Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-11-17
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lO8-of these 81 are from Vermont
MIDDLLBURr COLLEGE Seniors 6, Juniors
Is, Sophomores %, Freshmen 81 Whole
number SO-of these 81 are from Vermont.
--UsuRY In the United States Circuit
Court, in session at Baltimore, Chief Justice
fancy has decided that If a greater rate of
interest than six per cent. was demanded and
obtained upon promisory note or draft, that
the contract was by the act vitated and the
holder of the promise could neither recover
the interest or principal by suit at law
The decision upscts the law of 1915, which
enabled the holder TO recover the principal,
together with the legal rate Of interest.
-LAsT WEDNESDAY, morning, Mr.. W. II. |
labaree, the station agent at IIartland, Vt |
was endeavoring to transfer package from
the car of one freight train to that of another
(the two trains standing on opposite tracks,
when one of the trains started, crushing and
rolling him along against the opposite car,
breaking in his stomach, and also breaking
his collar bone. 1t was thought he might
recover.
IL MERCANTILE firm at Columbus, Miss,
have succeeded in obtaining $4,000 damages
! against Mr. Sheldon p. Church, proprietor
/ Of " Mercantile Agency" who in 1876,
represented that two of the firm were incom-
petent business men, and the other partner
an unprincipled Observation-Disclosures that
operated detrimentally to them at the time
DEAD HEADs.-A very general impress
sion prevails in this as well as every other
community, that editors constitute the great
mass of Rail Road dead Heads" From an
investigation into the subject it appears that
editors constitute but one Goth part Of this
class on the n. Y. and Erie Rail Road-and
of the Sl14 free tickets given out on the New
York and New Haven Road only IS were
given to editors.
--THI " American Nerd Antique Marble
Company " has made contract with the L.
). Government for large quantity of the
Roxbury (Nt.) Nerd Antique Marble, to be
used in tho interior of the new capitol at
Washington, for ornamental purposes, in the
form OF columns, rilastcrs, panels, &c, to be
mingled with white marble.
--ANornER, the iourth-Kansas party start
cd from Boston, last Tuesday, numbering So =,
including few women and children Two
OF the party are from Windsor, Vt, Messrs.
L. B. Spencer and VIM. Skinner
-DR. GRAHAM was sentenced in n. York
on Friday last to seren years confinement in
the State Prison, (the full term allowed by
law for manslaughter in the killing Of Col
Loring. The execution of the sentence, how
ever, was suspended, in order to allow Il hear
ing on an application for new trial.
--THE Accountants employed by the
Vermont Central Railroad Company to trace
. stock fraudulently issued, terminated their
s labors on Friday last. OF the whole number
Of shares over-issued, about 900 are LOCATED
u in State Street, and 5000 in the hands o
outsiders.
O -THE RECENT conviction for slave pirac,
# in New York is the first under the Statute
although it has been in force for many years
:. and although, as is stated by the New Yorl
Tribune, on an average, save-ship, al
most openly fitted out as such, leaves thu
# port Of New York about every two week
: throughout the year. A motion was mad
Y by Capt. Smith counsel, for new trial
S Six ocean steamers have been lost du
;. ring the present year, the melancholy lis
being as follows The City of Glasgow, tn,
Franklin, the Humboldt, the City of Phila
l. delphia, the Arctic and the Yankee Blade
y -BURGLARIEs.-Th Tin Shop of j W
IS CHAMPION, of Centre Rutland, was broker
1t open, on Sunday night Of last week and abou
three thousand doliorS, in certificates Of de
post In the Bank of Rutland, notes. and 9th
er papers, and about one dollar in cash, tax
en-. And on the same night, house, occu
pied by some lrishman, i'll Rutland, was eli
J tered, and between sir and eight hvndrc
ii doilors in gold taken.
. -ANoTHER.-Th store of II. G. Dwigh
= Esq, of Vershire, was broken open, Monda
night of last week and about $500 worth {
> goods stolen Two young men-stranger.-
were suspected, and found in the back par
u of Norwich, after a hard race \ portion ,
u the stolen goods was found upon them. The
II were bound over IN $1,000 bonds each, an
u for ront thereof were committed to the cour
II ty Jail in Chelsea. a correspondent Of tn
IT Windsor Journal says the county Of Orang
=, is flooded with such scoundrels.
e -TnE DWELLING house of VIM C. Gri.
l. wold of Orwell, was destroyed by fire o
"a Monday night last. and Miss Abigail Moor
II an cstimable young woman of 25 or 80 year
J. of age, persisted in the flames. Miss Moo
III was alone in the house.
-CHukcu Burnt The Unitarian Churc
i'll Concord, n H., was wholly destroyed b
: fire on Thursday last The origin of the fir
- is supposed to have been from "a leak in I'll
T. gas pipes, which had been just fitted in tn
- vestry, lin the basomont.) In opening III
doors just at dark, the gas leakage bccan
apparent and it is supposed light taken il
to the basement by which to discover tn
source of the escape of the gas, caused
fame which rapidly communicated over I'll
:, building. The original cost of the buildiu
was about $4,000, not including the organ c
bell.
ID ~ Misuse SILAMEs.--Thc Toroa,
- Glots says there il no hope of the safety q
uI the steanrI H. h.josty," ,Lio, -.
10 recently built in the river Clyde, and sale
from Cork eighty or ninety days since, f.
N Quebec. The steamer was OF iron, = hundre
n feet long, between three and four hundre
y tons burthen, Of the strongest possible con
T. struction, and was built Tor the Niagara AN
=, Toronto route. When she left Cork she ha
D on board coal for thirteen days consumption
- which, had no accident occurred, would hay
t, brought her at least to New foundlind
"a --NERNoNT MACHINERY foR E>GLANp.-
=. We noticed the other day, ut the works
n the Robbins a Lawrence Company, in thi
u village, IA beautiful lot of about 50 machine