Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-03-23
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--rRAINs have been running since Thurs
day over the trusslework which replaced tenn
porarily the Railroad bridge burnt in Willis
ton. The Freeman says the woodwork of the
bridge DESTROYED cost $40 900. A now bridge
can he built, we understand, for 500, foot,
or SI3,0 900
-TmE EDITOR of the Rutland Herald says
his most delinquent subscribers are always
men who hare had Office, and his lawyer j.
now collecting bills against two e1-M. &C.
and four Hons He also denies the paternity
of a "silly paragraph credited to him BY the
Free Press If he didn't say it, the Herald
did. The Herald also says Wendell Phillips
lectured in Burlington on the 18th Mr..
Phillips has not spoken in Burlington tins
season, nor erer to our knowledge.
-DEATH OF DISTINGUISHED LADY
Died very suddenly, last week, the fast and
famous trotter, LADY SUFFOLK, the property of
Mr.. Hill Of Bridport. She was an ungainly
looking white mare, of ugly form and gait,
but for years was ranked among the fastest
of the fast horses in the Country. She was
old, as the age of horses is reckoned. being
long past her teens, though she was put upon
the course on the ice in Burlington last
winter, and in Middlebury last fall The
vergenncs paper says that her companion
the noted Black Hawk of about the same age
will probably also ere long sleep with his
fathers.
- SIX CAR LOADS of Kanzas emgrant.
from Eastern Massachusetts, passed through
Rutland for the West on Wednesday last
The Herald says" About forty women were
in the company We never saw more quiet
crowd. There were some who seemed to say,
" We have failed in business" Some looked
1--WE have kept school till we are discour-
aged" Some We have done something
at lecturing." But most of them were active,
fne-looking young men, who seemed to say
give us room-we want to do something,
and we w'H' May they find pleasant homes,
and make a free State 80
- Mas, {. H. lIvNT, of Danville, Vt,
has thrown Mrs. Bcach's days work ofnnety
knots Of yarn, quite into the back ground
\ few days SINCE she did a washing for her
family of three persons, and the same day
spun one hundred and trcire knots of yarn.
The Christian Messenger vouches for the fact
that il was all good honest yarn from native
wool, and not thread OF street yarn.
--THr Windsor Journal thinks that that
awkward piece of machinery, the Council of
Censors, must have been devised by the man
who snuffed the candle with his fingers, and
remarked, as he put the burnt wick into the
suffers" These shutters are handy things.
amt they :"
-TnIRrEEN i'll matched couples were
divorced at the recent session of the Supreme
Court at Woodstock. In nine of the thirteen
cases, 1t was the woman who applied for the
dissolution of the Union
LETTERS from Meredith, N. H., the
scene of the awful disaster on the 18th, by
the falling of the town hall floor, report that
five men have died of their injuries, Others
are not expected to survive. Over twenty had
bones badly broken, and over one hundred
were injured by the accident. The floor and
those on it, fell Is feet
-RoBBINs& LAWRENCE, of Windsor, Vt
have contracted with a London Company for
the manufacture of S4OO,OOO worth of mimic
rifles. In the tulfllment of the contract they
will require a force of two OF three hundred
men, in addition to those already employed
in their armory,
-BRlsrol Bill has not attempted to es-
cape from the State Prison. The story to
that effect was a hoax SO says the Windsor
Journal