Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-07-01
Che Nous Gleourr.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT HAETFoRD.- Last eve
ming June 0A, as the wings were firing nation
al salute Of one hundred guns in honor OF SCOTS
nomination, a mao named Vlberls who was as
slstlng to FIRE the pieces, beat before the gun
just as it was discharging and was instantly torn
10 pieces, some parts of his body being blown.
ten rods. Vlberts leaves wife aud six children.
Montreal, on Sunday last Mrs. lndIay fell
from a chamber window and was instantly killed
She was holding child in her arms at the
time, which had she dropped might have been the
means Of saving her lite but dsregarding her
own safety, she managed to push The child inside
while she fell out and was killed.
The schooner Pearl, arrived at Oswego yes.
terday June Odd, reports that the schooner Ann
avian, which left here on Monday last, capszed
when fifty miles out and that all on board per.
ished. The A. was owned in this city.
Webster Jeeson age IL; Enoch Grant, aged
Is, and Nehemiah Wentworth. aged Ia, we're
drowned on Wednesday, while bathing, near
Ellsworth, Me-
The Alabama papers are complaining Of CO.
pious ralrs, and consequently the high state of
The rivers and swamps. The crops, however,
are represented as looking well.
The widow of Dr. Flanders has recovered
under statute ls48, against The town of Shelf
field, VT, $1,000 damages for the death Of her
husband BY the upsetting Of stage in which he
was passenger, more than year since, on ac-
count, as was alleged, Of the narrowness Of the
read.
Secretary Webster, it is said, has expressed
his intention Of resigning as soon as he can ar.
range the business Of the State department. AS
Mr. Lawrence is coming home, it is supposed
the mission to England may be rendered to him.
Some three years since, says the Providence
Mirror, poor factory girl, working in one of the
villages on the Blackstone river, in this state,
was given a sealed letter by maiden aunt, with
solemn injunction not to open it until she was
eighteen years old. The girl was then fifteen
On the sd Of last month"; being her eighteenth
birthday, she opened the letter and found direc
Iions for her to obtain fortune of $4,000, willet
To her b. the aunt who has since died. Oh
Thursday last the fortunate girl obtained thu
whole amount in cash.
One of the saddest results of the spirit rap
ninps that we have yet heard of, is recorded i
the St. Louis Dispatch of the 26th ult. 1t is
terrible one -
"A gentleman living we think in Illinois, an
known 10 many in this city, has family of sor
aud daughters, grown up men and women
the highest responsibility. Some years ago, h
wife died. and he living in the strong remeu
brauce Of her love rs faithful, good wife, he
never married. During her life they were ha
nv: perhaps less than the usual vexatlons
domestic life attended them not the first blus
of suspiciUu ever attached to her good nam
But these has been swept way by the damnaO
feycuse the expression but it is the most app
cable, and we write it down in great sincerity
magnetic iuggle Of medium who has bor'
evidence from some departed spirit, that she go
wife, the reVsred u memory, vas unfalthtul
him through her whole career, and that the CHI
diem, one and all, were illegItimale.
Is il not truly horrible? But the worst
not come. Wholly under the influence OF
conviction that spiritual agency is a liked ia
the gentlemen has disinherted his children
common bastards, and driven them from
heart, A wife's memory blasted, chdre
name dishonered in their life. and made TIL
to couple with a scouTge TO whip their near
with happy home made deSolate, and a lathe
closing eve Of life rendered dreadful in It's loE
illness. On what evidence On nothing.
Arrangements are in progress Tor lne 6s o.,
ljshment Of a Daily Free Soil paper IN Phl
delDhia. under the editorial management OF
Elder. He 10 a man among men.
A girl l6 years of age, living at ST. MaIo
said to have been asleep six weeks and with
having any nourishment,
The Emperor of Russia, near the frontier
Poland, was in railway car recently, which
off the track, and very nearly cost him MS
Mons. Pe,in has announced that ne will mi
81 balloon ascension on horseback from New
on the Fourth Of July.
The people of New York were conSldera
startled on Saturday afternoon by heavy c
of lhunder, while the sun was shining Ongh
Mrs. Nathaniel Weed, a lady OF Stamford
came TO her death few days since, by the
of Chloroform in the extraction OF TOOTH
Minnesota paper announces the marriage
Thomas H. Curd, formerly OF ONO TO "
WhirIiuv Thunder, a Winaebago lady
Peaches and watermeIOns are in the SaV
nah market.
In New Orleans, for the week ending at
June, there were 100 cholera deaths