Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-03-14
General summary.

Crops promise well in India, and all leal
of a famine is ended.
There is a vigorous and determined oppo.
sition in the German Reichstag to Bismarck 5
gag law.
BIyard Taylor's body arrived in New
York, in charge Of his widow and daughter
on Thursday.
Birch, Norwegian, has recently walked
the $50 miles from Montreal to Quebec in
As IL hours actual walking time on
snow-shOes.
Kepler's saw-mill at Sullivan, ILL.,, was
blown to pieces, Wednesday, and j. Baugher
blown to fragments. Two other men were
badly hurt.
Charles Adams. the tenor, now in the
Strakosch Opera Troupe, had gold wreath
presented to him for nine years service at
the Imperial Opera House, Vienna. 1t was
attached in New York recently to satisfy a
Judgment in favor of an operatic agent, for
services rendered.
special train of English goods from
Halifax collided with the Quebec express,
near AthOl, N. S., Thursday morning. The
engines of 10th trains and cars were badly
wrecked. Driver Mcleod was killed and
Conductor Cameron fatally injured. Several
Others were badly hurt.
Martin Murphys wife of Waterbury,
Conn, went out the other night to visit u
sick friend, and as she did not return
Martin locked the doors and went to bed.
The wife returned late, could not get in AMI
in the morning was found on the doorstep
nearly dead from the cold She died about
noon.
In lie Roy, N. Y, tho other day, a salt
well was being sunk, when work was
stopped by rush of gas, which was set on
fire, but was then put out by body of
water thrown 80 feet into the air. Gas and
water alternated for some time, but finally
the water carried the day, and the well
threw up briny seyen-inch column 20 feet
high for some hours.
A young girl of respectable connections
named Rachel Cruckshank committed sui
eide by poison, at her sisters residence in
Montreal the other night. She left letter
stating that she had been seduccd by
young man of high standing, named Charles
Mccullough, and was overcome with shame.
The affair has created a sensation in the city
VI L., III DOucinld,
which made that place a second Saratoga,
suddenly disappeared the other day, owing
to the underground sources having been dis
turbed BY mines near the spot While the
miners were digging they struck spring
which came with such force that twenty
one laborers were drowned, and the springs
OF Teplitz at once gave out. 1t is hoped To
check this flow and restore the underground
water c)urse.
A police officer, in New York, early We'd
nesday morning. saw nude woman walk
ing deliberately in the middle of the street.
As he confronted her he was startled by her
ieath-like pallor and fixed, CLASSY eyes.
Taking hold Of her be was about to lead her
to the sidewalk, but she fell back into his
arms. lie lifted her 10 the curbstonc and
81 years of age. She had been drinking
heavily for some time.
f. Il. Ingalls,, town treasurer of
Gambia, n. H., as he says, was
called to his barn, Tuesday night.
by a noise; and was there seized and
gagged 10y three men, who then went into
his house and took $500 from his desk.
and a valuable gold watch. They overlooked
$3.50 which Mr.. Ingalls, had placed under
his pillow. There is no clue to the robbers,
and the latest revelations throw suspicion
on the alleged victim, and lead to the belief
that the story of the robbery is a hoax. and
that he gagged and handcufied himself.
Archbishop Purcell and his brother (Rev.
Edward Purccll) have made an assignment
for the benefit of their creditors. The value of
the property as signed il about half a million
in round numbers, while the debts reach at
least S4,5OO,000. The great question at
issue now is, whether or not the church
property OF the diocese il liable for the debt.
Upon this there is a variety Of opinions
among the legal fraternity, and the questions
probably will only be settled by the courts.
Neither the archiepiscopal residence, the
cathedral, or any of the church property are
conveyed to the assignee. There have thus
far been audited 3 ,j92 claims, amounting to
So ,6jl ,3i3 %. The interest paid during
the past ten years has amounted to $545,-
500. G6. much of it being compounded.
One of the strange>t of perjury cases was
developed in New York, Thursday, in the
Essex Market Police Court. Samuel Edgart
testified that he was assaulted by Henry NJ.
Greenberg; that Greenberg sprang at him
and kicked him until he was unconscious.
lie next found hiIuself in his bed. lie learn
ed that he had been carried out by Samuel
Solomon Gels. ard Jacob Taupen-
finger. In his cro>S-cxamination Edgart
acknowledged that he had had Mr.. Green
berg arrested on six different occasions
Pressed further. EIgart was forced to ac-
knowl ledge that he belonged to a club that
"a.
Rivington street. whose members are leagued
together to procure mock witnesses whenever
called upon. Close cross-examination of
the other two witnesses revealed that they,
too, belonged to the club, and that it has
% members. They confessed that they had
been paid Tor giving testimony many times.