Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-08-10


cl don hu;das last The death of John Doddeuhos,
German residing in the Fifth Ward by drown
ing tn previous day. Sine, then we have
learned at certain oingula circumstances at end
ing the death, hici we have considered worthy
OF mute in this place. Some two or three days
previously to that on which Doddenhos was
drowned, while hoeing beeis in the garden of a
neighbor, he found upon one of tie e plants a
leaf, one side of which was green, and the other
perfectly white. He i'm ediately cot it off OBJ
serving that in the place whence he emgrated
to this country, such a phenomenon in nature
as he had discovered was regarded as sure
sign of death in the vicinity, aud added that he
had strong b lief in tn sup rslltlon Shortly
after tn occurrence, he passed into his own gar
den, and there discovered among his p ants one
having leaf precisely similar 10 that fund in
the garden OF the neiehbor. II again remarked
that death would soon occur in tne nelghhor-
hood but did not appear by his manner to think
he would himself be the victim Yet so it was,
however, in three da, he was sleeping in the
dust
We have h ard of another circumstance in
correction with his death, which we consider
equally mysterious Abtut 10 o'clock, IN
" edne day. 1.-THE hour at which Doddenhos was
drowned) sis er of his residing in Brooklyn,
being overcome with the heat, fell asleep, and
during her sunber, dreamed that her brother
was at that moment drowning, and, as she after
forwards stat d, saw him sinking and srugg ing
with the water, as plainly as if the whole 'cene
was passing immediately befo her eyes. ARGUS
ed to consciousness by her dream she at onc,
left her home, aud hurried to this CITY, arriving
just as they were putting him in his grave clothes.
II WIS certainly fearful realization of a terrible
dream
4 " This story, perhaps, may be considered
, rather dubious by the public; but we are pre-
pared to substanliate tn, whole narralion by the
testimony of those who are Immediately interest
ed
The Bnfalo Democrat chronicles the following
under the head of Sharp Practice" A Ger
man. whose wife died of cholera, one day las
week married his second wife on the following
day, and she departed This ile, ALSO on the next
day. What with weddings and funerals, that
housv hold was very much engaged fora few days.
Six or seven years ago Hannah Parker was
tried and found guilty oflnlantcide in Orleans Co
Some exceptions were taken, that went t. The
supreme Court. The case was continued
from time to time I'LL it was remanded for trial 4
trial W had last month, when the 70 mer wit
nesses had forgotten the Who'll affair The wo
, man imprisoned during the seven years. was set
at liberty, although she is too inbeclle to know
fully her stuaon.- Rutland Herald.
A REMARKABLE FEAT.-Some time since, the
: point of the lightning rod on the steeple of the
First congregational Church in New London.
s got unscrewed and fell to the ground It WAS
It such dangerous piece of work TO replace it,
+ that the committee were unwil ing to employ any
one to pc form the task. A Mr. De Wolf how
: ever, volunteered to make the attempt, which
It the committee permitted after some hesita ion
!, having promised hnpa handsome sum ii he sue.
r ceeded. lie did succeed, accomplishing e ask
l., without any apparent consciousness of having
Vt accomplished any thing extraordinary. he New
!, London Chronicle says the pc Mt to hich he AS
" cended is very near two hundred feet and for the
e last fifty tee, he had 10 Climb up stone surface,
e with nothing TO hold on to but small iron TO 4.
Is and when he reached the bail he was still some
'r dozen fe, from the end Of his journey This
last distance he had to shin up single rod a
10 labor which he found 50 iatlguing that he became
n Exhausted returned and s. aled himself on the
"a ball to recover hi breath / his he soon did
N and fear essly resumed his trave S towards the
At clouds where he accomplished his object and
=. came down. as we have already stated
s. A lloPEFUL CONVERT .-Oresters A Brown
e son, who is now Roman alholic is said tC
D have joined the Know Nothing. He st pulates
for one restriction Of the creed that while it need
m aba,e OF its hostility foreigners, it vii
IN ceasr. its prescription to native born Catholics.
IN A Penobscot Indian was treated TO ten or fifteen
to glasses liquor by some unbermen near Oldtowo
ne Iaine, a " days ago, and was aterN ards fount
II dead The jury did not know wat Xxi led him
John Wentworth is good witness, and he
- says : " ashnglon, with all its beauty, is
~ healt'ess, wicked place 1t is one great gamb
v ling den, where the stakes are Offices, and the
AS players Legislators Every body says that every
ps body are rasca and knaves and everybody acts
'g as if he beved what everybody says is true.
go AMAN IN PETTcoATs A lawyer from Pr v
dence was arrested in Boston, few days since
for being dress in female apparel. l he pa
On pers, in consideration Of his tami y, do not Civ
al his name, but say that he is a member + TIT
lg Methodist hurch married man, and father
IL He pleads, in excuse for his unusual taste, tina
all he has an uncomfortable passion for dress, ALI
be had no object in view but to crafty this strang
e' desire.
Pc r-h APPS il is so but, in defence of on
en- common sense, we must beg to doubt j lib
al man is either crazy or worse; and we incline I
Ell the latter conclusion.
Ter VIII arrested, the officer, believing he ha
nj discovered hotel thitf, demanded the keys ofIl
trunk, and on opening it he found most beat
of tful and costly wardrobe, embr cling silk and dc
ori ane dresses, peitcoals shawls, bonnets, brace
,lo ets hose, etc, Of the value of y 900
W, Professor Stoddard. in lecture recently de
he vered upon the hurricane in Knox county, Ohit
W. stated that in one town grove of oak trees WI
d. most blown down. The trunk of one of III {
U.s. trees was about three fe+t in diameter Assam
'ze ing, however, lis diameter TO be but two and
KS half feet. force of $4,000 pounds would b
I've required to break it, The surface OF the tree e.
are posed to the action Of the wind wa about 100
rye feet, which would give pressure by the VII
ese of l47 pounds per square foot, or velocity
arS not less than III miles per hour which is near
ow one fou tn the initial velocity of cannon ba
as
A London paper states that lady was ecent
travelling in an omnibus alongside tashionab
neu dressed man, who had on his finger spend
on ring on returning home she missed her pn's
sui containing about CA but in the lining of h
we dress she found the ring she had seen on the pt
itch son who ga, beside her n the omnibus. A lew
INC Ter valued it at 140
n OF III ID saio tiia' the oerhiah iarihefs vi
son lower mime nave neeh 50 .roupieo WIN I'LL
pen that depetaVioh from A,Saeia Went 10 o'ft
nli- bonrg and INVOKED the ana OF the project:
md his Recommendation large number of nj
the mouse-traps were procured, and on space
three acres in thirty-six days there were caug
1871 of the little creatures an average
men nearly $50 per day.
nth TRAVELLING THE ONO RIyER.-Tbe Mayor
lted Cincinnati has received n communication fir,
ros- Alonzo Hitchcock, of Chicago. accompanied
OF design OF an iron tunnel which has been su
GERS mitted to the authorities Of the city for t
the tunneling of the Ohio river. The dmensio