Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-07-16
GENERAL SUMMARY.

A Paris despatch says it is calculated that
only nine persons will be excluded from am
nesty, but they will get free pardon.
Frederick Grabble, engineer, and William
Black, fireman, were killed, and the building
wrecked at Pitisburg, Pa, Saturday, by an
explosion of the boiler in Painters Iron
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"A despatch from Wabash, Ind, says
trouble is apprehended there between far
mers and police The farmers have cut the
dam which gives Wabash its water supply
because 1t increases the backwater overflow
OH their farms Seven were arrested
Two Italians had violent quarrel at
Omaha. but made up their difference and
went TO saloon for drink of peace. While
drinking, one exclaimed: Il shall Kill you
after all, and stabbed him mortally.
News has been received from the west
coast of Africa that trade is greatly inter
ferrcd with by the withdrawal from the
Gold Coast of all American dollars. The
Governor has gone to Lagos to try to set
tie the difficulties.
At the Golden Club dinner in London, NJ.
lie Lcsseps said he had French capital, and
American capital was coming, and that,
after years preparation and six years
work, the Panama canal would be complet-
ed
A tramp consented to do small job at
digging post holes at Carson, New, though
labor was contrary to his custom. He re-
turned TO his employers house in an hour,
threw down his spade, and said he had
changed his mind. He had found $50
worth of gold bars which some miner had
buried.
Miss Susie Peary, II years old, a student in
the New York Normal College, on Saturday
swan from the foot of Ninety sixth street,
North river, TO the dock above Fort Lee,
distance of more than five miles Thetide
and wind were against her. Before long she
Is to take n ten mile swim up the Hudson to
Youkers.
The demands of the watch trade in this
country now amount to 5000 watches day.
OF this number the large manufactures of
the United States produce 1880 a dav, ms
follows: The Waltham factory, $50, the
Elgin, 500 Springfield, Ill, so; Hampton
Watch Company, 90; Howard, 20; Lam
caster, so; RodkfOrd, 40, and lots of them
are produced by smaller establishments.
Charles Celler of San Francisco was 4
handsome plausible fellow, and had little
difficulty in inducing Nellie Brady TO elope,
for she was only IL years Old and inclined 10
be very sentimental. After Il few weeks OF
married life, spent in a.rOugh and obscure
mining town. she made up her mind to re-
turn TO her parents. lie tried 10 dssuade
her, and, failing in that murdered her and
committed suicide.
The national and State Banks OF New
York, nearly seventy in all, have combined
and prepared test cases with u view TO avoid
ing the payment of tax on capital stock.
Their aggregate capital is over sixty millions.
The nonresident shareholders claim they
are not taxable in the State of New York
under any circumstances, and the share
holders residing in the State claim that, il
assessed ut all, they must he assessed III
the locality In which they reside.
Charles Palm served three years undeserv-
cdly in the Ohio penitentiary. Though III
nocent of the crime with which he was
charged, that of obtaining goods under false
pretence, he was 80 bungiingly defended
that the jury pronounced him guilty. The
prosecuting witness sworc that the money III
question was $50, all in ten and twenty
dollar bills, and the imposslblliiy OF the
amount being so constituted was not brought
out. However, Palm says he lis not sorry,
for while working in prison he invented
machine of enough value to support HIM
during the rest of his life.
The famine in Kurdistan is still SO terrible
that at El-Kusch the kurds have sold hun
llreds of Young girls at about ; 10 u head III
order 10 buy food The British Consuls,
the Armenian relief committees, and the
American missionaries have been most ac-
tive, and have done all i'll their power To
alleviate the miseries OF the iamished popu-
lation; but the means at their disposal are
very insufficient, and there has been hitherto
great difficulty in transporting grain from
one district to another, partly on account OF
the deep snow and condition of the roads
and partly on account of the general lnse-
curity.
A Frenchman calling himself Duke Ed
ward Lcfevrc has left Buffalo n. y, alter
swindling people, here about $4,000 and
marrying his landlords daughter.
Robbers entered Frank McMahon's store
at Lockhaven, Pa, Tuesday morning. In
the excitement, after the thieves had He'd,
Mcmahon accidentally shot his son IN the
left breast. The boy is dangerously hurt,
but still alive.
Mai. Ball shot DIR. Porter on the street at
Lcmars, Iowa, Sunday evening. Porter is
believed tc be fatally wounded. The trouble
was occasioncd by criminal case, in
which Ball WAS prosecuting attorney and
Porter the defendant.
damn Barlow 4 Co. have issued their cir
cular showing failures in the United StaleS
and Canada in the last three months, and
for the first half year IN 1850 as compared
with the corresponding time IN lS'a Dur
ing the last three months 900 failures
with liabilities amounting to S2o, | ,oo?'
were reported in the United States puI
in,r the half wear of 1850, ~. failures
vrrc rennr,cd with liabilities amounting To-
s32 sSS ,63 In the first six months 81
1879 there were 4,05S failures, with.S65, ~
$40 liabilities