Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-03-02
ITEMS Ar HOME AND ABROAD.

render the management to the Canada corpo- ,
ration, has fallen through although the writ
ten conveyance was at one time signed by
Messrs. Lee, Smith and E~ldridge. The Cana
da corporation will therefore take legal pos
session on the LIST of April, If the arrears of
rent are not paid in the meantime. The
floating debt of the Central, including the G
per cent bonds due January, 1856, which
were originally issued in payment of the "di-
vidend scrip, " amounts to u little over $500
600, and the unpaid coupons and rent will
soon be about as much more, making the liza
b%ilities outside Of the two mortgages 81 600
900.
Mr.. Willard Tracy, Of Gouldsborough,
Me-, while crossing Big Yunk pond, was
chased by wolves, and in his hurry to escape,
skated into a hole in the ice and was drowned.
The Students of AID. S~palter's Institute,
with the pupils Of his public school, took an
Excursion to the City Of Nergennes, Thurs
day 22d inst, The weather was mild and
pleasant, and amid cheers and singing, de-
clamation and n good dinner at S%terens's
Hotel, the day passed away with good feeling
and pleasant enjoyment all round. May it
stimulate the students to u more faithful i'm
p%rovement of their time and privileges, and
prove a fOrerunner Of like pleasant excursions
to the pupils OF our private and public
schools, hereafter.
One Of the Ercursionists.
Within the last two works twalra "nn-
plants for illegal selling have been tried in
Rutland. Fines and costs taxed to Eve hun
dred dollars or more. $50 gallons Of liquor
have been destroyed. One respondent re-
fusing to pay fines and costs, was committed
to Jail. The Rutland Herald says There
seems at present n determination on the part
of the proper officers to prudently, moderately
s and yet resolutely to enforce the law rherercr
it shall be known to be violated. Will not
Q the public uphold them in SO doing? p OF
e course they will.
0 - THE JAIL at Danville was found to be
> on FIRE on Saturday. Daniel Floyd tho only
prisoner in it, is supposed to have set 1t on
d fire in hopes of es Gaping IN the confusion OF
!, by burning Il passage out through the garnet
II The smoke became sufocating and he awokt
2 the iailer by a cry Of fire. Floyd said thai
" the origin of the fire was accidental.
n. Y. LlGisLA1rRE-The Temperance Bill
This bill was passed through the House W ed
nesday, by IL vote of 50 to 40.
- GEN. Hors1oS's Lecture on Slavery
seems to have made very little impression OIL
the Bostonians. Ills arguments IN favor o
a.. peculiar institution, were of tho most or
binary sort, and do not touch the e~ssentia
poipts Of Tho srb;oot oitbor nc a moral or
lie political one. IIo condemned in most en-
ad phatic terms the violation of the Missouri
he Compromise by the Nebraska bill.
n -GREAT FLY WHEEL.-There is a fl
e' wheel in use in the Mersey Forge for rollinI
~ boiler plates, which has a diameter of 80 feet
:. and weighs 60 tons, "a of which are in til
,e. rim. 1t was intended to make about IS re
ne v~olutions n minute, going a velocity to tn
ST. rim Of about 1900 feet per minute. 1t
deemed safe to run it with a velocity Of IA,
is 0C0 feet per minute-nearly l60 miles u
hour. 1t is supposed to be the largest fl
~ wheel in the world.
nd -LocoNo1IvEs of remarkable tractil
to power are said to have been contrived by tn
ce, Piedmontese engineers for tho railways b,
ls tween Turin and Genoa. Two locomotive
III Joined together aud drawing a train of 81
W carriages weighing with their load sc tons
,rr each locomotive with its fuel and wate
cs. weighing % tons,-ascended a plane of Is
he feet rise in a mile at the rate Of 10 miles a
tn, hour-that too, when the surface Of the raj
was damp.
- JUDGE EDWARD G. LoRiNG's appoint
Of ment by the President and Fellows Of Han
- yard College, as a Lecturer on Law in tina
its Institution, was negatived last Thursday b
ocs the Board of Overseers. The vote was 10 i
it, favor and 20 against. A principal objectio
'ht to him was his conduct as L. S. Cummi,
1 in the Anthony Burns case - thong
nd there were some personal objections to HIN
nd it is said. There is an effort to have him re
lad moved also from the Office Of Judge Of Pr,
es. bate.
its "A HUGE Pie. What did they cook
I'M a pot pie, made of the following mat
rha rails, was manufactured on board of the fri!
ate Constitution at Port Mahon, in 1921, f
led a Christmas dinner Isl turkeys, 50 poun,
et. of fresh Pork, 40 lbs. salt pork. l bushel
let. onions, 5 lbs. pepper, "a bbls. -four, and 6
nth gallons red wine.
--THE FIRST BABY. The Kansas Hera.
it Of Freedom of Jan. Goth, says, the first Dirt
in that city. was on the 25th of October las
of The Lawrence Association donated the boy
riff q first class city lot, and named him Lawrent
e' Carter, after the city and his parents. "
lsn learn that the little fellow is quite health
.r and isgrowing finely.
of AN inventor proposes an apparatus
warm Railroad cars by steam, conducted
es. pipes from the locomotive 1t would do FIR
al rate on down grades. On long, uphill grade
and with snow on the track, the locomoti'
is often put to it to get steam enough for i
~ own use.
the -AccIDENT AT WEST PoINT-At tn
in West Point Military School, Cadet F.. GAl
from Vt, had his leg badly broken In a ca
'ry airy exercise. His horse swerved when goin
oy at full speed for a leap over the bar in Il
riding hall, and turning round met anoth(
horse and rider, also at full speed, Cad,
i.h Childs, the rider of the latter horse, was al,
the brought 10 tue ground ana severely stunned
the -TnE Legislature Of Michigan has pas
IN ed a law which provides for the trial by jur
to any slave claimed-Irohibits the use
~ jails to retain fugitiyes, and requires that II
hr Prosecuting Attorney Of each county shall
upon request, give aid and counsel to an
tho such fugitive slave.
-THE BELGIAN PAUPERs. 1t appear
- that the persons who were about to be ser
aid back to Belgium by the New York Mayor
%" under the allegation that they were raupel
or criminals sent out at Government expense