Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-04-25
General sum mary,

More hail-stOrms and ;ornadOes are re-
| ported at the South and West The season
has opened early
The Widow Oliver had but sixty hearers
at her first lecture on Simon Cameron, and
has retired from the lecture field
By an explosion of gas in Otto oolliery,
near branch Dale, Pa, Thursday, eight
miners were burned, some seriously
The Bank of Montreal has declared halt.
yearly dividend of per cent. 1t withdraws
S5OO,OO0 from the reserve fund to meet
losses.
Gen. Thomas IL. Benton, nephew Of the
great Missouri Senator, and once Democratic
candidate for the Goyernorship Of Ohio, died
died last week in St Louis
Robert Duncan met his death in a saw
mill near London, Ont His at-tails
caught in the log-carriage, and he was drawn
to the circular saw. which cut him in two.
\ boy of Is was caught and killed in the
machinery for drawing iron in a wire-rope
mill at Trenton, M, 1t took an hour to
release him from the clutches of the machine.
At Bismarck, d. T, when the farmers
commenced sowing oats, the other day, the
thermometer was nearly one hundred in the
sun and the river covered with two feet of
ice.
The House Committee on Public Billings
has decided to tender the proprietorship Of
the House restaurant to John Chamberlain
of New York.
The tornado that visited south Carolina.
swept over Alabama. Two persons were
killed near Otto, and many injured
Hon. Russell Sage and sir other New
iorh business men have organized com
pany to build model tenements for the poor
The Trjtu reports that the daughter of
VIM. Townsend, the wealthy New York
publisher, was privately married recently
to James Weeks, her fathers good looking
cOaehman.
On account Of SPECIAL repressiye measures
by Russia, it Is expected large proportion
OF 900 to 10000 suspected persons now
in custody will be sent in chains to the
northeast An ukase has been published,
ordering the appointment of governors
general for six OF the most populous dis
tricts OF Russia. with perfectly despotic
powers, exceeding those OF a general in time
of war.
\ Hartford religious enthusiast under
took to fast forty days, and became a maniac
at the end of the fifth day.
Belief in wtchcraft still prevails in Russia,
and recently n woman named Agrafena
lguatena was burned by the peasants of
village in NOyogorod.
Two beautiful English girls who in happier
days practised blacksmithing have in their
poverty started a blacksmith : shop at Louis
vile. Ky, aad have plenty to do.
For his poem, The Defence OF Luck
now, and its prelude addressed to the
memory of Princess Alice, making altogether
l21 line, Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate,
received 5 500.
Only one inch Of rain Tell during he
month of March in Northern Texas There
Is great deal cf suffering among the farmers.
Some Of them have to 90 five miles to the
nearest beer saloon for water.
4 tornado at POcahontas, Alabama, Tues
day, blew down several buildings and un-
rooted the principal hotel and blew away
three sections OF houses. 1t tore box car
from the track and carried it 50 feet
By IN explosion of firedamp in Argrappe
coal pit, near Mons, Belgium, the woodwork
OF the shaft caught fire and fell in. There
are 30 men in the mine, and there appears
scarcely any hope of rescuing any of them.
Secretary Of the Navy Thompson, eccom-
panied by dozen young ladies', attended
"PinaiOre" in Washington the other day,
and the entire audience looked toward him
and smiled during the chorus to His sisters,
and his cousins, and his aunts.''
An Albany despatch says Tom Ballard,
the couuterieiter, who last July attempted
suicide, but recovered, made another attempt
| Wednesday. lie drew a shoe knife across
his throat, seyering the wind pipe muscles
and blood vessels. lie will probably die.
| The Attorney General has affirmed the de
eisi0n of the Assistant Attorney General for
the Postofiee Department, that regular
publications, designed primarily for adver
tislng purposes, cannot be sent through
mails at rates charged legitimate newspa-
| per5.
Ofcal returns Of the recent Michigan
State election, though not complete, arc suf
! fciently 50 a. to make certain Republican
majority Of about 1000. OF the total vote
thus far received Campbell, Republican, for
| Justice Of the Supreme Court, received l32,-
| eco votes, and Shipman, Coalition, l2o 900.
| Fayetteville, n. y, is to have a sneezing
match. The one who sneezes the most
srceze= in three hours Will win the prize,
| cheese and the gate-money No sneeze
| counts unless the Jaws open 22-lC of an inch
and the teeth snap together when the sneezs
| is scored.
Up in ottawa, At a party. one of the
| guests undertook to mesmerizc young man,
and for an hour or two made him the laugh
| ing-stock, When he attempted to unmes-
mcrize him, the subject refused t. come out
/ Of his trance, kissed every woman in the
/ house, poured a libation Of ink on the mes
meri>t's shirt front and only condescended
10 recover his senses when the terrified
/ operator had lied for doctor.
The will of the late James smith, Of
| Philadelphia, admitted to probate Thursday.
contains the following beguests American
| Missionary Association and the American
| Home Missionary Society, 1000 each
| American BOari of Commissioners for For
I eign Missions, 1000 American Educa-
/ tun Society OF Boston and the American
Congregational MON, $4,000 each
| The Grondin Farm, near the town OF
| Fargo, Dakota, IS said to be largest cult
waited wheat farm on the globe, embracing
some 10 GOO acres. both Government and
railway land, lying close to Red river. 1t
has dwellings, sranaries, machine shops.
/ elevators, stables for 200 horses, and room
Tor storing 900 600 bushels of grain.
| Besides the wheat farm, there is a stock
farm OF 20 ,OO0 acres and during the harvest
time from go to 800 men are employed.
When the train which left Washington
| with James Carroll. the negro accused of
gu TRACING Mrs. Thomas at Llcksylle, Md,
Monday, reached Washington junction
/ Thursday, fifteen or twenty masked men
/ boarded the train, and, after u desperate
struggle succeeded IL overcoming the police
men. The prisoner was dragged from the
train, rope thrOwI over hiS head and he
was pulled across field about 100 yards to
the nearest tree and hanged. The whole
proceeding occupied thirty minutes, the
maskerS riding silently away after Carroll
was pronounced dead.
The report of Bank Superintendent Lamb
/ of the status of savings banks in New York
| State on the first OF January. shows there are
| Ia savings banks in the State. The year
business Showed the following Deposits
I declined Sl3, i ,4ly surplus increased,
/ =, so, Il dcpOsltors fell oil, 81 ,533 the
total transactions of the year are approx
matelv T. per cent less than in the previous
/ year the chief portion OF the decline
in deposits Is in the city OF New York, in
which confidence IL shaken by continual
/ failures OF savings banks the falling of in
/ deposits IN New York city Is $40 Y43, 900
/ in the rest OF the state, s. COS 900, while
the number Of pepOsitors decreased, the ap-
| parent decrease Is less by l.shs than the
number in the four institutions closed. The
/ solvent savings bank shOw "a real increase
/ in ihr number Of Icro-itors during the year.
/ int F~r,.t, published in New Orleans
| gives the reasons for the exodus OF the color
I ed people, thus
Almost daily explanations are gwen by
| the press why the negroes are leaving the
south and gong North. Hear the true one
Cotton lands that woIll not command, un
| der forced sales, more than so per acre.