Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-29

of Commons at the next session will adopt
resolution in favor Of treaty between
Great Britain and the Unitod States pro-
viding for the settlement of oil disputes be-
tween the two countries by arbitration.
The trial of a notorious female brigand
named Mia has commenced in Servia. She
has been the terror Of Servia for years on
account of the torture which she inflicted
upon her victims. She is charged with IA
murders and an endless number OF rob-
berries
In the Augusta statue Of the late A. ii. |
Stephens of Georgia, vice-presdent of the
con tederacy, Mr.. Stephens will be repre- |
sented as standing erect at a table, his right
hand extended in well-remembered attl- |
tude. The statue will be completed in six |
months
Rev. Zacharah T. Bell, the North Caro-
lima preacher who eloped with Kate Mash
burn and his paramour, were both brought
into court at Danonega Ga, and pleaded
guilty, and Judge Wellborn sentenced Bell
to pay fine of $500 or 60 to the chain gang
for II months.
1t has just transpred that the late Cen
eral Boulanger was terribly addicted to the
morphine kabit. Tho most dramatic Incl
dents OF his life were passed while under the
influence OF morphc injection. The gen
erals mistress, Nine. Bonnemaip, was also
a victim OF the drug.
In the United States Court, at Pittsburg,
Porter Worl, young school teacher, OF
Westmoreland county, was sentenced to pay
fine of $500 and undergo an Imprisonment
of six months for having imperaonated an
internal revenue officer and collecting money
legally due the State.
Gilman, third csliph OF Badgad, A. D.
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worn formula, "Unacustomed as | am to
public Speaking" At lenst are inform
ed by no less an authority than Sir VIII
liam Muir in his "History of the Rise and
Fall Of the Caliphatc."
Saturday for tho first time the Sarna
tunnel, between Canada and the United
States, was opened for regular freight
traffic The occasion is secondary in sent-
mental interest to the recent official "open-
ing" but its practical importance cannot
easily be over estimated.
The Cherokee commission has concluded
treaty with the Tonknowa Indians by which
| the Indians agree to take land in severalty
| and sell the remainder to the government at
S125 per acre. After the Indians have
been allotted lands there will remain for
settlement about 10, 0U0 acres.
Washington dispatches say that the a.
| per cent bonds continue to be received by
the treasury at the rate of 500, 600 per
day from the larger cities and through
banks, where holders have deposited them
for redemption. There is still about So,
900, 600 of these bonds unredeemed.
Western lines expect no movement of
| corn before the middle of November and st.
| Louis lines are shading rates SO hpprecably
that grain shipments via Chicago show a
notable decrease. Total eastbound ship
ments last week amounted to 81, 331 tons,
against 81, 1858 tons the corresponding week
last year.
Saturday evening John Cummings, a
farmer living near Penatangushene, Ont, ,
left his wife and three children locked up
in his dwelling while he attended to some
chores. During his absence the house was
destroyed by fire, tho three children burned
to death, aud his wife seriously burned
that she cannot live.
Samuel Cadmus, a Hollis, N. j., farmer
wears squirrel-skin cap. He was up a tree
yesterday after nuts when some boys mis-
took him for the rodent, whose skin con-
stitutes his head gear, and brought him
down. Several shot grazed his head, but
he was not SO badly injured but hs could
give the boys sound thrashing.
A nail from Montana composed of gold,
silver and copper the three meta.o that have
made the State rich, will be the last nail
driven in tn. wopren's building at the worlds
fair aad Mrs. Potter Palmer, president OF
the lady managers, will drive it. The nail
will be appropriately SHAPED and engraved
updsr the direction Of the wife oil Lieut. 0v.
Richards of Montana.
We are told that among the delicacies to
| ha oh tai Mt I Aati
are sliced lotus roots, roots of large bur
dock, lily bulbs, shoots Of ginger, picked
green plums, beans OF many sorts, boiled
chestnuts, nuts OF the gingko tree, picked
green's Of various kinds, dried cucumbers
and several kinds of seaweeds. But OF
what use is railroad station without the
festive sandwich
On Tho basis of Capt Schley's report
, Minister Egan has been instructed to de-
mand full and speedy reparation for the AS
sault on American sailors in Valparaiso. The
, Gillian republic seems to havo shown con
tinued unfriendly spirit to Uncle Sam, OF
which the Valparaiso affair was the cul
mination. The United States cruiser Bos
ton sailed Saturday with years provisions
for cruisers stationed in Chllau waters.
The Logan monument committee, Secre
tary Proctor Gen. Aiger, Capt. Lemon
Pension Commissioner Raun, Gen. Bur
dette and Gen. Casey, met at the war de
partment aud appointed Gen, Alger ant
Capt. Lemon a committee to visit the studio
, of St Gaudans in New York and make, j
they thought proper, a selection from sew
eral models Of Gen. Logan there.
The McCal thyites have selected Martin
a Dublin butter merchant, to make the con
test against John u, Redmond the Par
neilite candidate for election to the Hous
OF Commons from Cork, and Michael Davit
has consented to stand for the northern di
vision OF Kilkenny, the seat in the House o
Commons made vacant by the death OF )!
John Henpt ssey.
Gen. Fitz Simmons has rather a,arme
' Chicasoans by announcing that their city
!, in danger OF disappearing in a hole II
y demonstrates from geological standpoin
that the place il built on a thin crust O
clay, which rests on semi-huid mass o
o mud and quicksand 80 feet more deep
No matter If the crust does give way, tina
tall tower at the fair grounds, her auditu
u rum, the board OF trade building and tn
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