The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-07-31
DEATH OF AN OLD PATRON.
The last soldier Of The old French Wdr In Canada

in his native Dutch) at the advanced age of one
hundred and four years. He was born on Stat
EN- laland, N. ", on the 9Th of Nov. 1884, and
was of Dutch extraction. Mr. Lusk was in regu-
lar service for well nigh sixty years. He com
menced his career in the army in the war A
cadie, commonly called the French war, when IL
bout 20 years of age; & served through the whole
oft He was soldier at the siege of Quebec
fought in the memorable action of the Plains OF
Abraham, seventy nine years ago--saw the brave
Gen. Wolf fall; and participated in all the suffer
ings and hardships of that arduous and memoir
able campaign. He was also at the conquest of
Acadie, now called Newfoundland, by Gems. Am
berset and Shirley; and assisted in the dispersion
of the captured French thro' the colonies of New
England, by the Anglo Americans.
Mr. Lusk early enlisted in the war of the Rev
olution, and fought like a soldier and patriot
till its close. He was attached TO the expedition
TO Canada under Gen, Arnold-was at the build
ing of Fort Edward, and was there wounded.
He was in the battle Of Saratoga where Burgoyne
surrendered, and was at the seige of Yorktown,
and had the singular and remarkable fortune to
see CORVALLIS surrender his sword to General
Washington.
On the restoration of peace the old soldier laid
down his musket and his knapsack for awhile, but
he did not remain long in inactivity. The pip
ing times of peace were no times for him. He
left 'inglorous ease and he esteemed it, on
the first opportunity, and enlisted in the army of
Gen. Wayne, against the Indians, nothing daunr-
ed by the terriers of the wilderness the strata
gems of the powerful and willy foes, though he
had already weathered the storms of sixty win
ters.
At the close of this brilliant and successful cam
paign, he joined the regular army under Col.
Butler and was stationed at West Point in this
state, now called Kingston. While at this sta
ton he became renowned for his skill in catching
fish from Clinch river. But at last the brave old
man, being worn down with age and intirmities,
was discharged as unfit for duty when near egh-
ty years of age. He left the army in entire des-
ttution, and subsisted for several years upon the
cold charities of the world, together with the lit.
tie ptance he earned by his daily labor as broom
maker On the passage of the Pension Law in
1918 he availed himself fits privileges, and from
that time has been furnished with all the ncces-
saries of life Mr. l.. retained to the last ali his
faculties except that of sight, which for the last
ten years had been growing dim. He was IA
man Of remarkable strength of constitution, and
elasticity Of frame Henever had spell of sick
ness in his life! He was in the habit Of walking
10 the town of McMinvile, n distance of seven
miles and back again on the same day, and this
too after he had reached one hundred years of age
retaining tue perfect upright form and firm step
and movement Of soldier to The last.
Thus lived and died one of the most remarka-
bic men of the age. He was witness to more re-
markable events perhaps, than any man living.
What revolutions have rolled over the earth since
he was born He was almost coeval with our
colonial history. He was an old man when this
nation commenced its career. He has seen en-
pires rise and fall, thrones demolished, and new
kingdoms spring into existence. Since he hung
upon his mothers breast, twenty five hundred
millions of the race have lived and died. But
the old man has gone to his fathers at last Peace
he TO his memory, and may the grass grow green
upon the Patriots grave.-.NashuiNe Whig.
DEATH FROM CoLD WATER. The N. York
Journal of Commerce has an article signed "a
Physician" which thus explnins the occurrence
of death from drinking cold water. About 20
persons died in that city in one week this month
The instances of sudden death from drinking
cold water almost universally occur among in
temperate foreigners, or others who indulge ha-
btualy in the use of spirtuous liquors. Such
persons after creating thirst by the use of ar
Gent spirits, which rum will not alay, 90 to a
pump or spring of water and drink TO saiate this
morbid thirst, which is more owing 10 their in
temperance than to labor and heat combined
Hence all who are acquainted with the subject
know, that children and females, and mutitudes
Of men are in The daily habit of drinking largely
of cold and even iced water, when overheated
by exercise or labor, not only with impunty; but
with advantage And facts will show that this is |
the case with all who abstain entirely from ntox-
Icating drinks. Nor can an instance be produc-
ed OF either dangerous or fatal symptoms follow
ing the Use of cold water in warm weather. in
persons of sound constitution and temperate
habits. The stomach may indeed be impaired
In ITS vitality by disease, to an extent analogous
TO the morbid condition resulting from habit,Ia
incompetence, but in such examples only, does
drinking cold water in warm weather produce
either disease or death.
Let no one then be induced to minge brandy
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the view of escaping the mischevous result dep
recaied, by using water alone; else they may ac-
qulre the predisposition suffer from this cause
ny the very means they employ to prevent it.
The effect of cold water thus suddenly appli-
ed to the stomach is supposed to be a paralysis,
extending from that organ to the heart, and hence
a powerful stimulant promptly administered is
Inc usual remedy; and opium, capsicum, cam
phoT, ammonia and the like, very generally sue
coed 1t given Immediately, in suitable quantities,
even IN incorporate persons the stimulus being
more powerful than those to which the stomach