Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-12-14


and you pile in the fuel, twill. Ii the pipe
happens to burn out, you will be burned out
also probably. That wooden depository for
ashes, is an unsafe affair, too. Have you
reflected how very unpleasant it will be to
have your house burned down over your head
one of these cold nights Look carefully
then to every thing you W. fire into.
ITEMS AT HOME AND A BROAD.
-RNLRoAD BRiDch DowN.-We learn
that on Monday evening, the down passenger
| train on the Rutland road, ran off the track
ON account of switch left wrong, just before
reaching the bridge which crosses the Otter
/ Creek in Whiting w. The locomotive
struck the bridge with great force, knocking
down the whole structure, which must be
uca-Iy 100 feet long. The locomotive for
tunately did not follow the bridge into the
river, but stopped half way down the bank
The engineer and fireman went down the
bank with the engine. Nobody was hurt
-TnE STEAMERS Of the Champlain Trans
roriation Company, are safely slowed away in
the llarhor FOR the winter. The g Saltus, ="
Capt Lot Chamberlin, will run between this
place and Pittsburgh as long as the ice per
mits.
-GArT. DUNHAM, of Hancock, Vt. has
recently killed two large bears in that town
making fifteen that he has killed during
his life. MIR Tassett, of the same place. also
killed bear lew days since-A gentleman
from ilobokcn, \. Y. recently went to Yer
gcnncs, Vt, taking with HIM a young terrier
dog, but IN returning he lost his canine com
panion, as he supposed forever few days
since, however, the faithful dog returned
to Nergennes, whence he was sent to his mas
er at lloboken.
Two BOYS in New York, named Mi
chael Butler and Hugh Dyer, twelve years
Ofage, were induced to fight by the promise
from an older boy of sixpence to the
victor, and the Butler boy received II blow
upon the head which caused his death
--AuNrclfAL ExTRAvAGANcB. N York has
always been regarded as the most extrava-
CANT municipal corporation in America. But
Boston, it seems, under its present govern
mcnt, is still more extravagant. The Aduer-
User says:
cone of the New York papers groans that
the six millions and half expended there is
more than ten dollars per head for every man.
woman and child in the city. But the two
and quarter millions spent in Boston, is two
cents short of fourteen doHd,s head for every
man woman and child living in Boston,
taking the figures of the census OF the present
year, which gives the population at the larg-
est number.
-tIREs.-Last week, Thursday evening,
the barn and hay within it, belonging to Z.
NJ, Wilson, at Brattleboro, Vt. was destroy
ed by fire supposed to have caught accident
ally while feeding the cattle. Loss S350.-
In Marlboro, w., the same evening; the shop
Of Capt. William Newton, was wholly des.
troyed. Loss S400.-On the eth, in Hano-
yer, n H., the house of Mr.. Joseph Pnneo,
(nursery man) was destroyed, and a great
number of young fruit trees and scions were
lost. His loss is about S2500 or $4,000, upon
which there was an insurance of Sl200.-The
building Of the Dartmouth Medical College
was fire and saved with dificulty.-There
was great fire at Sing Sing State Prison,
last week Thursday 1t broke out in the
clothing shop, which, with the hat, machine
and carpenter shops, wholly DESTROYED
The entire loss is $50 900, of which $4,000
falls upon Charles Watson, who owned the
property in the hat shop. 1t is conjectured
that the fire was set by some of the prison
ers with the expectation that it would af-
ford them an opportunity to ceoapo.
-WAR OF RACEs.-At Dunkrk, n Y.
the 30th ut., during the exhibition of pan
Drama Of the war in the Crimea, a fight broke
out between a Russian named Poerski and
an freshman named Patrick Hume. As the
latter was getting the worst of it his country
I,1, Al,
spectators mixed in to see fair play, and in
the melee that ensued the Russian was killed
Two of the lriehmen are not expected to live
and five more of them are in Jail. At Ash
and, Pa, one day last week collision oc-
Cured between an Irish and an American mil
tary company. The Irish fired upon the
Americans, when the latter charged bayonets
upon theft assailants and wounded three of
them, two Of whom have since died.
-TRoY, n. Y is to have University.
An endowment of 5000 900 for it has been
secured, and vigorous efforts will be made to
increase the sum to $500, 900
Rev. JoHN ,1cCLINTocK, D. D., Editor of
the Quarterly Reric,o, of New York City,
has been elected President or Chancellor of
the University, and steps will Immediately
be taken to commence the erection of the
University Buildings early in the spring.
a YOUNG GENTLEMAN of Sacramento
California some months ago, being much So
dictated by a young lady for a present, sent
her a rare kind of cactus in a flower pot. The
lady tended it carefully but found it did not
grow larger, and after while the perfume
became rather unpleasant, when she resolved
to throw out some of the earth in the pot and
rcplenish it afresh. The earth was accord
ingly removed, when the rare cactus was
found to be the tail of huge rat, with coat
of green paint and a wire run through it,
while the state the corpse fully accounted
for the oppressive odor. 1t is needless to say
the gentleman got " the mitten."
FOURTEEN HUNDRED dined voluptuously at
the Old Brewery site in New York on Thanks
givisg day upon provisions sent in from the
hotels and the private houses of the generous.
The children of the Five Points Mission school
ate first with their parents, and after them
all Anthony street, and Cow Bay that was
hungry poured in and fed consumedly There
! was large surplus after they had finished
| This was divided the next day among the sick
| in the neighborhood of the Mission.
THE n. Y. Tribune says that it learn
from good authority, that in consequence of
the great numbers of disabled and destitute
German, Polish, Irish and other passengers,
| who have been sent to Great Britain and per
haps to ireland also, during the last summer
and Autumn by the Commissioners Of Emigra
| ton of New York, the British Government
! have determined to take stringent measures
against all ships conveying that class of pas
scngcrs hereafter to the United Kingdom.
An AMERICAN DECLINING RUSSIAN Hon
oRS.-The following anecdote appears IN the
| London Times, OF 2i October: