Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-02-21
General Summary.

The French soldier is to have gray trowsers
instead Of red hereafter.
A Boston author can chase his hat on
windy day in thirteen different languages.
Wade Hampton will it is feared have to
undergo another amputation Of his leg, and
is despondent about pulling thT ugh.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
the S8th call for the redemption of $50
bonds. The call IS fer S2O,OO0,OOO.
Albany has young lady who goes by the
name of Earthquake among the boys, be-
cause she has shaken so many OF them.
At ball in Washington the other eve
ming Senator Hannibal Hsmlin, who is in
his 10th year. danced every quadrille and
polka.
The New York Ereaing Post favors the
proposal to simplify physicians prescriptions
BY substituting English for the mangled
medieval Latin in which they are now
written.
The United States Court has appointed a
receiver to take charge of the effects of late
city Of Memphis, including the taxes unpaid,
amounting to nearly SO ,OO0, 900, with power
to collect the same.
Judge Hilton has fitted up tea room in
York, to which all the clerks have access
from two till four. They can drink all the
tea they want, gratis.
Mrs. Yung Wing, wife of the Chinese
minister at Washington, now has Yunger
Wing, which is considered somewhat auda-
cious in view of the recent legislation in Con-
gress. The Kearneyites are indignant.
At Joliet, H., the other day, $500 school
children, with their teachers, were taken
out for sleigh ride in 400 sleighs and cut
tiers, headed by a band of music. Fifteen
barrels Of apples were distributed among
them.
The publisher of the Utica Republican,
Conkling's organ, sank between $50, 900
and $50, 900 in his venture, between Octc-
Der ~ and February 10. Senator Conk-
| ling's financial interest in the concern con-
sisted of 5 IA year invested as subscription.
At Eureka, Nevada, Wednesday, L. C.
Anderson, in a drunken frenzy. set fire to
the house of Mrs. Dennis, and, standing in
| front of the door with razor, threatened
death to all who approached. He was over
| powered, but not until he had cut his own
throat, dying in few moments.
The Governor of New York has quarau-
tined the great distillerY milk stables on
Long Island. The order fJrbids cows being
taken from or brought into the stables, the
| public sale of milk from the 200 cows now
confined there, and ia kes the property and
| cows out of the hands of the owners.
Lorenzo Richmond, Jr., a young St. Louis
| (Mo.) lawyer, and son of Lorenzo Richmond
of Woodstock, VT, accidentally shot himself
in bed Saturday morning. The ball went
through the pillow and entered the back of
his head. killing him Instantly. His re-
mains were taken to Woodstock.
A young John Chinaman at Phillips
Academy in Andoyer has been rather back
ward in his studies, so that the faculty con-
sidered it their duty to make the same known
to the Chinese government, at whose expense
the young man is educated. The reply was
as follows: "Send him home. and we will
behead him." John will stay with the
Mclean man and keep his head.
A London special says that the Erie Rail
way Company have leased the Atlantic and
Great Western Railroad Company, the Erie
Company guaranteeing interest on seven
millions Atlantic and Great Western bonds,
and making an equal division of the net earn
ings of the Atlantic and Great Western road.
This gives the Erie perfect connection to
Chicago,
The Lenox Library at New York has lately
come into possession of a terrestrial globe,
which was bought at Paris street booth as a
curiosity by Richard NJ. Hunt some twenty
five years ago. and for which he was subse-
quently offered %, 900 francs. This globe is
considered by good authorities to be one of
the Oldest in existence, and to have been
made in 1910 or l5ll. 1t is said to be the
first globe to show any OF the results Of
Columbus voyages or any portion OF the
main land of the American continent.
Two United States deputy marshals have
arrived at Danville, Pa, with six Illicit dis !
tillers from Patrick county.
Charles McGill was hanged at Cleveland, |
o., Thursday for the murder of Mary Kelley |
on the % of December, 1877.
A startling report is received from South |
Africa that the native levies serving with the |
British have risen en- masse and massacred |
the officers.
Adyices from California, Washington
county, Pa, report the arrest of sixty or
eighty of the rioters in the mining region
without the aid of the military.
A despatch from San Jose says that fire.
damp explosion in a tunnel on the Southern
Coast railroad. near Alma, injured fourteen
men, nine OF whom (Chinamen) will die.
A collision occurred on the Montreal,
Ottawa and Occidental Railway, near St.
Vincent de Paul station, Wednesday, by
which several passengers were seriously but
not fatally injured.
A special committee has been examining
the books and accounts of the late county
treasurer, Luthur II. Conklin, of Oswego, N
y, ana have nearly finished the examlna-
tion. The total deficit is stated at SS0 200.
Montreal failures The liabilities OF Lewis
S. Black Co., traders. are 5000, ,00O.-The
assignee makes the liabilities of Louis Tour
vile, general merchant, SlS7 ,055; assets
Sl39, 600, including SOS 900 doubtful debts.
The oven in the restoring-room of the
Jackson chemical works at jackson, Mich,
exploded Thursday morning, denolishing
The building and fatally scalding one of the
furnace men. Loss $1,000. The shock
was felt a quarter cs a mile away.
The Commercial National Bank of
Petersburg, Va, has gone into liquidation,
and is closing up its affairs as rapidly as pos-
sible. Its condition is said TO be sound and
no losses will result. This is the last of the
banks in Petersburgh, the two
others having succumbed to the crisis OF
1873.
On the 18th of April-Bank Holiday-the
old banking house of Child Il Co., London. ;
will be shifted one door to the east OF the {
site it has occupied since Nell Gwynne had
her account with the firm, then long estab-
lished in the goldsmith trade. The change :
is owing to the Temple Bar alterations.
The grand jury at Troy, N. Y, have in-
dicted the County poor house ring, namely, O
Acting Superintendent John B. Ford, Audit :
ing Superintendent, Ira Ford, Henry
Cox, keeper of the county house, Dr.. Heg- r
man and Clerk j. Ford. for robbing the il
county. This Is the result OF recent ex- a
posures by the board of supervisors. :,
Mayer Cooper, of New York, has written =.
letter to Police Commissioner Erhardt,
him to appear at the mayors v
Difice, and make detailed statement OF the C
acts upon which he (EThardt) passed his q
allegations concerning the conduct and
of the police department, and re-
'pccting the board of police, made by him v
1t the meetings of said board on the 2lst and D
Goth of January. ;,
DErRAUDISu THE GOyKRNxENr.-The Lyn- Il
lon UniOn says A great swIndle is now
,oiug on against the GJyerument by down
'ountry advertisers expressing cart loads OF = =
circulars to Montreal to be there mailed TO i,
iifferent names throughout the states b
eleven large sacks of that stuff came Il
lown over the line last Monday, and 50 U
rowded the route agents that they were 7
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