Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-11-24


Of improvement this in which we live.
..s. WALDO.
DEATH FROM LocKJAw.-Died in Old
Cambridge. on Sunday, Oct. "a, Mr.
Reuben Demmon, aged 48. About a
fortnight before bis death. Mr.. d. met
with an accident, by which the last JOINT
Of his thumb was very badly dislocated.
The bone was replaced and the wound
dressed by surgeon. During the en-
suing week he was much exposed TO the
rain, and on the ninth day after the ac-
cident, be felt some Stiffness about the
neck and shoulders, but attributed it to
a cold; on the following day he found
| himself unable to open his jaws freely;
and on the arrival OF physician, it was
too plain that he was suffering under
that distressing and fatal malady, the
lock jar. ....- ........s . IT,.
Many remedies were applied, but the
disease advanced until difficulty of breath,
ing and swallowing became severe. al.
though his jaws we've never entirely clos
ed. On Sunday. the thirteenth day from
the accident, his distress was dreadful
1.-The spasns Of the muscles about the
throat and chest giving him the sensa
ton OF immediate suffication. In the
afternoon his; jaws became relaxed, ane
he seemed much relieved; but nature
was exhausted; he became insensibie
land expired in the evening. The de
ceased has left large family TO mourn
his loss. He was formerly of Hartford
VT, at which place reside "a large nun
| Der of his friends and relalives.-Mag
n0LiG. <-.- 49,.
From the Halifax Novascotian.
GPLENTY ABOUT McLEoD. I'VE
were sitting in stage coach at an inr
door in Montreal last spring, when lit,
tie news COY came up TO the window
with his bundle under his arm, and ex
claimed, "buv the Courier buy the Tran
script-plenly about Mcleod" A few
days since we were rambling in some O
j the remotest settlements of this county
when almost every man We met inquired
ii it was true that Mcleod had been re-
leased The queries put by the latter re-
called the inducement to purchase hello
out by the news boy, and set us reason
ing upon the kind of fame, or rather no
ltoriely, that this individual has acquired
i Bacon says that some men are born Il
\ greatness---some men achieve H--and 9th
ers have it thrust upon them" Mcleod
appears to be one OF those who have
thrust upon them. Without his own con
sent, ard guiltless of any extfaordinar,
achievement, he has been suddenly raised
from the level of Canadian deputy sher
riff, whom nobody knew or cared abou
out of his own district, TO that of grea
political martyr-whose name was in ev
cry body's mouth upon two continents
and whose suferings were cause of exul
tation to one half Of the world, and of sym
pathy to the other.
/ He NAV. indeed. say. what Byron sale
of himself that he wentlo sleep, woke vi
and found himself famous. He has beer
the theme of statesmen, orators and editor:
ofnewspapers, for an entire year. No
body ever seemed TO be tired of talking o
writing about him. Truly the world ha
had . plenty about Mcleod" Battle
murder and sudden death hung on tn,
breath of his nostrils. for all these w
would have had, had his breath been stop
ped. Had hair OF his head been touch
} dthere would have been war. conse
J quently his hair was OF more CONSEQUENCE,
than that Of Sampson. He would hav,
thrown open the portals Of the temple, Q
Janus wider in death than tina, great lead
er did those Of GAIA when he carried then
off.
Henceforth, whoever may be the chic
Of the clan he will certainly be Tn,
Mcleod" Men, women ard children
will walk miles 10 see him when he.cross
es the Canadian border, and any BODY who
would undertake to show hin round Eu
rope would make a fortune. We have
not doubt that long ere this Madame