Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-06-15

day, as it was first supposed from having
been run over by the tram on the Camden
Amboy Railroad Ga limitation however
it was discovered that a collision with scv''
rIdishes and three large glasses oi ice wutcr
and not with locomotive, was the cause 0
his death. Radshcs and Locomotives ar
about equally dgcstble. u
"A NEGRO in CASTOR, Allh.X mur
dcrcd Miss Thornton, some time since
The citizens repaired to the ilil. obtainc,
the negro, carried him to the spot where thu
murder was committed and burned HIM i,
the presence of Il large crowd including 2OOC
slaves. An old man named Smith was whip
ping his slave girl in Srartansburg. n. c.
last week, when her brother, a lad of six
teen, attacked Smith with an axe and killed
him on the spot
- Tow InuNB is still a single man. OF
mnnnkin The lady to whom it was stated
he had been married, has merely been hired
to travel with him and take care of his bib
and tucker, in other words attend to his
wardrobe
Nv VIEW Of Il recent assault of one New
York Alderman ON another man, and a cat
and dog fight between two other Aldermen
the Courier and Enquirer comes to the con.
clusion that the receipt for curing sheep
killing pointer is the only thing which will
cure New York Alderman viz. take
compound of charcoal sulphur and saltpeter,
introduce it with due proportion of lead
and wadding into an iron tube, place the
tube in the mouth of the animal. and then
ignite
- lHE fRl0nrfrL WRECK of the Peruvian
ship Gr'mcn:0, is mentioned in the last
Australian news. The Captain and five of
his crew had reached Melbourne. The Girl
menza was wrecked on her passage to Callao,
with $50 Chinese emigrant passengers on
board, nearly all of whom were drowned -
The few survivors, mostly officers and
crew, underwent terrible sufltrings in the
boats before they were picked up
- TUE LATEST adyices from the Sandwich
Islands report that the British frigatcs Pres
ident and Accstc, sloop-of-war Dido and
steamer Brisk had all left Honolulu for the
North, their supposed destination being to
blockade or attack Pctropaulovski.
"A SHED in Winchester, Mass in which
two young men had been experimenting with
fire works, accldently took fire and the fire
was got under with difficulty. An cxamna-
ton OF the shed then revealed kcg of powder
with the 'tdres partly jurned hrougb.
II COMPANY Of sixty young Canadian
volunteer rihcmen sailed last week from
Boston for Constantinoplc, en- route forthe
Crime1. They say they shall not como
back until they lick the Russians" If so |
they may not return for sometime yet
u sAI@ BOAT recently carsized in Lake .
Ponchartrain Its cargo of ladies and gentle.
men were rescued by some bathcrs near by,
and no special damage was done The affair
is noticeable solely for q discovery made
upon the occasion, which is thus narrated by
the reporter of the Picoyunc:
When the party scudded past the batbcrs,
the gentlemen were putting on airs over their
skill IN sailing and the ladies looked ange-
liierous' in their downy Sunday dresses.
little love bonnets, sweetly banded hair. and
general salubrity. When they were rescued
from the water their appearance had changed
shghhy. Their little French bonncts looked
like spoontulls of batter dashed on the backs
OF their heads their hair, lately SO beauti-
iully banded, hung down their palid faces
ike seaweed DER clam : and-how shall
we tell it!-projecting from either side of
one of the ladies heads, and standing ont
boldly in the broad light of day, were two
punches of Spanish mass giving an hides
cribably ludicruus effect her pale. fright
ened face, and suggesting the idea that she
must have been fixing mp for an Ethiopian
serenade. One of our hathcrs lost button
or two in keeping "A straight face over the
oddly, though he was unable for the life of
him to tell what it meant. We are not much
wiser only we shall look suspiciously here
after upon all feminine hair which Ia banded
far out from the head.
"A STUDENT of Hobart free COLLEGE.
named Caverno, had been bathing at Geneva,
n. y, few days since, and while in the act
of dressing himself dropped dead. During
the absence of Mrs. Day from her house, at
Ship Cove, New Foundland. recently. it
caught fire and SIX children persisted in the
hames.-A boy of fifteen named Slaughter
ended his days ploughing at Princetown
Ky, by hanging himself with the pillow lines.
-IHEf GET up very respectable hurr-
cane out in Missouri considering. One
passed through Cass countya few DAYS since,
and the Cass county Gazette thus records
some OF its achievements Great numbers of
birds, RABBITS, &c, We're found torn to pieces
in Its course and we are informed that the
poultry OF Mr.. Young which were not killed,
were stripped MS ndked as If then had been
'od|ded and p'ckcd for he. frWng pan ="
--" SIR, you shall hear from me - said
A fellow with laundering voice and chin
ney-back irown, to an editor who had nub-
lsheu something hp had 4 ! ,
party 4" you shall hear from Inc :" and he
shook his fingers Significantly, That's right
dew said Jonathan, bowling politely
- write occasionally, and let us know how
you re getting along"
- An ANT TRAr.-Procure large
sponge wash it well and press it dry, which
will leave the cells quite open. Then
sprinkle over it some fine white sugar. and
place 1t near where the ants are most trouble
f me. They will soon collect upon the
sponge and take up their abode in the cells
10 Is then only necessary to dip the sponge in
scaldng water, which will wash them ont
: clean dead by ten thousands Put on more
sugar and set the trap for new haul This
process will soon clear the house OF every
ant, uncle and progeny,
--- THL Author of the entertaining, parer
on - y Bag Of Wind says that :. The
idea, not long since, occurred to a French
gardener, that the development of the more
delicate blossoms is essentially modified by
atmospheric pressure; accordingly he tried
the experiment Of attaching pots Of yiolets to
little balloons, and securing them by long
cords to the EARTH sending them to bloom far
up amid the fields of ether the violcts thus
expanding in the upper air, proved Of incred-
ible size, o"
y The PORTLAND RIoT.-lt is clear from
all accounts that Mayor Dow was guilty of
no violation Of the Maine Law-that the suit
against him and the city liquor was trumpcd
up for the sake of annoying him, and that