Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-11-11
ITEMS AT HOME AND ABROAD.

lately, Mr.. Butler, principal of the High
School, corrected IA pupil by the name Of
Ward, Of one of the first families in the place.
Next day two brothers of the same family
entered the school room, and white one with
bowie knife assaulted ore Of the teachers,
the oSber after few words drew pistol and
shot down Mr.. Butler, wounding him NOR
tally over the heart. Mr.. Butler was Young
mad of nocemmon premise with wife and
young chi&d-
The Wards have been arrested on charge
of murder.
-RuM's DoINGs.--A boy Is years cid at
East Brookiield, Mass, a few days since pro-
cured bottle of cherry rum and in company
with another boy drank nearly the whole of
1T Re was found insensible and died next
day.-A teamstcr died last week in Troy, n
V, from the fatal effects Of ardent spirits
drank lay him on IL wager with another man
physician was promptly summoned, but
the unhappy man was beyond the reach Of
succor
-NovEL 1DEA-At q late agricultural
fair at Augusta, Georgia, premium was offered
for the best looking baby of native growth
fourteen months old and a little damse took
tue prize silver cup. Hereafter at the fair
of that State, $50 premium will lie awarded
10 the finest specimen of miniature Humanity
exhibited. 1t is expected to haze great cf.
feet on the baby crop in those parts.
"A SLIPPERY PLATFoRA--A :. Free
S,iler' in letter to the Rutland Herald,
speaking Of the BARRIERS, Fields and Rowcls
OF hi. party. says We are glad that the
traitors are off :. the PLATFORM" for it ,yas
rendered so slippery by the slime Of their
political turpitudc that honest men could
with difficulty stand on it. All we ask Of
them is, to keep Off"
The wicked stand on slippery places"
says the Good Book. .. n.
-CnANaEs.--The Ho9daock Mercury
appears in a somewhat enlarged and improved
form. The Scranton Hrald, which for year
past has been published by Rsp. 4. }. >amp-
son, is hereafter to I've published under the
title of " Franklin County Herald" by.
Mcssrs. l.. IL. x II. y. Drury, who announce
that it is to be Democratic journal.
-MuRDERISG HIS MOTHER TovGrE.-A
correspondent of the Windsor Journal gives
the following specimen of Speaker Neclham s
English.
80 This petition of mLich The 0bjeo oft has
jest been stated will be referred, If there is
no objection TO the contrary, to the General
Committee" The phrase if there is no OBJ
lection to the contrary" is favorite with
Mr.. Speaker.
-WANTED.-A now Cushing for ,hc
seat of Government. So says the Lhca OBJ
serrer, Free Soil paper.
The present Cushing is found 10 be
altogether too hard' for comfort
-ARITnsETIcAL.-A Southern paper say.
General Jackson's Cabinet was unit but
the Cabinet of General Pierce is a cyphcr A
Western editor, however, thinks that it is
composed of vulgar fractions.
~ IIINT>-The Clcrcland Herald. since
Mr. Bronson decaptaton for - insubordina-
tiSn,' proposes as heading to all commits
sions hereafter to be issued by President
Pierce, the following anathena hurled years
ago upon a rebcllious subject Upon thy
belly shalt thou 90, and dust shalt thou eat
all the days of thy (oficiai) life
-DETENTIoN OF LETTERS IL TIE Posi- Or
TIcE.--Suit has been instituted in New
Orleans, against the Postmaster Of that city,
Mr. W. q. Kendall, claiming damages in the
gum of $500, for loss occasioned by the un-
.T,l =, e ~,
1T is alleged that letter with notice Of a
shipment Of lemons, was deposited in the of
flee sept. llth that the plaintiff applied for
it repeatedly and was told there was no such
letter. Eight days afterwards it was adver-
tised, and in the wean time the lcmors had
become spoiled 1t is said that hundreds of
other suits Of a SIMPLER nature are about to
be instituted
-ARREsTED.--Yankeo Sullivan, one of the
Boston Corner prize fighters, has been ar
rested in New York, for the purpose of being
passed over to the authorities of Nassachu-
sctts for trial. His friends have got out
writ of haheas corpus, in order to get him
clear, but have not yet succeeded in that.
-LADIEs ATTENp.-"Frcderick l.. >" who
says he is young man 'Of an aIectonatc
Disposition" and who "wishes to obtain
some young lady with whom he would be able
to live in II tate Of continual bies"dncss, adj
vertses accordingly in a New York paper
Apply early.
"A PROGRESSIVE PARTY.-A radical edi-
tor out West asserts that the principle. of his
party are as progressive as the eternal rock
Of Gibraltar The precise rate at which the
eternal rock of Gibraltar progresses, is not
piren.