Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-01-13

as we learn from the Keeseville Republican.
-FIRE IN HiGncArE.--The Messenger
gives particulars of the destruction by fire Of
Waits Straw Cutter Manufactory and the
Saymill of Stephen Reyes, in Highgatc, on
Sunday morning last. One hundred straw
cutters were burned, and Mr. VS.. loss Is
over $4 600, without insurance. Loss on the
sawmill $4,000, covered by insurance.
-NEw York MoRALs.-The New York
Sun says it is the universal testimony that
there has never been so much drunkenness in
New York as on Monday last. Indulgence to
excess was common among ell classes of cit-
zcns, and the streets were filled from early
Saturday evening till Tuesday morning, with
degraded noisy worshipcrs of Bachus.
"A FAVORED MoRrAL.-A correspondent
Of the Freeman says the little daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs Kinney, Of Plainfeld, has two
parents, four grandparents, six great grand
parents, nine unclcs and aunts, forty-one
great uncles and aunta; ard thirty-seven
grca. g.cat unoles and aunts total one hum
dred (She has not, and never had, brother,
sister, or cousins
-UNIoS CoLLEGE.-Dr. Mott, the ven
cradle president Of the above institution, has
lately made over to it securities and property
to the estimated value of over sir hundred
thousand dollars. There are two accounts Of
the matter. According to one, it is a mu-
niGcent donation of DR.. Motifs private for
tune, amassed by his iabors as an author and
inventor. According to the other, it is simply
a return Of funds long since confded to DR..
Mott, for investment. AT any rate the Col
lege must now be the most richly endowed Of
any similar institution west of the New E.g-
land line.
The money is to form fund, the interest
of which is to be applied to establish nine
Professorships, l27 scholarships, observatory,
cemetery and pleasure grounds, books, cabl-
nets of minerals and coins, lectures, &C., &c.
-MrscELLANEous.- In Cornwall, C. W,
three sons of Rev. Mr.. Lindsey, aged II, IA,
and Is, broke through the ice in the Canal
and were drowned. This makes the number
of recent deaths of the same kind i,centy one.
A colored man is living in New Jersey,
aged 69 who is the father of ftty-onc chill
dren, thirty Of whom are living. lie had
three wives. The first had twins twice, ard
Is children in all, the second had twins thrice,
and Is children, and the third had 2l children,
having had twins five timco. That may be
called 'laboring for posterity. 1t is said that
in New York, white cravats and vests are out
of date for gentlemen in fashionable circles.
Moreover. natural shaped waists are the
fashion for ladies.-A matron in one Of tho
large cities, traced an eel, found in her coffee
cup, to the want of a strainer in the pump,
used by the milkman to water his milk One
hundred and thirty-six pianos are made in
Boston every week, 1912 every year, worth
50, ,l2l ,G00.-The genius who invented the
lathe for turning tadpoles into frogs, is now
busy in the construction of another to turn
somersetts. What an agc'
| -BuT1ER.-It is stated for the satisfac-
| tion of those who find butter scarce and dear
in this part of the Union, that it may be found
piled up in moHntain loads at San Francisco,
where it sells for about half the cost and
charges incurred in shipping it from our own
markets A San Francisco paper informs us
that the stock ef butter now in that market
has already reached the enormous amount Of
fire and a half millions pounds At that
rate we may in time expect to see re-imported
California New England butter.
a Foul TRIcK.-The y. y TIibrne
states that lots of poultry which come to that
city in a Shiny tainted condition, on the verge
of putrifaction are manufactured orcr" by
soaking the poultry in alum water, which
dvcsts it of the slime and appearance of
decay and restores it to an apparently fresh
state. After undergoing this process it is Of
fcred for sale Pork and beef which arrive
in the New York market in an almost putrd
state is also prepared in the same way and
disposed of, thereby endangering the health Of
every one who uses it.
-WoNAN's RIGurs AND WRqNGs. n
Canadian civil court Judgment for 1000 has
been rendered against Quebec merchant
named Seymour for speaking disrespcctfully
3
one of his clerks On Saturday last, n man
was tarred and feathered in Clyde, Wayne
Co., for whipping his wife.-Betsey Sls 'Hjrd,
convicted of larceny, was publicly whipped
by the sheriff Of New Castle Del, last week +.
with twelve lashcs.-William lIcndry was
tried in Providence on Tuesday for kissing
three ladies in the street against their con-
sent. lie was fined five dollars and costs on
each complaint, amounting to s. 90 for each
kiss.-Female compositors are employed in
Albany. The first introduced to II composing
70 ,m in that city were singularly enough set
to work on the Country Gentleman"
I ---IMPoRTAAT II TRUr.--A foreign cores.
pondent ofthc New York Herald, says;
~ mentioned in my last that the United
States had offered to advance a conside able
sum to the Porte, on condition of receiving an
island in the Archipelago. now learn, on
pretty good authority, that M buchanan,