The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-01-06
STEERING ApyENTUREs.
Five Pieces Of News Concerning Odd Up
aud Downs Of Lie.


Five Pieces Of News Concerning Odd Up
aud Downs of Lille.
Near Alice Falls, Canada. in a house
: upon hill, dwells one of the prettiest
girls to be found north Of the st. Law
renee. Peter Gumblaw went counting
thereabout few days ago, but as what
follows will show he had most dis
tressing time. The beauty Of the Ausa.
BILE gave Peter the mitten. He left
the house In such rage that it seemed
good thing to him to 60 straightway
and leap into Ausable chasm. Unfor-
tunately, the precipice was on his path
homeward and 30 near the dwelling Of
his cruel lady-love that his anger had
no time to cool. As he ran toward tho
dangerous rocks Gumblaw met boy,
to whom he hastily handed his watch,
money and keepsakes. Then, as tho
boy says, the lover gave wild leap
from the brink. The lad was frantic
with the sight, but his legs took him,
like the velvet gloves Of a rabbit,
swiftly to the nearest man. When the
latter reached the rocks by the river he
caught sight OF Gumblaw in the torrent
far beneath, but still above the falls. 1t
was apparent that from the intense pur-
pose Of self-destruction the young man
now had changed to keen desire to
save himself. He was grasping at the
traditional straw. Eddies whirled
around, white spray frothed at his
throat and the rapids roared at his ear,
but he cluug to q jutting rock with des-
perate energy. Ladders and ropes were
hurriedly procured, and he let go his
hold to grasp the end of line Just as
the eccentric current whirled his body
downward over the falls. When picked
up below Gumblaw was unconscious.
His left thigh, three ribs and an arm
were broken, but at last accounts the
pretty girl Of the house on the hill was
successfully nursing him back to life.
Men are now grading the track OF the
Northern Pacific railroad at point in
He'll Gate canon. nine miles west from
New Chicago. One day O crevice blast
was set in o rocky bluff twenty feet
above the river. The main blast con-
sisted Of seven kegs of black powder,
which was placed at depth Of fifteen
feet. Two auxiliary blasts, with short
fuse to each, wers arranged so that they
would open the crevice. The fuses were
fred, the men sought shelter, and two
explosions followed, one sharply upon
the heels Of the other. Nelson Bennett,
contractor, said to F. II. Anderson,
Robert kDunn, Michael McOarty and
Charles Reiohenberg: "The shots have
all gone off; let's go down." Anderson
demurred. saying the big blast was still
below, but five men walked to the
erevice, nevertheless. and began to ex-
anime the rocks. While they were
thus standing directly above the i'm
mense charge the seven kegs exploded.
Three hundred cubic yards Of rock were
lifted into the air as lightly as man
raises his hat to feminine friend. The
FIVE men went up with the earth's crust
like skyballs shot from the school-boy's
board. Fellow-workmen who witnessed
the terrific explosion affirm thht the
five were hurled at least one hundred
and twenty feet upward. They came
down in the nver-some unconscious,
but none seriously hu-t-and every one
was able to eat his supper that night
and draw his wages next day.
Doctor Torrington, who is seventy
years old and by no means athletic,
WAS hurriedly summoned to the house
of o neighbor, Mrs. s. Hadlock, Of
Peaks Island, Maine. When he reached
Mrs. Hadiock's he found that he was
expected to xii with gun instead Of
with his medicine chest. An eagle Of
sweeping wing and fierce scream was
circling about the Hadlock poultry
and the good woman was protecting her
turkeys by means of brickbats hurled
with Amazonian courage. The doctor
was amazed and amused, for he never
before had heard OF such boldness on
the part of the bald-headed things,
however big their beaks. He was about
TO. take aim when the bird swooped
down at him. At that moment six
year-oh child, o grandson OF Mrs.
Hadlock, toddled out of the house, and
the eagle pounced upon the little fell
low. Mrs. ,Hadlock struck frantically
at the eagle with q large roller towel,
and, releasing the boy, it flew to aneigh-
boring oak. Doctor Torrington put o
double charge in the Hadlook shotgun
and fired. Tne eagle few upward and
away over the sea, and its flight showed
that il was wounded. Doctor Torring-
toms shoulder was dislocated by the re-
coil Of his gun. Before night some
fishermen found the eagles body hall
mile of shore.
How Lewis Schafer escaped death by
the breadth of hair, afterward climb
ing hundred feet perpendicularly
with one hand, is told by the Leadville
papers. Sehafer worked in mine on
Little Gulch creek. The shaft is 115
feet deep. The hero OF the episode, a
German Of the build and Drawn OF
Hercules, was hammering his drill at
the bottom OF the shaft, when he heard
o strange noise above. Instantly glanc-
ing upward he saw heavy beam fall
ing with frightful velocity down the
shaft. He acted upon instinct, and pressed
to the wall of the narrow hole. The
beam struck one shoulder and knocked
his head forward against the rock. he
remained quivering for few moments,
and would have died but for an effort
Of will. Wounded as he was, he
mustered nerve enough to worm his way
upward to the mouth of the shaft, q
task that in itself would have appalled,
o man with the use of both arms.
Joseph Meek, colored man, is
known in the Barker mining district,
Montana, as lucky hunter. One day
he was looking for game in the region
Of perpetual snow, mp on old Baldy
mountain, when he saw a bear ambling
along toward his point of observation,
Crane Dance.
The following yarn is from the Obi
cago Tribune. A hunter from Mime