Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-02-20
GENERAL SUMMARY.

GENERAL SUMMARY.
No official reception will be given Parncll
by the City of Montreal.
A bill has passed the Senate of New York
to declare women eligible to serve ms school
trustees.
About thirty-six million children attend
school in japan, males greatly predcmina'-
ing.
Boston will celebrate Its 2J0ih anniversary
this year by the publication Of memorial
history.
A three -ycar-old boy who died in Hanover
county, Va. few days ago, is said to have
weighed PA pounds
Twenty-Five thousand people attended the
Parncll meeting at Baltimore on Friday
night.
The Sultan spends Sl2, 1000, COO a year on
himself, the eunuchs, Sultana and conrticrs
that reside in his palace.
Edward Palmer, formerly president Of the
Louisiana savings bank, has been found
guilty of embezzling 81, 900 deposited.
At Mayfield. Nv, on Friday, the flood
surrounded a house in which were nine per
sons who were cut off from escape and all
drowned.
American pictures are looking up The
! New York Artists Fund Society sale of
about one hundred paintings realized nearly
$4,000
A member of the English Parliament
states that America had beaten England in
cotton cloths and that great manufacturing
mills which were once working in England
were now only to be fouad in America.
IoI,, T. H., h-an
children ut Holyoke. Mas. last june. has
been ajudged insane. An application will
be made to have him committed TO the
lunatic asylum as life convict.
\ new idea in lectures hes been Developed
in London During a series of literary dis
courses tea, coffee and rolls were offered at
the close of each lecture to those Of the au-
dience who remain.
Heavy rains and serious foods are report
| ed in Ohio. Kentucky and West Virginia.
At Frankfort, the rise was never known to
he So sudden, and the damage will be very
J great The Ohio rlver is rising rapidly
along its whole length.
| The revenue officers made an eleven days
raid through Lawrence, Wayne and Giles
counties, Tenn, destroying five Illicit distil-
/ leries and arrcsting seventeen persons.
! The farmers near Galway, ireland, arc
arming to make common cause against any
process servers who come for the purpose
| of ejecting any Of the tenantry from their
holdings.
An official statement shows that the cost
of the Franco German war TO France alone
was SO. .000, ,000, 900, without including the
losses sustained by commerce and national
industry.
The Chinese New Year was publicly ccle-
brated for the first time in New York ctv and
| Brooklyn, Monday. Forty Chinese pupils
in the Sunday schools had a collation. and
addresses we're delivered 10y teachers and
others.
The death is announced of Hon. Samuel
&. Arnold of Providence. He was thrice
Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island, served
short time in the United States Senate,
and was the author of an elaborate history Of
Rhode Island.
Horace n Lester, Republican, was elected
Mayor by 2S' majority Three Republican
and two Democratic Aldermen Were elected,
gain of one Republican. The Republicans
gain three supervisors.
Philip Kruger. Sr, president of the St.
Louis Broadway Savings Bank. which fail
ed about year ago, has been found guilty
of swearing falsely TO a statement of the CON
ditiOn Of the bank, and sentenced 10 three
months in Jail and fine of 500.
Amelia Bloomer the Inventor Of the
Bloomer costume, is not leading the life of
maiden lady in an obscure village of Iowa,
as reported but is the wife of Hon. ID. {.
Bloomer, eX-Statc Senator Of Iowa and
ex-Mayor of Council Bluffs in which bust
ling and thriving young city they reside.
Alexander Grant, Montreal foundry pro-
prietor, WAS arrested "Wednesday for abduct-
ing Miss Henrietta Graham, an attractive
young lady belonging 10 good family, but
who is only 16 wears of age. The mother Of
the girl is a widow and alleges that her
daughter has been seduced by the prisoner.
A private letter from Constantinopie,
Turkey. received Feb. ., says: "All Europe
ard all Asia Minor is buried in snow. so we
must expect cold weather for some time
sav Mf Il A ha f5p be Hs1y ysahT 4 1 afs not
in Constan;inople 1t is already enormously
dear, and there is great suffering among TIE
poor"
The organist of the Methodist church in
Wellilcet, Mass, the other day found a man
on top of the organ. He proved 10 br
lunatic named Pierce, who disappeared five
months ago. An examination revealed that
Pierce had been living IN the church for
some time, that he had bed Gn top Of the
organ. and that he had also occupied the
attic. A lot cf stolen catabl,s WAS fouGd in
h is nest.
At Washington, the other night, among
the guests at n ball given ly Senor Zamanaco
was Mrs. John Jacob Astor, .Ir.. Of New
York. Mrs. Astor wore over $500. 900 worth
Of diamonds Her earrings, two wonderful
solitaircs, were valued at $50, coo each. In
addition to the costly necklace and head or
naments, the lady wore, arranged in Il dag-
onal fashion across the corsagc, diamond
chain composed of 500 stones OF the valuc
of 81 900 each.
4 Ieadville barber Ivy mistake rot his bay
rum bottle filled with oXalic acid. IN | the
first man to whose face he applied it jumped
up and kicked over all the chairs ;!2Xt the
stove went wrong end up, the cups. towels,
shears, razors strops, hair oil, dye water and
eau de cologne jugs danced all about the
room, and after things had been sat in prop
cr motion inside the shcp both the barber
and his customer went outside and said
murder" And the shaved man having by
that time got his knife ont; he had to he held
hy four men while the matter was invcs;i-
gated and explained.
Within the past twenty years British cap
italists have lost more than s 600 coo. 900 in
loans TO foreign governments. OF this vast
sum SIij. 900, 900 is charged 10 Turkey,
S13O, 000 900 to Peru, $50, 000, O0O to Mexico.
S23, 100000 to Venezuela, Sl1 ,000. 900 to
Honduras, SIS 100000 to Paraguay, SlI,-
600. 900 to Costa Rica. 1860, 900 10 Uru-
quay, Sl2 900 900 to the Confederate States
of America and S34 500 900 in smaller sums
To various States, making total of $3.50
00O, 900. The partial losses include $3.50
600 900 for Egypt, S43, 500, 900 for Portugal,
S24. 500, 900 for Austria, 81, 800 0OJ for Col
umbia, $1,000. 900 for the Argentine Rrpuh-
lie, $4,000, 600 for Alabama, 81, 500, ,005 each
for Hungary and Chill, and $1,000, coo
for other States, making in all ':;}sS. 900, coo.
Besides this great loss England has sunk
many millions in the bonds oi the Spanish
government. The amount must hc at least
800. 900, 600, so that here is Il grand total oi
| 81, ,4.3, 0GO. 900 which the Briislers have in
vested and will never see again. Great
| Britain holds an enormous amount of our
| Federal, State, county, city, railroad AMI
| other bonds, and she also has heavy mort -a2Cs
on Russia Spain, Italy, Portugal, Armenia
and the Asiaiic and African States anl
provinces Her annual interest receipts from
all these amount to not far from S;0o, 0G0,-
] 900
a True Bear Story.
tBy Tie lIawk,ye Naturai,ll
Smuthebore and Globcsite were track
ing the prowling bears there il only one
! left in tho Adirondacks.
| ''rhe bear" said Gl"hesitc, "rrmind4
! -. ,r IA. N.u, N.,.l- f'..,t,,1 -, Ir,uJ :"