Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-12-23
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
IMPoRTANT SuRGfCAL OpERATIo,

Mrs. Sarah Ann Shepard, ged .25 years,
living n the town of Ledyard, in this
county, being seriously affected with an
aneuflsm, Tor expansion of large blood |
vessel near the afnpI, as mans fist,
which rendered her arm almost useless.
On the first day Of last September, after
much deliberalion and consolation, the OPP
Grafton OF tying her left sub-clarian artery,
or large blood-vessel which carries the
blood from the heat TO the shoulder and
arm, at he depth Of Two inches from the
surface. directly above the collar bone,
was performed by DR.. Joseph T. Pitnev,
OF Auburn, assisted by Drs Hurd, Hyde
and Dlmon, 10 The. presence of a number
OF medical gentlemen.
The aneurismal tumor soon disappeared,
and the wound, which was two inches
| deep, and four inches in length, was en-
trely healed at the end Of the third week,
except the part occupied by the large Iiga-
tnre. This ligature was removed on the
first day. The aneuriSm is cured, and
MS. Shepard is fast regaining the use of
| her whole arm, though there is not the
slightest perceptible pulsalion in either ar
/ terry at the wrist, but t lat will return prob
ably in the course Of Il few weeks, or
| months.
In the subsequent management of this
difficult, critical, and highly interesting
case, much credit is due TO Doctor John
Clark Of Aurorafor his unremitlng at
tenlion to Mrs, Shepard,
! Auburn, CaYuga CO., Dec. LIST, 1910.
+ REMARKABLE FATALITY.-Tn Brook
lyn, On Tuesday last. MIR. James Reed ex-
Dlred, after some six weeks illness, with
aneurism Of the fHmoral artery, and also
of the aorta Ga Thursday morning DR..
Wiltshire was sent for to see the wife Of
deceased He found her 10 the following
situation Her arm had lost all sensibt-
ity, in fact was In a state Of modification
as high up as the middle oflhe upper arm.
She said on washing the floor olthe room
the morning after her husbands death, she
wounded her thumb, with a nail. Ga ex-
Iaminng the thumb, a very slight pune
lure only coGld be discovered. She rap
idly grew worse, and expired on Saturday
moruing. The extraordinary rapidity
with which death followed so sIi yht a
! wound was the remarkable feature in the
case. It is, however, capable Of ex2!ana-
ion, and it is foc the purpose of giving thu
cause OF this sudden mortality, that we
have been thus minute in its relation
Ann Reed was woman of grossly inem-
perate habits, hahtual consumer of ar
| dent spirits.
BoDY OF NAPoLEoN.-We learn from
the Bo-ton Daily Advertiser that the ship
ca umet, Captain Shreve, which arrived
at that port on Sunday from Canton, left
: ST. Helena, Oct. 81. On the 18Th the Ger,
ernony of exhumaton of the remains Of
Napoleon took place with great parade
The body, which on his death was en-
balmed bv French chemists, was found in
d state Of complete preservation, the fea
: lures being preserved. 1t will BE- remem
tered that Napoleon died May S, 1921
] The body was conveyed on board the Bel
e lie PouIe, which, with the Favorite, sail
ed for France on the l9th.-N, Y. Spec
q tatOr.
e We ARE happy to learn by the Watch
man that he fund of fHg thousand dollars
for the endowment of WaterviIIe College
is received-the work was completed in
Boston.
l. -MANUFAcTUREs OF MASSACHUSETTS,.
The following summary of some Of the
f manufactures of Massachusetts, is compiI-
: ed from a document issued by the vaIua'
O ton committee Of that commoNwea til:
308 cotton factories, with Gig, 276 spin
, dies.
u 2O3 wooden do with 112, $3.50 spindIes
; So iron works.
: 749 Sitting mills and nail machines.
r % card factories.
y 90 paper mills.
i glass factories.
It AxECDoTE OF john ADAAs.-W,
= fad in Whitneys FL story of the town O
d Quincy, Mass, the following anecdote 0
) the boghood of the elder Adams, which
may provoke smile, as illustrating the
economy and simplicity Of those earl
times in New En2 land. The publi
e school in Qnncv was taught for man,
J. years by Mrs. Be!cher. :" 1t was arns
D. ION with her to carry her corn to mil
b. kerspif, except when one of her scholar
lent her helping hand. John Adam
toue Of the aumber) afterwards Presjdrn
/ of the United States, was favorie anon
a inc rest, and when he carried the corn, SD
j gave him as a reward three ccp9ers, an
= charged hin at the same time 10 keep .hi
- money 10 buy Iand with. 1t is unnaces
- sary TO add how well be profited by carl
r. instruction. "
ASSOCIATION FOR THE BESEFIToF CoLoRE
- ORPHANS hislruly benevolent Institute
" will celebrate lis fourth anniversary on Nor
es Cav evening, the 14th inst. at the Lyceul
oil Natural History in Broadway, and we il
vie all who feel an interest in the futul
ID welfare Of the colored population Of our eli