Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-02-18
GENERAL SUMMARY.

Small poN RACES at Cuba, ILL.,, and the in
hahitans are leaving the region.
War between Greece and Turkey is said
to he probable because of the division among
the powers.
Tho are now 81, 600 Golfers on strike in
south and southwest Lancashire, Eng, and
the number increases daily.
Late dispatches from Panama confirm the
report concerning the fall of Lima. The
Chilean Victory is complete. The president
of Peru has fled, and the Peruvian army is
completely destroyed
Nearly onc-iifth of all the cotton raised in
this country in 1880 was raised in Texas.
That year Texas produced about 1000, 900
bales, or eighty times as much as she pro-
duced in 1910
George Gardner, who was shot in the
breast with 22-calbre ball in 1875, has just
found, at Nincennes Ind, the ball in the
lobe of his left ear, where it had worked it.
self in the four years.
John Pcnrose disappeared from his home,
one mile from West Chester, Pa, Christmas
night. Saturday morning his body was
found 10y his brother lying in 4 field within
few hundred yards of his home. The rain
of Friday night melted the snow and the
mystery OF seven weeks was cleared up.
EightNlhousand acres of land have been
secured by the Turkish government IN Pales-
tine. between Jerusalem and Joppa, for Il
colony of Jews. 1t is proposed to open an
abode for the prosecuted lsraelites in Europe,
and efforts are making in England and in
this country TO raise funds for the project.
Hayti adviccs of Feb report the polti-
cal aspect as insecure. \ general change OF
the ministry was expected, which would
probably cause a serious crisis There were
strong indications of revolutionary move
mcnt in the south The government had re-
ceived by express, via Port au Prince, the
announcement Of probable rising.
F. A. Mccain, an employe of the Roberts
Torpedo Company, was driving near Brad
ford, Pa, Monday, in sleigh with 200
pounds Of nitro-glycerine, when the horses
became frightened, ran against boulder
and caused an explosion. McClain was torn
to mincc meat, both horses were killed, and
no trace of the sleigh was left.
The statistics prepared by DIR. Nagles Of
New orh showing the number OF suicides
committed in that city in 1880 corroborate
those heretofore produced in this and other
countries in that they show that more Ger
mans commit suicide than people of any
other nationality. OF the whole number of
suicides for the year. GA were Germans, 30
Americans. 20 Irish, ) English, and the bal
ancc were of score of other countries.
The total number of blacks in all the
Southern States except Texas was 4, 242, DOB
in 1870 and i, 6i3, S91 in 1850. This shows
during these ten years the enormous increase
of |. iO1, sSS, or more than 80 per cent. Dur
ing the preceding decade the colored popula-
ton of this group Of States increased only
223. GIL. or about :! per cent. The total
was LOIS. $50 in 1850 and 4,242, 0O3 in
1870.
\ Young daughter of Charles +. Crawford
ai New York. suspected of numerous thefts,
and two attempts to set the house on fire,
has been treated as II kleptomaniac, her
hands being kept tied night and day. An
Irish servant has however, confessed the
deeds, and some of the stolen goods have
been found at her home. She has been
held in $1,000 ON charges of robbery and
arson
The leading cIsar makers of New York
ctv, representing $1,000, 900 capital, have
organized to guard against repeti,ions of Ger
tain recent great failures in the tobacco trade
which they believe were fraudulent lhey
say that since December |, 1850, failures az
creating >2u, 900 900 liabilities have occur
red, upon which not more than 10 per cent
will he realized by the creditors. They pro
pose Ia form a LEGAL protective association,
whose business it shall be to advise manufac-
turcrs of the financial standing of customers,
punish fraud and exact better settlements
from nsolvcnt estates.
Gen. Hancock and staff have been invited
10 witness the Inauguration Of Gen. Garfield
rs President.
In one house at pton, Mass, last week,
there were five children born in "A single day,
one woman giving birth 10 twins and another
to trplc;s.
Last year the State of North Carolina pro-
duccd ID, 900, 900 pounds of tobacco, or near
" one pound for every man, woman and
child in the country.
II is probable that Professor Hind will soon
app, AZ before the House committee on for
cisn Affairs. and testify IN regard 10 the
fraudulent tsh,rics statistics.
\ London despatch says there is no foun-
dalton for the statement contained III spe-
clal ,lcspatch that Mr.. James Russell Lowell
desires 10 he relieved of his office rs United
States Minister 10 England.
George Wizard of Shelbyvile Ind,
threatened Ia shoot his son, IS years old, for
coming into the house TO warm himself, near
Frccporl, Saturday. The boy seized an aAe
and broke his fathers skull.
While clearing the roadhcd on the Rich
mond branch ot the Wabash road, Saturday
nisht, a rail broke and an engine with eight
men was thrown down a thirty loot embank-
mrui. sin of the men being badly injured.
Small. no> is endemic in Chicago. With
in ,L,. I,i, forty.cisht hours fourteen new
,'..', I,.,,,.. h,.,,, ,ennrtrd and there are no
IrsstbYn tiftyc,,,rs within the precincts of the
';,,. M. ,Iis,,s,. h,s been spread extensive
Il, Ly rrnnlr who have concealed its existence
in tL,,r families i'm violation OF the city or