Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-04-12
ITEMS OF NEWS.

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| James Elliott was arrested in New York on
Friday, charged with having forged and ut
tered several thousand dollars worth of Eir
ginia state bonds to Livermore. Clsws &
Mason, brokers, who sold them for him On re
ceiving another lot, they became suspicious,
and comparing the bonds with genuine ones
the forgery was plain 1t Is supposed that
large quantities of them have been thrown
upon the market. Elliott AYERS that he
came by them honestly, and supposed them
good.
\ man named Pratt hung himself last
week Monday. ut MooeTs, n. Y. lie got q
severe blow on the head, some time since,
which probably caused insanity.
There was great fire in Troy, Sunday
morning, which broke out at about halt past
O'Clock in the stove store of Z. A. Palmer
& Co., No. 203 River street. That building
was burned, and the next badly damaged
The loss is S28, 900. The Troy Wing regards
the stopping of the fire as the greatest feat
ever performed by the Fire Department OF
that city, as the wind was high. and the
building saved drug store. full OF cheml-
Gals
No less than l 900 steamboats, run upon
the Mississippi river and its tributaries. The
total value of these is estimated at
100000, 600.
An officer carrying prisoner on the Erie
| Railroad last week, left him hand-cutfed III
the smoking car, sat down himself IN the
baggage car, and going to look alter ms
prisoner, after an hour OF so, found to ms
| horror, that that car had been switched Oft
several stations back OF course the man.
| escaped and the officer went home disguised
During a gale in Troy, the other day, one
Of the large panes Of glass in the front door
| Of a grocery store, was smashed in by the
force Of the wind, door in the rear having
been suddenly opend
| A poor man in Pittsburs, who wanted TO
see his wife in Philadelphia. hid himself in
/ freight car of the Central Railroad, which
was marked - Dock street, Philadelphia.
/ The car was, in fact, destined for Baltimore,
and on arriving there three days after, the
| unfortunate passenger was almost famished
] from want of food, and as far from his wife
/ as when he started.
i \ baby six days old, was found in the bag
| gage room at Crestline, Ill. , last week nearly
/ dead from cold and hunger. The child was
adopted by family in Crestline, and a
number OF the Railroad men intend raising
/ fund for its maintenance.
The boiler Of Hunters print works at
Philadelphia, burst last week Thursday,
scalding boy named McCann so that he
cannot live One Of the iremen was blown
sixty feet into the air, and he landed fully
hundred feet from the spot where he was
standing with one leg and several ribs brok-
en-. The boiler was IN a separate building,
and the main shop was untouched.
The recent frcshet in the St. Lawrence riv-
er was more severe than it has been Known
since 1888, on account of the tanning OF
the ice at st. Regis.
Caroline du Sud is the idiom in Freach
for our rebelli0us sister South Carolina
1t lie said that the Northwestern Farmer,
an agricultural journal published in Iowa,
has received no less than fifty subscribers
from Georgia, the first ever received from
that part of the country. The people there
are very anxious to get information respect
ing the North, with view Of removing
thither
\ curious egg has been found in Albany,
or rather two eggs-jolned like the SiameSe
laid by common hen.
y man living near Atlanta (lll.) adver-
tises that he has "a mad stone which has
been the means Of curing many of the IN
fOrfr,-,+o nj IL e r
death by hydrophobia. He will let it on
reasonable terms
J. 5. Hogan, Member Of the Canadian
Parliament, has been missing for - months,
and his body was found in marsh near To- |
ronto, last week. Nineteen persons have |
been arrested on suspicion of being concern
cd in numbering him.
News has been received of the loss of the |
ship Middlesex from Liverpool for New York, |
on the 10Th of March. She sprung a leak |
when three weeks out, and after three DAYS
was abandoned. Five OF the boats were lost /
IN launching, and only eleven out Of 6S |
persons On board were saved. The remaining
boat reached the coast Of Kerry after 5 DAYS
exposures. Two passengers dropped dead on
landing.
a schooner from Charleston ran into Tot
tenvill, n. j., last Friday, having tn pal
mettO flag flying. and continuing to display
it after she had anchored. Some of the pso-
pie then insisted that it should be hauled
down, and the stars and stripes hosted in its
place. This the captain refused and got
good thrashing from one of the excited re-
This is the first blow for the
stars and stripes.
The citizens Of Taunton, Mss, have
purchased a handsome sword for Major
The hilt is of carved ivory. and
'urmounted with heavily plated figure
representing Liberty. The scaboard Is of /;
beautiful design. Of the richest gold plate,
uperbly wrought aud bearing representa-
ion of Fort Sumter with military emblems;
While upon the handle is large solid gold
1late or shield, inscribed as follows
1t dects ct prefiuo, recf'. $
The CITIZENS OF TAUNToNs, Mass,
10 q
MAJOR ROBERT ANDERSON, Z. :. A, t
A Tribute to mis- Courage and his Eide ity. Il
Acquirn qtti fuetur.
The scabbard bears the following motto 1
Dec duce, terrO cOmitanie. C
The first Latin sentence may be transiat- Il
i Both the honor and the reward of L
irtue :" the second, in allasion to the pecu- &
ar circumstance of he case-''lIe acquires h
Tho defends :" the third-''G)d my guide. )
" sword my companion" q
a letter writer from Lancaster, Pa, says p
is reported that ex-President Buchanan
rought home $4,000 in $50 gold piece,
nd is investing it in small sums on farms. tt
1t is estimated that over 1000 fugitive W