Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-05-20

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neau was broken III, and the blood gushe,
; eoPioosiy from the fatal wound.
since writing the above, we learn tba
'ne name OF the deceased is Patrick Nor
oney; He was in the act of saving :
podto when he fell; and the strepoth =
a's hort as be thrust the saw downward
ass'S'ea TIE force with which he crusned
@ - upon the stones below.-PhiIo
DEsIRUcTTvE FIRE IN PENSsvrv.-
NIA.-A letter in the Carlis l. VoInn,aax
o'"'es mat destructive fire took mac o.
saturday afternoon last, 81 inst in H.
peaali'ul village of Springfield, Cumher-
ma county. 1t originated in s,shia
,,; ,ons !, 10 Mr.. Samuel AIcNeal. The
N'na Drew hurricane from the south.
WIS., ana IN the short space of three hours
n ~ MISLEADING the untlring efforts Of the
s.s.AS7Hs o. the town and adjoining coun.
ny, thirteen houses and ten barns ana
stables, with almost all their contents wara
destroyed 40 . Gle
loBACco.-A report was made TO the
convention of tobacco planters, held last
week al Washington, which gives some
important statistical facts in relation "a
'liS ofanch OF business. The AVERAGE
vaIoe OF tobacco exported to Eurooe from,
october, 1885, to Sep. 1888. was 81 267
1874, or about one tenth in v,Iue Of ,bo
" whole export OF our domestic produce 10
Europe. On about 100000 hhds Of
American tobacco, which costs in the TT.
nlted states about millions of dollars
Europe l,,, ieVIes revenue of 81 millions
ne annual average consumption Of oar
tobacco In Great Britain is estimated At
$4,000 hhds, which render gross r4ve.
nue. Of Sl7275700 The duty irnnosrd
IS oS., equal 10 Il IA cents per pound, or
over 500 per cent. The Convention com.
PLAIN OF the heavy Burdens upon tobacco
imported Into foreign countries from he
United States, and have appointed COM
mlitee to memorabilia Congress on this
subject.
The GREAT WESTERN. Notwitb. |
the severe easterIy storm which
now prevails. we learn that the Great
" eslern will depart a; the appointed hour.
She has one hundred aud thirly-eie ht pas
sengers the officers in several instances
nave given up their state rooms at the
pressing request ofthoses who are anx ;ons
10 accompany friends who had secured
oerths some weeks ago A large aoan1i-
y Of specie goes out in the Western.
+, S.-Fice minutes after one o'clock
The Western is off-M Y. Spectator.
The annexed extract of letter from a
distinguished gentiem in Dublin, to p
friend IN this city, gives the most recent
nteiigence we have of the doings of Fa-
her Mauhew-N Y American.
DUBLIN, April I3, 1910.
We are at this moment UNDERGOING
one OF the most extraordinary moral revo.
gtlons whlch the c coarta :, e Il
'fran %, reformation effected by the Rev.
nr Matthew, a Franciscan friar Of The
ny OF Cork, now justly styled the apostle
= ttee'hprrance. Already have one aud a
'dh millions of persons received The tenn
'efahce pledge from bis hands. and
c'fce Y defsul.er has been found per-
oHs OF ali religions flock to him H.
Peht the week before last In Dublin and
1si: ad'1InIsiered the pledge to 10000
; L have with my own ewes
'"''esSea the most confirmed drunkards
ompleieiy reformed [ could not 10
eve the accounts with which The rewsna- t
efS teemed until | myself became a vii !
esS. He has visited the cities of the
outh and West with equally wonderful l
nccess. The police ard military are
olged to attend to prevent his beuo c
'uSned to death by the multiludes wbo {
ock to pledge themselves 10 total ab.ti- {
tnce from al lntoxi aling liquors before a
I'm. Many, (even Pot stautS J flock to |
an, thinking he Possesses miraculous 9
over 10 cure diseases, and he has the
r~ateSt difficulty IN persuading them thai
e assumes or possesses no such power,
.ar. Sanhope aud the l. }ndon Temner- 9
ace Society have invited him over to !
reach the cause of temperance there"
EXTRAORDINARY Occurrence. On 7
anday evening the Wesleyan Methodist :
'hape, IN Douglas, Isle of Man, became f
he scene OF one OF the most extraordinary =
:currenceS ever Witnessed in any Mace :
worship. DIVINE service had proceed
| as usual, until the preacher, the Rev. ,
.ober; Hayes, had given out the PASSAGE }
scripture chosen for tie discourse, when 5
strong and muscular female, who sat in Q
le body OF the cha pei, rose from her seat, il
I'd with deliberate step and firm" as ii
'nded the pul PIT stairs, catered the pull b
L, sized the preacher lound the arms a
I'd waist, AMI, il a magical manner, {
rned him down stairs, at the same time Ii
Claiming, "Now [ IN satisfiedi' The
Iessl'h Is comet The effect produc, d c
pom the congregation was truly electrical, 5
males falniing, gentlemen laughing
any running out Of the Chapel without IF