Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-07-21
NEWS AND COMMENT.
Matters Of Interest ut Home NJ
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. " T.. ITeston, an Episcopal clergyman oil
New YORK, has been arrested for wife-beat-
ng
Mrs 81. Clair was burned to death by the
explosion OF u gasoline stove at Chicago
Tuesday.
Fifty thousand fry of California mountain
trout have been deposited in Greenwood
Lake, N. Y.
Rev James Craige Robinson, we'll
known English ecclesiastical author, died,
Monday.
Cubas sugar export since January amounts
To 3SS, 4lO tons against 800, 9GG in the same
period last year.
A curious suit is reported from Montreal, |
the city suing mcndcant for S25, for beg |
gng without a license
The shops at the Concord, Mass, State
prison are all In operation, and the convicts |
quiet and respectful.
The attempt to sell the Wesleyan female |
college at Cincinnati Tuesday, was failure,
the bids being too low.
The House Committee on the Judiciary has
agreed to report adversely the Mormon war
claims amounting to 100000
The Emerald beneficial association of
North America closed its biennial session
at Troy, n. ", Wednesday.
Iowa has 9, O42, 900 hogs, decrease since last
year of 1900. Probably the cyclones had
depressing effect on the porkers
The Tennessee State Credit Democrats at
their convention at Nashville, Tuesday, NOM
mated j. ii. Russell for Governor.
Lieut. Marthon, navigator OF the U. S. 8.
Hartford, has been promoted to the vacancy
caused by the death of Lieut.. belong.
In spite of Judge Advocatc- General
SWANS report on Sergeant Mason's case,
1t is said the President will not interfere.
DIR. Tanners reputation is entirely thrown
in the Shade by an Indiana female who has
tasted sixty one days, and the end is not yet.
The judges of the court of Alabama claims
commission meet ut Washington, this week
| to make arrangements for the organization of
| the court.
The spectators at tie opening Of court, in
New York, Tuesday, were treated to the
cheerful sight Of seven nurderers before the
| bar.
Ben Thompson, the famous marshal OF
Austin, Texas, has added another inch to his
privat" pinnacle of fame by shooting Jack
Harris, desperate of San Antonio.
The latest feature of the New York freight
handlers strike, is the addition of seven hun
|
frcigh, yards, to the strikers numbers.
Illinois farmers are iubilant over the crop
prospect in that State. All reports received
are favorable, the oat crop especially, PROM
Using larger yield than ever before
Pennsylvania Independent Republicans
have declined to consider the four PROPOSE.
tions offered by the regulars, and declare an
intention to have II little campaign of their
own.
Mary Nash ian away from her home in
Missouri, the other day, to get married. llcr
mother pursued the couple, and while run
ming down II railroad track was struck by O
train and killed.
Many of the dstllers who visited Wash
ington TO secure reduction of the tax OF
distilled spirits have gone home disguised
There is no probability that such a reduction
will be made.
Henry Clark, II patient in II New Jersey
insane asylum, has tasted forty-onc days tc
cure himself. IL he is cured thereby, the
query will be in order, Why do people be
come insane from starvation?
Congressman Hubbell has been favored
with another winning episle from the Civil
Service Reform Association, accusing of hin
of unwillingness to bring the question of thu
applicability of the law before the courts.
The Petersburg, Va, school board has
elected two active and eleven substitute col
orcd teachers, it being the first instance oil
colored instructors being elected TO position
in the schools of that city.
The first prominent result Of the adoption
Of the prohibitorY amendment to the lowe
State constitution is the suicide of a saloon
keeper, who was so disguised with the
amendment that he killed himself.
New and valuable fishing grounds have
been discovered by the captain of Il Maine
vessel off st. Anne, G. b. The fish are SUI
peror to those of the Grand Banks.
The mysterious Pennsylvania oil well
that has been producing 1000 barrels daily
has fallen of to 500. Other wells are de-
creasing and there Is every indication that
the oil pools are being exhausted.
A pleasant thought for fleshly individuals
is suggested in the fact that about Is per
cent OF the beef and milk of New York city
is derived from animals afflicted with tuber.
cues.
At the National campmeeting at Round
Lake, n. y, a few days since, the presiding
clergyman was compelled to reprove his con
| gregation for unseemly noise and physical
excitement
A colored youth of Dubuque, Iowa, spurn
ed by the girl he loved, shot himself in thu
: right side, Tuesday, under the impression
, that his heart was located thereabouts. III,
should post up on anatomy and try ii again.
Pat Grove of Peoria has been in La Sale
ILL.,, for the past few days selecting dele
gates to an international dynamite conven
ton In Chicago next month, which will
, choose agents to blow everything English t,
atoms. A genuine scarecrow. that.
At Lowell. Mass, three boys arc dea,
from lockiaw, induced by toy pistol wound.
1 inflicted July 4. Each of them was wound
r on the left hand they all lost consciousness
about the same time and their deaths occur
red within twelve hours. John Hay, 1:
morning John Berran, French boy,
r years old, died at about the same hour an,
in the evening. Alfred Jarvis, 10 years old
died in the most intense agony.
1t is now announced that no United State
Senator will be Indicted In the Star.rout
t matter, the stories that three or four Sena
tors are involved being entirely without foun
dation. Special Attorney Bliss said with
great deal of emphasis, that there was no
q one word Of truth in the stories as to three O
, the Senators who have been mentioned tina
the reports could only have originated in som
vindictive malice.
A Texarkana, Ark, Ghers three .stor
building was struck by lightning falling o.
: Paragon's saloon and completely burying ii
n Thirty men are supposed to be buried in III
:. ruins. Some of the bodies have been taker
out and large force is at work searchin
C for more.
y The English House of Lords has passe
the Repression bill. The struggles of tn
q Irish Parlamcntarians have simply resute
in showing what small effect is produced b
Z hot medicines when little GOODNESS an
discretion might have accomplished niue
}. better results.
q A striking illustration of the wisdom @
:, universal courtesy is shown in the fact ths
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