Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-06-22

giving detailed history ~ tie i''PHI '''''
lie asserts that but for the action oi the mil
itary, the liquor agency would lH'' tee" '.'
on fire, and the city hail destroyed Inc
board of alderman endorse the mayor state
mcnt. On the other hand Capt. Green oil
the military company first ordered out, testi-
fcs before the Coroncrs inquest, that he saw
no necessity for FREEING ball cartridges n 0sc
had been sufficient force there 1t secn.11ho
soldiers fred through closed door, one pan
cl Of which had been beaten out by the mob
--TnE RUTLAND County Slate quarrics
give employment to four hundred men; and /
slate enough is quarricd and finished every |
day, to cover %, 900 square feet of roof
Tho slate sell, ON an average, at $50 per
square of zoe square feet. The Rutland Her
aid says that county can furnish all the rool- |
ing slate wanted in the United State Tor |
hfty years.
.-TuE SNOW on the Great Ridge of the
White Mountains, was said to have been, on
the first instant. thirty feet deep in some
places, and in Tuckerman's ravinc fifty feet 1
deep.
FATALiriES.-A young man named /
Griggs, eighteen years of age, OF Richiord' |
Vt, was drowned while fishing in the Missis-
auoi River on Wednesday Of last week-A
son of William W. Durant of Bellows Falls, !
aged 10 wears, was drowned in the canal in
that village, on Saturday afternoon last
On Wednesday last Mr. Nelson Moore, of
Calais, Vt, was fatally wounded by Il rail
slipping from load and hitting him in the
eye. lie died on Wednesday night.--A child
two years old, of Mr.. w. Reed of Ludlow,
VT. died on Tuesday Of last week, from inju
ries received by the falling upon it of log
from fence, near which it was at play
G. c. January OF Cincinnati, patient at
one of the Brattleboru Water cures, went
with party on to Wantastiquct mountain.
He was missed from the party, and after
search his body was found on steep decliv-
ity against tree head downwards. Life
was extinct. lie was subject to fts.-War
rem Langmaid, of Danville, was drowned in
Australia in January last, and Henry Morrill,
also formerly of Danyile, was murdered by
the Indians in California in April last.
- CRIMES AND RAscALGTiEs. -Osias 5.
Plumb Of Stamford and Charles Thompson of
Halifax, Vt, were arrested week before last
for stealing three year old colt from the
pasture of Samuel Jewett of Bennington
They are held for trial at Manchester. Some
body, (name not given) was arrested in Ben
nington last week for forging a signature to
e. t. ,,I G,r Il
count at the Bank of Brattleboro and detect
ed by the Cashier Mr.. WclS.--At Brattle-
boro on Tuesday Anthony Van Doom aged
go was arraigned for assault and battery
committed on the seat of honor Of one John
B. IIammett, aged years, under size and of
weakly constitution. Anthony's fine with
costs amounted to 40 and when next he
feels like spanking somebody, he is advised
to take one nearer his own size.-A young
man II years old, recently stole 40 tickets
from the depot at Passumpsic village. lie un-
dertook to travel on one last, week and is con-
sequently now in custody The body of boy
supposed to be Lyman p. Drake Of Hartford,
Vt, was found in the Merrinack river, near
Concord, n. H., a few days ago. The physi-
clans who saw the body, came to the conclu-
sion that the lad had been murdered before
being thrown into the water.-The Watch
man learns that person concerned with
three others in numbering q man in Wood
bury, VT, forty years ago, has recently con-
fessed ION a death body the decd aud detailed
the circumstances, naming all the parties
except one, who is yet hving.-NIichael
Oman has turned up in Rutland. lie is a
busy rascal, changing his name frequently,
bargaining for farms, cattle, horses and
carriages, but never paying for them, and
following rascality as trade. He has " dark
hair and whiskers, " blue cloth coat"
ring and is of small stature-about thirty
FIVE year, old.-A woman calling herself the
widow of Daniel Colbey of Swanton, Vt,
has been swindling the people in the south
part of thu. state and New Hampshire out of
money and clothing
-rHE TRIAL Of Sheldon Pond for the muir
der Of Decatur Cheney at Addison, Sept. 1854
was held last week at Middebury. After
the testimony was in, the States Attorney
acknowledged that he could not claim con-
viction, and the jury in five minutes return
cd verdict of 'not guilty, by reason of in
sanity" The prisoner was then remanded
to Jail, and will, under our laws, be confined
for life.
The MONTPELIER Freeman says that
five and a half inches of rain fell there last
week, which is ono sixth of the average fall
for the year. The gardens along the river
bank are overlooked. On Sunday evening a
tornado unroofed barn in Barre village
and carried large part of the roof over two
meeting houses, into field beyond tore and
rolled up the Methodist Westinghouse sheds,
destroyed the Rev. Mr.. Roycc's excellent
garden, unroofed part Of the new Academy
and Frustrated scores Of large forest trees.
Another building or two was unrooicl on
Barrehills, and several in Plainfeld one
barn was also unroofed or blown down in
East Montpelier.
-BEEF has fallen in the New York and A..
bany Markets from nine dollars to five ana O
HAN, being reduction Of three and a-halt
cents pound. Beef Cattle are now brought
TO New York from Texas.
-THE PHOENIX Is responsible for til,
following crow story;
A man in Pawlet, after having his corr
destroyed and his wheat-feld attacked b.,
these sable depredators, and having usc'
every species of " scare-crow laid down il
the books to no effect, resorted to poison -
He procured strychnne in which he soakc'
some corn and scattered it about bis field 80
A. result Of the first days effect Of hi
preventative, lie found the dead carcasscs q
200 crows in and about the field - \ bacl
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