Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-09-30
ITEMS AT HOME AND ABROAD.

render Birmingham England, the cleancst
town in the world.
Thirty would do the same for New York
for one sixth of the money which, to the
amount of $3.50 ,000 is now spent in sweep
ing not cleaning that dirty city but, says the
Post, d" there is one objection to it, which is
insuperable-it cannot rote.'
If it could, it would be s,cceping vote
wouldn't it,
The PAcIrIc RAILRoAD.--A letter in
the Galveston Ncws of Aug. oath, from f.
Allen and D. W. c. Clarke, gives informa-
tion that a contract for constructing seventy
miles of the 4" Galveston and Red river Rail-
road" was concluded on the Goth between the
company and Gen. Orville Clarke, of New
York.
Fifty miles Of the road are to be completed
and furnished so as to be in running order by
the first day of May next, the remainder by
the first day of August.
This is to be link in the Great Pacific line
contemplated
A despatch to the Boston papers says
that the New York, Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad Company held their first meeting
at the Metropolitan Hotel on Friday.
Robert j. Walker commenced the first sub
scription with the sum of ten millions of
dollars. Dr. Newcombe and others of Albany.
subscribed for nearly six millions. The
capital of the company is one hundred mil
lions.
-OLD YALE.-Yale College has existed
one hundred and ffty-thrce years, and 'edu-
Gated" six thousand students.
-SnoRT OF ITEMs.-A Western Editor
lately found fellow in the woods, hanging
and kicking from limb Of a tree in the AFRO
nics of death, but being short of items did
not report the fact, nor make any attempt to
cut him down, in order to have Il fresh ..Ilor
rihle Suicide" for his own paper, which was
issued four days afterwards.
-CrLINARY.-Nli Leslie. in her cook
book, gives full directions d" how to whip Il
silly-Imb' but for all that Il foolish boy is
not always improved by Whipping.
-C,RLYLE.-Whcn Gaze into the stars.
they look down upon me with pity from their
serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistcnins
with tears over the little lot of man Thou
sands OF generations. all as noisy as our own
have been swallowed up by time. and there
remains no record of them any more. Yet
ArcturuS and Orion, Sirius and Plritdcs. are
still shining in their courses. clear and Young.
as when the shepherd first noted them in the
PLAINS of Shinar.
-CATHoLIC COMMISSIONER The Romish
papers are clarifying in the appointment by
President Pierce, Of Hon. d. $. Gregg, of H.
linois, as Commissioner to the Sandwich
Islands; hoping that as fauhfW CafhoHc he
secure fine loothold for French priests
-FouSD.-The young lady who was lost
in mazemcnt, was found by means of '.mul-
tiplying glass; and dragged out with fire
hook.
- As 1T SHOULD BE.--Tn the course of a
month, there will be double track all the
way from New York to- Albany on the Hudson
River Railroad.
- ArroINTMENTS.-The Collector of this
State has appointed the following deputies in
Orleans and Essex Counties
}. Smith, Esq, deputy collector at Island
Pond: II, q. Pike, Esq, assistant do n
Colby, Esq, do. Derby; W. Il, Andres, Esq,
do. Newport
AGRICULTURAL ExHBITIoN.-Thcrc is to be
grand provincial Agricultural and Industrial
Exhibition in Montreal, from the 9th to the
seth of this month. !S6.0oe is appropriated
for prizes. On the 2Sth Professor Wilson. one
of the Royal Commissioners to the New York
Crystal Palace, now in Montreal, is to deliver
lecture on the . Cultivation of Flax
-MURDER.-A horrible murder was com
mitted in Sherburnc. Mass. ON Wednesday
evening l4th inst An old gentleman named
Cozzens, aged 20, and his wife aged g., were
Nifed by an lrishman, named Chapman, with
an axe. Mrs, Cozzens was at last account 5
still alive, but not expected to survive through
the day.
The murderer was found on THURSDAY
night, in the barn of his brothcr-in-law.
about twenty-four hours after the murder
was committed, and only threc-quartcrs Of Il
milc from the scene Of the murder During
this time, the wrctched fellow had been en-
tainted; and swOoncd three or four times be-
fore being taken from the barn His own
words and the dying testimony Of Mrs. Co..
zens leave no doubt of his guilt Mr. Co2zem,
had about -, 900 in the house, which fac
was probably known to the murderer, and in
stigated the awful deed.
-PRoGREss. The Louisville Journal
Kentucky is publishing series of spirite
articles in favor of abolishing slavery in tina
state, without creating any excitement i
opposition.
-TnE French Mission. The New Yor
HraM says the mission to France has bee
tndered to, and will be accepted by the Hon
John Y. Mason, President Tyler's and Pres
don't Polk's Secretary Of the Navy for tim'
--NEw DEfINiTIoN.-At Convention
Doctors in New York lately, man was define
to be ga bundle of sunshine done up in