Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-12-12
GENERAL SUMMARY.

lhC isiiS 'auni eipoNu
Golden eagles coined at Philadelphia ar,
expected 10 aggregate S1O,0OO,OOO th
month.
The new French Atlantic cable was landet
Mt Big Lorraine. two miles east of Louisburg
c. b., Saturday.
Ii is positively asserted that the Egyptian
government is actively completing prepara
tons for war with Abyssinia.
The Schuykill coal company are to sus
pend mining from the 24th instant to Janu
airy 9th, and advance coal twenty-five cent:
a ton.
B. Frank Moore, agent of the Louisians
Lottery Company, and twelve others wert
arrested at New York Saturday, for selling
lottery tickets.
A thirty-five foot fly wheel at the RENSSELAER,
iron mill at Troy, n. Y, exploded Friday
night, killing workman and doing So
900 worth OF damage to buildings and ma
chinery.
An Atlanta GA despatch says: The
Government has sent fifty guns and equip
ments from Washington 10 Revenue Col
lector Clark TO arm force for a raid on
the mountain moonshiners.
Members of Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth.
Brown, Amherst and Princeton colleges met
at Springfield Saturday, and organized an
American Base Ball Association.
The sales of provisions at Chicago for last
week are unprecedented, being SOC, 900 bar
rels mess pork, 425, 900 tierces lard, IS, 600,
900 pounds Of meat-cqual to 1875 900, 900
pounds of produce, valued at so, 900, 900.
Charles Arlington, alias Gopher Bill, one
OF the five burglars who committed the
800, 900 burglary at the residence of G..
q. Bailey, at Tagger's Corners, Penn, Nov
:, has been arrested lie confessed and re-
vealed the names of the other four who will
soon he arrested.
In the percentage of average attendance AT
school of hor school population, Massachusetts
stands hrst IN the roll Of States, and louisiana the
lowest.
A suit of clothes has been presented 10 the
Emperor OF Austria which made from wool
taken oil u Sleeps back eleven hours before the
garments were finished.
W. W. ketcham, Judge of the United
States District Court OF the Western district OF
Pennsylvania, died Of apoplexy nj Pittsburg, YES
terday morning.
A goat took possession of the entrance To
the Baptist church in PORT Byron,N. Y, on SUNDAY.
and rearing on Its hind legs, huitel at all corners
vigorously TO dispersc the congregation.
Mr. Gladstones Scotch tour continues to
occupy attention. 1t Is the universal admission that
never did an English statesman avoke equal enihu-
siasn among the canny Scots.
Gen. Grant lunched with the members of
the Boston and Chicago clubs at = O'Clock Monday,
hy Invitation Of j. W. Doane, president OF the Chr
cage club. lie passed the evening with personal
friends and left Tuesday morning for Indianapolis
accompanied only BY members Of his family.
The gale of Nov Goth, at Aspinwall, did
damage. A French shin dashed %
pieces against the Pacific Mail steamship Wharf
Norwegian barque was sunk against a stone pier,
and Boston brig WAS wrecked AT her wharf. Tho
steamers put out 10 sea for safety All the wharVes
suffered much damage, and the Panama roai was
Hooded 10y the accompanying rain storm.
The towns on the Hudson river are being
visited 10y swindlers and fOrgers, and day reports
show many victims. The arrest OF fOrger "NOsry'
StrbhIns, at Poughkcepsle Is followed by the arrest
OF another fOrger FOR swndng Troy merchants.
The police are searching for man travelling with
u ~ indling musical album and a ticket agent OF
the duchess and Columbia railroad. nj Pine Plains,
has fled a deiaultcf.
The St Louis and San Francisco Railway
has made AN agreement with the AtchsUn. Topeka
anL Santa fe for the building "f new Pacific
fnllrouil. The two companies JOINTLY guarantee
SsS unU OF per cent bonds, to hr issued Tor con
sructIun purposes 10y the Atlantic and Pacific llil-
rad Company. The line IL To he constructed indie
of nll Others following the thirty NTH
parallel oi latitude through 10 san Francisco. 1t IL
suld that II Will he finished in two years.
The International dairy fair was formally
opened nj New York Monday evening. Among the
objects of interest IL great obelsk OF cheese, fui
~ feet IA height The base OF this uhellSk Is form
Ell OF ten chrrscS weighing each II half ton. From
these ris, I2i Chc,isr cheeses, each Sixty pounds
IN weight above these rise l5b pineapple chccscs
" rlphinr each SIX pounds and still higher 100
unilg American cheeses each pounds. Pine apples
MAKE point nj the top In tins one obclisk Is 700
pounds OF cheese the exhibit of one nrn There
are also two p, Tamids Vt salt there also pyramids
OF foreign cheese uf every known variety
When. three years ago, Joseph l.. Lewis
pf llob"ken hrqueahrd tl"o"p To tht hled
States Government, aud then dleh withont Known
relatives there appeared alleged widow, who
called herself Catherine Lewis, who contested III"
Will The ease has been In the courts ever since.
She put IN her alleged marriage c"rln'alr daie III
1850 and To suhsantatc II, put IN the ccllhca"" t
Frank Fleet aud Mary Reed, saIh I" have been
married at the same time. on MONDAY IN" Govern
mrnt introduced L. J. caldwell. who testified thai
he helped the woman 10 put up the Job lie helped
her Ia prepare the certificate ami furnished an old
frame. give II the Appearance "i as'' and thdt
tho alleged widow had often i"li MN thiI sht
never snw Lewis. and asked HIM how Lewis looked
Frank Fleet testified that his previous testimony,
winch MAS favorable To the WILLOW was PttJuiN-
" William ArunuN who had certified To- the auth"uii
rty Of certain documents used 10y the claimant. les
Iinr that he was "a pcrurer. lie hai been lnoinis-
rd thousand dollars for ms its''h'"hS' more
startling developments are pf"mlHt"'
\ Fairplay Colorado despatch reports
the discovery II uranium in the SACRAMENTO mining
district a mineral found IN Bohemia, but never he
tore IN this country So far as known rue ore runs
sixty per cent. Uranium ~ worth $1,000 ton.
The river Kuros, in Hungary, has again
lyrrinwcl its banks causing an immense irsifu'-
hon 1T property hut the hood Is no" suhslilng.
Tue town Of Groswnrien has been inundated, and
thousands of families were driven from their homes
pther floods are reported IN Tran-> wanna
Most distressing accounts are cabled OF
the sufIerings OF the people IN per S'lesla caused
y famine. The crops were an almost lnlal htluie,
aud the latest adylces are To the elect la' nnl ess
than 100000 people are suffering for food man. oil