Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-31

The W lnds0r Hotel. New 1ofh, - W oo
sold at auction Feb. 5-h. lt cost So0o,OOo
and now rents for Sll0,O0O per year.
A picture Of Donny brook Fair, by Eiward
Lees Glew, valued at $4,000 TO $50 600,
has been stolen from Thomas Jones
restaurant in Newark, N j.
In street fight with pistols at Austin,
Texas, Sheriff Wilson, OF Palo. Pinto coantF,
was instantly killed. and Ellison. by
stande., dangerously, and anOth.r slightly
wounded.
Two thousand vorkmen have bsen dis
charged from the NicOlaIeh Lex yard az
Cronstadt. in pursuance OF the economic
policy prevailing III most OF the kusslam
naval establishments
Rochester is soon to have the largest
cider mill in the world, To be Conducted by
a stock compay with es>n capital oil
S75,OOO. The grinding capacity OF the sp-
paratus will be 1000 bushels an hour, and
500 bushels OF PONCE can be pressed IN an
hour.
At Freehold, n. j. in the case OF Abigail
Morris against Capt. Leonard Seeley OF
Redbsnk, for damages Tor siz breaenes OF
promise of marriages, from 1870 to 1878.
during which time three children were
born to her and two suits for damages set
tied, the jury awarded the plaintiff 81 100.
1t il stated with postiyeness by theLthaha
Journal that the German mission has been
rendered to President Andrew ID. White, of
Cornell University, who holds 1t under
sdvisement Ii had previously been offered
to George William Curtis, who declined 1t,
as he declined the mission 10 England IN
the first months of the Administration, pre-
ferrlng to remain in active journalism
A cable despatch says that tie Russian
and German medical journals state that
Eastern Europe is in great alarm at the
progress of what is alleged TO be plague.
After the disease obtained progress q
strict quarantine was enforced, but the in-
hsbitants of AStrachan had begun to hy,
scattering the disease as Tar a. NDnllnov-
gorod, which is bat atew hours distant from
Moscow. About q third OF the Russian
doctors have died either during the war or
| from the typhoid fever which followed.
large number of students have been sum
moned.
A contract has been awarded to Clark,
Reeves i Co., of Philadelphia, for the con-
| struction of the entire Second avenue ele-
waited railroad line in New York, which IS
| nearly eight miles in length. To fulfil this
contract 50. .OOO, 900 pounds of iron will be
required In this work 1000 iron columns
Will be nee, sssry, as well as 5000 gIrders.
The Second avenue branch is to be COM
pleted by the Ist of September, ard the
West Side extension by July l, so that iu
| little more than SIX months the hrm Will be
required to furnish $4,000 900 pounds OF
iron and build IL miles of double-trsck
road.
| Jason Robins, hermit, was found mur-
dered near Farwell, Mich, it is supposed,
for his boarded money.
Martin Coleman, of Newark, n. j who
was stabbed by his son On Thursday night,
has died. The son has fed.
The Jury in the libel case of Wallace P.
Groom vs.. Peter Cooper, claiming S5O,OOO
damages, found a verdict for the defendant.
The loss by the two recent fires in New
York city amounted to more than the whole
fire premiums Of Manhattan Island last
year.
The losses by the great fire in Worth
street, New York city, on Friday night,
amount to S2,663 900, and are distributed
among more than TWENTY-FIVE firms. The
assurances, which amount to 1859 500.
were scattered among a large number OF do
mestic companies, while the few foreign
companies that held risks suffer heavily.
At Cincinnati, Wednesday, while work
ing men were engaged in tearing down the
walls of p. Wilson & Sons building, which
was burned recently, a portion OF the South
wall crumbled away suddenly, precipitating
two men named Martin Jordan and Thomas
McGrave, distance Of nearly 90 feet. Nc
Grave was instantly killed and Jordan died
half an hour afterward. Both were mar
ried and leave families.
The result Of the investigation by the
Brooklyn health authorities into the recent
death of James 5. Rockwell, of Montague
Heights, in that city, shows there was no
trap cutting the house of from the public
sewer. The examination has fully confirm
ed the opinion of this department that diph-
iberia is caused by sewer gas, and that this
case is no exception to the rule. The Board
of City Works Is earnestly recommended TO
yentilate the sewers OF the whole district.
Before Judge Shipman and a jury in the
United States District Court in New York,
Wednesday. trial was commenced in suit
for $50 900 damages preferred by Colonel
Ellison 5 Keit, of South Carolipa, against
the New York Times for alleged libel IN a
special despatch from Washington in Sep
tember, 1871 TO the effect that plaintiff had
been arrested for bigsmy. Colonel heIt al
leges that the article was entirely false. Mr..
George Jones, of the Times, in MS answer,
AYERS that the article does not apply to the
plaintiff, but to another person by tae
name of Colonel keitt.