Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-01-18
WELLERISMS.

and given us the following
"lts nothing ven you are used to it," us
the old woman said to the cells ven she was
skinning them.
Pm VERY happy 10 meet you," as the
wolf said to the lamb when be met her 10
the woods.
Too much ola good thing" as the hy
said ven he fell into the molasses hogshead
Don't crowd SO )" as the potatoes said to
one another ven they lay two bushels in hill.
You're very accommodating" as the
monkey said to the cal ven he put her paw
into the fire TO scrape out the chestnuts.
90
Outrageous Inqnisition. There is said
TO be young lady now confined in 4 gloo.
my, cold dungeon, in the city OF New York,
on suspicion of having lorer who is impli-
Gated in an extensive robbery. She is kept
on bread and srater too, in the hopes there
by TO enforce her 10 communicate the IN
formation she is supposed to possess-tbus
betrayng the objec; of her love-Such
piece OF inqusition on the part Of the New
York justices deserves the severest censure.
We admire the lady's irmness, and if she
continue the heroic disposition she now
evinces, she will pine and die before she
will communicate one iota of Information
that will tend in the least to betray the idol of
her soul II she should die what will not
the lNoUIsIToRs have 10 answer for2
Mechanically Erent-Last Tuesday,
New Years dayl about O'clock A. Nj.
Maria S. Ridgway most interesting and
Intelligent child, aged years, and daug liter
OF Capt Ebenezer Ridgway, of the u S.
Navy, while at play with her brother of sew.
en- years Of age, in the parlor. approached
near the FIRE, when she remarked TO her
brother that it seemed TO her that clothes of
some kind were on fire; and at the same
instant discovering them to be her own, she
ran TO the door TO meet her mother, who had
Just gone down stairs. and the moment the
cold mir met her, it set her whole an
parel in fame, and before her mother
could smother the flames the clothing was
entirely consumed and her body dreadfully
burned
Mrs r. was badly burned, as was also
servant giIl, in their attempt TO save the lit
tie sufferer. The lovely child fingered IN
I'll about o'clock the next morning in full
possession of her senses. reminded her moth
er halfhour before her death that her late
y deceased little brother was three years
old when he died. that her own age was
now five, babe them "happy nep gears"
aud expired. She was lovely and be.
loved child.and deep indeed is the wound her
death has made in the hearts OF her afflicted
parents.-N H. Courier
GEoReIA.-Mr. Towards resolutions
against National Bank, and in favor of a
dlsconnection Of the public money from the
Banks, have passed both branches of the |
Georgia Legislature. In the Senate the
votes stood-45 for and 90 against the res I
olnlions. The majority for the resolutions
IN the House of Representatives was about
20. These resolutions are very moderate
10 their tone, having been shaped with es.
pecial reference 10 the votes OF State Rights
Wings most of whom voted yea.
miraculous Escape Three gentlemen
while crossing the covered bridge into TIC
g.! Pa were precipiated, by the horses ia.
King right, down an abutment Ii feet high
where the carriage was completely crushed
on the stones and ice, and one horse killed
outright yet not one of the gentlemen in
slightest degree hurt.
Suicide u 1t pains us to announce, saws
the Louisville Journal OF the 3lst uIt., that
Lieut.. s. 1'ibbatts of the u. S. army,
young officer of highly respectable stand
ing cut his throat in this city on Saturday
evening" and died Immediately afterward.
II appears by a recent debate in the ILL
nois Legislature that it is not unusual for
contractors on the public works to supply
the workmen with iohiskey. and charge It /
under the name Of fuel!
Ahead cfthe Mummies. They are show
ing Lots wife in one Of the Eastern cities.
Sheis done up in salt and said to be the gen.
uine article.
Speculation. The latest adyices from Eu.
rope state that there is swinder at Amsler-
dam, who is endeavoring TO sell the bills of
the broken Lafayette Bank of Boston 1 !