Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-12-05
Items of State News.

itor of Burlington Free Press. Geo. w. Ben
edict, Esq in company with his es.inable
wife, has taken passage to the West Indies,
where be proproses spending the winter for
the benefit of his health.
SAD ACCIDENT At LYNDoN.-While Mr..
Sidney and Wm Dickerman were exc,vating
a bank near the Methodist c.orch IN Lgndon,
on w Wednesday morning of his week. the EN-
baukment, which was o. clay, caved upon
them compile tely buryng Sidney, and cover
ing Dickermsn TO tbs armpi's NItice OF
this casualty was ivsn by the ream@ running
away, when neIghto proceeded TO the place,
and after considerable digging. the7 were
both rescued alive. Sidney received a frso-
,ure of both ,Aigh homes, besides severe bruises
about the lead az plse~ here. DI herman
had leg broken in TWO places near The hip.
Sidaey Was entirely covered, and those who
! rescue ed him knew only where to searth by
groens. and it ls thought it was eight IA nntss
before he Was reached and de.lvered.-Caie
| DOMAIN.
REnARkABLK PsEsENTIMESTs.-Lastw week
Fridav, MIR. j ID. Seaver of Stowe, Sheriff OF
L.moille Counsy, was fatally irjured- 1t
se.ms there was horse Irot at MofFislown In
which he and q Mr.. Gilman were parties.
Seaver's gig overturned by his running
INTO G,man's when Mr.. Seaver was dragged
about thirty r, ds and badly manged, esp-c-
iaiiy in the read He had Lille Insurance
policy In the Hartford, c.. Co. for 5000
whion sum will no doubt be paid tI his
family.
While at Montpelier last week, We heard
some very remarkable g statements made In
connection with the .ath OF Mr.. Seaver as
stated above. We give them We heard
them, and can it necessary name our author
iry. We uud .rstand that for long time
previous to The death of MIR. Saver, his wife
repeatedly told him that death would soon
enter their family, and strongly urged him 10
purchase a lot In the celnetery-upon which,
it seems, MIR. Seaver had heen at work help
ing to lay it out, etc. Ga the NOR liDg of
the day on which the above race took place,
Mrs Seaver told her husband that she had
dreamed the night before that she saw him
thrown fIom a wagon, dragged some distance
and strike his head against some hing shs
could not tell what, aud was killed. She
urged him not to 90 10 the race. lie smiled
at the dream. not being at all superstitious,
and went. He however, seemed to be not al
together right, and just before the race. told
Mr.. Gilman that he would rather not drive,
but upon the urgent solicitation OF Mr- u.
did SO with the above result. Mrs. Seaver,
upon his departure for the race. dressed her
self if ready for journey, and awaited, as
she sfhrms, 20 be ailed upon 10 20 TO him.
And she was. w hen cent for, she told the
messenger before he related his errand that she
knew vi hat he had come for. Ali of which
we give as We heard it, and pronounce it very
strange, if true, and We believe it ls.-Rec.
ord.
POISONING Miss Emery, from Ryegate,
who was at work in the factory at irnet,
cidentally poisoned herself recently by taking
one-haif a bottle of McMunn's E.lxir of OPP
um, thinking II the same strength para
l..
condition, it having produced constipation of
the bowels
SOUTH RkADING.-Mrs. Willard Holden,
living about two miles above South Z saJins,
near Bepj Sawyer's, committed suicide on
W ednesdsy of las. week, by drowning her
self small brook, back of the house,
whore the water was only about X inches
Deep She had beeb insane for many years,
and lodged in a room by herself, and IN the
morning her husband went to call her when
be found she was missing. He went to the
neig hbors IN search OF her, aud fo0n fer she
was found by Mr.. Benz. Sawyer lying in the
brook with two haadkerchefs over her
mouth -Bellotps Falls ITus.s.
PUNIsHED,-Chsrles Morgan, (who declined
to contribute 10 the Johnson election fund.
has been removed from the Rochester post.
ufice. Geo. s. Gurnsey is the Lew post-m IS.
! ter.
AccIDKNr.-Siuon D. Whipple of New
port Center, on Monday evening last, received
4 serious injury from the expulsion of pow
der. He was attempting to draw a cnarge
from a rock at the bottom of a well which he
was digging when tie powder exploded.
breaking bis left arai, two hogers AMI thumb
On the same hand, the arm and hand being
badly burned and manged. HIS face was al
." seriously burned and skIn filled with
powder
PoRK.-Hollis Day of Coventry. recently
sIaus shtered hog fifteen IN ,nths and twenty
three days old, which weighed SAB pounds.
DWELLING BURNED-Aoput l O'Clock,
a. ID, On tuesday, November Z, t. dwelling
of -seph b ancnaid d, of Sharon, was hurDe1
with ali ITS Contents, the occupants barely es-
capped with their lives. Cause defective stove
pipe. No insurance.
APPoINrHENr.-Ger. Saannard has appoir-
ted Col. Z. Ii. Powell, Inspec or OF Customs
at R,chtord.
RoBBKD-RolIin Nj. Miller, of Bra t.lebnro
was ruooed Boston, Saturday night OF S69,
by two men who walked along beside him
asking him questions.
MINERAL DIscovERY.-Hiram Foster OF .raS-
burg, claims 10 hsve discovered bed ot Iniu-
parently inexhaustible.
The citizens of Brook6eld have presented
Mr.. J .ckson Parker, deserving young ma1
who recently lost an eye while discharglng a
revolver, with $50.
The beautiful house for The Union and High
School, at Bellows Falls burnt November
26lh.
The temperance work is maxim much pro-
gress in Grafton, and the number who have
signed the pledge is 2S3.
E. Il T. Fairbanks, the scale manufacturers
at st. Johnsoury, are largely Increasing their
works by the erection OF five new buildings.
They now employ $50 men, whose monthly
payroll exceeds 1928 900.
Patents issued from the United States Pa
tent Office for the week ending November 20,
1866:
Dewey Phillips of Manchester, VT, for i'm
provement in regulators for reaction water
wheels
J. F. White of B.attleboro, VT, for i'm
proved mop wringer.
The LAST REVOLUTIONARY PKSsIoSKR.-The
forth coming report of the Secretary of War
will show that there is but one revolutionary
pcnsioner living, namely, Samuel Dunn, who
enlisted in New Hampshire, but lives in New
York