Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-04-27
ITEMS AT HOME AND ABROAD.

BAD MONEY A stranger was in town
Monday and pa sscd at two of our stores,
three dollar bills on the Commercial Bank of
Fort Erie, Upper Canada, a bank which we
are informed has no existence The vignettes
and figures of the bills are apparently from
genuine dies and the bill is well calculated
to deceive. on slight examination. The paper
is poor, however, and the signatures and
filling up decidedly bad.
- THERE must be something wrong when
good butter is selling in Cincinnati at l6
cents a pound. and in Burlington at -;
hut we will not harrow up the minds of our
readers by naming the price.
JonS GINSIsKiN. a brakeman on the
Passumpsc Railroad, was killed at Brad.
ford, Vt. on Tuesday, by being caught
between two freight cars
- The TABITuA CLUB. of St. Adams. dis
trihuted during the last year l9l articles of
clothing, including - bed comforters, chiefly
made by the fair hands Of the ladies who
compose the club, and have now on hand lag
garments ready for use which shows that
the club has not been idle. Among those
aided by the club were 90 families, 40 Young
children, nine women in confinement, twelve
new born babes and three pairs twins. We
do not find in the report of the club. as print.
ed in the Messenger, any mention of old
bachelors provided with - comforters'' hy
the Tahthn club
linz CITIZEN new weekly paper is to
emerge from the ruins of the Vergennes Inde
pendent, on the first Of May. 1t will be
owned and edited by Mr. H. &. Judd, former.
ly of the Mdependent, We welcome him
back to the fraternity of the Press, and trust
that the new experiment will prove more
successful than his former one.
- The NORTHERN FARMER, is new arri-
cultural paper just started at Woodstock by
Messrs, Brown and Crosby. 1t will be edited
by Mr. Crosby, son of DR.. Crosby of Han
over, n. II. Terms $500 per annum, or
l'3o in advance. 1t makes a good appear
ance and will porye successful experiment
we trust.
- ST. ALB.Ns.-At St. Adams Bay last
week, Mr.. \. W, Brooks appeared before
Justice Bradley on complaint of selling liquor
contrary to law,-plead guilty as common
seller and was fined 800 and costs for a like
offence Z Tracy and j. Burt plead guilty
on one count for selling beer, and were each
lined SO and costs. Three of the ''in-grates'
who lately broke out of the ST. Adams iail, |
have been re-taken and restored to their for |
mer quarters. The operation entities them |
to quarters in the States Prison. 1.-The sugar
crop in that quarter is likely to be short,
the trees yielding a small run of sap, perhaps
~ ',ulrt OF last eason's drouth.
III BENNINGTON, last week Monday,
Simeon Morse plead guilty to the charge of
unlawful selling Of liquor and paid fine of
$50 and costs
- The LEGISLATIVE of Massachusetts,
1as passed law that no ''innholder. tavern.
Keeper, retailer. contectioner, or keeper of
my shop or house, for the sale of drink. or
my livery stable keeper for horse or carriage
llre' shall give credit to any student in any
Incorporated academy, or other educational
Institution within the State. If any nerson
hall give credit contrary to the provisions of
he act he shall forfeit sum equal to twice
he amount So unlawfully trusted or credited,
whether the same shall have been paid or
lot.
IN New York, Hope, one of the lar.
cost, If not the largest retail grocer in the
nitcd States, advertiscs all his wines and
liquors for sale at auction. lie evidently
links the new liquor law constitutional.
TX JLRICHo, two OF three weeks since,
IRIS. Scott, wife of the Universalist minister
t that place, murdered one of her children.
I fit of insanity She struck the child.
g'rl OF eleven years. on the head with an
Ac' while sleeping, The other children, |
1ree IN number were saved by revulson of
'eins on the part of the mother Her hus-
and was absent, She has been sent to the 7
'ylum at Brnttleboro.
-lTAINGroN, son of Boston, has beaten d
Is half brother, LccomPte, in four-mle 9
Zee over the Metairle Course, New Orleans, s
-Lccomptc having once before conquered i
m %" the same track. LcNington's time at 9
iS tl'l was : minutes 22i seconds, and b
'crn'ltr was di>tapccd On the first heat n
'xingi"ns great timn thr,r weeks ago "
,aIusr l.reompte's minutes ~ seconds, at $
AT time unrilalled, ~as minutes Ia n
combs ; aud 'he proud scion Of proud sire
IS thus in two speedily successive efforts, t
owed himself the fastest horse in the world, D
beating any time previously made. p