Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-08-12
ITEMS AT HOME AND ABROAD.

ITEMS AT HOME AND ABROAD
Nav TINE CArp.-A new arrange
5000, ,iuIns on the Vermont Central Road
went into operation Monday. The time card
is in our adverIls ny columns.
- FIRE IN ST. GEoRGE.-Wc learn that
two barns with out buildings. belonging to
MIR. Sutton Of St George. were struck hv
lightning last evening and CONSUMED, with
about 30 tons Of hay.
- rcy IL THE FlELD.-Mss Lucy Stone
is to take the stump in Orange county, by
invitation of the Free Democracy, her labor.
t. commence ON the 10Th. Whether she is
about to run for Office ON her own hook or
assist some of the weak brethren over east.
doth not yet distinctly appear"
- Observation-Disclosures Meadows, re
Gently pardoncd out of the States Prison,
has opened shop at Windsor, where he i.
working at his trade of engraving. IL is u
skllrul and finished workman
-RNIRo,D IrENs.-Thc Passumpsc Rail
road is II wcll-managrl road, and the
only one in Vermont which pays dividends
ON its original stock. Its receipts the
last year. ending May 3lst, were $l64,-
I'D -; being an increase of over &l2 900
over last years receipts. The road has
paid the past year the interest on its bonds,
a dividend Of two per cent. on its stock, and
carried balance of s. 600 to the crnting,ns
fund. which now amounts t. ST. 800. The
PassumpSir, Northern, and Boston, Concord
and Montreal roads. heretofore at sword,
points, have concluded on an amicabc ar
rIngcmcnt, having in view constellation of
the interests of the three roads in future, if
the present arrangement works we'll. Tho
three roads have now Il common interest in
the immediate extension of the Passump-ic
Road to Derby line and there is very little
doubt that the road will 90 forward. \ road
from Montreal, Via. Chamblv, to meet tho
Passumpsic ut Derby Line, has been char
tered in Canada, and assurances have been
given that it shall be put under contract as
soon rs the work Of extending the Pas.ump-
sic begins
The cars now run regularly over the White
Mountains Road from Wells River to Little
ton. An Irishman was killed ON this road
last week, hy striking his head against
covered bridge, while riding on the top Of .
car.
An application is to he made the next sos
sion Of our Legislature for charter of
railroad from Windsor, to connect with the
Rutland and Burlington Railroad, at some
point in the town of Caycndish.
y Young man. named Wood, supposed to-
be dcrangcd, threw himself before the train
ON the Vermont and Massachusetts Road,
last Monday. with his neck upon the rail
After the train passed, his head was found
two or three rods down the bank, while his
body lay across the track uniniurcd
The receipts of the Eric Railroad in July,
which is usually dull month, were 1892
0G9 - for july lNj2. the receipts were
SOL, SOB IS showing an increase Of $780,
pa 81.
On Wednesday evening, train of ten plat
form cars on the Delaware and B,lyidcre
Railroad, containing 200 workmcn. returning
from the repairs on the DckIwoc Canal nan
off the track, killing eleven men, and badly
wounding fifteen others. The accident was
caused hya COW jumping in front of the train.
What part of the science of nayga-
ton should railroad conductor understand
Why, how to keep the dead reckoning, Of
course.
The subscription price of the London
Times Is thlrty-one dollars year.
-IIypochondriac old Burton says that
men make books, as apothecaries do medicines,
by pouring a part of the contents of several
bottles INTO new one.
"A grand Musical Convention and Teach
ers Institute is to be holden in Boston, COM
mencing next Monday, and continuing for one
week. Mozarts Twelfth Mass, and Handles
Oratorio of the Messiah will be among the
performances.
--Messrs. Belcher & Brother, sugar re-
fners at st. Louis, are boring well, which
has already reached the very great depth of
1880 feet; far below the bottom Of great
portion of the Mexican Gulf.
The expense so far has been over $4,000,
and the result stream of salt and sulphur wa
ter. They intend to continue the boring till
they reach good water, or 1900 feet in depth
which will be the deepest well in the world.
The augur is driven by steam engine, and
penetrates about four feet day.
Lieut.. Beale writes that in his exploa-
ton West, he has come across the IIucrfano
Butte, curious pillar, sugarloaf in shape, of
solid rock, and about 300 feet in height
Whereupon Col, Benton exclams, enthusiastic
cally, "but that lIuerfano Butte solid rock
three hundred feet high sugarloaf form, visi-
bic twelve miles that column built by the
hands OF Nature to receive a statue of Co
lumbus, pointing to the West and saying to the
magic car as it flies along, THAT is the road to
India :"