Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-08-09

Il is intimated from official quarters that
the President has finally decided 70 select
Hancock as Sheridan's successor. The In
felioencer of Friday says there will be no I'M
necessary delay in issuing the order reiiev-
ing Sheridan.
One thousand private claims have been
tled before the Claims Commission OF the
War Department to the present date, arising
out of the war. They present every con,
ceiyable kind of claim under the head OF
property destroyed" or service rendered.
Returns from the registration in Louisiana
have been received at Gen. Grants head
quarters, and show that the colored voters
have about thirty-eight thousand majority
Western dispatches state that trains from
Leavenworth in charge of Messrs. Powers
and Newman had a fight with the Indians on
Sunday. The fight lasted all day until to-
wards night, when the whites were assisted
by Capt. Schemerhorn with two field howltz-
ers. The locality Of the fight is not given.
Ii is reported that the Indians have posses
sion of 10 miles OF road west Of Monument
Station, and are stealing all the stock they
can find.
A merchant of Buffalo, named Patterson,
absconded Wednesday with the proceeds OF
eleven boat-loads of corn, valued at about
$4,000. He was arrested the same day,
and US bonds, etc, were found in his pos
session amounting to nearly the full value oil
the amount stolen.
A scoundrel named Bryant was caught in
Worcester, Mass, the other evening, in the
act Of girdling fruit trees in the garden of
the jailkeeper, against whom he had spite,
and was re-lodged in jail from which be had
been out but q few months.
VIM. Peyton Of Hopkins county, Ky, a
bold and outspoken union man during the
war, was shot dead at his own door by an
unknown assassin, on Tuesday morning OF
last week.
David Hensbaw was the first man in Mass
aehnsetts who offered a printed ballot at the
polls, he claiming that it was, in legal
point of view, written one. The ballot
was rejected. Henshaw prosecuted the Sc
lectmen, and the matter was carried to the
Supreme Court where it was decided that
Henshaw's view Of the matter was correct
Since that time We have been allowed to use
printed ballots.
The farmers of Long Island are suffering
this season from the potato rot. The losses
from disease last year are renewed this sea-
son on a much larger scale.
The emigrant train leaving Brantford, C..
W., Aug /. at 10 O'Clock, when near Paris,
ran over drove of horses which had strayed
on the track, throwing the engine down an
em,ankment Is feet, killing the engineer
named Graham, and seriously injuring the
fireman. None OF the passengers were hurt.
An engine on the Mobile and Great West
ern railroad exploded Friday, killing the en-
gineer and fireman. The passengers were
uninjured.
The notes Of business firm IN Cincinnati
that recently made an assignment were OIL
fered at public sale to the amount of $751;
900, and brought $40.
About four hundred new money order
post offices will shortly 90 into operation,
principally in the Southern, Western and
Pacific States. The money order system is
rapidly extending, and promises to become
at no distant period the iavorite method of
transmitting small sums, especially between
distant points.