Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-25
NEWS AND, COMMENT.

= MoseI was made wednesday.
The total cost Of the Jefferson monument
t Monticello, Va, will be S4940.
Fifteen million tarrelsof beer are annually
made in the United States.
Piukeye is becoming largely prevalent
lmong the horses of New York State
Peaches arc becoming very plentiful in the
titles, aud prices have accordingly taken
umblc.
The canning factories of New York State
Expect to put up ,000, 900 cans of corn this
season.
Eleven hundred people were served with
dinner at the West End, Long Branch, on
Sunday.
Ex-Prcsidcnt Hayes expects to harvest
20, 600 bushels of gram from his big Dakota
wheat farm.
Congressman Singleton, Of Illinois. who
was defeated for denomination, will run in
The report of the discovery of sister Of
the late Chief. Justice fancy at Albany, N.
Y, Ia a canard
Returns from Republican caucuses thus
far held in New Hampshire show decided
lead for MIR. Hale.
Hamilton Fish, Jr., is talked of as the
Stalwart candidate for Lieutenant Governor
of New York State.
A patty from the Signal Service Bureau
is soon 10 proceed to Santa Cruz, Patagonia,
to observe the transit Of Venus.
a L. 5. maine at Portsmouth, N. H., has
been sentenced to Thirty days on bread and
water for going to sleep on guard.
The members of the United States cattle
commission are examining the Canadian quar-
antine system at Quebec.
The amount taken by the five masked
men who robbed the Gichrist farmhouse at
Amsterdam, N. y, was $50, 900.
Peaches are coming into market from
Delaware and New Jersey in almost unprc,
cedented quantities and OF fine quality.
Mrs. Sartoris Gen. Grants eldest daugh.
ter, who has spent the last year with her faith.
er, returned to England Wednesday.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg is to appear in q
benefit entertainment for the Saratoga HUI
name Society, at Saratoga, Saturday evening.
The wife of "A prominent physician in In
diana has obtained divorce because her
husband refused to give up his night prac-
tice.
Lord Duiferin has been instructed by his
government not to press the Porte for
u reply concerning the military cmven-
tion.
An encounter between British mounted
patrol and party of 500 Bedouins occurred
early Tues lay, near Ramleh. Five of the
latter were killed.
A coored waiter at Cape May troll on a
lady's dress and neglected to ask her pardon,
whereupon her husband thrashed the waiter,
who had him arrested for assault and he was
fined five dollars.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the mins for the week ending August Il
was $l9l 900, against $276,9 97 for the cor
responding period of last year.
The Porte has prohibited the export Of
supplies from Syria TO Alexandria. Thi.
affects the English supplies of grain fo1
mules, horses and other live stock.
Mount Desert has partially recovered iron
the scare that the alleged highwaymcn ere
atcd People now venture Two and three
hundred yards away from the hotels.
For the month ending July Is, Chicago re
ccived nearly 10000 Texas cattle, create
number than ever before in the same length
of time.
Of the Jeanette expedition, arrived at Mos
cow Wednesday and were given grand re
ception.
A curiosity has been discovered in III,
South, in the form Of Il man who says III
isn't colonel. This remarkable indivi iua
is the well.known Tom Ochiltree. lie say
he's only II major.
The general crop reports from New Yorl
State show that with the exception of corn
the yield of cereals is unusually large ant
promising
The Bankers association began It's annua
session at Saratoga Wednesday. The attend
ancc was much larger than ever before, com
prising all sections of the country. Georg
5. Coe, President, gave the opening address
Michigan's Secretary of State estimate
that l 1 900, 900 bushels of the wheat crop o
that State have been ruined by the recen
rains, which incurs loss Of S1l 200, 900 t,
Michigan farmers.
According to the prediction of a Western
gcoogist, Montana will sometime becom
the greatest coal-producing State in til,
Union. This will be decided improvement
on the annual Indian crop.
The tide of immigration is showing
marked dminulion, the arrivals at New Yorl
during the past few weeks being greatly be
low those of the same period a year ago. TIN
change is most apparent in the move from
Germany.
A celluloid billiard ball exploded in Eurc
ka, Nevada, the other day while quietly n
rest on its rack. 1t made loud report ant
sent forth shower OF fragments
Evidently some Nhilist is taking an outinl
in Nevada.
The American Woman Suffrage Associa
ton will hold its Thirteenth Annual Meeting
in Omaha, Nebraska, in the Baptist church
odus of the citizens of that unfortunate cit,
may be looked for in September.
About us perilous an adventure as one care
| to experience, even in these reckless days,
that of spanish family in California, VIII
| were going down mountain and drove OF
the grade, falling to the bottom of the car
yon, 200 feet Both horses were killed an
| the wagon was demolished, but the occupant
escaped without injury.
They are ardent believers in the utility c
electricity in Germany, for in the new oper
house in Frankfort on the Main electricity
used as fire alarm, u door closer, hca
indicator, a lift measure for the ventlator,
general illuminator, and time beater for I'll
orchestra.
| When Clara $. Foltz, the lady attorney {
| San Francisco, attended the United State
Circuit Court in Oregon, recently, Judg
Deadly not only escorted her to seat besid
himself on the bench. but introduced her
all the lawyers present.
Louis Potter. of Cohoes, n. v, who W,
arrested Wednesday for an alleged heinol
assault upon his eight years-old daughter, d.
mics his guilt and claims conspiracy exis
between his wife aud sister to send him
prison. The little victim tells of h,
fathers basencss in straightforward maj
ner.
Gen. Wolseley, with the authority Of IL
Khedive, has issued a proclamation to Il
people OF Egypt, representing the sole obje
of the British to be to restore the authoril
of the Khedive. 1t says all peaceful inhab
tants will be kindly treated, the mosque
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