Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-12-13

roe IN LoSDoE.-The London pauers rela'd
= large number of fatal accidents which occurre,
10 me city Oh Thursday and Friday. Nov. IS AM.
To- from a very dense log. A number of ,hes
occurred IN The docks. In the West India doc,
our seamen we're drowned in endeavo,ine to pe
VII n"aid Their ships two of whom belonged,
each In the lhndon docks a cu.,om-house of6
ces' who had just left his vess |, on returning /
u walked off The quay His cries were heard
out he was dIowned before he could receive as.
ISSUANCE. Two men were drowned also in tn
biackwall dock. A number of foot passenger.
10 the streets and on the sidewalks, we're run owe.
oy carts and omnibuses suspended running. TIL,
river steamboats, were Obliged to suspend their
regular trips, and a number Of collisions on rail-
roads occurred, A great many robbereis were
committed, under cover of the fog, as no police
officer conld discover a thief at any distance.
A ]eweller had a plate of glass worth fs broken
and Jewelry to the value of ESQ taken from hi
shop window.
REMARKABLE DIscovERY rRoE A TRIvAL CAUSE
"A few months since a lady belonging to this
city went to New York. and pu, up at one of the
Broadway hotels. Alter going to her room for
the night, she took out her pocket book and watch
laid them on the table and then sat Town to read.
While engaged in reading she thought she heard
breathing from some one apparently near by, but
finally concluded it must be imagination. Soon
after she began making preparations to retire,
and in adjusting her hair, she dropped one Of her
hair pins. While STOPPING to pick it up she dis
covered a hat under the bed. and a closer obser-
walton revealed 10 her sight the full length figure
Of a man. Without %evincing any emotien, she
quickly threw a shawl over her shoulders, wenl
out of the room, locking the door after her, and
stepping into the hall she rang a bell which sum
moned TO her assistance the proprietors, who
called in the assistance of a police officer, and the
intruder was arrested. There was found on the
prisoner a bottle Of CHI riform. He was con-
victed on the testimony of the lady, and sent to
the State Prison for six months. The sequel to
the whole was in dropping the hair pin.-NeW
Haven Journal.
Upon the conclusion Of a marriage in a village
church, the bridegroom signed the register with
Z" his x mark" The pretty young bride did the
same, and then turning to a lady who had known
her as the best scholar in school, whispered to
her, while tears of honest love and admiration
stood in her bright eyes. He's a dear fellow,
Miss -, bu, cannot write yet. He's going to
learn of me, and I would not shame him for the
world"
FELINE ATrAcHMENT.-Eighteen months ago,
an officer of a vessel bound from Greenock for
Melbourne, got a cat from a family residing in
Greenock. and took it to sea with him. The
vessel was wrecked on the coast Of Ireland, but
+ the crew and passengers were all saved, and
managed to get their luggage ashore. The Off
Ger landed his cat sufely, leaving it at a farm
, house near the place where the vessel was wreck.
ed. The astonishmen, of the family to whom
+ the cat belonged may he imagined when, many
months after the shipwreck, it walked into their
residence in Greenock. How it imagined to find
: its way thither from the Emerald Isle is a mys-
terry.
I SINGULAR METHOD OF BURIAL.-Bishop Kip,
in one Of his trips to California, says:
a We passed. occasionally, small settlements
Of the degraded Digger Indians. some of whom
a were sitting not far from the road, engaged in
n pounding ac0rns, which, with roasted grass.hep.
pers, form their principal food. Almost entirely
max ID, some were rendered more hideous by be.
ing in mourning. When an indian dies his body
is burned, and the ashes, having been mixed witt
pitch, which they procure from the pine trees, i,
smeared by the surviving relatives over Their face
and bodies, where it remains until it wears of.
n matrimonial alIlance OF an uncommon char
acter has lately been effected in Fluvana county
q Va. Mr.. Robert Grey, the gallant groom, Is 0.
v years Of age. and the late Mrs. Catharine Rile,
(now Mrs. Grey) 90 years Of age.
SENsIBLE.-Some one having used the nam
!. OF Gen. Shields, Ex-U. s. Senator from Illinois
connection with plans for the invasion Of Irelan'
BY Irish fllibnsters from this country, he writes
elf there is one man in America who thinks
am such a fool as to countenance such ~absurdity
he may cherish that belief. y !
my name be mentioned publicly in connection
g with it, you will do me the favor to contradict it
re- Twenty five years ago, Iowa was a wilderness
tenanted only by the savages. Now she has
civilized population estimated at six hundre
thousand. and constantly increasing. The emi
l. grafton this year has been very heavy.
es PURCHASE OF GEN. JAcksoN's ESTATE
az bill has been introduced in the Tennessee Legis
n. lature to purchase the Hermitage, in the nam
it of the State, and to establish an agricultural an
military school at that place-the purchase to II
quire the issue Of State bonds TO an amount NJ
more than $50, 900.
,e A grasshopper from Utah, was exhibited
a New York last week. 1t was five inches lone
9 During the year 1854, one hundred and sixty
a five men were hung in the United States f
q murder. OF this number only seven could res
and write. What a lesson