Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-07-25
GENERAL SUMMARY.


News and Notes from A II Quarters.
A German woman has arrived at Castle
Garden who claims to be ll2 years old.
Pauper immigrants continue to arrive at
New York. The commissioners of emigra-
ton have resolved to send them all back
France has reduced the indemnity de
manded of China for the recent outrage at
langsOn to 5O,OOOOO0 francs, and the latter
government has offered 10000, 900 francs
Sir George Mares and other well known
English Arctic explorers speak eulogisti-
cally of Lieut.. Greely's expedition and
American enterprise
Mr.. John Bright is preparing u measure
for the reform of the House OF Lords based
upon the principle of life pecrages with a
limited number of hereditary peerages.
An. error in the, Indian appropriation
bill, Just discovered, gives the Cheyennes
and Arrapahoes twenty million dollars in
stead of twenty thousand, as intended by
Congress.
The British bark Nicksburg Captain
Watson which sailed from Quebec MAY
30, for ieith, and passed Dunnet Head
June %, has been wrecked near the pent-
land Skerries Nine persons were drown
ed.
Five horse thieves, names unknown,
were hanged near Rocky Point on the
Mississippi river last Monday by cowboys
organized for the purpose of clearing ont
thieves. This makes thirteen horse thieves
hanged and shot in the Judith and Mus
selshell section within three weeks.
AT Iron Gate Va, Friday, Thomas John
son stripped his StepSOn and tied the BOYS
hands, intending to whip him The boy
escaped, and running to the river jumped
in. johnson followed him into the river
The current was swift, and both were
drowned. Their bodies were recovered.
The officials of the Pension office report
a recent award of SlO, 23l under the arrears
OF pension act The recipient ofthis large
sum was New York volunteer who be
came insane as result of exposure and
wounds. There are several cases pending
IN which amounts apprOXimating 10000
will be finally paid if any allowance is
made. No estimate can be made at present
of the total amount likely to be paid under
the arrears OF pension act.
The ice house of the Buckeye brewing
company and of J. w. Watson, of Column
bus, on the river below Toledo, Ohio were
burned Friday evening, causing a loss of
5000 to 5000 The sand scow Thatcher.
which was tied to the company's dock was
also burned. The loss is $1,000 uninsured
Lawrence Thompson was on the scow at
the time and is thought to have been fatal
ly burned. Two other men supposed to
have been on the scoW are also missing.
The Charrcd remains of one of the missing
men have been found
Seven thousand acres of land in the
Adirondack region were sold last week at
referees sale. Ihe State held an indiVid-
ual half interest in the land which was bid
in by the Comptroller at sl.15 per acre.
Anothe parcel of four hundred acres sold
for - an acre. The land udiuin, Racuuettc
Lake, ANA abOunds in timber
The President has ISSUED proclamation
calling attention to the necessity for more
stringent precautions against the introduc-
ton Ot cholera into the country. and urg-
!ng the utmost vigilance ON the part of
agents of the government at home and
abroad
The Faraday ha, completed her work of
laying the first of the TWO Mackey- Bennett
cables. y despatch received from the
office OF the company at Denver Bay say,
that communication has been already es-
tablished between that point and Water
vile, Ireland. \ SERIES OtteSts are now being
made with the Galvanometcr. The gentle
men at the Denver Bay office of the com
pany, VINO represent Mc,ois. ~icmcn-
Brothers, will retain charge of the cable
until 1t has been demonstrated that it is in
thorough working order
y vault, or hidden closet, six feet square
was found Thursday under the garnet
floor Of Benedict Arnolds old house at
New Haven, Conn, which was UNDERGOING
repairs. The vault was by the side of nm
. Ol't-i ftNAiI'LlHN anu lIS presence
mad never been suspected, and now people
are guessing is to whom Arnold wanted
to hide when he built it,
NJ. PaSteur's experiments with the virus
n1 nNdrOphObla are going ON with uu-
broken success. lie has thus far eyperl-
mcnted on - dogs, 10 of them mad and -
bitten by them under uniform conditions
Out OF these Is half had been previously
inoculated, the other half not. The latter
without a single exception, died with un-
mlStakable signs of hydruphOhia. whereas
The ~ others are about and as well as ever
Ihey VIII ne watched for Il year by yetcr-
mary doctors To see whether the inocula-
tlun holds good permanently, or only tenn
pOrarllY. NJ. Pasteur's theory is that hy.
drophobia is produced solely by the bite.
and II this Is correct, Il law compelling ali
dogs to be lnuculated would in the end
eNlirpate hydrOphOba entirely, whereas if
the disease arises spontaneously. such an
enactment would he less etlectual.
y correspondent of the Chicago inter-
OccuH, after thorough examination of
the I-lncoIn monument at Springfield
ILL.,, charges the greatest dishonesty in the
performance of the work and gives A de
tailed account of the defects i'm the CON.
slructlon, which, 1t is alleged, threaten
, the caNlng IN OF the terrace IN which the
crypt Is situated, if not the overthrow of
the monument itself. The correspondent
X,
which are already rotten, and in many
places wood and granite chips are thrown
IN to ill spaces which should have been
solid masonry. In February one of the
arches running the entire length of the
terrace fell, and the tiagstones which form
the lloor OF the terrace are held up bv tim.
beers put III by the custodian. The inner
walls are loose and are held up by LONG
props, now rOttng.
Ilre started in an unsued house at Bel
KNAPP, the entrepot to the famous C,rur
d Alene mines Friday night, from some
unknown origin. The flames spread rap
idly owing toa high wind The towns
people were greatly excited and as there
was no lire department in the town buck
cts were used The citizens fought the
/ flames gaIlantly, but everything was
against them, The wind carried the flame,
from house to house, and the inmates
were driven into the street without a
chance OF saving any furniture The
widest commotion ensued. People ran
hther and thither Us though distracted
and many who had fOreseen that the fire
was likely to spread, and had moved their
goods INTO the street were compelled to
watch them burn later ou aS thn ii ra t,r,,