Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-07-23

resolutions which it says were unanimously
adopted at a regular meeting of Washington
Engine Company, No. l, of that place
Resolved, That tho thanks of Washington En-
| CINE Company, No. ], are hereby most cordially
rendered to Engine Company Ethan Allen, No. 4,
of Burlington, for their manly noble and ordal
| reception and entertainments of company in
their late visit to Burlington the I'd inst.
| Resolved, That in the award Of the 500 prize
| to the Niagara, No. I, of Troy, n y, outrageous
wrong and gross injustice was done by the COM
mittee of awards to Washington Engine Company
No. /, of Middlcbury, as it was admitted by the
whole crowd of persons with scarcely an exception
who witnessed the contest, that Washington En-
| CINE Company threw water from eight to ten feet
higher with only thirty men, than the Niagara
did with forty men.
Resolved That it is not the money we care for
much. it is to have fairness and honesty rule
and determine, in the place Of special favoritism,
| cronyism and fraud.
Resolved That the above resolutions be pub
lished in the Middlebury Register, and that the
editors Of papers in Burlington are requested to
publish the same in their respective papers.
Resolved That the thanks Of Washtiqggdi"o the
zine 81 &G WHO so generously furnished
the flowers and also to the ladies who so cheerful
ly assisted in making boquets with which to deco
rate the Ragine taken by the company to the Fire
mems Muster at Burlington, on the I'd inst
at may be understood that % entertainment
in this case, means the of one of the back
rooms in Burlington, and privilege to drink wa
ter from the tank that fills the box where hose is
washed, in N cup.
The Register states that it had also received Il
communication on the subject, whichit de-
clines to publish, for the reason that it con-
tains " unnecessarily personal remarks and
other Objectionable features If the state
ment of Washington Company is any
more g Objectionable " than their resolutions,
the Register does a simple act of charity to
its author or authors in suppressing it. Such
exhibitions of bad temper only injure those
who make them. The Register gives, in its
own words, the grievance of the Middlcbury
Company, as follows.
From the representations made by some of
our most reliable men, it is difficult to Danish
fear that there was unwarrantable favorit-
ism used. 1t appears that the Troy Engine
was permitted to throw three times in the
contest for the 800 prize; in the first two
they burst their hose, and at their request
neither of these throws was to be considered
as their trial. On the third attempt, when
their hose did not burst, their stream failed
to reach an altitude equal to that it had pre-
yiously done, and not as high as was reached
by the Middlebury Engine. Accordingly
this throw, width was to tell the story, was
counted out, and former disclaimed effort,
| counted in. On the other hand the Middle
| bury machine broke before they had played
out their time, Against this imperfect trial
| their competitor was allowed to select from
| their three efforts
This is the "charge' in the mildcst form
we are able to make it, consistently with the
information we have received.
We give these things to our readers with
out comment, as we have reason to believe
that the Umpres and Managers of the Mus
ter will in due season publish efficient re-
plies to every imputation upon their fairness
and honor.
The CALAIS MuRDERs.-A gentleman who
is well acquainted in Calais and returned here
from that vicinity Monday, has given us
the following explanation of the mysterious
double murder in Calais, Vt, which we no.
ticed yesterday. Martin, the homicide, be-
came, while since, it seems, II convert to
''Spiritualsm. He was much under the
influence of II Mrs. Dodge, of Calais, whose
! intellect, always weak, was quite shattered
by an attempt of her insane husband upon
her life, several years since.-a terrible affair
in which the man after beating out portion
of the woman's brains, took his own life by
stabbing himself in various parts Of the body,
She barely recovered and has since supposed
herself to be medium and prophecies of
high order. Acting under orders from the
"spirits," young Martin took the lives of his
victims and was intending, us he avowed, to
shoot four more persons, living in the vicin-
| ity. The affair causes great excitement in
that region.
The CALAIS MURDERs.-A correspondent of
the Boston Journal gives the following par
ticulars of the Calais tragedy
Atrial Martin, young man nineteen years of
age, who resided with and worked farm own
ed by his mother, went day or two previous to his
| brothers, for the purpose of borrowing a rifle
brother he took the rife and carried it home, and
loaded it with powder and ball lie started
from home on Friday morning early, and went
some distance to the house of one Jenison L.
Wheelock, and inquired of Wheelock' swife where
he (Wheelock) was. She told him he was on the
meadow moving. lie Immediately started in that
direction, and resting his gun across log delibor
ately shot Wheelock The ball entered his right
breast between the third and fourth rib, causing
instantaneous death. The ball remained inside.