Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1876 — A Man’s Life Saved by a Bream. [ARTICLE]

A Man’s Life Saved by a Bream.

Early on Friday morning Mr. Hall, a butcher, of Franklin, Mass., went into his ice chest to inspect the premises, when the door accidentally swung back, operating the spring-lock, and die man was a prisoner ina very small room of icy temperature, and without means of escape. A speedy and frightful death stared him in the face. He shouted, and thumped upon what promised to be his coffin, but all in vain. Now comes the marvellous part of the circumstances. When Mr. Hall’s son arose on that morning he was deeply impressed with a dream which he had during the previous night. He dreamed that his father had been caught and suffocated in the ice chest! Not finding his father on inquiring for him, the son at once proceeded to the ice chest and found it locked. On opening it the apparently dead body of his father was discovered and rescued. So near death jiad the unfortunate prisoner come that it was hours before he came to a state of consciousness, and is still in an enfeebled condition. To those (ourselves among the number) who have no faith in dreams and visions, it may be difficult to account for the connection between the son’s dream and the father’s accident.— Woonsocket (R. I •) Patriot.

A curious state of affairs exists in some of the counties in West Virginia. In Webster County, for instance, there are 200,000 acres of land, but 2,000,000 acres are on the tax duplicate, and taxes are actually paid on that amount, one individual paying taxes on 550,000 acres, or more than double the entire acreage of the county. The lands have been sold and resold in New York for speculative purposes, until the acreage has been multiplied nearly eight times its actual amount. As the lands are nominally appraised, and are not of great present value, the holders of Titles pay the taxes without grumbling. . —Alexander H Stephens has gained sufficient strength to take ont-door exercise with the aid of crutches.