Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-03-24
ITEMS AT HOME AND ABROAD.

-THE Loss by the Gale of Saturday at
Albany and Troy is estimated at one hundred
thousand dollars in each place.
-THE MAcHINERr Of the Caloric Ship
Ericsson has been tried again and it produced
nine and ten revolutions per minute, with
only one engine equal to the same number of
miles per hour. Her other engine will lie in
order by the lst of April. 1t is intended to
send her to IIavrc or Liverpool about the
middle of April.
-THE GOVERNOR of New York, has ar-
proved of the bill loaning the credit Of the
City of Albany to the Albany Northern Rail
road Company.
--Ir Is NOT true that two children were
bitten by mad dog recently in Springfield,
VT, as stated in an item which has gone the
rounds. The Telegraph declares it a mis-
take. Springfield Massachusetts was doubtless
the place,
A CHILD two months old Of a family
named IIamer, living i'll Brandon, was let
fall few days since by little girl in whose
charge it was, from the effects of which it
died in about forty eight hours.
-TnE GALE of Friday night and Satur-
day morning did great damage in several
places. Vt Albany it blew perfect hurr-
cane. From fifty to a hundred buildings were
unroofed, stccplcs blown down, walls house.
Frustrated, and an immense destruction Of
property caused. At Troy some twenty or
trtt ltIl,l ~ "a
wooden buildings demolished, piles of lumber
started into the River, and many Thousand
dollars worth of property destroyed. In
West Troy the damage is estimated at $50
600 At Springfield, Mass, 800 feet of tn"
roof of the large depot was carried away. and
in many villages in Massachusetts, and Ne"
York innumerablc chimneys were blown
down, houses unroofcd and trees Frustrated
One of the trains into Boston was detained
one hour and a half solely by the gale, the
cars being at times brought almost to u stop
by the force Of the wind
a FRE>ouN,>, Pope by name, who not
long since, made affidavit that the Editor of
the Temperance. Standard called for " Gin or
Brandy " in his grocery in January last, has
taken lodgings in the Windsor County Jail
on IA charge of Iorgry-haying been tri.d
and bound up by magistrate in CayCndi>h.
Papers are also in readiness for hi,u for -,
swearing. Gc, which will be served IN due
time.
--'' NIRD,>N DENoCE,cY" says the R''h-
mond Wig, lis the embodiment ul the
highest wisdom and the Purcst patriotism
which the earth has ever known Long may
it live to preach distractions, honey fugslc
the people, defend GOV. Joe, hAtter Mr..
Pierce, and hunger and thirst after the hcsh
pots OF Egypt.
--lT Is RENARKID by the Newark Adr'r-
hscr that the only difficulty in the way of the
success Of the Nebraska bill Is the inability
Of the Administration 10 pay all who arc
ready to barter their votes, the q consider
alton" they demand tur the sacrifice. II the
President had thirty or forty Charseshife or
Embassies to dispose of, the s"lndle would
probably succeed against the strongest "a
preston Of popular ahhorrenoe.
fin ONM Rhinoceros IN the country,
Valued at slu0o0, died on Monday moruiu.,
at Dii,sback's MenaSeric in \, Y An-r
eating hay all night, he laid down and t>-
rirrd in h,' minutes.
--JuuN fArgu, lul years and q months
old. died at Wmchcndon, Mass ON the alth
the door, the year that hr WAS l4p years Oh.