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

/ Capt Paul Boyton intends to get married
and settle down on dry land.
| Mrs. Hayes has SiamCse cat which was
sent to her by an admirer in Asia.
| One of the features of the season at Lake
George will be the Vassar College boat-race.
During pilgrimage Of GO, 900 Poles TO the
miracle working picture at Crenitoken, fif-
! teen pilgrims were killed in u thunder Storm
1t is asserted that the women in Siberia
comprise only Il or 20 per cent of the po-
pulation, and that terrible state of demon
alization is the result
A minister in Seneca Falls n. Y. is
charged with hiring a livery horse and
wagon, swapping horses six times in two
days and returning TO the stable with the
same horse he took out, having made 800
by the operation.
Eight sophomores at the Amherst Agricul-
tural college have been arrested by order of
President Flint, for stealing a cannon and
carrying away all the ammunition. They are
bound over in $500 each for appearance at
the December court.
Ferdinand de Lesseps, in lecture at
Amiens, stated that the first sod of the
Panama canal would be turned January LIST,
and that with 40. 900 navvies, including some
Chinese, and $1,000 Brazilian negroes, the
work would be completed in eight years.
A young man who went from Iowa to
Leadville about six weeks ago, writes cheer
fully back to his friends: Il have gained
three pounds since | came here and gained
it all in half-ounce instruments. Haven't
been shot in the head yet
The dead Prince of Orange was very
superstitious as to the numbers and II. If
one of his horses had such a number prefixed
to its name on a racing card. he at once
withdrew it-and queerly enough he died on
the eleventh day of the sixth month.
They have a summary way of dealingwith
national debtors in Egypt. People who can
not or will not pay their taxes are hanged on
palm trees If the sufferers or their friends
cannot satisfy the tax-collector, they are
allowed to die; if otherwise, they are cut
down.
At a recent royal banquet at Copenhagen
the guests were served with hook of the year
1895, kept in the royal cellars of the castle of
Rosenberg, and which is only drank as
curiosity, being so terribly acid that several
Jumps of sugar have to he added to each
glass before it is drinkable
Mr.. Robert f. Estes, a farmer. fifty-six
years old, residing in Mulburry, n. c.,
mounted a ladder, which he had placed
against the house the evening previous, and
assembled to the top of the house. He then
knelt and prayed, after which he threw him.
self to the ground. He was badly hurt, but
will recover.
A dentist and druggist are neighbors in
Greenburg, Ind. The druggist started for
church, and in front of the dentists house
encountered the dentist, who placed pistol
at his head, ard compelled him to get down
on his knees, in the presence of a crowd, and
apologize for an insulting remark.
Edward Foy, the negro who was hanged
at Raleigh last week, was member of the
Mourning Jonahs, a religious society The
rest OF the Jonahs were ranged in front of
the scatfold, the men in long blue coats with
purple regalia, and the women in black
dresses. Foy made a long address to them,
and they sang as the trap was sprung
Several Paris newspapers state that Jer-
ONE Bonaparte will publish manifesto de-
claring that he remains faithfulto his Ajaccio
programme in which he announcedhis Repub-
lican principles and that he is not preten-
der to the Imperial succession, while at the |
same time he saws his dormant claims bar |
the succession of any other pretender.
The harvest of early winter wheat Is pro-
ceeding in the northwest, and the opinion |
now expressed is that while the quality of |
the grain is better than last year the yield is |
not so large. In Kansas there is a consider |
able falling off. The reports in relation to |
the crop of spring wheat are not extra IA |
vorable.
Five steamers which sailed from the Unit
ed States for Europe last winter with freight |
principally grain), hut no passengers, and |
one from England for America have never |
been heard from and must have foundered |
They were all English built, with water |
tight compartments and comparatively new. |
In Liberty county, Ga, Guitano Rodriguez
was several years ago bitten by n rabid dog. |
No evil consequence showed itself until a |
few days ago, when he was stung by large |
spider on the forehead. The sting seemed TO
kindle the old virus in his system, and
brought on fearful commissions, accompanied
by all the symptoms of hydrophobia-
Lyman Hay, convicted in 1875, is serving
a twenty years imprisonment at Auburn for
brutality maltreatng young girl. Recently
a man named Corwin confessed to Postmaster
Hunt at Meridian that he was the criminal,
and fled to Canada before he could be ap-
pretended. There is said to be remarkable
between Hay and Corwin,
which accounts for the positively identi-
flying the former.
On the arrival of the renforcements, the
British army in Zululand will be considerably
larger than that which was present at Water
loo or at the Alma. AT the memorable
battle which ended in the overthrow of
Napoleon the English troops numbered just
under "a, 900. At the first great fight in the
Crimea the British forces consisted of &c, 900
men. When the troops sent out during the
asst few days have crossed the Tugela the
strength of the English army within the
Zulu territory will be over 10000. l.
William Henry Erb of St. Louis behaved
70 badly to his wife that she procured a
iivorce. He afterward became drunkard,
md earned miserable living rs a knife
,rinder. Ii was his custom to set up his
machine across the street from his wife's
house, and menacingly grind knives in her
light. This made her nervous at first, but
The gradually became accustomed to it.
Seeing that he was no longer soaring her, he
ook to running toward her, brandishing
.nifc, and declaring that he would kill her.
" hen that plan began 10 fail, rs it did few
lays ago, he stabbed her to death.
According to late estimates, Great Britain
s not the wealthest country on earth. as
mas been believed. France values her pri
rate property, real and personal, ut S43, no.
iOO, 900, and her navy, palaces, public build
ngs and other public property, excepting
highways, at S1.475, 0O0, 900. making Sii,-
's5, 600, 900. The aggregate estimate for Eng
and. Scotland and Ireland, without reckon
ng public highways, is So 500, 900, 900.
Real estate in France greatly exceeds in area
nat of England, while in the latter there is |
great excess of personal property over the
)rmer.
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