Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-07-13
ITEMS AT home AND ABROAD.

huch respected citizen Of Ilydepark, and now
on his return home from California, where he
had been for two or three years-while en-
dcavoring to spring upon the cars, fell upon
the track and was run over by the train
Inc passenger car, baggage car and tender
passed over him, seyering both his legs, ono
OF them in two places, and crushing tho
pelyis and lower part Of his person. lie was
taken to an upper room in the Depot and
medical attendance provided. lie fingered
in full possession Of his senses, and able to
give directions concerning his property and
family Tor over four hours lie died about
nine O'Clock. lie was about sixty years Of
age.
Ma. NAHUM SnAr1rck, Of Burlington.
was Wednesday, we understand thrown from
a wagon in Milton and had one arm broken
-RAIrRoAD AccIDENr.-We learn from
the Swanton journal that a collision took
place the Vermont and Canada Road, on the
4th near Rousc's point, by which one man
had leg broken and others were injured N
some extent but not seriously Ono Of the
engines the John Smith, was badly wrecked
- The ForRrH went off with great tui
etncss in Burlington. There was no ringing
of bells, save the dinner bells no smell Of
villainous saltpetrc, save now and then from
stray gun or Chinese fire cracker no emil H..
siasm generally. The excursion on the Lake
was great affair. Thirteen hundred people
went down from here to IL where thev met
three steamboat loads from Whitehall. max
ing crowd Of several thousand people esti
mated BY some as high as four or five
thousand. Everything went off according TO
the programme and without accident, and
saving the rain and wind to the universe
satisfaction Of all concerned.
- Our EXCHANGES bring the usual lie. Of
| persons shot and blown to pieces, eyes burned
out, fingers torn off, and buildings burned
by the combustion of sulphur and nitro
on tho Fourth. The rain, which fell in
many places. doubtless lesaened the mum.
Der Of fires this year. In Montpelier, the
celebration drew together crowd of about
ten thousand people. An grafton was deliv.
cred by c. W. Willard
No attempt was made, apparently, in Now
York State to execute the liquor law, which
| went into operation on the Fourth.
/ IN TOWNSEND, on the 4th two Young
men were injured-one Of them severely-by
the premature discharge of oannon-and in
st Adams, one night last week, the Cigar
and provision Store of a. NJ. Collins was en-
tered by means of false key and Cigars to
the amount Of $50 made way with
- EDWARD HOWE and Henry Hobrook.
were arrested in Boston on the 4th for pass.
ing counterfeit money, About $500 in coun
terfeit tens on the Montpelier Bank Vt were
found upon them.
linz EDITOR Of the Ludlow Bioue, has
received from Mr.. Pratt Of that town, a .pe.
cimen Of rye selected promiscuously from the
growing crop, measuring six feet thre.
inches in height. The same editor has on
his table n number Of human bones discov.
cred in Chatauque County, N. Y, under the
stump OF pine tree, which was cut 30 year.
ago and was supposed to he 300 years old
Seven skeletons were found under it of adults
and children.
-PATESrs dated July Sd, 1855, have
been granted to Addison b, Brown of Brat.
tleboro, Vt, for self regulating Windmill
and to Isaac r. IIartwell of Woodstock, Vt.
for machine for cutting cavities spherical
elirsoidal, etc.
/ NEW lNvENroNs.-Mr Howe of North
field, Road master on the Vt Central Rail
Road. has contrived machine. which.
operated by three men, will in two minute.
straghten bent rail on tho track, without
drawing the spikes.--The pil-machine
recently patented by DR.. Pond of Rutland
consists Of two cylinders lying parallel to.
and touching each other The surface of
each cylinder is full OF semi-globular holes.
half the size of pill.-The cylinders are
moved together by cog wheels, so that holes
on the surface of each cylinder correspond to
each other To prevent the pills sticking in
the holes, there are pins So arranged and
moved by machinery within the cylinders, as
to form part Of the smooth surface Of the
holes when the pills are pressed but when they
are formed, the pins are pushed up and the
pills fall out, One man, with one of these
machines, can do the work of more than
twenty men in the ordinary way. The pill
business is quite branch of trade in Rutland
county. apparently. The Herald SAYS three
Druggists in Rutland manufacture pills.
besides Doctor, who put, up from one 10
two thousand boxes Of pills day. factory
in Mendon turns out thousands of pill boxes
each day. 1t only remains for some one 10
invent machine to take these pills and .ava
the wear and tear ofhuman stomachs
The EDITOR Of the Waterman, hn.
raised in his garden, or says he has, a straw.
berry measuring three inches one way and
four the other, and " rich in favor a. large
in size 80
--DEATHs by drowning, of person. bath
ing are frequent at this season of the year In
Rutland on Saturday, German went into
Otter Creek 10 battle. He had hardly en-
tered the water, when the cramp seized him
and he sunk in fifteen feet of water and did
not rise 70 the surface again. lie left wife
among strangers and entirely ignorant Of
our language On Friday also in Rutland,
a young man named Holt, came very near
losing his life while bathing Bedford
last week, little son of Mr.. Andres of New.
bury, four years old, jumped into boat, uu-
fastened it, noated down stream and was car
red over the dam. His dead body was found
in the flume of the Paper mill below.
- Young man, named Dcniston, was
arrested in Chicago on the LIST inst. for
Expectations upon tn" mails He was
clerk in the Chicago Post Office, las was also
4 brother of his, arrested some time ago for
the same ohtncc,) and is supposed to have
stolen from letters eight or ten thousand dol
lars, nearly four thousand of which was found