Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-04-29


With her syery voice, will sooth his pain,
will whisper his heart, Il am come again!'
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NOBLE SENTIMENTs-This is an agree
able world after all. If we would onl,
bring ourselves to look at the objects tina
surround us in their true light, we shout,
see beauty where before we beheld delorn
ity, and listen TO harmony where we bcfor,
could hear nothing but discord To be sur,
there is great deal of anxiety and vexatior
TO meet we cannot expect to sail upon
summer coast forever; yet if we preserve
calm eye and steady hand, we can so trim
our sails and manage our helm as TO avoid
the quick sands and weather the storms that
threaten shipwreck. We are members Of
one great family we are travelling the
same road and shall arrive at the same goal.
We breathe the same air. are subject to the
same bounty, and we shall lie down upon
the bosom OF our common mother 1t is no,
becoming then that brother should hate
brother; i, is not proper that friend should
deceive friend it is not right that neighbor
should injure neighbor. We pity that man
who can harbor enmty aga inst his fellow
he loses half the enjoyment of life-he EN-.
bltters his own existence. Let us tear from
our eyes the colored medium that invests
every object with the green hue of jealousy
and suspicion; turn deaf ear 10 the tale OF
scandal-breathe the spirit of charity from,
our lips; and from our hearts let the rich
gushlngs OF human kindness swell M as a
tountaln-so that the golden age" will be.
come no fiction, and the islands Of the blessed
bloom in more than "Hesperian beauty"
EPIsToLARY.--While looking over n
quantity OF newspapersthe other day which
not having been called for at the Post Office
by those to whom they were directed, had
been sold TO one of our merchants for wrap.
ping paper, our eyes fell upon a copy of the
Brattleboro' Phoenix on the margin of which
we found written apparently in female
hand' the following. We copy verbatim &c
with the exception of names
81 received your letter Jan 10th STATING
that your health had ben very poor but
rather on the gain. | should think that
you had better leav that work As for nv
self have had the worst cold that have
had for this four years. but getting better.
the rest OF the family are well O. / should
think that you was a pretty fellow, if S. C.
had applied little salt TO the tale she
would cought the bird Jan 18th attended
the Wedding of Miss S"'s.. Wsss... she
was married to Mr. N''*|+*.. Bs...-.. Of
M, VT"
Our object in giving this publicity is two.
iold-hIstly it is evident the gentleman to
whom the paper was sent never received il.
and consequently may never have been "a
yored with the intelligence it contains
Should he have the good fortune to see this
number OF our paper, he will vet receive
that intelligence. Secondly, by publishing
it., we shall prove to all asses and lovers
who honor our sheet by a perusa, that il is
not only wrong to cheat Uncle Sam out of
his postage, but very precarious mode of
forwarding confidential and domestic intel
ligence.-L O,oeH Journal.
catholic and Protestant Maria ges-At
Easter of the year 1888, John Martin. Bp.
OF Speycer, issued a pastoral letter to his
diocese, in which he announces, that from
and after the date Aforesaid, no marriage
shall be solemnized, according to the Catbo-
lie ritual, between Catholic and Protes.
tant' except In case the pastor or priest hav-
ing INC CuIO Vi SOulS snail be assured nv
formal instrument or by oral affirmation,
that all such children as shall be the fruits
OF this marriage, shall be educated in the
Catholic formularities.
INTERESTING CAsE--'TRY Ir.' Jabez
Meal, son of publican in Hulderiield with
view of opposing the Temperance Socie-
ties, kept journal for three months of his
quantity of work, sleep, and play, and gene.
raj health, during which he took every day
moderate quantity of malt liquor, and new.
er exceeded what all agree to call modera-
iion He then tried tee-totalism for the
same period, and kept the same journal
The result was, during his three months
abstinence, he had less sleep, lived Q DAYS
longer, worked u hours more at his labonr
and at the end weighed Obs. heavier Re-
fore he had been tee-totaler three weeks a
headache, which had troubled him all his
life left him. He became decided CONVEX,
and though much prosecuted, warm odvo'
cate lie is going on in his second wear off
tee'totalism, Eng. pap