Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-04-11
General summary.

DR.. James DekOyen has left Racine
College $40 900 and his valuable library.
Nineteen members OF battalion OF French
zOuayes persisted in severe snow storm il
Algeria on March %.
Dispatches from South America Indicate
that the war between Bolivia and Chill will
be fierce and bloody.
Two hundred men are at work on tie
Long Island Railroad removing snow and
sand blown over the tracks in Sunday,
storm.
The returned Bosnian refugees have ap-
pealed to Austria for increased relief. 1t Is
said that 20 900 of them have died oi
privation since their flight.
A Harvard senior took young
lady Of high social standing to a
dinner, at one of the Boston hotels,
and got drunk, The young lady walked
home, while the Young gentleman was ear
lied back to college in a hack.
At Tcxarkana. Ark, on Friday, sam
Crowley, freight conductor on the Texas and
Pacific Railroad, shot and killed Thomas
Hanks, who was State Senator in the legis-
laturc Of 1871. Hanks had threatened to
kill Crowley on sight because be had given
away a ring pledged for debt several months
| since.
Controller Kelley, of New York, has
promised the Brooklyn bridge trustees to
pay 100000 at once toward completing the
| bridge, and the same amount every month
until the million due is paid. The total
cost Of the bridge Will be Sl3, so 900, and it
will take $3.50 900 beside the present
| million due from New York TO complete the
! structure.
The New Orleans Auxiliary Sanitary As
s0ciations, composed of the leading mer-
chants of that city, has organized to CO.
operate with the municipal and health
authorities in an active and unrcmitting
effort to preserve in New Orleans, through
out the Summer. the present unexampled
good health of its citizens.
A touching incident in the Cleveland
| (Ohio) police court the other day was the
venerable Judge Tilden's prosecution Of his
own son for stealing coat and then pawn
ing it. After examining his son and saying
that he was satisfied that the young man
was guilty, Judge Tilden burst into tears anu
could not control himself for some minutes.
England is getting taste of the deprcs-
sion which has been so bitterly felt on this
side of the Atlantic during the past six
years, and the worst of It i that no present
prospect of relief is visible. The reports of
the export trade are especially discouraging,
it having come to that pass that there Is talk
OF starting lines OF steamers to come over
here in ballas: for the purpose Of carrying
back American cattle.
When the will Of the late Theodore Marsh,
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that he had mude liberal provision for his
four horses. lie stipulated that $500 year
should be set aside for each, payable in
monthly instalments that they should have
the use of his farm for their lives, besides
81, 800 to build them a suitable stable. 1t
will require an Investment of $50 600 to
secure the income for the horses
Jim Younger, one of the famous brother
bandits, has Just had n bullet taken ont of
his throat at the Minnesota penitentary.
lie has carried it about for the two and
half years since his capture, after the North
field, Mimi, bank robbery. The operation
was quite painful, ncccssitating the cutting
of the roof of his mouth, and two days care
ful work to get the bullet loose from the
muscles near the saliyary gland, where it lay
embedded.
Gov. llubbard's daughter has returned to
Hartford with her husband, who was her
fathers coachman and with whom she cloped
about ten days ago after secret marriage.
Gov Hubbard declines to recognize her hus-
band in any way, although it is reported
that he is willing to forgive her and receive
her back if she will return unaccomplnied
and resume hcr former relations with the
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