The people's press, and Addison County Democrat. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1838-1841, 1840-01-07

throne of her forefathers This patient
mast pertinaciousiy afirms that she was
SEM TO the asylum By Lord Melbourne, IN
order to make way for lady with whom
ne XaS in love, and who now occupies the
throne. 1t is most iaughablc is it, lndeed!]
TO witness the pomposity with which this
parmad creature struts about the yard,
excIam;ng, Fall back! clear the way for
iy1iZ Illustrious Queen Victoria" Phys
= Sd Physicians.
BLighfs of other DayS."- Some
wofkmen digging vault in Abbey Church
Romsey. Hampshire. found Ieaden coffin.
supposed TO have contained the remains Of
a y'-urg female, but from the time it had
lain there nothing was found in it but a
quantity of long plated hair. Of u reddish
colcr. with part of the scalp attached to
lit. The hair was in good state of preser-
walton, occasioned. it is supposed, by the
nourlshment afforded it by the bark on the
wae3. The coffin was not lain i'll the
leua direction from east to west, nor was
it so!dered, but banded together in the
toughest manner, and wrthought any In
scrirtion. 1t is coniecturcd that it must
havS been placed there before the Church
wasDuilt, which is nearly 1000 years ego.
ot Wheat Market IN Ohio. A writer
in 4 GAINESVILLE Ohio Republican states
hot .Lora hove bao, ,,r> ,,,;ii;on, ono
hundred fifty thousand bushels of grain
sold this year in that country. This is
farming to some purpose.
FiEsr BRIDGE OVER THE NILE. The
works On this undertaking were COM
menccd last year, and $1,000 men are now
employed upon the bed of the river, the
construction of dams &c: besides $40 carts
500 carpenters from Alexandria. To
provide for any deficiency of laborcrs. four
regiments Of infantry are encamped in the
neighbarhood.
This gigantic bridge will be erected OH
the south corner of the Delta, twenty-five
miles Gm Cairo, just at the point where
tho 10 tlT.dca in.o two branches. 1t is
intenSed 20 cut siuice, to keep up the
waters in winter and spring. and canals
are 10 be cut from the river to irrigate the
land. A railway. eleven miles in length,
has been commenced, TO communicate be-
tween the stone quarries Of Motratum and
the bridgc-Mc,c Era
EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF THE NON IA
TALLY OF PEUssIc Aero. A few days ago Il
favoriie cog belonging 10 Mr.. John Rulhven
of Edinburgh, having been for two or three
wears in declining state of health, owing, it
is believed, 10 poison having been By sone
malicious person, wickedy administered 10
him. it was found necessary to terminate his
existence by giving him dose of prussic acid
Accordingly. IN extra large dose (ncarly II
teaspoonlul, the fourth part Of which was sulli-
c,osit TO have killed horsc) was carefully put
d4,sE his throat; about half 4 minute elapsed
before II had any effect, when he dropped
down, giving several yells, and then went into
strong commissions, wrihing and iumbliOg
about from side TO side, and exhibiting many
other symptoms Of speedy dissolution: at last
he lay quiet, almost without signs of life, ex-
cepiing now and then hard breathing. He
when. strange TO relate, he gave evident indi-
cation Of returning animation, but seemed quite
unconscious Of any thing absht him. In a
short time he raised himself to a sitting post.
ure, when he was seized with violent vomt-
ing, after which he gradually became better,
and gave signs of returning consciousness by
whining and moaning, and then shook himself
violently, without intermssion, for about ten
minutes In the course of Two hours he was
as well as ever, and. apparently in much better
spirits than before. Since then he has con-
..a.saed in good health. and is evidently getting
better Of his former disease. -Scotchnldn.
SAGAcITY AND GREAT VALUE OF NEW
FoUxDLAND DOC. On Friday last, man man,
ed Bartlett, was coming in a cart on The road
from Thornford to Bradford, where the road
was covered 10 considerable depth with water,
which ran with such violence that the cart was
overturned, and Bartlett under il. The dog. |
which had been swimming directly at the head
of the horse, missed the man and the cart, and. |
turning back divcd, and seized Bartlett by the /
collar of his coat, drew him from under the
cart, and swan with him to the bank, when he |
got owe, INTO field. AS soon as the dog saw
the man safe, he Immediately plunged into the /
water again, SWAIN and seized the horse by the
car kept his head above water, and brought
him TO the bank. Bartlett. who had by this |
time come little to himself, an down the field
10 where the dog was still keeping up the horse, !
which he endeavored TO extrlcate from the
shafts by cutting the harness. but could not I'M
fasten the belly, band. He then ran little dis
lance, and procured large flint stone, and on
his return found the dog still holding the horse,
which Immediately sunk, but shortly afterwards