Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-08-04
News Items.

James Gordon Bennett OF the n. Y Her
aid. has bought the ground on which Bar
NUNS museum stood, for $3.50 900, Of which
Barnum gets 100000 for his lease.
At. Stewart is building the most magni-
cent private residence in the United States,
on Filth Avenue 1t is Of white marble and
will cost 81 100000.
The same court at Washington which late
ly acquitted Miss Harris of murder, has just
sentenced man to eight years ImprisOn-
ment for slightly stabbing q young woman
who was unfaithful to him. 1t makes dil-
ference on which side the shooting or stab
bng is, you see.
4 cow at Troy, n. Y, lately drank Is gal
Ions Of raw whiskey which had been left out
over night, and she Is now in her fourth week
Of high old drunk. Her owner has been
luxuriating in milk punch ever since.
The jackson Mssissippian says "We
learn that unbleached doEestics in this city
have fallen from seyenty-6ye to forty-hve
cents per yard" On which the Vicksburg
Herald sagely observes '''Unbleached do
mestics' have fallen here from eighteen hun
dred dollars to zero per head"
Miss Mary Hill of Detroit, was caught by
a custom house inspector, the other morning,
crossinr the line with tan busils ou which
held over a gallon Of Canadian whiskey.
The copperhead papers are still copying
BOGUS conversation between President John
son and Senator Sumner. invented BY the
Cincinnati Inquirer, in which the President
is represented as insulting the Senator, who
leaves him in disgust. There has been no
such occurrence.
A Raleigh IN. c. correspondent says that
A large number Of young men who are about
beinc mustered out of the Union army IN
that vicinity have made up their minds to
remain there. and that they are fast marry
Ing the diseonsOlate Young ladies and widows
and settling down for life upon the vacant
farms which on every hand invite their labor
and enterprise.
At the grand Fenian demonstration IN
Jones Wood, New York, the other day,
some 10 600 Fenian brothers and sisters were
present. The orator. VIM. B. Roberts, Esq,
pitched into England all sorts. and went IN
for war as the only way Of winning Irish llb-
erty. The Orangemen protestant lrish)
were called "those hybrid things, half men,
half 6ends, called Orangemen, children oil
the devil, spawn of hell"
ONLY about 100 deserters from the draft,
availed themselves Of the pardon offered them
in the late President Lincoln's proclamation.
The thousands Of others still absent are IL
able 10 arrest wherever found in this coun-
try. and are subject to punishment for the
Offence.
Considerable excitement has been occasion
ed in Hamilton, q. W., by the discovery that
the house of Mrs. Shaw, supposed to be
b;,blv rcspectable, was a storehouse of sto-
len goods. and that the chief of police, and
an alderman. were accomplices OF the gang
of burglars, for whom Mrs. Shaw was re-
ceIyer general. A Hamilton correspondent
saws .'If the evidence which has already
been adduced be true, our Canadian police
or at least a large portion OF them-are great
scoundrels, and should be serving terms In
the penitentiary with their confederate Dur
glars and pick-pocketr
The criminal record Of day in New York
on the 9th inst, is as follows-"Brutal
murder in the 10Th ward fireman nearly
decapitated two OF the assassins arrested :
Outrageous highway robbery in Westchester :
foot-pads in the suburbs robbery and at
tempted murder of two citizens bold bur-
| elary in Broadway; arrest OF the thieves
and their accomplices.
All the officers imprisoned in Fort Warren,
except Alexander Il. Stephens and ex-Post-
master John ii. Regan, have been released
upon taking the oath of allegiance. Among
| them are Major Generals j B kershaw, and
J $ Marmaduke I; Brigadier Generals n
Barton, w 5 Cabell, NJ d Corse, d n Du-
bois. j w Frazer, Hunter, G W Gordon
JR Jones, Semmes. and 7 Smith
Major Harry Gilmor and Lieutenant G W
Reed also Commodores j r Tucker and ]
Hunter.
The Yale university boat club rejoices IN
new six-oared shell. She is so feet long, Y
inches wide ond II deep, and built OF Span
ish cedar, the wood from which cigar boxe
are usually made The sides Of the boat ar
one eighth of an inch thick at the bottom
| and bali an inch thick at the edge. Th
boat weighs only l95 poupda The oars ar
made of spruce and are spoon-shaped-