Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-18
NEWS AND COMMENT.
Matters OF Interest at Home
AbrOad.

at Rye Beach, N. ii.
Another rumor Is current OF the serious
illness of $. J. Tilden, Esq
1t is said that Victor IIugos mental facul.
ties are exhibiting a rapid decline.
A daughter of John Brown has accepted
position In the San Francisco Mint.
The Nebraska State Democratic conven-
ton will be held at Omaha Sept. a.
The National Conference of Charities and
Corrections Is in session at Madison. Wis
A Board of Trade, with 1000 members,
was organized at indianapolis, Ind, Thurs.
day.
A water-spout occurred near Chatea ugay,
N. Y, recently, doing considerable dam
age.
A thirteen years-old girl living near
Houma, La, has light-brown beard two
inches long.
Six steamships have been wrecked in the
last five years at the place where the Mosel
was lost.
Engineer Melville and party are 10 be given
a grand reception on their arrival at st.
Petersburgh.
At North Greenfield, N. T.. Tuesday,
hailstones fell measuring three inches in cir
conference.
The first bale of this years cotton crop
was received at Montgomery. Alabama,
Wednesday.
Gen. Sam Cary, Grcenback candidate for
Vice President in 1876, is to take the stump
in Maine Aug. IA.
The army worm has appeared in the neigh
borhood OF Troy, N. Y, and is infiictng
great damage.
A monthly line of steamers is to be cstab-
lished between Montreal and Antwerp and
Montreal and Havre.
A government commission is to be APP
pointed to enquire into the grievances of the
Irish constabulary.
The Khedive has appointed Reouf Pacba
governor of Suez, the present governor being
devoted to Arabls interests.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes has accepted IL
County Court Judgeship in England, and is
believed to have retired from political life.
The Hudson Bay and Nelson River rail-
road company has received from the Cana
dian Government 6400 acres of land at so
cents per acre.
A prize fight for $500 side and the
championship Of the world, is being arranged
between Tug Wilson and James Elliott.
In the Star-route trial, Thursday, Mr.. Ker
resumed his argument for the government
Messrs. Turner aud Rerdel were the only
defendants present.
The manufacturing village of Feltville, n.
j., which had been heavily mortgaged to the
Globe Mutual Life Insurance Company Of
New York, was sold Wednesday, for Sl1,-
, $50.
. The present year promises to be a remark
able one in railroad building. Already 5000
miles of new tracks have been constructed,
| a. ha htilt I'm inn
last year.
, A new observatory has been erected on the
4 top of Slide Mountain, the highest peak of
, the Catskills, and visitors there can now look
out from an elevation of 1910 feet above the
sea level.
West Point, NY, is agitated over the fact
that when Oscar Wilde was at Cranston's
Hotel, there the other day, he is said to have
, sat in the parlor, talking to bevy of ladies,
with his hat on.
At Newman, Ca, Wednesday, a negro
, accused of outragng fifteen years old white
2 girl, was taken out of Jail and hung by
seventy-five men. He confessed that he and
another man committed the deed.
The defunct Pacific Bank of Boston will
within few days pay the first installment of
l 25 per cent to its depostors. There is little
prospect of the stockholders recovering any
thing from the assets
Henry Vandemark and John Schoonmaker
went squirrel hurting at Ithaca, n. y. They
! separated in the woods and Schoonmaker
, installing Vandemark's gray head for a
squirrel. shot him through the head The
wound proved fatal.
The resolutions OF the Kansas Republican
, convention, held at Topeka, Thursday,
4 heartily endorse President Ar,hui's veto of
the river and harbor bill, and the action of
the united Kansas delegation in sustaining
the veto.
e Alexander H. Stephens will make only
q four speeches during his canvass for Govern.
or of Georgia, an example which if followed
by certain other Democratic candidates,
might inure to their benefit.
Ismai Pacha, ex-Khedive of Egypt. is in
Paris, and under close surveillance, all his
: movements having been carefully reported to
the English Government. 1t is said that
y Ismail, the Porte and Arab for a long time
o have been endeavoring TO reach tripartiC
u understanding.
Childers, British Secretary OF War, says
that hereafter two or three ships in success
|. sion, day after day will be landing troops in
Egypt, ready to strike blow at whatever
: point Gen. Wolseley thinks it right tc
operate.
/ Charles A. Stetson, Jr., the well-known
hotel manager, who, with his brother Alex
. auder, built the Stetson House, now known
as the West End Hotel, at Long Branch, and
: managed it for two seasons died at Lynn,
G NJ .ss., Wednesday, at the age Of As years.
b. The citizens of Long Island city, L. l., are
e to demand the resignation OF the mayor, that
e official having allowed every city ordinance
G regarding gambling to be violated with i'm.
+ punity despite indignant protests. 1t would
= seem to the ordinary observer that 1t was
p about time for a change.
/: Widow Loveless cultivates a hay ranch of
! several hundred acres In Nevada. She is
n short iu stature but very muscular dresses
!, like man, rides and uses the lasso rs skill.
fully as vaquero, and lives alone, since her
husband left her year and a half ago, tax
T, ing some of her best horses, and doing full
: days work every day, Sundays excepted.
Holms, the Chicago man who confessed
, to burying eight children on the shore of
Lake Michigan, all having died shortly after
birth, was acquitted of the charge of murder,
! but fined for irregular burial. He went out
, on the lake in a skif with his son, aged
fourteen, when the boat upset and both
were crowned
II A National Industrial Convention will
be held at Denver, Col, on September l2
i and 10. The topics announced for discussion
include silver, immigration, labor and the
; tariff. 1t Ia thought that the attractions of
q the great mining exhibition, the interest ielt
!, In Colorado industries, the novelty of Colo.
! RADIO scenery and the promise OF reduced fares
. will overcome, for Eastern men, the obstacle
, OF distance.
'. A German in Chicago gave II young man
G $o5 to marry his daughter. The day of the
t ceremony was set for several weeks ahead
{ and the young individual referred to resided
' with his prospective father-in-law until the