Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-08-18
ITEMS At HOME AND ABROAD.

S"iic"; rrcc DemOcrntlc Congressional Ton
vention, of this district, to he held at John.
son, on the 2Sth inst for the sake. as it is
whispered about. of nominating certain
Pierce office holder for Representative to
Congress.
-lnE STOCKHOLDERS of the Vermont, on
trail Railroad held meeting at Boston last
Friday, and appointed a committee to hunt
up list Of persons who would stand as hi
rcctors, to he voted for at the annual meet
ing in September. Mr.. II. c. Rice. of Bos-
ton, said that the road had no Presidents it.
Treasurer was elsewhere at salary Of 81.
900; and it had Trustees at : .OUO Il wear.
and he thought there was a necessity for the
speedy appointment Of Il board of directors To
take matters in hand \ statement of the
business Of the road for the past year civcs
as the total receipts, the sum Of @S2O.1lq.
and the total expenditure s:6Oj. 800. Of tLi,
last sum 1922, lGj constitutes the ordinary
expenses of working the road. Witnesses
have been summoned before the grand Jury in
Boston, with reference to the late frauds in
the management.
-ON W EDNEsDAY evening, Aug 3D.. "A
number of gentlemen connected with the
Rutland and Burlington Railroad met at the
Bdr"'r'H House in Rutland. and presented to
Mr. DrNLAr, the late Superintendent. "A tea
service Of silver plate, worth about .>IOO. and
of rich and beautiful workmanship. asamark
OF respect suitable remarks were made by
Ir | n
nors, and by Mr.. DUNL,r.
- TnE PARAGRAPH from the st. Alhan,
1r'bHne. describing the c'"apr of young ic-
NAL" slave from her master, Mr.. Gilchrist.
in Easton, Md. which has been going the
rounds of the papers. is declared to be- incor-
rect by the Easton Gdscft.. which states that
no woman has run away from that town with
IN thc past three years, and that no person bv
the name OF ''ilchrist resides in the vicinity
OF the place. 1t says that either the story
was manufactured out Of whole cloth in YER
mont. or that the woman was an impostcr.
-TnE BRIDGE across the Connecticut
River leading from Hanover q. II) to Nor
wich (Vt.,) was destroyed by fire few days
since.
-TnE TWO most important events Of the
nineteenth century ; Bombord,ng Grcvtown
by an American man Of war and boD,jardiny
the President with hard boiled eggs.
--AMoNG THE Patent claims issued for
the week ending July 25, were the following
Ezekiel Gore, Bennington. Vt for Butter
worker. Elnathan SamIs on, Windsor. Vt,
for Platform Scales. j. W. Smith. Poultncv,
VT. Sheet Metal Candlcsticks.
-TnE NEW FEATURE introduced at the
late commencement Of the University does
not meet with general appreciation. The Rut-
land HcraM says a Latin Salutatorv was
pronounced for the first time for many years,
and we hope thousand years will elnr,c
before another is offered t. the audience. It
is an insult to an English audience" \ cor
respondent of the Windsor JournI remarks
as follows
Against one feature in the Programme.
| must he permitted, as AN alumnus
OF the institution, to enter my humble protest.
| refer to the Latin Sautaturv II has here
tuiure been the boast of our Alma Mater.
that she has dispensed with these idle ccrr-
monies which Older colleges have retained.
and that the ioUlery of orations delivered i'm
languages that not one in Il hundred of the
audiences can comprehend, has been bv her
discarded. This year, for the first time. has
she departed from her old simplicity and her
elder children mourn. We shall next hear,
perhaps, if this is an index of the future,
that the tagging system has been introduced
and that each Senior has his boots BACKED
and his tobacco purchased by some humble
Freshman, 1t Is to be hoped that the Saii-
fdtory will not again be heard Of unless the
Faculty ann at an entire restoration of old
forms and obsolete ceremonies
1.-Two MEN, calling themselves hv the
name Of Bush, came to Brattleboro last week.
one of whom went to work for Mr.. George
Cutler, shoemaker, long enough to steal 500
worth of shoes, when he started for the south.
Mr.. Cutler missed his shoes. pursued and
overlook the thieves, found plenty of stolen
property in their possession, and brought
them back for trial. The Statesman saws ,
that they gave conhictir accounts OF them- /
selves, but said they had Travelled through the .
state, and 1t is believed they are connected .
with gang, who have lcdlcrs TO meet them
perty to sell. They had some shoes, ,yc, for
Which there is no claimant.
-CoMMENCEMENT at Miidlcburv College
came oil last week. The exercises cunmrn-
ced on the afternoon otSunday, Aug. i. witha
Baccalaurcate sermon by Professor Boardman
to the graduating class On Tuesday afternoon
the Philadelphia society was addressed hy
liev. Asa ID Smith, ID. d. of New York. M
on the Subject of - \ true conservatism and
a due correlation of the old and the new. the
transient and the permanent" The ami
yersary Of the Philomathcsian was celebrated
by the recitation hy John & SAKE, of his
Poem entitled The Money King" On
Tuesday evening the Parkerian exhibition
for prizes in clio -utiun took place The cx-
crciscs of commencement day, "Wednesday.
are said to have been Of a high order. After
dinner at the Addison House. the annual
poem before the associated alumni was deli
yered by Mr. j. f. Rankin, of And,ner. Mass
| lie subject was " Change" Itwas followed
by discourse by DR.. Howe, of South Caro-
lima, upon the life and services of the Rev.
pr. Bates, who was President of the College
from the year ISIS to lS%9, Beside the de-
Srecs OF \. Il. and \. NJ conferred in regular
curse the honorary degree of \. NJ. was
conferred upon Rev. Gerurge W. Balruvs,
lark II. Chapman, Esq, Nathan : Ill.,
Esq, DR. Moses IL. Raunry, and Gen john ;.
lyl"r of Boston the degree of u. u. upon
Rev, Benjamin T. Stone, Concord. y. II and
|ev C. \, Thomas, Brandon, Vt.
-NoRwIcn U>IvER>i1Y celebrated il,
hrtlrth commencement also last week An
address was delivered by Rev, + ". shelton
II Montpelier, Vt and a poem before the
'hIomathio Association, by William Stark,