Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-07-21
MATTERS AND THINGS.

ments.
Lightning set fire to two wheat fields in
Butte county, CAL, on the Cd inst This is
said to be an unprecedented occurrence.
Albert Morris and Jennie Adams were
airly married in the clouds over Topeka,
Kansas; but the balloon landed them in
forest, and they had to make honeymoon
pedestrian journey OF ten miles to get back |
into civilization.
A guard bearing loaded rifles escorted 23 |
convicts of the Kentucky penitcntiary at |
Frankfort, converted by the mountain evan
gelist Barnes, on their way to baptism, Sun
day.
An English physician says that seventy
diseases arise directly from alcohol, and that |
In Great Britain 10000 deaths arc caused
annually either directly or indirectly by
drinking.
On plantations in Mississippi which were
overlooked by the high water in the Spring
so that it was supposed that no crop could
be raised this year, the cotton is now in full
bloom and promises to turn out u bale to the
| acre, which Is a fir st-rate crop.
Vicksburg is still agitated over her harbor.
The receding of the Mississippi river, leav-
ing only lake of still water in front of the
city where the river once flowed, threatens
the prosperity of Vicksburg, and her citi-
zens are anxiously enquiring what Is TO be
done to preserve the harbor
| The first book ever written in Kentucky
| bxy I(,h Ia, ct
life of himself. Only two copies are now
in existence, and A. c. Quisenbcrry of Lex
ington owns one of them. 1t is queer old
work and Is valuable-worth $4,000. more or
less
The London Saturday Recie,o has Just
been covering itself with glory by calling the
Michigan University "woman's college,"
because of It's name, "Ann Arborl" "Fan.
Cyl says the Philadelphia Press, 'the critical
snort of the Saturday Repieo if it found an
American assuming the Magdalen College,
Oxford, was 'woman's college deceived
by the feminine namc.''
What is called the salvation Army" is
doing remarkable work in Brooklyn. 1t
has taken a lease Of the Lyceum in Wash
, ington street for year, holds outdoor
meetings every night on the City Hall steps,
follows them up with meetings at its hall
, and succeeds in gathering in many young
. men and women who make public profess
sion of their faith.
Mr.. S. NJ. Dunlap Of Dcs Moines tool, his
ten-years-old boy to the cycloned district to
see the wreck, and among other things
showed him at Grinnell the manned and dis
| nunrnI hnHN- nj in xrl,n &C
1 those killed by the tempest. The boy looked
, at his cousins body with marked taciturnity,
but on reaching home became unconscious
5 and died the next morning.
, 1t appears that the trouble which has pre-.
t vented the French government from eugag-
ing earnestly in the warike intervention in
Egypt is that Moslem crusade has been
preached extensively among the Arab popu-
lation of the whole northern coast OF Africa
:. against the French in particular, on account
of their aggres.ons in Tunis, Morocco, Tr-
n, poll anil Egypt.
, An amateur of statistics has discovered
r that the smallest sovereign in the world il
= the Emperor of China, who measures only
four feet three inches. The tallest men are
I in the H0henzollern family. The Emperor
0 Prince Imperial, five feet six inches Prince
n Frederick Charles, five feet seven inches
/. Prince Charles, brother OF the Emperor, five
, feet nine inches, and Prince Albert, nephew
4 of the Emperor, six feet four inches.
I During the year 1880, 2026 ships, with q
gross tonnage of 1886, 900, passed through
. the Suez canal. Last year there were 2727
, ships and 5,704, 900 tons of freight. The
= net profits of the canal last year ran up to IA
c per cent and 80 per cent Of the ships which
Y used it as means Of passage to the far East
: were English According to the terms of an
e agreement made in 1869, between the Khe.
Y dive and the Canal Company, England can
not make more than five per cent on her in.
e vestment in the canal until the year 1894.
! This contract will probably be broken when
c it comes to patching up the terms of peace.
great rate A North Carolina paper says
q "With the present year is inauguratcd a new
era In the South, if we are to judge by the
magnitude of the new manufacturing en-
terprises that are springing up all over the
land, Old mills have been revived and hun
dreds OF new ones are already built or are
in the course of building. During the month
| of June twenty-five carloads Of machinery
I South over the Richmond and Danville rail-
road. The Boston machine shops have
Z notified the Southern transportation lines
I that they are now working to fill orders for
= 300 carloads of machinery, all of which is
to be delivered at the mills in the South by
: early fall. In bringing the mills to the cot
! ton the South has at last struck the key
1 note to prosperity"
Temperance rcformers. Scottish temper
anoe reformers are looking well to their fu-
. ture, and are urging upon temperance men
! and women Qor women are municipal voters
! in Scotland now the duty Of returning, as
l members of school boards, those in favor of
the introduction Of temperance teaching in
the schools Temperance reformers every
: where are learning TO emphasize the capture
of our educational institutions in the in
] teress of total abstinence principles. Tenn
perance reform assumed a new and strange
phase at Grantham, Lincolnshire, England,
: The other day, when girl was rejected at a
school examination on the curious ground
that she was the daughter of publican, and
y therefore ineligible to enter the government
: examination.
4 An experiment has recently been made on
! the Erie railroad with new locomotive,
which is claimed by the inventors to have
8 heen satisfactory and successful in every re-
spect. The locomotive is fueled with n.y.
\ drogen gas, which is constantly reproduced
4 by its own heat from water through the
i m edia,ion of small proportion OF crude
a naph,ha. There is no smoke whatever, and
= it is claimed that there is absolute safety
! from all effects of fire. The experiment was
!. made of hauling freight train from Pater-
r son over the Newark and Paterson branch
. to Jersey city. The distance i9 1917 miles,
p and the train arrived at Jersey City two
n minutes ahead Of time. Eighty-four gallons
q of oil were used, the cost of which was a
: little over two dollars. If subsequent ex-