Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-03-25
SELECT COMMITTEES.
GENERAL SUMMARY.

Under the new and very rigid ProhibitOry
law in Kansas persons are forbidden under
heavy fines to belong TO private drinking
clubs.
The treasurer Of the AshuelOt Savings
Bank at Winchester, y II is charged with
having dcffaudcd that institution OF SlOO,-
QUO or more An Investigation is now gong
on.
\ new charter for New York City has
been reported in the State Legislature. 1t
provides for II charter election n November,
1882, and every second year thereafter.
A complaint has been filed in the United
States circuit court in Minnesota that the
city of Duluth, to avoid payment nf so,
city bonds procured the passage of an act
reducing the city 10 u village.
DR.. Westmorrand of Atlanta. Ga, who
was consulted by Sarah Bernhardt while
sh. WAS in that city, says Mile. Bcrnhardt
is greatly over worked, and rest VIII soon pe
absolutely necessary it she wishes TO avoid
an early death.
hangers on nj the depot in Cornwall, Conn
were stupcii.d the other mJihlua 10y seeln.
rirl attempt the difficult feat uf entering II
car through window She thought that
was the REGULAR way, having never seen a
u
districts.
A letter from ST. Aie,j5. llaha Bay, Sa-
rirnay, gives details ul the ravagcs of small
pox in that parish. l9j people having al
ready been stricken, aud there have been
twenty eight deaths, including both fathers
ard mothers of three families, leaving TWEEN
ty y-one orphans.
Dcsr..ches from the Northwest give ac-
counts of suffering and business distractions
cnused by the snow blockade. MANY rail-
roals are now covered over with twenty ieet
of parked snow, and cuts, miles in length,
are filled up with solid mass OF snow and
ice,
The assassination of the Russian Car has
brought an Increased severity OF the enforce
mrnt of the laws against Socialists in Berlin,
and this result has already become notice
able, AS number of suspected persons
have been expelled from the city and sub
uThs.
Ono-half Of the 100 boys picked from the
New York grammer schools, IL whom med
ais were given at the raising oi the o6elisk,
were Of uerman extraction and one-thlrd
were of jewish birth. One third Of the
priZe-takers in the New York normal school
are also Jews. vet neither in the normal
.
/ school nor the grammar schools are the jew
/ ish children over one fiftieth Oi the whole.
/ Frederick Davies, Il well dressed aud ecu
| Gated young Welchman, was publicly ,hip
ped in Richmond, Va, last week for steal
I ins II parcel OF clothes. y day or two HlcI
/ u respectable quarter in the same city wa
startled by naked young mulatto slfl at II
who ran shrickins Il rough the street Will
the blood streaming from her back. liel
mother had been following the example ol
the State and whipping her daughter with d
ruwhide.
Charles ID. Gilmore m attorney and claim
agent of Washington, has brought suit in tht
district circuit court against Carl SchnrI
! eN-sccretery Of the interior, tor S,uo,uVt
damages, upon the ground that Mr SehurL
without any Just cause dsbarred HIM IRON
practice in the department ot the lntefin'
last April, and thus broke ur legal hnsl
ness whose profits Gilmore estimates at $40
600 wear Among the legal questions
raised by the case are whether M executive
officer has IL right 10 dis'ar an attorney, ant
whether, il the right exists the officer is liza
bile for damages when the power IS IMPROPER
IL exercised.