Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-02-05

T bury The Captain himself was not discovered.
A chap was recently welded, in Hartford, to
a girl whom he had courted for eighteen years.
He said he felt pretty well acquainted with her,
or he shouldn't have got married.
William W. Billings's barn at New London
! was burned, Friday night, at loss of 81 500.
lncendiary fires have become so frequent there
that the local paper shriel1s, LET the people
rise -
The lyceum at North Stonington has rendered
the profound and learned decision that earth
/ quakes, tornadoes, tempests, and other natural
Commissions, are not accidental, but the result of
celestial mlsmanagement.
The latest local sensation at NIeriden Is the ar
rest Of squad Of the new police force by depu-
tatlon Of special constables for violating city
regulation in obstructing the sidewalks
4 \ strike took place last week in a boot and
shoe making establishment in New Haven, and
twenty-one men lost their situations because they
/ objected to having a young man instructed in
the management Of patent Matchmaking ma
chince sold to his employers.
Father Goodwin of New Haven. considering
that he is old, nearly blind, and that bread in
/ the future will be worth more to him than books,
invites politicians, antiquarians historians.
and others - to buy his 600 scrap books. which
he has made in the past sixteen years, from
newspapers.
George B. Clark of Birmingham, who was ac
cidentally shot in the right arm on Monday of
last week and on Wednesday suffered amputa-
ton Of that member, was, by striking coin
cilence, to have taken part in a tableau on the
/ latter evening, entitled 90 The Last Shot, in
which he would have acted the part of one
wounded in the right arm.
A monster wild cat, which had long been the
horror Of Huntsville, was recently caught in a
steel trap. and all the able-bodied men gathered
together, and, armed cap pie, proceeded to Sc
duce him into an old menagerie cage His first
/ leap as they approached carried him twenty feet
into the cage, trap and all, where he now awaits
the coming Of some Blrnum. The. creature
measured eight feet from nose tip to tail tip
Two New Haven attorneys went to draw up a
F dying Woman's VIII last week. and were ordered
out by her husband. Several men came to the
rescue forced the man from the room and
locked the door, when the fellow got a carving
knife and stood guard outside threatening To
carve the lawyers into porter house steaks The
viii was finally made, and they escaped ont of
the windows. The fellow wanted his wife TO die
and make no viii, while she wished to leave
something to her daughters
Barkhamsted, long years ago, must have been
tough place. Rev. Mr.. Stebbins, the first min
lister Of Smsbury, preached in the former vii
lage one Sunday, and his wife, who accompanied
him, was taken so very in that he returned with
ont her. 4 sympathetic parisEiouer c0mtorted
him with the certainty that death would find lie
spouse fully prepared. Oh, yes. replied the
good man, &c I've not the slightest doubt that
She viii go straight TO Heaven. but can't bear
the ilea of her going from Barkham-tel %.
RHODE ISLAND.
Governor Burnside has shocked the Senate bv
trampling on the State Constitution A clause IN
this document sly~ that the Governor shall pre-
side over the Senate sessions, but the present in
cumbeut has coollv informed the senate that
business uece,>tates his absence. So the Lieut.
Governor has 30 take the place
The amount spent by request of Henry Dor
+ -ev- Of Pawtucket, CA Sunday. for dinners 60
prisoners in th.s State, was 500.
The Newport Nan, says there is family in
that city u which the father is seventeen year,
/ Of age. the mother sixteen and the baby three
weeks.
MAINE
me lulce lh lit ARTERY navy yard ua- been
/ reduced TO 400 men.
llie i,no'e 'sl'-'' i''1n9l' institute i' 10 -e--
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Bethel asserts That the Thermometer -rlie,tp.i
/ II degrees below zero iu that locality Do. T1.--
/ day of last week.
r9fiel tbe town of S. p ffiH and af. 7l,e,.ti -r
committee duly apponiei have been refused
lI' a1'e'9 To- inc BOOKS
4 horrible accident occurred ia + 1r.a1rf ON
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