Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-04-15
GENERAL SUMMARY.

ntTc ~ u ulSdSlTotlS ilOou VI DlhuSu,
Spain, and several people have perished.
DR.. Lemoyne, founder of the Pennsylvania
crematory, is to have 4 monument erected to
his memory.
The loss by fires in New York city in
March was 1853, $50, on which there was
over $4,000, 900 insurance.
The grand jury at Keene, n. H., has
found seven indictments against Ellery AL
bee, treasurer of the Winchester Savings
Bank.
BY the capsizing of boat on Ashley
river, $. C., near Branchville, on Saturday,
two women, two children anil three men
were drowned. Two men were rescued.
Magdalena Miller of New York city, aged
81, who recently became despondcnt from
the loss of $4,000 which had been stolen
from her, died Wednesday from starvation.
A Seville despatch says: The river is
again rising and the indication is worse than
before The water in some of the suburbs
is five metres deep. The flood has reached
the Plaza Nueva.
Chinese passengers at San Francisco from
Lima report so Chinese merchants massacred
there when the city was sacked by Peru
vians, and over million dollars worth OF
their property destroyed.
A political fcud was settled at Deer Creek.
KY few days ago.i which Dave and Dick
Williams were fatally shot and stabbed by
Elijah Horton. Others are interested and
further bloodshed is anticipated.
II ia said that Sir Alexander T. Galt will
return to Canada thi, Spring, and that he
will probably enter the Cabinet when Sir
John A. Macdonald, Premier and Minister of
the Interior, retires asis expected on account
of his health.
The estate in Rockbridge county, Va, en-
bracing the celebrated natural bridge, has
iient of the Richmond and Allegheny rail-
road 1t is proposed to lay out the grounds
rs park.
Lawrence Shelton of Memphis, Tenn,
being informed by his betrothcd that she
had been insulted by Lucius Cobb, went
armed with shotgun to Cobb's residence
in the suburbs, and calling him to the door
blew his head oil with single discharge.
A plot has been discovered at Manchester.
Pa, 10 murder Peter Trimmer, who is about
20 years Of age. Ills life is insured in various
speculative companies for upwards OF 500
900. the policies being held by number OF
different parties.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the New York iron
manufacturer, is about establishing free
library for the benefit of his employees at
Braddock, Penn, where his steel works are
located, nj cost of 100000 The library
will consist Of about 5000 volumes.
Among the papers filed in the case Of the
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad IN
the United States Circuit Court at Richmond,
is petition of Gen. William Malone, pray
ing that his salary Of $4,000 per annum rs
president Of the Atlantic, Mississippi and
Ohio Railroad Company from the llth oil
June, 1870. to the recent sale, be allowed
| This would now amount to Sl2j,0OO.
Brgantls near Salonica have captured an
Englishman, and demand t15,Oo0 ransom
for him.
Charles Bradlaugh has been reelected
member of Parliament for Northampton by
! majority of l23 votes.
The sale of the tickets for Bernhardt at
| Fall River Mass, last week was 50 small
that she will not appear there US advertised
| There is revival of confidence among the
/ commissioners of the worlds fair OF 1883,
and now the project is spoken of as certain
| to be carried out.
! Senior Barcs, the newly-appontcd Minister
of Spain 10 Washington, and Hon. John \.
| kasson, United States Minister To Austria
sailed for New York Saturday.
! Adviccs from Tripoli confirm the reports
of the massacre of Col. FInttcrs's expedition.
| Every Frcnchman pcrished after courageous
! resistance against overwhelming odds
Hester Howard struck terror into the
hearts of her funeral party 10y rising on her
elbow in her collin nj the cemetery ut st
Louis She really expired soon atterward.
! The boiler makers, pattern makers and
machiuists of Pittsburg, Pa, are on strike.
Several of the machine shop men have sue
c,cded, but the boiler makers are still out.
The latest adviccs received by the Govern
ment are To the effect that Sitting Bull IL on
his way to surrender to the American ali-
,horitics. His band has become weak in
numbers, owing 10 lack of food
Samuel Christy, alias Lamb, visited the
store Of Patrick Casey at Nanceboro. n.
B.. and began to abuse him. In sclt-dctence
Casey threw blue vitriol in his face, destroy
! ing the sight of both eyes.
The floods in the Upper Missouri Valley
were last night reported abnting, but The
disaster has been the most appalling ever
known in this country. Tens OF thousands
/ OF people have btcn uflVtU Hpli tutli h'ihCS
and the loss of property cannot he estimated.
| Several persons have been drowned
| An extraordinary case is related in LOUIS
vile, in which II needle taken into the foot
of II laI nine years ago worked out of the
thigh of her third child, baby OF one year.
Mrs. Charles Ballou of Saranac, the far
famed fat woman, known ~ the Mammoth
Queen" died in Detroit Friday. Her weight
when she WAS with shows is stated To have
been $50 pounds She has been living at
home for some time past. Her weight be-
fore death was 400 pounds. The casket con-
tanning the body was 81 feet long 8 feet wide
and 20 inches deep.
The great CorlIss eng inc which drove the
machinery for the Philadelphia Centennial
. Exhibition, is now in the Pullman Car
Works ut Chicago. 1t WAS started in the
presence of n large number of prominent clti-
lcns, Saturday afternoon, and the part
assigned to President Grant and the Emperor
Of Brazil at Philadelphia in 1876 WAS per
formed by Mr. Pullnan's twelve year old
daughter Florence.
One of the new street sights in New York,
is the new two pole wagons. with three
horses abreast, Of the American Expres $
Company. The wagon has II body eleven
feet long anil four feet tour inches wide. II
/ Is found that three horses abreast can draw II
heavier load with greater ease, than -four
horses driven the usual way, viz, two at
tuchrd To- the wagon aud two On the lead