Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-09
The Accident linn.

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list OF 81 gular accidents which it has in.
serted under the head of " The Accident
Imp:"
An insane physician poisoned two men
to death in Lynn, Mimi, before his malady
was discovered. This may be called an
accident, because the perpetrator was era
zy, but if he had been in his right mind it
would have been a dispensatiOn of Prov.
idence "
Antoine Ashley was found dead in his
bed at Oswego, N. Y. and the physicians
who made the post-mortem examination
testified that his feet had been poisoned by
wearing carpeting slippers. He had been
employed on steamer in the west. His
feet were often wet, and the poison by
which the carpeting was colored soaked
in through the lining and poisoned his feet.
If his sad example breaks up the bal habit
of wearing those odious, tawdry, glaring,
disagreeable slippers, this man will not
have died in vain.
Mrs. Benaiah Barker of Lebanon, N. H :,
pricked her thumb with pair of scissors,
while taking the cork from bottle. The
wound became painful, the arm swelled,
and on Thursday following she fell dead.
This is warning to every man to keep a
cork-screw in the house, instead of carry
ing it in his pocket, rs he generally oes
Forks and scissors are about the only i'm
plements which the average housekeeper
can find when she wishes to open a bottle
of sewing machine oil. and these are
neither safe, profitable nor convenient.
In Canaan, Pa, a few days since, John
Mcybert, farmer, while throwing II
bundle Of straw from the upper loft of his
barn to the GROUND aoor, thirtv-nine feet
below, slipped and fell from the loft,
striking head first upon the knife of n
moving machine. Three teeth passed
full length into his head. OF course the
poor man died in great anguish. 1t is
odd how many farmers set traps for
themselves by allowing moving machines
and hay cutters in the way, and leaving
harrow and pitch fork teeth upward.
AT Climax, Mich, the clerk in store
was weighing out powder for customer.
In some manner the powder ignited and
one hundred pounds exploded. The store
was blown to pieces and twelve persons
injured. nine very badly. 1t is thought
the clerk and two others will die
Whether he was smoking at the time is
not stated, but he was evidently extremely
needless.
A Pennsylvania doctor poisoned himself
by wetting envelope flaps with his tongue.
lie suffered greatly, and piece of his
tongue came off As the patient belonged
to the sex which never talks, no cheap
wit was expended on the matter by the
newspapers, and the doctor will use
sponge or somebody else's tongue to seal
his letters GREATER.
A woman in New Hampshire, wearing
a lace cap, stepped out of doors with Il
candle in her band. The candle flared
against the lace, which took fire, and the
poor lady was burned to DEATH Every
well-regulated house should have Ian
tern among its conveniences.
So many accidents, so called result from
tobacco pipes, that somehow when one
reads OF man who thus gets hoisted with
his own petard, after haying pulled smoke
in unwilling faces for years for his own
amusement, one feels a thrill of-well
indifference, at least, regarding his suffer-
ings.
In Cartersville, Ga, the other day, a
gentleman was walking on the street
smoking Il cigarette. A gust of wind
blew a spark into his whiskers, which
from some unknown cause, supposed to be
dangerous hair-dye, were ignited, The
flame communicated to his hair and
burned il all off, leaving him bald as an
apple and badly blistered.
About this time the accident imp under
took to show how easy it is to kill man
by means of tobacco without paralyzing
him or burning him to death. SO rs Il
Toronto man named Wates was chasing a
boy, he fell and the stem of the pipe he
was smoking pierced his cheek He died
from the wound, the nicotin having
poisoned his blood.
So Mr.. Jonathon Emerson of North.
field, Vermont, recently found out some of
the bad effects of cider without drinking
it. He was attempting to loosen the bung
of cider barrel which happened to CON
tain some very restive cider, when the
bung flew out and went directly into his
eye. knocking him over and injuring his
eye quite seriously.
Nearer home, a lady living in Deering
accidentally hit her foot against the foot
board of bedstead in rising. The board
was cracked and splinter went under the
toe nail. The wound festered two or
three days later she went into convulsons,
and at one time was threatened with lock-
jaw. This is The only instance, perhaps,
which seems to justify the much depre
Gated practice of wearing boots to bed.
In New York city Il varnish kettle in
factory exploded, and badly burned three
men. While little polish may we'll be
desired by the average man, he may be
excused for not liking it so well when
applied boiling hot.
In Milwaukee two men were stifed by
gas from carelessly managed coal stove
This is one of dozen similar occurrences
which have taken place this winter.
There is so much contributory negligence
about them that the imp aforesaid is
really in these cases not so much to
blame.
A large brewing kettle. weighing nearly
half II ton, fell from IA temporary scaffold
in a brewery at Union Hill, n. j., and
crushed VIM. Barry so badly that he died
in a few minutes. If ono is to die by
means of a very this is much the
shortest way.
Mr. f. W. Aver of South Waterford
met with singular accident the other
night. He went into his stable to hold II
lamp while Frank Morse drove in with
his team, when he stepped with his whole
weight upon the mead of hoe and the
handle flew up and struck him violently
in the left eve. Mr.. Aver fell as If struck
by thunderbolt, his eye was nearly
knocked from the socket. his lamp was
broken and the kerosene spilled and took
fire. Ii is not set down that any further
disaster happened to him. but with his
injuries and his attempts to smother the
flames with his coat, he had serious
time of it.