Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-10-06

TERRIBLE FATE OF AN AERoNAUT.-
The cords of a balloon in which Prof.
Wilbur was preparing to make an ascent
at Paoli, Ind, Saturday, gave way.
The professor and George w. Knapp,
editor of the Orange County Union,
grasped the ropes, and were carried up.
Knapp fell 80 feet, and was not serious
ly hurt. Wilbur was carried up a mile,
when, being unable to climb into the
balloon, he lost his hold, fell to the
ground, and was crushed into an inds-
tinguishable mass.
A later account says that Prot, VIII
bur held on, and attempted to climb in
to the basket, but was unable to do so,
and the balloon shot upward rapidly
with the aeronaut hanging below. The
spectators were thrilled with horror at
the terrible scene, which ended in
dreadful manner AT a hight of about
one mile the doomed man let go his hold
and came whirling to the earth. At the
hight he had attained he looked like a
small sack about foot long. As he APP
preached the earth he was coming down
feet foremost, then spread out horizon
tally, then doubled up, turned over,
and then straitened out with his head
downward. AS he struck the earth he
fell upon his head and back. His head
was crushed into an indistinguishable
mass, and his body was bruised and
crushed horribly. The body made a
hole in the ground eight inches deep,
and it rebounded four feet from where it
struck. To add to the painful character
of the accident, the Professors young
wife and little daughter were on the
ground and witnessed the terrible affair.
Jack Frost few days since destroy
ed about fifteen tons of grapes at the
Westboro' Reform School, valued at
$1,000.
Seven hundred assistant assessors
of internal revenue have been discharged
since last October, the reduction max
ing saving to the government of over
one million dollars a year in the item of
salaries.
There are rails in the fence on the
old Stark place, in Bedford, N. H.,
which were split by the General and his
workmen before the battle of Benning-
ton.
- Rhode Island has not raised apples
enough this year to make the usual nun
Der of pies; while Michigan cannot find
barrels enough to hold her crop and is
selling at 81.
= The annual town elections occurred
in Connecticut on Monday. Returns
from 11S towns show that the republi.
cans carried 60, democrats 81, and in Is
towns mixed tickets were elected.
Mr.. and Mrs. james Sweet of Chat
auqua county, n. Y, have been married
II years and raised family of II chill
dren, all of whom are married, death
never having once entered the circle.
There is at Columbus, Ca, branch
of a society called Observation-Disclosures,
whose motto is: amy system of religion
that shocks the mind of child cannot
be true system; the world is my coun-
try and to do good is my religion.
= Mike Kitterman, an Illinois farmer,
who bought three thousand acres of land
in that State thirty years ago, has given
away thirty eighty-acre farms to his chill
dren and relatives, and has SIX hundred
acres left. He is now rs years old, rich
and prosperous.
= Two women recently appeared at
the Philadelphia morgue and asked if
there was any dead bodies there. On
being told that drowned man lay there.
one of them asked permission to place
the dead mans hands upon her goitered
neck. Three times she performed the
remedial ceremony and departed.