Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-17
General summary.

has been formed over the st. Ll"renee al
Prescott.
Subscriptions to the four per ceats are Sc
numerous the treasury cannot furnish them
fast enough.
An ice gorge 10 the James river IS causing
a serious food at tRichmOnd. A break up Ol
the ice in the Ohio is expected
Seventy y-nine fire insurance companies
have agreed to convene soon for the purpose
OF forming tariff association, with lower
rates.
b Mexican military rule is being meted out
with strong hand. Eighty of Lerna's in
surgents we're hanged in a single batch the
other dav.
The mill of j. Baker & Bro. near Pitts
field, Mass. was destroyed by fire, Friday,
and 100 persons are thrown out Of employ
ment. The loss is $4,000.
1t is rumo.ed that William ii. Vanderbilt
is to erect a residence on Fifth avenue that
that will throw the Stewart mansion in the
shade, spending in the neighborhood Of 49,
900 900 for it.
A remarkable cavern has been discovered
near Columbia, Tuolumnc county California.
1t has been explored for over a mile, and
some of she chambers are described as being
Ofremarkablc beauty and grandeur.
The payments of interest on the Govern
ment securities. which will fall due on the
first of February next, will probably be paid
in coin at the Treasury Department and
sub-treasuries, instead of in legal tenders,
and by coin checks on New York, as was
done in the case of the January interest.
The New Orleans Howard Associations
report for 1873 shows the receipts from all
sources to have been S3S3, ,449: disburse-
ments, $3.50, lis, of which 2S7 $50 was ex-
pended in New Orleans, and the balance for
the relief of other infected places. There
were u, pa patients relieved.
Reports from the Pennsylvania oil region
show that the oil trade was losing one last
year. The price of the staple declined from
S2.l2 - in January to about S5 cents in
July, since which time it has remained be-
low 81. The year opened with stock OF
about 5000 600 barrels, to which prOduc
tion Of Is lSS 900 barrels of crude oil was
added. There were shipped from the region
only about 13, SO. l56 barrels, over Q, ,5OO,-
900 Of which were exported; the remainder
was consumed at home. The exports were
considerably below those of 1877 in amount.
A shortage of from $3.50 900 to $500 900
has been fOuGu in the accounts of oates,
Treasurer of Missouri.
1t is estimated that the loss to the New
York Central railroad by the storm will not
fall shor: of 81 100000
The secretary of the treasury, Wednesday
issued another call for the redemption OF
SlO,O00,0OO SO bonds OF 1865, consols of
1867.
The directors Of Nelson's Bank of Mon
treal are making a personal investigation
into the afflirs Of the bank as a matter of
prccaution.
Msxime Llmount was found in the village
of ST. Antoine de Tilley, P O., dead in a
chair in his house, with the flesh gnawed off
by his two iami-hed cats.
A candidate for the Lieutenant G jvernor-
ship of Kentucky Is eulogized as 1.-THE man
who put l3G bills through the Senate in one
night and let the boys out before the bar
rOoms closed"
The official list Of patents granted through
the six years beginning with 1872 and end
ing with 1877, shows that Thomas A. Ellison
received 100 patents during that time, near
ly all for telegraphic improvements.
A meeting of Irsh-Amercan citizens was
held in New York Wednesday night to
denounce the action OF the Cork people in
not giving reception to Gen. Grant, but
there were not twenty persons present.
Oxford announces its inability to row
Harvard as late as August lst. As Harvard
kal.r tL.N luta 81
probably be no English race this year. and,
therefore. probably no race with Cornell.
poor, outlying section of Lancaster.
Can, is afflicted with malignant smallpox,
which was imported from Montreal by a
French girl, who came home ill some three
weeks ago and died two DAYS after her
arrival. All the famiies that attended the
" wake" are down with smallpox. 1t is
now in eight families, with % cases and
deaths.
Failures Wright 4 King. representing
the Eagle reaper works of New York, at
Chicago. Liabilities, Sl50,OOO. Sutter
Bros, tObacconi>t, Chicago. Liabilities
SlS5,OOO. They will probably not pay over
IS cents on the dollar. Krauss Bros,
clothiers, LOganspor., Ind. Liabilities,
$50, 900. Appleton. Noyes & Maude, boots
and shoes. ST. Louis. Liabilities, $500 900.
Nominal assets, Sl20. 900.
Rev. DR.. Elias r Beadle. one of the most
noted clergymen OF Pennsylvania, died at Phil
adelpha Monday night. DR.. Bsaile preach
ed Sunday in his own pulpit in the Second
Presbyterian church, apparently in good
health and in unusually good spirits, having
been able to announce that the church was
free from debt On his way home from
church the severe cold brought on stop
page OF the heart, and he died in few
hours.
Resumption is working very smoothly in
all parts of the country. ln New York the
net gain of gold to the Government the two
first days was $500 600, and the same ratio
Of increase is likely to continue for some
little time, the demand for greenbacks being
greater than for coin. In Washington and
elsewhere the Government stock Of gold is
increasing, and all indications point to the
most perfect operation of the resumption
machinery. Not jar has been anywhere
experienced so far.
The annual meeting of the American
Social Science Association WAS held at BOs
ton, Wednesday. George I. Angel read q
paper on Public Health Association ;"
Rev. DR.. Wines read an elaborate re-
port on the "PrisOn Congress at Stockholm"
Eiward Spinney, of New jersey, read
paper on Industrial Eiucation," and
Simon Sterne, of New York, spoke on
"Englisi and American Methods of Legis-
lation." Daniel e. Gilman, of Baltimore,
Md, was elected president, and the old
board of vice presidents was reelected.
The plague has caused a general panic in
AstrakEan and SarGtOw. A correspondent
writes that when the plague commenced,
precautions against the disease were neg
lected, a. it was taken Tor typhus. When
the weather became warmer the people died
like flies and the dead lay unburied in the
streets. The infected district has been sur
rounded by troops. Communication with
Moscow is stopped. General anxiety pre-
walls throughout Russia. 1t is supposed that
the deaths are more numerous than has
been stated.
In Central Nebraska, several weeks ago,
two men were brutally burned at stake bv
a party Of cattle dealers, instigated by
leading herder named Olive, whose brother
had been killed in an aflray with the two
men. Olive and hi- men deiied arrest, and
50 great was the terror inspired by these
Western inquisitors that the officers of the
law dared not attempt to take them. Their
capture, however. has at length been effect
ed through the efforts Of the brothers OF one
of the murdered men, but it took small
army to it, Central Nebraska must be a
pleasant place.
DIsADvANTAGEs IN LIFE. Cultivating
beard.
Sitting Mt the foot of IL boarding house
table.
Wearing tight boots with big wad OF cot
ton darning III the heel.
Walking through crowded ferrybuht with
"A year-old baby III your arms.
Passing the club or billiard room without
dropping in to see who's there
Having IL bad cold IN the head and no
handkerchief within hailiuc distance.
Being asked what time 1t IL when your uu-
Gle il keeping your watch to suit his time
Carving II Ecuttle ot coul up stairs while |