Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-12-31
GENERAL SUMMARY.

District Attorney Phelps of New York
lies at the point Of death.
The st. Louis railroad bridges earns $40,
600 month, and they think it Is better than free
ferries.
Ireland is now garrisoned by 40, 900 SOL
diers and coo pclIce. and yet II Is not exact
peaceful there.
Hon. John {. New of indianapolis is in
rapidly falling health, AMI his condition cXcites
alarm among his friends.
Capitalists are negotiating at Washington
for a site for palali.l hotel 10 eclipse anything of
ITS kind on this sentiment
The public debt statement, which will be
issued Monday, January g. Will show reduction OF
vember; that Is, about s.,GOs,Ooo. The dishurse-
ments of the different departments during the
month have been very heavy. About s4,O0OOOO
have been paid out IN pensions.
Virginia leads all the other States in the
manufacture OF tobacco with ! gross Product the
last fiscal year Of 81 100000 pounds, on which the
internal revenue tax WAS sj,0oO,oOo; New Jer.
sey comes next with l6,5OOco9 pounds, and New
York third with lS,aoo0oO pounds.
Saturday, near White Sulphur Springs,
Nv a man named Theodore Lee was attacked by
his three b-,thcrs-ln-law, and desperate s'rugCl'
cnsued. Lee. drawing his pistol shot chris | 60
son. one CO Ia 'iints. through the heart lag
him Instantly. IL i'n sclf Vas wounded Tat inis
recover. In. I.IutN, a.; the assault Is suit :: be a
desire on the part OF n. brothe.s-ln-itw obtain
Lees property thrOu.a ms wife.
The sale of three negroes for vagrancy at
Liberty Va, has been set aside by the County
court. aud The men given their liberty.
Ii appcars that Edward Kissam a negro
waiter in Newark, murdered his wife with club,
crus hing her skull, etc, Christina day, and slept
with the corpse. lie has been arrested
There were 200, 900 letters, newspapers
and packages delivered from the New York post
office on Monday. making the heaviest days work
IN the history of the office. some oi the carriers
had To be furnished with cabs.
4 despatch from Trenton, n. j., says Gov.
Mcclellan has declined 10 accept the presidency OF
the New York Underground Railroad Company, to
which he was recently elected He Will 60 abroad
with his family III April next.
Very few women voted on school matters,
at the recent lily election In Boston. The number
registered was 200 less than last year and OF those
registered mol majority voted. But one woman
was elected To the school committee. Miss Peabody
who Was on all sort, oi tickets.
In twenty years the yield OF the Comstock
lode. has been 1875 0oO, Oc0 worth of bullion. The
length of shafts and galleries Is two hundred and
my miles. Three hundred and sixty million tons
of waste rock have been holsel, and 40 rnO OOu
tons OF water pumped IL the surface.
A Paducah, Ky, man who was bitten 10y
mad dog four years ago, after having had several
commissions IN the interim, was recently attacked
by hydrOphOhiI. AMI attempted TO Kill his wife and
father, but was secured anihound hand and foot IL
his bed.
At Bloomington, Ill the wife Of a farmer
in the absence Of her husband, was watering stock
pei turning her head quickly knocked her
into the well, where she remained three hours Sh"
Kept her head above water by cllnglng To the
bricks, but died from the chill soon after being
taken out
Miss Gardiner an Irish landlady, was re-
Gently assaulted by mob in the streets oil Billiii
.tun in "a
tor ordered her out. She then drew her revolver
and warned back the Yelling crowd and such wa
the fame oi her marx smanshlp ana htt srltl' 'hh
The mob held IN check until the arrival oil the
police.
When Rachel first played before Queen
victoria the Queens mother took her India shaw
from her shoulders and wrapped II about her. We
toria gave her diamond bracelet Inscribed AS from
one uurrn 10 another, and court bulletins were
issued respecting her health. When she visited
England "A second time, the irregular manner oil
her life had become known, and no one about the
court plG her the least social OF personal attention
judge Harlan, of the United States Su-
preme Court has decided that a railroad company
Is fully responsible Tor injury done passenger on
n Pullman sleeper without reference 10 inc iact 'hii
such a ear IL owned and managed by another COM
pany The company which sells a ticket Is respon-
sible for the safety Of the passenger, Judge Harlan
nol,Is and th,. conductor and porter OF IL Pullman
car are In the Law the servants OF the tif"ai com
plny.
The London correspondent ot the New
York Times writes a. follows: AS an example OF
English good feeling toward American wotk,
Sctibner's M,tyd..nc Tor November reached "A sale ui
over Il, 900 copies circulation larger thtn Cara
hiii, Macmillan Ec'Jrdt.d, Fraser, EtdehTood, or
IN, Cont, upsrr,g The portrait of Gladstone
IN ScribneT has given great satisfaction 10 the
fremirr's family aud iIieh'ii
The private library of A. W. Grswod,
Esd. The formerly rich New York lawyer. was sold
at auction n few days since. new catalogue was
made for the sale AT cost OF 900. There are over
500 lots IN the catalogue, largely ui early English
poetry and the drama, black letter books, Adin,'
amt FZrvIr editions Of the classics Americana ami
privately printed works. The sale realized tl2Onn.
A woman living in Brooklyn, y. Y, has
recognized Frank Iammrns, II condemned murder
er nj Newark " J., ~ her husband. she says she
was married to Lannon'S twenty seven years ago
that sixteen ago when they llV'i IN BROOKLYN,
he was sentenced to three years imprisonment al
Sing sing for burglary, was transferred 10 Auburn
Prison and before hrs term expired became Insane.
lie wa. then transferred 10 the luc. Insane Asy-
luln aud having been reported dead hts wife 80
considered hun When she read IN tnc papers OF
Frank Iammrul thu, murderer, she did not think
he was her former husband who spelled his name
Franz InInmrnS, hut On Christmas eve sac hau u
dream that the Newark prisoner was hef missing
husband, aud uu Christmas day white dove new
10 her room and allghted upon her shoulder exactly
as a dove had done before her oldest daughter =
death This led ner to 60 al once To Newark.
COP doubtless could have made before now
II worse Legislature than that OF 1850, hut
God never did There is one comfort, while