at the CO.
education OF the sexes.
1t is stated that Schouyalofl is going to
London to present his letter of recall, and it
is believed that his recall is preliminary To
his supplan;ing GortSchako1 SchOuyalOn's
accession to power would he the signal for
policy ON the part of Russia and Germany
aiming at common rcactionary end. His
foreign policy would not be pacific, but
rather the opposite.
A New Orleans special says After riding
about in carriages, throughout the entire
epidemic, and paying $4,000 to doctors,
the 10 men who have had the disbursement
OF 81 800 900, sent to the afflicted people by
their brethren OF the North. gave a grand
dinner, Friday, at MOreau's restalrent.
There were numerous presentations made al
ter tno ulhncT Wu- oNeI, comprising, uuiohS
other things, a valuable diamond badge.
An investigation into the management OF
the Asylum for insane persons at Columbus,
Ohio, resulted in the discovery that the
female patients have been subjected to the
most cruel fortunes that human ingenuity
ran devise. The victims heads were forced !
under running water until the poor creatures |
were nearly strangled, and then their heads
were raised for moment that they might |
recover somewhat. Then the operation was |
repeated until the patient, worn out from
exhaustion, and almost limp. was forced to
promise to obey at all times. The torturers
were women attendants and ten of them
have been discharged. |