Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-06-01

firing the barn Of " N.Vr,uo oi Niliahs.
town, whereby fourteen h'a or "tttlr w.r'
ronsumed.--A man uamri farmer MS
drowned in the CONNECTICUT River ut thc II r
or the old bridge near -. Z ',re,'nwn, II.
on Friday of last week lie wnsH singic man
aud % years old.-.Iohn Delany Of Bellows
Falls on his return from the famous, or rather
infamous Walrolc GROCERY, Friday evening
Vt last week, was assaulted by one of his com
rauiuns in liquor, and sersrcly inlurcd.-A
little san Of Mr. Jamcs~rttllk IN Of rr,ctors-
willie was so badly burned, last week, 10y his
clothes taking fire that he died in u few hours.
Matches had accilcntlv been left within his
rcnch.-The Bellows Falls Argus says that
Michael Oman lately deserted his wi le whom
he married II year ago, and, after having
spent $500 of her own earnings, took the
balance, $500 more, with him, leaving not
q cent for herself and infant lie is rather
small. quite good looking, dark hair and
whskers, about s. years ofagc and had on a
blue cloth coat. Pass him along
-lnE MoRNoNs have an agency at Liver
pool, which is supported by a fund for the
purpose Of aiding cmigration and which has
.eut off this year more than 5000 cmierants.
On Tuesday last, $40 Of these cmisrants
led in New York, and the ship William
~ tson, now ON the way, has 293 moro
These people are said to be chiefly of the
poorer classes of the British reasantry, while
n SMALL number only are from Ireland.
-CnlNEsE N New IoEK The New
York 7'r,tunc mentions that within a few
years past there has been considerable in
1uN # Chinese into New York, SO that they
oumber now from 1000 to ljOO-only two of
whom are females. Their social habits are
not OF the highest character, as they herd
together in crowded apartments, and, with
few exceptions, arc engaged in mental rur-
suits
y KANSAS correspondent Of the SPRING
field Republicans says
" We have great fun fishing. One Of the
boys haitei his hook with a whole duck and
set it over night. On going to it in the
morning he came back for help, when We
found that a fish Weighing six pounds had first
been caught, AMI ano.her-weic hing t,rty n,ue
md u h0J pounds had swallowed the smaller
one for bait md 50 we clucht them hoih
You may think this rather large, but it is tie
truth.
---AN AcT OF JusrfcE.-The Tagu,rer
states that W . H. Goodwin, IA citizen of Rich
mond, and native of Virginia, has been
stopping at the Michigan Exchange, durin.
the past week, and left there last evening for
home. He brought with him four slaves,
two ofwhom are children their mother, who
is married to free colorcd man, and their
grandmother, who was his own nurse in in
fancy. He gave them their liberty and
bought house and lot for $500 on Mlcomb
street, which he decided to the old woman,
and left 800 to their credit in bank This
is but an act OF justice, still the world goes,
especially the Southern part Of it belonging
to us, it is deed that deserves honorable
mention. Detroit paper.
- \ JAR of gold and silver coin has been
dug up on Richmond's island in Casco bay,
Me. There were | gold coins of [ each of
the time of James |. and Charles l. Captain
Kid is mentioned in connection with it. as it
is supposed that he buried lots Of gold all
along shore from Nova Scotia to Cape Slhe .
-" GENTLEMEN said grave Massa-
chusetts senator, on rising to discus. the
propricty of asking for the record vote of the
fAtCullNt cOuHCll On llc SUBJECT OF the
removal of Judge Loring, " VI are stand-
ing on a SiumJering earh9uake-habIct 10 be
Tanned INTO n tame in a mo0,caf
-AccoRDING to the Montreal HcroH a
Mr.. Morrison, Of La Chute. {. f.. has a COW /.
only SIX years old, which has had fourteen
calyes-all coming into the world living
At two years old she produced three calves
at three years old, four calves at four years
old, one calf at five years old, two calves
and now, in her sixth year, four cllycs-in |
all, fourteen calves in four ycars-shc being
two years old before she had any
a PARTY assembled Mount.Washington,
the 9th inst. 4 part Of the way they walked .
with snow-shoes upon snow from two to four
feet deep, and higher up were Obliged to cut
stepping places in the ice with Ratchet -
The doors and windows of the summit house
were covered with frost and ice and banked ,
up with snow. Great coats and mittcns were
found to be indispensable to comfort
-DEMoCRATIC Blackvood's |
Magazine, in a notice of the death of Mich |
olas, refers to the case of the Frenchnan who ,
was sent out of st. Petcrsburgh for smoking |
cigar in the streets before the face of the |
Emperor, and adds the following There is !
no doubt about it the cigar in the mouth |
gives certain democratic finish to a man.
PRENTICE Of the Louisville Journal. |
replying to an attack upon him by Mr.. |
Wicklitfe, ex-postmaster general, says Mr.. |
W is ungcntlcmanly, and that the truth il
he never had any part Of a gentleman in
him except when he once bit of and swallow |
cd gentleman's ear.
-THE state department at Washing
ton has received sphinx from Egypt 1t is |
we'll cut in sandstone, about two feet high, |
has the body Of lion, and the face OF a |
young woman, and is covered with hieroglyph- |
les, and figures of beetle, bull, scorpions,
dogs, crocodile, &c.
-THE important question, how shall a bon
net be worn, is now settled by the example
Of Empress Eugene Of France. A dcscrip-
ton or her dress, while in England, tells US.
that although the bonnet Of the Empress
Eugene displays fully her face aud hair, it
does not convey to the beholder the idea of
its being likely to fall from the head behind,
but rather seems to cling to, and support
the hair in that position. This gives light
ness and grace OF carriage to the head totally
distinct from that holiness and harelacei-
ness which have characterized the English
and American styles.
-PRovING CHARACTER-' Do YOU know the
prisoner, Mr., Jones. Yes. to the bone
" hat il his character = Didn't know he
had any Does he live near YOU = 50
near that he has spent only five sbillings for
fre-wood in eight years Did he ever
come in collision with you in any matter
Only once, and that was when he was
drunk and mstOok me for lamp post. -
From what you know Of him, would YOU
believe him under oath p That depends
upon circumstances. If he was so much
intoxicated that he did not know what he
was doing, | would. If not, | wouldn't
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