Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-12
GENERAL SUMMARY.

The Reading Coal Company have advanced
the prices for all grades OF coal from cents
TO 40 cents per ton.
Mr. Cowley, convicted Of mal;reatins chill
drcn. was sent 10 Blackwell Island 10 serve
out his sentence, Tuesday.
\ prohibitory law. more stringent and St.
we're than any heretofore enacted, is being
considered by the Maine Legislature.
The Fall River operatives are preparing to
impoverisl themselves further by going on a
strike again.
The New York corporation counsel decides
that prizes amounting to Si4.0G0 drawn by
lottery tickets seized 10y the police, cannot lie
/ collected. The tickets will he destroyed.
| Wess Tolls, (colorcdJ of Tennessee, who
last Summer killed man for being too init
mate with Tullss wife, and was cleared on
/ his trial returned to Smlhiicld Friday and
cut his wife's throat, killing her instantly.
| A duel occurred on Tuesday al Sand Bar
/ Ferry, Georgia, between \. &. Applchy and
/ \. F. O'Brcn OF COllctOn, ;. c., neither Of
| whom were wounded.
| The Senate of Massachusetts has suiSti-
| tuted for the adverse report of the committee
/ on the Liquor law bill to repeal the civil
damage law.
The crew of the steamer Para from Boston,
which went down eff Cape Sable arrived at
| Halifax, Tuesday. They escaped in tie life
! boats with ,hsir personal effects.
\ letter from Dublin says there art a
| quarter OF million people suffering from
the want of food, who, if not aided within a
few weeks, will perish from famine and
fever.
Georgia is witnessing the unusual sight of
cotton picking in Winter. The warm wealth
er has opened the bolls and many farmers
have been gather several hundred pounds a
day.
4 servant girl in Philadelphia fell while
CARRYING a tray of dishes down flight of
stairs on Friday. and one Of the sharp
pieces of the broken china penetrated the
throat, sevcring the jugular Vein She died
in few minutes.
Capt James B. Ea,lS las scheme in con-
nectiCn with lis ship railway, which pro-
poses to obtain from the Government guar
antcc for thirty years OF a six per cent divi
Gend on a capital stock Of fifty millions OF
dollars.
The Ontario Legislature nave adopted m
address congrat ulaling the Governor-i;eneral
on the ProviGenlial escape Of Her Royal
IIighness, Princess Louise, and himself from
the alarming danger in which they were
placed hy the recent accident.
In Texas during the past year lonr hun
drcd persons have been tried for murder or
rape, and only fourteen sentenced to death.
-Four of these have had their sentences COM
muted by the governor.
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The Senate committee on ros;oii'eS agreed
10 tilt nNiis le S''iiL'S i elsi,S u, ,,,'
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f. G. Cotton, 4 well-known theatrical
manager, committed suicide al Alameda
CAL, Friday night lie lett 4 letter 10 ms
I wiz oiN MS 'i''i''' N"' "'.' '.'ti' 80 " -
could not collect and pay his debts l'athcr
than be Il dcfaulter lie killed himself.
At Drlphos. Ohio. saturday C!irisi Grass
) man and William Carson. robbers, who at
: tempted to murder pickcns and tortured his
wife. were sentenced to twelve years IN the
= penitenliary at hard lahor' anu be lockeu III
dungeon every night i"r SIX years
| DAuborg. a French engineer. claims he
has devised means for transporting large YES
sells over an isthmus. hOweverstocp. AncX-
pertinent viii shortly BE- made on the Arscn'
tcuil hy lifting ship OF 1000 tons from lh'
, Seine and taking II on rails To ai'"'her pom
on the river
Another piece. weighing 93i pounds. oI
the hiS meteor "l Nay ~ 80 n'i+ "or. '.'.
soun II, ii'Ict fouas' ,f .i,,. "a
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The hcarncy crusade N ran francis''
+ against the Chln'se IS haNIn% lhe cH'Ct I"
: driving them east. y company ol ~ arilNe'
? in New York city from the l'aciiIc slope "i
: Wednesday, and H"o more Were eNi'cl''
4 Friday, having lett talli"rnla ptcalNe ih'l
: cannot live there III PEACE and safety.
, There was an explosion OF gaS in nlnc No
Nanticokr, ilR,S,arIr. rem Ilrias ~ ll't.
an accuiii"i''li"E 'f r,''h ,''n'l'' i'1 .'''
i were IN tiie s"all, ut i'i''M;ns '''''' . Ms''
t kllieu E"n''h' lh''s', inL i'''. '''',
Henry ilfr moss ''aii'ts -An"1in'' 'T,i; ,'oIi,
t David +. watkins; i'ihtr' jon" ""'N''''
miner. was St ri"'iNly injured
= Mr. Barker of Brown county. Ill. seen:
p his two female cousins approaching ann, >iil'
. ioculary I'm give Them a salute Draw
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