Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-03-01

rienced. The following, for instance, is
by no means IN unusual occurrence:
- Not long ago | was at work in Il flour
mill that had been burnt out. The floors
were fire proof ones, and the building was
reckoned uncommonly strong, and certain
" looked it. Well, another man and
were working on one of the floors, when
the hand that WAS carrying round the re-
frrshments came aud asked us if we want
ed anything.
. We both said no. and he turned away
but before he had gone many feet altered
my mind and thought ! would Just take a
drop of something to drink, for working in
a fired building is a hot berth, let me tell
YOU. even after the fire has been put out !;
20 | stepped after him. and he was just fill
ing me out a glass of water when there
came a crash like a clap of thunder. just
behind me, and turning round. | saw-a-
soon as the dust cleared away Il bit-that
the building had fallen in just where had
been standing not Il minute before.
The other man lay buried in the ruins
stone dead. q, l would have been if |
hadn't, by the merest chance, happened to
move. My heart went cold as | saw what
narrow escape had had Thought how
II tt IL WIS w ll.tl liIt AoCil SattS OIlC
shall be taken. and the other left
That S always the text think of when
see Il thing of tat sort. | might have
stepped into the danger just as | stepped
out OF it. Such thing, look all chance
but we are all in the Masters hands. to be
taken on left rs He may see tit. It's a
thou hit often gives me heart when I'm
about anything that looks particularly
dan WerOus
ANOTHER ERsION OF THE BLACK HILLS
GOLD TALES.-Licutenan Norris, of the
Ninth United States Infantry, who has for
TWO Years been stationed at Fort Laramie,
is visiting his old home and relatives in
brooklyn, this county, and from him a
NaU reporter recently obtained the follow :
inc in reference to the Black Hills Gold
fields:
left Fort Laramie last Monday, and on
the WAY coming in met perhaps fifty per-
sons going into the Hills. Two sawmills
have been sent in. and whole families,
men, women ard children, are on their
way ththcr. l think they are not going
to the Hills at present faster than twenty
tive day. however. BY June lst, it is eX-
five thousand to tea thousand emigrants
to the gold region. was in the Hills for
months. and the troops brought in miners
from All parts of the Hills. None of them
had much gold, and | would advise all
who have money, OF :, place to work ut
any price, not to 90 there. There are no
quartz mines, and nothing but placer dig
@lng>. Mining may possibly pay mod
crate wages tor two OF three years, but by
that time it will he played cut. At pres
,nt there are no Indians to modest the in
trudcr-, rs there is no toraging for their
horses. 1t will be dangerous. however, as
soon as the grass sprouts. | have been
told that the vouny warriors are strongly
urging Red Cloud and Spotted Tail to
make war. They are chiefs Of the most
powerful tribes, but there is ALWAYS dan
ger of an attack by the northern Sioux
We found on the WAY coming in the body
Of one miner. with 4 miners pick through
his ~hull. | do not think it was the work
OF Indians, though. He WAS doubtless
murdered by Il brother miner .Hinncap-
4. j. (N}Hu.) -Nt1l.