Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-06-23
ITEMS AT HOME AND ABROAD.

-lHE MONTREAL Hcrdld says - \
citizen of Chicago has obtain from the gov
ernment the privilege Of loading his vessel at
at Quebec. We presume like privilege
will he granted to all who apply for it. 80
that in reality the St. Lawrence is at last
opened to the vessels of the United States
coming from the Upper Lakes. We under
stand that there is no law by which an Amer
lean vessel can be prevented from going to
Quebec, and that there is no penalty
IN THE VILLAGE of New York, boots
Ia mote are fitted to arstocratc feet for ten
dollars. One style of cravat is sold at seven
dollars waistcoats from twelve to eighteen
aud there is one extraordinary pair of trousers
in Broadway, the pattern of which is so
striking that it takes eighteen dollars to buy
them. The last style Of dress coat, the skirts
approximating the heels, and the hip-buttons
placed between the shoulder blades. is made
by fashionable tailor for forty dollars.
-TnE OLD NoTcu House in the White
Mountain Notch was consumed by fire last
week Friday. 1t was withina rifle shot of
Gibbs's Hotel, was formerly occupied by Tom
Crawford, and was in by-gone days one of the
chief houses in the mountains For few
years past it has been of but little account,
only sleeping place when Gibbs's house was
full
The New YoRK Express says " Prov-
sions are coming down, at last. Our cattle
market report this morning shows that beef
has fallen 50 per hundred, -four i. from 81
to $3.50 lower than it was this day week.
The supplies are ample, are accumulating,
and there is little or no demand for foreign
shipment. We repeat it is GOOD NEWS -
Potatoes have declined so cents per bushel in
Boston markets, but there is yet margin
for further reduction.
ACCORDING to the official report, there
were twenty-five deaths from cholera in New
York last week.
Tins Trial of Dr.. Crosby, Professor OF
Surgery in Dartmouth College, for malpractice
in The case of Lorenzo Slack. of Norwich. Vt.
fracture of the thigh came before the County
ourt at Woodstock, in review, Monday. June
'3th Plerpont, Judge-damoges lad at IS 90
At the former trial. the verdict was against the
defendant and damages given of 5000, to tie
astonishment of the public. AT this trial. after
a full hearing OF four days with intense interest,
the trial closed with triumphant vindication
Of DR.. Crosby. The jury after ten minutes ab-
sence only, brought in verdict OF acqui,tal.
- A Vienna letter to the n. Y. Tribune
says that Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt
thinks our country the best to live in and she
is right. She intends, SO says the letter, to set
tie PERM nenrly in the United States. mainly on
account of her child, bright little boy
- A FORTUNE TELLER calling herself
Madame Morrow, was arrested in New York
on Tuesday, on charge of obtaining money
under false pretences. One Of her dupes. A
girl whose marriage in six week. she had
predicted, and who had been foolish enough
to pay her money therefor, commenced
criminal proceedings against her at the end
of the time, and instead of getting husband,
gets the satisfaction of having jugged an i'm
poster.
Mar. WARDS laundress, young ne.
gro girl of nineteen, passed through Detroit
on the underground railroad on the 9th, and
landed safely in Canada. She learned that
the family were going South, and concluded
they could dispense with her services. The
Detroit Democrat informs her former pro
prietors that she has obtained good .itua-
ton, at fair wage. in a private family.
- The GREATEST VERDICT YEr.-T The
Chicago Journal publishes the following as a
'correct copy" of the verdict of coroner 8
jury in the case of a murdered girl.
STt5s caoG ?, cdantv da1ISo'' Is.
An inquisition taken for the people of the
State of Illinoi,e and county of Cook, this
Goth day a. d. 1854, before Mr. Austin Hvne.,
Coroner of said county of Cook upon the view
of a body of a Female Child, name unknown
then and lying dead upon the oaths of Twelve
Good and Lawful Men of the peopel of the
said State and County of Cook, and When
and who the said came to his or she came to
her death We the Jury do say We the Jurors
do Agree The Body came to her Death by
death unknown.