Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-12-02
VERMONT ITEMS.

The Mortified Herad, a Democratic pa
per. has been Discontinued.
In tie neishborhood of St. Johns5ury
there was good sleishins last week.
Lorenzo Field Of Putney, worthy farmer,
has recently bee me insane The Bellows
Falls Times says that insanity is hereditary
in his family.
The Cqe9oaiaa says Of St. Johnsbury
..There are probably fewer people attend
church in proportion to the Inhabitants of
the VILLAGE than in any other sa7a-ciyilized
community. As one f the inhabitants re-
marked. be had mo doubt but that three
thirds of the community in this place broke
the Sabbath daily"
Nearing < Jackson Of Brandon have just
finished Grist Mil, Of which Edwards i
Stevens of Winooski, are the builders. There
are five TYLER wheels four driving each a run
Of stone, and the fifth corncracker smut
mill. elevator &c, and all Of them together
use less water than the old overshot wheel.
Grain is carried to all parts Of the mill by
machinery. and the Visitor says everything
essential to a complete Touring mill seems to
have been thought of and provided without
regard to time or expense. The mill has
cost over $4,000.
The Connecticut river between Newbury
and Bradford was covered with thin ice on
tuesday morning.
SENTENCED The notorious DR. Howard
If Bradford. had his final trial before the
Surrem Court at Montpelier, and was SEN
fenced to two Years in the States Prison
/ The following short biography Of him is 60
ing the rounds
DIR. ". II. NJ. Howard Of Bradford, who
/ has been sentenced 10 the state prison for
/ two years Tor causing the death Of a young
woman while producing an abortion, is a ma
| tive Of Ireland and his real name Is Drew.
| At Thetiord a few years since he had to pay
/ SI200 damag,s for malpractice. At Brad
/ ford he was recognized as a man who, under
| the assumed name Of Houghton, had swim
died the Burlington bank out of $1,000,
which he paid TO escape punishment. He
was next arrested for rape on a patient, the
wife If student Of Dartmouth college. The
death of his victim let him out Of this scrape
,or the time. but her dying declaration still
/ bapos over him. While at Bradford he at
/ tended a man VINO died, and whose widow he
married, taxing possession Of ali her proper
| tv which he got hold of: she died last sum
/ mer. broken-hcarted lie was next arrested
/ on the charge for which he has been con-
/ victld. At his house neal Bradford there
/ died, last summer, three young women in
! the course Of Il few weeks, who had sought
his aid to hide their shame.
Martin Carney OF Swanton, brakeman
on the Vt. & Canada r. R. while trying to
/ get on Il car. at Rouses' Point last week,
had his collar-bone broken, by being caught
I between the car aud post.
The belief tnat there will be a war between
France and England appears to be on the
increase, the army, the navy, and the church
Of France all favoring an attack On the insu-
lar empire; and the French emperor may
/ be forced into 4 contest with England
against his convictions, simply to please
those powers upon the support of which the
/ continuance of his own power depends.
Such a cause of war is far from being UNI
common.
New Jersey gave the Republican candidate
d decent majority for Governor. How matter:
have altered in that State, where, In 1886