Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-05-25

- lHE BoDY Of an unknown man was
iound IN small stream in Brandon, on Sun.
day Of last week. It was the body Of nr
insane man who was seen in that vicinity
about three weeks since
I've were touched by simple state.
mint Of the loss Of boy and the fidelity or
dog in last weeks Cqledonidn. The boy
one but girl, 4 large dog, owned near by,
heard the splash, ran to the spot and leaped
INTO tho stream. 1t was just dark and
boy and dog disappeared before any help
arrived at the spot. Next day the bodies Of tho
two were taken from the water together. the
dog grasring the boys coat and vest collar
in his mouth, and the arms Of the bow
clasped around the dogs body. So firmly
were they united in the struggle of death,
that it was with no little difficulty they were
separated. The grasp of the boy around tho
dog was such as to prevent him from using
his legs Otherwise he would doubtless
have rescued tho boy.
- The BODY Of a man, supposed to be
that Of the man Cain. who fell through the
Railroad bridge at Bellows Falls on his way
from New Hampshire GROCERY, was found
in that place last week In Bellows Falls,
on Sunday Of last week, a lad, son of Mr.
| Fuller while walking with knife open in
! his hand accidentally stumbled and fell, tho
knife striking him in the breast and pone-
| trating to the depth Of two inches and
: ~ - 81 II ,1o
ed off, else it would have entered his heart
He is conyaesccn..
--Charlcs pitkin. Of East Montpelier,
who shot himself week since, died on the
9th inst
- Flour in San Francisco by the
last accounts was six dollars barrel In
New York it is twelve. They have COM
nenccd the shipment Of the article, therefore,
made from California wheat, (ffty to eighty
bushels to the acre,) to New York, and in
month or two some thousands of barrels may
be expected via Cape Horn. This i. turning
the tables in fine style.
- IowA.-The official vote Of this State
upon the subject Of the prohibitory liquor
law is
For the law 25,555
Against 22,645
Majority in favor 2,9l0
The Wing State ticket has been elected by
an average majority Of nearly FIVE thousand,
- HE MoRNoNs have secured foothold
in the Sandwich Islands, having established
a COLONY at Lima and even set up a printin!
press and paper, which is to be published il
English, Spanish, and Kanaka (IIawaiian)
, for the dissemination of the doctrines .
e the Latter Day Saints.
--THE Bos1oN Journal says that on Satur
day afternoon, q man, having with him
little child, visited the menagerie in Howar
street, and while looking at the lion the ma
took the child in his arms and was in the &c
of placing it's hand on the animals head
a when it suddenly struck the child with II
= paw, tore off one of it, ears, and badly brui-
G ed the side of its face. Dangerous trifin
: that.
- NEW American manufacture, tina
= Of plate glass, has been commenced in Wi
liamsburgh, y. Y. where plates Of glass te
feet wide and twenty feet long, will be made
a plate ten feet square can be made so stron
c that it will hold ton weight, and so clea
t that one can read the fine print of new
!, paper through piece four inches thick
d is singular fact that the best English plat
# glass is made from American sand.