Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-07-23

During June 1861 immigrants arrived il
the United States during the year cndin!
June 30, 263, 126 immigrants arrived agains
80, 224 the year previous.
The meteor which astonished Macon, Ga
n few nights ago was found imbedded in tn,
forks of tree several miles from town
1t seems to have fallen with great force
burying itself SO deep in the tree that it haC
to be cut out with an axe. The meteor is
about the size of n mans head, and is al
amalgamation of iron and stone.
The total number of sea going vessels of all
nations lost last year, including 81 sailing ships
and IL steamers reported missing" OF
which no vestige has been found, was !, ,52S
sailing ships and 125 steam vessels, while in
1873 the total losses amounted to only | ,36a
sailing ships and 130 steam vessels 504 Of
the lost sailing ships and 20 of the steamers
belonged to England, 2lS sailing and steam
vessels to the United States, and 124 sailing
and steamships to France
A wire rope attached TO a derrick by the
side Vt the railroad track at Rockaway, l..
| l.. IS carelessly left slack and swept 81
ltal, II aborers off passing gravel train.
| All 10 ere more or less injured. and three are
alre iy dead.
| \ l. Maria l.. Judson. an intelligent and
lad, ike young woman about 30 years old,
/ has been sent to Blackwells Island for six
mon hs for being drunk and disorderly on a
| New York street-car Sunday uight. She
was the daughter of wealthy parents and
married a Connecticut wholesale liquor-deal-
er worth several hundred thous nd dollars.
A New fork paper says that by an acci-
dent three hundred and eighty drowned dogs
from the pound were deposited in the yard
of the smallpox hospital. In the hospital
there was only one patient. During the
night the aifluvia from the dogs became so
strong that the patient arose and fled from
the hospital, clad only in his night clothes
The doctor, when he came the next day,
found his patient gone, and said he did not
blame him for going.
A Chicago women is insane from grief In
shooting carelesSly at 4 target, she killed her
son.
Junus Edwards of Galesburg. ILL.,, saved
his plums by kicking boy out of the tree.
but has had to pay SO, 500 for causing paral-
ysis in the lad
James Morton got married clandestinely in
Pittsburg, and took his wife to Detroit,
where they had their first quarrel In order
to frighten her, he declared that he was
going to desert her and then went away
from the hotel. On the following day he re-
turned and found that his plan had been
most effective. Mrs Morton had swallowed
morphine, and neither his lamentations nor
the doctors efforts could save her life
The ministerial bill against drunkenness
about TO I've considered by the Dutch States
General, limits the number of public Louscs
TO one per 800 inhabitants in towns of II, 900
souls, one per 400 in towns of 20, 200. one per
smaller places 1t also forbids the supply of
intoxicants to children under 10, and imposes
from one to eight days Imprisonment for
supplying intoNicants TO persons already
drunk.
4 Kenosha (Wis.) special says brutal
fight occurred at the city poorhouse on
Washington island Monday night between
Chauncy Schenetzler. aged about 20, and
Samuel Waller, aged so, in which the latter
was so horribly mutilatcd with knife that
he will die. The men had Il quarrel a month
ago. Schenetzler procured a long knife, and,
after Waller had gone to bed attacked him
in the dark the room showing signs of a
bloody struggle. When examined it was
found that one of Walters eyes had been cut
entirely out. while on his back, head and
neck were 13 gashes. Ills face was horri-
bly, slashed, and on his breast were ten more
wounds. In one cut on the left shoulder the
knife had been driven in six inches, and
twisted round and round None of the
wounds would alone prove fatal, but their
number. and the age of the victim, render
his recovery hopeless. Schenetzler was ar
rested