Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-04-16
GENERAL SUMMARY.


lied Monday in New York, with l22 members.
The East River Bridge will be opened for
travel between New York and B-oOklyn 10y the 9TH
Of July, ISL.
1t is understood that the Governor General
and Princess Louise will give their state ball this
year In Que,ec.
A prominent physician of Philadelphia has
bean arrested upon the charge Of having caused the
death OF hswlfe by poison. -
Chastine Cox, who murdered Mrs. Hull,
and Hetro BibO. who Killed his wife. were
fenced by The New York Court TO be hanged May
goth.
A depatch from Burmah reports sacri-
lice of 100 human beings. The priests contributed
! 100, and the remainder were of men women and
children.
Nearly f6SI.lhousand immigrants arrived
at New York laN week, all en- route To the West.
Among them are 400 Finlanders, who go IL a colony
near 81. Paul. MINI.
| Philadelphia Monday. for Harrisburg. where ii
understood he will rnew bail, his confreres did
a few days since.
Official adviccs received by the National
Board Of Health SHOW that during the four weeks
ending March eth there had been eleven deaths
from malignant feverin New Orleans and two in
| Memphis.
J. Tucker, colored, charged with the muir
erof Abe Frazer, nis.6, was taken from jail at
Greensburs, 81. Heena Parish. La, on Sunday
| morning by fifteen men and shot 10 death.
| Mrs. Templeton of Marlboro, Ont, was
safely delivered OF triieis last week. all boys They
weighed five pounds each, and are doing we'll
| They much alike that their mother cannot
| tell them apart.
The annual exhibition of stations took
| place NJ Louisville. Ky, Monday. About seventy
| ihoroughbreds and troters shown. They rep
resented an aggregate value OF nearly $l,0o0,Ooo,
ana attracted Il large number OF visitors.
William German was stabbed in sixteen
/ hu1 NO tNV H.,
Saturday, by two deperadoes, named Billy Burke
and John Doughterly. 1t is thought he will die
Burke was arrested, Int escaped from jail
A reporter who visited Denis Kearney in
his sick room shortly after the recent election
san Francisco SAYS that -he Is, beyond all question,
| broken down Temporarily in health. On election
day he tainted al 1880 IN the street. every
SYMPTOM OF typhoid fever is still present.
At Ncenah, Wis, on Sunday morning,
| three masked burglars entered the residence OF
Mrs. j. l.. Coates, and with pistols AT her head
| demanded her money. She refusing. they beat
her into insenslblllty, -ansacked the house and
| made on with $1,000 worth OF diamonds watches,
| Jewelry etc. Mrs. Coates Is in a critical condI-
| lion.
Saturday night the body of an old man
named IIaskns, who for some time past has lived
alone near the village Of wooler. Ont; was found
amidst the ruins of his dwelling with his legs and
lower part Of the trunk burned 10 crisp. II Is sup
posed he was murdered Tor his money, and incen-
dlarlsm resorted 10 10 hide the crime
At the town election in Edgcficld, s c.,
Monday, an alteration occurred IN which DIR. W T..
Bland and 4. A. Glover were shot in the bowels and
are probably MORALLY wounded. and 4. A. Clisby
was shot IN the thigh in two places. The quarrel
grew out OF the proposed reduction Of the whIskey
tax, and occasloned general row AT the polls. All
the wounded persons were whites.
Friday night Albert Cutler of the firm of
| Cutler BrOthersof Nottawl, station on the Grand
| Rapids and Indiana Railroad, was awakened IN his
room in the store by burglar trying TO force
| trance. Mr.. Cutler, procuring his pistol, aimed
across pile OF cloth and shot the man through the
| heart killing him Instantly. The burglar proved to
| he an unknown tramp. This is the second man Mr.
Cutler has shot and Killed, having blown BURGLAR
head oil with shotgun about two years ago, while
! he was trying 10 force an entrance 10 a store IN
Colon, where Cutler was then clerk.
! Senator Blaine and Representative Bur-
roughs of Michigan Will probably deliver addresses
al Baltimore on Decoration Day, May 81.
The Billings trial opened Tuesday at Balls
ton n. Y. 1t Will take two or three days TO Obtain
Jury. An extra panel OF 200 jurors Is ordered.
The United States Court at Trenton, n. j.
sentenced Andrew J. Hark. one Of the Lewis will
conspiraiors. Tuesday, to two years in the State
| prison and 10000 fine.
Governor Cullom and all the State officers
At Springfield, ILL., have been invited TO participate
IN the reception to General Grant at Cairo, next
Richard Van Voorhis, oldest officer in the
United States navy, died Monday. lie was ninety
| eight years of age, and had been In the service
| seventy-one years.
The city school board of Baltimore has
passed "A resolution 10 try, as an experiment, the
employment of colored teachers In two coored pub
! lie schools.
Ii is known that Otis, the man accused of
| the murder al Durham (N. H.. is IN the woods in
Northern New Hampshire and officers are IN pur
| suit.
All Wing one of thirty Cinnamon attend
ing Baptist Sunday school al New York, was hap
tized last Sunday. lie Is car painter, quite intel
gent, and Is the first of his to join Christian
| church in New York.
The California Legislature has passed a
bill prohibiting the playing of any game Of skill or
chance in restaurants. Ii Is popularity known AS
1.-The antl-pocker bill"
Seth Green believes that many farmers
/ have fortunes IN frog ponds without knowing it..
He thinks that little care and cultivation will i'll
sure a large crop OF frogs-enOugh for family use
and market.
Suspicion rests against DIR. Albert G.. F.
Goersen OF Philadelphia. charged with having
caused the death Of his wife by administering ar
senlc and Of also being concerned In the death Of
his motherln-iaw, Mrs. Souder, and permission has
been accorded TO have the remains for examination
kemble, one Of the parties sentenced for
completely in the Pennsylvania riot bribery cases,
removed from his hotel by the sheriff, who was i'll
dgnani at the leniency shown the criminal million
are by his deputy. kemble's counsel denied tnat a
caplas had been served on his client. and the LATER
corroborated the statement under oath.
The Grand Army in Baltimore will give a
! cordial welcome To the sixth Massachusetts Regi-
ment On the 18Th inst. Wilson Post Will parade in
| full uniform, accompanied by ia drum corps meet
the Massachusetts Volunteers OH their arrival and
escor, them to Barnum's Hotel their headquarters.
During their visit they Will he entertained by the
post with an od-time camp fire al RIalto Hall.
A shipbuilding firm at Wilmington, Della
ware, has received commission for the construc-
ton OF nine iron steamers 10 he used by u Lon.lon
I Navigation Company on South American rivers,
which nnds II cheaper TO order on this side than 10
build the boats in England or Scotland, ship them
in pieces, and put them together this side. The
building material, II is supposed, Will he imported.
/ A MAN JrMrs 100 FEET ISTo THE WATER.
Thomas Boyd in the presence of about
1000 people at Mumfordsvile, Ky, Sunday,