Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-11-02

AR TnE New York State Fair, rremi.
ums were awarded to 7. j. Dana Of Spring
field, for the best four years old stallion
from without the State, and to George
Campbell Of Westminster, fer the best buck
merino from without the state.
joins G. SANE is lccturing out West on
Yankee Land The Louisville journal says
''Of the numbers Of able lecturers who have
been before the people Of Louisville, no one
has achieved success surprising that which
Mr. SAKE won on Tuesday evening. and very
few, if indeed any, have equallcd it,"
---Gov GARDvER Of Massachusetts, has ar-
pointed Thursday, the twenty ninth day of
November next as day Of Public Thanks
giving, Praise ard Prayer. GOV. Clark Of
New York has appointed the same day, for
Thanksgiving in that State Thanksgiving in
Pennsylvania, Nov 22d in Indiana Goth, in
Maine and Ohio, Nov. 80
--TnE Washington correspondent Of the
/ y Y Times states that the British represen-
tativc at Washington has discovered secret
5---A.r of the Irish Emgrant Aid Associa-
ton whose object is to aid Ireland to free
herself from Englands rule, now while the
latter is engaged in the Eastern War
Britain is seriously alarmed, and beseeches
the President to take instant measures to
save Ireland from the Irish
- BARTLETT pears have been selling in
NewYork market at wholesale for g. per bar
rel One cultvator Of this delicious fruit rea-
lied at rate Of 1900 per acre from his orchard.
he plant l04 standard and 1876 dwarf pear
trees on each acre.
-JuDGB PLEMNo>s of Dewitt, Carroll
county, Missouri, was murdered by o
his slaves on the 9Th inst. Tho negro CON
, fessed the murder, and was tried by the lynch
, law, and hung on tree by the excited people
The provocation assigned by the slave for his
act, was chasti5ement which the Judge had
a short time before inflicted upon him.
n --TnE GREAT comet which was expected
d in 1913, and on account Of the non-appear-
ance Of which Sir John EIerschell put a
Grape on his telescope, Mr. BONNIE a dis
tinguished German Astronomer, finds not
Il to he due until 1858 With immense labor
i he has gone over all the intricate calcula.
+ tions, and estimates that the comet would lie
j. retarded to that extent by the influence Of
i the planets The periods of its return have
II ranged from $50 to 1893 years, and if it shall
,o not return before 1858 its present period
II will be longer Ivy nine years than ever be-
- fore.
c. LANDS are valuable in the Old Do
st. minion. On Wednesday Of last week TO-
ri O0O acres in Doddrdgc county were sold at
Nm auction for two cents acre, Il 900 acres
he in Randolph county for cent and three
quarters, 900 acres in Gilman county for
in. two cents and quarter, and II 900 acres in
- various other portions of the state, at price.
= ranging from cent to two and Une-eighth
'' per acre. These prices may be set down as
'cs of the legitimate fruits Of the institution
Of slavery
>-Dr KA>E, according to the statement
of the Troy Wing, is soon to be married 10
Miss Margaretta Fox. the second sister Of the
t Fox girls, who formerly resided in Rochester,
N whcre they commenced the Rochester
Is kncckings. During DR.. Kanes absence, his
he said -to-be afianccd has been attending a
he young ladies' school at Philadelphia.
ew --THE following from the Peoples Advo E
m. cate is rightly pronounced the "quintess.
to ence Of Munchausenisn
his FRA>KLlx Pl1RcE.-Few men have made
10 mcrct brillan life, few have been more de-
-, voted to their country, few more spacious
ard few have been more hcnOrably rewarded
u by that discriminating .Iudge-the People -
~ Peoples Ad,ooate
--THE Middletown, Conn, slver-lead
~. mine is soon again to be worked. The
lie from this mine wa nc. long since 'assayed by
,st Hugh l.. Pattinson ESD, the highest au-
thoritv on the subject in England, and this
important conclusion arrived at viz. THAT
ed seren-eig hthS Of of the Middle'own lead ore
lge contains silver, as high - ol. To the ton
- oflead, and the remaining onc-f'ghth will av-
40 erage hig as 50 oz.
cd: --TnE proprietors OF a gift book con
10 bo, hao 1p;p b,,S IN
Gro Haven, were arrested on Friday afternoon
- Some similar cases are before the courts in
Springfield, Mass.
-THE Hartford Courlnt publishes sad
case Of gambling \ young merchant, whose
business prospects were uncommonly bright,
49, and who was connected with some of the
tie hest families in the city, has proved guilty
hon of forgery to the amount of several thousand
dollars. to conceal heavy losses at a gambling
her saloon. The names forged were those of his
in father and fatherin law.
nd The Nantucket Enquirer says that
ma for years woman in that town has been sub
DOT iect to severe pains, caused by a swelling on
her side A few weeks since it con
ent sldered necessary to open the swelling
81 The operation resulted in the extraction of
0'' tb3rty-scren needieS from the side of the pa-
tho tent The largest needle was an inch and a
lie nail IN lengtn ana 10 is supposed that there
ced are few needles still remaining IN her side
.ho When they were swallowed the patient is
unable to say, but the presumption is. about
twelve years ago
ing "A Canadian boy, aged about ten years,
ner was killed instantly on Tuesday of last week
of at Centerville on the Ogdensburgh Road, by
G of having his head caught between the cars of a
his lumber train. The train was side track
with one OF more cars detached. which the
u deceased and another little boy attempted to
to shackle together, One took crowbar and
ent hv prving at the wheels started the train
,ho while the other took his place between t
shackle them when they came together
-er' His head was caught between the hunters
and crushed in il shocking manner, \ warn
= If ing TO boys to keep away from the ears.
inc "A GENTLEMAN who has recently travelled
Sta in New Grenada, states that he plucked
.ck a flower on the edge of a cliff which was 50
~. high aud So perpendicular, that a man stand
Wv ing ON its summit, where it is 50 cold that
sed corn cannot be raised, can throw a stone 80
he that il shall fall whore oranges grow to per
his fiction.
49, -JusrICE OSBORNE of New York, dis
Of charged all the parties arrested on the explo
sion of the Free Love arrangement. lie pro-
nounced the arrests to have been wholly I'M
nos warranted. The officers may now have to
'er take their turn OF being arrested, and Of en-
yer loylng the irictlons oil the upper ana the ne
~, Their mill stones of the law
crs Tim STATE Council, X y. of Virginia
ccd has adopted the Philadelphia platform, and
and resolved that the sixth section Of the Phild
-. ,lrN,IA platform is not intended, in the