Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-05-10

VI. was consumed by fire, together with
all Its Contents, and three small children.
The particulars given US are briefly these:
About ten O'Clock in the evening, Mr..
Pearl and his wife were aroused from their
slumbers by the noise of the flames; the
first effort was 10 save their children, two
of whom slept up chamber; for this pur-
pose Mrs. Pearl opened the chamber door,
when the flames burst in after her, and
she was forced TO abandon them to the
devouring element, and to save her own
life, Jumped out of the chamber window :;
but 10 the fall was so much injured, that it
is considered doubtful whether she can
recover. One child which slept below,
being unwelI, arose in bewiIdered state,
it is supposed, rushed into the flames and
could not be rescued. The names Of the
children that persisted were, Lewis, aged
10 years, and Benjamin DIN, aged 8
years, sons of Mr.. Pear, and AmerilIa
M. Senter, aged 10 years, daughter of
Capt. Dearbon B. Senter Of this town.
There was nothing saved from the house,
which was new and unfinished, except
the nig CHIT clothes on the survivors.
The fire was communicated by leav-
ing box of ashes in the stoop in front of
the door.-NortA Star.
STATE OF THE SoUTH-A New-Or-
leans paper, of April rs, says the loss by
the depreciation Of slave property alone
in Mississippi, is enough to bankrupt the
State
The planters had anticipated their crops,
and received and expend= ID three-fourths
Of their value months ago. On the de-
livery of the cotton so bought and paid
for, they expected to mortgage as it were
their labor, capital and time for the next
twelve months, to procure the support Of
their negroes, and means for CARRYING on
their plantations. They are now left
without provisions, and the means of liv-
ing AMI using their industry, for the pres
ent year. In this dilemma, planters whose
crops have been from 100 to 700 bales,
find themselves forced 10 sacrifice many Of
their slaves in order to get the common
necessaries of life for the support of them
selves and the rest of their negroes In
one instance, a small planter, who owned
twenty-one slaves, sold three of his best
men, for which he actually paid $4,000.
for $3.50, to buy pork and corn for the re-
mainder. In many places, planters COM
pei their slaves to fish for the means of
subsistence, rather than sell them at such
rulnOus rates. There are at this moment
thousands of slaves in Mississippi, that
know not where their next morseI is to
come from. The master must be ruined
to save the wretches from being starved.
A SHOCKING DEATH.-In Mendon on
Wednesday last, Helen Rowe, in the alb
sence of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs Antho-
ny Rowe, (who, it appears had left her
and one or two other small children,
younger than herself, alone in the house, J
in attempting to hang kettle over the fire,
her clothes caught and before any assist
ance could be afforded, her whole frame
was burnt to near coal black, and her
garments all consumed except some rem
nants around der waist. Mrs. Strong, a
near neighbor, was the first to discover
her, and she was then running towards a
brook near by-but Mrs. S. supposed she
was amusing herself by burning a sheet
of paper. A little girl gave the first alarm,
that the little suffrer was all on fire -
Several of the neighbors arrived at the
house before the parents returned to wit
ness the distressed situation of their child
Although she was enabled to commune
cate to them some circumstances attend
ing the accident, yet she soon swooned
away, and after few hours of great suf
fering, expired, in the 9TH year of her
age.
We have heretofore cautioned parents
against leaving small children in a house
alone, thus exposed to such shocking dis
asters-and We cannot but again repeat
the caution-RukLand Herald
IMPORTATION OF GRA1N.-The Cou-
rler and Enquirer publishes a tabular
statement of the importations of wheat al
this port for the last three years The ag-
gregate ls-ln 1885, 1920 bushels; in
1886 principally in the last quarter, 493,-
100 bushels: in 1887, (up to April l9th,)
$4,000 bushels. Of this, Alb, 300 bush
els were received in March, The impor-
tation of the last twelve months varies lit
tie from 100000 bushels. Baltimore
has also imported largely, and probably
Boston and Philadelphia also: so that the
whole importation of the year past cannot
fall far short of 100000 bushels, beside
rye and cora But for this importation,
-four would now command Sl2 a barrel
Notwithstanding the pressure, for hunger
must be attended to and then again, If
our great manufacturers and -four dealers
had kept their -four down at $40 barrel,
as they should have done, they would
have made more money than they will
have done by their grasping course, and
saved a million or so to the country
There is one consolation: those who
bought grain at winter prices for the whis-