Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-21

A Kentucky journalist met him on the
steps and whispered to him conhdentiaiiy
as they walked away together al you
only keep that a-going the pubic III have to
give you a watch to get rid OF you. -
Tribune
General summary.
DIR. j. ID. Fulton, who was suspended
from the Baptist Conference for insulting re-
marks, has sent in a written apology. Inc
apolopy was not accepted, but was referred
to committee.
Steamboat Mccormick exploded her boiler
on Saturday on the Muskingum river In
Ohio, killing the fireman and seriously IN.
iuring three passengers, two of the crew and
Capt. Martin. and sinking the boat.
There is an ice boat on the Hudson river
this season which possesses extraordinary
speed. She Is called the Lucele, sailed at
the rate of seventy miles an hour the other
day, and beats everything on the river.
The other day while young swell was
asleep, some friends, for Joke, shaved oil
one side of his mustache. lie has been in
the most distressing CONSERVATION ever since,
because he cannot discover which side 1t
was.
The annual statement presented to share
holders of the New York Graphic company
showed profit on last years business oil
$50, 900, the first time a balance has ap-
deared on the right side since the establish
ment of the company.
A despatch from Cairo, ILL.,, says the bow OF
the steamer Donnelly ran high on the shore,
necessitating leap of 10 feet to tho ground,
which. with panic on board, caused the
casualties About % people were injured,
mostly bruises and few dislocations.
Congress proposes providing for Board OF
Health of seven members, at SO per day
and expenses The Surgeons General OF the
army and navy will be members without
extra pay. Their duties will be the pre-
yention OF the introduction OF infectious
discase1 into the country.
1t is believed that should the plague
appear in the countries Of Europe with
intercourse there will be great danger OF the
disease reaching our shores. In fact the
danger exists at present through ships from
Russian ports.
An award of $1,000 damages has been
rendered against a. A. Chase, the editor OF
the Scranton Times, in behalf of W. W.
Scranton, plaintiff. The Times had alleged
that Mr.. Scranton, who led a body of vigi-
lantes in 1877 against the rioters of the city
of Scranton, was murderer. Three men
upon the rioting side were killed in the
melee at that time.
Saturday it was announced that Mrs.
Sylvia jackson. widow, living with her son
at Oxford. Chenango county, N. y, had
fallen down stairs and been killed. An IN
curry of the relatives led to the suspicion OF
murder by her son. The latter was arrested,
and the coroner's inquest strengthened the
suspicioa. Marks of violence were found on
the deceased and blood-stains on the son s
clothing.
The ugliest stories are told about the con-
duet of the German orphan asylum in st.
Louis, under the management OF Mr.. am
Mrs. Voigtman. An employe, who lett In
disgust at the treatment of the children, tells
the Times Journal that the children are not
only half starved but half frozen. All
Winter there was no fire in the part OF the
house where the children were, and some Of
them actually had their feet frozen, and
| their Toes cdlllt w AZ tlC hlot Jpiht. DNNSH'
food and clothing sent in by the charitable
for the children were appropriated by the
| managers for the use Of themselves and their
children.
The monument to Victor Emmanuel will
cost 100000.
The court. martial OF Capt. Blair Of the
Fifteenth United States Infantry, for bigamy
terminated by plea of guilty, which will be
made the verdict OF the court and sent Il
Washington.
The proposed tunnel between Spain AMI
Africa, according to the plan at present
contemplated, will be nine miles in length
and the approaches will have an extent o
six or seven miles.
The Michigan Legislature elected Lacha
riah Chandler United States Senator by thu
following vote: Chandler, So; .. NJ
Barnes, Democrat. % Henry Chamberlain
Greenbacker, Is.
A conductor on II Philadelphia street ca
was about to eject his wife for non-paymen
of fare, when passenger came to hel
rescue. She had just spent her last nicke
in bringing him his supper.
John Dresser died in Flint, Mich, few
DAYS ago, and was buried in collin, made
wear ago BY his order, Of rough pine boards
and bearing upon it several texts agains
the love of pomp and display,
DIR. Thomas S. Lambert, ex-president
the defunct Popular Life Insurance Company
and Mr.. Case, president of the Security
Life Insurance Company, both convicted o
periury some time since, have been grantee
I II a Of la
The Tennessee House of Representative
passed resolution of ceBsure against Rev
Dr. I. A. IIoyt, pastor of the First Presby
terrain church of Nashville, because IN
sermon he had charged the Legislature viii
ignorance and with an attemp: TO deirau'
the creditors of the State. After heate'
discussion, however, the vote was reconsld
cred, and the foolishness in part atoned Tor
Neither Beecher nor Bowen have yet ap
pearcd to assume legal responsibility impose
upon them IA executors of the will OF an ole
lady who left her fortune for the purpose
founding a colored female seminary. A
Beecher tersely puts it, Bowen and he d.
not sail in the same boat now.
The latest reports from Dexter, Me-, con
firm the general impression that there Is NJ
foundation for the theory that Barron was
deiaultor and suicide. The stories OF sus
picious soldier seen at New Portland JUS
after the Barron tragedy give no new infor
nation in the search for the murderers, 81
far as this man is concerned. Bank Exam
iner Bolster, who examined the books oil tn
bank before and since Mr.. Barron's death
makes a very important statement, IN whicl
he shows that there il not tho slightes
reason for suspecting that the dead cashie
was guilty OF any crooked transactions.
Isaac Newland, a merchant living nea
Fort Wayne, Ind, started home from FOR
WAYNE one evening in September. 1870
getting of the ears at New Haven, tho near
est station to his home. Somebody fOun
him next morning in the woods, brutal
murdered for his money. No trace oil tn
murderer was discovered till Tuesday night
when courtcsan named Mary Durrer con
tossed that Perry Tracy, John Garmeyer an
herself murdered Newland and robbed tn
body of S5l. They drove out IN carnage
heading him of after he left the tram. Gar ,iI
never Is dead. and Tracy is serving out Ill
sentence for numbering one James u brieh
Mary also states that the same gang mnf
dered a woman named Lizzie Farley, lou