Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-08-16
NO. so.
From The Kene5ee Journal.

"'S 70 Soou maxim, Dut It's application
is sometimes questionable We have lately
seen it applied 10 the friends OF Temperance.
who Try to stop other people from drinking
rum. Let every man drink who chooses.
says one,--it is nobody's business but his
own.
Wellthought we, as we laiddown the pa
per- perhaps il must be so-we cannot force
people TO be sober; so as the bell has runr
lor nine, we'll shut up the Office, go home
and go to bed
On our way we heard a tremendous rack
ct IN a low dirty looking building and amid
the din, the shrIll cry of murder was dis
iinctiy heard We rushed in and found a
great ragged brute ola fellow with blood
shot eyes mpling his wife and children
with an old ricketly chair We wrenched his
weapon from him and tumbled him into a
corner, from which he was too drunk 10 ex-
ircale himself speedily We asked him
what he meant by such conduct "What is
thatto you, said he---"let every man mind
his own business"
We cleared for home and went to bed
Abouttwo or three o'clock in the morning,
we were awakened by a rnmpus in the
street There was loud swearing and cries
of take him ofT--he is stabbing me" We
ran out and round two or three Young men.
all very much intoxicated They had been
playing billiards or some other game at a
gambling house till that late hour, and hav-
ing been stripped oftheir money by black
legs, and good deal fuddled wiihal. thew
were in very savage humor and fell out
and quarrelled by the way, We ventured
10 say that the places where they bad been
ought TO be shut up, but one of them indie.
nantiy replied Let every man mind his
own business"
So we went to bed again.
Next morning we went TO pay our taxes.
"liigher than ever" said we "how's this ~
oh" said the treasurer, slhe town has
had SO much to pay for paupers." "WelI,
bnt WI bat made so many paupers2n at was
rum, suppose" We asked an old citizen
II nothing could be done by striking at the
root oil the mattef2 perhaps there might,
(said he,) but then people generally think il
IS best 10 let every one mind his own BUSH
nessn
While we were at dinner that day, a poor
woman, pale, dirty and cadaverous came to
the door. She had two children with her as
haggard as. herself She begged for cold
victuals, old clothes--any thing. She did
not tell her story, because she had been
there frequently before. and told all 10 the
good woman Of the house. We inquired
a6ou. her case, and was told it was pretty
uiuSti IihS nny,utu~rS wrruru ~rr~,sis. =
few miles. Iler husband was poor drunk
en- scamp who spent all the money he could
get for rum, while his wife and children
were fed IN part from our kitchen. Going
liom dinner we met the identical fellow in
the street, and asked him why he did not
leave off drinking and go to work. What
do you think he said Why "Let every
man mind his own business"
Having note to pay in the bank in few
days, we hurried back 10 the Office and began
10 turn over the leaves OF our big ledger, 10
see who owed money which ought 10 be col.
lected. There was Tom Nokes owed Sc
marked G. T. (gone to Texas) Had been
good, outlook to drink, and run away in
debt
Bill Swizzle owed 81 5O-always loved
drop, but was formerly considered moder-
ale dlinker' used to pay for his papers since
sold his farm and went into trade--sold rum,
and was his own largest customer in that
line ; fell ,hrough--now good for nothing.
Ezekiel Swig owes SO 65-once quite
respectable property-dead and estate
insolvent-iarm in the possession OF the man
who sold him his rum
Benjamin Burster, dead-balance against
him OF 80 rs, for paper aud Advertising
broke his neck BY fall from his horse.
Sam. Cocktail died of deirium tremens;
owes forthree years-lost his property by
gambling and drinking family very desti-
tute. Can't ask them to pay any thing.
Well. thought we, perhaps it is right that
every man should attend 10 his own business,
and let tina, OF other people alone, but who is
topay our note in the bank , Have we not
some business in this matter?
A Warning TO Bucks-The Portland
Argus chronicles tie following awkward
accident which happened in that city "A
man in one Of our churches yesterday had
on a new pair of pants so tight that he could
not sit down. And this wasn't the worst OF
it--as he was going home, one ofthe straps
broke suddenly, and with shock which
upse, him into the gutter, to the great horror
of the bystanders. who had 10 cutthe other
strap before they could make him stand err
ect
Ofall the silk humbugs praclised this
season, the cutest, is that of the vender in
Connecticut. who makes his eggs of beese-
wax, which is melted and poured through
fine sieve into water the water is then
poured out, and al the bottom is found
multitude Of first rate silk worms eggs.