Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-10-31
GENERAL SUMMARY.

lin the last financial year the annuities paid
10 the royal family If England aggregated
SIS3, 100.
Steamer Donau, from Bremen, brings
$500, 500 in specie and the City of Chester,
arrived Sunday, brought fl20, 2S0 in gold.
1t is said that a large number of the
best gold and silver mines in Mexico are
passing into the hands Of United States
capitalists.
1t is estimated that there are now 10000
acres in California covered with vineyards,
and during the next ten years it is expected
there will he a largcincrcasc of this industry.
The latest from Frcdcricktown, Ohio, the
scene oi saturdays raid on liquors by wom-
en-, is that the druggists who were threatened
have caused warrants TO he issued for the ar
rest OF the women.
Ramsey Smith and Dick Spencer of Louis
vile, Ky, neighbors, quarreled Sunday night
! over family affairs, when the former shot the
latter, killing lin instantly. Smith is in
| Jail. Both are colored.
Two women, Polanders, while walking on
| The track of the Central railroad near East
Buffalo, Saturday, were struck bya switch
engine. One was killed instantly and the
other was probably fatally injured.
The 18th anniversary of the John Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest
| Methodist church in New York city, was
commcmorated Sunday in the old church
| with appropriate services
The ruvagcs of cholera i'll Japan have
| been terrible during the past season, but the
plague is rapidly suhsiding. Official reports
show upwards OF $50, 900 cases since The out
break in April and 81, 900 deaths
China of a system Of human slavery pructiccd
by purveyors of brothels Raids have been
made among villages, young girls captured
and brought To Hong Kong, sold, confined
until sufficiently mturcd and then resold.
Special Agent Adams reports that he has
visited the Ute camp and the captive women
and children were delivered To him without
conditions He adds an expression of great
hopcfulness that further hostilites may be
wholly avcrtcd. Other reports from the In
dian country do not warrant So hopeful
view Of the situation.
1t is now stated that the principal cause of
the trouble with the Indians in Alaska arises
from the incorporate use of vile rum manu-
featured from molaSSes and that until the
Government shall stop the molasses traffic it
Will he necessary for Il man-oi-war to remain
al Sitka for the protection of the few whites
who are compelled TO remain there.
An uneasy conscience has forced John
Powell of Alfrcton. Eng.. to confess that he
pushed man off Il railroad bridge at Cleve-
land, Ohio, in 1872, causing his death. The
confession reached the Mayor Of Cleveland
though our Consul at Liverpool, and was ut
first discrcditcd, but search disclosed that
Martin Monroe of Newbury was killed at
that spot in 1872, but as Monroe was drunk
~ tle iiihe II mas Always peeh supposed tHlt
ne lei iFoi'' inc pfiuge ny acciuch''
The DEPARTMENT of State has a,yices uf
the favorable rrccniion by the British and /
German Governments of the. recent circular
issued by the 'nitcd STATES calling attention
10 The determination of this Government to !
nrosccutr all pcrsons enyau..d in nolvonmous |
nructic,s and INFORMING them nf The nrrscpcr
Of orrnts ,monrst thrir suhirrts MAKING
converts IA this s,,t II ,pn.Srs tha, about |
thr Time of The issur of his circular the num-
hrr of nr,srlvt,.s ehinnrJ T., his rnuntrv w,s
unusually lortr Rrnoris from thr consular
officers AZ tLc principal points of shipmcnt
,f His class of nronIr stat. that the nnlicr
.,r, 'nor,,a,icall,, al wi to stor ,h;s cn;Crro
H. ~, rn,,u.J notification II Tho n,,rnoso
of this Government To arrest and prosecute
immigrants of this sect Immediately upon
tary of stale nov feels that with the cooper
alton OF the governments addressed the sup
plies from the Old World Will be entirely cut
oil, and with the energetic measures now
being enforced IN tab The whole system
VIII specify cr'liii"let 10 pieces
Interesting statistics have Just been pub
lishcd hy a German postoilicc official. show
ing the comparative postal and Geographic
work OF different countries up TO the end of
1871 In 1913 the letter post of the whole
world Tor that year amounted IN r'und mum
bers I" ), doo'"oo, Ooo letters or about )! mn
hons dallN ami the numbers nave h'cii IN
rrcaSlnS daily III an astonishing rae. linus
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