The Rutland Herald

The Fur Accumulator.—The Baltimore Patriot of the 5th says:

"An experiment with one of these fire annihilators, several of which have been imported by Messrs. Edwards, Sanford & Co. of Adams & Co's Foreign Express, was made yesterday afternoon in the yard of the Merchants Shot Tower, in this city under the superintendence of Messrs. Samuel M. Shoemaker, William Peters and George A. Rawlings, in the presence of a number of gentlemen who had been invited to be present. The machine used was one of the smallest size manufactured, and cost, in England, about three pounds. The mode of operation was as follows: A flour barrel was closely packed with shavings and a quantity of light wood of an inflammable nature, and then set on fire: and when the heat and flames had attained a great degree of intensity the annihilator was put in requisition and the vapor directed to the sides and bottom of the fire. The effect was almost magical; in a very brief time the fire had almost entirely disappeared, and nothing remained but a heavy volume of thick, black smoke. The experiment was repeated several times, and with the same success: and all present concurred in the opinion that the invention was fully entitled to all the praise which had been conferred upon it, and that it was entirely competent to perform all that has been claimed for it."