Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-12-03
GENERAL SUMMARY.

! The rumored marriage Of Baroness Bur
dett-COutts 10 Ashmead Bartlett Is abandoned
In Chicago, coal has advanced to ,.50pcr
Ton, and Will 20 up To $500 or $3.50 within month
The convention Of the National Guard As
sOciation Of the nited States VIII be HELD IN ia-
! delphia, Jan. 20, lssl.
Moody and Sankey are having overlooking
houses Ii S,l Francisco and plenty OF N''. 'nieer
helpers.
! A girl in H.. IN struck her cruIIct part
ner on the h,i.l with the maet BRAN lever sci IN
and the Young i.aa nearly died. The glrl was Kept
under arrest until his recovery, and when he COL
well, she married HIM, anu now he's sorry he dh'ii
! die.
! 1t is reported that the Chinese instructor
at Harvard College Is suhlectng ms little iaiSri
10 the foot binding process which causes the emu
Intense pain Tor "A year more and makes il GRIP
pic for life. The Cincinnati Gazette thinks th Inc
society for the protection Of children should tooA
| INTO tho matter
| The coinage at the United States minis
| during the month OF November amounted 10 '.3,''-
| s,D pieces OF these l5s,IUO were eagles, ls,,ss'
half eagles, 900 quarter eagles. LOCO gold dollars
O0a silver dollars 200 each OF hNe nnd three
cent pieces, AMI & 2OO,2oocents.
Papcrs were served on George Jones of
! the Times Tuesday. by counsel for Josh Hart,
publisher Of TRUTH claiming $4,000 for libel The
| specific article on which action Is based uprcdrei
in the Timss Nov IL, aud brought In Harris name
4 unpleasaniy with those of The pcfjurcrS IN The
! Morey ChneIr letter case.
Mrs Theresa Rcincnshneder, alias Over
bach alias Graw, alias Temple, progressing wn-
man OF - years, was arrested Tuesday, in Brook
! lyn, charged with bigamy and grand larceny. The
police say that the prisoner has married about four
teen different Germans, and that she had three OF
four husbands IN Newark. SHE VIII be- tLArh 10
| Newark for trial.
| Rev. G. F. Pcntccost the well known open
communion Baptist Evangelist, has accepted u call
| 10 the Tumpkins Avenue Congregational Church ui
Brooklyn. y. Y. II is understood 10 be condition
| nj that he shall have "A latl-iprN
into The church Tor the practice of immersion, aud
that In his ministry infant dedication shall he sub
| stitutcd for infant baptism.
The four Vanderbilt houses now building
at New York are he the finest OF anything IN the
| country. The architect has hal SIX dranghtsincu
| working for a year upon the plans oil W. Ill VAN
derbilt's house. The sculptor5 and art workers are
all brought from Europe The thing of the ground
noor AMI the halls hal 10 be made 10y the poet dee
orator, Morris, IN England, at an expense oil ihltiN
| thousand dollars
lie Dues latest air castle is II mammoth
new building for his agricultural department al
| Washington. lie wants II rectangular parallelo.
gram OF 100 feet 'front.' with All inner glassroofe'l
for the cultivation OF all sorts OF conservatory
! beauties even to trees so feet high and piazza
OH all sides OF the court for the Inspection OF us al
/ fractions.
Five members of an Italian family are ly-
ing dangerously III In Chicago from eating sausage
meat alive with irichine.
A bride went up the aisle ol Il Fifth
Ayenue church. New York, the other day, with the
skirt OF her dress all ripped out at the waist. IN
awkward usher had stepped on her train
Late Saturday afternoon, n break occurred
| In the Chainpluin canal, mile above Waterford,
| making mn OPENING forty feet long and four feet
/ below The hnttom uf The canal. II has been r'-
paired.
| Luc:us IIotchkins, a retired banker of New
Haven G., tiled On Monday iiis wiie being III
! formed that he was diving fell dead On the i"i be-
| side him. lie was IS ami She 49,
| In Septcmbcr, October and three weeks
/ of November. there were over one thousand cases
| of dlphtheIia IN New York city, with the large
| proportion Of four hundred amt thirty one deaths
| According 10 late observations of as,rono
| mers, both Jupiter and the sun have entered on a
period OF unwuntcd activity: The giant planet
has been showing side hy SIDE with his red spot Il
number OF white ones aud displaying remarkably
I bright cOlOring In iis belts.
The other night couple OF Arab Shcihhs
went To the theatre In Boston, and saw the ballet.
Said one OF the DedOuins These poor girls are
orphans. see" ION, no, they are not replied an
attendant why did YOU think 80 g" ''BecsuSc,'
answered the Arab Il don't see how man could
live and allow his sister To expose herself In that
way. Should my sister do such thing w"uhi
Nil her with my own MANI
Gen. Grant attended Plymouth church
SUNDAY At the close of the service he snr down To
wait until the audience hat gone out hut great
the desire 10 see HIM that hardly any one went
out. As there seemed no prospect OF the church
being emptlrd Mr. Be.chrr remountrd the platform
and desired that the audience should pass out. lie
added: ~ special S''tNl't We Htlh YOU WISH
To Worship "A man. This IL house for The Worship
of God" Al this General Grant rose ami started
down the aisle The crowd waited until he WIS
driven away IN his carriage
passenger train on the Georgia Central
Railroad broke In two. The steam brakes stopped
the rear half. A heavy freight train following
telescoped II sleeper, Killing the engineer. The
president uud vice president OF the Central road
escaped through n window. Several passengers
were hurt A lew moments later second heavy
freight ran mo me middle train smashing the
into fragments Engineer Crosby OF the hiddle
train was found with his hand IN the lever re-
vrrsed. damned against The b"iei 10y ie'ghl
car