Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-05-12
ITEMS AT HOME AND ABROAD.

An evidence of the severity of the
past season is afforded by the fact, that
the iron gas mains in College Street. which
accidentally were left full of water when
the gas was stopped last winter, froze up tight.
although sunk from four and half to five feet
below the surface and are now being thawcd
out by fires kindlcd around them in trenches
dug for the purpose.
-BRNTTLEBoRo is one of the pleasantest
villages in Vermont and We are glad to learn
that the loss which it sustained i'll the burn
ing Of the I,,uoat HouSc and the death Of
Capt. Lord, its popular landlord, i retrieved.
The REVERE lIor-E, new and commodious
Hotel, has recently been taken by j j. Gran
dali and ia, we are assured. an exceedingly
well kept house We recommend a trial
of Mr. Crandall's hospitality to all who have
occasion to be in Bratteboro. and for further
particulars refer our readers to our advcr-
Using columns.
THUS Troy papers announce the per
manent closing of the Troy House. 1t wa,
once IA good house. and it has been the fash
ion to praise it, habit which some papers
kept up to the last We must say however
that our impression, founded on some expert
ence, is that of late and especially within the
last year, for poor fare and poorer attendance,
for dirt omnipresent and unutterable, and for
general lack of all comfort, the Troy House
might challenge comparison. We are glad
to learn that the new Hotel the UNION HorsE.
is reoHy first class Hotel-well appointed and
finely kept.
Two HENS Eggs have been placed upon
our table as egg samples of the sublime and
the ridiculous, One is the effort of begin
ner, and is about the size of robbins egg
though perfect in shape and all the appoint
ments of an egg. The other is the production
of ripened hen-hood 1t measures y inches
by 81 inches and weigh, nearly five ounces
The hen who achieved this " grand success" il
the property of one of our compositors. and is
none of your " two-story shanghai's,
although she lays two-story eggs, but a
sedate and assiduous Vermont hen.
The BosroN Trdreler states that AZ 4
meeting of tho Presidents of the Lowell,
Nashua, Concord, Northern, Central. Canada
and Ogdenshurg Railroads, held in Boston,
on Wednesday last, it was agreed TO recon-
mend to their respective boards of directors,
, the purchase Of one thousand additional
freight cars, on Joint account, for the use of
the whole line from Boston to Ogdenshur-
TUE RrssElLrRs across the LAX" ar'
bound to support the coffin trade. Not salts
fed with filling cofhns in the regular line IF
their business, they threaten that all who
interfere with their poisonous traffic shall
also furnish business for the undertakers,
The Keeseyillc Republican, gives the following
verbatim copy of a notice recently posted
throughout that village.
" Notice is here buy giving to the puhlick
} that any man who goes to sware against
man selling liquor in this village may have
his coffin made and soon will goe there in
KEEsEvrLLE, \. \
- Mas Lr,Y ABBOTT, wife Of Mr., Daniel
Abbott of Gaysville, in this State, commit
ted suicide ON Thursday last, 10y plunsins
headlong into a deep well She was g. years
old, and had been partially deranged for
about ten days previously to her committing
the fatal act
IN PLArTsBrRGn on the 2sth, John
Wilson, known as =" Jack, the attentive por-
ter of Fouquet's Hotel, while undertaking To
ford the mouth of the creek, fell into
! quieksand with his team and was drowned.
/ The Republican saws he might have saved
/ himself, hut IN his exertions to save the
struggling horses, was beaten down under
their feet and in moment both horses aud
driver were lost in the quicksand and deep
water.
Mas HARRIET NEwHALLs harm in Lei
ester, standing on the place where Gov.
! Washhurn was horn was struck by lightning
and destroyed ON the Goth ult Two COWS,
one heiier and FIVE tuns of hay shared the
same fate loss 5000.
-lIENRr T. M,THER of Marlboro, went
to Wilmington on the 10th ut, was caught
in storm, went into a tavern To dry himself,
and. while sitting with his back to the fire
suddenly dropped forward and in an instant
WAS corpse lie Was IS years old aud leaves
n family