Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-11-16
New. Hens.

News Hens.
Tie old state department baIlIinE az
Washington is to he torn down AZ once TO
make room for the treasury extension
For = wonder ia the history Of Memphis
iuries. a coiorcd man has be acquitted and
two white thieves. one a candidate for Al
derman, sentenced 70 the Peniten;iay.
In tie four cities of Cincinnati, st. Louis,
Nashville and Memphis, the deaths from
cholera since August ls-. number over seven
thousand. In the mijst Of this quadTiiat-
. eral Of death the escape Of Louisville is
little less than miraculous.
Senator Wright of New Jersey, whose
death has been 20 frequently reported by
telegraph and through the press within the
past year, died at HE residence in Trenton
on Thursday morning last.
In the Freshman class at Dartmouth there
are fifty men. The chandler Scientific De
partment' is also very full.
The Message of the Governor Of Georgia
strongly opposes the adoption Of tbs. Consti-
tutional Amendment. and says the Amend
ment is equally novel and unjust.
4 member of the Yanc-uycr's Island leg
islaturc, spoke on a recent occasion for
seventeen consecutive hours, 20 defeat an
obnoxious bill, and carried his point only
yielding the floor for motions 10 adjourn
His auditors became 60 hungry and sleepy
that they voted on the principle Of yielding
to anything for 4 quiet life.
There Is an unusually stupid Copperhead
IN Peterborough, New York. who listened
attentiycly to the reading of one Of Petrol
cum V Nasty letters describing the Presi
dents western journey, and then growled
out in much disgust "Nhat in Heaven :
name did Andy want to take such a blasted
fool with him for ?''
An Ohio paper says that young woman
living IN the township of Springfield heard
that young man in the place was not likely
to vote without some urging, 20 she took her
fathers buggy on the day of election, went
TO the house Of the absentee, brought him
to the polls, ''v0ted him for Slollabargor
and the whole Union ticket, and took hIm
home again.
Mr. D. B. Berry, % Madison county, H.,
ON his return home some time since. was
met by an enormous cloud Of bees. and be
fore h. c9oiu isTn bic team out Of the way
they cugcrCd lsmseli and his horses TO the
dept. 81 two or three inches, singing both
hv.s,s To- death in a few minutes, and great
" tndangoring his o0n lie.
The Laarders Of the Lindcn House. ST.
Louis. were lately frightened by she sudden
cry OF FIRE, and the flames q a burning
building adjacent Eyeryb.j AZ seemed 90 lose
all seli-possessian. and male and female,
under the absorbing impulse of self-plcser- |
walton. forgot all the ordinary restrictions of I
modesty. and suatching W Whatever article 4
of attire Jhcy first met, fed down the long |
corridors towards the stairway. Ladies ia /
costumes more AIRY than convenient. half /
dressed men and dcnudcd children, all blend |
ed in an homogeneous stream. and struggled 1
madly 20 escape from danger that. had no
existence rave ~ their excited Imagination
making the vast hotel a spectacle of the
most Wild confusion and excitement
The We, xiv Father Abraham i DE ti.'e
ola new paper ~ Eric. Pa
j. n MarrI-~sy mad, S2j.00o hertne
On the New York cisy eicupn. -euoagH O.
iay hi~ own election xpeose-
oacial adyicas ,7.n Assausas state GOA.
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Mr.. Dcau7. ci,r5- IF ,ae C.-agiIe
Union. O-io, has after uir-v-iaur yrs.-
.o,. Inuous scIliuy. : ID .u.. H. -1v- that
turing tar time Do. wrote $3.50 eolumr- tlr
Is yic.lal- and cirth,s
The wax If restoring u.' .ffe.r.l
Church + A'--c Dane. Psri- '- almost
iri-'ee, i his ''eeYi-i - ye
FL p PIN H. ,. -.,.-...i ..s .--i-..
a p r'eo"' speech in ,ii-- Uri 80 ''e-e
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