Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-07-07

The ground belonging to the Reform
ID Dutch Church in Exchange Place,
DR. Matthew's) was sold on the 18th inst.
oy auction, at an aggregate of 1885, 400.
The prices ranged from $32,7O0 to 49,
900 lot.-N. Y Jour- Of Com.
The wheat crops in Maryland have
suffered so much by the fly, that the far
mers, in some instances, have pIoughed
them up to plant buckwh heat. The wheat
sown late in the fall has done better.
From q Chapter of Neaos' in Zion's Herald.
Our city is still infested with incendia-
ries and burglars During the past week
two or three attempts have been made to
fire buildings, and as many houses enter
ed and robbed.
An Irishman in Lowell lately drank
twelve glasses Of gin in half day, and in
a few hours after was corpse.
Fanny Wright is now ]ecturing at
Cincinnati She does not succeed very
well.
More than one hundred millions Of
yards of calico, it is said, were printed in
this country the last year.
Five hundred men are already at work
on the Bangor and OIdtown Railroad.
Counterfeit gold coin has been issued
at Baltimore, so good an imitation of the
halfeagle as to be hard to detect.
Great damage has been done to the
cotton crops in the South, by the late
rains.
A fire was raging, at the last accounts,
in the woods Searsburgh, Vermont, and
was spreading towards Wilmington
Three dwelling houses, barn, two saw
mills, and two bridges, had also been con-
sumed in Its progress.
A bill to abolish lotteries has passed the
French Chamber Of Deputies, 228 to 81.
This is considered a premonitlon of the
fate that awaits the gambling houses.
The Water Witch, a British Brig OF
war, lately captured slave vessel al
| Whydah, on the coast of Africa, whic b
had on board nearly 600 slaves
The last lottery in Tennessee was
drawn at Nashville on the 3lst ult-
Henceforth, there can be no lottery drawn
in that State. The prohibition Of lotteries
has been made part Of the State consti.
tuition.
A discovery IS said to have been made
that if the bodies Of men or animals be
plunged for some time in solution Of cor.
rosive sublimale and afterwards dried
they assume the consistency of wood and
the air produces no effect upon them; anG
if the bodies be injected before they are
plunged in the liquid, they will retain the
color of life, and consequently form mum
mics far more perfect than the Egyptian.
Zinc, it is said, has been discovered ir
the State Of Newt ersey.
1t is reported that a convent is about tc
be erected at Lowell. Rather doubtful.
The man of contracted affections regu
lates his actions towards men by the con
sheraton that such an one is of kin to me
and such another a stranger but the mar
of high-minded benevolence regards al
mankind as his brethren.-A Sancrit pro
rer6.
A Canadian, incautiously thrusting hi
head to look into the cylinder of a steam
boat plying between Montreal and Que
bee, whilst the engine was in motion, hac
1t crushed to atoms.
A Bahama paper states that considera
bic excitement was produced at Nassau or
the 9Th of May, by the arrest of the off
GERS and crew Of the Portuguese sIavel
Vigjlante, after they had been set at liber
ty by the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. whom they
were brought on the charge that mum
Der ofthe Africans had been thrown over
board alive, previous to the capture
The Halifax Journal of June 18th state:
that there has been sangunarv contest a
the agdalen Islands between the Ameri
can fishermen and some men from Cape
Breton. 1t is said several men were kill
ed on both sides.
To preserre books-A few drops Of any
perfumed oil will secure libraries from the
consuming effects OF mold and DAMP
Russian leather, which is perfumed with
the tar of the birch tree, never molders; and
merchants suffer large bales Of this leather
to remain in the London docks, knowing
that it can not sustain any injury from
damp. This manner of preserving books
with perfumed oil was known to the an.
clients. The Romans used oil of cedar tc
preserve valuable MSS. Hence the express
sion used BY Horace, "Digno cedro," mean
ing any work worshy Of being anointed with
cedar oil or, in other words, worthy of being
preserved and remembered Green Gdz.
The Northampton Silk Company.-With
real estate consisting of about three hundred