Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-19
GENERAL SUMMARY.

The attempt to abolish slavery in Cuba has
resulted III u serious political crisis in Spain.
The man who shot at Lord Lytton wa:
J the usual escaped lunatic.
BsmarcL's health is better, and he has re
sumed the direction OF affairs.
The agricultural convention i'll New York
has adjourned To meet next wear in Chicago Gin
clnnaiI or New York.
I The immigration Of the year ending with
November amnunte,! to one million three hundred
aul forty thouiani persons.
/ The yield of anthracite coal, this year, is
% too OoO tons. said 10 be the largest known
hy almost I0JoU0o tons, that OF 1873, the next larg
est, being above 81 100000.
: Samuel Stillwell a youth of fifteen, eloped
with kitty Tully, miss of hiteen, and domestic
IN his fathers house IN New York. The couple were
arrested while waiting for a train for Albany, aud
/ fhe gir was sent 10 IA refOrInaiOry.
/ The Indiana people are trying to discour-
! age The negroes from emgraiing to that State al
TINS season, urging thai they should walt till Spring
Two hundred aud twenty colored people reached
Shelhyvile, in that State, Friday, and the baggage
of the whole party wouldn't MI u small handcart
Francis Joseph. SAYS London paper,
showed himself a generous cousin To Alfonso,
bride. lie gave her lOO1,OU thalers OUT Of his own
private fortune, ani sent her away III greater state
than was observed al the departure of his only
daughter when she married. The trOusseaux nlled
1ve railway vans. trdcr-clothing was IN the scale
, of twelve dozen dozens.
The October agreement of the coal COM
panies has heen broken indiscrimnately, and ON
cla notification Will he given OF its expiration by
mutual consent January /. \ decline OF i5 Ccni5
per ton Is expected. and in view OF heavy stocks
accommodating concession OF 50 cents additional
will probably he offered wholesale dealers. All the
coal presidents HcknOw ledge that prices are too
high. and that some reduction will have TO be made
even with partial suspension OF mining.
A magazine of nitro-g -glycerine and mica
powder on Fox island, opposite Amherstburg, Ont,
exploded FRIDAY night. The explosion WAS felt 10
miles away, IN bennington and Ruthevan, shaking
every house in both towns. 1t also felt forty
miles along the Canada southern railroad. 1t Is
supposed TO have been caused by hunters leaving
nre on the island. blaze lighted up the whole
heavens, the earth tremhed, and tremendous re-
ports followed. There were about three tons of
nitrO glyc2rne besides mica powder III the maga-
zipe.
"a bill in equity has been filed in the United
States Circuit court AT New Orleans i'll behalf of
Mrs. Edward Peekham OF Louisiana, Stephen Percy
Ellis of Brooklyn, and Mortimer Dahlgren OF NJ.
LOUIS sister and brothers of the late Mrs. Sarah
Ann Dorsey, against Jefferson Davis. The object
of the hill IL To have declared null and void the will
OF Mrs. Dorsey OF January !, ls.s, hy which the
whole Oi her estate was bequea he'd To Mr.. Davis.
The plaintiffs allegc that they the legal heirs Of
the tesanx. The grounds Of annalment of the will
stated to lie that previous to and al the time of the
writing and signing Of the Will Mrs. Dorsey net
OF sound mind, being under undue influence Of the
defendant; that the motive aGd object inducing and
controlling the testatriN 10 make The hequest itself
was, under the laws or the land Illegal, null aud
void.
BY II tornado in Missouri, Wednesday
several houses We're torn Ia pieces one person Kill
ri and many seriously injured.
Adviccs from England have sent the price
of Hour, wheat and corn up In the Great West, and
the sales have been large
The new tax law in New Hamphire taxes
corporations pretty severely. and Cheney L Co.'S
Express propose 20 test lis constItutonaiity.
A Young man named Hutchinson, a stu
dent In Hobart College, attempted 10 commit suicide
10y placing his mouth over q burning gas Jet. He Is
ina very dangerous condition.
The toll gate house near Rochester n.
Y, was burned Wednesday and Miles Tuttle yale
kerpcT and hts child wears old, Were burned 10 d
crisp. lhe mother dnd Nv" children escaped.
The registered bonds, notes and other pa
pcrS belonging 10 the LlcOnia, y. H., bank, and
taken tr"n II by burglars last Spring were found
III" ether diy ia the woods near there hs a
VIII" wa@"uttlng tlmhrr-
The funeral ai the widow Of Charles Dick
ems tonE place Al Iilghgale Cemetery, near London,
privately and wiInOut 0stenldtI"n by her special re-
quest. The ioiI-n'd 'ik 'oilln Ma] piled with
inwcrs
A; the first reunion of the Fifth Maine
battery al Augusta, 1huI s,iay, among the members
present was John +. chase Of Windsor who bears
the nars- uf l. wounds, received IN tue war. lie
carries An uIuir~- sle.Nc amt wears ditinuial
rNe.
The State committee of Investigation at
Montreal, APPOINTED hy the ln-ovent court Ia IN
yestisatc the anliIs OF the C1nSOiidaed Bank, md
II viii l." neres-hy 10 make call "n the sharehod-
ers under In, double liability CLAUSE ut the banking
act m order 10 meet the clalIGs Of The creditors.
Ellie Gray Millais, the eldest daughter of
The distinguished aust, hl7 Jus heen married to
Lieutenant ". &. James, nnIy son of Right Hon.
Lorl-Iu@tcc James. The bride wore pTln'rsSe
gown ui ivory dnrhrssr SATIN trimmed with antique
Venetian lace. the pltt nt her mother. She like
wise wore u tara ut tGIcr diamond stars, aud