Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-06-19
MONT TELEGRAPH

There are four thousand female teach
ers now actually engaged in the Common
Schools Of Observation-Disclosures Press
and Post.
DECIDEDLY MAD.-A northern editor
says that he entertains hopes of getting
all that is owed him by his subscribers
Boston Press and Post.
REMARKABLE PRESENCE OF MIND IN
A BoY.-Two boys, the eldest IL years
OF age, spent last Friday afternoon in
fishing. and at the close of the day were
amusing themselves on the bank of a
river which passes through that part of
East Brldgewater, Mass, called Joppa.-
The bank caved, and the eldest boy was
preclpltated into the water. He could
not swIm-the water was deep and the
current rapid. Ele appeared to be car
RED under the water by the current The
younger boy with great presence of mind
introduced his fshing-pole into the stream
hardly dreaming that any preservation
could be effected. Having kept the pole
Ia the water moment, and moving it
cautously-he soon fancied something
was attached to ii, and drawing the pole
IN, he found to his great surprise that his
companion had hold Of ii. He drew him
to the bank, and by his own exertions got
HIN upon the main land. He was speech
less and almost or quite inSensible The
)neighbors were Immediately called and
by their seasonable and discreet exertions,
the life OF the unfortunate lad was saved
Mercantile Journal
THE CRoPs---Tne Albany Daily Adj
vertiser says, that gentleman who has
traVersed the greater portion Of the State
between Utica and Buffalo within the last
fortnight. assures US that the prospects of
very heavy wheat crop were never
more fattering. We learn from the same
source that there are large quantities Of
flour and grain in Michigan and at the
different ports on Lake Erie, on their way
to New-York via. Erie canal.
The proprietors Of the Great Western
Steam Ship have declared an annual div
idend of 9 per cent. with $4,000 on hand,
as contingent fund.
The conductor of the Gardeners Mag
l
daily experience, that strong lime-water
will kill every kind Of caterpillar, and
even worms, snails, lizards, frogs. toadS,
snakes and fishes.
The aggregate amount of the national
debt owed by the different European DOW
ers is 34,4O6,7 dollars, to meet
with their specie circulation is 7,O83, 094,-
| nj b,,E E,ti<1 90
Of the debt, Great Britain owes seven
} twellths, with about one-half OF the whole
specie in its possession.
Sales Of timber for six weeks, ending
with the 29th ult, in Maine reached IA,
990,964 feet. 1t is estimated that the
operations of the season, will amount to
f 5O,00O,OO0
In 1900. there were in the limits O
Illinois about 5000 souls. By the censu:
of 1920, there were $4,000. The mex
census in 1880, exhibited 157,455. Anc
five years after this, according to the State
census, the population was 289,794.-
Such are the marches to empire Of tn,
great west
AT the recent session of the U. S. Cur
cult Court In Mississippi, there were
; twenty-seven hundred cases on the docket
The fees of the Clerk of the Court fo
the session were upwards Of $4,000.
: One of the dukedoms of Germany, con
! tanning an area of about ten square miles
i is held by the late Duke. The eldest sol
: and heir is a farmer in Warren county
it Missouri, and refuses to leave his farm
it for ducal crown, with ten square miles
a fall Of subjects to maintain its dignity.
d The New York Post, in speaking 0
I Professor Espy's Lectures, says
; "He is no visionary weaver Of fanciful theories
S but of science, and patient questioner Q
V nature"
!. La his first Lecture Mr.. Espy gave
o beautiful theory Of hail storms, shown,
IS them to be produced by ascending col
: umns of rarifed air, which expand pro
IS digously as they rise in the atmosphere
l. and throw off the hail on each side, for
,e the edges of the cloud, and not from il
j centre. 1t is owing to this cause that ha
storms fall, as is observed to be the CASE
. in tracts with intervals between them.-
: Boston Press and Post
s 1t is wonderful that a person so extrem
ID ~ critical as is Mr.. Fennimore Coope
d, should himseff exhibit in all his writing
r so many deplorable errors in his comma
" tongue. Some gentlemen express the
It's doubts, whether, in all his voluminot
lat works, the reader can fad thirty consec
IS, tive lines of good English The folio,
nd ing, from a description of the burning
. the Philadelphia, in the harbor of Tripo
we quote from his late work ant the Anne
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