Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-05-16
NEWS ITEMS.

The venerable cx-GOv. Troupe, of Georgia,
died at Laurens, South Carolina on the Goth
ut.
DR.. John c. Warren, an eminent Surgeon
of Boston, died ON the 4th inst. aged IS
years.
Ogden Hoffman recently Attorney General
of the State of New York, and one of her
most distinguished lawyers, died in New
York city May lst, alter short illness.
The Hon. Robert B. Gilchrist. late Judge
Of the L. 5. District Court for South Caro-
lima died at his residence in Charleston 5. c.,
on the lst instant.
BY the viii Of Mr.. James Kelly, Of Lanes
ter county Virginia, all his slaves forty fve)
have been cmancipated, His executors are
now making arrangements for their outfit
and embarkation to Liberia. in the vessel
which is to sail from Baltimore
The Worcester transcript establishment. in
Guiding all the type, good will and subscrip-
tion list Of both daily and weekly papers, was
sold at auction ON Monday morning for the
sum of sixteen hundred and fifty dollars.
william H. Hooper, ESD, of Worcester, was
the purchaser.
\ son of Lonslelow the poet, about ten
years of age, WAS playing on Fast Day, in
Cambr ige, with a toy-gun, intended to be
used only to fire percussion caps when another
boy persuaded him to put in charge of
left hand terribly,
\ few days since, little boy and girl, in
Boston Mass, who had been blowing soap
bubbles with an old tohacco-pipe, were taken
very i'll, and the boy died during the night.
1t is thought they were poisoned by the es-
sential oil Of tobacco, imbibed from the pipe
which they used.
TIE BREAK in the Champlain Canal. at
Fort Miller, is not nearly as bad as first
reported \ despatch from Troy of the 9th
says The entire injury (Which was but
leak from the old lock to the new one) has
been repaired. and the canal is now in nayi-
gable order its entire length,
Louisville, Ky, with all the advantages of
| Cincinnati save that Of Free Soil, is fading
away, under the blight of Slave country.
There are tilty-fve vacant tenements in Main
street alone and the merchants, alarmed at
the exposure of nakedness made by the news
papers, have held a meeting, and formally
requested the newspapers to discontinue the
discussion of the prosperity of the city.
\ singular case has recently occurred a.
Syracuse, \. Y. gay young woman, dres-
sed in mans attire, wOoed and won one Of
her own sex to marriage, against the wishes
Of the father of the latter after short court
ship The family suspected the fraud, and
had the woman.husband arrested, but tho
bride still clings to her choice, and claims
that the arrest is IA conspiracy against them.
A lad aged about six years, named Adolph-
us Riceau, was drowned in the hume of Sack
rider & Co.'S mill in O,iensburgh, last week /,
He had been seen standing on the wall of the
Canal on Tuesday morning. Search was made
for him on Wednesday morning and the wa
ter was drawn from the Canal, when his body
was found in the lume close to the mill, with
both legs through the rack, lie had passed
down through the underground lume to
where he was found.
\ few weeks since, the late DR.. John C.
Warren disinterred from the family tomb un-
der ST. Paul's church, the remains of his
uncle, General Joseph Warren who fell in
the fight of Bunker's Hill. The remains
were placed in stone urn, upon which an
appropriate epitaph had been engraved The
skull was quite perfect the chin still remain
ing. Behind one of the ears was seen an ap-
erture. which indicated the place where the
fatal ball entered which ended his brief but
glorious career. The remains, with those of
other members of the family, were placed in
Forest Hills Cemetery.
The lowell News says " About year
and half ago, widow lady by the name OF
Smith, residing on SufJlk street, in this
city, drank some water from a spring at the
sea shore and as she supposed swallowed a
small eel. Since then she has been gradual
ly getting out of health, and ut length her
illness became 50 severe aud alarming that
her life was thought to be in great danger.
No medicine or physician could give her re-
lt.NI L.. Ia .. hi.
called in, gave her u potion that on Saturday
morning relieved her of live eel foot in
length. The eel has been preserved in spirits
and is decidedly nn ugly looking customer
The lady il greatly relieved, but thinks there
is another Of the " ylrmluts, left behind.
The beneficial effects Of camphor. as an an
tilote to strychnine, are illustrated in a case
reported by DR.. Tewksbury Of Portland. Me
1t appears that boy was seized with con
vusiOns, and it was ascertaincd that he haC
Just eaten biscuit, picked up at the door o
an eating house, that was made for the pur
pose Of killing rats, and contained about on,
and a half grains OF strychnine The boy'
spasms were so severe that immediate death
was inevitable, though all the usual remedies
were resorted to. CamphOr could not be in
troluced into the stomach on account of tn
, continued lock-iaw. Accordingly strong in
, iectiuns of camphOr were used, and the bod
immersed in a hot cImphor bath, and in n few
hours the boy was comuaritiyely well,
Professional ANECp0TE.-lu u neighborinI
7 city, a Young member Of the bar thought h
> would ndopta motto Tor himself and, aite
, much reflection, wrote in large letters an
, pasted up against the wall the following
c 'Suum cuique," which may be translated
p "Let every one have his own A countr
: client coming in, expressed himself muc
y grltiiied with the maxim, but added, "Yo
+ don't spell it right Indeed, then how Ougt
t 1t to he spclt '' The visitor replied "Su
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