Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-04-22
GENERAL SUMMARY.

property destroyed IN Arhat''''S Na'"tN"N ~ /
. tornado.
Mrs. Amelia Lewis assets in FcDd az" .
Health that nearly Sl5, OOO, 600 is invested )"
oleomargarine factories, and that they have /.
added nearly "a to the value of every OK
killed.
In test case, to determine the legality oil /
the celebrated anti-treating law OF Wisconsin,
il was found that the law was imperative,
because of al error in the text III its suproS-
ed enactment.
Worth, the Paris dressmaker, lately made
for an English lady what Is said 10 be The
handsomest cloak which ever lett his shop.
1t is of green velvet, bordcred and trimmed
with the tails of Russian sable. The ccst
was $500.
Bismarck has submitted motion 10 iAe
federal council that, whereas the population
has increased nearly 100000 the coinage
Of silver be increased Il, 900, 900 marks, 3''3--
600 pounds of silver bars in the treasury 10
be devoted to..that purpose.
Mr. Dillon, addressing meeting al Kan
turk, county Cork, Sunday. said lrisii iir;h-
ers were agreed that, unless radical changes
were made in the land bill in committee OF
the House of Commons. it would be the duty
of tho members TO reject it with contempt
The negroes of Mississippi and Louisiana
have been swindled toqute an amount recent
" by colored brother, claiming to be an AT
torney engaged in the prosecution oi Claims
for bounty for colored soldiers and their
heirs. The rascal has been arrested.
A dispatch from Vienna reports that the
notice have seized series Of letters ami
other documents written by Herr Most c,il-
tor of the London Freiheit and other Social
lists. 1t is said these papers prove that
Vienna had been selected by the German
Socialists as the centre of their agitation
The Criocers asparagi, or asparagus bee
tie. threatens to take the place of the potato
beetle this gear. He is Il handsome fellow
and wears garment of black, led ant! fellow
The only means of destroying these insects
is picking off and killing the beetles and
larvg.
The good time coming when swords shall
be beaten into plowshares, etc, has dawnod
| on Atlanta, Ga The Christian IHdy, reliS-
ious paper published there, has font oi
type cast from bullets used by the Union and
| confederate armies before Sherman entered
the city.
Col Forney has received letter iron
London, stating thai little boy in February
last was attending school at place called
Laurbton. twelve miles from London who
frequently said that his name was Charlie
Ross, and that he was brought from America
in big ship. lie is believed now to have
disappeared from Laughton.
Two Albany lobbyists, who attempted to
blackmail Verplanck Colvin by first securing
the introduction of bill abolishing the ADJ
rondack Survey and then offering 10 secure
the withdrawal or defeat of the bill for
consideration were exposed on the lioor OF
the New York Assembly the other day, by
one of the members, and committee IS ~
vestigating the matter
There are now six craters OF the @rc,1l
Sandwich Island volcano of Mauna l."a IN
active operation, and it is said that the lars-
est of these occasionally throws out IL stu
pendous mass of flame GOO feet high. Sever
al of the rivers of lava are five or SIX miles
wide. and these actually form cascades, ana
in some instances are so volumlnous as tf
run up hill. The lava has also forced lis
way through subterrapean outlets, and
tumbled, with roaring sound, into the sea-
Jerome Wilson, brother OF Dr. r. b. VII
son OF New York and of Henry Wilson, pro
prietor Of the Honesdalc Pa, citizen, left
Pennsylvania IA years ago giving no infor
nation of his wanderings. Nothing wa
heard of him until his return there Sunday
lie was given up IS dead years ago, but hl'
wife believed him TO be living and remaine'
true Wilson spent his years among the In
dams in the wilds of Texas and has made
fortune.
The families of Henry Johnson and VI.
Lopez live in adjoining rooms on lhirt
avenue in New York. Mr.. johnson, return
ing home Tuesday night and finding Mrs
Lopez with his wife, thought 1t would be
good Joke to ''play burglar" He made a noIs.
In the Lopez .family's rooms The womcr
rushed in. and Mrs. Lopez, snaiching a pls
toll, shot the supposed burglar. The bullet
ploughed a furrow along his forehead, ant
his escape from instant death was very mar
row
A large meeting of the doctors and friends
of sanitary reform in the interest of clean
streets was held the 18Th inst. al
Chickering Hall in that city. DIR Willard
Parker presided, and addresses were ma'l'
by the chairman. and by Drs. FordYc'
Barker, LOOMS, Peters, ID. b. 81. John
Rosa and Others Immediate action in thu
matter of cleaning the streets was urged, II
which resolutions were adopted. Many
diseases and the increase in the death rate
were attributed TO the foul streets
The wretched condition of the people o
Russia under a strong government can hardly
be imagined No one is trusted, everyone
is suspected, and all persons not well know
are feared. No person can move from ms %
her home without permit from the police
1t is now agreed upon by all hands that I'll,
brains governing the movements OF the Nihil
ist conspirators are of undoubied superiority
The measures adopted TO control the move
ments Of passengers, traders, peasants. etc,
are productive of the greatest inconvenience
and people who live outside of a town, ant
whose business takes them into it during In
day, have to wait their turn at barriers 4
inscribe their names, addresses, occupation
and destinations at each trip each way. II !
terrible condition Of affairs and is grown.
worse daily.
At Marion, Ind, Thursday, John Wallace
went into Warmers barber shop to get SHAY
ed Warner had new hand, dappc
Young mulatto, whom his customers wer
getting to like Wallace waited until tn
=, mula,to's chair was empty, and then got II
, it. The young man carefully lathcrcd HI
face, and then, leaning heavily upon hin
and holding his head back by Il powerful
grip upon his chin, looked him straight il
, the eve and said al am going to cut you
/ throat" Wallace saw that the negro was
ravlng lunatic, desperately in earnest froili
ing at the mouth, possessed of abnorma
strength and gloating over his proposition
The barber swung open the blade Of hi
razor, eyed its edge with satisfaction, AN
, took firm hold. lie seemed delighted ID
Wallace's position of absolute helplessness
and said: "Yes, am going TO cut you
throat. You needn't look scared. won
o ! hurt you. lean do it in moment. /
Il first cut your throat, and then I'll slit yo
p down the stomach and let your bowels out
I'd like TO know what's inside you, anyhow
Oh, | know what they'll do with me fC
killing you, but don't care for that. They
hang me. Pm not afraid of death, Al
your" Then he Strengthened out his arm
$ make the fatal movement, when Wallace b
;, a sudden, desperate effort, managed 10 !"
= over and out of the chair, and fled. llcl
u was summoned, and the crazy negro, after
l. desperate struggle, was overpowcrcd an
/ locked up.
e DROWNING ACCIDENT Al LAKE DrNM"Hi