Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-04-21
ITEMS AT HOME AND ABROAD.

New NoRK Mans Of last SATURDAY.
by the snow which blocked the railroads
south. The snow storm. OF which here we saw
nothing Except a slight srrnkling prevailed
furiously elsewhere during saturday and
Sunday, extending a. far South "a Baltimore
We hear Of snow some inches deep at Rut-
land something under a foot deep at Albany,
and in New York deep enough To- stop
the city Railroads, \ few more such - April
showers" will, it j. to be hoped, " tax" the
evil out of the wenthcr -
-TuE STEAMER SAR,xAo, Capt. j. {.
Rabbit, came out from the harbOr Tuesday
afternoon, and for the present will run be-
tween Burlington and Pittsburgh
-THE NEXT FAIR of the State igricu
tural Society is not to be at Bellows Falls as
has been stated. The Repository understands
that it will be at Brattleboro.
-THE HOUSE of ARA Tracy of Bristol,
Vt, was consumed by fire on Saturday even
ing last. Furniture saved.-Also on Tues
day night the Union Store at Saxton' 5 River,
Vt, owned by F. Perry, was burned with all
its contents and the books of the company.
c. W. Fairweather was the principal owner
of the goods The Argus estimates the loss
at three or four thousand dollars.
-THk HOUSE Of Austin Harmon of Ben
nngton VT, was entered one night last week
and $3.50 in money taken from his room.
"A Mas. RUSSELL, nged about &c. COM
mted suicide at Factory Point VT, on the LIST
instant, by taking morphine.
-THE OLD BRIDGE, near the Academy in
Montpelier. was taken off by the ice and high
water on the 10Th.
-IT is STATED that Judge Pierpont has
decided at Rutland that much of the Liquor
Prohibition act of tins State as directs that
seized Liquor shall he DESTROYED without direct
proof that any has been sold, is unconstItutlon-
al. This Is on the basis of the late Massachu
sets decision.) Tic case goes up to the Su-
preme Court
-JoHN PIKE, a respectable farmer, as
the Brattleboro Eogie states, committed
suicide in Nottingham, Vt, on Sunday of
Last week. in his own house, by leaning the
muzzlc of muskct against his breast and
discharging its contents while III that posi-
ton. lie was b years old and leaves a wife
and nine children, the Oldest in his fifteenth
year. Trouble in the ncighborhood and bad
, health were the probable causes which led to
this tragical result, HIS family had dis
covered symptoms of partial arrangement for
several days previous.
-MoTmER EARTH was treated lay the
Sheriff to three barrels of Liquor in st. Al
bans, on Monday last.
--ArRoR, TnATsuER has recovered Zoo
and costs of Thomas kctchum, in suit for
breach of promise of marriage, tried at the
present term of the Rutland County Court.
-JrpGE HArcn, the recently elected
Commissioner for Orange County, positively
declines serving. In his letter nj dcrhnatlor
I to the Randolph Hrlid. he states that he con-
sidcrs some OF the material provisions of III,
law 400 arbitrary and contrary to the genius
and spirit of our free Institutions and thinks
the friends OF temperance committed crea
error in passing the law" believing that no Law
Of such arbitrary provisions, can receive tn
moral support which Is necessary to promote
cause of temperance" With such views, It cal
of course be considered no great hardship tia
he refuses to hold The office.
IN WoRctsrtR las, week one at Il,
workbench IN \ a IulIug mtll was caught IN