Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-04-20


-WB LEARN that the trusslc-work
across the river at Wiliston, which has c
temporarily supplied the place Of the bridge !
burnt a while since, has been carried 4
away by the lee moving out,
---1nE O'GRAnY BOYS, formerly Of the
Judson Hotel, have opened new Hotel, on
the corner Of Broadway and Canal streets
in New York, lately built and richly furnish, 4
ed by DR.. Brandrcth, the pill millionair,F
and called the Brandrcth House
Seventy YEARS ago, says correspon.
dent of the llaichD,oa, " Ezra Butler came
into the town of Waterbury. lie found in
that town one family of the name of Marsh
whose nearest neghbors were seven miles
distant, there being one family in Mid1lcsex,
on the farm late the residence Of Capt.
stowell, and one family in Bolton, where is
now the scene fdcsolation by freshet. There
were then two houses in Montpelier and two
in Burlington" The growth Of the villages
/ in the Winooski valley, has not quite
/ equallod that Of the mushroom cities OF the
/ West, but there has been some progress in
seventy years.
-fu>>Y.-- The Mortified Star says that
the American people - behold the Grccian |
horse of foreign influence in our midst. |
like the vcnomous viper, fastening it. deadly |
fangs in the breast that has warmed and pro-
tectcd it, and they set themselves to work to
divert the evil and " sarved him right"
too. That horse must keep his fangs to him
self If he don 4 want 70 t,o diverted
- The EDITOR Of the Ludiow Bloucr,
who is n successful business man, and now
publishes his little sheet an nuxiliary to
f his business says The following receptive
have tried the last four years, and attest to
its truthfuncss
Do you want business advertise.
Do you wish for wealth advertise.
Do you want Gus toners advertise.
Do you wish to belong to the OweNoth-
ings, Pay your Printer. And we would
T suggest to our friends the propriety Of occu-
rying a space in our columns
e Jouv SyiTH who has of late been
c enjoying retirement from the world in Gin
o ton Prison. across the lake. climbed over the
ii krts If the rison gard last week, took to
( the ice and after travellng't till he reached
the Vermont shore, as he supposed, went on
y land, and found himself on the same side he
n started from. lie was subsequently induced tc
10 return behind the stone walls, and will employ
e himself at looking through era to for q
+ period to come.
g. - Mr.. II. ORcu1r, who has been twelve
? years Principal of Thetford tNt.) Academy
'e has been elected Principal of North Gran
t, vile Female Seminary, n. Y. Mr.. q. will
1t open the School at Granville, the first OF
- Sept. next.
=, --THE Boston Adrertiser says :" We do
not mean to maintain that Spain is a lamb,
y but we do aver that the manufacturers OF
Spanish outragcs' in America, have in
- fringed upon the patent of Esop's wolf. "
--IIoN. DAVID CUMMINGS, of Dorchester
, Mass, formerly Judge Of the Court Of
g, of Common Pleas of this State, died at Dor
= chester, Friday night. lie was GO years Of
" age. His daughter, Miss Maria Cummings,
q is the authorcss of the - Lamplighter''
t. a BILL, making jurors judges of the
tie law as well as the fact, has been passed by
be the Legislature of Massachusetts, md re.
n ceived the Governor s signature. That jurie:
be have rightlullv been, and should be, judge.
d. of the law and Of the fact, and, though
I'd bound to give heed to the opinions Of the
" Court, are not necessarily required to adopI
IN them, is made clear we think by a recent
it writer in the y. Y. Times
NJ --TuE PATRIOT, Montpelier, has lately
&C donned a new dress. 1t is much improved il
IL appearance, and no worse than heretofore il
Mt politics
III a MAN, Joseph Garrow, and four boys
in St. Adams Jail on charges of assault anc
ty battery and theft, filed off an iron bar ant
made their escape from window Of the ia
on Saturday night last. They took up theil
line of march for Canada, and if they &c
there and stay there and behave themselves
they mood not fear the sheriff.
q. - The MAN who attempted to murder
hi Mr.. Colony of Keescville, while on n hunt
~ ing excursion in Northern New York las
o. winter, by shooting him with his own Dor
as rowed gum has been tried, found guilty anC
sentenced to nine years in the penitentiary
as Mr. Colony has but just recovered from tn
ed buck shot wound in his legs.
OF AR MEETING of the IVashin cto,
as County Emicrdnt And Company, holden a
rs Montpelier, on the 10th inst, TEN MEN signi
fed their determination to emigrate to Kan
c. sas this Spring and TUESDAY, the Gath inst,
k, was fixed for tho day to start Two oftheu
IN were from Williamstown, one from Brook
~ Eolj
lie two from Waterbury, and one from More
r. town--all farmers.
- The BRITISH schooner, Waterloo wa.
VI sunk on the 10Th of March in the North sea
Us by a whale, which ran into the vessel with
le all his might, struck her under water, and
- stove her, The master and crew escaped in
III n boat and were saved by another ship. 1t is
'r supposed to have been Russian whale.
-TnE PENNSYLVANIA LIoUoR LAW pro-
hibits the sale Of any a. vinous, spirituous
ar malt liquors, or any adrniature thereof, a,
any hotel, inn, tavern, restaurant, eating
:, house, theatre or other place of entertain
b, ment, in any part of the State of Pcnnsylva.
-, mia" Duly licensed persons, not keepers of
- any such place, may sell liquor for other
y, purposes than as a beverage, but not in guam
: titles less than qunrt, nor at all on Sunday
,. The first violation Of the act is punishable by
,. fine of $50 and one months imprisonment
the second violation with 500 fine and i'm
prisonment three months. The law takes
effect on the LIST of next October.
- In the State Library at Albany are a
few pieces of paper, yellow with time, and
= written upon with ink in plain and seem
It ingly modern hand, inclosed in a glass case,
which are matters of deem historical iuter