Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-08-10

Ar TUG recent Commencement ut
Dartmouth Collage the honorary degree of
l.. l.. u. was conferred on the Hon. Isaac +.
Rcdlield and Hon. Jacob Collamer of Vermont,
Hon. Matthew Harvey Of New Hampshire,
and Hon Salmon +. Chase of Ohio
-MAtNE LAW ~ Anthony
McLaughton was this morning august 7th,)
brought before Justice llollenbcck, by
Sheriff Reynolds, charged with violation of
the liquor law. lie was found guilty and
fined $lG,S7.
--JosErm SULLIVAN and Edward Ryan,
were arrested Tuesday by Sheriff Reynolds,
and brought before Justice llollenbcck
Charged with " fcloniously taking. stealing
and carrying away from the dwelling OF
Frank o. Sawyer, Pearl Street, divers ar
ticlcs, to wit powder TASKS, tin pals, rifle
powder, butter, cheese, one double barrellcd
gun, earrings and II large quantity of wine.
All the stolen property has been rctaken cx-
ccpt the wine. The family Of Mr.. Sawyer
being absent, the things were taken probably
to the tune Of
:" l am monarch Of all survey"
Tho culprits plead guilty and were SEN
fenced to County Jail 10 days.
Wa LEARN from the Sentinel that the
house Of Mr. Canary, at Rousc's Point, with
his two children, was consumed by fire, on
the 2Sth ult., and Mr.. c. was so badly
burned that lie is not expected to survive
1t seems that Mr. Canary kept small gro
Gerry in his dwelling in which he had barrel
of liquor. In attempting to draw a quantity,
the liquor caught fire from the candle, and
exploded, covering himself, children and walls
Of the house with the burning fluid, and be-
fore assistance could be rendered, the flame
spread SO rapidly that neither his house nor
effects could be saved. One Of the children
was burned to blackened mass the other
Fingered until Sunday.
-LlQrOR SiEZuREs.-The promises Of
Willis Salisbury, of Barton, were searched on
the Goth of July, and fifteen gallons Of liquor
found and Salisbury fined 500 and costs Al
win Martin Of the same place, was fined SO
and costs for unlawfully dealing in the same
article.-ln Craftsbury also, recently, cask
containing 80 gallons of liquor was taken
from |. j. Maxfeld, condemned and spilled,
and Maxfcld was fined 800 and costs. A
correspondent of the North Union, thinks the
above was the first case of destruction Of
liquor in Orleans County.
lilies from the vicinity Of Rutland, Vt, have
availed themselves Of the advantage offered
to enigrants by the Illinois Central Railroad
Company, and purpose settling upon the
lands belonging to it, in the southern portion
of that state They are farmers and mechan-
les and will be a substantial acquisition to any
it is doubtful whether
they will better their condition, morally or
by leaving Western Vermont for
Illinois.
-FATALlTIEs IN VERMONT. Mr.. Nathan
iel May, Of Brattleboro, fell from load of
hay and broke his back. He died last week
Tuesday 1.-TWO men We're crossing Bcllwater
Pond, in Barton on the 2Sth ult., when their
boat upset and one Of them named Mann,
was drowned. lie wasa good swimmer but
he was drunk. lie left n wife and four chill
dren.-ln Montpelier, one Thursday, week
or two since, an Irish laborcr, fell, from a
sunstroke, and died in two hours.-In Mid
dlescx, a young man about nineteen years
Of age, by the name Of Harris, was killed by
the kick of horse. lie was found dead with
his face in Il shallow pool Of water.-In Lud-
low, on the % ult., Miss Abagail Estabrook.
aged 20 years, while on her way to the sup
per table, fell and expired in five minutes
-CRININAL MATTERS jacob Singer
land, who was sentenced four years ago to
five years imprisonment in our State Prison,
for forging Pension certificates, has been par
doncd by President Pierce. lie lived in Roy
has couple of wives living, one ofwhom in
tends having him arraigned for bgamy.-
Young Ruggles who was arrested and bound
over, in January last, for purloining money
from the Mortified Post-oiiice, has been
tried and convicted at special session of the
L. S. Circuit Court held at Montpelier, and
sentenced to ten years confinement in the
State Prison, where he arrived last Wednes-
day.-Five persons were sentenced to labor
in the State Prison at the recent term of the
Orange County Court. They were all con-
victcd of incendiarsm- females, mother
and daughter, for burning dwelling house in
Newbury two sprigs of young America
for burning an old school-house in Chelsea
and man from Wllliamstown, for commit
ting sundry incendiary acts by which barn,
school house, some cattle, and a quantity of
hay and grain were destroyed A man who
begged lodging at the house of a Mr. Gill, in
Springfield, Vt, had the ingratitudc to dis
appear with s. in money, which he found in
the room given him. for which he is now in
Woodstock jail.-Ono night, not long since
a burglar entered the house of Mr.. Day, in
Ludlow while the family were asleep, and stole
forty dollars in money an attempt was also
made to stop the horse Of n Mr. Wheeler, in
the same vicinity, who was travelling in the
evening, apparently with a view to robbery
but Mr.. W. knocked down the rubber, put
spurs to his horse, and made his escape
The Vt. Republican says that petty thieves
and robbers are quito plenty in Vermont,
travelling about, " disguised as fools and
stragglcrs'
- ALAS, Pooh JACK 1t disarms one of
every feeling of luminosity, to record the fact
that a. jackson Vail, Esq of Montpelier,
tho great champion Of rumlnies in Vermont
was last Saturday, sent to the Lunatic Asy-
lum,at Brattleboro, a most wretchcd maniac
D0d' So By SrOHg driHk' No words can
make the warning ioudcr.-Tcm, Handand
.d-rhe Baltic has arrived as we learn by
telegraph, but brings no news of great i'm
pprtincc.
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