Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-01-13

snow plough, was passing through South
Boston at a rapid rate, when the plough took
a sudden plunge, and darting off the track,
entered DWELLING demolished the side, and
entered the sitting room of a Mrs. Mckee. A
girl in the room narrowly escaped being
crushed by the plough, but jumped in time to
save her life
There has been violent gale ut Halifax,
which sunk vessels at the Wharyes, and did
damage to the amount of 100000.
fins IN OGDESsBrRG. The block Of
wooden stores on Ford street, were burned
December 80. They were occupied by Thomp-
son, bonnet store; Chaney, shoc store j. L.
Woolsey, grocer Green d Co.; Thornton,
millinery; Byington, book store; Morris,
druggist Child & Fawcett, leather dealers
Aaron, clothing. Loss heavy, but mostly in
sured,
--TERNoNT ITEMs.-At Montpelier the
snow is over foot deep, and more coming
a dwelling house and barn with their con-
tents, owned by DR.. Smith, was burned in
the same village on Saturday morning.-At
Middlebury on the Goth ult., William Cliff
and Benjamin Fuller, alias Smith, alias Will
hanson, were arrested for passing counterfeit
money.-ln Huntington on the 18th, Mr..
John Chatfeld died from having slipped off
beam in his ba,n upon the upright handle of
q pitchfork which entered his body Yin Men
don. on last week Monday, Mr.. William
Eggleston was killed instantly by the fall of II
spruce tree, which he was telling. lie was n
man of high respectability, with large fun
ily.-In Sherburne on the 7th, the new Saw
and grist mill belonging to Jonathan Wilson,
was destroyed BY fire, together with about
so 900 feet of lumber st. Johnsbury on
the llth ult., DR.. Calvin Jewett, q much es-
teemed citizen and skilful physician, died of
Il disease of the heart.
MIR. G. f. WARING, JR., is to have the
direction of the Agricultural portion Of the
Rutland Herald for time. lie will continue
to lecture in the State, on the subject Of Ag-
riculturc, during the winter
AMERICAN CREAM SoAP.-For particulars
concerning the above soaps, gee the advertise
ment of Richardson 4 Co.. in another column.
The Company, We understand. have orders
quite as fast as they can fill them. The Mont
tclier Watchman says of their manufactures :
We have submitted one kind of their
soap to the severe test of printing-ofhcc use,
and find it first rate article. Another kind
for laundry use is in process of trial, and
with indications of perfect success. House
keerers. who WISH TO avoid the trouble Of soap
making, had better try Richardson & Cos
articles
-GREAT Suirs.-Capt. McKay's great
clipper the " Great Republic" though the
largest IN the wcrld was by no means the
largest ever built Several etheG monster
achievements in naval architecture are on
record. A ship was constructed for Ptolemy
Philopater which was 500 feet long, Sc feet
broad, - feet deep, and of G,445 tuns bur
then, and Archimedes constructed ship for
Hero, King Of Syracuse, of such large dmcn
sions that none of the harbors in Sicily or
Greece could receive it. Both Of these were
larger than the great clipper, end very early
in the annals of ship building we read OF
one constructed by one Noah, to which the
Great Republic could not /" hold candle y
The tonnage of Noah's Ark by the Custom
nearly twice that Of the Great Republic. A
correspondent of the n. Y. Courier however
suggests that the Ark was not a ship. 1t
could not have clawed off, lee shore, and
was intended TO bgips up on the frsf rock
which it did According to him the tonnage
of the Ark, calculated not as q ship but rs we
do any cubic body, was 20, 9GS tons. The same
authority mentions curious fact, which, il
true, shows that Noah had not fully calcu-
lated the dimensions necessary to carry all
his passengers. II was this that Noah ''after
taking in all the Ark could held conveniently
found that the Dog was left ont, and
could only be accommodated by standing in
the door way, this he did, and it raincd on
his nose forty days and forty nights, which
accounts for the coldncss of his nose ever
since.
-OLp TREEs-The editor of the Litoh-
field Enquirer has received apples from tree
that was hrqpsht frqm Hartford by one of The
first settlers of the town. The tree has borne
apples about one hundred and thirty years
1t now measures fourteen feet round the
trunk. 1t bore twenty bushels the past
sea son. The fruit is sweet winter apple,
\ Marlboro correspondent of the Poughkeep-
sic Eagle. says he has on his own premises
willow fifteen and half feet N circumference
and AN apple tree measuring ten feet three
inches. lie also mentions great Balm OF
Gilead, which gives name to village (Balm'
WILEY two miles north of Newburgh, and
which measures seventeen feet in circum'
ference and is still sound and healthy.
~ GALLANT Acr.-Mr. John Bensles
performed a gallant act at the recent burning
! of the mill ofFrench 4 Reed, near Pawtuckct.
Two men were at work in the eighth story o.
the mill when the fire broke out, and thcil
descent was cut off by tho fire and smoke
Mr.. Bensley procured II long ladder, one END