Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26

pounds, 81 O5 yield of lard shade over
36 pounds ; amount of pork made 46, 5S1
barrels.
Rev. Geo. II. IIepworth writes from Ire
land that the committee of the American
fund have donated $50. 900 especially to give
the st irving children food to enable them to
attend national schools. lie urges that the
Americans subscribe chil,lren's fund for
this purpose.
4 despatch from Odessa says: The son of
a priest, an expelled student and one of five
Nihilsis to be tried by court martial at Kieff,
has been condemned TO death. His execu-
ton will make the nineteenth in Russia for
political offences in less than two years.
The president of the Administrative Coun-
Gil of Eastern Siberia having reported the
pressing necessity fer new prisons. owing to
the great influx of political prisoners during
the past year. additional prisons will be con-
structed Immediately on the River lranofka.
John Quinn, aged 50, hung himself in
cell in the police station, at Buffalo, Sunday.
lie was one of the leaders of the Fenian in
vasion of Canada, in 1866. when he was cap
tured and sentenced to be hung, but sentence
was commuted to Imprisonment for twenty
years. He served six years in Kingston
prison.
Mrs Belle Sage of New Albany. Ind, has
brought suit against Albert Sage, her broth
cr-in-law, for stealing and carrying away
her husband. The husband is i'll with con-
sumption, and having $4,000 insurance on
his life, there is a quarrel between the wife
and his family over its possession.
The boat race between Oxford and Cam
bridge Universities came Off Monday morn
ing on the Thames, and Oxford won. This
was the thirty-sixth contest of the kind in
the history of the great English Universities.
OF these races Oxford has won eighteen and
Cambridge seventeen, the race of 1877 being
n dead heat
Rev Mr. Hayden of Connecticut, who had
a thirteen weeks trial for his life lately, lee
tured on "Circumstantial Evidence, " in New
York, the other evening. Among the audi
ence, and one Of the first TO greet and con-
graduate Hayden, after the lecture, was
Jesse Billings, Jr., Of Saratoga county, n.
Y, who knows how it is himself.
A young Maine farmer married a Boston
girl who didn't know the first thing about
but had devoted her youth
to the stndy of geology and mineralogy, and
instead of attending to household duties, she
went roaming about the farm, and soon dis
covered on her husbands land gold mine
worth $40, 900.
An Indiana woman, % years old, went to
indianapolis, recently, to purchase II pair of
shoes, but could find none large enough, and
had TO leave her measure. This called for a
pair of extra large lbs" the last being a
foot in length and about five inches wide.
The woman herself weighs 547 pounds, and
is feet . inches in height
AT San Francisco Saturday, another of the
Sand Lot Communists. one of Kearney's
ieutcnants named Cannon, was sentenced to
SIX months imprisonment and fine of
81 900. A motion for new trial was denied
by the judge, and, in default of So, 900,
pending an appeal, Cannon was sent to the
House of Correction, but subsequently, Sc
cured bail.
At the third days sale of the Prince Demi-
loft collection of old Dutch and Flemish
masters in the palace of San Donate. Flor
nee, Wednesday. the sum of $3.50, SOC was
received. making grand total of 1851, 365.
some half-dozen out of the forty odd pic
ures disposed of brought between S25, 900
o $50, 900 each. Col. Schuyler Crosby of
New York, bought three pictures. Mr.. James
Jackson Jarves also bought one for 81, 900
The ex-soldiers of Meriden, Conn, have
to shoulder the entire Indebtedness
VI the late Mr.. Cooper of Philadelphia, if
hey be allowed what they term 'the humble
lonor." We had a square meal at the
"copper" shop, and propose now to pay for it,
with interest,"" their chairman wrote. The
Gentlemen in charge of the subscription,
however, desire all who can to contribute, so |
hat the honor may he divided
In Montrc al one night last week, the drap- |
ry in the room occupied by the body of the !
ate Recorder Sexton caught fire from burn |
ne tapers and the interior of the dwelling |
vas burned out. Mrs. Sexton and three
ther ladies were lowered from the balcony |
n the rear in their night dresses by means OF |
rope, their hands being much lacerated.
lr. Sexton's remains were saved somewhat
inged. Loss, $4,000.
Great preparations are making to celebrate
l. Johns Day at Quebec On June "a.
Patrick Hayes Of Philadelphia shot and
He'd his wife Tuesday, and then shot himself twice
the heal.
The smallpox among horses in Quebec is
n the increase. The 81. John Street Railway has
topped running in consequence.
Ii is expected that the sons of the Prince
Wales Will he present AT The grand review at
uebcc on the e!h OF May.
ne great tnrf frauds in England. has been SEN
need to 20 years penal servituie for Il series of
'rSeries on various banks
A despatch from La Masilla. y. NJ, re-
orts the killing OF Fred Nichols mail driver,
leman. Mail Station. by the Indians who robbed
lie mail sacks, scattering the contents along the
,aI
Col Oscar Lochard, commander of the
bird Regiment, Michigan State Militia and book
eeper In the Citizens' National Bank OF Flint, con-
f41 4f IA ant an hAA Ia nf
ink, was sentenced 10 i've Years In the Detroit
ouse OF Correction.
A decision of the Supreme Court Of Ala
ana, rendered Tuesday in the Selma, Rome and
alton railroad ease, confirms 10 that company all
lie property OF that line. The decision involves
roperty amounting 10 several millions
The long litigation over the celebrated
axwell grant IN New Mexico has terminated by n
'reclosure SALE which finally settles the title TO
Early eooo,c"o acres OF the most valuable mineral
nj grazing land In New Mexico valued AT millions
dollars
An Alma, Col, special says: w. J. Porter,
hard character. Killed Thomas Carmoddy. The
urder was unprovokcd. In less than hour | ,
,out MY unmarked citizens gathered at the Jail
nj hanged Porter 10 the ridge-pole of the jail He
wore until they put a rope around his neck, when
spoke 4 few words and SAID Pull up the rope,
Iys."
Russias ''srong government" is doing the
rants work with an unsparlng hand. The Cars
'lice are constantly making arrests, and the sys-
III III unliiltlifN VISITATION IL continued, auu all
sitors or unknown persons found harbored IN any
use are taken INTO custody and hurried oil II
ison. All the prisons are full and thousands of
'rsuns are sent To Siberia
4 despatch from Cape Town states that
Iothrr great diamond robbery has just been dis
vercd 10 have been committed nj the pOstOllice / ,
almonds valued NJ nearly $4,000 have been alb ,
ractrd from the po>lmasters safe, besides many
mixers drafts, the amounts OF which have not yet
an uscerIaincd. AT the time of forwarding
. despatch no trace OF the burglars hal been
und hy the authorities.
A correspondent travelling i'll Ireland gives ,
pathetic description OF the eviction of famlshtng
miles hy cNactiug landlords IN the midst of the
neral distress prevalent IN Erin. u appears that
lndr"ds OF poor people. some OF them very young ,
IN and snmr very old have been turned out OF :
ors INTO The killing weather without clothing AMI
nl because they couldn't paw their whole rents 4
ic-half or even uinr-trnths of the payments de |
lndri wouldn't save them The last iarthing was
sisted upon
A Lincoln, Ill, special says: W Harrison
l. arrested, SUNDAY, Tor an unpaid nuc and pass
g himself III Tor one uf rInkrrtun's detectives.
I also charged with criminal Intimacy with i
-yrar-old giTl. Monday night public Indignation |
III the form OF a masked mob, which surrounded
e la and attempted 10 force entrance. The I
appeared tur few minutes. Harrison was
pprd out, and told Ia run for his life, which he
Il. pursued hy the mldicncd crowd. lie made
nd his escape amid \ shuwerO OF missiles and re-
liver shots. ,
Mrs Frances T. Downer of Sharon has d
,ndcd in the sum of $4,000 all the minerals !
yn,d by benjamin W. and Francis Davis
IA certain tract OF land in Fairlee, and il is !
that there will be n force put TO |
ork Immediately TO develop the mineral
Win Ia,l al, Il