Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-24

The trial of the directors of the City o.
GLASGOW bank has begun at Edinburgh.
The Oxford University boat crew of Eng
land, declines to row with the Harvard crew
because oil the Ia teness of the date named,
John G. Ferguson, a well-to-do farmer,
was frozen to death in cutter, while on his
way to church, at Williamstow1, Ontario,
Sunday.
There was al exciting debate in the
French Assembly Monday, which closed
VIXEN Jules Ferry offered his motion e1-
pressing confidence in the Government,
which was adopted, 223 to l2l.
Alderman William Clendening, Montre-
al iron founder, has absconded, taking $780,
600 in cash which he accumulated by OBJ
tanning drafts from banks in New York and
then selling them to brokers in this city.
His liabilities are half million.
The Car has ordered the authorities of
Eastern Siberia to dispatch an overland
sledgc expedition to ascertain the where
abouts of Nordenskiold's polar expedition.
The Swedish and German friends Of the cx-
plorer believe that the steamer Jeanette
of the American Arctic expedition will be
the first to reach Nordenskiold. The Ger
man government will grant the German soci-
ETY. for the exploration of Africa SIS 400.
At ST. Louis the United States grand jury
reported indictments against James ii.
Britton, president of the defunct National
bank of the State of Missouri, charging him
with Incorporating the funds of the bank
in various ways, and Edward p. Curtis.
cashier, for conspiracy in having knowledge
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ment was drawn against Capt. James b.
Eads, but ignored by the jury, there being
no evidence to base true bill. The parties
indicted came into court and entered bond
in SO 900 each to appear at the May term
of the court.
Matthew I. Brennan, ex-sheriif of New
York county is dead at the age of fifty. lu
early youth he was a fireman distinguished
for his energy and bravery. Entering poll
tics in carly lie. he allied himself to Peter
B. Sweeny, through whose influence he was
appointed police captain. From 1854 to
1868 Brennan was police justice then he
was controller; in 1865 he was appointed
police commissioner and two years after
was elected sheriff. 1t was from his custody
that Harry Genet made his escape. Mr.
Brennan was prominent as 4 politician dur
ing the days Of the Tweed ring, and upon
its overthrow his political influence was lost,
though no charges of dishonesty were ever
brought against him personally. 1t is said
that he leaves but small estate.
DR.. Kerwin, the famous Ireland's Eye
murderer, has been released from Spike
Island prison, in Queenstown harbor, after
p years OF incarceration. The murder for
which he was convicted was one of the most
celebrated criminal cases ireland has ever
Known. He was wealthy and very dis
inguished physician in Dublin. During
he early Summer Of 1851 he visited the
sland in the barber Of Dublin, known as
reland's Eye, and soon after the body of his
wife vas found on the beach. she having
,ecn stabbed to death with the blade of a
word-cane. The evidence against him was
purely circumstantial, but he was sentenced
o death after defence by the best lawyers
n the realm and the assistance of many
wealthy friends. Tho queen, however, com
nuted the sentence to penal servitude for