Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-03
GENERAL SUMMARY.

at Simla
The Fall River spinners have voted I,
continue the strike.
A tunnel is to be built under Boston har-
Dor to carry off the sewage OF the city
The English Privy Council has placed
American sheep in the same category with
American cattle.
| An affray on the Danube between Aus
trian smugglers and Servian customs officers
resulted in the death OF ten men
Dispatches from various parts Of New
| England report heavy frosts. Considerable
damage was done to vegetation and fruit.
| Tlanlan and Courtney both tried the water
of Chautauqua lake on Friday. The raceis
TO come off the 18th Of October.
An English trade journal says that acutlery
firm in Sheffield, with all its capital and
workmen, is removing bodily to this country.
Seventeen students OF the Japanese Agri-
cultural Society, founded by President ".
s Clark of Amherst, have joined the Metho-
| dist church.
To German woman in New YOrk named
Frosmcr and weighing 1856 pounds, was born
boy baby a few days ago, weighing only
| liz ounces. 1t lives and is well.
The imports of gold and silver al all ports
of the Cnited States from July LIST 10 August
31st exceeded the exports thereof by s., 9S1,-
321
j. Il. Warren, a merchant from North
Carolina, mysteriously disappeared in Balti-
more on Monday He had 81, 500 in cash on
his person.
The coinage executed at the Philadelphia
Mint in September was Silver dollars,
81, sos COS; minor coins (value), S14, 737.
Total value, 1922, 1s1.
A despatch from Lieutenant De Long to
the Navy Department announces the arrival
at St. Lawrence Bay, Siberia, August 9th,
of the Jeanette, all we'll, and would leave
that night for Cape Lodge, kamen, and
hoped to reach Fort Wrangle this season
A certificate of diminution of capital stock
of the Bank of California from $1,000, 900
divided into $4,000 shares to S3.OOO,OO0
divided into $4,000 shares has been filed
with the county court. The certificate states
that the diminution is by consent of two
thirds majority of the stockholders
Within little more than month nine
missionaries of the American Board have
sailed for their several destinations in Cen
trial, Eastern and European Turkey, and
seventeen missionaries will soon set forth to
reinforce the Baptist missions in India, Bur-
nah, China and Japan.
\ joint-stock company has been formed in
England with proposed capital of $4,000
600 in shares OF So for the avowed object of
diminishing intemperance- 1t is intended
that temperance hotels shall be opened in all
parts of the Kingdom. In the prospectus the
name of the Archbishop of Canterbury heads
the list.
Suit has been commenced in New York
to recover $4,000 which John P. Stremmell,
har
friend named Charles Reiss Stremmen
gave Reiss SIG, 900 to keep for him, and sub
sequently Withdrew $4,000. Reiss claims
the balance was given him to keep Strem-
nell has passed for poverty stricken old
man for 10 years.
The Iron works at PittsbuTg employ more
men than for many years, and manufactures
which have been idle since 1873 are now
crowded with orders. In view of the i'm
mense amount of business there is talk of
further increase in the iron rate 10 8 $40
cents. Owing to the rush of business many
small strikes have been settled, manufac-
turers promptly giving the prices asked for.
Robert Goelet, who recently obtained judg
ment against the city of Elizabeth, \. j., for
interest on Sl29. 900 of the ciiys bonds, and
whose execution was returned unsatisfed,
has begun an action in the United States Cir
cult Court TO restrain the financial depart
ment from receiving or paying any money,
and for the appointment of receiver The
complaint alleges that by eXtravsgant out
lays for pretended Improvements the debt
was increased from $4,000 to over $1,000
900 in twcnty-one years.
The late report of the National Cotton
Exchange places the total consumption OF
cotton during the year lS1S19 at 1S6 4S9
bales, against HI, AZ bales the previous
year, showing gain of % per cent. Georgia
is by far the largest cotton manufacturer.
having 100 900 spindles in operation, North
Carolina standing second and South Carolina
third Texas is the smallest in the whole
list her consumption during the past year
having been only 3S1 bales While the
consumption in the Southern States last year
showed an increase OF ri per cent, the gain
i'll that OF the North was only , per cent.
\ private circular has been issued at 81
Louis by the Trade Assembly 10 all Assem-
blies in the United States and British North
America, setting forth a project for gen.
eral strike of all trades, the time to be deter
mined bv the trade assembly, and to take
united action Tor the enforcement of the
eight hour law. abolishing the convict sys-
tenn and child labor. They also propose to
unions of all trades not now organ
lied, and to appoint an agitation committee
10 carry out the purposes oil the assemohes-
Chester Goodale, an aged and wealthy
farmer of South Egremont, Mass, grand
father of Dora and Elaine Goodale the child
poets. was found insensible and covered with
blood in his barn. on Friday last Ills skull
was fractured and Jaw broken by blowsirom
n club which law beside him and his pockets
had been rifled 1t is supposed TO have been
the decd Of a tramp who spent the night pre-
vinrs in the barn Mr. Goodale has been
unconscious most OF the time and his death
is expected
1t is announced that in spite OF the inta-
NOUS acduittal OF Gully, Mrs. Chisolm Will
push the prosecution OF every man under
Indictment Tor the murder OF her husband
and hts friends, Gilmer and Mcclellan until
the end of the roll Is reached She feels that
This is her duty To- her murdered husband and
children Money is needed, however, to pay
the expenses of counsel. Mrs. ChisOlm posi-
lively refuses to make any appeal to the pub
lie for aid, hut her friends have taken the
matter out of her hands
The recent conversions to Romanism in
England are not few nor small. list re-
,ently published contained the names of one
Duke, DuChcsses, - Earls, Barons and
Lords, 10 Members of Parliament, 16S ccr-
rymen ,of whom 81 have become priests,
g peercsses, together with Thomas Arnold,
brother of Matthew Arnold, Happy
Thoughts Burnand, Florence Marryait, the
novelist, Miss Froude, niece Of the historian,
Miss Gladstone, the eN-prCmicr's daughter
'oyentrv Putmorr and Adelaide Anne
Proctor, the poets, Elizabeth Thompson. the
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