Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-11
GENERAL SUMMARY.

very justly remarked.
GENERAL SUMMARY.
1t is believed that only five lives were lost
by the disaster on Lake Quinsigamond,
Friday.
The wife Of James Russell Lowell, United
States minister to Spain, is dangerously ill AT
Madrid.
Turbulent Mexico has bit of a rebellion
at Vera Cruz A Mexican war steamer has
been seized, and Il reign of terror prevails.
Reports from Eastern Europe show that
Ike wheat crop will be very light, and fears |
are entertained that the crops in the Danube |
valley will be light.
There is great excitement in Germany |
caused by the proposition to adopt high |
protective tariff. Bismarck is obstinate and |
the I4iberalists and Socialists are making |
vigorous opposition to his policy.
At Cincinnati, on the Fourth, William
Burgeon. drayman, and one Feeters, u butch |
er. quarrellcd. when Fccters cut the throat |
of Burgeon from ear To ear. He was ar
rested.
The last slave sold in the confeicracy was
in 1865, near Richmond, negro man, who
hage was worth dollar head, consequent
" the negro footed up at 5000.
Henry King, culored. aged seventy three
years, residing at Salisbury, Md, claims the
paternity of forty lone children. The oldest
is fifty and the youngest two weeks Old. lie
keeps private directory.
The Minnesota whact crop promises well,
and the probable yield will be from fifteen
,l,nl, Ia,
make the wheat product of the state (over
400, 900 acres nearly 80 600 900 bushels.
When Mr.. W. II. Smith. first lord of the
admiralty, came out at Oxford to receive the
degree Of ID. e. L.. he was received with
roaring chorus, And now he is the ruler,
etc, which he took very contemporary.
Recent adviceS from IIayti report Port au
Prince in flames and whole blocks of build
ings in ashes. the fire being presumably the
work of the revolutionists. The custom
house is closed in consequence OF the reV"lu-
ton.
Alanson Work, an old-timc Aholitlonist,
who was imprisoned nearly 40 years ago IN
the Missouri penitentiary for over three
wears on u sentence for twelve years Tor Try
ing to help slaves To freedom, died in Hart
ford. Ct, Sunday, aged 80 years.
nett MAY duel. and it Is therefore cncourag-
ing of return of chivalry To learn of
handsome affair in Mississippi, in which two
negroes were the principals. The met regu-
! larly, exchanged three shots. each OF which
took effect, and then simultaneously died.
Statistics in the general land office at
Washington show that emigration to the
Western country this Spring has thus far
been unprecedented As high as 200 en-
tries of public lands were recently made in
six DAYS. which is said 10 he equivalent 10
the taking up of 1872, 900 acres of government
land. Most Of this land has been entered I'M
der the homestead law and timber culture
| ac, Although, .t,- a-tirn West is getting the
benefit of this movement, more land has been
taken up in Kansas and Dakota than else
where There has been large emigration
TO Minnesota this Spring. The statistics OF
the fiscal wear ending June 1879. will show
an emigration nearly four times ~ large as
in the year 1876.
An eight year-old girl nj Lower Tcrrehonr,
La, has "a full beard of exquisite ilncness
and "a voice coarse and firm.
Only three women in Springfield. Mass,
have indicated their desire To exercise Their
right of suffrage in the choice OF the School
Board.
A despatch from Red Wing, Minnesota,
SAYS -four more victims of the destruction OF
the orphan asylum nj Nasa by the storm
have died, making 10 in all
A terrible crime has been disclosed In y
trial at Bellevie. ILL.,. by the confession OF
one Hammond that he belonged TO party oil
three which burned an East ST. Louis house
10 get the Insurance. and destroyed 4 man,
woman and three children at the same time
A.P. Sprague. Secretary OF the lnterna-
tional Code Committee of America, an
nounces that the London Conference Tor
the reform and COditication OF the law OF
nations will begin on the 18th OF August
Representatives will be in attendance from
all the principal countries OF the world.
The circulation of paper currency in this
country amounts to Sl3.5O per capita III
Great Britain II is SEQ; in France, Sl2.6Oi
in Germany, 50; in Switzerland, Sou; IN
Belgium. Sic. 20: in Holland. g224 Hol-
land is the only country with a sound paper
currency larger in proportion than ours
In New York, Tuesday, Frank Cosgrove,
wealthy cooper, who was jointly lndlcteu
in February last with Mime. Bertha Berger,
now in the penitentary under sentence OF Ia
years for the killing Of Miss Cora Saminls OF
Northport, by malpractice, was senienrcdto
iOur wears III Nldtt pils'll' tHS A'tH'''' ~"
tence allowed by law.
Counsel for Miss Lucy Walton Rhett lior-
ton have entered suit in Washington against
John H. Morgan. the son of Senator Morgan
OF Alabama, Tor breach of promise OF mar
rnrc and 500, 900 damages. II is alleged
Young Morgan BETRAYED Miss Horton and
then refused to keep his engagement.
NJ. DE I.csscps does not think the expenses
of the construction of the Daricn canal VIII
exceed $50, 600, 900 francs He says The
difficulties of the work are not SO formidable
ms in the construction of the SucZ canal as
II railway already exists along the course "i
the proposed Panama cnnnl, with n large
town ut each extremity
Owing to the general suspension Of hIsl-
ness in New York ON Friday (lhc Fourth
and also on Saturday, the delivery of three
,tays mails Monday mnrnln. was something
extraordinary The number of letters aggrc-
gated over $50, 900, of which 3jo,OOO went
through the boxes, and over 2OO,ooo were
taken hy the carriers. One carrier Ind II"
less than 4. 900 letters, weighing l09 pounds,
even after he had delivered 1000 letters |"
one person.
Can't kirwan, editor OF the Montreal
Evening Pos {. and Mr.. Savage, leading
society man OF that city. had quarrel; ana
a duel was arranged. 10 come oil ON M"h-
day. They met at the appointed spot hni
the friends whom they had iudicinuslN nnll-
fed of the occurrence effected recon'iiii
ton. Mutual explanations, apologies hai'u-