Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-03-18
GENERAL SUMMARY.

Rehis in Chic..go have gene up from Ii to
80 per cent.
The land department disposed of II, 792
311.65 acres of the public lands last year.
The Hudson River gives evidence of soon
breaking up. The steamer Daniel s Miller
will attempt to break her way through to
Poughkeepsie from New York on Friday.
Reports from Berlin state that there is a
great increase in emigration to the United
States. and whole villages are described as
migrating from Posen, Prussia proper and
Schleswig.
A despatch from Pierre, Oak, saws the
first train from Chicago for forty days, ar
rived on Saturday and it is calculated that
half the cattle in that section have perlshed
of cold and starvation.
A young man named Thomas Anscombe of
Paris, Ont, poisoned himself, Wednesday
evening, by taking u heavy dose of lauda-
mum while recovering from a drunken spree.
1t is stated that syndicate of New York
bankers has notified the Secretary of the
Treasury of its willingness to carry the ma
turing debt of the Government at three per
cent.
At Cynthiana, Ky, Wednesday, Sally
Carr severed the carotid artery of Irene Fow-
Ter by slash with pocket knife. Both
women were colored The tragedy was the
upshot of drunken quarrel.
For the past five years the following has
been the list of emigrants arrived in New
York during the month of February In
1877. 1917 in 1878, 1881 in 1879, 26lS /;
in 1850, 1904 in 1881, 9155. The emf
grafton this year promises to be immense.
John G. Whittier having declined, the
Yorktown commission has invited Paul ii.
Hayne of North Carolina to compose an ode
fer the Yorktown centennial to be set to
music, and rendered by performers in con-
tinental costume.
At Philadelphia Wednesday Frank Hub
bert, IS years old, of Salem, Va, took Il dose
of strychnine and shot himself in the head,
killing himself instantly. Cause, application
for divorce by his wife.
Tho Dominion Senate has adopted the
amendment to the temperance act, and the
amended bill has passed. The amendment
cxempts ale, porter. lager beer, cider and
light wines from the operation of the act.
1t having been announced that the efforts
to discover the real author Of the so-called
Morey Chinese letter have failed, Hon. ~ y.
Hewitt has sent check for 800 to Chair
man Jewell 10 aid i'll discovering the guilty
parties, and offers to do more if necessary.
Jane Melrose of Wabash, Ind, has been
using preparation TO bleach her hair. A
few days ago she became suddenly ill., and
on Tuesday died. soon after death her hair
and face turned deep green color. Physi-
clans here state that her death resulted from
the chemicals of which the preparation was
composed.
Since 1110 there have been fifteen terrible
famines in Inda-about one in every ten
years previous to 1854, and one every four
years since that year. The cause of these
catastrophes is said To be the increase of pop
ulation. the inattention to the manuring of
the soil, and the substitution of cash instead
of gram rs the medium Of exchange
At meeting of the National Guard Asso-
citation in Philadelphia Tuesday, the follow
ing officers were elected for the year Presi-
dent, Gen. George w. Wingatc of New
York; first vice-prcsidcut, Adjutant General
q. 4. Beauregard of New Orleans; second
vice president, ten. James W Denver OF
Wilmington Ohio; corresponding secretary,
Major W. Boerum of Wetmore, n. Y; re-
cor,ling secretary, Adjutant- General w l..
Alexander of DesMones, In
Americans who have watched their
eccentric countIyman, Mr. Livingston of
New York, II resident of Florence,
Italy, for more than 30 wears, in
his ieats Of driving horses may be interested
to hear that he now goes with 20 in hand la
the Cuscine, guiding himself the 10 span Of
beautifully croomed animals as skilfully as
il he ha,t only two score years instead of
three score and ten ON his shoulders to carry
Florence letter 10 y. \. Times.
The Panama dispatches to the New York
Herald announce the most remarkable frost
occurring in Guatemala since it was known
To Europeans The cold wave of February
10, travcrsng the tOrtiillcrns through
Mexico, and falling upon the temperate belt
OF Guatemala, killed the standing sugar cane,
wthered the leaves of the coffee trees, So
that the fair tropical plantations after the
frost appeared as though fire hal passed
through them" and inflicted damage To the
estimated amount Of hriwctn one and two
million dollars
Among the stories about Matt Carpenter
is one To the effect that when he was n boy
he did not like 10 work on the farm One
day his flther left hemc, telling him to hoe n
patch of potatoes and giving him two shil-
lings with which To hire help. lie bought IL
| shllling's worth of whiskey and secured an
lrishman Ia help him lie would stand at
the end oi row and give the man drink
as last IA he got round to HIM. The pnta-
toes were soon hocd and Matt saved shil-
ling.