Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-02-11
GENERAL SUMMARY.

Five persons were drowned at Fail River,
Mass, Sunday, while crossing the river on
the ice.
The coal famine at Philadelphia is be
coming serious The cold weather has
stopped mining and transportation.
Mr. William H. Vanderbilt has purchased
the Manhattan market estate, New York city,
ostensbly for railroad purposes
DR. \. p. Miller, formerly Of the Toledo
Blade, was appointed business manager of
the New York Tribune, Saturday.
1t is believed the American branches of
the Land-League have been instructed TO
send contributions TO Paris.
The earnings of the New York Central
railroad 50 far this year are said to be $50 900
ahead of last year.
The Texas State Senate has passed rcso-
luton expressing its sympathy for Ireland in
her present troubles.
A schooner, fast in the ice of Wandmll
Point near Norfolk, Va, was abandoned by
her crew, who persisted in trying to reach
the shore.
The sudden melting of large quantities OF
snow in the mountains is doing great dam
age in Southern Colorado aud Northern New
Mexico.
About thirty We hundred square miles Of
the Sacramento Valley are under water. The
losses cannot even be guessed at, at present,
but the aggregate will be stupendous.
The excitement in Ireland is ON the in
crease and the English landlords are in Il
panic over the reports of the plots of the
Fenians 1t is stated that the people are
quietly preparing to resist the enforcement
OF the coercion act
The committees Of the New \ ork Produce
and Cotton exchanges met Saturday, ami APP
pointed subcommittee to confer with the
other exchanges for the purpose OF subscrlb-
ing TO stock for the establishment of an indie
pendent telegraph line between New York
and the principal business cities Of the | nitcd
States.
No news has yet been received of the Gun
ard steamer Batavia which sailed from New
York January 10Th, for Liverpool. 1t Is be-
lieved that she has broken down, and is pro
ceeding unI,r sail. The weather on the At
antic has been very severe, and there IS much
anxiety for her safety.
Hon Rodney Foos once clerk of the Ohio
Supreme Court and Executive Secretary OF
Gov Hayes, was arrested at Denver, Friday,
charged with grand larceny. He pleaded
guilty on hearing, and was com
mitte,l, in default of 5000 bail. He stole
books from the Methodist University library
to buy food
A S4O0, 900 fire in ST I.ons, on Saturday,
originated by the falling ot IL platform upon
which were piled about 1000 eases ot
matches These ignitcd when they fell and
in two minutes the whole building WAS in
flames.
Rel Lcary, accused of being one of the
seven men who robbed the Northampton
Mass bank of securities valued ut over
II million OF dollars, on the night OF January
a6, was arrested in Brooklyn last week and
taken TO Northampton jail.
Ottawa, the Dominion capital, is initiating
Mrs Hayes an the wine question In the
absence OF Princess Louise, Lady TIllcy,
wife of the Finance Minister, has had Il re-
ception without wine, and her example Is TO
he followed at the grand ball the wives oil
two other cabinet ministers intend giving,
In Ripley county, Mo, last Wednesday,
at Il house raising, Carroll Mussey, Il young
desperate, murdered William Tilden, an ole
farmer, with Il billet of wood, then jumped
on II horse and fed. No quarrel preceded
the assassination, and no reason Is conJrctur
cd Riply county is over the Arkansas Dor
der, and is infested with wild dcsperadoes
Four trains ON Kansas railroad were
held 20 hours, last week, 10y drifts ma'ic up
of snow and sand, and resembling II gravel
bed as much as Il snow bank. In one place
snow pillow, impellcd 10y four locomotives,
threw up a herd of steers II was supposed
the animals had taken refuge from the storm
in the cut, and were covered by the drifting
snow In assaulting the snow-5and dnil
three locomotives and II pillow were wrecked
and II fireman WAS killed.
The Business Mems Society for the En-
couragement of Moderation in Drinking IN
New York city has had marked success III
obtaining promises of abstinence on mHdcra-
ton During the year -, 900 total abstinence
pledges were signed, 81, 900 not I" treat or
be treated, and 81 900 pledges not to drink
during business hours. The total al the
Societys work in two Yeas Is lUS,oOo
pledges
A bachelor shoemaker named Addison
Rowland who lived in II shanty near Mead
vile, Pa, diod FRIDAY. lie was supposed
To be in poverty, as he refused 10 have ply
stefan OF nurse, or gn To the hospital. Alter
his death the chief of police found every
chink and crevce full Of money and valua-
hl'S, cloo III Hpli. : t'p- III SiN''' T~'"f' !"
grcehbacks n bushel Of pennies, quantities
of fractional currency, county orders not
counted, six gold and twenty-five silver
watches and II lot of jcwclry
\ SrAIWARr WINTER OF bLp DAYS. The
Winter of 1;ll was famous ior cold through
out New England The snow which covered
the whole country as early as the 18th al
November was still found the urN April
covering the fences. Ca March 2stl, the
Boston News Letter reports that the people !
living on Thompson's Island Ind crossed
over to Dorchester to church on the ice Tor ]
the fifteen preceding Sundays On the Il lh |