Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-04-14

- I"t COMET, which has been visible in
the west on fair evenings for a week past, is
apparently moving TO the South and Fast
with very rapid motion, its position now
being many degrees from where it was fret
seen. As seen through the great rciractirs
telescope at Cambridge Observatory, it RI
scnts a blazing nucleus and tail which may
be traced to the extent Of ten degrees fhe
tail is curved towards the North, and has n
strongly defined outline about the head and
on the south side /; but this outline is traced
with difficulty on the north side. Near and
following the nucleus, there is narrow ionr
of open dark space.
-Tny rrBut,rro> Of tho DoiIv Tribvn,
is suspended for tho present. at st. Adams,
Morriscllc and Burlington, owing to press
Of other matters and because the Editor
finds " that the issuing Of Daily is rather
difficult
Tip TRor Wig says that the Maine
lsw has been pronounced unconstitutional
in every state where it has been enacted
Not in Vermont,-it agrees with every con
,titution in tho state.
Ma. 4 &. BIS1Lrr Of Bangor. y j.,
states that while stopping at the Howard
House. his room was entered. his trunk
broken open and nearly 5000 in gold coin.
stolen ,i.crefrom. Ho discovered his los. on
Friday last. ard offers $50 reward ior the de-
lection Of the thisf and the recovery Of tbs
money.
-TnE ,Re,.GLsrN1 bet-scu the Rutland
and the lower Roads is given in substanco
follows The Fitchburgh Road lets 10 ti'e
Rutland cars and engines TO the au1o-nt ~
Si5.hoo. the Rutland paying interest and
detcriora.irn The Cheshire agree to mako
the new equipment up to sloo,O0o, hv letting
cars &c to the amount Of S55 600
----T1 is SAID that the immense forests in
the Northeastern corner of our State, now
traversed by the Atlantic and st. Lawrence
railroad, are yielding rich revenue TO THEW
proprctors. The Island Fond Company hns
alone employed eighty men and fifty yoke of
oxen during the past winter, and their man
ufacturcs for the past and present season will
amount 10 four million feet of lumber. The
commny Is now fulfilling a contract for fifty
thousand sugar hpxes for the Cuba market,
which boxes are worth three dollars piece
in Havana.
- A MIGR,roRr character, who for
months past has peddled liquor through thc
north part of the State from Enosburgh II,
Missisquoi Bay, recently employed sui
agent to sell the stuff for him in Highgate.
The sub was taken up by the authorities and
fined. lie exposed his principal, together with
the fact that in order to keep his stock OF
: liquor good, he had let him have his last COW
e The boss" hearing that papers were out for
n him, came down like the coon. plead guilty,
was compelled to restore the COW, and fined
500 and costs. The above facts are given he
IS the Messenger.
l. -AcRoss THE L,KE.-A lad named Arm
= strong. Of Ausable Forks. in attempting to
l. jump from one wagon to another, fell and
= was run over by four mule team, fracturin-
" his thigh bmIy.-Also a mass Of ore fell
" fifty feet onto Mr.. Godfrey Sweeny. employed
" in the Palmer Orc bed and broke his left leg
a the wonder being why he was not killed or
$ the srot.-Al-o tenement occupied by twc
Canadian families in Birmingham Falls. ant
owned by Mr.. lIayc. of Keesevillc. took fir
and was consumed All of which occurrence
r took place Monday Of last week
s. Nv WARDsBoRo, Vt. on the night of thu
,c 18th, Mr. II. 5. Leonard in fit Of violen,
Is passion, such as he was subject to, asked hi.
It wife If she would give him decent burial in
" he should be found dead, went directly
id TO piece Of wood near by, and put an enc
.. to his life by cutting his throat with a knife
:. lie was a member of the Methodist Church
.. -THE STATE Superintendent of Common
e. Schools in Louisiana recommends that two on
of every three of the school directors should
MS know how to read and write. In one parish
Is the warrant of the teacher on he instead Of ,h
n, signatures contained the mark of twelve differ
* ent directors.
~ -THE BODY ola man supposed to be tina
SC of man named O'Hara, who walked of tn,
- trestlework of the Railroad. some time las
es fall was found on Wedne sday last, nea
Rouses Point.
A Ills SAID that the three thousand fv
., hundred New England Clergymen who incur
<. red the dlspeasurc and abuse Of Mr. Dougla
st by memorializing Congress against his bill
So have agreed to make that bill the theme Q
hn their Fast day sermons. Some one has pre-
II posed that all be bound into one substa ntia
he volume and presented to the little giant"
n -THr DEFEAT of Neal Dow. the autho
he of the Maine Law, as candidate for Mayor il
IN the late Charter election in Portland, is not
nd triumph of liquor Cahoon, the whig ncum
bent who is reelected, is strong temperate
49, man, and, with large majority of the Cit,
Council is in favor of a vigorous execution O
=, the prohibitory law.
- -lloRATIo King of Maine, was appointc
:. First Assistant Postmaster General, in plac
=. of the late Major Hobbie. and his appoint
r mcnt has been unanimously confirmed by IN
Senate. Mr.. King has long been conncctc
n with the Department
- -THE Error of the Suanton He-ol
ch having received paper Of cabbage .eed in hi
exchange copy of the ST. Adams Ti,bun
considers 1t as an intimation that cabba =,
U" heads control the editorial department of tina
~ sheet and that they have gone to seed.
:. -" The NEBRASKA bill is growing NOR
-, popular every day at the North, and like a
other democratic measures will triumphant
r~ss and be approved by the mass of tn
mt people"
IS So says the Woodstock Age, and it Nigh
We possibly find some one to believe it, if tn
re people were not speaking for themselves alon
'G these days. The Waterloo rout of the Ne
H. braska conspirators in Connecticut an,
z Rhode Island shows hour the bill is " grow in.