Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-28
GENERAL SUMMARY.

Tallfoau tfsck. In 4 ltW minutes ne was
dead man.
James O'Donncll Of Cleveland, Ohio aged
%, an cmploye of Chopins packing house,
was caught in salt chute, Wednesday,
buried under five feet of salt and smotheTet
To death.
There was teIriblc gale ON the east shore
OF Lake Michigan, Wednesday, and Il mum
Der Of wrecks are reported. Portions of
Georgia and South Carolina had the heaviest
fall of snow in many years, Wednesday.
Dispatches received in New York 10 the
effect that war is expected to he declared at
any moment between Russia and England,
caused great excitement. Private dispatches
received at Montreal say that war with Rus
sin is imminent, and nothing can now avert
it.
The death of Mrs. Emma Scott Wright,
VI. D., of Brooklyn, is announced. Mrs
Wright was physician of high standing in
New York and Brooklyn, and the founder
of the New York Homeopathic Dispensary
for Women and Children. She graduated
with the highest honors from the College for
Women, in New York city, in 1871.
Great excitement and Indignation was
caused in Ireland Wednesday, by the arrests
of Michael Davitt and Jas Bryce Killen, in
Dublin, charged with having used language
in public speeches calculated to incite Il
breach of the peace, and James DAILY, cdito.
of the Connaught Telegraph, in Cas.lcbar,
for similar cause. The prisoners were con
veyed TO Sligo jail
a Rochester despatch says: Wednesday.
Mr.. Soule returned from Union Springs ter
ribly angry. He says Courtney was hiding
in the woods near Trumansburg, and he
could have no communication with him.
The people of Union Springs are very in
dignant. Mr.. Soule ntimated that he would
pay the ChauauqUa purse of ST, 900 over to
| llanan.
Texas taxes drummers and has already
made S200, 900 ont of it.
The River Seine is To be deepcned at Paris
at II cost of 81, 600 900 francs
Hops have advanced 400 per cent since
July. This is owning to the failure of the
hop crop in England.
Thomas jackson, an Albany Stonc-cuttcr,
has just recovered S2n, 600 for injuries re-
ceivcd in Ashtabua disaster
The fleet which has been lost on Lake
Ontario, with loss of nine lives. put out
from port in defiance of the Signal Service
danger signals which foretold the coming
| storm
| The possibility that war may come be
tween England and Russia has revived the
/ operations of the committee of Moscow mcr-
chants organized to tit out privateers to
prey on English commerce. The committee
| has a fund of 80. 500, 900
At Huntington, West Virginia, the other
day, Il young girl, who had been cruelty
treated by her parents, took Il rope, went TO
a field and rolled pumpkin under a tree
She then tied the rope TO limb, made Il
moose around her neck, rolled the pumpkin
from under her feet and 50 hanged herself.
The wool market is excited owing to ad-
vices from the London trade sale, now in
progress. noting Il large advance there in
prices of nearly all descriptions. Manufac-
turcrs are buying under the influence of
panic, in view of a possible wool famine, and
prices are again higher all around The
sales in Boston during the past week have
been the largest ever known. and foot up
about 6,5j0, 900 pounds
Money was worth : to per cent in New
York Thursday, the advance being due to
scarcity of commercial bills, arising from de
creased exports for several weeks past.
Their, are millions Of bushels of wheat and
other cereals held in speculation at prices
above exporters limits. This is the cause
Of the recent decrease in exports. The
transactions at the Stock Exchange in New
\ FORK, Thursday, aggregated 6Sl 800 shares
the largest ever known.
Near jamestown, Fentrcss county, Tenn,
on Monday, Landon Downs and Giles An
derson went TO the house of Miss Josephine
Williams with rifles, threatened TO shoot a
man named Stcincipher if he did not leave
and insultCd Miss Williams Ohe OF them
put down u gun, which Stcinciphcr snatched
up, and shot Downs dead Clubbing the gun
he then beat Anderson nearly to death. Stein
cipher was arrested. but nobody appearing
against him. lie was released
Ncsuyiu5 is again active. and grand
eruption is expected.
Scarlet fever is 81 prevalent in Springfield,
ILL.,, that the board OF health has ordered the
public schools closed until January l.
The tunnel through which Chicago receives
its drinking water from Lake Michigan was
not carried out far enough, and the sewage
of the city is beginning to find its way
into it,
VI. he Freycinrt, the French Minister of
Public Works. has submitted Ia the Cabinet
au estimate of G00. OU0 frames for the expcn-
scs of preliminary inquiries into the Trans |
Sahara Railway project.
The Burmese have become such nvctcr:lte
gamblers since King rhcchau has introduced |
the lottery that they are now selling their |
daughters for 100 Il piece in order 10 get |
money whcrrwith 10 purchase tickets.
Secretary Taylor of the Bonanza mines has |
dishurScd over SGO. 900, OO1 in the last six |
Years. He has handled 50 much money that |
h. can tell 10y the weight of Il pile of twcnties |
without looking at them at all, how much |
there is in the lot. In payin:, of he has gold !
and silver coin counted into piles VARYING |
from s To SEQ and 50 sensitive is he To the |
wclght of Il pile of coin that sometimes. If Il 1
SO stack of half dollars contains q few that |
are new, and consequently trillc heavier /
than the rest, he will stop and count them .
over To STE if there isn't some mistake.
The Chlian account of the fight in which .
the lluascar was captured does not dltlcr .
much from the Peruvian account. The only /
portion of Commander Grau that was found /
was u portion of one leg aud foot The
body of Second Commander Aguirrc was |
horribly mulilatcd hy shot. The lIuascar
can hc rcttcd at an expense of so, 600 for .
the Chilian navy. Sixty men Of the lluascar |
are missing, and can only he accounted for .
ON the superstition that they were blown To |
pieces or uycrhurd by the explosion Of Chi |
lian shells. The Chilian loss was ten wound
cd and one killed
Services were held in Trinity Church Satur-
day in COMMUNICATION of the 2jth anniycr-
Siry of the conservation of Right Rev. |
l1"raliu Potter rs Bishop of the Diocese of
New lork. The religious services were par
ticipatcd in by bishops Doanr. Litlrjohn,
Coke and Scarborough. Rev. Dr. Dix. on
behalf of the clergy of the diocese read an
address congratuatins Eishop Potter on the
18th anniversary of his conservation aS
Bishop reviewed his work in the Church
and the growth of the diocese, and hoped
his life would long he spared. The Bishop
read reply, thanking them for this mark of
their esteem and dwclt on the LOVING words
contained in the address His heart. he
said, Was unable To express hts feelings. The
services were brought to close 10y the ad
miniS;rainn of communion.