Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-03-28

General summary.

General summary.
Niagara great icc-bridge has ''moyed on. -
1t was in use seventy three days.
The "scason' is over in Florida and the
hotels will close in April.
About one thousand persons have peri=hed
from an earthquake in Persia.
Szegedin is threatened with another flood
and further loss OF life is feared.
Rhode Island has big failure, the James
Il. Smith Manufacturing Company gong
down, with liabilities Of more than $780,
900.
|. seems evident, from detailed reports
received, that Sitting Bull is prepared
to resume hoStilities from the Dominion
border.
Hugh Dunniug, planter living near
Atlanta, ia, was found Sunday morning
near the city, fatally beaten. 1t i supposed
he was robbed.
An inpatient couple were married on a
sleeping car OF II Pennsylvania railroad tram
near Harrisburg, AT the witching hour OF
4 Il. m. the other day.
The land sales of the Union Pacific Rail
road Company, during ISIS, aggregated
SIS 900 acres, equivalent to nearly two
thousand farms of 100 acres each.
George f. SOsson has issued challenge
to Maurice Nignaux to play for the three
ball billiard championship of the world in
Paris. between June - and Jolly 20.
Monticello, the old home of Thomas JET
ferson, has passed under the auctiOneer ;
hammer and been bid off by the principal
heir, for ten thousand and fifty dollars.
Nathan p Pratt, the Treasurer of the
Reading (NIass.) Savings Bank, defaulter
to the extent OF 100000, was arrested al
Boston, Just as he was apparently about tC
leave the city.
The Emperor William, the sturdy ruler oil
the German Empire, completed the
eighty-second year OF his life on Saturday
| The event was celebrated in his capital city
with great pOmp.
The surrogatc's decision in the Vanderbilt
will case confirms William II. Vanderbilt ii
the possession of sea, 900 900, being larger
amount of personal property than is held by
| any other man on This continent
A wealthy Seothmau cut of his relation
without penny, and gave fortune o.
400 900 to his lawyer, Thomas ThOw, O
| Dundee. The latter, considering the vii
| an injustice to the natural heirs, gave W
| one-half to them
The elder brother of W iliam Hewitt (whC
died at Rome at $50 p. IN. on Monday
| March ~, died at his residence, lIeanOr
| Derbyshirc, or precisely the same day and
| hour. His maine was Francis Hewitt, and
he lived in 1.-The Old house at homc,' whict
is the subject oi one CT ilowitt's poems.
At Paducah, Ky, Sunday night, Jerry
| Ewing (colored), was seized by twelve
masked men and shot to death, after
which, bag OF sand being tied to hi
body, he was thrown into the Ohio river.
Ewing ravished l2-year old white child
named Fields. by whose brother he was cap,
tured after receiving two gun-shot wounds
Two brothers lately died in Deerlng, Me-,
who occupied ono room in their house Tor al
purposes. They had a perfect arsenal of old
weapons, mendcd their harnesses in the room
where they slept and ate, and on the smoke
begrimed walls kept their accounts and theil
| diary of events, which ran back to loiO
They never changed their clothes, and it is
| said it did not cost them $50 year to live
Details of the Zulu victory at lsandula
show that the most Of the English were kill
| ed by stabbing with the ''assegai,' spear
like weapon. The sayages first exhausted
| the ammunition of the English by firisg into
| them from distance, and then Tell upon
| them at close quarters. In less than tive
hours not a living white man was to be seen
| The blood soaked plain was strewcd with
scarlet-coated cOrpses over which the swartby
thousands swarmcd in triumph.
1t is reported that all the Vanderbilt
suits have hccn settled, and will not appear
in court again.
Charges of shameless treatment OF the
female inmates in the Soldiers Orphan
Home at Ncnia, Ohio. are made against the
superintendent. Similar charges are made
against the employees Of the Central Insane
Asylum at Athens, o.
Mr.. Tennyson is writing new play iOI
Mr.. lrying's theatre-another historical one.
Its title is Eleanor and ROsanonl.'
A monk named Serafno, at Alcamo, in
Italy, who made trade of predicting win.
ming lottery numbers, has been murdered by
two disappointed clients.
The Madrid historical society has looked
into the reputed discovery of the remains Of
CHRISTOPHER Columbus in the San Domingo
cathedral. and hnds tie story rruuu.
Mrs. Ely Goddard, of New York. mother
of "the gentleman from West Fairlee" in
the Vermont Legislature, has taken cot
tage at Newport for the coming season at 4
rental of 5000.
1t is estimated that > 600 900 cattle. most
ly young, will be driven north from Texas
before the hot weather of August. The
number in a drove is generally 1900,
though sometimes much larger.
There was a frightful collision on a New
York elevated railroad, Tuesday, and part
of train was precipitatet into the street
below. About sixteen persons were more
or less injured, but none fatally.
A member of the rhetorical class in a
certain college had just finished his declama-
ton when the professor said, "Mr. --. dc
you suppose general would address his
soldiers in the manner in which you spoke
that piece ~ AYES. sir, do, was the
reply, "if he was half scared to death"
The trial for perjury Of George W. Jones,
the principal abb witness in the Billings
murder trial, at Balston, n. Y, terminated
on Saturday, in the conviction of the prison
or. The trial has created nearly As much
interest as did the trial Of Billings. The
conviction of Jones will undoubtedly insure
a second trial Of jesse Billings.
George W. Taylor, one of the original
founders of the New Work dry goods house
Of Lord Taylor, died March %, at Man
chester, England, age 2 years. Mr.. Taylor
was a native of New York, where he lived
in moderate circumstances till 1880. when,
with Mr.. Samuel Lord, he started the above
firm. lie retired from business in 1856,
when he went to England and has since re-
sided there