Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-09-01

lew hourS Illness on Sundn orlast week II il
supposed her death was caused by taking
lhudanum She had suffered from mental
arrangement for Somc time past arising from
the sudden dcccasc of Young mot with
whom she had a matrimonial engagement
- THOMAS GRANGER, an lrishman vos
arrested at Brandon last week SUNDAY in
an intoxicated condition, and placed in du.
rance lie wrcnchcd asundcr heavy pair
Of handouts, and did damage enough to the
interior Of the lock up to constitute n states
prison offence Whcrcupon failing to find
$500 bail, he was escorted to tn. county
Jail at Rutland, to stand trial in September.
-ForR srS attempted to cross tho St
Lawrence river opposite the village Of Ccdars.
in small boat, on the aftcrn noon of the 21st
instant, but the dense smoke rendered the
navigation towards the intricate channel very
difficult at the time, and the canoe was soon
upset among the rapids. All chung to the
bottom of IT, and Heated upwards Of eight
miles over all the Rapids, until they arrived
among some little islands opposite the viii
lagc of St. Clement. Here IL boy named
Pierre Paquctte, swan TO an island and saved
himself the other three men were com
pcllcd, from sheer exhaustion, to let 60 their
fral support, one after the other, md were
drowned
-ForRrEEN canvas bags, filled with
bound books for Augustus Caesar Dodge, L.
$. Senator from Iowa, passed through tho
Chicago post Office II few days since. The
4. e I. l..
will have to pay his own freight bills after
the 4th Of March.
a FREIGHT car belonging to the Og-
dcnshurgh Railroad caught FIRE on the Con-
cord Railroad, on Wednesday, and was on
tircly destroyed, together with the contents,
consisting Of silks and rich goods. Loss
estimated at $4,000.
IN .osE parts of Western New York
no rain, Of any consequence has fallen for
serenity days \ letter from Saranac, Gin
ton County, to the Platt,burgh Republican,
says " this whole region is literally parched
up. Fires are raging with great violence,
and there is scarcely land holder in town
but has suffered from it, ra,ages. The
los. Of wood and coal it is feared will stop
the operations in some Of the large iron es-
adjustments; this would throw hundreds
out Of employ"
- THE CHo1Fh. has 90 far diminished in
Now York city that the daily reports are dis.
continued Some 700 cases and 800 deaths
have been reported in all.
IN SroppAhD, n. II. several DAYS since.
two or three hundred acres were burned over
While the fire burning, Mr. Curtis
Hunt attempted to drive by a team laden with
goods to the amount Of 300. \ strong gust
of wind drove the flames so rapidly that he
i was forced to fly for his life saving ONLY one
Of his three horses. The other horse, with
the wagon and good, were DESTROYED Mr.
= Hunt himself barely escaped, his shirt being
= burnt from his back, and his face and hands
bli.tered, The horse which he saved was
d badly burned.
"A Sor1n Carolina paper regrets that
/. Gov. Burt, President Picrce's appointce as
u Governor of Nebraska, has taken but one
IS slave with him. as it thinks that under the
4. Popular Sovereignty doctrine of Senator's
i Douglas, butlcr and Petit he would he per-
y, fcctly safe in taking his entire plantation
9 with him. This is the way the Slave oligar-
chy intend to let the people rule.
= The kENSEBEc (Maine) Journal gives
- a glowing account ola tremendous mass
l. meeting of the Administration democracy"
n last week. At half past seven the people"
d began to pour into the hall at the rate of one
d a minute for the space of at least three hun
/. drcd and sixty seconds. Carefully analysed +,
|. the meeting resolved itself into the follow
ing elements
One President, who is the tide-waiter of
> Augusta, one Secretary, who is chairman of
the County Committee, three orators, con-
sisting of an ext. S. Senator, an ex Register
of Probate, and the editor of the Age, on.
audience, composed Of the Postmaster of Au-
gusta Unanimity and harmony prevailed to
a remarkable degree
-THE BosToN Traveller saws there arc
u and have been for months, more low, misera
e bic groggeries in that city than ever were
known since the city charter was adopted
More rum is openly sold and drank than ever
y before. More drunkards are about the streets
than the oldest inhn bitant recollects TO have
been, and there are more arrests for this
cause.
--lr is NOW upwards of FIVE months sill Q
J. the steamer Cny Of Glasgow left the port of
Glasgow for Philadelphia. On the 10Th f
this month a chest, bearing the word, " City
of Glasgow and the initials sc. g." as
also head board, both supposed to be relics
of the steamer, were seen at in latitude
. Al degrees Sc minutes, longitude &c degrees
minutes wcst by the British barque BIZ
tons Pr'de The letters on the chest are
supposed to be the initials of George Baker,
who was seaman on board the steamer
"A TERRIBLE TORNADO passed over the
city Of Louisville, Ky, at l. clock on Sun.
day last, The Third Presbyterian Church
was blown down during service, causing the
: instant death of hr'nty Of the congregation,
including mother and three children. and
severely injuring ten or twenty others. About
> one hundred other buildings were unroofNd
and blown down The total loss of prol rrty
, is estimated at SlOO, 0CO.
I New Publications..
Putnam's Magazine for September is al
ready on hand with its garner full Of inter
esting and well written articles. The num-
Der is cmbellished with likeness Of Mr.
Kennedy, the author of "Swalow Barn."
For sale by FULLER.
Lo>DoN QUARTERLr REVIEW. July 1854,
Vol NLll, No. ! contains an interesting ar
ticle on - the House Of Commons, Milman's
Latin Christianity The Drama Classical
Dictionaries The Electric Telegraph Chris
tianity in Melanesia and New Zealand
Queen Elizabeth and her favorites-vrry in
teresting; Lord Lyndhurst and the Eastern
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