Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-04-27

larcnts, VIII have to present his hat 10
Harley Nelson, son Of Alonzo d ann Duiconn
Pearce, of Fast Calais Vt, who has hr,ire
srAiparents, all living, including four great
sraUdfathers and four at-grandmother',
whose ages average about eighty years, and
all reside in Washington County.
Tug GoLD MfSR at Bridgewat'r in
this state, ha, exploded. The 30 hor.e
power steam engine and the quartz crushing
have stopped, and the fifteen or
twenty thousand dollars expended in the
experiment, have departed not to return
The amount of gold obtained was barely
enough to pay for the powder u.cI ia
blasting
II lRBs.-The dwelling house Of Peter
Morrin in Hartford, with the furniture II
barn Of Dyer Townsend Of Clarendon, with
two yoke of oxen and several tons Of bay
and portion of the dwelling house Of Cyrus
Smith Of Brandon, were burned last week.
1t is said that not a dwelling house hgs been
burned in Brandon in fifty years.
PATENT was recently issued to Thomas
Moore of Fairhaven, Vt. for improved
stove pipe tube An improvement which
will make the putting together Of stove riio
an easy and pleasant affair, will mucI, Lessen
the amount Of profanity in this wicked world.
-TnB Congregational Church in >'a-
brook, n. H., was forcbly entered last week
and the carpet, sofa and chairs taken there
from. The Ladies' Sewing Circle Of that
place, are supposed to be the robbcrs. 1t
had been proposed, it seems, to sell the ar
ticlcs and give the proceeds to the widow ol
the Rev. Mr.. Abbot, missionary, whose
conduct has been the subject Of much con.rl-
vcrsy in the church The ladies Of the Sew
ing Circle were opposed to such a d.-tino-
ton Of property which had been purchused
| by their needles. What their industry had
earned, they saved By the carrying Lynch Law
! through the doors and windows Of church.
~ STRANGER was arrested in Sa,,..a.
last week, on suspicion that he was Baker.
the murderer of Poole. lie was however re-
leased
-DIvoRcls were granted as follows l,y
the Supreme Court at its April term in Cal
edonia Co.
Stephen 0. Clark IS. Sally D. CLARK, Bill
granted for intolerable severity,
Sarah York VS.. Levi S. York. Bill grant
ed for wilful desertion.
Joseph Farrar VS.. Louisa Farrar. BIZ
granted for wilful desertion. Bride left
next day after marriage, and has not been
| heard from since.
Stephen n. Hoyt VS.. Susan Hoyt Bill
granted for willlul desertion.
Watson D. Bean vs. Saloma \ Bean Eli
granted for wilful desertion,
Sylvia Ball VS.. Arad Ball. Bill granted
| for intolerable severity.
Divorce cases have one popularity about
them. No one appears in the defence. Tho
plf. has only to prove case that comes
| within the statute.
- Is ORLEANS COUNTY there is a great
scarcity of hay. Southern and Western corn
has been brought in to supply the lack, and
$4,000 bushels it is estimated will be t,l out
to stock. The drouth of last year 0G'. ctcd
the hay so that it goes no more than two
thirds as far as usual The Irasburgh ga
zctte says In towns where the scarcity is
greatest, many have fed browse u their cattle
all winter, and many others do the same
now but it is probable that more or less
will perish with starvation. The Oldest
inhabitant' calls this the first time when
this county has suffered severely from drouth.'
Mia. BALLOON, of peppercll. Mass. slew
twenty times his own length of black snakes
on the 18th inst The individual sargin,s"
numbered twenty-six, and averaged four and
half feet in length, apiece, making one
hundred and seventy feet Of snakes. They
were taken from one den
IN WnNINGToS, Essex, Co. y Y, On
the 18th, little son of Mr.. Beach. aged
years, fell into kettle of boiling soap. lie
survived about &c hours, in great agony.
"A YOUNG MAN named Barker fell from
railroad bridge over Genesee river, near
Rochester, n. Y, the other day, and was
carried over the falls and dashed into the
abyss below. The body has not been found
An lrishwoman at Dunbarton, y Y, was
fatally poisoned, last week, by takn. as a
medicine decocton of tobacco boiled in
milk, as remedy for fever and agur Her
husband took the same medicine, but sur, iycd
the cure.-At Louisville, Va 4th inst.
Mrs, Edward Thomson fell dead from her
chair. Her husbands brother, Nimrod, ran
to her assistance, and, before reaching her.
fell on the floor corpse The deaths were
not two minutes apart.-llugh Harris, rc-
volutionary pensioner, died at Jonosboro',
Tenn, Feb. 18th, at the extraordinary age of
ITO. lie left wife to whom he was married
in his ninetieth year.-The man WOUNDED On
the Water Witch by the Paraguayans, who
subsequently, died, was Samuel Cheney of
Baltimore, Md, where he left wife and
nine children.-The body Of William Carroll.
railroad contractor, who has been mi,sin,
since January, has been found in the lake
near Milwaukee. There were marks of fatal
wounds on the body and five Germans have
been arrested on suspicion of having muir
dered him.
- IHE CAAELs ARE CosrNG.-By an at
Of the last Congress certain amount was
appropriated to enable the Secretary of War
to try the experiment Of introducing camels
on this continent. The storcship Supply i,
to % to the Mediterranean for the animals
as soon AZ she can be prepared for sea la.
thought that the experiment of introducing
camels as beasts of burden, and for military
purposes, in the southwestern part of tho
country, will prove entirely successful,
-GgoRGE LAW, or " Live Oak Gc,l-o."
as his friends call HIM, having been
proposed for the Presidency by the Lcgisls-
ture of Pennsylvania, aud Commodore Van
derbilt, by the Legislature of New Jersey. it
now only remains for some other State to pro.
pose the name of L. X. Collins for that hi-h
office, to complete the trio of New York
steamship Presidential candidates Nau.,or-
hilt :" has go in him." if nothing cl.r lle