Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-01-05
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-CRINE EpMoST.-The statement Of
the Vermont state prison superintendent
shows that th" number of criminals in con-
fnement in the state prison are sixty. FIVE
three for murder, four for manslaughter,
twenty-five for larceny, and the others for
minor offences. The iails in three counties,
Lamoille, Essex, and Grand Isle, are empty,
Rutland county has twenty prisoners, Chit
tenden six, Orange seven, Franklin and
Windsor four each Caledonia and Addison
two each, Windham and Washington ore
each. No State in the Union of the size o
Vermont can show cleaner criminal list
than this.
-BENNIScroS The selling of liquor in
Bennington, which the Banner states has
been carried on to an alarming extent, has
been brought under the notice of the author
tiles, and official complaints are made against
| all the rum holes, great and small, in that
village --Whils Mr. Greenslit of the
oamo town was walking across the water
wheel of the Stone-ware pottery of Messrs.
Norton, upon the buckets, the wheel started
and carried him in between the same and
the wall. Some one present stopped the ma.
chinery instantly and saved his life, but it
took an hours work to extricate him, du ring
which time his feet were frozen badly. He is
doing we'll,
-MR. CARLOS ELLIS, Of Barnard, man
thirty eight years old, and in good circum-
stances, but in feeble health, committed sui.
eide with razor on the LIST instant.
-HENRY MONROE was hung on the gath
of Nov. last, in Martinez, California, for the
murder of James NJ Gordon. During i'm
pri.onment Monroe occupied his time in sing
ing, playing with bones, and composing OBJ
scene songs He walked with firm step to
the scaffold and addressed the crowd, stating
among other things that he alone was guilty
of the murder. There are two others await
ing trial for participation in the same crime,
Munroe said that Gordon was the only white
man he had ever killed, although he had shot
Spaniards and Indians merely to see them
jump and die. His death was accompanied
with but a brief struggle. Among the per-
sons present were fifty females, thirty of
whum Americans Nunroe said while
in prison that Munroe was not his real
name that he was from Rutla nd county, Vt
where he had relatives.
-FoRE-rArHERs DAY IN MIppIEBrRr-
| The 224th anniversary Of the Landing Of tire
| Pilgrim Fathers was celebrated at Middle.
| bury, Friday evening, Dec, cod, with an
| Address by Hon. George W. Grandey, OF
Vergennes, on Z" The Romance and Poetry Of
| History" accompanied with suitable music
and devotional exercises, followed by a " La
dies Social party"
-TBoMAs WILLIAM DoRR, gentleman
who acquired a wide celebrity as leader Of
the revolutionary forces of Rhode Island in
in ls4l, died at Providence on Wednesday
morning,
IN KrEsEvlllr, \. Y, on Saturday.
store-house belonging to Z. j. Bliss, was
burned to the ground, with a quantity OF
grain worth about 5000
-ANoNG the L. ;. Patents issued for the
week ending Dec, 10Th, WAS one to Isaac Il
Howe, of Mortified, w.. for Improvement IN
machines for STRENGTHENING heavy metal bars
Ting y. Yo.s Post says that there are
one hundred and sixty-one " To Let " bills
posted on Buildings in Broadway alone, and
that there have not been 50 many unrented
stores in that street at any time since the
great crisis Of 1887, as at the present
! This is the natural result Of the exorbitant
rents that have prevailed in that great thor
/ oughiare Only year ago, and the common
price of fret floor, 20 by 50, in good To-
! cation was - 800.