Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-08-13
GENERAL SUMMARY.

James kiroy was beaten. robbed and
thrown into the canal in Jersey City early
Friday morning.
Elizabeth Monahan died at Seabright, n.
j., Saturday night, from dose of morphine
put up by apothecary Van 3runt instead Of
EPSON salts.
The surveys OF the proposed tunnel under
the st. Lawrence river are being actively
pushed, and it is considered that it is quite
feasible.
The banks aud Board OF Trade OF Chicago
will not open on Tuesday, August II, that
being the day Of the grand procession and
demonstration OF the Knights Templar.
A mob supposed to be from Tennessee,
went to the Jail in Athens, Ala, Saturday
night, took out Bailey, the wife-murderer,
and HANGED him on tree in the Court House
yard.
Gen Sherman las written toGen. Hancock,
giving him full authority 10 publish any let
tiers which were written by him Sherman in
the Winter of 1876, which may be in his
Hancock'sl possession.
Saturday the discussing officer OF the In
terror Department issued checks to most OF
the cnumerators recently engaged in taking
the census of the District OF Columbia. Inc
accounts of enumerators throughout the
country will be settled now rs fast as they
are received and adjusted.
President Hayes will start for the Pacific
Coast September l, and expects to be gone
two months lie will be accompanied by
Mrs. Hayes and by Gen. Sherman and his
daughter. General McCook of Sherman $
staff and others will be OF the party.
For the first six months of the present
yesr American wheat to the value OF TO-
392, 122 was shipped to England. During
the same six months Great Britain sent 10
America iron valued at t6, 54l I63. This Is
an increase of ALB per cent over 1879 when
for the corresponding months tl,5@6, H.
worth were exported.
A larger quantity of grain is going to Liver
pool from Chicago, via Montreal, this year
than ever before.
ii. Schuer, a diamond agent, had his va
lise robbed of $4,000 worth Of diamonds
while absent from his hotel at Utica, n. Y,
Monday.
A site has been given i'll the town OF
Snartansburg. =. G., for the memorial col
umn to DO erected to the memory OF the sol
diers of the battle of the Cowpcns. The
grand masters of the grand lodges OF Masons
Of the old thirteen States and Tennessee
have been invited to lay the cornerstone IN
October next.
West Troy, n. Y, is greatly excited over
the disappearance nj Rev Philip hrohn
Professor Griffith, who was endeavoring TO
settle up the absent ministers affairs, has
also disappeared. DIR. Sabin, who indorsed
"A 81, 900 note for krohn, has attached all the
effects on the farm at Waterville Centre,
which was mortgaged for more than its
value. Kruhn's indcbtncss amounts to over
SEQ, 1000
Walter ShanIy has commenced the sur
yeys for the railway tunnel under the st.
Lawrence The line now fixed on is from
Longucil wharf ON the South side to the city
side of the Huron cotton factory At lioche-
luul, The depth of the water at the deepest
place is A. feet, and the tunnel will require
To I've 40 feet below the river bed ms
depth will allow 20 feet for the tunnel ROOF,
aud % feet for the tunnel itself.
A fearful outrage was perpctratcd Sunday
night near New Ross, Ireland. Thomas
Boyd crown solicitor for county Iipperary,
and two sons were fired ut by party oil
assassns armed with guns and hayonets anu
wearing masks. Boyd was severely wound
cd in the arm and one of his sons was shot
through the lungs, with NJ hopes oil ms
recovery. The other son received a slight
wound in the leg. Three men have been ar
rested on suspicion Of committing the cut
rage. The Dublin correspondent 81 the
TINES says: The country has never been
more tranquil than now, and the danger
from orgnnizcd bands Of agitators and Fcni-
ans is no greater than in former years