The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-13

day delivered into the custody Of Major-general
Hancock at Governors Island by Lieutenant
Sebree Of the Thetis. There were four boxes,
containing clothing, papers and curiosities, &C
cumulated by different members OF the crew.
Many of them we're preserved as memorials OF
the dead heroes who collected them in the
Arctic regions. In addition to these was the
broken topgallantmast and the tattered Ameri-
can flag which Lieutenant Greedy planted in
the Ice rs signal Of distress, while across the
boxes lay a sled about five feet in length and
three in width 1t was the one manufactured
by Lieutenant Greedy from the broken pieces
OF the small boat, and fastened together with
strong strips of skin. 1t was shod with strips
of iron. The official records Of Lieutenant
Greely's search for two years were incased in
tin boxes.
THE London Inner Circle railroad is a mar
velous feat OF engineering skill. 1t runs
throughout the entire distance under the
busiest center Of the largest city in the world,
and the operations attending the excavation
and construction have proceeded without
serious injury to, or interruption Of, business
traffic. Quicksands have had to be passed
through, beds of old rivers spanued, lofty
warehouses and massive buildings secured
while their foundations have been undermined,
and an intricate network Of gas and water pipes
sustained until supports had been applied to
them from below. Added to this, the six main
sewers had several times to be reconstructed.
Day and night the work has been carried on
for eighteen months, and now the engineers
are able to announce that their tunnel Is COM
plete. The laying of the rails and the build
ing of the stations are the only portion of the
immense work that remains to be DONE and in
a very short time trains will be passing over
the whole of this wonderful subterranean road
DAUGHTER of A. c. Ramage of Bellaire,
Ohio, who was bitten on the right hand nine
years ago this summer, by copperhead snake,
has suffered intensely on each anniversary of
the day on which she was bitten. The arm and
hand becoming swollen and the original
symptoms Of paralysis appearing, has aroused
much interest in the medical profession as
being something rare in Genealogical phenom-
ena. The incident however, has recalled the
circumstances attending like case which oc-
CURED in New York state Col. George Smith,
who WAS Livingston county's first assembly,
man, in 1922 married a girl who was bitten by
a rattlesnake in 1903. Her life was saved but
regularly every ear thereafter, on the day of
the month on which the bite was inflicted,
symptoms OF the poisoning violently returned.
The part bitten, her ankle, became black and
swollen and the entire leg was affected by it.
The paroxysm of pain that followed the orig
inal injection OF the poison reappeared, and the
victim suffered terribly. The symptoms grad
ually grew less violent during the day. and on
the day following entirely disappeared. These
visitations became more violent every year,
and on the thirty-second appearance the
paroxysms were SO violent that Mrs. Smith
died in the most intense agony. Miss Ramages
return symptoms are characterized by a like
increase in violence, and it is feared that the
visitation this year will prove fatal. She was
bitten on August 49, 1875.
THE Netherlands and American Navigation
Compapys steamer Amsterdam, eight thous-
and tons, Captain Lucas, from Amsterdam,
July 10, for New York. with two hundred and
sixty passengers and crew, went ashore on the
east end OF Sable Island in dense fog, on the
night of July 30. The day before the ship struck
was fine and clear, but thick weather came on
at eight P. M, and at the time the ship struck
Captain Lucas imagined himself about thirty
five miles south of the island. The spot where
the vessel was wrecked is thirteen miles from
the east side OF the lighthouse. Owing to
thick fog officials on the island did not discover
the vessel until the afternoon of the following
day, when assistance WAS summoned from the
main station, but before the island crew arrived
Captain Lucas had decided to land the passen-
gers in the ships boats. The water was COM
at six P. M Six boat-oads of passengers
started for the lighthouse. After being afloat
all night, landing was effected at daylight
next morning. While attempting to land
through the surf one boat upset and three
passengers were drowned. Meanwhile the
Sable Island life-boat had put off for the scene
OF the wreck at three A. NJ, and Captain Lucas
and the remainder of the persons on the
wrecked steamer were rescued and landed on
the north side of the island. The passengers
and crew were then distributed among the va
rious stations and made as comfortable as pos
sible. number of women, twenty seven
children and eleven infants were among the
passengers.