Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-21
GENERAL SUMMARY.

/ six hundred Vcnctians have reached Genoa
on their way to the United States
/ The iyDyH, the daily newspaper organ of
the Pope, will I've issued the lst Of January.
/ Adelina PATHS rcappcarancc in Paris,
after an absence of ten years, was remarka-
i bly successful She received $40 bouquets,
and S14. 900 were collected at the door.
So great has been the demand for the
/ November number of ccr5HO'S Monthly
/ that the first edition of 100, 900 was exhaust
ed within two weeks \ new edition will
he shortly issued. The publishers will print
| 103. 900 of the December number
Cows. Brown Of Tennessee, Robinson of
| New York, Talbot of Massachusetts,, Van
I Zandt of Rhode Island, ex-GOvs. Rice of
Massachusetts. Curtin of PENNSYLVANIA and
Lppitt of Rhode Island all met by chance
ia the ycstibulc of Il New York hotel, We'd
ncs,lay. and shook hands all round.
4 missionary making journey through
Lululand was entertained AT natives hut
An old woman from distant place, where
the people had never heard Of God or the
Bible. related the following tradition: ''One
of the Zulu ancestors, long ago, stood hy the
river lifted his stick and the water stood up
like walls, SO that the people passed over on
dry land" she told of another who had
slept and dreamed OF IL climbing way" up
To the sky, with the ''maids of heaven
going up and down, and of his waking and
placing stones to mark the spot Also of
hoy who had slain great giant with stones
from the brook, and who afterwards was
made king.
Frances Shroudcr is in jail a Norrisville,
\. Y, charged with numbering her mother
and aunt by poisoning them. II is supposed
that she also poisoned her father.
Matte Potts, who recently walked from
New Orleans to Philadelphia, attempted sui
eide Wednesday night, owing to poverty and
inability to secure employment.
The Liberian bark Monrova, now lying at
Brooklyn. is fitting out to carry sixty negro
cmigrants to the west coast of Africa next
month, and agents of the American Colonial
ton Society are securing the Southern States
for recruits
1t is asserted That IL satisfactory adjust
mcnt of the Irish land question is in pro-
gress. and that the English government is
ready To CO Operate with the landlords and
the Irish members of Parliament to secure
the result.
The organization known n the Knights of
Labui have been sending cmssarics among
the miners ana iron workers all over Penn
sylvania urging a strike next Monday The
employees Of the Reading Company are averse
10 Il strike, hut will join the movement il it
includes all the mines in the anthracite IT.
gion
The Ensli>h government has appointed II
British resident in Zululind, at salary of
$1,000 year. II IS stated in Il Cape Town
despatch that there is increased ill-fceiing
between the Dutch inhabitants of the colony
and English settlers and the authorities, and
that the Beers at PatchafStroom are defiant,
and make no cunccalmcnt of their intention
10 resist British authority at any cost.
Anna IIauck, Il kcutucy Young woman,
went 10 the house uf Charles Scheucr, her
lover and on his hrsitaling 10 answer the
question, DO you intend 10 marry me =
shot him dead.
Some Of the incest American ilour sold at
- barrel Saturday, N the floor of the New
York Produce Exchange, 10 ill an order sent
direct from Queen Nictorias household.
Bernard Doran. who CLAIMS ih..t he was
born in county Tyrone, Ireland, January :,
1913, and is accordingly in his one hundred
and seventh year, resides at No 126 Mott
street, New York, and is engaged in the
VI Law ~ sllt'A III ''iii l.iHt
week, and docs not appear upward of 10
years of age.
y child's hair has turned from dark auburn
to snow white, in Olcan, y. y. \ few
weeks ago the little girl, who is nine years
old, saw Two or three drunken men in the
street ard was terribly frightened She
cried fer three hours, and her paroxysms of
grief were well nigh uncomfortable. Soon
altcrward her hair BEGAN 10 turn gray, and
now ii is white.
The New York and Oswego midland rail
road, one of the most costly and mcaled-for
that grew out of FLUSH times
and that collapsed in the panic Of 1873, has
been sold under mortgage foreclosure 1t
cost over sd. 900. 900, and the towns along
The lie were bonded for nearly - 900 900,
for which they took the company's stock in
return. This is now, of coursn, wiped ont,
and the towns lpac every cent of their in
vCstmtnt
The diptheria in Russia il gaining ground.
In some REGIONS the percentage of mortality
far exceeds the births. In the small district
of Mirgorpd,. where the epidemic has been
ragin" since lsiI, III persons succumbrI in
1s16 and l,3c0 in 1871. In Odessa since
MAY last 16 per cent of the children have
died, and in. Stavrupnl in four months half
the infant population fell victims In
kischcneif and vicinity, kictf and Poltava,
the epidemic has been raging two yc;ir' In
kaploonotka 80 children died in two weeks |
In the hamlet ol Nal.omobka 200 infants have |
died since January. in addition 10 Il large |
number of adults In the village of Tauoro:ka /
not one child escaped. The Maripol district /
showed an average daily death roll of IL. |
More than II vast districts are affected. |
The mortality is 50 enormous that the @uv-
-rnmcnt has appointed an investigating com /
mission under the physician-n- ordinary To |
he emperor, and issued iniunc,ions Ia local .
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