Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-07-28
MATTERS AND THINGS.

pean war is regarded in some quarters as near
at hand
a mortgage deed for 81, 140,0 900, said to
be tho largest Individual mortgage on record,
was executed in New York, last week. The
money borrowed is to be invested in a man.
moth apartment house.
Egyptian icwclry has been suddenly re-
vivcd since the British Admiral paid his
compliments to Arab Boy, and will rage"
the balance Of the season. As may be sup
posed 1t is manufactured in this country.
A Chinese company is about to build lac
tories and wharves at Victoria, British Col
umbiG, for the manufacture of clothing, boots
and Shoes, Tin ware, cigars, and other articles
considerably TO the discomforture of
the natives.
It has been decided TO hold the next con-
yenlion of the National W. c. r. [. at De
troit in October. The convention will be
composed of the presidents and correspond
ing secretaries of the different State Unions,
the general superintendent Of departments
Of work, and one delegate for every five hun.
dred rnying members.
Mr. Robertson Of Louisiana, recently wrote
letter TO the Postmastcr-Gc General, charging
that the Louisiana Lottery Company is
fraudulent concern and that its letters should
not he allowed TO 90 through the mails. The
Pustmasicr-Gcneralr replied that the lottery
was legally authorized by State law, and that
he could not exclude its letters from the
mails. The mOres the pity.
Mr.. Moody has issued letter from Glas-
cow to cvangelistic committees in the vari-
Gus. towns IN which he and Mr. Sankey have
arranged 10 hold meetings the coming Win
ter, in which he says II have found that
united daily prayer meeting at noon is inval-
liable as ccutre and rendezvous for Chris
tian workers, and a united Choir under an
efficient leader, in full sympathy with the
work"
EX-Gov. StaniOrd's famous breeding and
training farm on the Southern Pacific rail-
road, forty miles from San Francisco, COM
pnses ob1u! 1000 acres, and is provided with
everything which II horse could possibly de.
sire The stables proper cover an area of
more than 5000 fee. in length and $50 feet IN
breadth and furnish accommodations for 800
horses, IN whose care seventy-iive men are
employed.
The late Mrs Samuel Russell of Middle.
town, c.. wIlled the Russell Free Library
$4,000 the Domestic Missionary Society
$1,000 the American Bible Society $1,000,
lhe American Tract Society $1,000, the State
Industrial School for Girls $1,000, the Mid
d!etowE Charitable Society. $500, st Lukes
Home 5000, the Indian Hill Cemetery Asso-
citation $500 and the res, of the estate, about
500 900, to individuals.
Judge Touigee is said to have cleared the
comfortable sam of 100000 from the sale of
The Fools Errand." But he evidently
didn't do anything of the kind The price
of the book is @lj0, aud Judge Tourrce I'M
doubleday received The customary copyright
OF ten per cent of the retail price on each
volume sold. To say therefore, that he re-
ccived spa, GOO from the book is equivalent
10 saying that over GOO, 900 copies we're s)ld
which was maniGcstly not the case.
The Nat!ona! conference of charities and
corrections will hold its ninth annual session
a. Madison, Wis, beginning on the 9TH of
August and continuing through five days
The proceedings will cover addresses by the
Governor OF Wisconsin, the president of the
conference and w. p. Lctchworth reports
nom the different States and various COM
mlttees, with discussions visit to the in
dustrial school for boys at Waukesha, and
the election Of officers
In the six months ended juno 3Oth there
were granted in New York city permits for
1863 new structures, estimated to cost sec.
04S, 70j and for 1898 alterations of build.
ing7, estimated to cost So 747 jain all
e2S, 1876, 237 TO be expended on dwellings and
warehouses. About i've and Il quarter mil
lions was ;he estimated cost Of new structures
ana Improvements for which permits were
granted al Brooklyn during the same period.
The ScieHtf, american, which has been
giving attention to the subject of Western
Tomatoes, thinks that it may be taken as a
general fact from various observations, that
cyclones or tornadocs Of uncommon violence
in the Summer months move in one direc-
tiOn, from southwest to northeast following
the course of the prevailing winds. This
Tact is of importance, at least, in diminish
Ing alarm at threatening storms from other
directions, and of warning us to which way
the cyclone may be looked for.
Fortune, which has favored the English
Ministry in Egypt, turns frowning face in
Ireland. The difficulties already surround
ing the situation are complicated by threat
cned famine. Against everything but famine
rcsolute Government may make Roadway.
But the best disposed tenants are apt to be
fit for treasons spoils and stratagems when
the granaries are empty and the arder bare.
Against ills OF this sort, coercion, repression,
even arrears will work in vain; if the PROM
Use of distress be kept, it will be armed re-
belI1n rather than passive resistance that the
Ministry Will have to count with from An
trim to Kerry.
All the KEYS of Windsor castle have been
stolen and nine hundred new locks have had
to be put on,
Texas papers cry out against the ravagcs
of the prairie dogs. They destroy corn,
grass and any field product with strict I'M
partially, and some farmers complain that
they are likely to he more serious foe to |
agriculture than the droughts.
The Maryland Legislature passed law at
its late session providing for the punishment
of wife heaters at the whipping post, but |
up To this time No wife has been found will |
ling to give the testimony which would bring |
the husband to the disgrace and rain Of this |
penalty
The programme for Mr.. Moody's labors
has been made from september until the
middle Of April, when lac intends to sail to |
this country for a visit before beginning his
work in London. lie is to begin in Wales,
spend a fortnight in Paris in October, and
then return to visit fourteen important places
in England, closing with Liverpool, The
month of January will he given to Ireland
Detroit has a young Sunday observance
association, which comes into notice solely
because man named prcssy thinks he
brought il into existence and was thea slight
ed in the election Of officers. Meantime every
SUNDAY finds ferry hoals under direction OF