Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-08-14
CURRENT NOTES.


The brig Laura is at Boston with the yellow
fever on boarl
In the Georgia Legislature an election Of State
officers took place last week, resulting in the
choice Of the entire republican ticket
The Toic3o Blade predicts decline in the
price Of when, and -four, and advises farmers not
To- hold their crops for rise
The Hon Thadieus Stevens remains comfort
able and improving. He is making arrange
ment- for his departure for Lancaster, Pa.
Gen Butler has written a letter in which he
announces that he will be candidate for re-
election to Congress from the Fifth District Of
Massachusetts,
The French Government has addressed an Of
fetal circular TO rs officers ordering the purchase
Traditional supplies q horses for the army
The D." empire is peace.
Mr., Lincoln, who was to haze sailed for Eng
land with Hon. Reyeriy johnson and family, on
the l,t inst, was taken suddenly i'll and pre-
vented from sailing.
The War Department has changed the head
quarters Of the Department Of the East from
Philadelphia to New York, with Maj Gen
Irwin Mcdowell in command
Mayor Conway, Of New Orleans, has appointed
Gen. Brazton Bragg as Superintendent Of the
City Water Works
The steamers the Potomac, Delaware and Pine
Grave, lying at Cincinnati, were destroyed by
fire on the 9th inst The loss is estimated at
100000.
Larkin Meade. marble statue for the Soldiers
Monument at s.. Johnsbury, Vt, arrived safely
last week from Florence, Italy. 1t is to be in
augurated on the 10Th inst
The Gar, it seems. instead Of congratulating
the President on his acquittal. merely notified
him that he had recently become fresh father
This i, a slight change.
The opposition to confederation still prevails
in Nova Scotia The local government of Hall
fax have refused to have interviews with the
members of the Pri,y Council Of the Dominion
Queen Victoria arrived at Paris on Thursday
last, and was received at the depot by the En-
pres, Eugene and driven Immediately TO the
Tuilleries. She contemplates leaving for Swift
zeraud
\ man named Hiram Pittsinger and his house
maid were tarred and feathered and ridden on
rail at Chesterfield, Mass, few nights ago, for
alleged criminal intimacy and harsh treatment
Of Pittsinger's wife.
The reunion Of the officers of the Army of the
James in Boston on the 2nd of September next
bids fair to be very interesting occasion. The
St. James Hotel has been selected as the head
quarters. This gathering has no political cha
racter
On Wednesday the international Commercial
Convention in Portland adopted resolutions
favoring freer intercourse with Canada. Con-
gressional aid to the transcontinental railroads,
and m enlargement of the canals and channels
Of the St. Lawrence.
A young lad named John O'Brien, aged II
years, was deliberately shot in Chicago on Tues
day by one of his playma;es nilmed John Lee
Young O'Brien will probably die The young
murderer escaped, but the officers will capture
him
A member Of the Baltimore City Council, ap-
Palled by the expenditures necessary to repair
the damages caused by the late food, introduced
resolution providing for the suspension Of all
work on school-houses now being erected. The
resolution was promptly voted down.
The charge Of assault and larceny, preferred
against Gen. Sheridan and some soldiers Of his
command, by Postmaster Dunn, who was re-
Gently forcibly elected from the reservation at
Fort Leavenworth, was decided on Thursday.
Gen. Sheridan was fined 500, and the others
s and costs the case will be appealed.
A Louisville dispatch to the Cincinnati Com
Hereial, bearing date July 81, was as follows:
Five barrels Of old Robinson County whisky,
consigned to President johnson, passed through
here today
Is suggested that the President is probably
gong on his summer tour to the Rocky Noun
talns to meet Frank Blair and have "a real good
time
On Friday last drove Of two hundred cattle
was shipped to Pittsford. Penn, by an Illinois
stock dealer Thirty-nine died on their way and
sixty-seven persisted in the East Liberty stock
yards. OF a smaller drove shipped to Pittsburg,
a number died on their way and ten fell victims
to the disease at East Liberty, while, with not .
single exception, the animals embraced in the
drove were more or less diseased