Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-04-05

The Iowa Senate votes to give the ballot
t. women.
New York has school for the training of
servant girls.
Lockwood. Brooks & Co. the Boston book
publishers. have suspended liabilities. : l20,-
600
Apple blossoms, with the fragrance of
June about them, have been plneked in
Massachusetts,.
The other day, the lightning thundered
upon Georgia negro and took of bis boots
without injuring him in the least.
The Portland Oregonian says the beating
of the ocean waves in the last great storm
could be heard a distance of forty miles.
G. W. Schofeld, ex-member Of Congress
Of Pennsylvania, has been appointed Register
of the Treasury, vice John Allison. deceased.
Secretary Schurz's recent illness WIS caus-
ed by Oyerwork. his habit being to devote to
business on an average II or 10 hours out
of every n.
More than 100000 were expended by
the last Democratic House in Investigating
the affairs of the Executive Departments of
the Government.
About $350,0O0 worth of stocks, bonds,
ETC., were found in the possession of the
New York thieves recently arrested at
Petersburg, Va.
Jerry Tullis, the Cincinnati millionaire
miser, wound up his mad career by naming
in his will as his executor one Floyd, an
Ignorant potato peddler
Mayor Ely, of New York, is bachelor,
and the Graphic has II report that he is
about to wed rare, rndiant and rosy
maiden, the daughter of New England col
lege professor.
A great tide OF emigration has set toward
Kansas. Nebraska. Minnesota and other por-
tions of the waiting West-a very encourag-
ing promise Of the return, ere long, of better
times beyond the Mississippi.
An American in Bombay says there are
serious rumors of the likelihood of an up
is added that Nena Sahib, the leader of the
great Sepoy insurrection is alive
The political editor of the Concord (N.
ii } Salesman is reelected to legislature
the local editor is appointed an honorary
commissioner to the Paris exposition, and
tho pressman is chosen mayor of the city.
A bill is now pending in the Pennsylvania
Legislature making 1t penal offence for one
man to ask another to tase drink of intrx
icating liquor but the man who accepts the
invitation goes unpunished, which is scarce
ly fair.
Congressman Goode, oil Virginia, is the
ia ther Of bill to pay the heirs of exPresi-
dent James Monroe few hundred dollars
l. l. l.. r
ant-colone of the Virginia militia in l779,
during the revolutionary war.
In the United States District Court at
New York, Judge Blatchiord oyerruled the
demurrer of Samuel j. riden in the income
tax suit for $50 900, and the case will have
to 90 to jury for trial unless an appeal Is |
taken to the United States Supreme Court, |
which is likely to be done.
The Secretary of the Interior announces
the appointment of the following directors
of the Union Pacific railroad Charles F. |
Adams. Jr.. Massachusetts,; Ralph Z. Buck |
land, Ohio, q. W. Smyth. Iowa Daniel |
Chadwick, Connecticut. and G.. e. llouscl. |
Nebraska.
Capt. Paul Boyton writes to the New .
York Herald an account of his journey down |
the river Tagus, in Spain, from Toledo to the |
sea. lie had a rough time OF it, but made
the distance in good time. and was weleom
cd to Lisbon by crowd of over one hundred |
Thousand people. On the Goth the captain
swan across the Straits OF Gibraltar, max
ing the distance in seventeen hours.
Baltimore paper reports that woman,
who eight years ago was light mulatto,
gradually changed to "A sable hue, and at the
time OF her death, last week. was Of tue
blackest type of her race The whole sys-
TEN of the woman underwent a complete
transformation. From II stout. portly and
unwieldy person she dwindied away into
thin, spare and angular form OF the typical
spinster. A physician who attended her the
last four years could not discover any cause
for the singular change.