Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-07-18
GENERAL SUMMARY.

5, The body Of the Prince Imperial has arri,
$ ed in England
N The New Hampshire Legislature is discu
IS sing the abolition of capital punishment.
J. Captain Eads reports that work at I'll
> mouth Of the Mississippi river is virtual
completed
a An cyelcSs child was born near Shirley.
!. burg Huntington county, Pa, few day
r. ago. 1t lived hut few hours
= Six hundred Mormons, mostly womer
s from Scotland, England and Sweden, arrive
e in New York Wednesday, en- route for Utal
n Frank Davidson Twas hung at Warren,
: burg, Mo, Wednesday, for the murder &
: VIM. lIaggcrty. Ten thousand people wer
/ present.
:. Daniel Buffers & Co. of Montreal III
: most extensive grain and produce exporter
= IN Canada, are in financial difficulties Liza
billties $500, 900; assets $4,000
William II. Vanderbilt is said to have en-
riched his collection with an additional $50.
: 900 worth of paintings during his recen
European trip.
/; The safety of the Alhambra is said to b
: imperilled, the hill on which the famou
l palace stands having lately shown signs o
! landslip.
Annie Brown of Lowell, Mass, though
she had taken prussic acid, and lay down t,
die in front of the police station, but the slIs
pccting druggist had cheated her
Z. Lindeheim was stabbed in the eye will
a cane in the hands of Thomas c. Lenahar
, at New York, Tuesday, and died Wednes
day morning in horrible agony
The World has discovered that the earliest
recorded instance of Nihilist placards posted
in an imperial palace is TO he found in the
history of Bclshazzar.
In this country. in the first six months OF
this year, 1000 miles of railroad were com
pleted. much greater number than has
been finished in any half year since the panic.
The St Petersburg GOlos estimates that
the cost to Russia of the war with Turkey
amounted to f15O, 900, 900, and the deaths in
the Russian army numbered 100000.
The Elmira On. " cremation society has
two lady members, and has collected about
$500 toward building furnace. The Rev.
Thomas X. Beechcr is engaged in the enter
prise.
L. Schlatchcr, butcher, killed Peter
Miller, a boy, who had aggravated him. at
Buffalo, n Y, Wednesday, by throwing a
large knife at him, laying open an artery in
|
For the first time in several years the Gin
cinnati Gdzette reports scarcity of skilled
mechanics in that city, and regards it as one
OF the hest signs of an improvement in bust
ness.
AT Carlisle. Ky, boiler in the steam
Touring mill of Rogers x Bastan exploded
Tuesday morning, throwing. the engineer
Summers 40 feet and manglng him 50 terri
bly, that he died in two hours
The Wabash. 81 Louis and Pacific rail
way is new company formed by the con
solidaiiun Of the St. Louis. Kansas City and
Northern and Wabash railroads. embracing
about Loo miles of road. Its capital stock
is Si0, o00, 900.
y week ago negro, named Lee. matrcat-
cd lady in Fayette county W Va. and
escaped. Tuesday he was arrested at Parkcrs-
burg. on coal large. and during the night
was taken from the officers and hanged bv
mob of nearly 1000.
y writer in HdrTer'S WOAHiy for August
estimates the total amount Of our foreign
debt national, State, municipal and corporate
At : $40, G32, 2S.. II attained its maxi
mum III .i.n" 1878, when he estimates it was
S2.Oi:i, ,OOl.
The Winchester Repeating arms COMPANY
the last instalmeni- 81 600, 900 wOrthIUi
arms contracted for hy the Turkish govern
MELT to CDnstantinOple in few weeks The
entire contract aggregated $4,000, 900.
Henry l.. Sorg. 4 butcher hoy in Roches-
ter, Slipped from the top of step ladder and
was caught in the abdomen by meat hook,
which tore Il horrible cash, letting Uut the
ntcstines The boy is not expected to Vt
cover
The house of II miscr who recently died in
Bergen county, n j.. was searched, and
5000 found secrcted in odd hooks in diff
ferent parts Of the house including gold
and silver coins black with age, old state
bank bills, aud small paper currency issued
during the war
1t is now thought that the new Southern
Pacific Railroad may be completed by the
beginning of 1881. The line from the other
side will probably lie extended 10 Tucson
this year. an.l the line from this side to the
Rio Grande. This will leave II gap of only
about four hundred and fifty miles, which
can be easily covered in wear.
A few months ago n Pittsburg man was
offered half of new silver mine in Southern
Utah for $4,000, but declined to buy.
That mine is now known as the Horn Silver
Mine, and Jay Gould with other capitalists
have bought half of it for -, 500 900
The first cotton mill built at Atlantis. Ca.
was sci in operation last week There was
II celebration of the event, Gov. Colquitt and
the MAYOR of Atlanta participating in the
proceedings The mill is fitted with the best
Northern machinery, and is capable of con
suming $4,000 bales of cotton annually.
The real estate valuation of New York
city has increased seventeen millions over
Last 1t
declined twenty-one millions The former
is due TO new building and the taxation Of
the elevated and surface railroads as real
estate. The latter is largely due 10 the
reduction of bank and insurance capital
The agricultural prospects in Great Britain
cause great apprehensions. Should the rain
continue the hay crop will be useless except
for manure. The condition of wheat is un-
improved, and barley, in heavy land. is near
ly ruined Nothing but the speedy advent
of sunshine can prevent the almost general
failure of the principal crops.
The American Institute of instruction
held its closing session at Fabyan's, Friday.
Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the English as
tronomer. is about to visit the United States
u second time
Four murderers were hanged last Friday,
two in Virginia, one in North Carolina and
one in Texas.
Two naked chcrubs, over the portal of II
new court house at Rockford, Ill, So offend
ed the moral sense of the city that they were
chiseled of
A lady Of Scutchtown, Pa, has pet cat
which takes its meals at the table. 1t sits up
at the table with a bib pinned arour d it, and
is fed with Il silver spoon.
Sixty members of Sunday school got lost
in the Mammoth Cave and their lights
burned out. After four hours of suspense
they were rescued.
Minnesota celebrated the Fourth aS the
hiccntcnnial of the discovery of that uncN-
plnrrd wilderness hy Du I.urh, VIII" planted
the French flag there on July =, 1863.
MrNIastcrs. an Ohio temperance lecturer,
was taken suddenly i'll in Il railroad car. and
physician told him that Il class of brandy |
was the only thin" that would save his life.
hut he refused To tak, the liquor and died.
\ torpedo boat attached la Admiral
lalarcl's tri.Hir at CrunStadl, WAS blown
up while at practice, on Wednesday, Five
men were killed and fourteen wounded. J.
some fatally.
\ statement has been ISSUED 10y the War
Department. giving the number oi men fur
niShrd the Mon army hv each State and
territory from April II, 1861, rn the cln~t nt
the war. 1t shows thr total number ut vol
untccrs 10 he 2.6,S. .9G1.
In Oakland. Cal. they are building what
they call the largest lrrry -hnat in the world
Her dimensions are. length. 42i feet height
in centre. Is feet : inches; width over
guards. Ii feet. She is II double tender and
has tour ruddrrs at each end. Each wheel
is run independently, hy II separate engine
\ young man at North Bend. Nebraska
shot his aiiianrrd, inlicing dangerous
wounds. because she llirtcd with other young
men and refused to he married on the 4tl, rs
she had agreed, because il was too hot
weather Ia .sct married
Michael Sullivan. n farm hand nj Spring
field. y. J.. has been arrested. charged with
killing nm infant by burying it alive Sulli
vans daughter Nellie, girl ol 10, gave birth
to "a child which hc took Ia the garden and
buried il face downward. Suspicion was
aroused. and the child was uncarihcd still