Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-03-21

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The remarkable fact is ieoor.el via Havana
that there is peace in Mexico.
The death of Signor Sllyi, the on. ad-
mired tenor, Is announced in the Italian
newspapers.
The New York Assembly Committee on
agreed to report bill permitting the en-
ployment of female physicians in Safe in
sane asylums.
A gypsy camp" is the latest church
fair novelty. The enterprising young ladies'
of the church at Manchester, vt, have in
troduced it. They camp il the court house,
wear gypsy costumes, and give young men
their supper at % cents head.
The gas wells of East Liverpool, Ohio,
furnish a continual supply of light and heat
to the town, and as-the gas costs nothing the
street lamps are never e1tinguiShe1. 1t is
used almost exclusively for fuel, being con-
Quoted into the crates and stoves by pipes.
For 70 years this has been going on. and
there are no indications that the supply Of
gas Is giving out.
1t was a sad death, that of Stella Haley,
beautiful girl, II years of age, at La Sale,
LII. Her mother died last summer of hard
work and broken heart Not attending
school for several days, an inquiry was
made, when the girls body was found lying
in corner of room at home, covered with
rags. She was too proud to tell the neigh
bors that she was starving, and died alone.
Mrs. Caroline S. Brooks, the Arkansas
lady who exhibited the study, in butter, of
"The Dreaming Iolanthe" at the Centennial
Exposition, took her ''Iolanthc" to the Paris
Exposition, but arrived too late to enter it.
She afterward worked at modelling in Paris,
but met with constant peeuniary losses, and
was obliged to return home as a steorago
passenger. She arrived at New York on
Monday.
Bank Examiner TiEcomb, Of Maine, has
made report to the Governor on the Dexter
Savings Bank case and the condition Of the
accounts of the dead cashier His report is
a complete reiutation of the charges and in
situations Of the officers of the bank, and he
gives facts that place these officers in an uu-
pleasant position. lie makes it clear that
the solution of the question as to Blrron's
death must be looked for in other directions
than in the state of his accounts.
Panama advices to the 10th give Gillian
accounts Of the excitement ami indignation
of the people there at the action of the b.
liyian government as to the nitrate deposits
and the eOnfscation of property valued at
$4,000, 600. belonging to Gillian citizens,
and say: The government of Chill has re-
called Its Minister and the national troops
are already en- route to occupy Antoisgasts
and other points which may be considered
advisable.
Masked burglars fatally stabbed Miss Hun
sleker, the daughter of farmer ia Pats
grove, Pa, Sunday night, because she gave
an alarm as they were robbins the house.
Fifty Moonshiners delivered three revenue
prisoners out of Huntsville (renn.) jail Sun
day morning, and took away wagon and
train which had been seized by revenue
officers.
The Governor General of Canada and the
Princess Louise are shortly TO visii New
York, from which point it Is the mention
of the latter to sail for England on visit to
her mother, the Queen.
The failure is announced of the Smith
Manufacturing Company, having mills at
Elmw0Od, Seituate, Smithville, Ashland,
r. l., and Willimantie, Conn. Liabilities
$500 goo; nominal assets $685. 900.
The sale of the Brinley Library by auc-
ton was finished Saturday night, and realized
S4S 900. The largest buyers were the
LennOx Library of Yale College, Watkins
Library Of Congress.
Since the 18th of January last, the date of
the passage of the act to pay arrears of pen
siOns. more than 900 applications by new
claimants. have been made. The thirty mil
lions set apart for the payment of these Gains
will soon be exhausted.
The last census established that New York
city was the first Irish city in the world, and
that it numbered more residents of Irish with
children Of parents born in Ireland than
even Dublin claims. Out Of voting aggre-
gate OF 10000 in the city one-titth are Of
immediate Irish decent.
\ Missouri railroad company has received
the following application for the position of
auditor II learn eonfedcntally that You
want new orditor, fr your rail rode. Ii
that is so would like the Job. for am a
gragawate of the Kansas City Commercial
College. And no all about counts
Miss Martha Scruggs, described as beau
tiIul young lady school teacher Of johnson
county, Texas, who was engaged to be mar
ried to a young man in Little Rock, Ark,
in April, received printed Invitation 70 his
wedding to another woman, and took
stryehninc and expired in painful convul-
sions.
\ Spiritualistic seanee WAS advertise i Tor
night, in Brooklyn, under the aus
- ~, IL 6, 4
were present. The performance did not axe
place. and the doorkeeper fled, but was plr-
sued and arrested on the charge OF swindlilg
lie gave his name as Samuel learman Hines.
Two freight trains on the Northern Cen
trail Railroad collided Monday near New
Cumberland, Pa. Both engines were
wrecked and thirty cars thrown from the
track. eight of them going over into the
Susquehsnna river. Charles Delvany, hrc-
man, had a leg torn off and one of the con-
ductors was injured.
Mrs. Greifeld, widow of Max Greiield.
died Monday morning, in Brooklyn. from
trichinosis Her husband died on Wednes-
day last, and her mother about five weeks
ago. from the same disease. Their servant.
Henrietta Dyer, is said to be in dying cor
dltOn. The trichinss were in some ham
which they ate on the ID of last month
The last State ball as Ottawa was bril-
liant success up to > a. m, when the
shocking conduct of some Of tho guests
spoiled the whole affair, At first it was
thought that somebody by the way OF
practical Joke had drugsed tine thirty and
odd young fellows who staggered about the
ballroom but they proved to be simply
tIpsy, and an order has gone forth that no
Government clerk under irst-claSs rank is
in future to be invited to Rideau Hall.
By the will of the late Deacon Asa Otis,
who died in New London, Conn, March l.,
the American board of commissioners Of
Oreign missions is made residuary legatee
The requests, amounting to nearly ! 81 900,
are as follows Amherst College S2j 900;
Yale College Theological Seminary, S25,-
boo the Bulkeley High School OF New
London, SO, 900 Bacon Academy Of Col
chester, Conn. $l0, 200 First Ecclesiastical
Society of New London, so 200 American
board for commissioners of foreign missions,
sl0 900; American Home Missionary So
,lety. 5000; American Bible Society,
IS 900 American Tract Society : a,uoo the
Lewis Female Cent SOeie,y OF New London,
Il 900. The balance OF the property,
TO over half million dollars,
will 90 to the foreign missions.