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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-14
Underhill.

Much damage was done to crops, and
many trees We're blown down in this vi
entity, by the recent storm. Fruit was
much injured. -. Haying is nearly done
in this section. 1t has proved to be good
crop. Oats are more than an average, and
potatoes promise to be excellent in quality
and quantity. ... The campers have gone
to South Hero, leaving here Wednesday,
Whltcomb x Chaplin and their friends
to the number Of eight or ten make up
the camp, .,..Rev. f.. II. Byington has
been stopping Il few days at 7. b. Barney's.
He filled the pulpit at the Congregational
church last Sunday, and sunday even
ing gave avery interesting talk at the
temperance meeting,...C. Il. Barney,
Esq, is visiting home friends. He is hay
ing Il very prosperous law business at
lloosick Falls, y. y. ct. The bridge across
Browns river, near the residence of Is. ii.
Day has been tasttully draped in honor of
General Grant We understand it was
done by Mr. EVarts of Louisville Ken
lucky, who with Mrs Evaris and niece,
Miss Ella AtWater, of Burlington are
spending Il few weeks with Mr.. and Mrs.
Day. Mr.. EvartS was one of the truly
loyal southern men who kept the stars and
stripes waving over his house and store
during the darkest days of the war.
Services in Calvary CEpiscopaD church,
village of Underhill, on Sundays, August
9, IL, % and 80, at 1890 a. m, and p. m,
except on the 30th, when service will be
only ut p. m.
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Milton.

The item referring to insulting Ian
guage toward Gen. Grant, uttered by an
aspirant for the Milton post Office having
been attributed by the Argus to an
''ofiicial crank" and pronounced false,
the citizen of Milton who sent it now
says 81 never held a government office,
more say that the charge made is true (;
and the Saturday previous to this the
same person said in j, II. Booths store that
they had shown Grant all over the " orld
rs they do monkeys, and now they ought
to embalm his body and sell him to p. 4.
Barnum to show. | have good men that
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-14

Memorial services were held in the
Methodist church Saturday afternoon un-
der the auspices of Post Cummings, q. \.
IL. \ llag draped in mourning was les
tooned over the pulpit and in front beau
tiful floral monogram was displayed, the
gilt of Mrs. James Millhaur. ApprOpri-
ate music was rendered by double quar-
tette and the address by the Rev Mr. Kerr
was an able, patriotic eulogy of the life and
services of Gen. Grant a large audience
attended the services. .... Miss Emma
BoyntOn has gone to Loon Lake in the
Adirondacks. 49,. Henry Fraser and fami-
ly are visiting in Montgomery Mr.. Cur
It's Andrews expects to 20 to Wisconsin
soon and will be absent some weeks
Mr.. David Fraser wintered thirty swarms
of bees. From these he has obtained forty
two new swarms and fifteen hundred
pounds of honey. He thinks it is an extra
good season for honey
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Flour, sugar, etc.

gan, s. to So Spring patents, 81
Granulated sugar is : cts pound
Light brown 6 cents. Maple sugar is Sto
T. cents apound and maple syrup Is 81 Il
gallon in cans. new white clover honey is
% to % cents a pound. Nuts, all kinds
assorted, 20 cents pound.
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|EIThe a. tee 2tesse
(tI-NT " G-ee u. -
CITY AND VICINITY,

e of the Adventists have already ar
and are camping out upon their
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-14

Miss Hattie Morse is spending few
weeks with school friends in Burlington
and Charlotte John Phillips, Esq, re
Hartland is visiting her aged aunt, Mrs.
Melinda Watts...M. Ethel, the little
daughter of Station Agent White at North
DuXbury recently celebrated her fifth
birthday by entertaining IL party of little
people. The occasion was greatly enjoyed
bV ALL
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-14

stand ready to swear to this and the for
mcr remark, if again denied"
South Burlington.
Mr.. George w. Zero has Just finished Il
remarkable centre table II is made of
wood from all parts Of the United States
and many foreign countries, includ-
ing Central America, South America,
spain, Ireland, Japan and the Holy Land.
The table top contains 5,3i4 pieces, all of
different colors, so arranged as to give it
the appearance of raised work Mr.. Zero
values this beautiful table ut 800. 1t is
expected it will be on exhibition at the
coming State fair.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
TERRIFIC WATER SPOUT,
rarity of Bohemians Overwhelmed and
Eleven of Them Drowned.

LINCOLN, NEB., May 2s-A special to the
State Journal from Indianola gives the fol-
lowing particulars of the. bursting of wa
ter spout: Tuesday evening a party of
seventeen Bohemians en- route to Dundy
Creek camped at Richman Canyon, nine
miles east of this place. At dark heavy
rain set in, and about 10 O'Clock water
spout burst short distance above, flooding
the heretofore dry canyon to depth of
fifteen feet. The party were asleep in their
wagons, and it consisted of John Mack,
his wife and son, John Osmer, wife and
four children and two other children,
Joseph Havelic, his wife and three child
rem. When the flood struck the wagons
Havelic was the first to arouse. He
Jumped up, grasped his wagon tongue and
ATTEMPTED to pull the wagon out of the
water Fresh waves struck it, twisting the
tongue from his grasp and carrying the
wagon out into the raging food. Osmer
had succeeded in getting four children to
shore, but before he could return to his
wagon it was carried down the canyon.
The first Mack knew of the situation he
was sailing down the stream. Seeing
tree just ahead, he babe his wife and son
cling to him, and he would
Wy anu CdUCu Uuo uTee. Ilo SuCCoeueu,
but the sudden stop shook off his wife and
son, and they went down in the food.
Mack climed in the tree, from which he
was rescued in the morning. Havelic and
Osmer finally found the residence of Simon
Jennings, half mile off, made known
what had happened, and word was sent to
lndianola. By noon one hundred people
were searching for the bodies of the
drowned. Up to tonight but two of the
eleven bodies missing had been found.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
Brazil to Abolish Slavery.

New YORK, May 29.-The steamer Ad-
vance, which arrived here to-day from Rio
de Janeiro, brings advices to the effect that
the new Ministry of Brazil has adopted a
programme for the abolition of slavery, Of
which the following is synopsis: A gen.
eral registry of all slaves, with declara-
ton of the value of each slave registered,
subject to a yearly depreciation of five
per cent. Making the maximum
value of slaves of sixty years
two hundred milreis EACH Slaves
over sixty years of age will have no none
tary value, but will be obliged to serve for
a term of three years. The existing eman-
cipation fund will be continued, and in ad-
dition a new fund will be created from a
tax of five per cent. on all public revenues
except exports and naturalization will be
made to slave owners in five per cent poll
cies to one-half the value of each slave and
a service of five years in payment of the
remainder.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06

NEW York, May 2S.-Shortly after three
a. M, to day, people in the vicinity of
Fourth and Fifth streets, Long Island City,
were startled from their sleep by loud
crash, and running from their dwellings
found that the frame tenement house, No. 80
Jackson Avenue, had fallen down. Several
days ago the house was found to be in dam
gerous condition, andthe tenants were or
dered by the police to vacate the place. They
strongly objected, asserting that they had
paid quarters rent They moved por-
ton of their furniture, however, and were
to have taken the rest of it away to-day.
At the last meeting of the Board of Health
the house was declared a nuisance, and
dangerous to human life, and ordered to be
pulled down at once or repaired. There
were no persons in the house when it fell
The building was owned by Mrs. Langtry.
The loss is about 81 800.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
Cholera Precautions.

PARIS, May 2S.-Dr. Proust has been sent
by the government to Marseilles to advise
upon measure for preventing repetition
of last years cholera scourge. There are
some indications that the authorities are
waking up to the fact that cleanliness be-
forehand is what is needed, rather than
medicine afterwara There have been
some attempts to render Mars lilies and
Toulon less filthy, but they have largely
failed, because of public Indifference among
the citizens. The Spanish govern
ment's prohibition of further inocu-
lations by DR.. Ferran is ostensibly
due to the fact that some persons
who had been subjected to the treatment
died. DR.. Ferran, however, points to the
fact that out of 5000 persons inocculated
with the cholera germ, the deaths, if any,
have been so few as to escape record. He
does not see how the Government Commits
sion of Inquiry, now at work, can fail to
report favorably on his system, in view of
such results as these. The doctor, however,
cares nothing about the result except from
humanitarian point of view,a and says that
if the Spanish Government will not let him
save people from cholera in Spain, he will
visit Paris and London and expound the
system in public there. hoping to secure its
adoption by some government.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
A Common SC0ld.

PHILADELPHIA, May q. - Margaretta
Brooks was convicted to-day Of being a
common sccld, and was sentenced to four
months Imprisonment. After the sentence
her eighteen-y ear-old daughter jumped to
her feet and struck one of the witnesses,
an aged lady, in the face with her fist, and
mother and daughter then be-
came intensely excited, crying,
screaming and striking right and left
After the mother had been remanded to the
prison van the Judge sentenced the daugh-
ter also to four months Imprisonment for
contempt of Court. At this announcement
the girl became frantic, began screaming
at the top of her voice, and resisted des-
perately the officers who took hold of her
to remove her to the van. She fought with
all her strength, and being strong, robust
young woman, it took all the strength of
two of the strongest officers of the Court
to remove her from the room.
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CAUGHT AT LAST.
A. ". Mullen, Embezzling Manager of Kel
lOgg's Newspaper Company Arrested
in Philadelphia.

CINCINNATI, o., May GA. w. Mullen,
former manager of the A. N. Kellogg
Newspaper Company, of this city, who has
been hiding in Philadelphia since last No
vember, was arrested yesterday on a
requistion from Columbus, on a charge of
of this city. Mullen proposes to make
: fight, and having ,, secured IRE d
was raised in reference to the papers, and
they were to-day sent to Harrisburg for
correction, while Mullen was remanded to
Jail. at Philadelphia. Detective Grammar
will probably arrive Monday evening with
his prisoner. Mullen was first-class book
keeper, rapid accountant, and considered
every way a first-class man. When the AN.
Kellogg Company bought out the Aikens
Newspaper Union in June, 1889, Mullen
was in their employ, and so high were the
testimonials for honesty, capacity and en-
terprise they gave him that the new COM
pany retained his services. He was the
manager, opened all the letters, carried the
keys to the safe, and the concern had I'M
limited confidence in him. In the spring
of 1884, the general manager, Mr.. G. E..
Pratt, began to suspect something wrong,
uIlu dU ldSU ucbeCGcu 1ulSt tuuIlto III UhC
books. 1t is the custom of the house to
send out weekly statements to all the
country customers. These were made out
by the book keeper from the books, and
handed to Mullen for comment. In many
instances where such customers had sent
him checks or drafts which he had pocket
ed he destroyed the statement furnished
him by the book keeper and mailed a cor
rect account. In other cases where money
was due from the company to business
houses in the city, he would take, say 500,
out of the drawer, and have it charged on
the cash-b book as paid on the bill. 1t was
ascertained afterward that this money was
appropriated to his own use. His pecula-
tions in this way amounted to between
"a, 900 and 5000. Or the 3lsJ of last Octo-
Der, Mr.. Pratt, who had sent out circulars
to the country customers, received
in return number of returned
drafts and Cancelled checks, which fur
nished such overwhelming evidence OF
Mullen's rascality that he was confronted.
With great GOODNESS he said that he could
explain it all; said he would go out few
minutes, and Mr.. Pratt demanded the keys,
and he slipped off. A warrant was sworn
out for his arrest, but the bird had flown.
The affair was placed in the hands of the
detective, who, by watching sister of his
wife, succeeded in learning of his where
abouts, and the matter of his arrest was at
once accomplished.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
iWACO'S WOE.
Eleven Lives Lost by Flood and Build
ings Damaged.

NEW ORLEANS, May 28.-A special from
Waco, Tex, says: A heavy rain-storm
prevailed in this vicinity last night, and
Waco Creek, a small stream that runs
through the city, ran out of its banks,
inundating hundreds of residences. Most
people deserted their homes and fed to
places of safety. T. Dininghoff, with his
wife and three small children, remained in
their house, which was washed away,
and the whole family were drowned.
Howard Lewis, colored man, with his
wife, sister and three children, living on
small stream east of the city lost their
lives in the same manner To these eleven
victims are to be added five others near the
city. The damage to crops in the county
is over $3.50, 900. Rain storms have prevail
ed throughout North and West Texas, and
the damage to crops and railroads is in
calcuable.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
NOBLE ABORIGINES.
Geronimo's Band Come up With
by Troops, but Gets Away.
They Perpetrats Devilish Atrocities, Both
In the United States and Northwest
Territory.

DEM1NG, N. NJ, May 20.--Thirty Indians,
who passed Camp Fleming last night,
killed five men within five miles of Silver
City. A company of volunteers from Sill
yer City is in pursuit of the Indians. The
military is doing nothing. Intense excite
ment prevails. The town was guarded
last night to prevent a possible surprise.
SILVER CITY, N. M, May 29.-Captain
Madden struck Geronimo's band of
Apaches yesterday on the Upper ella, and
ran them into the mountains, where he ex-
pected fight but the Indians evaded him.
Several ranches about eight miles from
here have been plundered and destroyed
A family of five Mexicans were killed
last night four miles from here
Three children were Drained. Another
Mexican was shot, but escaped with his
wife. Yesterday morning Georges ranch,
two miles from Fort Bayard, was at
tackled, and a Mexican wounded. The In
dams are heading for the Black Range. A
party of citizens left here to warn and pro-
tect settlers on the Rio Mimbres. Captain
Lee, with seventy five men, took up the
trail at noon yesterday. 1t is estimated
sixty persons have been killed since the
beginning of the outbreak .4a
BATTLEFoRD, May 29-Inspector Peters
and twenty mounted police have arrived
from General Strange's column, which has
Reached Fort Pitt. He reports Fort Pitt
burned. Policeman Cowan's body was
found there, horribly mutilated, his heart
being cut out and impaled on q
pole, near his body. Peters was also
at Frog Lake, where he discovered the
bodies of the people massacred there by
Big Bears Indians. A body, supposed to
be that of Gowan Lock, was found in a
we'll. The bodies of Father Marchand and
Father Farford were found in cellar of a
burned house, much charred. They were
recognized by the beads found in their
pockets. Their gowns were not altogether
destroyed.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
A Celebrated Case.

NEW York, May Ex-senator Edmunds
will sail on the steamer Auranta tomorrow
for England. He is to testify before the
Committee on Privileges of the House of
Lords in civil suit which affects the title
Of an old peerage in England,
the income of which is $780,
600 q year. The case turns on the valid
ity of the marriage between Sir Richard
MARYLAND and Mary McAdam, which &C.
courred in this city in 1772, and was solmn-
lied by DR.. Ogilvie, of Trinity Church. 1t
is especially in regard to the colonial laws
in force at that time that Mr.. Edmunds'
testimony is wanted. The two claimants
for the estate and with it the title of
the Earl of Lauderdale, are Sir James
Ramsay Maitland, the descendant of the
fifth son of the sixth Earl of Lauderdale,
and Major Frederick Henry Maitland, the
direct descendant of Sir Richard Maitland,
who was Adjutant General of the North
American Colony from 1865 to 1772, and
was the fourth son of the sixth Earl of
Lauderdale.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
Pensions PAYMENTS.

WASHINGTON, May 29.--The payments
for pensions this month amounted to S10,-
600, 900. Last month s6,O00,O0O were dis
bursed, and for March s9,OO0,OOO were re-
quired. This gives a total for eleven
months of the present fiscal year of
S6s, 900. The pension payments for
the corresponding period last year were
S6S,0oo00O. The increase of $1,500, 0O0is ac-
counted for by the law passed last winter
granting an increase of pension for the
loss of an arm at the shoulder joint and
arrearages on cid claims. For the entire
fiscal year the draft oil the Treasury for
this account viii largely exceed $4,000, 900.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
Two youna Men Drowned,

GLENwoOD, md, May 3l.-A very sad
affair happened this afternoon between
three and four o'clock, about seven miles
north east of Nashville, at a deep hole in
Flat Rock River, called Deep Mock, by the
drowning of two boys while bathing,
namely, Johnnie Rush, aged seventeen,.and
Willie Higley, aged eighteen. Also while
trying to save the boys Mr.. Thomas Fitz-
gerald came near losing his life.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
Revolutionary Talk From Mexico.

CRY OF MEXICO, May 90, VIA CALVES
ToN.-The hostility which has long threat
ened rupture between President Diaz and
ex-President Gonzalez has finally cul-
minated in an order adopted in Congress
for the impeachment of the two Secreta-
ries of the Treasury under the Gonzalez
Administration, and also of minor treasury
officials. 1t is generally thought that ex-
President Gonzalez will endeavor to vindi-
cate himself His friends are reported as
saying that he will precipitate revolution
before submitting.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
Not a Good Day for Rats Either.

ScoTrsBURG, IND, May 2S.-Yesterday
number of boys gathered at the large barn
belonging to Melvin Hubbard, and spent an
hour in killing rats. Although it was not
good day for rats the boys succeeded in kill
ing 16S in one hour. The rats killed were
mostly full grown, while the minority were
over half grown. We believe this to be
the best ratSkilling on record ~ tho Ucifed
States.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
Poundmaker Gives It Up.

?ATTLEFoRD, May N.-Chief Pound.
maker and thirty braves surrendered last
night TO General Middleton as prisoners,
with 300 stands of arms. They are now
awaiting the disposition of the Govern
trent. Gabriel Dumont, Riel's Lieutenant.
wss captured by United States troops at
Fort Assiniboine, Montana
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
Millions of H0ppers,

CHICAGO, May pa Colorado telegram
says: Millions of young grasshoppers are
reported coming out of the sandy soil on
the south side of the Arkansas River, above
Pueblo, destroying early vegetables and
tender shrubs. Their appearance is SINH
lar to that of 1873, when they were swept
east by winds, and consumed an immense
amount of growing crops in Kansas.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
Gold Mininu in Ohio,

MOUNT VERNON, ONO, May 3O.-The gold
excitement has again broken out in this
county, and movement is now on foot to
organize a company for the development of
the territory in the eastern portion of the
county. Two old Californians, Charles
Bichtol and Aaron Lavenidge, claim to
have discovered gold beoring quartz, which
they have assayed, showing wonderful re-
suits. The exact locality of the 'fnd" is
kept profound secret, and the prospectors
expect to commence next week in securing
leases of territory. t.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
Water. Spout Does Much Damaue.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 3l.-A water spout
burst in Yankee Branch and Crooked
Creek Valleys, Crawford County, Mo-,
Friday afternoon, and swept nearly every
thing out of them. FeHces, growing crops.
and all portable things were carried away,
and nearly all the farms on the Yankee
Branch were almost destroyed, the soil be-
ing washed off to the depth of several feet.
The damage will reach many thousands of
dnllars
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
CAPITALISTS Wife Accidentally Killed.

PORTLAND, OREGON, May 3l.-Mrs. Pres
ton Smith, the wife of appointment capital
ist, was instantly killed in her bedroom,
this morning, while seated in chair nurs-
ing baby. by the accidental discharge OF
a pistol which the chambermaid was car
rying from the bed to place on the mantel.
Her husband had left the revolver under
he pillow when he left home few min
utes before. Mrs. Smith was native Of
Huntsville, Ala, and married there six
vaars auo
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
Snanish America Treaty.

MADRID, May Blu. 5. Minister Foster
is negotiating with the Spanish Cablnet ior
the establishment of a general treaty, IN
Guiding Cnba. Porta Rico, the Philippine
Islands and other Spanish colonies.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
vesuvius.

NAPLES. May 3l.-The volcanic eruptions
Of Mount Vesuvius are increasing in ac-
tivity.
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"WAsHINGTON, D. c., May q.

Hon. W. F. Villas, Postmaster General:
DEAR SIR:-I have the honor to request
that you modify your recent order in rela-
ton to the removal of fourth-class postmas-
tiers in Ohio, so as to except therefrom hon
Orably discharged Union soldiers, especially
such as are disabled by wounds received or
disease contracted in the service, and the
widows and orphans of deceased soldiers
who have shown themselves faithful and eff
fcient public servants.
81 make this request from no partisan
standpoint, but do so from conviction that
this exception is no more than a patriotic
duty. Very respectfully,
= .L---L IL al u TAYInRn
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-06-06
Mr.. TayI0r's Request.

WASHINGTON, May 29.-Congessman J.
D. Taylor left for Ohio this morning to de-
liver the Decoration Day Grafton at Cam
bridge. During the week he wrote the
following letter to Postmaster General Vii
as, to which he has as yet received no an
swer.