Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-19
GENERAL SUMMARY.

The carpenters and bricklayers are organ
izing strike in Boston.
The Dominion Senate has voted, Il to II,
in favor of repeating Canada's bankrupt law.
The Wisconsin Senate has concurred
in the Assembly resolution providing for
woman suffrage by vote of 10 to IL.
Thomas Boyd, Louisville Sam Patch,
jumped from the bridge across the Ohio into
the falls below, distance of 100 feet.
1t is reported that William ii. Vanderbilt
is the person who brings Cleopatras needle to
New York. and will pay $500 when the
Shaft is set up.
Gen Grant and party intend to sail from
Mexico for Galveston, Texas, next Thursday,
going from there to San Antonio, Texas, and
I.eadvillc, Col.
Theodore Thomas has left Cincinnati for
New York, having completely severed his
connection with the College of Music. He
will return to take charge of the May fes-
tival.
Incoming vessels continue to report the
severest weather of the Winter and storms
almost without parallel in the memory of
the most experienced navigators.
An Ohio woman dreamed that she saw
her husband kissing certain neighbours
wife. and she awoke and struck him across
the face and broke his nose.
Five women nominated by the Democrats
of Middlctown, n. V, for members of the
board of education were elected, last week,
over the five men nominated by the Repub-
licans.
At San Eldofenso, New Mexico, Tuesday,
Francisco Duran, while attempting to out
rage dcfenceless girl at her house, was
killed by the latter's brother, who wrested
an axe from the culprit and hacked him to
pieces
The actual cost of one of the elevated
roads in New York was SIS. 000, 900, and the
stock was watered till it represented S45,-
000,O On this it pays an interest of ten
per cent, while a large sum has been steadily
accommodating, to provide for future contn-
gencies.
Nearly 400 immigrants arrived at New
York Monday en- route 10 the West.
A farm house near Dennis, Iowa, was
burned, Friday, and two young girls perish
ed the flames.
A massacre of settlers near the Blue Noun
| tains in Colorado, by the Indians, is reported
from Denver. The name of six victims are
| furnished, and it is said that several others
were killed.
The political excitement in England and
| Ireland absorbs all other topics. The cleo
ten compaign is already in full swing. AL
together there are 800 candidates for the
652 seats. The Liberals are said to be far
| better organized than at the last election.
John Nehemiah, sentenced to Sing Sing
from New York in 1873 for life, and known
as praying John" from his devout and reli-
gious demeanor, committed suicide Saturday
hy thrus.ing his hea d into the furnace of the
| mess room.
A prominent citizen of Atlanta, Ga, has
| been arrested for threatening to kill Rev. II.
c. Foute, rector of St. Phillips church, in the
pulpit, Sunday, and going to church avowed-
| ly for that purpose. He accuses Foute of
causing a divorce between himself and wife.
He was bound over to keep tho peace.
The steamer Isaac Bell. while on her pas
sage Saturday from Norfolk, Va, to New
York, was obliged to come TO full stop to
get ont of the way of a large whale which
lay directly across the vessels bow He did
not evince the slightest alarm, but lay like
huge log on the water with forty feet OF
back exposed.
| Gen. MelikOn has received notice from the
| Nihilist Executive Committee stating that
Vladetsky's attempt on his life was not made
by order of the committee; that they had
not yet decided TO kill him. and that if the
recent attempt had been made under their
direction, they would have provided better
weapons and means of flight for the assailant.
The annual election of trustees of the New
York Express was held Monday On Satur-
day James Wilton Brooks snn of the Ete
| lanes Brooks of the founders OF the pa
per, was the controller of 126 shares, ma
jority Of the stock, but John Kelly cunning
| ly succeeded in obtaining twenty-five of
Brooks shares which had been hypotheeated
with paper dealer for a loan not due until
June, and thereby carried the election. MIR.
Brooks will contest the matter in the courts.
Through the exertions of the faculty
of Drew Theological Seminary at
Madison, New Jersey, the endowment
fund of $4,000 lost by the failure of
Daniel Drew in 1876. has been made up to
the extent of S2S0,0 to which. fund addi-
tons are being made all the time.
At Elizabeth City, N. c., Miss Florence
Seymark arrangedto elope with Jonathan Ivy,
a young lawyer. Her father hearing of the
arrangement went to Ivy's office and shot
him in the shoulder. Miss Seymark hear
ing of this, fed from home in her night
clothes and was married to Ivy before her
| absence was dlScoved
A baby elephant was born on Wednesday
at Cooper, Bailey & Co.'S Circus of Phila-
delphia 1t is n female, weighs 2l3 pounds,
stands 30 inches high and measures 50 inches
from the stock of the trunk to the crupper.
They feed it through q stove funnel, TO
which is attached rubber hose which the
infant takes in its mouth and is thus pumped
to overlooking.
Two tramps, u man and u woman, were
killed few days ago on the New York and
Harlem railroad, near katonah. When the
train was seen approaching, the man at
tempted to drag the woman on the track,
but met with stout resistance. During the
struggle the train had almost reached them.
The man made a last effort to throw the
woman in front of the locomotive, when she
chung to him and took him with her, and
both were instantly killed.
The question as to what shall be done in
view of the rise in the cost of printing paper
is getting to be a serious one with newspaper
publishers. Already some of the great papers
of the country, notably the Chicago Times,
have decided to put up the price of their
papers, and take the chance of a loss of cir
culalion, while nearly all of the newspapers
of the country have been forced to retrench
in the most vigorous manner in the matter of
expenses.
New Workers are making up their minds
to an ice famine this year like that in 1870,
when householders on Manhattan Island paid
$50 ton. In spite of large supplies in
Maine and the report of large stores al Rouscs
Point, prices are now as high in New York
as ten years ago, So ton, and no holders are
willing 10 make any contracts for Summer
delivery.
General Meikoffs is said to be spit
ting blood. under the pressure OF his sltua-
ton The reason he was not killed by young
| Vladetsky is asserted TO be the fact that he
| had ON chain shirt when that young man
fired at him. and hit him. This statement
does not impeach the Generals character for
courage Even Cromwell wore such a shirt,
and Mrs Cromwell had strict charge about
the buttons.
The latest use to which paper has been ap-
piled is in the construction of Il dome for the
observatory at the Polytechnic Institute al
Troy, N. Y, where an astronomical tower
30 feet in diameter has been constructed by
Waters & Sons, the paper boat manufactur
ers. The usual dome would weigh from five
to ten tons, but this one weighs not more
than one tenth as much. The dome is sup
ported on cast iron balls which run in u
groove with SO little friction that child can
turn the entire structure. by enormous
pressure the paper has been reduced to II
| thickness of one-siXth of an inch, and Is as
hard us the toughest wood.
Reports from various parts of the Ottoman
Empire show an almost hopeless condition of
confusion and dilapidation. The Consuls at
| Salonca report that except in the immediate
vicinity of towns the whole region is dumin-
aicd by brigands. They levy blackmail on
Mussulmans and Christians Unfortunately.
Appalling accounts continue from Armenia
and kurdisian The famine extends over
100. 900 square miles, and five months must
pass before another harvest can bring relief
The financial situation of the Empire is bad
A resolution TO require the revenues 10 he
paid in gold caused further depreciation in
the dchascd metallic currency. The price
of bread has risen. Disturbances are re-