Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-01-06
BURLINGTON FREE PRESS FRIDAY, JANUARY g. 1854

INTERESTING TO Butter EATERS The
Medical Examiner states that great deal of
the winter butter in market is made of hogs
lard colorcd with yellow ochrc.
In the Legislature of Georgia, last
week, u bill was introduced to change the
name of Mary Dolly Doxy Ann Lewis to Mary
Dolly Doxy Ann Lapp.
--DRIrTING LuMBER.-Chief Justice Ia
ney i'll the L. S. Circuit Court recently de-
cidcd that lumber wrecked in navigable
river or carried away by freshets after being
anchored, is not subject to salvage, and that
any assistance rendered to RATS even when in
danger of being broken or swept down the
river, is not salvage service In the sense in
which that word is used in the courts of ad-
miralty.
Our Daniel says that proof enough can
be seen that the people nowadays, don t
live so well nor 50 long as in olden times, in
the fact that we don't find any very old folks,
but that were born a great while ago He
says the present has never furnished them,
and he don't believe 1t can.
-AHoTnER pARKMAN CAsE.-On Satur-
day, Il man named Alexander. an old soldier
of the list regiment, was arrested and COM
mitted to JAIL to take his trial. charged with
the murder Of his wife. 1t appears that the
woman had been missed by the ncighbors for
some five weeks, and that her disappearance
bad not been accounted for by her husband
There will be an inquest held to-day on what
are supposed to be the remains of the woman,
whose body is believed to have been burned,
after her murder, in the stove. -Moateal
Gazette, Saturday,
"A RAvISG MADMAN.-In New York on
Monday night, a German tailor, in a fit of
insanity, put shavings under his bed and set
fire to them. He then seized one of his chill
dren, covered its body with burning fluid from
a lamp and set fire to it, His wife seized
some hod clothing and succeeded in ey.
tinguishing the flames without serious injury
to the child, and also put out the bed, which
was on fire. The room was thus left in the
dark, when the mailman caught his wife by
the neck, threw her on the floor, and stabbed
her with knife in twenty place.. lie was
arrested and taken to prison, where he was
found dead in his cell the next morning, with
his handkerchief tied six times about his
neck and drawn very tight. The woman will
probably survive.
~ TUNNEL THAT WILL he TrSNEI,-
We perceive by the llrcisn papers that the
council of the Canton of Ticino has decided
by majority of 90 to II, to give out the
making of II tunnel through the Alps, from
Lake Maggiore to Lake Constance, to unite
the Picdmontcsc line with that of Central
Germany. This tunnel will L3 sixteen Ensl sh
mles-25 900 metrcs-in length, and is to be
lighted by fifty shafts of enormous depth.
Snow STORM on THE LOWER RoADs.-
The trains over the lower roads had tedious
time in the snow drifts FRIDAY. The mail
train from Boston over the Lowell & Northern
Roads left Boston at the usual hour in the
morning, reached Concord at four p, NJ. and
only reached Montpelier at three that morn
ing, where it stopped, the mails and passen-
gers coming on by the regular morning train
from Montpelier.
The detention was owing to the snow solely
"e understand
singular VERnIcT.-A few DAYS since,
poor inebriate named Kingsbury, was found
dead in a meadow in the town of Mansfield,
Conn. A friend informed us that the Coro-
ner's jury returned the verdict" dicd for
'cant Of rum" He was the victim of delirium
tremens.- HoonsOcket Patriot
"A ,BrrToN-HoLE PREsExr.--An Irish
journalist tells us of a stitching machine
which he had seen in the Dublin Exhibition
There was lying beside it, (hc says) "a eo"t
worked entirely by tho machine except the
button-hole*, rh'ch the potenfee had presented
TO Prince Albert"