Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-10-10
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Of this gentleman will regret to learn hat he is
afflicted with severe disorder. The Bostcn
Atlas Of Monday says that he is dangerously
i'll from a deep seated innammatoIy absces5 on
his neck. For some days he was in delirous
condition, but has been much relieved by skill
ful operation performed by Dr. J. M Warren,
though his case is still very critical.--Roch.
Dem.
-- The Boston .A'ds thinks it quite pos
sibe that Kate Hayes is "no great shakes af-
ter all. Let the Colonel wait till he hears her
''shakes.'
We learn from Albany that the anti-ren
Convention have nominated the entire demo-
cratic ticket for State officers
Tile New York Express AYERS that in
answer to an advertisement for wife, pub
lished in that paper, more than one hundred ap.
plications were received from ladies anxious to
enter into the matrimonial contract.
-NERMosr CENTRAL RAIL Ro,D -
Earnings for August, 1851, $j5,GS2 o.
Earnings for August, lsjO-22 davs-Ifreshct,)
~ ~, duu III PIOPVIllOll lui INC udNS,
55,G2j 90; would have been S30374 %. In.
crease over last year, S25,3O7 l3, or 60 per
cent.
- An Astronomical Observatory is to be
erected forthwith On the high table land north
OF Van Wuert street. and not many rods from
roadwav-which is to be connected with the
A bany University, and to be under the charge
OF Professor Mitchell, the celebrated Astronc-
mer. The Institution is enabled TO erect the
structure through the munliicpnt libetatv of
Mrs. Charles f. Dudley, who gives $40 600 t.
lie obJect-and of Stephen Van Rensselaer,.
E,q., who gives the land. 1t is an admirable
location for such purpose, exceeding in
height and its adoption to such purpose, any
place in the vicinity OF the cty.-AU. Argus.
Why should not the munjdcence of some o.
orr citizens be turned in the same useful and
desirable direction? Could there be a more
!mirabe location for an Astronomical Obscr
vatory than our University Grounds There
is not a superior point in New England, from
which to read the Stars" the Scriptures OF
the Skies"
The biographical sketches, in the Oct.
International, of young COOKE, ('the loved and
early deadly and Of Jons G. SAKE, were
written by the Editor DR.. GRswoLD.
--MlssouRI--The proposition for a mixed
Convention between the Bcntonites, and Anti
Bcntonitcs, don't meet with much favor from
"Old Bullion, hear him -
81 answer instantly and truly. that would
sooner sit in council with the six thousand dead.
who died Of cholera in st. Louis, than to 70
into convention with such a gang OF scamps
and that is my sentiment to-day. The point Is
to defeat them the public requires it. We
shall be stronger when they are ron'. and
what is more we shnll be clcan r'-EXtract Of
letter from Col. Benton to NJ. Blair, Esq, OF
It. Louis.
Tile Boston Atlas says That party of
Canadians met at The Revere House on Satur-
day last Just before leaving the city. and passed
the following spicy and expressive resolutions (:
Resolved, That there Is one place in the
United States besides New York.
Resolved, That place is Bcston.-Iroy
Uhg.
We can tell our Canadian friends that there
is another place besides New York and that
is Essex Junction
--SENTGYCEDr TO BE llUNG.-In the Court
of Oyer and Termincr, New York ON Saturday.
the following persons were FL sentenced to be
hang on Friday, the 2lst Of Nov. next: James
Sullivan. for the murder of Edward Smith in
Cliff street Joseph Clark. for the murder Of
policeman Gillespie, and Michael Mulycy for
the murder of Charles Bohman in Chatham
street. Ellen Doyle, who was convicted of
manalaughter in killing Ellen Murphy by
striking her on the head with an iron pot. was
sentenced to five years Imprisonment in the
State Prison.
- If there is any one circumstance that
prorcs the Wing party of New York to be
worthy the confidence and support Of the pco-
pie aside from the soundness of their principles
and the practical wisdom of their policy it is
the fact that the Anti-Rcners of that State
have nominated the entire Locofoco State Ticket.
Having escaped from the poisonous friendship
of this awlcss faction, the Wings of New York
may congratulate themselves and book up!
- The total recrinrs at the late State Fair
at Rochester, were &ll ,953 IT, The receipt,
at Albany in 1850, were SlO,4G5 Gil; at Syra-
cuse in l849, $S,lli 55; at Buffalo, in lSi8,
$6,272 80.
- STATISTICS of the State of Vermont.
prepared at the Census Bureau:
Dwelling houses in the State 5G.327
Families IN the State 5S.475
White Males 1924
| White Females l53.52s