Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-10-27
News Items.

Aaron Carpenter, freight conductor on
the Rensselaer, and Saratog1 rai!rai. was
instantly killed ca that road Ihuuiay
G,n. Dan Sicklrs g., f,r the republicans in
New Jersey sur for the Democrats IN New
York. IT, unk.- the difference Oh account
Of the different platforms
For tie f->t time since the clnture OF
New Orleans IN April, lSj2, t'sr cigy l.
without a ship oi war mOorrI IN 'front.' % IL.
Contrary to general expectation. The
various Theological >sminarics oucu thls tall
with full numbers.
An Albany pork dealer h;c.y fo.A hi- son
into company with him. Inc SON rewarded
his father BY drawing from thr h-nk 500
000-the whole sum on deposit by y.e firm
and running away
Dgrirs tie war tie Bible society iistri-
buted about three million copies -f the
Scriptures among our own army, and about
five hundred thousand in the rebel army.
\ little daughter Of the landlord Of the
Cressev Hotel. ~ Detroit. on Friday uirht
went into the room adjoining the one where
she slept, 10 get cup uf water. and WIS
sho; and instantly Killed hv % man who
mis,0rk her for burglar
A national convention of Spirituuii,ls was
in session at PhiaielpEia last week. with
Rev John PierPon. rs president Rcsolu-
tons heins offered denounciug Christianity.
Mr.. PierI ont objected ard declared himself
a Christian Spiri,uolist. 4 MIR Fish replied.
and undertook to prove Christianity interior
to paganism.
1t is SAID tina, in his forthcoming message
the President fully recognizes the manhood
of the negro bat would qualify and limit
his right OF suffrage by education or proper
ty.
In a speech in the Episcopal convention.
To, lord bishop of Montreal limited that for
the instruction OF the people in religious
truth, he preferred the prayer book to the
Bible. Bishop Talbot of Indiana, followed
him, remarking, that il be was forced to
choOsc between sending the Bible or the
PRAYER book to the ignorant and perlshing
he would choose the latter. Wonder why
our Saviour and hIs apostlei never thought
of that
AsIatic cholera has made its appearance
and Is spreading IN England. F4Jal cases have
occurred at Southampton. In France,
the disease is likewise on the increase.
At SDlies Point, little town OF 5000
inhabitants, the hrst night in which
1t made It's appearance were sixty cases, and
thirty-six hours later there bad been So
deaths out of population reduced to 1000
souls by panic.
In Kansas the farmers were in the las,
week OF September, putting up hay as fresh
and bright as If II were cut IN the middle OF
July in TACT more hay was put up in Kan
sas during September than IN the previous
months Of June. July and August.
The severe gale which prevailed during 1
THURSDAY, thursday night and Friday I
along the New England cast was VERY /
severe. and did much danage 20 the snip |
ping Among the twenty Serseis stranded |
was the steamship Circassian. from Bremen I
with SIX hundred and fiity passengers, which |
wac run ashore cu the coast Of Care Breton |
sland.- The passengers and cargo were all .
,sfely landed.
Mr. Ovitt's barn, in ST. Adams, contain
NJ five h0rses, harnesses, hav. grain, a.
vas consumed by IRE last Wednesday even
NJ. Loss 81 500.
Mr.. james MeCanley. a resident OF West
Rutland. slipped from the platform OF pas
enger car al the Whitehall depof, GA Sstur-
lay last, and was literally ca, ~ two.
On "Wednesday. Oct. IL, Mr.. Edward p.
Wild. graduate OF Middlebury College and
Bangor Theological Seminary, was ordained
astor Of tine Congregational church IN
'ssitsbury.
4 few days aso an old gentleman named
"a Dickinson. of NorIhheid. hr,TGirg At
he house ot JOSHUA Sawyer, iaa ..i- tiUDk
pened hy means %. ialse keys. and out of
package coita,nIns seven huntre,! .vcn5y-
ght dollars tour hundr, q and Fix dollars
ere ahstraefed. fr-r I ts. --.-
The -,conJ Ire ti'at ever occurred in New
ort village occd rred last week, when q Nj
mall building was destroyed.