Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-03-30

IN Montpelier, last wcrk, a couple
were married at hotel, whose respective
nges were about 70 and in Peru, Bcnning-
Ton County, on the cath ult., Capt. Banks,
aged IS, and widow BatcIclor, az d C3. were
united in the bonds Of matrimony.
Rev. o. T. Lanplcar, OF Derby, has
BEEN sorely afflicted by the loss of all his chill
drcn, (three,) during the last three weeks,
with scarlet fever. His mother and himself
also, have been sick with the same disease,
but are slowly recovering.
A MAN, tNA-Dean, in Westminster,
last week, hitchcd his oxen by mistake to
his own thumb instead of a stump, and,
doubtless unintcntionally, allowed them to
draw off the thumb, with the sincw attached,
about nine inches in length
The ILLusTR1ous DEAD. The n. York
Herald says, that "thc sensation concerning
Mr.. Poole in that metropolis, has very scnsi-
bly, subsidized since the arrival Of the ifricd
with the news Of the death OF thc Emperor
of Russia
--SEvERAL months since the editor of
che California Pioneer Nagas,ne, Mr.. Ever.
wrote a fictitious account Of the death orone
John F. Lane, giving a thrilling account
OF The various imaginary spiritual and super
natural phenomena which attended his de-
rarturc from the scenes Of earth. y para
graph which we find in the JourRGi qt' Com.
meree, states that Judge Edmonds believed
the whole story, "copicd it in his ghost pa
per, and finally to clap the climax, wrote to
Mr. Ever that he had had several interviews
with the spirit of Lane
-tir1EEN thousand dollars was arrro-
priated by the last Congress, for the compile
ton of Fort Montgomery at Rousc's Point
a like sum remains uncxpcnded from rre-
vious appropriation for the same purpose.
making $500 to be expended there the
coming year. Windmill Point, exactly op-
posite Rouse's Point, in Vermont. is to have
alight-house, for which $4,000 was urpro.
priated.
Nv ST. ALRANs, lad only twelve years
old is in custody for stealing a considerable
sum OF money, and for other thefts. Several
boys and girls of that village, have also been
held to answer to the law for disturbing reli-
gous worship in the Methodist Church.-A
young man IN ST. Adams was married on Sat
urday the 10th, and became a maniac on the
evening of the same day.
-BAD RrM.-Thc people of Palmer,
Mass, have voted to abolish their liquor
agency, because, "some of the liquor would
not burn, some would freeze, and it was
limited strongly that some would cat holes
through horse blanket and take the hair
from the animal
AR THE recent session of the Supreme
Court at Woodstock, Judge Redfeld pro-
nounced the decision of the Court on "A bill of
exceptions in two liquor cases, against John
P. Freeman. The result is that the exccp
tions are not sustancd-ihc lar is sustained
and Freeman is fined on 100 counts, 81 800
and costs, with three months imrrisonlnent
in the county Jail
-ADIrocERE is an animal soap, with
base OF ammonia or lime 1t has the an
pearance OF stearine. The bodies of persons
who have been drowned, and which remain
MANY months in the water, often become
changed into this substance. In bodies bur
RED in wet ground, the same alteration oc-
ours. Instead of the usual rapid putrofac-
ton or decay Of the body, its soft parts (rar-
ticularly the fat) are changed into adipocre =.
and the general shape of the body is pre-
served, except that it becomes more solid, |
and therefore smaller. The body recently |
disintered at Middlesex, and described By the |
freeman as ease of pctriGdction," has
been examined by Prof. Thayer, of Wood
stock, and found to be not stone, but this
animal soap. The statements that no awl or
knife would penetrate it any more than mar
BILE, and that it weighed over 500 pounds,
must be exaggcrations or mistakes, we think.