Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-01-17
lumber TWENTY-NINE.

E. WHEAT AND CORN.-The following are tn,
= statistics relative to wheat and corn raised il
Is Vermont during the year of 1866:
n WHEAT-Amount in bushels, Ga, go:
! Average yield per acre, y
Number of acres in each crop, 304 sc
o Value per bushel, 50 81
/ Total valuation, 81. GIL DDS
0 CoRy-Amount ofcrops in bu.hel, 1,49O, ,975
Average yield per acre, 33
Numbers of acres in each crop. 44774
f Value per bushel, S1,41
Total valuation, S2102 275
t The Troy AND BosTON railroad now refuses
to carry the United States mails. making the
New York mails three hours laterat Rutland.
and twenty-four hours later in some towns in
Rutland county, which have to be supplied
via Saratoga and Rutland. The reason is
that the Post Office Department will not pay
the price of the Railroad company.
The ST. ALBANs Coal On WORKS. Allud-
ing to the seizure of these works, the Platts-
burgh S,ntinel says .. This is the same
distillery from which Mr. Dow, Deputy Mar
shal of this District, seized 80 barrels last
May, for not being properly inspected, which
was released on the representations of the
aforesaid Farnsworth The natural infer
ence is that Mr.. Dow was right, after all,
and the seizure ought to have been sustain
ed
ArrMPrED SUEcIDE-The wife of George
Farnham Of st Johnsbury attempted to de-
stroy herself on Thursday evening last, by
taking an overdose of opium. Prompt med
ical aid saved her life, though she declares her
determination still to take her life. assign
ing az the reason abuse from her drunken
and debased husband. The Caledonian SAYS
Of the case: ''here is a text for temperance
lecture: \ man reared in this town place
which has heretofore had fair name for tenn
perance and morals-and yet before he is
thirty-fve years Of age, his intolerable
abuse Of the wife he has promised love
and protect drives her to choose death BY
her own hands, to life with such a monster"
The HAR1ow BRIDGE DISASTER. North
field essayist on this subject, in the Tins,
sums up his conclusions in the following
series of ifs
If Mr.. Tenney had cautioned Abbott against
running SO fast,-if Mr.. Locklin had opened the
door of the car and given the alarm when he
made the signal to stop, If there had been
bell rope to the trin,-if they had been drawing |
instead of backing the triin,-if there had been |
a hunter put up to stop the train,-or if there |
had been no one ON the engine but the engineer |
and fireman, it is more than probable the disas- |
ter would not have occurred
1t seems to us that the most important ST.
is omitted in this summary-yiz f the en-
gineer had minded his business
Ups AND DowNs IN LrFE-Col Meline, in his
- two thousand miles on horseback to Santa Fe /
and back, relates the following
d" Here (at an old mine, near Santa Fe) l |
fell in with Candelaria, an aged shepherd, who |
in the palmy days Of mining stumbled upon
lump Of gold worth $50 Straghtway," he
told me, recounting his luck, Sc Straightway all
the men bowel to me, the women courtesied,
the cOmmercj1uts took off their hats when they
met me. My name grew like a gourd. From
Candelarria, it became Don Juan, Don Juan Cam
delaria, Senor Don Juan Candelaria, Senor Don
Juan Candelaria, cahallero This lasted three
weeks, my gold lasted twenty days. On the
twenty second day my name was iattened out to
Old Candearia, and now herd sheep. Adios,
compadre."
FIcHT WITH SNU UGGLERs.-Messrs Fitch and
Newton, customs officers at Highgate, had
lively time with sInuggers Monday evening
They met the suspected parties, Tells, Caut-
os, or Curtis, and Louis Jeanoir, in a one
horse sleigh The Frenchmen showing no
disposition to halt, the Offices proceeded to
business; Fitch - winging' their animal by
a ball from his revolver, and graphing to the
bits while Newton paid attention to the pas
sengers. He was met by a severe blow on
the head as he approached Curtis and pis-
tol shot from Jeanoir, which fortunately
missed its object, and Curtis was - snaked'
over the back of the sleigh, and aftera severe
struggle secured. But tmeantime Jeanoir had
concluded that he had urgent business in Can
ada and taking leg bail made good his
escape,-two shots from the revolver of off,
Ger Fitch failing to reach him. Curtis was
brought here last night and committed to the
care of sheriff Soule
Both Curtis and Jeanoir are well known
about here, and known to the officers as old
offenders against the revenue laws, Jeanoir
running blacksmith's shop at Frelghsburg
as - base Of operations. And one if not
both Of the culprits, will be likely to find
that such bold and desperate resistance of
officers in the discharge of their duty is no
trifing afair.-.H. Adams Messenger.
NEW CONFIDENCE GANE.-The Montreal pa
pers mention the exposure Of new dodge
for raising money from men Of weak judg- |
ment and weaker morals. For some time
letters have been going from Montreal to va
rious parties in New York and Boston, signed |
Minnie ). Perry. who describes herself as a