Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-07-29
VERMONT ITEMS.
Gold has been found in small quantities IN

told faS Deen 1OuNu III sii"i
the bed d Cold River at Clarendon.
Tho e,;tor Of the Bellows Falls Tunes
speaks thus of recent visit to the fiynou'"
diggings
@ From what we saw, we judge that
majority # the miners have not made very
1ayinc business. Those who commence WIN
FFood nluk and understand the business ol
aiming make the most. In some cases tney
bave mace GOOD wages. 1t is hard WORK 70
do cold yerv different from what many
expect. Any one who Is eons'i =. '''i''''
lazy will De sure to fail of success.
Forty-bur gallons of the worst KIND of
liouor wee seized some time ago in Ludlow
and no ole appearing to claim it, the sheriH
tipped it nto the gutter, last week
Rev. C.B. Smith has retired from his posi-
ton as principal of Leland Seminary at Town
sbend, and will become principal of an Acad-
envy at Blandon.
The ho1se and barns Of Samuel Goddard
sc Nonnt Holly. were burned on the 10Th.
Loss about 81, 200. 1t is stated that MIS-
Goddard was so much excited that she insist
ed on staying in the house, and a. she
said, ''going with it, and had to be removed
by force.
The house of Vim. Conant, at Bellows
Falls was broken into on the night oil the
18th. Mr.. Conant heard the noise and got
up. but before be could get down stars the
burglar had disappeared
On the forenoon OF the 18th, Thomas
Heath, employed in Bagley's factory at Men
don. was killed while shifting the main belt
being caught between it and thu pulley. lie
WAS alone at the time, and his death was
discovered by his wife about two O'Clock, IN
the afternoon. lie leaves four cai''r-0-
Mr.. and Mrs. \. P Wyman were badly
injured on the 9th, by being thrown from
c eir carriacs. the horse having taken fright
at the cars. Mrs. Wyman's collar-bOne was
broken.
Del Billings, Esq, of Woodstock, fell from
j. beam in his barn to the floor, on the Goth,
breaking his collar-bone and two ribs lie
is not. however. considered in d dangerous
condition
John RAY, of Brattleboro' was severely
kicked by one Of his horses one day last week,
but he Is now in a fair way of recovery.
Miss Helen Dresser, q young lady sixteen
years of age, has been lecturing IN Brattle-
boro', upon Mormonism. She escaped from
the kingdom Of the Saints two or three years
since, and is now engaged in procuring the
means for her education.
The Citizen says, that a young man was
accidentally shot.in the right arm, near the
shoulder, by the premature discharge of his
fowling piece, while cunning on Otter Greek,
on the 10Th.
Some scamp got a scurrilous hand-bill
printed with the name of a citizen of Brattle-
boro' as signature, and circulated it in that
village one night last week. We don't think
any body laughed at that JOKE.
\ correspondent of the Age writes that VIM
Ellison, of Weathersfeld, was arrested on the
10Th for threatening the life of his wife and
brother. On his way to Jail he called to see
his wife's sister, and asked her if she would
marry him after he got back from Woodstock,
and she said .. No" He then drew from
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an inch wide. and stabbed her in five places.
and stabbed himself He was knocked down
by the officer with d club aud secured The
Bellows Falls Times says that criminal con-
duct on the part of his wife had led Ellison
TO declare that he would get rid of her and
marry her sister.
Mrs. Brownell, Of Williston, lady Of over
50 years, died very suddenly, on Monday
morning. falling from her chair, almost with
out groan.
\ reward Of Slon is offered in Middlebury
for the detection OF tue scoundrel who cut
the straps Of the stage coach just before it
was to start for Lake Dunmore, on the 4th.
The Register says that several such pieces OF
wckedness have been committed lately, such
as cutting harnesses, with the evident pur-
pose Of making them unsafe; cutting and
breaking costly carriages, SO as to destroy
their value and other criminal trespasses
upon property, and indirect attempts to
take life.
On the afternoon of the 18th, a bridge
across the Missisquoi in Enosburgh. fell
down without apparent provOcation. The
ST. Adams Democrat says nobody was hurt,
or even surprized.
In Waterbury, on the l4th, Mrs. Amelia
West, of Straford, an old lady of IS, who
was wishing with her sOn-in-law, ES. Ladd,
in passing from one room to another, mis-
took the door, and fell down the cellar stairs,
striking her head against the wall She
died in about 16 hours. remaining unconsci-
GUS to the end.