Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-04-13
ITEMS AT HOME AND ABROAD.

---THE Snow fell three inches deep Tuesday
night, and next morning instead of trees and
shrubs We had hugo branching punches ofwhite
coral Snow kept falling all day Wednesday,
and increased in depthan inch or two though
thawing rapidly on tho ground. On the
whole the weather is not pleasant. The
robin and sparrow and meadow-lark who
gave an out Of door concert Tuesday morn
ing have evidently felt ashamed since of the
i'll success of their attempt to " force the
season. Perhaps however they have the
drop of comfort which unfeathered bipeds get
out of the storm-that it will ~ Ike the evil
out of the weather.
- Liquor LAW IN BURLINGTON. Thomas
llagan and James Cusick were arrested by
Constable White and brought before Justice
llollenbeck, on the 9Th inst. charged with vio-
lations Of the Prohbitory Law. Hagan plead
not guilty, was tried, found guilty, and fined
$50 and costs, Cusick also plead not guilty,
was also tried, found guilty of five often
ccs, ard fined $50 and costs
-AssAuLr.-John McIane was brought
before David French, Justice, on Saturday,
charged with assault and battery on the per-
son of A. Babcock. McLane plead guilty
and was fined $500 and costs amounting to
S9,G2.
"A CONDUCTOR of n freight train on
the Rutland road, named Putnam, fell upon
the track in some way, on Tuesday last, near
Rockingham, and was run over by the train,
cutting off an arm and leg. He lived but a
short time.
- An unknown man was found frozen
to death on Monday on the road between
Nashua and Concord, Miss Betsey Bowers,
maiden lady, aged TO- was found dead and
frozen stiff recently in her cottage in Han
cock. \. H., where she lived alone. Two
old ladies, Mrs. Baker and Miss Hamlin who
lived alone, wero murdered in Gloucester,
R. |. April 4th, and the house they lived in
set on fire by some villain or villains, vet
undiscovered.
- Gov. RoYoE, in his proclaim alton for
Fast-day suggested the propriety of prayer
for the lessenng of the sphere of human
bondage. Gov. Winston of Alabama ap-
pointed the eth inst. as a day of Fasting
Humiliation and Prayer, on account ofthe
opposition 10 sldrery and us extension, which
preraiis ertensirely IN ire Northern States -
The Windsor Journal aptly suggests that
this fasting on account of the sins Of our
noighbors instead Of our own, land such
' is N ,abl
and exemplary brethren of the South.
- \ FIRE broke out on Monday night of
last week, in the sattinet factory of r. Car
penter, Jr., & Co, in North Pownal. Vt
There was large stock of goods and mate
rails in the mills, ali which were destroyed.
The machinery and buildings were also near
ly a total loss, The buildings and stock
were insured for S23 900 loss estimated at
SIS, 900; nearly 100 hands are thrown out
of employment. Three dwelling houses, the
property of jonathan BRowS, of Pownal,
were also destroyed. 1t is said that the FIRE
was the work of an incendiary.
- fIREs occurred in Brattleboro and
Bellows Falls last week, destroying an old
..
Flints shoe-pcg mandatory in the latter,
loss 5000
MAINE LAW IN ST ALBANs.-John
Ragin was fined ten dollars and costs last
week for the unlawful vending of intoxicat-
ing beverage. Mrs. Ann Webster who has
dealt somewhat extensively in rotgm"
was also fined thirty dollars and costs
- Is MONTPELIER, Eight persons, in one
party were arrested and committed to mil
on sunday last week. Monday two were
fined aud two (women) were discharged :;
the other four were used as witnesses. Rum
was at the hottom of the row.
"A NEW Glass factory in Progress,
n. j., was blown down, April ID, during the
gale, and twenty five men were buried in the
ruins. Eight dead bodies were recovered,
and several men taken out, seriously injured.
Damage $4,000,