Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-07-06

'HAhiE'roS Vt. Parker Chase, WIN
iupArI' and Henry Brown were recently
fined so each aud cost for Violations Of tho
liquor Law. Parker Chase was also fined
500 for repetition of the offence. aud 81.
realcd md Patrick Glilen, On being fined
$40 and costs, gave leg bail
---JouN VrAztr, an Old and respected
citizen Of Bellows Falls Vt, was run over
and killed ut thai place on Friday morning,
by train of cas-, while walking on the track
Of the Rutland and Burlington Railroad
- ArroiN1YLSr Mis-. Harriet s. Rus
sell has received the appointment Of Post.
master at Great falls, ~ H. Miss Russell
had charge Of the Office during tho time her
father held tie appointment, and proved her
self a faithful and efficient public servant.
- WHAT Kossurm said in letter If the
English people, is true of some men at least
in this country There is a strange habit in
this country to accept for a truth in politics
anything men hear often repeated. If there
is place in the world, where authority per-
fectly paralyses scrutiny and supplies the
defect Of argument this is the place for it.
Let the leaders Of the two great political
parties but boldly repeat thousand times
that tho moon is green cheese, and they
will live to sec it incorporated in the rolitl-
cal creed Of parliamentary government
"A LARGE elm tree which began to
show symptoms of decay, was chopped down
| last Thursday, on the farm of Mr.. Cozzen.,
in the southern part Of Campbell county Ky.
/ when the skeleton Of q woman, with little
dried shryelled flesh adhering to the bones,
was found IN a cleft Of the tree, about twenty
feet from the ground.
"A LADY of Plainfeld, Mass, aged 50
years, has during the last winter made with
her own hands, Il quilts, consisting Of 4209
pieces cut by pattern, worked 90 scollors,
cut and made three dresses, knit three pairs
Of str ped mttcns, made butter from two
COWS, besides doing the general homework
for a family
- LADY in Newport, while sitting at
the window Of her own house, narrowly
escaped being shot hy q laundering sports
man that is the word, we believe, who
was trying to kill poor robin Some Of the
q. % passed through the window and ciIrc
very near mr. hut none Of them hit her We
suppose it an accident, but we do not
see why a man who can take pleasure in
shooting a robin should feel great compunc-
ton in firing at woman. Such fellows
should be looked aftcr.-Pror. Jour.
RAILWAY NEws-The Albany Journal gives
the following interesting items under this
head The floating debt Of the Ogiensburgh
Railroad amounting to $3.50, 900 fell due on
the LIST, it having been extended for veal
and secured by $500 600 second mortgage
bonds, and mortgage OF 800, 600 on the Lake
uropnllcrs-muking 5000 600 in all, which
the Corporation offers to the creditors, if they
will receive it in full payment.-The Old
Colony (Mass.) Road had to borrow TO pay
its last dividend, and now proposes to issue
per cent bonds to fund the floating debt anc
enable it to pay cash dividends in future. -
Surveys are in progress Tor railway between
Memphis and Louisville.-The Ohio and
Mississippi Road, connecting Cincinnati
; with St. Louis, will lie complete this sum
NOR The London Tine, says the Calcut
ia Railway in Ilindostan, is now open l23
miles. 600 miles more are under contract -
1000 miles of railway and 5000 Of telegraph
are expected TO be completed in British Indi,
within three years.-lt appears by tn
report of the Memphis and Charleston Rail
road that 100 miles Of the road are now il
operation, and the whole 2S6 will be read,
for bushes. by November. 1t forms part 0
the air line between Charleston and the Mis-
sssippi River. -Work has just been com
menced on a railroad connecting Galveston
Texas, with the Red River at Fulton .--Th.
Baltimore and Philadelphia Central railroad
is commenced. 60 miles in Pennsylvania a re
under contract, and it is hoped to have cars
running from Philadelphia to the Sus9ue-
hanna go milesl in q year.