Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-07-13

The "Bellows Fail. N',us. says t'Ht
Hugh II. Henry, p. Il. thoo Her, ana y -
Williams. Esos., have boon purchasing quite
n farm in the north part 81 t'' ''"''' ''''
sistinr of l2 900 acres nl' we'll q "''''d
Tine xxow SOOTHING couutil ID of Louis
inna have repudiatcd the Catholic test OF TIE
order.
The know nothings have been defeated in
OREGON. and Gen. Lane, democrat, reelected
by over 1000 majority. The reoplcof Oregon
have voted in favor of state government
The citizens Of Brooklyn have been
acting the second part to the farce OF Bill
Poolc's funeral, by giving a " splendid iunc-
raj " on the occasion of the burial OF har-
lot named Sarah Williams, who committed
suicide.
"A RuMoR of the presence Of the Plague
in New York has caused some remark. 1t
arose from the existence Of some halt dozen
cases of an eruptivc disease called " fustule
Maligne.'' 1t is characterized by the APP
rearancc of rimple. rapidly Increasing In
size to that of an ordinary boil, with symp-
fever and very severe constitutional distur-
hauce One or two of the cases have re-
covered, but they have generally been fatal
in n few days The disease is well known not
TO he of contagious character. 1t is treated
by iucision with lancet.
-TnE BRirlsn Express on the st. Law
renee was robbed Of $4,000 above Montreal,
last week Sunday night Three men and
woman, who came down over the Vt. Cen
trail. were arrested at Concord, y. II. on sus-
picon, but were discharged for want of
proof though the woman confessed her con
nection with a company of blacklcgs and
burglars.
Tho following tough story comes from
Kansas Sixty yoke of red bulls, according
to tho Frontier Ne,rs, were seen last week by
an old lady in Kansas, hitched TO an empty
wagon, which was mired in the streets of
this city. The team reached entirely from
bill to hill across one of our valleys, vulgarly
called CUTS. The wagon, being very tight in
the mud refused to move the consequence
was when that portion of the team in the
lead over on the other hill, spread themselves
in strong pull, and Strengthened the chains,
that q yoke Of the bulls, in the centre were
suspended In mid air by their nccks, some
thing less than 80 feet above ground.
--HoRN SNAKEs.-The Easton (Ohio)
Register says that a man living some miles
west of that place lately killed " horn
snake, "A reptile often talked Of but rarely
seen. 1t is said to be most venomous SCR
pent The Register thus describes it 1.-The
monster killed thus measures four feet in
length and the horn at the end of the tail
through an almost imperceptible hole from
which the poison is ejected-was about an
inch and half long, spiral, sharp at the
point, and so hard as to defy the effort to
cut it with knife
A BULLET Poor CoACH.-Quecn Vic
toria s state coach is bulletproof, and the
glass of the windows is six inches thick
When GeorgeIV, was fired at, the glass WAS
only broken by the ball. In this COACH for
some reason and not, as had been expected.
in an open one, Louis Napoleon proceeded
on his late visit to Guildhall, to receive the
address of the corporation OF London.
E1rRAoRDINARY WEDDING.--The Richmond
Despatch is informed that an extraordinary
wedding is to take place in New York this
month. The bridegroom is a Louisiana sugar
planter and the blushing bride the daughter
of New York Judge. Two thousand guests
are invited, and the happy groom foots the
festive amount Of their expenses. The chiv-
alrous bridegroom will proceed like conque-
ror from the sunny South, with tail of
two hundred ladies and gentlemen. This i'm
mense retinue is to be quartered at the st.
Nicholas Hotel, which has been hired without
regard to expense, for four days, at the rate
Of $4,000 per day. To all tins we say with
honest Burchell, " Fudge