Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-29
GENERAL SUMMARY.

The Nebraska wheat crop is estimated 1
II, 600, 900 TO %, 1000, 600 bushels and tn
II corn at 50, 600, 900 bushels.
n Tuesday night the propeller City of 81
a GATHERINGS ran aground in Lake st. LOUIS, i
g the st. Lawrence, and sunk in five minutes
y - She was loaded with iron. The passenger
= were saved
Garibaldi's daughter, a girl of twelve
while bathing at Civita Necchia recently
heard the cry of young man who had go
beyond his depth, and grssping him swan
: back with him to place of safety.
q The Princess Louise sent ''nine fine sal
a mon caught personally" each packed in ic'
: in separate case, to the Queen, the Prince
, of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Others
> of the royal family.
! The Cincinnati authorities are looking iol
William Timer, whose father has died al
Paris, and left fortune of 500, 600 francs
The London Times expresses apprehension
that in view of the had harvest prospects
, much extension of business here IS hardly to
be expected.
, Smallpox of IL malignant type has broken
out among the settlers at Lanse ST. Jean, on
+ the Saguenay, and is raging very badly IN
that district, which is devoid of medical as
sistancc The Government has sent n skiful
physician there.
I.ibbic Collins. South Bend (Ind. cook,
lost her life by being too modest. She
awokc in the second story OF a burning block,
bur, refusing to jump in her night dress to
those ready to catch her below, she stopped
to dress and was smothered in full dress.
The rumor is again current that members
of the Canadian ministry now in England
have succeeded in securing a company, of
which Mr.. Brassey the great capitalist is
head, to construct the entire line of the
Pacific railway, without any other guarantee
except bonds and land.
Ann Reed twenty seven years old, was
found drunk in gutter in New York on
Tuesday with naked baby eight weeks
old by her side. The woman had just come
out OF Bellevue Hospital where the child was
born and had pawned its clothes for liquor.
At Napa Cal, the other day, a French
man named Petit appearedinthe street, -four
ishing pistol in an excited manner. A man
driving by called out to him, Don't shoot
you'll scare by horses ~ The Frenchman
bowed, said, Excuse me SIR waited until
the horses had reached a safe distance, and
then deliberately blew out his brains.
The Kentucky ku-klux are out again. Last
week they made raid upon the town of
piled the rod nf correction. well and severely
. laid on, 10 quite a number of our colorcd
citizens. The victims Were not charged
with any special offence. The paper reports
the event with complaccncy as the second
recent visit of the kind. 1t is not sur
prsing to learn further that an exodus from
Middleton has begun
/ The storm that swept the Atlantic coast,
Monday from North Carolina TO Newfound-
land was one of the most disastrous of the
season and unusually severe for the month of
August. large number of marine disas-
ters are reported, and the gale caused great
damage TO crops. In North Carolina and
Virginia the damage is estimated al hundreds
of thousands. The rainfall was very heavy,
and caused floods in many places. The gale
was very severe on the coast of New Eng
land Monday night. Several lives were lost
by shipwrecks
William Miller, the Grrco- Roman wrest
ler has fallen heir of S75, 200 in England.
The national debt Of Russia bearing inter
est is becoming enormous, and l, l32, 1855. l25
roubles of paper money is now incircuation.
a Paris correspondent says over 20, 900, 900
francs have been shipped from French ports
To The United States within the last three
weeks. The Bank of France has now sold
the whole of It's small stock Of bar gold and
foreign gold coin. One of the chief bullion
houses in Paris estimates that the insufficient
crops in England, France and Germany will
necessitate purchases in the United States to
the amount of go, ,000, 900 sterling. The
Standard saws it is thought million and
half of sterling more will leave France for
the United States.
A Suns Narragansett Pier dispatch says
Thursday
wafer and saved n man whose boat had upset
in the breakers.
Kellogg will not come to this country with
Mapleson. Her contract with him termin
ates in Dublin. She then visits the Cont
nent professionally, and is now indeed in
Paris.
\ lad in Boston school being asked
What is Rhode Island celebrated for ?" re-
piled: 1T is the only one of the New Eng
land States which is the smallest"
Three of the five male nihilists sentenced
by the military tribunal at Odessa 10 be
hanged were executed Friday. The woman,
who was sentenced 10 exile in Siberia is
only Is years old.
Down TO 1878 the Federal Government
had spent 81, 249, O00in improving New York
harbor The expenditure on the He'll Gate
Improvement will probably bring the total
expenditures up TO $1,000, 900.
The surf house at Rehoboth, Del, owned
by the Rehoboth beach camp-meeting asso-
citation, was burned Friday morning before
light. Sixty persons were in the house, but
all escaped with their lives. The guests lost
all their baggage The loss is SIS, 1000, in
surance $1,000.
The harvest in Italy las been disastrously
affected by drouth The prospects of the
vintage are, however, more reassuring Con
siderable distress has been caused in the
Venetian provinces by the slender yield of
silk cocoons
There is mania for statues in France. !
Several distinguished dead have recently |
been h0nored by the erection of marble eff |
gies, and the Hotel de Vile ia Paris is to be |
decorated with statuary regardless of expense.
\ credit of 42O, 600 francs was recently voted |
10y the City Of Paris for the supply of 1906 of !
the statues that are to adorn the principal |
facade. The total number of these works, |
including bas-reiefs and figures in the
round amounts to 800 subjects, and il is |
reckoned that they will cost not less than |
l,l9l 800 francs. They are to represent all |
the illustrious children daughters AS well |
as sons of Paris, and are meant To offer "a !
Chronological history" Of the city personiicd /
in this manner
\ Yokohama dispatch says that Gen. |
Grant will find himself burdened with un
expected questions of eastern pulicy. During |
his visit 10 North China both Prince. King /
and Niccroy Ii Hung Chang laid before him
their side uf The Loo Choo controversy ask 1
ing him TO use his influence with Japan to |
prevent serious misunderstanding be-
tween the two empires. General Grant !
is believed 10 have replied that the other
side would doubtless he equally strong when |
heard. and then q rupture would he lamented |
by all. lie did moi sec his right TO interfere |
The Japcncsc authorities hearing this, have |
taken great pains To prepare documentary |
vindication of their claims which has been |
submitted for Gen. Granl'= Inspection by a
cabinet minister
SuNrEIE- Ia the weekly report of the !
treasurer of the Limc-kiln club, it was dis |
covered that hc had fourteen cents charged |
up under the head oi ''suudrics," and when |
hc had finished his reading the president |
observed, while ] am free 10 say dat our |
respected treasurer cnj jOys my full conf /
dcncc, ] nrbberdemor regard it nv dooty /
To ask him To- splain dat item little clusser |
Muffin in de business OF dis club must be-
kivcred up wild big words" why dem .
tOteen ccnts wcGt went for sundries,' cx-
planned the official. "Sartin sartin; but
does dat mean railroad ties or spring ober-
coats - Il paid out nine cents for candles
an de balance for matches" VERY well /
DAT s perfectly plain TO de club After dis |
occashun, to save akin qucshuns, de bruddrr
had better put de word 'sundrics' in dc .
wood-boN an specify each item. Matches /
and candles am mighty handy to hev arnun' .
dc hall, but 'sundrcs' haint Wort storage ,
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