Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-01-30
THE BURLINGTON, VT
GENERAL SUMMARY.

The Lower House of the Kentucky As
s-mbly has passed the hill revising me whipping
post law.
An exposition will he held at Cincinnati, IN
lsso from "Wednesday, September 5. 10 Srutd'H'
October ..
The corpses of fifty victims OF the expo,
sion IN Iycrit collicry have been recovered va
twelve taken OUT alive. i've died AMI others are
dying
William Seiger, at Cave Spring, Mo, on
Tuesday In a playful mood, pulled char li" uil-
der ms cousin Jrinni The young Lady got angry
seized rne and shot him dead
The distress in Ireland is intenSliying I'M
der the influence AMI frost OF the hiiihs con- winch
during The last four days has sncrtch'h ihc i'iii
weather which hal prevailed since 'hristhidS-
Over 600 paintings, the works of dlsiin-
rlishcd artists OF the sixteenth century have been
discovered in government buildings IN tlorencr'ahd
are 10 he placed i'll the nizi gallery.
The house of Chas. Brown, at Windsor,
conn v,s IurucJ early saturday morning. Brown,
aged ~. WAS burned 10 DEAN. u Is s"PPo''' "' ~
lire To- the house while hi"A'a''h
Preston Wood. editor of the Clarendon
Press Columbia, :. T., and the son oil D dlstii-
cuished Methodist preacher blew ON me- Trains vi
Thursiay because beautiful Jewess refused 10
marry him.
The charges against the Indian bureau
MANAGEMENT which have created 81 much LAX
icly have al last been brought Ia the attention Oh
Congress. ana Inc senate HAS "'"''e" al "
ycsiisaiinn
Club and society circles in London are
greatly shocked by u report that the Prince "t
Wales's two sons. Prince George and Prince alhclt
Victor. who are serving on board hiai-Vi-"'i''
have been tat.ooed on the nose with intia INK
A special despatch from Trinidad, Colora-
do says that several hundred cowboys ir"hl ran,
handle, Texas are said 10 lie canpeh between
there and Los Vegas Fifteen entered Los vegas
Thursday night Killed the ciiy Marshal anu Nv"
citizens, and wounded five others
John Potts of New York responding to
| nm advertisement Of "reahle business opportuni-
ty" WAS told by stranger that fortune could pe
made by a new plan OF playing faro SO as TO WIN:
| He induced Potts 10 play Potts LOST 500 anu theh
| caused the strangers arrest.
The Blackfeet Indians have been killing
| cattle belonging 10 the settlers and though ihere
is plenty of fish anu game the mobile red men are
| starving because 100 proud TO Kill anything lney
| cannot hunt on horseback. Al Mcleod about 1000
| are living at the expense Of the government
Perraults new Montreal magazine, entitled
| Canadian Emancipation, is out. The following Is
the opening sentence of the first article: IN IN
folding the flag of Canadian emancipation, anu
! commercial union with the United States We an
swer earnest call OF patriots citizens anu Dusi-
ness men all over the land
A despa. Oh from St. Thomas, dated Janu-
ary l6, says the American war sloop Nipsic arrived
| on the llth and sailed for Venezuela on the i9th,
| her object being 10 investigate the late difficulty
| experienced by American citizens The Amer
lean training ship Constitution arrived IL ST. CfoiA
| on the 10Th.
The estate of Henry Dakin has demanded
| of the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company loS6so
shares of stock valued at 500 900 me STOCK was
issued by the Kansas Pacific under lis Old name
II the validity OF this stock is not recognized Inter
ference with the proposed consolidation OF the Nan
sas and Union Pacific roads Is threatened
Tie reported outbreak of Il revolution at
san Domingo in favor Of Blez as against LuperOL
is moi confirmed. The provisional government,
with Lnperon lis head continues at Puerto Plata
The National Assembly meet At the capliol on IN,
eth of February for the election oi a permanent
government.
AT a meeting of the Wisconsin State
Grange wednesday, the master reported the Wis
consln cooperative shares TO be great success
and called on the grangers 10 demand OF Congress
thai the Commissioner of Agriculture be made
Cabinet officer and suitable appropriation made Il
enlarge the sphere of the department. Inc oruer l.
nourlshlng.
Ex-senator J. b. Chaifec and 5. b. Elkin:
have completed the purchase Of the ortiz mining
grant near Santa fe. New Mexico, contalning:e'oV
acres. on the line of the Atchinson, Topeka ant
Santa Fe Railroad, The price PAID was over 600 900
Messrs. Chafee and ElkIns have Already under con
temptation plans for the development of the pro
perry, including canal forty miles IN iensth, Iron
The Rio Pecos 10 the placer deposits.
The latest advices report a serious revo
luton in Peru and great loss OF life in Lima IN
Hight of President Prado created great excitement
and precipltatcd the terrible crisis which soon re
suited in the overthrow OF the government. the as
sumnton of power by Senior Don Nicholas Plero;
and the declaration of a dictatorship reVolutioi
, broke out IN Lima on the Afternoon OF pecempe
81 and spread 10 Callao. me NUMBER kileu u
| Lima ia estimated at loD ami the wounded Al loo
on the goth ulf the editors Of all the daily paper:
published in Lima were arrested anu linprls9ne 20
| ON the oath the negroes OF Llran ami san jose
numbering about 200, formed themselves INTO al
armed band and broke into several haciendas, muir
,lering the proprietnrs and some OF the prlnclpa
employees, While sacklns ana seUlhs uie ~ INV
, | premises.
Parnell spoke at Cleveland, Saturday, anC
collected over s9.ooo.
In Cleveland boiler exploded in a saw
mill at the transfer Saturday, killing Joseph Gran
and Seth DeGarno.
The consolidation of the Union Pacific
Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific railroads wa
accomplished Saturday an the consolidated com
many Will be known the | mon Pacific Railwi
Company.
Gov. Blackburn of Kentucky has pardon
ed 5. conyicts from the State penitentiary bccals
The prison. built for coo inmates, l. oNcrctOwde'
with nearly 300 and is unhealthy from dampnes
and bad ventilation.
An indianapolis despatch says that peopl,
in Hancock county, Illinois, opposed TO negro eill
grafton. have threatened those employing negroe
that their property VIII he burned bhc OF TWO HFc
have already occurred.
A Constantinoplc despatch asserts tina
terrible distress prevails IN Adranople tireei
persons were found dead from hunger there In on
day. In some cases pieces OF wood were found II
the mouths 1.-THE corpses.
Danforth's Bank, At Danforth, ILL.,, wa
robbed hy four Alasixa.Ilars "Wednesday even
my. They gag&01lduif- 5lnd Mr. Webber, VIII
was al work in an adjoining room as a cabne
worker, blew open the safe, stole 1880, and Is
capped.
The mild winter has caused the people al
through the interior of Mississippi 10 lose much o
their sailed pork. They have had no such winit
for many years. The loss from spoiled bacon vii
he n large one. Reports come OF the same dsaste
having overtaken the planters In portions OF Ala
haIna and Georgia.
On Thursday night at Los Vegas, New
Mexico, James West William Randall and othe
roughs rode into town to Kill Marshal Carson The
found him Al a saloon and fired at him. hitting hin
rve times. He emptled his revolver AT them, hrins
until he died, killing both West and Randall. Scv
eral persons were wounded 10y stray shots, some o
whom Will probably die. The rest OF the gang
ied.
The annual circular of James Lynch, WOO
broker, says that the wool clip OF 1879 IN the ne'
STATES was the largest ever known. II amounted Il
~, 300 900 pounds. against 2ll.coOuoO pounds II
1855 and 90, -" ono pounds IN is'i. Inc lmporta
tons al New York, Philadelphia and Boston wer'
81 ?U3.ois pounds IN 1873, against 5.395,5S7 pound
in 1875 and I',s5s. $50 III l,i..
The novelist Turgencif has excited tn
wrath Of the Government journals Of Russia for as
sisting a Nihillst, who had been bounded out o
Russia for some rriing political offence. The poo
fellow IN sore distress IN Paris. anu IN
novelist lent him small sum OF money and pu
him in the way OF earning living. For his huinani
" Turgcnen Is attacked IN pm; with acrmony AM
fcrocIty.
The recent fight between Pa'sey Brennan
4 ST. Louis sport, and Siberian bloodhound wa
AS brutal anything ever witnessed at II sanis
bul-nght. The arena was IN 4 stable IN the out
skirts of 81. Louis and the audience OF sp1rtnI
men contained an cN-policc commissioner, an eN
Judge, three members of the st. Louis House O
Delegates and prominent doctor. Inc SLAM
were $50 and the man fought stripped 10 the waist
lie was badly torn, but killed the dog.
Dispatches from St Petersburg give dc
tails of the recent arrests III Moscow. The secre
police FIRST discovered depository of the revolu
iIonary proclamation large quantity "f dynamite
and some electric batteries From the preliminai,
examination "a which the prisoners have been sub
jcce,l, would appear that pl" IL On foot To blow
up the car on ms next Journey 10 MOSCOW Ill th
place of the Kremlin. When this intelligence va
/ communicated 10 the car his emotion was 81
violent that those Of his courlier- who were presen
were IN fear OF fatal nervous attack.
Some months ago the Government filed {
! hill of discovery IN the case OF the Tinted State
against Samuel j. Tlllrn, propounling severa
hundred questions as 10 1llen income during III
wears enumerated IN the complaint. TIen'
/ counsel demurrcti To the hill hut Judge Bairhfor,
decided against HIM. ordering HIM 10 answer Tn
interTogarpries Tildcn appealed from tins order Il
the supreme court, and 60 days have now elapsed
rillen has not hlcd an answer, claiming that 1t Is
not necessary until the supreme court has decides
the appeal. Now District Attorney WoodiOrd ha
moved before Judge Blatrhford III the United State
circuit court for further order 10 compel TIldel
to answer the questions al once, irrespective o
the appeal
Oliver Dalrymple, the great Minncsot;
farmer, Will cultivate thirty thousand o
wheat this year. lie Will operate twrnty stcIil
ihreshers and one hundred and thlty-ive reapn,
machines. Last year he employed SIN hundre,
workmen, and tins year he Will need III leas
seven hundred.
There is considerable excitement in up
town fashionable quarters In New York over re-
ported deaths from diphthcrl. caused nv scwe
gas entering cs.through insufficient sewerage
The Pacific Fire Insurance Company %
ST. Louis, Mo, was temporarily enioned Monda
from doing any more business, on the .stuund Of al
impairment o ITS capital and excess "i Iahlli
ties over its assets.
The shoe shop at the Pcnitcntiary il
Brooklyn took ara Monday morning. II caIsc,
great excitement among the prisoners ~ well Il
the keepers, hut no lives Were st and no prisoner
escaped. The loss about ..ou,OOn. About ~
females are employed from thr outside AMI Ar
thrown out OF employment.
Rev. Mr.. Hayden, the alleged murdcrc
"f Mary Siannar,i, has been admitted tn bail II
s5,DOp. his couusrll,cln surctc-. states Aunrnrl
Doolitic al uIinion that after the recent clabO
rat. trial proof was not 80 evident ~ 10 prcclnd