Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-09-01
NUMBER NINE.
News Items.

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Snow fell on the top of Mount Washing.
ton on Wednesday, and ice made half an
inch thick.
The following are among tho notices put
up at petroleum hotel IN Western Penn
sylvania ''No talking with the chamber
maid -''Faro as high as at any other
house responsible fer boots LEFT in
the hall''-'No sardines admitted"
The connection between oil and letters IS
shown by the part that T,usyillc Pa, Post
Office claims to be the ourth in rank in the
Philadelphia. Piusburg and Harlis-
burg only taking precedence OF IT, The let
tiers delivered average $500 a week.
Miss Temperance Ncely of Dayie county.
n. C., wealthy and accomplished lady. has
! just been tried before military commission
at Salisbury, y. q. for the murder, by shoot
/ ing. Of negro woman, formerly her slave
The charge was supported wholly by negro
/ testimony, and Miss Ne,ly Is now awaiting
sentence This Is a new state OF things Tor
North Carolina.
At Quebec. formerly. lint pistols were
served 0ut to tie, frontier patrols, but Of
course percussion locks have, for many wears
been given n all those employed in the sr-
vice OF the Crown IN IA military caTa,i'y-
Some worthy Official Of the home government
however still continues To send out barr,is Of
flint with laudabie punetuality, as lie has H1t
been relieved by superior order irum thc
necessity OF keeping up the supply Of those
articles.
The Index, the rebel organ in England = rs I
made its dying speech and given up the
ghost.
1t il reported that Mis- Kellogg the sing
er, Is to be married to Biersiait, the artist.
Over II 900 immigrants have llndcl ut !
Castle Garden since the lst inst. OF thIs
great number several hund-cd imucdit.ely !
departed for Richmond and other cI'iys in
the Southern States, where they intend en-
gagIng in farming.
Arnes Young, 4 girl Of lj, has been miss
ing from her fathers residence. near Gl.ns'
Falls, since the 9;e inst, and IS supposed to
have been ravished and murdered.
A worsted factory in Philadelphia has re-
ceived an order from lie eest,r, EngiaDd,
where wOrsted goods are made, for ,i9l-
sand dollars worth OF scarls, shlwl5, nu1ls,
&C.
On the plains near Big laramie, Aug.
10th. the Indians attacked an cmigrant wlz-
on. and killed the man, hi- wife AMI TWO I
children. the body Of the wife being literally
disjointed, her head scllpe1 and the skull
stove in. They captured three females vino /
were in the wagon, aged respectively about
eleven, eighteen and twenty-five years.
Shortly after, the youngest Girl, who contin- /
ued to make an ouJcry, had seven arrows shot /
into her and was left to die, but was subsc-
quently found. and l. doing well.
A ship arrived at Quebec some time ago
with an enormous spar, reaching from her I
bowsprit to her taffnIl. consigned 90 tue 4
s,orekeeper. Il had been the plague of the 1
ships company, it had been in every hjly's
way. and had nearly caused the loss OF thc
vessel in some gales Of wind. The whole ?
resources Of the QIartcrmaster Generals &
were taxed 10 get it safely on I
shore and transport it TO the heights. And \
what was il? \ f'gstaf for the Citadel
And what was it made Of? y stout Cana.
dian pine. WI ieh had probably been sent
from the ST. Lawrence in tImber-ship %
the government officials at bone. who, hay-
ing duly shaped aud pruned 1t into Dig
staff, returned it to the land OF its birth at
some considerable expense to John Bull.