Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-08-14

mus lar on their journey. In Cincinna,
sney ieased the land they are about to or
cupy oicolored people. and were provided
WIN means to enable them to reach thei,
destinatlon.-D0ytOn (Ohso) Journal.
HEDRANGEA. It may not be known
TO many of our readers that this flower
which is usually of pink color, may Be
MADE 10 come out beautiful rich blue
oy the simple means of filing the pot o,
oox with the swamp or bog earth. Com
mon garden loan produces the pink. The
discovery ofproducing the blue was acci.
Identally made by friend of ours. bv
whom II was some time since communi.
Gated to US. We have repeated the ex.
pertinent this season with good success
and now name the fact. that the lovers oil
variety may taketh advantage of ii. The
plant should be shifted very early in the
spring. = Watchtoaoer.
Flour at Cincinnati on the 24th ult.
"a 81, wheat Is cents per bushel-N. Y.
Spectator.
At Moscow there are IL market-places
with 1884 shops, 2,805 other shops and
warehouses, 80 dress-makers' and mer-
GERS shops, l. fshmon gers, 70 hotels and
inns, a coffee houses, 90 confectioners.
200 taverns, 10 eating-houses, 239 whole
sale wine merchants, l23 retail wine
shops, 562 manufactures, among which
are 205 for cotton goods, sd for silks, 40
for linens, and 81 for woollens, 20 print
ing.offices, of which 7 belong to the gov
eminent, IL lithograpEic engravers, l65
public carriages, 2,3O4 private coaches,
2, l37 caleshes, 229 phaetons, IO, 229 Rus.
sian carriages, l3,343 sledges, $500
wagons. The club of mobiles was visit
ed last year by 1927 persons, merchants
club by 30,4ll, English club 5l,l0O,
German club l01,755 the Russian thea
ire by 354,69l, and the French theatre by
51,205.
LABoR-sAyING Soar. The following
is recipe for making the labor saving
soap. $50 called,) which is an excellent ar
ticle for washing, and saving of labor
The recipes for making have been sold
from So to $40, and the soap cents per
pound; but can be manufactured for about
two cents. Take two pounds OF sal soda,
two pounds of yellow bar soap, and ten
quarts OF water; cut the soap in thin Sill
ces, and boil all together two hours; then
strain it through cloth ]; let it cool, and
il is fit fer use. Directions for using the
soap:-Put the clothes in soak the night
before you wash, and to every pail of wa
ter in which you boil them, add one pound
OF soap. They will need no rubbing =
merely rinse them out, and they will be
perfectly clean and white,
The Wool MARKET. The wool
trade with which our town has for some
weeks been enlivened, is now nearly over,
and the wool of the country has general
ly passed out of the hands OF the growers
at what are considered fair prices. Most
Of the good clips have been sold at fifty to
fity-fve cents, and some very choice lots
at sixty cents per pound Washington
lPa) Examiner.
AFRAID OF THE LIGHT.-Three Young
brethren, who spent the last winter in ia
maica on account of i'll health were
obliged to return to the United States by
the way of Cuba, Spanish Island, where
slavery still exists. They paid the Span
ish Consul at Jamaica nine dollars fol
passports. He, by the same vessl, wrote
to the Governor Of Cuba, that they were
suspicious, j. e. they were aboliionis.s. OF
a. least he suspeSled they were, and ad
vlsed the Governor to be on the watch
lest they should find out something of the
workings of the slave system. The
| young gentleman unsuspectingly and on
the strength of their passports landed a
Cuba. But as soon as the Governor had
read the ConsuPs letter, in utter disregard
of the faith pledged by the passport, the,
were carried back on board The vesse
and kept under guard, during their sta,
at the Island, The editor ofnhe Mornln.
Journal at Kingston, drily remarks, tha
such an outrage could not have been per
petrated any where else except in the u
nited Statesl = Obertin EVANGELIST.
B, Arkansas. Mag IA, 1889.
i DEAR SIR,-"There is more fe, lin.
in the minds of many of the STAKEHOLDER;
than you would imagine. They adm
that slavery is wrong, and doubt not,
they saw the way open, they would cheer
fully emancipate their slaves. / beliey
they have more feeling on the subjec,
!, and are more willing to admit its sinful
, ness. than the greatest part of the NORTH
/. A great many hold the same principle
with the abolltionists. / know some VIII
! say they are abolitionists Yours, &,
[Oberlin Evangelist.
The Governor of one of the Sandwie
{ Islands has appointed fifteen or twenty il
/, dividuals to SIT in different parts of II
a l x,nd