Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-22
GENERAL SUMMARY.

GENERAL SUMMARY.
Darwin is described as being as straight as
dart and robust as an oak.
\ statistician says the wheat crop of the
world, this year, will be about !, $40, 900, 900
| bushels.
Grace Greenwood says Mr.. Beecher is
never obliged to buy postage stamps, as he is
Kept supplied 10y the army of autograph-hun-
tiers.
Mr. Moody, the revival preacher, intends
to put up Il school building in his native
place Mortified, Mass, and present it to
the town.
}. T. Benson, while chasing Il cat in Troy,
n. Y, on Thursday, ran head foremost
against tree Ills skull was fractured and
he died instantly.
The contes: between the gas companies in
New York city has brought the price of gas
down to 81. % per 1000 feet for large con
sumcrs with offers to supply gas at 81.
Archbishop Wood (Roman Catholic of
Philadelphia, has refused to join in the move
ment 10 pay the debts of Archbishop Purcell
of Cincinnati
Mrs. Mary Qucntrell of Frederick, Md,
whose friends claim for her the distinction
OF bcing the original Barbara Frcitchie,'
died suddenly Il few tlays agO.
The Pacific mills at Lawrence. Mass, en-
ploy from 10 900 to Ii. 900 persons, their pay
roll runs as high as SO a minute. and the
cost of supplies with which to keep the ma
chincry running is so minute.
The pay of Bismarck from all sources,
both rs PrIissian Minister and as Chancellor
of the empire, is only Sl3,500. The highest
salary of PruSsian Cabinet Minister is
-, 900
Col. Austen, 18th Regiment National
Guard, has received Information that the 9th
| Fusilrers of Montreal will visit Brooklyn
next summer oninvitation Of the former rcgi
mcnt.
y large bear was killed near Warren, n
H., on Sunday. hy the veteran hunter and
| guide, Bart Libby. Its head measured
eighteen inches from the top of the skull
10 the tip of the nose.
The Wool monument. intended for Oak |
wood Cemetery, Troy. which weighs $50 |
tons and is only few feet shorter than the !
famous Clenpatrls Needle, has been shipped |
from Rockland, Me.
At WielitcZkl, Austria, Poland, in the |
centre of the salt mining region of Galicia, |
in consequence of violent movement of the |
waters and the surface of the ground row |
of houses split in several places, and people |
fled in panic.
The lost children of Montague, N Y,
came out Of the woods Wednesday after
noon six miles from where they entered. |
having been lost twodaysand one night The |
youngest is $ and the oldest Ii wears Of |
ag'. They suhsisted on berries.
George T. Scott an Englishman, connect |
cd with the Indian Survey Department, is |
the first European who has scaled the peak /
of Sikaram, 15.G00 feet, the highest point in .
the Sufeid koh range. The last 4, 900 feet !
of the ascent had to be made by cutting steps |
in the snow with an Afghan knife
Capt. Joseph Boyle of the Mississippi |
steamboat Heroine stepped ashore at Mandc |
vile, La, and was instantly killed by a |
negro whom he once whipped. The Heroine,
ON the return trip. brought an excursion |
party of lynchers. waited while they hanged |
the negro, and then carried them back home.
waierspout recently occurred in the dis
trict of Brusio, in the canton Of Grisons,
switzerland Immense volumes of water
rushed down the sides of the PiZ Di Saint /
Rclaigio, bringing with it masses of rock and
earth, and overtluw"d and flooded Brulsio
No lives were lost, hut many buildings were
damaged and crops ruined
Charges of corrupt solicitation of members
OF the Pennsylvania Legislature in connet.-
ton with the riot claims hll have been
incnt ,nuns,I ha,.n Ioar .'',irrod S. h-,i,
sides and the investigating committee are
using every effort To have the cases tried at
the August term. which opens on the 25th.
Eight carloads of colorcd men of the better
class, well dressed and having money. ar
different nnints in Nis,;,s,,; W .a''r, ,,
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my hau some opium hut no pipe Ia smoke
u III. lac %" a Nlai, mt" one sIdc "i which
he drilled small hole by working industrl-
onsly Tor Il week with nail which he
Whirled hetwrrll Inc palms "f nus hands. n
a''m, va ,,u. , i" 1ll,,'iis S,tA, sl"otrhs
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ing bread in water,
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cotton culture in the United STATES ha; ont
strippcI The most slnruinc rxnrci,tion The
problem of free I,hnr has hern virtually
solved. and the Sou,h mnsi b,. regarded as
the future reliance of the cotton manufac-
tnrers both in America and Europe. Taking
the average "f wears past, hut thirty-one per
cent OF "ur cotton Is manufactured in the I
hitt,i N'll1S' SiNiN-hihe per c'hi gong 10
''''i the hllliS "i Europe
1t is claimed that Thomas Waltlcc's brown
sclding Darby al New York Monday even
lns III hotheairr hAd' tie hrS' Trolling lime
on record. Nv" srh'ic'l'th interested III
lufi matters one "' 'h'l" ar''pf'SrhlaliVe oil
inc f"y' f"'" an" f"F"' h'lu Stop i
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both al Cleveland and Buffalo this season ,
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