Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-05-16

The }awnhroker- store OF Joseph Blumaur
:, som. / II Seventh avenue, New York, was
catered E.l evening, the safe broken
open and rohaet OF i'wclry valued at So
U00 or $1,000.
Richard lee, the negro burglar, was
hanged at Fayetteville. n. C., on Friday.
lie said he deserved to be hanged.
The Louisiana Constitutional Convention
has adopted the article prohibiting the Gen
eral Assembly from contracting any debt or
liability on the part of the State except for
rcpelling inyl-ions or for the suppression
of insurrectiOn
Goodwin Smith. in a letter 10 an English
member Of Parliament. which is printed in
the Manchester Eigmmr, points out some
mistakes made in CanadI under the imperial
policy, including the huiliing of inter colo
nial railways to connect colonies which have
no interest," in common, and presents some of
tho advantages Canada would enjoy in the
union Of the Statc4
Esther Cox, the girl whose experiences
from supposed spirits in Amherst, n. S ,
have at times excited considerable interest,
Is again possessed 1t Is surely stated that
while washing the other morning the clothes
left the Tub, mpTea swiftly across the room
AMI struck the various iumltes, and when
She went into ncighhoring store on an
errand 4 hatchet, shovel, tubs, iron spikes,
4 lump Of putty and a bag of salt took on
apparent life and lew about with great vc-
locity. The girl l. said to be not proud rf
these manifestations of interest on the part
Of tho alleged SPIRITS
\ commercial expedition to Brazil Will
.eave New lork l,r Rio Janeiro July :
iti- rIor. ed 10 annex IIanlan to the
United StatT-.
The father Of Charley Ross has been
again disappointed in finding his lost boy.
lie has visited over ~ix hundred lost children,
all of whom were believed to be Charley.
Lcarins from the Cincinnati bridge to the
water, distance Of - feet, did not kill
Robert /. Green, as he had expected,
Ransom and Frank, editors Of rival news
papers Mt DnJrh Flat, Cal, fought street
wounds made.
Two colorcd men, Tom Jones alias Satter-
white, and Henry Mcleod alias Cantello,
were hanged on Friday, at Aprling, Ga.
TnE Vanderbilt train party travelled -
= 4 miles in - hour- ~ minutes average
rate Of speed beng I mllcs an hour The
Centennial tianScontincntll tram ran .;,il,
nile, from Jersey city to oakland, III -
hours /, minutes, or one continuous trip,
or nearly the -amc average Mr. Vanderbilt
Passed oycr the -nmc roa, between Chicago
and Omaha and beat the Centennial fast
train time hY 3i minute
The manufacturer at Fail River are pre-
pairing to meet the threatened strike 10y
agreeing t. shut DOWN all the 'nill4 at the
demon tratiun OF the strkcrs, ami not start
astin until the strikers surrender.
Mr.. j. +. Ferris arrived IN Alhlny, y N
y, from Greenwich, Ct, the other day,
driving hr5 trotting horse. sam Patch, the
distance being loo miles, and the actual
time oyrs the road only Is hour. The
horse dii not sc6m much iatiguel.
The GORE. pondcut ul IL London paper at
Rome report that the progress ol Catholi-
ciSm IA the I nltcd States has induced the
l'urc to arrange a complete organil ttion Of
the Hierarchy AMI more intimate union
with Rome. New hi-horrc7 viii ,hortly be
created and the establishment ol the Society
OF Jesus Will L' more sati- i-lartnrlly urg,u-
lleI.
Red Igaty, the bank burglar. escaped
from Ludlow .trcct fil in New York olty
Ncdno-dty evening.
The survivors of Andcr-uny,lc, Libby
anl other southern prisons hold = reunion
at Ncw York L,At Iuoliy
\ c,.orcd bo,. twelve years of age, has
been scnt to the Joliet Ulll State prison
Tor shooting and killings playmate The
young murderer owed hi- victim i've
cents, which he refused T., pay. vixen 4
quarrel took place.
\ New Nors farmer had a prcsentimcut OF
speedy death, and immediately invested his
Surrus change in a 10 cJiln. \ little later
he was killed hy 81 tall from his wagon, and
his declining hours were ~opthcd hv the con
yirtion that hc would be buried IN {. much
better coffin thln II ha had left his suryly-
ny rohtiycl to purcha.' it for him
y mgs,j looking pedestrian cane to the
back dour oi th. nuu.hudarr mansion YES
t,iiuy .lt,Iuuau, Un5 tho Lir,i gal shouted,
'WuN, uuihn l'r tumps Fan hdy.
pause, trl tine visitor '.l.m mot Pc tramp.
nor h.g.lr '.Nhat su,. yr th,u Mud
luu. !m oh.to' goncrd li.u.a On
sc,yoI.
l.al,lis is ., u.lu,i because 1T the head
iuydyDirutly c'rU,d aNly hy p,reuns who
900 there and got -t,.g. p,t-uu was buried
not long s,uu. m Ia. lucd cemetery - ho was
80 full pi lral t!.nt the bearers thought it WAS
II case oi premature petunctJru Buffalo