Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-04
GENERAL SUMMARY.


There are 5i,4s7 persons employed in til,
postal service Of the United States
A terrible hurricane struck Baltimor,
Saturday causing damage to property est
mated at half million.
The Louisiana Convention has adopted
resolutiOn-G2 TO 56-against paving thu
July interest on State bonds.
Houston. Texas. has got in debt 8, 600
000 and the taxpayers have voted to resis
taxation to pay the interest.
There is talk of efforts to introduce tn,
raising of ostriches in Western Texas q
Southern California.
This country uses up, 1000 600 900 papcl
bags annually, and several manufacturers r.
port increasing demands.
This week fast mail train will endcavnl
to make the distance between New \ ork anC
New Orleans in forty three hours.
J. A. johnson, after being shot, was ar
rested across the river for an outrage upon
an elevcn-year-old girl Friday night, at Mem.
phis, Tenn.
W. Doud, law student in Cohoes, was
instantly killed by lightning at Adams Island
near Cohoes, \. Y, Saturday. Two com
panions Were injured
The excess of exports over imports for the
year ending May 81, 1879 was $500, 709, SO,
an increase OF nearly $50, 900, 600 over the
same period expiring May 81, 1873.
The widow of Patrick O'Brien has received
5000 600 in settlement Of her claim against
the estate of her husbands brother, William
s. O'Brcn of San Francisco of bonanza
fame
DR.. Spencer Il dentist in Platte City, Mo-,
was shot and killed by man whose wife he
had kissed while she was in his operating
chair. partly under the influence of chic
reform.
Mount Hood, Oregon, has lately been
giving out volumes of smoke from a long cN-
tinct crater where ordinarily a smell of sui
phur and slight warmth only indicate in
ward fire.
The steam coal collicrs of Mcrthyr
Tydvil in Wales, numbering $4,000, have
resolved to accept the masters demand of 10
pei cent reduction in wages.
Lieut.. McAuley of Company Z, Thirteenth
Infantry, committed suicide at Atlanta, Ga.
Monday by shooting himself in the head
The cause was temporary alteration, from
financial troubles.
L "a plHii. W nv bNtl anu hIllttl
Danish, little girl, in Chicago, Friday night,
was followed fourteen miles by the police
and captured. He and hired man in the
wagon were indicted by the grand jury for
criminal caplcssness.
Two sons of Charles Rhinchardt. aged
and G, were drowned in the canal at Syracuse
Saturday. The youngest was reaching for
a dog in the water and fell in. The oldest
-,
drowned in each others arms.
A marriage ceremony was performed by
telegraph at Newark n. j., last week, be-
tween DR.. F. NJ. Snow of Los Angeles, Cal,
and Miss Margaret Wright of Albany. The
certificate, however, was not given by
the clergyman, but will he obtained from the
minister in California
Near Liberty. Texas, Mrs. Davis. the wife
of u farmer, was outraged bv a negro. who
fled leaving her half dead. She managed to
crawl to her house and tell her husband. who
with number of ncghbors followed and cap
tured the fiend. He was taken back to the
scene of his crime and hanged.
A despatch from Cape Town says the
latest advices are rather encouraging The
advance of the British into Zuuland has CON
tinued, and once more it is asserted that the
strategic disposition of the British columns is
sufficient to prevent the unhappy surprises
which previously have resulted in such seri-
Gus disaster.
Jesse Owens, saloon keeper, living at
Coesse, Indiana, attempted TO murder his
four mothorless children. He first assaulted
his son, aged years. tearing off his car,
then stabbed his daughter aged Q, intlicting
three wounds. He next took club and beat
all four children until their bodies were
mass of wounds. He was arrested.
There is great excitement in Austin, Texas,
over sensational reports of the murder of
convicts by guards in Wood county Gov
Roberts sent a message to the Senate, saying
he had reliable information of the murders
Other reports say twenty-three convicts have
been murdered within a month, The details
Of the murders are said to be horrible
Peer, the jumpist, will make another leap
from the suspension bridge at Niagara Falls
IN the fourth of July. The Canadian au
horities gave notice that they would arrest
aim if he endangered his life on their side of
he river, and ne will jump from point 10
eet this side of the line
The widow Berg Evansville, Ind, had
'uitor in the person of Matthew Schnautz,
iIi Il
she was 81 years old she had n |
laughter OF It, and when Schnautz saw the
,irl, on her return from boarding school, he |
transferred his lovet to her. The mother then |
suicide.
Sunday night during service in 4 colored |
,hurch at Beaumont, Tex, II white boy |
ooking through Il window was shot perhaps |
atally in the back by some unknown party |
outside. Two more shots were fired into the |
hurch from the same direction and some |
men in the church returned the fire
For the six months ending June 80, there |
we're reported in New York city 366 failures,
With liabilities amounting 10 Sl1, 5S2, $50,
nd assets, $500, 34G. For the same period |
n 1878 there We're 5l4 failures, with liabli-
les amounting to S39, 1870. 795. and assets
81, 0l2 .662. For the month of June, 1879,
here were thirty eight failures. with liabili-
les amounting 10 81 OBJ 81, aud assets
,73j, 063
One of the sons of the late William Lloyd |
Garrison is soon to write Il biography of his
ather
Sarah Jane IIote of Mount Morris, n Y,
las room in which are | Is cats of all ages
nd colors.
\ Texas minister who refused 10 marry Il
ouplc without his fee in advance, went on
With the ceremony when seven-shooter was
rought in line with his head.
1t is stated that Prince jerome Napoleon
will publish manifesto after the funeral of
he Prince Imperial, urging all Bonapartists
D submit to the Republic. and that he has
lready assured the President that he will
ct become Il pretender to the imperial
hronc.
Mrs Pearcc, the wife of Postmaster
'earcc, at Bristol X. l.. who recently at
.mptcd 10 shoot her husband and was
bought to he insane, on Monday saturated
cr bed and clothing with kerosene and set
ne bed on fire. The fire was eXtinguishcd.
ut Mrs Pearce was probably fatally burned.
James Palmer went INTO an undertakcrs
mop at Riverton, Va, and got measured for
coffin which he said was for II man exact
his size. ''llave it ready this afternoon"
t said, for the corpse will be ready 10y that
me-" Then he went 10 Il railroad track
ear by, laid down on il, and let a train run
yer him.
Mrs. Eliza Weir, an old woman of Mem
his, Ind, proved lively corpse the other
nv. She apparently died Of inllammatory
and after her body became cold
ie was laid out. The neighhurs gathered
round theremainsto discuss Mrs Wcirs good
ualities, and were half scared out OF their
its to hear her speak. Mrs. Weir is her t
If again
The Ragged School Union of London
Ipends about $3.50, 900 II year in endcavor-
g to elevate the lowest and poorest classes.
has 30, 800 children in Sunday schools,
4S9 in day schools, and 9,26? in night
hools. 1t maintains - penny banks,
sides experimenting mothers meetings,
ems clubs, bands Of hope and variety Of
lildren's meetings
The first steel bridge on record is now :
ling built over the Missouri river by the
licago and Alton Railroad 1t will be of
'e spans of $50 feet each. The elevation
cr high water mark will not be less than 50
ct, at which height the light steel rods will i,
ok like silver cobwcbs shmmcring in the
nshinc. The total amount Of steel used v
i'll be |, 800 tons, equivalent in strength to Il
most double that quantity Of iron.
According to the London correspondent OF n
t New York Times, Mr. Binns, an Eng I
h cotton spinner and inventor at Bradford, Il