Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-12-22
News Items.

The receivers Of the Vermont Ceatral rail
road have been directed by the courts TO pay
the first back coupons due on thc first mort
gage bonds Of the corporation.
\ mineral spring with water much like
VIchy has been discovered on the farm where
was fought the first days Gettysburgh
battle.
Secretary McCulloch in his report most
aptly (but innocentlyJ speaks Of the public
debt as a matter oil SO surprising interest
&. B. Lamar & Son have been arrested at
Savannah for attempting to bribe treasury
agents who had charge of captured cotton
4 contemporary says that the article which
produces SO many deaths from - unknown
causes" is sold in every town and village in
this Commonwealth.
\ young lady at Chesterfield, Morgan
county, o., was recently shot dead by the
accidental explosion Of gun, Just az she
was kissing her lover TO bid him good bye.
The Washington Republican says Lord
Palmerston, some time before his death,
wrote to Gen. Butler apologizing for his Sc
we're comments upon his "woman order, Is
sued while in command at New Orleans.
Meyerbeer's last opera. L'Arcainc, never
before produced in this country, Is creating
a great sensation in New York. 1t Is splen-
didly put on the stage and draws like a bis
ter plaster
A bill is seriously pressed in the Missouri
legislature that no officer IN the confederate
army shall hereafter be addressed by his mi
litary title unless the word " rebel is pre-
fixed to it.
The Continental National Bank Of Boston,
have by remarkable blunder, Issued two
dollar bills with the promise to pay"
/ oniiied. The bills are being gathered IN as
/ fast as possible by the Bank.
On Saturday night last the Office of Ray d
/ Co., at West Troy, was entered by burglars,
/ They darkened and dealened the doors and
windows by packing shawls over them, and
then blew open two safes, from which they
extracted SO, 900 in seven-thirties, Sl3, 600
in bank-bills, and $500 in specie, and made
their escape with the money.
The n. Y. World calls Senator Sumner
4" the acting charge d'afiaires of Divine pro
vidence in this country"
Rev. Henry W. Ducachet, of St Ste
phen church, in Philadelphia, was found
dead in his study Thursday morning.
An Italian named De Blouns, was arrest
ed Thursday morning, in Jersey City, with
over two thousand dollars in counterfeit u
5. ffties in his possession.
1t was decided in Republican senatorial
caucus not TO place the names Of Senators
McDougall, OF California, and Salisbury, OF
Delaware, on any senatorial committee.
A man in jackson, Michigan, got drunk
and staggered upon a bed whereupon lay his
infant son. His whole weight rested upon
the babe and it soon expired. The wretched
man. who is a respectable, well-to-do citizen,
made VOW never TO touch liquor again.
The following is from Richmond paper
Wanted-A situation as son-in-law in a
respectable family. Blood and breeding no Oh
iect, being already supplied capital essen
tial. No objection to going short distance in-
to the country.
James Mccormick, who was, without
n doubt, the oldest man in the United
States, died in Newburg, y. Y, on the lItf
, inst at the age of one hundred and fourteen
wears, three months anu uNS udbs- hN "u'
remarkable for health and strength, and hi
t life was an excellent temperance argument
! lie was born August G, l75l, in the county
] of Cavan, lrelanc.
. The remains Of Jonathan Gillett, former
" of the firm of Wright, Gillett Ransom
: Of New York, and more recently of Toledo
|, who mysteriously disappeared three year
ago, have been found at Toledo under cIreum
stances which leave no doubt of his hsvinI
> been murdered. The mayor offers $1,000 re
ward for the apprehension of the murdere'
e The Legislature of Virginia has fixed tn
II 2lst inst, for the election of State officers
and it is thought from private intell
gence received from Richmond, that 1t is th
design of that body to reinstate the old oil
GERS who held place under Governor Smith
Gov. Pierpoint would regard this as persons
: and 1t is believed would retire from office, !
). that event, which would force upon the Go'
Is ernment the appointment Of Provision'
70 Governor.
~ A series of one hundred temperance NEE
i'd tings has been commenced in the wester
DO part of Massachusetts, under the auspices
ne the State Temperan &c Alliance.
" A Chicago despatch says that the fall
:, grain last week aggregated twenty cents ?
,;s bushel, and hence the failures which ha
I'M recently taken place among grain merchan
in that city.