Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-02-03

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luries of the New York Exhibition was 1901
OF which lis were silver, the remainder
Bronze. We find no silver modal awarded 20
any Vermont exhibitor. or the bronze medals
500 were given to the United States. YER
mont receives four as follows.
Bronze medal with special commentator, to
Brandon Iron and Car Wheel Co., j. Howe. /
Jr Agent, Brandon, VT, for collection ofIron |
and Manganese Ores. Pig Iron, Ignite. Clay !
Ochres. The same to E. q T. Fairbanks & Co.. !
OF st. Johnsbury,Vt., for Platform Balances.
Bronze mc1als to the [. States Pottery Com
r1ny, Bennington, Vt, Cor Fcnton's Patent
Flint Enamclcd and purian Ware and to
Reuben Daniels, Woodstock. VT, for his
patent Hay, Straw and Cornstalk Cutter.
---NERMoSr PRopuc1IoSs.- Brigham
Of Lowell, VT, raised a PIG of the Suffolk
breed, which when slaughtered this winter
weighed l1j pounds and the entire bones of
which when well picked weighed only dght
pounds fire ounces. 50 writes n correspon-
dent Of the IrdsJmgh Ga:cHe.--Thc Ogdcns-
burgh Sentinel gays Mr.. Perkins Of HYDE
park, Vt, has an OK on exhibition in Ogdcns-
burgh which weighs 1856 pounds. This
Bchcmoth was raised at Hyde Park. is now
in his sixth year, and is still growing, having
gained the past year nearly 400 pounds. He
stands feet inches high, and measures
from rump to nose - feet inches. and from
tip to tip 20 feet. He is considered the
largest specimen Of horned cattle in the
world. Mr. Perkins is on his way to lii
nois, whittier he has removed his family, in
order as he says, to let the animal attain his
growth, Vermont being too crowded for that
purpose.
DARN or juan TouRo. Judah Touro
OF New Orleans, died on "Wednesday the lQth
ult. When the Bunker hin monument was
at standstill, it is said that he and Abbott
Lawrence gave it fresh start hy donations
OF 500 each. lie leaves u fortune OF "A
million and Il half,of which some $3.50 600 is
hcqucathcd to charitable Objects, $50 600
being given TO the Jews Hospital Sorctv.
New York ; $4,000 to the New York Relief
Society for lndigrnt Jews in Palestine also.
$4,000 to the Agent Of said Society. for
arheliorating the condition of the Jews in the
Holy Land and securing the enjoyment of
their religion also. consdrrab bic hcouests to
other Hebrew Congregations throughout the
United States.
/ -CoNsERvATisM.-The most conservative
| place IN C!rstendom is said to be the town Of
! Boston Corner, Mass. There was neither
marriage, birth, or death in it during the past
year.
"A VETERAN ScuooL-MA'AM-The Brat
tleboro Eagle Chronicles the death of Miss
Lovisa Witt, who had just commenced her
one hundrcdth term of school teaching. Pa
rents, children, and in some instances grand
children, had passed successfully under her
/ care.
--- MouST NERSoN.-It is said that Mrs
Washington. the lady OF the present proIric-
tor Of the Mount Vernon estate, on the lIth
inst, presented her delighted husband witch
the first male child ever born in the Washing
ton mansion. lie should be adopted by Con-
5rcss and named hail Columbia.
/ -lME ADMINISTRATION The arpoint-
ment oI Thomas ka!ney o Cincinnati, an ac-
tive Wing campai gner in the last canvass, aud
still as much Ola " hig us ever, is considered
evidence that the Administration is turning
Wing" Things is working"
-IIYpRoPHopIA Two persons were bit
/ by mad dog in Halifax, Mass, on the Goth
'Decembcr-one man named Cox, and girl
of seven years, The girl died OF hydrophobA
on the morning ofthc 22d, at the Massachusetts,
Hospital, The man as yet has good health
Both had their wounds cautcrized at the
time. The Commonwealth says:
This is the frat case that has ever been
! treated in the Massachusetts General IIospIt-
al. Not more than dozen nuthcnticr,,scs have
occurred in this vicinity within tho last
twenty years. There never has any where
been well authenticated case of recovery
after the symptoms have fairly been developed
After an individual, as in the instance of Mr..
Cox, has been bitten by Il dog known to be
mad, his chance Of taking the disease is only
about one in twelve, If such person is at
tackled, il is generally within eighteen months
after the accident"
- LITERARY INroRNArIoN.- Bancroft
sixth and last volume Of his " History of the
American Revolution" j, in prcsr.-Wash-
lngton Irving, who is now preparing COM
plete edition Of his works, is in the seventy
eighth year of his age.-IIarrict Boechcr
Stowe has in press her " Journal in Europc."
--PArPERlsM IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1t ap-
pears from report Of the Secretary of State
that there were at the close Of 1853 in Mas
sachusctts, 26,4l4 persons relieved or sup
ported as paupcrs at an expense of ;s46S, 500
That is about three paupcrs and half to
each square milc and paupcr to every 81 of
the inhabitants of the State.
- AMEos AND BrSrs by KINyEY.-At the
entrance of the picture gallery at the CRYSTAL
Palace is frame filled with canieos by Is. II
hlnney, of W orcestrr, Mass, which are Of very
perfect and delicate Workmanship. The most
nicely and gracefully wrought Of the Italian
canoes are not finer than these. Most of
them are portraits, and the truth of the re-
semblanrc. we are told, is very great. In