Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-01-16

Iirgc CONSIGNMENT ol JtWclrN WAS lllllOil'u
in a coffin. which Was represented to contain
II corpse, which was going to Montreal for
burial
Thursday NIGHT eight masked robbers en-
tered the residence of Jacob Nishley, a
miller, aged 60, living on Conestoga creek,
five miles from Lancaster, Pa, and demand
cd lis money or his life. Nishley, fearing
violence, gave them $50, all he had in the
house. The robbers received this with loud
cheers, and thanked him for his kindness.
They then ransacked the house, and ON
leaving struck him on the head with club.
lie was found unconscious by n neighbOr
Friday. His condition is critical. No ar
rests
\ Panama special says that under the CON
tract between De Lesseps and Bonapartc
Wysc, from whom De Lesseps took over his
arrangement with the Colombian govern
meni, DE LcssepS is to have two years more
10 organize il company for constructing the
canal of Chagrcs. The capital of the com
pany is limited to 400, 900, 900 francs. Wyse
is to receive ! 900, 900 on the formation of
the company and 4, 900, 900 more one month
after half the capital is subscribed, and is
also to have 5000, 900 more in stock. In
case of the death Of De Lcsscps his son is to
succeed to all his rights and privileges.
The famous Tichborne case is likely TO be
again brought before the public in the re-
opening of the trial of Arthur Orion, the
claimant, who is now in prison for perjury.
The services of Hon. Judah p Benjamin,
well known as Secretary of War of the Con
federate States during the late unpleasant
ries, have been engaged for the claimant, and
it is thought the decision of the judge will
he given in his favor on a writ of error.
Orton was sentenced to two separate terms
of seven years penal servitude, each for sub
stanially the same offence. Should the trial
result in his favor he will he released on the
expiration of his first term of servitude.
A grain blockade Of prodigious proportions
is the feature of the grain trade in the Chi
cago market at present. The elevators of the
city. which contain an aggregate of 16,OOO.-
900 bushels, are very nearly filled to their
utmost capacity. Several roads are refusing
to receive grain, because when it arrives
there are no accommodations for it. A large
number Of cars are lying along the tracks in
the CITY, loaded with grain and unable to
drop it. There are in store IA go, 900 bushels
against 10, 900, 900 this time last year. The
explanation is that the Grain Syndicate, of
which Kecnc is the representative, have by
constant purchases forced the market prices
of wheat in Chicago to IL point where it can
not he shipped to New York, nor from
New York to Liverpool. Farmers are I'M
able to market their grain, although prices
are satisfactory.
Mr. Gladstone has gone to Cologne in con
sequence of the serious illness of his sister,
who has long resided abroad, and who, 1t IS
understood, is a Roman Catholic.
Gambctta was reelected president of the
French Chamber of Deputies by 259 votes
out of 30S Votes recorded. There Were forty
blank voting papers.
Your daughter fell from Il boat, while
drunk. and was drowned" was the true and
tender despatch tclegraphed to clergyman
at Omaha
A despatch from jackson, Miss, says
Senator Lamar was stricken with paralysis
Sunday night lie has been III feeble health
for years.
Daniel Shehan, fireman employed by the
New York Central Railroad, was, Tuesday,
awarded $500 in the Supreme Court, at
Auburn, for injuries 10 his spine in acollsion
in August, 1873.
The coroncrs Jury on the bodies of the six
men killed by the celluloid explosion at
Newark, n j., gave verdict that the ex
plosion was caused bv over confidence in
handling dangerous materials, and say that
radical change is needed in the manipulation
of the ingredients to render life secure.
A Vienna despatch says those conversant
with Russian military affairs do not think
Russia is preparing far some great action in
the immediate future. The work of reor-
ganzation entails much moving about OF
troops and material. These movements are
very apt 10 he construed into something
quite different from the real intention.
The ex-Emprcss Eugenic embarks, with a
small retinuc, on the steamer German Tor the
Cape of Good Hope on the 2Gth of March.
Arrangements will be made to expedite the
VOYAGE so as to enable the eX-Empress to ar
rive at the scene Of the Prince Imperial :
death hy the LIST of June, the anniversary OF
that event.
A right whale forty feet in length has been
captured in Charleston harbor after an all
DAYS chase back and forth between Fort
Sumter and the inner shores OF the bay
Steamers, tug-hoats and row-boats joined in
the pursuit, which was watched by large
crowd from the wharves.
An itlea of the extent to which New ear 5
/ calls and card-sendng was carried in New
| York, may be gathered from the fact that
| about fifteen thousand cards were delivered
on New Years day by the messengers Of
the American District Telegraph Company.
Eight hundred boys were employed the
whole day in distributing tho cards.
A man named Tay lor brother Of Rev.
Joshua Taylor of IarrOdsburs, by, was
| killed at South Fork trestle, on the Cincin-
natl Southern railroad, by Mack Young and
two brothers named Updegraff. He was
shot and then cut and beaten with an axe.
The murderers have been arrested. They had
been drinking
\ special from Soledad. Cal, says that the
United States Coast Survey party, under
Prof Davidson, and the United States Naval
Observatory party, under Prof. Frisble, OBJ
served the recent eclipse with perfect success
from Santa Lucia Mountain e, 900 feet above
the sea. The first contact was within ! )
seconds of the computed time.
The defeated strikers at Chicago are Great
ing much excitement 10y their riotous CON
duct. a mob of about 400 union men, who
were unable To secure their old places in the
packing houses, assaulted the non-unon men
Tuesday, stouing them and striking them
with sticks rs they went To their work. One
man was stabbed. and further trouble is
threatened.
There is great exci,emnt in Reading, Pa,
on account of the seizure of all the cars,
horses and harness of the City Passenger
Railway Company and locking them up in
private stables, thereby stopping all travel
on the road Fears of a riot are entertained
The seizure was made by Evan Mlshler, who
holds that he purchased the road and its
property at sale by the United States Mar
shall, which the company officials claim was
not u legal sale.
1t is stated that the moonshiners on But
ler's Creek in Wayne county, Tenn, have
organized under oath To kill any revenue
officer or marshal who goes into their local
ity. They have killed W. \. Fowler for
guarding United States Deputy Collector
james NJ Davis and his friends when they
were there. Revenue officers will not dare
70 after wild cat concerns in that region
without sufficient force to overcome any
resistance.
The Farragut Association at Philadelphia
resolved that the organization be made per
manent and committee appointed TO make
suitable arrangements to celebrate in be
coming manner the approaching anniversary
of passing the forts under Admiral FarraSui
in April. 1862. 1t is proposed TO hold gen
cral reunion of the survivors OF the FarraSut
squadron, and the president was authorized
to invite Admiral Porter. Gen. Butler and
other prominent officers who took part i'll the
campaign along the Mississippi
Charley ParKhurst went from Providence,
II. l., 10 California in 10, and becoming
popular stage driver was known as one Of
the three or four crack six-in-hand whips of
the coast. Once he took his coach and pas
seugers through crowd of highwaymen by
whipping up his mustangs, firing into the
crowd and killing 'Sugarfoot," the leader OF
the robbers. Railroads drove him into
farming and he saved much money. The