Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-02-26

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t'ty N beating sailor The mate of I
| sap Maria, Alber, S. Green, finding, as /
re says sailor asleep on his watch, took t
fo?e-tha fore top gallant clue line,
| uouhled lhtp four p rls-and beat The sal {
| TT Very severely, 10 the number Of six (
opzen blows Gibson, the sailor. was 50
n..fh bruised. and was 50 sore from the
II CTS OF his beating. that he could not
Use one OF his arms for some DAYS after
wards. He made no resistance, bur cried
'oGa Tor mercy. The Captain, Ham
! mona, observed to his mate, " hope. Mr.
Green yon put it on smartY. If you
Vlsh to be sailors master, take a hand
Sp'6e' OF any other thing, and I'll stand
good for it," Verdict, in favor of the
sailor one hundred dollars damages, and |
cost'-Bosto" Press e. Post
"COPPER" MINEs.-We learn that some |
new valuable discoveries of copper have !
oeen made on the Current river, in the !
southern part Of this state, about sixty
miles from Belleview, and some distance
above the former discoveries made on that
river. We have not received particular
description of the mines, but if,he reports
, OF their extent and richess be true, they
greatly exceed any yet discovered Will
some OF our southern friends let US know
more OF this matter.-SL Louis Rep.
| PIN LODGED IN THE EAR. The last
= number Of the Medical and Surgical
E Journal contains an account of recent
: event in England, where a Young woman
n nearly lost her life bv allowing pin,
e with which she was picking her ear. to
= fall into it. The day when the accident
occurred IS not mentioned, but she enter
= ed the Hospital on the 28th of January,
1889, and 1t was not until the 18th Nav
tollowing-four long Notwithstanding
- which she suffered the most excruciating
), torment, two drachms of Iaudanum per
;. day afording her no relief nor inducing
:, scarcely moments sleep,) that the pin
: was discovered and extracted.
f. CARvER's CLAIM. The claim of
lp CAPT. Jonathan Carver, the celebrated
= traveller, 10 large tact of land on the
Upper Mississippi, on the ground of a
grant from the Nawdowessy Indians in the
:, year 1867, has been several times brough
n before Congress without having ever re-
;, ceived the acknowled cement of that BODY
= The Hon Senator Linn, of Missouri, has
published in the Globe a correspondence
- which took place with Lord Palmerston
- on the subject in which it is stated that
: no trace can be- found in the records OF
= the British Office OF State Papers, shew.
ing any ratification of such grant bv
- Great Britian.-Pennsylramian
in In New-York $4,O29, 500 of property
OF was destroyed by fire during the veal
1889. S488,744 was stock, and S54O,757
st buildings.
y TERRIBLE AccIDNNT.-A melancholy
"a illustration of the danger of the indis
y, was recently given in the family of the
Z" Rev. Mr.. Briggs, formerly settled cler
gyman in Lexington, now resident il
re Roxbury, Mass. Early in last week a
g, son of Mr.. B. aged about Is, came home
IS from Hazard College unwell. The faith
ID er, having been an invalid, presumed tina
of from the experience thus acquired, he
IN could prescribe for his son; and gave
he him upon going to bed a dose of pills
IS from box IN the house La the morn
hi ing the young man was found in his bed
ur lnsensible. PHYSICIAN was immediately
al sent for, bot before his arrival the patien
be was beyond the reach of assistance.
rs. The pills upon examinations were founC
OF to be opium: and having been brough
re- from Lexington six years before, among
ilh the trunperv which accumulates in
rs, family, their nature was forgotten, am
'ar they were mistaken for simple cathar
In tic. The distress of the family is incon
ceivable Dispatch.
zen New YORK BANKs-The Bank Com
his mssioners Of New Y ork have publishe
3ul the annual report TO the Legislature.
Ter, shows that the issues Qermed circulation
is of the Safety Fund BAnks, which In Jan
uary, 1889, was Sl9,373, l49, was in Jar
} al uary, 1910, SlO,629, 5I4; and their loan
,ret aud discounts, which were at the forme
= period Sl8,80O,486. was at the latter ST.;
nth 78S,206
The Bale of Cotton.
n.y. The testimony of Capt. Hlliard. con
sea- prises the following thrilling statement
o. his ride. together with his companio
Mr. Cox, the husband of the poor wdo,
'D'y on that dreadful night.
on About twenty minutes had now clap
ing ed from the time first heard the alarr
ana and | don't think the engine work,
ire above fifteen MINUTES from the time Il
fleo alarm was given; | then recommend
the hands and passengers TO throw L
10 cotton overheard, and they did so, len
pre- Ing them a hand; we threw over ten
sury twelve bales: l then cut OH piece
have line, perhaps four or FIVE fathoms, anC
0 ex- spanned bale of cotton, which was /