Addison County Vermont News
Addison County Vermont News
Scarlet Family has Narrow Escape
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
April 23 1823 Page 4
Middlebury, Vt., March 23
Providential Escape
A Mr. Scarlet, together with his wife and three small children, were descending the mountain near the bottle factory in this town; when, on the brink of a frightful precipice, one of his horses stumbled. In recovering, the neck reign caught under the heap of the sleigh, and the team became unmanageable. At this awful moment, Mr. S. leaped from the sleigh, and had no sooner caughter one horse by the head, than the other was dangling over the precipice, sustained in the harness by his mate, who still kept his ground. Mrs. S. threw out her children, and, the instant she had cleared herself from the sleigh, the were precipitated forty feet, where they met with an obstruction by which they were disengaged from each other, and thence descended ninety feet! One was killed, but the other was found alive, and standing, and without any material fracture. His preservation is said to be owing to his striking upon a spongy accumulation of ice and snow upon the surfacr of the river which winds along at the base of the precipice. This ISsaid not to be the first narrow escape which has occurred at the same spot, and deserves the serious attention of the (..?...vaces) of the road. - Standard.
Death of Student by Schoolmaster Blake
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) Feb 15, 1826
A schoolmaster named Blake, at Salisbury, Vt., in attempting to chastise a scholar for misconduct, was resisted by an elder brother of the lad named Howard, aged 13. In a contest that ensued, the latter was killed by an accidental blow from Mr. Blake who has given himself up for trial.
James McLane Killed by Lightning
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) July 19, 1826
Middlebury, Vt., June 20.
Death by Lightning
A singular instance of the fatal effects of the electric fluid occurred in Addison on the 10th instant. The house of Mr. James McLane was struck. At the moment the owner had proceeded to shut down the window and while his arm was raised above his head to effect this object, the fluid entered it and descended through his breast and leg to the floor. Life was immediately extinguished. But it was a singular circumstance that when a few minutes afterwards some of the family entered the room he was found standing erect in the position above described and his clothes in flames.
W. Seymour's Hogs Survive Snow Storm
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania March 21, 1827
Middlebury, Vt., Feb. 20
Singular Circumstance
One or two days previous to the great fall of snow, which commenced on the 1st of January, Mr. W. Seymour of New Haven, turned five hogs into the woods to feed on nuts &c. But after the storm abated and finding the snow to be so deep as to render it difficult for them to procure their subsistence, he went in search of them and after spending several days without discovering any traces of them he concluded that they were buried in the snow and had frozen to death. On the 11th of February they were accidently discovered by one of his neighbors in a snow bank about 40 rods from his house, after having laid in the snow forty-one days without moving six feet and having no subsistence during that time except what they derived from the ground, which they had dug but a few inches deep when a rock opposed their progress, and from one of their own number, which they had partly devoured. They were in good order for store hogs when turned out; but when found they were very much emaciated. The four surviving hogs were driven home and are now in a thriving condition.
Weeks Reunion
September 5, 1860
The descendants of the late Holland Weeks, of Salisbury, Vermont, whose ancestors emigrated from England in 1830, and who are lineal descendants in the maternal line of John Alden, the stripling who "first leaped upon Ply- mouth Rock," are to have a social reunion at the house of Ebenezer Weeks, in Salisbury, on the 12th of September next. This will be the fifth gathering of the family since 1840. They meet every five years, the relatives being in nearly every state, from the New England to California.
[Illinois State Democrat, Wed. Sept. 5, 1860 - C. Horton -2009]
Mrs. Marian Wright now 100
Date: 1883-07-25; Paper: St. Albans Daily Messenger
Mrs. Marian. Wright of Addison, now in her 100th year, is a remarkable instance of preservation, being able to go to and from her neighbors in visiting, in full possession of her faculties and physical vigor. She comes of a long-lived race
Contributed by Barbara Ziegermeyer