Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-07-07

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AND Loss OF LIFE.
Last evening about o'clock. Mr.. A. J. Ma
son, of the firm of E. d. Mason and Companv
OF Richmond, lost his life in most distressing
manner He had just come into their saw mill,
"here large circular saw, four feet in diane.
YER was IN motion; and stopped to apply his
hand to the blade of the saw las was supposed
by laborer in the milD to learn if it was heated.
Ills loot slipped and he was brought before the
saw, which instananeously severed his head
from his body, the head falling one side of the
Jog and the body on the other.-- BURLINGTON
Free Press, July 3D.
Mr.. Mason, much valued patron Of ours. was
man of sterling qualities of head and heart,
and this affecting dispensatlon will be fell far
beyond his bereaved family, with whom we de-
sire to mingle our deepest Sympathies.
Ed. OF FREEMAN.
A case was recently tried in Montgomery
county, Pa, in which Judge Smyser ruled that
an attempt to sign wil-death occurring to
prevent the signing-s sufficient to sustain the
Will In this case the deceased had commenced
MS name ny writing the letter p when he sank
back exhausted, and died in ten minutes
lMMIGRATIoN.-We hear from Quebec that
some son twenty ships are coming out from TIE
Herman ports with emigrants, mostly en- route
for the Western States On Monday. one
hundred and fifty German families, Just arrived,
lett Quebec for the Eastern townships, TO work
on the railroad. Montreal Herald.
GREAT RAILROAD SpEEp.-A locomotive
dispatched from Laporte, Ind, to Chicago, for
physicians to attend Robert Doxtader, Esq.,,
President of the road, who died at that place of
appopIexy, ran the entire distance and back, in
one hour and forty minutes. The distance is SO
miles each way making speed of ZIG miles
in 100 minutes. This is fully up, if not superior
to the speed daley attained on the English Great
Western Railroad between Paddington and
London Scientific american.
Last winter was the hardest ever known in
Oregon. Crows and chickens were frozen to
death; ten thousand cattle died for want of food
as fodder Is never saved wheat was SO bushe,
and oats S..
Mr.. Marshes request for the payment of the
indemnify to DR.. King for his ground seized at
Athens is granted: but the Greek Government
refuses to reverse the sentence of Imprisonment
One of the largest and finest masses of copper
ever seen in the world, has been shipped from
Minnesota mine to the great exhibition, 1t is
large square block, weighing sop lbs. 1t was
cut from a piece weighing about 80 tons !!
several hundred tons OF similar character,
some of tlem nearly as large, are TO be sent on
by the Cliff and Mnsota mines.
The largest salmon captured for many wears
past out of the waters of Great Britain, was
taken lately from the river Tay on the estate of
the Right Honorable Lord Grey. This prodi-
gious prize weighed fifty nine pounds, being
three feet nine inches in length, and foot in
diameter across the shoulders.
The tobacco crop in Kentucky and Tennessee
bids falr to be very poor one.
The Sioux and other adon ing tribes have
consented TO sell their lands, and move further
up the Minnesota river.
party of four from Utica recently took 1000
pounds of pike, mascalonge and bass, among
the Thousand Islands, In four days.
The chronological developments of the head
OF Arthur Spring, the murderer, were charac.
over twenty two inches in circumference. The
professor styled the cranun Of the deceased
"a bulldog head"
The government of Russia, whose Honesty
of purpose = force of genius'--and fitness for
its subject people'-the organ of Gen. Pierce's
government holds up for admiration, has COM
PEELED the forcble expulsion from Turkey of the
Italian HuDgarian and Waiachian refugees, to
whom the Sultan had generously granted an
asylum.
Grant Thorburn, of New York, 81 years old,
has just married his third wife.
SINGULAR CAsE.-Professor Langenback, Of
Berlin, Prussia, while tapping a lady of high
rank for dropsy, received few drops Of the dis
charged fluid on his hand. and was in few
hours in a dangerous condition himself, from
which he is just recovering.