Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18

Portugal has 800 900 year to spend while
the Spanish corlcs, by an act of June, 1876.
made Alfonso MI. anallOwance of : 900, 900
pesetas, 81 400. 900 a year, The Emperor
William with his simple tastes and bourgeois
habits, must find il impossible to get through
the more than i, 900 900 thalcrs of his civil
list, especially as he enjoys the income as
well of Il considerable landed property,
while the Italians pay King llumbert -,
0S0, 900
Henry 7. Bush "A we'll known architect OF
Detroit, Mich, committed suicide Tuesday
I 10y discharging two pistols in his mouth.
| Ill health is supposed 10 have been the
cause
Returns 10 the Department of Agriculture
Of the condition OF the crops are unusually
favorable, and the prospects for Il good
harvest will do much To increase the gen
cral impetus given to this business this
| year.
/ The commissioner of pensions last year i'll
| vcstigatcd ,4s5 cases Of suspected fraud in
/ his bureau, dropped 1893 from the rolls, re-
dIced the rate of ~ and refused 4GS pensions
/ To as many individuals. The saving to the
Government was 1901, 269 So.
| A bcheaded Kansas rooster still lives, after
four months OF deCapitation He is fed at
the throat, and is in good health. The head
| was cut oil at the base of the brain without
| injurng the spinal column lie appears To
be somewhat like the IIishnan's turtlr-hc
is dead, but not sensible of it,
A searching examination has taken place
into the status of the Consolidated Bank of
Canada by the new directors and the newly
appolntedmanager at Montreal. The result OF
their labors, it is said, shows that it will take
I Il. l. /
provide for actual losses.
Captain Eads and his jetties have triumph
ed Where, says the New Orleans Times,
but four wears since Il maximum depth OF
hut eight feet could be obtained, there is this
day IL navigable channel of thirty feet depth. So
In other words, the Great Eastern might
now float where four years ago therc was
hardly enough Of water for IN oyster luggcr.
AT a recent execution of Nihilists at Kev,
Russia, young girl acknowledged at the
foot OF the sibbct that her name was Natha-
lie Gortsclakoff, and that she was niece to
the chancellorof the empire. She had previ-
ously refused to reveal herself, nJtwithstand-
ing that she had several times been logged
with the knout in order to compel confess
sion
After statue OF the late Prince Imperial
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IN e. me- pr;, WIN it'i.'s , you,
solved to devote the surplus oil the fund to
the establishment of n benevolent institution
commemorative Of the Prince 1t is com
putel that The army fund alone will amount
10 ESQ 600
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Al ELLINGTON, III, Mas Matilda Robbins
hai Tor same time been receiving attentions
from young nan named Tom Richards,
against the expressed protest OF her parents,
and especially her brother She persisted in
allowing Richards TO call on her, however,