Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-09-08
News items.
DANIEL ROBERTS, ESQ.,,
Special Agent Treasury Department.

News Items.
During the last week ls6 post Offices were
re-Opened in the rebel States.
The cold snap Of last week has proved very
damaging to the watering places Newport
and Saratoga are reported as being rapidly
depopulated. =. s.f- -.-..,. -, .....'-
At Charlton, Iowa, a difficulty occurred on
Monday between some returned soldiers and
the attaches of circus, which resulted in
the death of six OF the showmen and one SOL
dIer. .t --.f ...-
An Ex-Treasury clerk, recently discharged
on account of drinking habits, threw himself
from the fifth story Of the National Hotel at
Washington. on Tuesday night, and was in
stantly killed.
Senator Sprague's mother gives her daugh-
ter-in-law, Kate Chase, $500, 900 for bearing
the Senator a boy, and settles 100000 on
the lucky infant.
Old Mr.. Ketchum has given up all his
property for the benefit of his credit
ors, worth S2,50O,0O0. Rather a big
pile to have to pay for having begotten bad
boy.
Permelia Barnell, of Jacksonburgh, Ind,
who lost her speech Is years ago, in trance
at q camp-meetIng, had it restored to her
last week BY getting beautifully drunk"
on whiskey.
The Canadian Customs returns to June go
of the present year, just issued, show that
there was imported during the year, mer-
chandise valued at S44, 500 900, of which
S2l 900 900 came from Great Britain, and
| Sl9, 500 900 from the United States. There
is falling of of SAT- 900 in customs re-
ceipts as compared with the same period last
year.
JEFF Davis is furious in his denunciations
Of Hunter and Stephens, whom be accuses Of
| deliberately betraying the Southern cause
into the hands of the Yankees. Had these
two men" says JEFF, representing, as they
did, the weakened conservative sentiment
in the South, stood firm, the southern cause
would have triumphed."
Our Minister at Constantinople officially
informs our Government, that the cholera is
extending its ravages. IL seems to him, from :.
the experience at Constantinople, that it will
be advisable IN the United States TO guard
against it by the most rigid quarantine reg
ulati0ns.
In Pittsburg, Pa, on Thursday last, the
remains of a man, with the throat cut and
the body shockingly mutilated, were found
lying on some vacant ground; and on the
following day Mrs. Grinder was arrested
on charge of having been for some time en-
gagged in systematically poisoning persons
who visited her without any apparent motive.
1t Is said that three of her victims have died.
and fourth IS not expected to live. sll.f-lL
The debt of Canada, as reported by the %
Auditor General, is over seyenty-eight mil
lions. ..,
A child was scalded to death in Brooklyn,
n. Y, by water turned from distillery into
a street gutter.
Four hundred and ninety-fve thousand FIVE
hundred and ninety-two persons in New
York city-nearly half millionaire in
tenement houses and cellars.
There is "mejum" on a noisy street in
London, who begins his proceedings with the
solemn adjuration, "Sperrits is requested to
rap up loud, COS o the 'busses." ...-. ..,
In Chicago street car. the other day, u
pale but pretty young woman gave up her
seat to a one-legged solder, and the gracious
act led to the recognition of the man as her
husband, long mourned as dead
A sheep swan ashore on Rye Beach last
week, supposed from an island seven miles
distant A visitor at the Beach suggested it
must be hydraulic ram. -I
The New England Agricultural Society, at
its Fair to be held next week in Concord, N.
H., offers two premiums, one of $50 and
one of SIS, for the best factory cheese, open
to all the United States.
winans' "cigar chip" will be launched in
a few weeks from London yard. The riv-
cts that fasten her are counter sunk, 90 that
her outside is perfectly smooth. This fact,
her peculiar shape, and the immense power
expected to drive her. raise hopes of an ex-
traordinary rate of speed. .a.a
There have been about iorty-fve railroad
accidents" (so called) since the close of the
civil war in April last. Tbs precise number
of the casualties" Is not 90 easily ascer-
tanned but it is certain that the killed and
wounded do not number less than fifteen
hundred. -.--.-., ..-....-.,..-
The big robberies: Charles Windsor, Met
ropolitan bank Of New York, $275 600
Jeremiah Townsend, Nov Haven savings
bank, Sis, 900; Smith s. Eastman, produce q
broker, $500, 900 Henry B Jenkius. Phs-
nix bank Of New York, 5000 {: P. &.
Mumiord, stock broker. &la0, ,000; Edward
B Keschum. bankr. a, $4,000; unknown
cashier, Sl00, 900 total. s ,90 900. n, .t1
At srout / O'Clock on Sunday morning. . Z
coach drove to the New York Hospital, and
"a patient was admitted suffering, be said,
from having swallowed his filss teeth Ths
man was in fearful agony, fesling tho teeth (,
cutting his bowels. The resident surgeon
made an examination, but could dhcover
nothing, ana the nan vas sent aWsy unrs-'v
lieyed- lHpstesth verss aitssVards foand in y
bis bed, and be then felt better, ,,.B s,u MIA
A French, editor has given, the following
sensible description Of The effect Of an adj
vertisement The first time o Hnsn sees an =
sdvertissnent be takss ne aotiA Of IL o. the
second time be loeks at the name, the third,
time he looks At the price the fourth time
be reads II !; the 6fth time he speaks Of Il toq
his wife ; the sixsh tina he bqys.s3 n bgs7r
At The Royal Theatre in Bsrl,s, = nan bal,a
let by Taglioni, named .Ssrdahapalus, was,.
Represented, IN the last scene of which sil
the d.nosrsa appear and srssseso tbsnselvess
around SardaaaPnluss n dia Will hin in dc
hames.a ToHoduce The eaeesllezy mohs, The !,
|, seones were heated and Nstsf W,a, 70 b
thrown upon them. Th6 Stdbes 7Wsfe laid
beSussn IL ss6, bnsthsi dausas iBtssdyl
of sistine upoA. lthe sssts, atARgaI - thssd
burning stqos. 4 4 ST ssssH q papa fSneysd:
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