Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-28
GENERAL SUMMARY.

teacher.
The circulation of National bank notes is
| increasing at the rate of 81, 690, u" Per an
mum.
John and Robert Taylor stabbed andkilled
two brothers named Eicherand at Virginia,
Ill, on Saturday. Both muTdercis escaped.
1t is stated by the editor ci the Brooklyn
Eagle that the debt of Brooklyn contracted
during the past ten or twelve years Is S4?,-
600, 900.
A Hartford shoe dealer has received an Ok
der for pair of slippers for an Ohio girl,
whose foot measures "A inches long by -
inches wide
T. NJ Hicks was killed at Weldon, y. C.,
on Saturday, 10y j. d. Merritt. The trouble
arose out of a disputed title to Il lot upon
which Hicks was living,
Vim. Brown (colorcd), 10 years OLD, was
convicted Of manslaughtCr NJ New Castle,
Del, Saturday, in having killed his play
mate, Samuel Batson, by striking him with =
base ball bat.
Five hundred convicts in the Kentucky
Penitenliary, at Frankfort, are seriously sick
from the effects of water from well into
which certain mineral salts are believed to
have pernea,ed.
The citizens of Indiana will vote next
April on constitutional amendment chang
ing the time of State elections from October
to November If adopted, this would leave
Ohio the only October State
A Boston lady lost pocket book contain
ing 500, and when an honest little boy re-
turned it to her she was so grateful that size
gave him a great deal of good advice and
didn't charge him n cent for it.
Cn,,,la- ,,,crr;,sr ~, ,ft,u,p.
made 10 blow open the safe of the National
Bank of Pennsburg, Pa. The explosion
aroused the whole village, and the burglars
fled without securing any plumber.
Nearly 10000 pupils of both sexes, be-
tween the ages of twelve and sixty years,
will receive instruction during the coming
Winter in the free evening schools aud The
free high school Of New York city.
The statement that Gen. Sickness daughter
had cloped with man named Mccarthy, is
generally credited among the members of the
foreign legations in Washington Mccarthy
is notorious adventurer Who has several
wives
NJ J. MoConn, found guilty OF disposing
of Government property while Indian CON
tractor At Cheyenne, has been sentenced to
one and one-half years imprisonment, topay
cost of suit, also fine Of - 600 and 10 re
place the property stolen.
Shocking statements are made br cX-Sur-
gcon General William \. Hammond of New
York as to the manner in which the inmates
of the insane asylums in that State are treat
ed He charges tie superintendent with
cruelty immortality aGd dishonesty.
An investigation, which has been going on
into the affairs of the Somerset County Bank,
in Somervilc, \. j., has developed tho fact
that all the surplus of the bank, 81, coo
and half of its capital. 500, 900, have
been distracted by Cashier Trcch, who has
left for parts unknown.
The United States Treasurer has trans
ferred SO, 0OG, 600 in gold 10 the assay Office
in New York, to pay for foreign gold de
posted for conversion into American coin.
This makes total Of $50, Goa, 600 trans
ferred for that purpose since Aug. |.
Moody and Sankey, the rcvivalists, have ar
rived at st. Louis and will inaugurate series
of religious meetings to continue all Winter.
The city will be divided into five districts
and the details OF the work placed in the
hands of 4 committee, layncn, one from
each evangelical denomination.
The scheme for building the inter-occdn
canal through the Isthmus of Panama, and
known as the Nicaragua route, is being push
cd. 1t is stated that foreign capitalists will
subscribe to the stock OF the company to the
extent of SEQ, coo, coo to 30,000,O00.
The Gillian army, which advanced from
Pisagua against the allied forces at lquiquc,
has achieved victory which gives them
control of the Peruvian coast from Pisagua
southwark and may compel the Peruvians
to sue for peace. 1t is probable that q, 600
men were engaged.
During a fire Sunday afternoon at Frazers-
burg, Ohio, the liquors, in barrels, were
rolled out of saloon belonging to man
named Stephens. Hearing that liquor was
being furnished the men fighting the fire,
the wife of William Weir seized an axe and
breaking in the heads Of barrels in few
minutes all the liquor poured along the the
| gutter.
The tug Mit.ic Grew, sent in search OF the
missing steamer Waubuno has returned 10
Perry Point, Ont, and reports that she found
portion of the wreck near The Hay
stacks" five miles northwest, and the Moose
Point lifeboat was found, bottom up, but
no trace was discovered OF the passengers or
crew-30 in all.
Jacob and Albert liuntzinger, whose SER
tence of two years in Jail for embezzling the
funds of the Miners Trust, an institution
!
81, 25O, 600 expired on Thursday and who
were rearrcs,cd Immediately, were brought
to Pottsville, Pa, Monday, and put under
$4,000 bail on indictments for perjury and
| misdemearOr.
A special from Parkersburg, Yves. Va,
saws that a society of Red Men. or rather
| Red Women, visited the house of Jacob
Elliott, near Smi,hville, and drove one of his
daughters ont Of the house and took an old
man who was lying upon 4 sick bed out.
| They then set fire to the house and burned II,
| with all its contents, including his corn, etc.
This difficulty was brought about by some
supposed bad characters, and some men and
women in the neighborhood masked them
selves and committed the above Outrage.
Affairs in Ireland are assuming threaten
ing aspect. Troops are held in readiness at
all the local barracks. to be moved in case Of
any outbreak The excitement throughout
the whole of Ireland, caused by the recent NJ
rests, continues on the increase. Large meet
ings have been held in different places, and
it is evident that trouble is brewing, and
some action must he taken by the English
government to relieve the grievances before
the country can he safe from danger OF II
bloody revolution.
\ letter from Sherman, Texas, says The
reported suicide here of w =. Greeulaw, on
account of the alleged inidelity Of his wife
with Rev. Conrad llaney, proves 10 he in
correct There has been no Illegal intimacy
between Mrs. Greenlaw and Ianey. II ap-
pears that Greenlaw has been passing cuun-
tcrfeit 800 bills on the bank of Pittslicli,
Mass that he became aware of detection,
and took morphine and died. The Knights
| Tcmplar were to have buried him, hut gave
up the funeral upon obtaining knowledge
| OF the fuCls.
The secretary of the treasury in his report
! will make u recommendation that the sugar
tariff be revised in order 10 avoid the com
plications which now exist.
Twcn,y-nine posts of the Grand army of
| the republic of Philadelphia will participate
! in the reception 10 Grant The governor
and state officials of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware and Maryland have been
invited to participate in the reception.
A Frenchman named Albert Laverque
gavc himself 10 the New York police Tues
dav. wishing TO he sent TO France where he is
wanted for stealing $50, 900 worth of dia-
monds in 1876. He has spent the proceeds
in this country.
Ann Dohcrty was found dead, starved 10
death, in a tenement house room on Wrapping
| street, Baston. Wednesday morning. The
husband of the deceased is sailor in the
| navy.
The citizens Of Delaware county, OHIO,
are searching for tramp who after being
| fed and housed by Farmer Van Sickles,
robbed the house, fatally stabbed his host and
hostess and escaped.
At Pecry, Ga, a negro charged with bur
glary, who confessed that he belonged t" a
gang who operated in several counties, was
taken out of jail and hung.
The Rational woman suffrage association
is preparing for a grand demonstration upon
! Congress in the interest OF constitutional
amendment comforting the RICH; OF suffrage
upon women.
STATE NEWS.
Rev T. y Land, formerly a slave at tie
South, has been engaged a. pastor oi the