Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-05-13

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The following story, which was publish.
ed IN one of the periodical journals some
time since is TOO interesting to be omitted:
An old chifonier, Tor rag pjcler, d;ed :,
f,. ~ state OF the most abject poverty.
His only relation was a niece. who lived 10
servant with green grocer. The girl
always assisted her uncle as far as her slen-
uer means would permit.-When she learn.
ed Of his DEATH which took place suddenly.
she was on the point Of marriage with q
Jourheyman baker, 10 whom she had been
long attached The nuptial day was fixed.
but Suzette had not yet bought her wedding
clothes She fastened 10 tell her lover thai
her marriage must be deferred as she want.
ed the price of her bridal finery to Law her
uncle decently in the grave. Her mistress
rldIculed the idea, and exhorted her TO leave
Inc old man 10 be buried by charity. Su-
zelte refused. The consequence was n omar.
rel, IN which the young woman lost at once
her place and her lover, who sided with her
mistress. She fastened to the miserable
garret where her uncle had expired. and bv
the sacrifice not only of her wedding ottire
but nearly all the rest of her slender ward.
robe, she had The old man decenlly Inferred
Her pious task fulfilled, she sat alone in her
uncle's room weeping bitterly. when the
master OF her faithless lover. a youno GOOD
looking man entered 80 nv GOOD Snze,te
find you have lost your place 7" cried he
II am come TO offer you one for life-will
you marry me ?" ii, sir you are iokines'
NO faith, l want a wife, and Pm sure I
can't find better" But. every body will
laugh at you for marrying poor girl like
me" "Oh If that is your only objection.
we shall soon get over ii; come: come along,
my mother is prepared 10 receive you.i
Suzeste hesitated no longer; but she wished
to take with her memorial Of her deceased
unclei It was. cat that he had had for ma.
ny years The old man was so fond of the
animal that he had determined that even
death should not separate them; for he had
her stuffed and placed on the tester of the
bed AS Suzeile took down puss. she utter.
ed an exclamation Of surprise at finding her
so heavy. The lover fastened 10 omen the
animal, when out fell a shower of gold
There were thousand louis concealed n
the body OF the cat. aud this sum. which he
old miser had starved himself 10 amass be-
came The just reward fihe worthy girl and
her dlsinterested lover
A Search toT Hidden 7Tedsarc-vr rI.
derstand that some three or four persons on
the sea-board of Connecticut. have found
certain paper bearing the date Of olden time.
and the signature of a famous buccanier of
that day by the name Of Kidd; which paper
contains directions where a butter frLin
aud sundry other small vessels. full of gold,
lie hidden in the earth. They have. very
secretly. searched time after time for that
which Of right belongs TO them, if any body
All persons TO whom the affair is known.
on, OF pity. endeavor 10 dissuade the holders
of the paper and believers in the truth offs
contents, from their frequent expenditures.
but TO no purpose.
We recollect that some four or FIVE years
ago, worthy old gentleman in New Lon
don, CT, believing that chest OF doubloons
was sunk at the head of Folks wharf caus-
ed a lsaye frame to be boarded up water
tight, "a shut down into the mud, after
which operation, the water was pumped out.
and some thirty or forty days labor expend-
ed in digging, to the no little diversion CT
the entire neighborhood. Finally, the old
gentleman believing that the spirits in the
Vastly deep" would not come a, his bidding,
gave up the search, paid $500 cost and
wept-Ne,O Bedford Gazette,