Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-02-25

ed to the Antl-SlaVery women.-AdU0-
cate.
FIRES AND ALARMs.-From the re-
colds kept by the engineers of the Fire
Department, it appears that from Jan.
/, 1886, there have been IS fires in this
city. Loss, estimated at S215,6O In
surance, Sly, LOO. There were 73 false
alarms; 10 fires out oftAe city at which
the Department were called out. Loss,
estimated at 1922, 500. Insurance, $1l2,-
$50. So that there have been al turn
outs during the year.-Bostou Atlas.
MORTALITY IN New YoRK.-The
whole number of deaths during the last
year was, males 1896, females 3l47-to
tai 7O82-being 1000 less than the year
before. Ofthe entire number 781 were
people ofcoIor. The proportion ofdeaths
to the population of the city was one to
thirty-eight. The deaths by consumption
were 1887, by commissions 6S3, intemper-
ance l66, small pox 35l, old age lO4-
Still born Ala.
A New YEARS GIFT-We understand
that Mr.. Arthur Thome, Of Augusta Ky.
(the father of brother James A. Thome, has
liberated all his slaves, fourteen in number,
and that they commenced the new year with
freedom from bondage to MAINLY rdn
Mouse TRAP The following con-
trlvance for catching mice, will perhaps be
new to most Of our readers: Provide
large earthern pct, with a hole an inch or
two in diameter in the bottom, Ia large
gardener flower pot will do,) invert it on
a board or fiat smooth stone, and sink it in
the ground, until the bottom of the pot is
about level with the surf,ce Sus pend,
about two inches below the hole, by means
of wire, smooth wooden roller, which
should be capable of turning freely on it's
axis The surface about it may be sprink-
led with chat> or short straw, and grain or
seeds, and the roller be besmeared with
lard and other attractive substances. Up
on this roller the mouse leaps and it i'm
mediate y turns by his weig ht, and precip-
ltates him to the bottom, from whence be
cannot escape, as it is impossible for him
TO climb the sides. Many may be caught
In the same trap without the trouble of re-
setting. By burying the pot in mellow
earth or sand it is easily taken up and re-
paced. This method is particularly
adapted to catching mice in gardens, cell
lars, &c.-MontAly Genesee Farmer.
FEMALE GAMBLERS. A new gamb-
ling house has been opened at the West
End London, for the accommodation of
Ladies!
INDIAN MAssAcREs. In all narratives
OF suffering, single Northumberland
individual example affects the feelincs
more senslbly than the most eloquent gen
eralltles of wider spread calamity. Of
this nature is the following statement bv
Mr. Cooley, of the New River lighthouse,
Cape Florida.-N Y. American.
"When he approached his once peace
tui home, he found the body Of joseph
tIenton, OF Cecil County, State of Mary
land, who acted as instructor to his chill
dren his bod y was mangled, and he lad
evidently been killed with an axe. His
two eldest children We're found near bv,
shot through the heart, one holding vet
the book in her hand she had been learn-
1ng' and the took of the other Law by his
SIDE; about hundred yards off, he found
the bodi,s Of his wife and infant. She,
a so, had been SHOT through the heart, and
inc same ball, it is supposed broke tie in
taNt' S arm. His h0uSe hal hoor b,ro+
but the house in which he kept
and the machinery with which he manu-
iactured it, are left uninjured. The Indi-
ans carried off about twelve barrels of
provisions, thirty hogs, three horses,
S4oO IN silver, his clothing, one key of
powder over two hundred ounds oflead,
and 500 worth Of dry goods. By tbei,
tracks and the amount of property carried
on, Mr. Z. computes the number ofIndians
d! rom n, twenty to thirty. They also car
Iieo on his negro nun and woman, and p
Spanlard named Emanuel