Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-03-14
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perty Of the company. MIR. burton Is SUN
President, and MIR. Do1littlc, Clerk, Trca-
surer and Agent.
SUNDAY morning at sunrise the mercury
stood at below zero, and Monday morning
at o'clock at 10 below zero. That will do
for March We hear of IA thermometer IN
Colchester which marked Is below zero
this morning at o'clock
-EvrRY Sign Of the times shows that a
more liberal sentiment peryades the atmos-
rhcrc of Washington. Not many weeks ago,
the pastor of the Unitarian Church of that
city, Rev. Mr.. Conway, native OF Virginia,
delivered sermon entitled "a NirGinian's
view of slavery" which was so very LIBERAL
not TO say opposed to the extension OF slavery
that it was printed in the " Era The Iri-
buno" Of New York noticed it AMI pro
rhesied that he would Immediately be dis
missed from his charge. But time has proved
that so far from losing his Congregation,
he only seems more firmly fixed by his indie
pendent course.
- LQroR TRIAL IN BRAproRD. - On
.
tried upon the charge of drunkenness and
fined s. and costs. While the crowd was
dispensing, heavy bottle was thrown in at
the door, striking Mr.. Rogers, the grand
Juror, with considerable force upon the head.
lie was also struck upon the head while
passing down the stairs from Court. a
young man by the name of Silas Sawyer was
arrested the next day for the assault. but be-
fore the matter could be brought to trial,
an officer from Massachusetts, with rcqui-
stion from the governor of that State to
| Gov Royce. came to arrest him, upon
charge Of manslIughter, committed at North
Adams. Mass. some months since. He was
m Immediately given up.
c. c. Dewey, ESQ, of Wells River. counsel
for the prosecution, was assaulted in the
same manner and in the same place. aurora.
Ar a Snow Shoe Race in Montreal last
week, Ignace, an Indian. won the purse of
| $50. running upon snow shoes the distance
| Of miles in 29I minutes.
FlRE.-In Enosburgh, the Cabinet
and Chair Factory of Messrs Spraguc
Reed. was totally consumed on the morning
Of the 1st inst Whole loss nearly $4,000.
Insured for $50.
Az ArrRAY took place one day last week
in Windsor, between two young men named
Robert Dow and Goo. Lewis, in which Dow
shot Lewis with pistol just above the small
Of the back, wounling him seriously, but
not dangerously, it is hoped. Dow is under
arrest.
a SAD ACCIDENT occurred in Springfield
! VT, on the Goth ult. \ little child of David
Lockwood. three years of age, while playing
about the floor, fell backwards into a pail of
boiling water, scaldins it itsclfso severely that
it died.
-MRs G.. Y. MAxnAM, daughter of Rev.
Eli Ballou, of Montpelier, died in Mcdford
on the 10th ult Mrs NJ. i, spoken of as a
woman calculated to exert great and good
influence in community. AMI her loss is deep
ly dcplored by large and symrathiaing cir
Gle Ct friends and relations.
---CoRREcTiuN The schoolmastcr
whose proficiency in grammar. spelling and
good manners, was recently described by a
correspondent Of the Mjddlebury Register,
and noticed in our paper, doe. not teach in
MidIlehury as We erronou~ly stated, but, it
seems in Chester. The correction should be
noted for it is serious disgrace to any town
to have such Il teacher over any portion Of its
children and youth. The master in an at
tempt at reply, has fully substantiated the
charges against him.
Carr. f.. c. BoYNToy. lst Artillery.
L. s. \, has retired from the army and is
elected Professor Of Chemistry, Mincralogy
and Geology in the University Of Mississippi
The Windsor Journol claims Capt. b as a
fellow townsman, and says the appointment
is handsome compliment Cor the able man
ner in which he has discharged the duties Of
Assistant Professor of Mnerology, and Geo
logy and Chemistry, for many years, at the
U. S. Military Academy at West Point.
-WlLLlAM WASTE of Whitingham, dice
on the 9th inst. aged %. In April !ast,aftel
drinking some cider lie was taken with VIC
lent pain in the stomach attended with grcat
thirst, from which time to the day Of hi
death, he was great sufferer from some dis
ease of the stomach and bowels lie him
self thought he had taken poison in the cider
An examination made after his death satisfied
those who made it, that poison had been ad
ministered. The case has caused quite al
excitement in the vicinity.
-BIGAMY Lat week Charles 4. Cde
ney was arrested in Lowell Mass. ~ IA tLlrg
of bigamy. 1t appears that some three year
ago he married Nancy Wade at Barre, Vt.
and lived with her till about eight month
, ago, when he left her,and soon after met Adj
4. Brown Of Charleston, to whom he wa.
married in Boston, Chcneys first wife gettin,
= wind of his doings. followed him to Lowell
and had him arrested. His second wife wa
totally ignorant Of his real character unit
the arrest was made.
- PATENT for improvement in instru
} ments for measuring the lengths Of braces il
carpentry has been issued to Herman Whip
, pie, South SALISBURY, Vt.
| -CnARLEs G. Hunter, late lieutcnan
) in the Navy Of the United States, and nor,
familarly known to the country as Award
Hunter, died in New York, Tucslly morn
ing.
a BILL to establish patrol on the Obi
riyer,to prevent the escape Of slaves, is bcf5r
the Kentucky Legislature. One Of tho mem
: bers said $1,000 worth Of slave rropert,
had escaped from the border counties sine
: Christmas.
-RARoAD AcclDENTs.-A train on tn
Cheshire Road, last week ran over and kille,
man and woman. They were walking Of
G the track in cut 50 deep and narrow tia
] it was impossibIe for them To escanc Tho,