Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-10-01
GENERAL SUMMARY.

In Winthrop, Me-, Monday, a horse ran
away and jumped upon Horace Fairbanks
carriage, Overturning it and severely niuring
Mr.. Fairbanks internally.
Morton Prltchett and Sarah Fanster,
neighbors children at Marion, Indiana, eloped
TO Michigan, got married, spent two weeks
and all their money in 4 honeymoon trip,
and then returned home The bride was 10
and the bridegroom IL. The name of the
man who married the two children ought to
be handed around.
California has a perpetual skating pond
There is a lake on the Saw Tooth Mountains,
at an altitude of nearly Il, 900 feet which is
constantly frozen. TWAS discovered in Au-
gust of last year by party of prospectors,
and nomed Ice Lake. The sun seemed to
have no effect upon it except in places adj
joining the shore.
Springfield, Mass, is suffering from fever
and ague." 1t mostly affects people in the
lower part of the city, near the Connecticut
river, and it is estimated that in the past six
months there have been nearly one thousand
persons affected by it. The malaria is ex-
tending up the Connecticut valley, ard has
reached Vermont.
Benjamin Terherner of Powhatian, Ohio,
on Thursday deliberately shot his father
dead. The victim was 80 fyears old, owned
considerable property and was about TO mar
~. The son gave himself up and said he
could not stand the thought of his father
marrying and keeping him out Of third of
the property.
Some boys recently dragged out of the bed
of the river near Saltwater Village, n. Y,
one of Burgoyne's four-pounder iron can
mons, which has lain there for nearly 1903
years. 1t is in a good state of preservation,
and it has been proposed that it be discharg-
ed on the anniversary OF the surrender, In
which case it may blow up more men than it
ever killed when under the unlucky English
General.
A New Haven, Conn, man died last year,
leaving his fifth wife, who has now married
again, taking her sixth husband.
In view of the numerous steamboat burn
lngs and wrecks a company has been formed
in New York for the construction of fleet
of iron tire-proof steamboats, for the naviga-
ton of the Hudson river, New York Bay,
and Long Island Sound. Eight will be built
at once.
Princeton College has Just received one
hundred thousand dollars from r. l.. Stuart
of New York for the benefit of professor
ships not adequately endowed, and it is I'M
derstood that it is his purpose to give like
sum to found a new professorship.
The house of Walter A. Wood. the
IIoosick Fall n. y. } reaping- machine manu-
facturer, was robbed the other night of
81, 900 worth of solid silver-ware, including
two valuable prizes awarded by the States OF
New York and Virginia.
Sir George Elliors expenses in unsuccess-
fully contesting the Parliamentary borough
of North Durham are returned at about $50,
900, although some of the accounts are dis
puted.
A photograph of the express train known
popularity in England as The Flying Dutch
man" has been taken as it passed through
Twyford station, on the Great Western Rail
way, at the rate of sixty miles an hour, by
an English photographer.
The French government has accepted the
invitation of the United States Commission
on the centennial celebration of the surren-
der of CORVALLIS at Yorktown, next Spring,
and will send fleet of war vessels with sew
eral crack regiments of troops rs representa-
tives of the French Republic.
No explosives have been found on the
Cars yacht Livadia at Grcenock. There
have been no arrests and no tangible evil
dence is known to the public coniirnatory of
the report of Nihilist plot to destroy the
vessel
All accounts agree that war with Turkey
is inevitable The powers have perempto-
rily demanded of the Sultan the immediate
recall of Ria Pasha and the surrender of
Dulcigno. Great indignation is expressed at
the insulting defiance of the Porte and it Is
believed that the Turkish frigate off Dull
cigno is employing the time gained by the
| negotiations IN ius Ing .o..-A~es.
Among elderly sportsmen Sir Curtis Lamp
son, the whilom Vermont boy who was des-
tined to become an English baronet, ranks
high. He has lately killed in Scotland eight
stays. lie is also a conspicuous cattle fan
cier, and lately gave nearly 81, 600 fora cow
The pianist, Won Bulow, who performed
In this country in the season of 1876, has
had stroke of paralysis, and the newspa-
pers of Hanover report tina: the use OF his
right hand is gone.
A California Justice, in moment OF anger.
said that the lawyers in case on trial before
him were no better than horse thieves. Then
he apologized, and fined himself $40 for con-
tempt of court.
| No parliamentary session for half centu-
ry has been so protracted as that which has
lust closed in England All alike have been
wearied with persistent wraDgling upon the
strangest matters--the rights OF the shoe
makers of Northampton to elect an inidel,
rents or no rents in Ireland, the value OF rab-
bit skins and partridge eggs, and seasonal
catechism said to mount up to near 2,OOO
questions,
A despatch from Dublin says the murder
! of Lord Mountmorris has excited feelings OF
alarm little short of a panic among all re-
spectacle classes. Party differences are for
the time discarded in the presence of COM
mon imminent danger, 1t is said on all
sides with equal dependency and bitterness
| that there is no longer any security for lie
and property, and that nobody can feel safe
who ventures to assert the rights and dis
charge the duties connected with the posses.
sion, occupation or management of the land
if his acts conflict with the interest or preju-
dices of those with whom he has TO deal.
| The country is fast drifting to anarchy, the
arm of authority seems paralyzed and the
executive is utterly helpless.