Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-05-12

n NEBRASKA Emigration convention /
was held in Worcester last week. Rcsou-
tions of the right sort were passed, ana .
speeches made. Rev. Edward h. Hale, OF
Worcester. said that one direct step to be tax
en- was to advertise for proposals to take out .
20. 900 einigrants in companies OF not less
than 300 each. In this way their expenses
might be lrsscncd one half. Again, the So
rictv would construct spacious boarding
houses for their accommodation in Nebraska,
at cheap rates. until their own dwellings were
erected. They would also send out steam en-
zines. saw mills. grist mills, printing presses,
&c. He believed that 1000 Massachusetts,
men would settle in kauA,s before the COM
mcuccmcnt Of $50.
- O>E MORRISON went from Cavend>h
VT into New Hampshire for rum. and oh
tanning his supply. started about two-thirdS
drunk upon his return, was oycrtaken by the
train ON the Sullivan railroad, and. unable to
got out of its way. was crushed. Some ncor
righb, villain made Il shilling ON the rum.
tins BONES of Mr.. John Slack offspring
field, Vt, who disappeared mystcriously some
three years ago. were found in that town last
week at the footoru prccipicc from which it
is evident he fell He was so years old.
-RoplRr PlKE of Rcadsboro, says in
print. that his son james has left his "bcd
and board without any just cause or provoca-
ton \ shocking instance of total deprav-
itv but not SO bad as irJdmcs had taken the
'bcd and board with him
A. =, 1,d,, ~ j',riuth Nc has al
tanned the remarkable age of one hundred and
twelve years She consumes two bushels and
one peck of snuff per year, and it is calculated
that the enormous quantity of one hundred
and thirty-ninc bushels Of Maccoboy has found
its way into her proboscis since her fftieth
birthday She has been urged to break off
before the habit becomes fixed, but still con-
tinues snutfng out her candle of life at the
rate Of three boxes day.
- The Montpelier Freeman quotes
statement to the effect that Douglas drinks
hard The Patriot comes to the rescue. and
meets the statement most satisfactorily by a
magnanimous offer to bet that Judge Doug
lass expenses for Rum fall short of those of
the Editor of the Freeman for tobacco. But
the Patriot is too cautious to bet on the
.mallness Of the Little Giant disbursements
for Brdady.
"A LrNAT1C, j. 5. Orr by name, who I'M
der the cognomen of the - Angel Gabriel -
has travelled the country. preaching on the
evils of porery, was the occasion of a serious
riot in Chelsea near Boston on Sunday last.
\ fight took place between the followers of
Orr and number of Irish Catholics. in which
one man was wounded in the leg by a pistol
shot and another injured by hrick-bats.
The mob next gathered at the Catholic
church, which they threatened to tear to
pieces The riot act was read. when the mob
promised that if the authorities would allow
the cross to be taken from the church. they
would dispense. The request was conceded,
and a hoy was despatched to the top of the
bcfrv. and had soon detached the gildcd cross
from its resting place and thrown it to the
ground where it was broken to pieces by the
mob. Meanwhile the bells were rung and the
military called out. when the mob dispersed.
The Catholic church in East Boston also
threatened by a mob. and was said to he held
by 500 armed Irishmcn. No violence was at
tempted however. and all was quiet at last
accounts.
-IHE Doc excitement ran high in Bran
don last week. Inllammatory handbills cal
culated to increase the dread of hydrophobia
and to decrease the security Of canine proper
ty, We're scattered through the village, and
the death by poison Of some fifteen or twenty
dogs, including one of the two owned by the
Editor of the Post, followed, After which
night drew her sable curtain over the scene
"Ani nought was be heard but the wild winds,
And the rcnorseless wqH nj tom 'otS 80
-llENDRIcKSoN, the murderer Of his
wife by poison, paid the penalty of his crime
on the gallows in Albany on Friday last. lie
showed little emotion of any kind and denied
his guilt to the last He was but % years of
age.
-TnRLE YEARS ago Mr. Clark Hubbard Of
Walpole, n. H., left his sick bed in fit OF
arrangement, having nothing but shirt
pants, vest and stockings, and, escaping from
his friends, wandered away, no one knew
whether. Diligent search was made for him
for many days by distressed friends, but no
his skeleton was found in little clump o
bushes about sixty rods from the main roaC
from Walpole to Bellows Falls, in sitting
posture, still covered with the shirt and vest
all the flesh gone, and one bony arm thrown
around a small tree for support. He hid him
self from search there doubtless and died from
exhaustion.
-AMoNG the knowing incidents by fooC
and field occasioned by the late flood one o
the most amusing the descent of an anti
quated pulpit, which came sailing down tn
Naugatuck, with stately dignity, and brough
to at the depot in Ansonia, as if for the spe
cial benefit of the railroad corporation.
-KossuTH no longer writes for the col
umn. of the New York THncs That papc
has, however, valuable private sources of in
formation among the republicans of Europe
and 1T states on the authority of its private
adyices, that democratic rising Throughout
Prussia and Poland has been decided upon b.
the revolutionary committee, and that it ha
probably broken out before this.
- 4 FRE>cH PAPER, published in Mon
treal, says that numbers Of young men, e,
pccally in the district of Montreal, are leaN
ing Canada for the States under the appreher
sion noticing called intoactiye service in the Ca
madam militia The P,Iot says there is no il
tenton on the part Of the government of cal
ing out the militia but should it be deeme
advisable to levy provincial corps, it will
by means of voluntary enrolment,
- ON THURSDAY last at dusk the spacior
Nunnery belonging o the Grey Nuns,
Quebec destined for the next sittin1 of Pa