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

ANN' hhhFNN IL IL WIN III \ l
mans Magazine says that in all probability
the person who will be chosen President of
the United States in 1900 is now running
barefoot among the hucklcberry bushes of
Oregon.
-CnEAr ENorGH.-The young lady who
couldn't ctprcss her feelings, has applied to
Cheney u Co., who have agreed to do it for
her, at the rate of "a per cent
-GooD NEwS.-A country editor IN
forms his readers that there arc a number of
boarding houses in New York, in which there
is not Il sin gh bcd.bug. Cause why. They
are all married and have got large families
No DOUBT OF Ir.-Fanny Fern SAYS it
is provoking for IA woman, who has worked
all day at m%cnding an old coat of her hns-
bands, to find Il love letter from another
woman in its pockets.
II FRrirrrt NiNE.--.l German woman
named lIylcr, residing on Vine street hill,
Cincinnati, gave birth to four children, 1.-TWO
boys and two girls.) on the DIST inst. Mother
and children are doing well.
-l IMMORTALITY or AN AGE.--lhc lmmO-
rality of the age is Il standing topic of com
plant with some men. But if any one likes
to be moral. | can see nothing in the age to
prevent him.-Go,thc.
- THE M~uNUMENr.-Thc Washington
monument is now l3S feet high, and the
amount received toward carrying it up to its
destined altitude, during the month of July,
from twenty-five millions Of freenen, was
SI,l22!
- MAIDErs ATTEND The following
letter was received by a Boston broker on Sat
urday, and by him furnished to the Traveller
for publication:
EST SALISBRY Aug IS, 1853 Mr. Merrill
sir will you be so hind as to inform me if |
should be likely to find Il single woman in
Boston of good moral Character not over 30
yrs Of age American woman is wat want
am a single man never married Aged - yrs
my work is farming | want a woman that un
derstands some about farming | should keep
one COW | want one that is neat and prudent
and could milk in fair weather | have good
property
| sent to Boston by the express man three
weeks ago have not heard nothing since.
A. d..
"A WoNDEK--" Woman and her
Wishes is the title of a pamphld recently
published in New York. The wonder Is how
the subject can be treated in any work of less
size than the Edinburgh Encyclopedia.
- LARGE SNAKE (SroRY.)-A snake,
twcnty-one feet six inches in length, was lately
seen in Bedford valley, near Cumberland, Md.
After being seen he shed his skin, which was
found and measured.
-TnE Pacific RoAD.-Col. Fremont has
recently started ON an exploration of the
route from the Mississippi to the Pacific,
which he proposed in lS4S-'49, when he
was stopped by deep SHOWS. Believing in "A
practicable pass through the mountains, and
II good route that way, he means to solve the
question to his own satisfaction. For that
purpose he proposes to make a double cxpedi-
ton, one in the autumn and one in the riHtor.
He takes an escort of Indians Il mounted men.
The NdrdHH0h COUricr. SAYS, that Il di>tin-
guishcd gentleman of Georgia, who recently
visited Europe. has succeeded in organizing a
company, with II capital of ten millions
sterling, for the purpose of establishing Il
more direct route of transportation between
New York. san Francisco and China. The
object of the company is to construct a rail
road direct from Savannah to Pensacola,
Mobile and New Orleans, and another road
rum lHt 'ull ~ tlt l utlllt. ne tblllltt-
tions on the Atlantic, the Gulf and the
Pacific, are to be made with first class
steamers-thc time between San Francisco
and New York to be reduced to from fifteen
to eighteen days.
-AsroNIsuINC.-Th ignorance of EngliSh
newspaper writer's, with regard to the
geography, and institutions, of not only the
United States, but the whole North American
continent, is most astonishing. OF their own
provinces. the Canadas, one would suppose
they surely might know something but the
Montreal G0ccHc recently quoted an article
from an English provincial paper in which
Montreal and Quebec were spoken of as cities
"curscd with the supremacy of the American
republican constitution, and lacking due pro-
lection from mohocracy under the banner Of
the stars and StripcS.'
lord Shaftcsbury recently submitted
to one hundred city missionaries the follow
ing question with II view to ascertain what
was their experience on the point " How
many do You estimate. havingl lived an honest
life up to twenty years Of age, have after
wards fallen away, and entered on viciou,
courses !" The answer from almost every
missionary was, - Not two in one hundred 90
-DElru ANp THE DANcE.-An advertise.
mcnt in a New Orleans paper, in odd CONT
guilty with the awful bills Of mortality, am
nounccS Il fancy ball
~ BIC ARM (CmAIR) FrLL.-A woman
is exhibiting herself in Troy, who weighs onl,
seven hundred and SiXty-four pounds. Hen
armchair is four feet wide, and she complete
~ fills it.
- SAD AFFAIR-A Mrs. Freeman. o
Lagrange county, Iowa, last week, after he
wral: brain oa, been tuned by spirit rapplngs
choked her child to death with a string.
---PowERs THE ScuLrToR.-Advice
from Italy state that Powers has postponed hi
visit to his native coun ry, in consequence o
having 50 much work.
No-AND NE-R>CIoUS, The grasshuppcr