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

| Inc kepubllean majority on JOint OaIlOt
in the Pennsylvania Legislature will be up
wards of 10.
The returns indicate that the Republicans
carried Washington Territory, Dakota and
New Mexico.
So complete was the bulldozing in South
Carolina that in many Counties the negroes
did Lot 90 to the polls at all.
1t is rumored that SehouvallG Is going to
Pesth to propose another congress 70 am
| plify the treaty of Berlin.
Washington Territory gives majority for
State Constitution preparatory to applica-
tion fer admission to the Union.
If, as the reports now indicate, the Repub-
licans have elected Congressman in FlOri-
da, the delegation will be tied politically.
| Secretary Sherman has addressed an Off
cial letter to Secretary Evarts on the subject
Of the unjust Determinations of the Canadian
authorities agains. American seamen.
Mrs Miranda. aged 20 years, deceased,
names Henry Ward Beecher and Henry c.
Bowen As Executors, and leaves S400 for the
establishment Of home for col0red females.
The failure is announced of W Wilson L
Co., calico printers, Alexandria, Dumbart-
sonshire. Liabilities, 100000. The fail
ure throws out OF employment several hun
dred persons.
The anti rammanyitcS have elected ma
jcrity of the Aldermen. in New York, which
gives Mayor Cooper power to remove the
present Tammany officials and appoint anti
Tammanyiies in their places.
A holder of a policy in the Globe Mutual
Life Insurance Company has applied for a
receiver OF the company, charging that the
heavy luSseS and ni>mauagement by the
company imIair the yalde OF her policy.
The Memphis Board OF Health prOclaims
it safe to return, if the instructions of the
Board are complied with by returning reiu-
gees in yentilating and .iumigating houses
before occupation.
The Porte will shortly publish state
ment of his reasons why the Turkish Plrlia-
ment has not been reassemoied. and Will al
the same time announce the date of assem-
bling of the new parliament and the manner
Of election.
Eleven months ago last young man OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, had a large fortune lett
him. but now the spendthrift is almost As
many thousands in debt as he has fingers
and toes. When Il boy blackei his boots he
would invariably give the urchin 4 fise del
lar bill, and there waS L champagne supper
every evening
The annual report of the Second Assistant
Postmaster-tieneral shows that the cost OF
inland transportation in the mail service TOR
the year was SlG ,024 ,02l, and for railway
transportation alone. S9.-G6, j9j. There
were 6S5 new routes created this year, 9, ,l4G
miles in aggregate length The estimate for
next year l. S20,.9O,uOh.
\ disastrous earthquake has laid desolate
JucuaIa and neighhoring towns in the south
ern portion OF the Republic Of san salvador
Nearly all the houses in JGcuapa were &c
stroved, and many families were buried III
the ruins The district devastated Is one OF
the most thiekly settled portions Of the
country.
Walter Shape, the leader of the Green
back faction in the lnted States, says Gen.
Butler must be his c,udidate for President.
Shupc SAYS that Butler has spent $3.50 600
in his Massachusetts campaign. and aS Butler
is worth five millions he can afford to spend
a million in running for the Presidency.
The wife of James Murray was found on a
bed in her chamber Tuesday, IN Paterson.
n. j., with the bed On fire, the room cover
ed with blood and pools of blood on the
floor. She was burned so horribly that the
flesh dropped from her body on being carried
into another room, and She died in few
1t is believed that tramp, who
was seen to leave the house by back en-
trance and run over the fields, outraged and
beat the woman and then set fire to the bed.
The London Times says, regarding the
American elections, that now, as often be
fore, the good sense of the American people
has come to the rescue. The elections show
the most potent forces in the Republic ara
on the side OF financial honesty and social
The Dasly NetcS depiores the
persistence in the old territorial division Of
political parties, and adds that the expected
break up OF existing organizations by q rise
ii new questions seems indefinitely post
9Oned.
A man giving his name as John Brown, in
with Lizzie Thompson, went to
lodging house in New York, the other after
noon, and engaged room. in the evening
4 strong smell of escaping gas attracted the
attention OF servants, and it was traced to
Browns room. The door WAS forced and
10Th inmates found asphy4iated They
we're removed to tho hospital, where Brown
Don died. The woman is very low, but Will
ecoyer
The annual meeting of the Woman Nat
onal Christian Temperance Union is now in
essiOn ut Baltimore, Md. with one hun
'red and eighty delegates from nineteen
States. including all the New England and
lldtie States and most OF the Western
states. Mrs. Wittenmyer Of Philadelphia,
resided. An address and poem of welcome
we're delivered. The President read the an
lual report, showing decided gains in all the
departments Of work. A committee was ap-
'ointed to invite Moody to address the Con
ention, and another to ask the Committee
IN the revision of the Bible to consider spec
ally the different readiug~ OF disputed words
INVOLVING Accommodation OF wine