Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-28

Down in Georgia, during the cold snap Ol
few week since, they stored quite large
amount of ice four inches in thickness.
In and about London, England, SIX inches
of snow fell Friday last. 1t also showed in
Paris and travel was much impeded.
A man has Just eloped in Southern Indiana
with Miss Susan Whell, his wife's
sister 1t IS the old story-he loved not
wisely but two WHEELS.
A report from Calcutta, asserts that the
King of Burmah has murdered all the royal
princes and their families, and removed the
new Ministers and restored the former des-
pOtic government.
James DAILY, of Marathon, Mich, told his
wife to go out and cut some wood. She re-
fused. lie tried to whip her, but failed
ignObly. She threw him down. tied his
hands behind him, and drove him before her
to Justices court, three miles away.
At temperance meeting in Plymouth
church, Friday night, Mr.. Beccher said that
the whole force of religion and society's full
moral force must be exertcd against an evil
so vast that it fills our pOorhOuses. hospitals
and iails. ave will not let man carry
dynamite through the streets" he said,
"and rum-drinkng is an evil which in its
vastness and misery overtops all other forms.
1t is the very devil among devils. 1t is
notorious fact that the existing laws in re-
gard to The liquor traffic are shameiully
trodden under loot. Every good citizen
should see that they are enforced
Schuyler Coliax is i'll, of erysipclas, and
his condition is said to be critical
\ Chicago despatch announces the death
there, Wednesday, of the Right Rev. Thomas
Foley, Catholic Bishop of Chicago.
The man who twitched a lady's diamond
earring from her car, on Fifth avenue, New
York, the other day, has been arrested,
identified, and has confessed the deed. The
diamond has not been recovered.
The Princess Louise held her first draw
ing room in way which dissipted the
growing anxiety about cxclusiveness and
, dress. The ladies appear to have worn
high-necked dresses if they pleased
Alden Goldsmith has sold to United States
Mail Contractor Saulsberry, of Salt Lake
City, his trotting horse Bateman, which has
a record Of 2::22, for S4,50O, and his young
mare Sweetness, with a record cf go, in
exchange for three valuable horses and about
So 600 in cash.
The grand jury at Troy has indicted
Daniel Robinson, who is believed to have
been the one chiefly concerned in wrecking
the Merchants and Mechanics Bank of that
city. In the indictment he is charged with
abstracting eight notes of the face value of
$500, 900, after the failure of the bank, in
order to save the iDdorsers. Another in
dctment was also found against b. Thomas
Vail, charging him with conspiring with
Robinson.
A colored woman. wife of Ephraim John
son, was murdered at Bay Saore, l.. l.,
Wednesday. She was shot three times in
her bedroom, and an attempt was made to
give the impression Of suicide. The hus-
band, who is believed to be the murderer,
and is suspected of undue intimacy with an
unmarried step-daughter residing at Amity-
vile, is known from the statements OF
child, 10 have been in the house. lie came
to the place Wednesday night and peered
through the window. lie was seen, and,
though pursued, succeeded in making his
escape,
The Cincinnati Cafhohc Telegraph pub
fishes the proceedings Of the diocesan synod,
in which it was arranged to form diocese
debt association In every parish OF the
diocese, to obtain funds to cancel Archbishop
Purcell's Indebtedness, which common
rumOr now puts at over two millions. The
Archbishop Is also to write to bishops Of
other dioceses of the country, asking per-
mission to send priests into their territories
to appeal for aid. The Archbishop, stand
ing before the Holy of HOLES, solemnly
affirmed that he never spent upon himself or
misnsed dollar included in the debt of the
diocese