Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-06-02
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-. OLIVER WooD. and John McIIugh
were sevorally hauled up before Justice Wales
yesterday for selling liquor. and allowed for
period to contemplate the possible conse-
quences of their misdccds There being how
ever, in one case lack Of proof and in the
other an abundance of pcntencc, they were
let off for this time
II FIRE broke out, Thursday =. NJ. Of
last week, about "A clock, in the dry house
attached to the Pioneer Mechanics Shop.
which was filled to the roof with pieces of
hardwood boards belonging to Mr.. Simonds
and intended to be manufactured into wash
ing boards. Abou. FIVE o'clock a general
alarm was rung. The engine and hook AMI
ladder companies were promptly on hand.
holes were cut in the roof and II deluge Of
water poured in. Owing to the way in which
the wood was piled, however, each layer srry-
ing as shed to carry of the water from the
layers under it, the seat Of the fire was not
reached, although water enough to fill the
house, had it bean vater-tght, was pouredin in.
An attempt to get at the fire from the door
proved little more successful, and the increa.-
ing smoke and heat were fast driving the FIRE
men from the building, when fire annihila-
tor was procured from Messrs. Pecks Il Co..
and discharged inside, with most happy effect.
The mass Of fame was Immediately extn-
guishcd. The men were able to commence
actively in throwing out the contents, and
short work was made Of what fire still re-
manned under the floor and in spots to which
the vapor Of the anniilator did not penetrate.
by streams of water thrown through the door
and holes broken through the wall of the
building. 1t was two hours or more after
the alarm was given before the fire was out
An earlier use Of the annihilator would pro-
badly have saved much labor and some pro-
perty. The fire no doubt caught from the
stove or drying pipes which ran around the
interior Of the dryheuse. The amount of
damage was fortunately not very large.
Cows rs RTz,-at least ifone has not. it ia not
the fault Of the good turnpike yeast, which,
the said vagabond animal, having entered
yard which we wot of, against the laws Of the
State and the peace and good order thereof
feloniously slowed away in her rapacious
nav, to the vexation of the housemaid who
had carefully placed the said &" turnp likes" in
the sun to dry.
-THE ECLIPSE was substantially fail
ure here so far as good view of it was con-
cerned. Clouds kept the sun out Of sight al
most the whole time, We believe no one got
a sight of the phenomenon when the ring wac
formed, though some got a snatch of look
just before that time
-WB LkARN that Col. MOORE, the very
able Superintendent of the Vermont Central
Railroad, has accepted the appointment of
Superintendent of the Michigan Southern
Railroad, with salary Of $4,000 year and
his expo nses paid.
-REcENT ORDERS from Washington re-
quire the Custom House Officers at Rou.es
Point to open every piece of baggage which
crosses the line from Canada, and examine it
to the hottom-a process which necessitates
the detention over one train of passengers by
railroad, inasmuch as the difficulty of getting
passengers into the baggage car, in order to
answer questions concerning their ''plunder, :"
makes the examination an impossibllity ON
board the train. We can conceive of no suf-
fcient call for 50 severe restriction upon
ravel from Canada this way
VIZ LEARN that a boy fifteen years old
was drowned in the river at Hubbell's Falls, on
Saturday. He was fishing from raft with a
companion, when the raft parted and let both
into the river. One swan to the shore. the
other was drowned. The body was recovered
and buried yesterday. His name was not
given us.
- Mr.. BRAINERp's organ comes out
strongly for the nomination of Mr.. Brainerd
for Governor This is almost as unexpected
as that the Wing State Committee should
have dared to call Wing State Convention
w. W. MowER committed suicide in
Stockbridge, Vt, on Monday last, by cutting
his throat with razor. He was thirty three
years old. The Temperance Standard init
mates that rum WAS the cause of the deed
-"THE NEBRASKA BILL has passed the
House, and the country may we'll congratu-
late itself upon the fact" So says the
Vermont Patriot. The country may congra-
tulate itself on the fact that in the consum-
nation of their monster act of perfdy the
Administration and its hangers on have
have sealed their own doom. The guns fred
at the Capitol on the passage of the bill were
fired over the political grave of Pierce.
Douglas & Co.
"A LITTLE boy aged four years son of Mr.
Bowker of Charlestown. \. H.. wae
drawing his little brother, aged three, in
little wagon, on Thursday last. He stated to
cross the track Of the Sullivan Railroad. and
had drawn the wagon fairly on to it, when
seeing the mail train coming. he bolted
leaving the little one in his wagon on the
track The locomotive came at full speed, and
striking the wagon, threw the child a dis
lance of 40 feet, Strange to say, not bone
was broken, although he was somewhat
bruised.
-THE REV. Mr.. ADAMS of Henniker, y.
H., whose reported misdoings have gone the
rounds of the press, and whose name the ",
Patriot pretended to have found among the
three thousand signers of the Nebraska pro-
test, proves to have been an imaginary per
the Bellows Falls Argus. very
rightly rebukes its democratic CO. sharer in
the favor of the Administration, for bringing
forward man of straw to throw discred,t
On the clergy.
-DuRING the three weeks Of the month
Of May, ending Sunday night, 400 vessels
from foreign ports entered the port of New
York, bringing 4s ,O54 passengers, mostly i'm
mi grants.
"A DARING outrage was rerpetrated on
the person of Mr.. Pollard in Charlestown,
Mass. ON Saturday night. in bis own shor.