The people's press, and Addison County Democrat. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1838-1841, 1838-09-18
no pleasure in giving you anything so ill-look-
ing-in snch bad taste.
ITO be Continued.
from the Boston Pearl and Galaxy.
SUMMARY.

rectOrS OF the DuLhCI LIN hiOhuiiSHt 4Aoo"Nt"-
ton, on Tuesday, it voted TO request the
mortgages to suspend their operations on Bull
ker Hill until another appeal can be made to
the patriotism of the people.
There are twenty-five steamboats, belonging
TO Savannah, having an aggregate Tonnage OF
37O4 tons. This enumeration does not include
the steamboats, which ply to and from Savan.
nah, and which hail from Charleston, Darien and
other places.
A western man being asked the number of
inhabitants in the town where he lived--some
Babylon. or Troy, or Palmyra, which was
wilderness five years ago-answered, 'why,
about 5000 when left, bu, have been absent
nearly month, probably 5000 now.'
Two of the gifted young poetesses that
adorned the columns of the Louisville (Ky.)
-5ournol nave abandoned the mufes for Hymen
Their sweet poetry drew around various admi-
rers, and their pens have made their fortunes.
TExAs.-The Houston Telegraph of the
18th says We hear no farther news of the
troubles on the western or northern frontier;
tranquility prevails In every section OF the Re-
public. The crops every where are unusually
fine and abundant
FRosT,-There was a severe frost at Cleve-
land, Ohio, on Friday night, of last week. which
cut off the corn, vines, potatce tops, and all
the tender vegetables. The dew drops stand.
ing upon the leaves Of the cabbages were fro
zen solid.
The indianapolis Farmer says that fifteen
wagons passed through that place on the LIST
August, loaded with emgrants from Upper
Canada. on their way to Missouri. Twenty
seven wagons,with 143 persons, started in COM
pany, and were but few days behind.
Passengers are carried in steamboats, from
Buffalo to Detroit for twenty five cents.
Wisconsin Territory has thirteen counties,
and population of l6,149.
The editor of the Buffalonian, who has just
returned from short tour 10 the West, says
the crops are very large, and that thousands Of
bushels of wheat will rot on the fields. 1t is
generally very sickly.
The news of the Maine Election was brought
from Portland to this city in the short space Of
six hours. The distance of 10 miles. The
express came by the way Of Haverhill, and
from that place over the railroad, thirty miles,
in forty minutes or at the rate Of forty miles
per hour.
Notwithstanding the storm on Wednesday,
1894 passengers travelled on the Eastern Rail.
road.
The mackeral ishetmen of Provintetown
and vicinity are doing well. 1t is estimated
that 5000 barrels were taken in Barnstable Bay
on Friday last. One vessel took 10 barrels
that day.
The inhabitants of Monroe city. Michigan.
have voted to raise $4,000 towards the ship
canal commenced by the Government of the
United States, connecting the waters of the
River Raisin with Lake Erie, and improving
the navigation of the River Raisn.
The editor O. political paper at the close
Of one of his articles, said, 'We shall conclude
this nasty subject with the simple remark, &c.
One letter often makes great difference in a
sentence.
The Ohio Penitentiary has 425 convicts, of
whom one is female, AMI she a woman of
color.
Is HE FAT? The following, from the New
ark Daily Advertiser, is the most comfortable
paragraph we have seen for some time:
ave are decided admirers of eanness -
Our greatest characters are usually little, atten.
udleu Hleu SiOuldCIlIeSS, Iedofe. ltdtl, anu
lath-llke beings, who have spirituaized them
selves by keeping matter in due subordination
to mind. corpulent intellectual list is con.
tradiction in terms-a pal pable CATCH resis.-
One might as well talk of a pot bell;ed spirit.
Obesity is deadly foe to genius in carneous
and unwieldly bodies the spirit Is like little
gudgeon in large frying pan of fat, which is
either totally absorbed, or tastes Of nothing bu!
the lard.'
We repeat, this is TO us a most comfortable
paragraph. 1t is the most unanswerable argu-
ment we have ever seen in favor Of lean man.
For years and years we have been endeavoring
to work our body corporate into something
like respectable rotundity. We have tried
every thing that gives flesh to ordinary ortals
-Grahamism not excepted-stil the wind will
sometimes whistle in spite of US though our
quota of bones. But hereafter we shall care
nothing about it. We are fully convinced thai
lis better 10 be lean.-Boston Daily Times.
ANOTHER CASPAR HAUsER.-A Paris paper
(the Gazette des Tribuneaux) gives the follow
ing curious story:
The day before yesterday, in consequence of
information given bya poor woman named
Willard Who after being six months in the Ho.
tel Dieu, was at the point Of DEATH Il commits
sary of police repaired TO the lodging of her
husband, painter in porceline in the rue Po-
pincourt, No. 40. In dark closet belonging
10 Wizards lodging he discovered rolled up
rather than stretched, upon heap of damp
sfr n hot, Of