Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-07-17

fagfation, kindled on Saturday nightly
vlllainous incendiary Of this fact
there is not the possibility of doubt
There had been no fire in the White
Church, lately burnt, for more than three
Weeks-there were no matches and no ig-
hitting materials kept in the building
The windows were listened down, the
doors were locked and bolted, and one
found IT, ken openafter the fire commence
ed. But what gives demonstration to the
fact, is, that the fire was kindled inside the
belfrey, high up where fire is never car
rled,-just in that place and among nm
painted and upholstered materials, where
FIRE could most easily be kindled. and
where its extinction would be most diff
cult.
Here then we have in the space of a
few months, the destruction of large
number of public buildings, and OF a vast
amount of property under the following
circumstances.
/. In most of. these buildings, there
was no fire kept, at or near the time,
| when they were burnt.
2. In those in which fire was kept, the
flames in every instance were first discov-
ed in a part where there was the least
probability of danger and where it could
scarcely be supposed possible they should
take from fires lawfully kept in them.
g. 1t is unaccountable that we should
have had more fires in one year, follow
ing each other at regular va!s-than
We have had during the preceding ten or
twenty years, and that each successive
fire, should happen just at the time, when
the alarm and excitement created by the
! preceding one, had died away.
4 All these fires, with two exceptions,
occurred on Saturday night, and almost
upon the same hour of the night. They
did not happen, some at SO and 10
o'clock, and some at or 6 O'Clock In the
morning but almost all occurred in that
portion of the night when it is supposed
that our citizens were most universally
and soundly asleep. Here is a success
sion of fires on Saturday night. This is
The time when loafers, drunkards and 9TH
er vile characters, who live from hand tc
mouth-receive their wages and visit the
grog-shops and have their sprees ana
fToliCS This is the time. and these the
circumstances, in which malice, previous
RI ly existing, is stimulated and rendered
bold and daring by intoxication, and by
the influence of vile companions.
5. Moreover, recent developement
have shown to the satisfaction of all, tina
threats and wishes, and hopes, SC. 70
the events which have happened wer
thrown out by gangs and by individuals
ia anticipation. And such threats ar
still made.-B~rlington Free Press.
STAMMER1NG. Mr.. d. F. Newto
e has opened an institute at the Marlboro
/ Chapel for the cure of impediments
: speech. He has had great success i
: other places. and We would recommen
: to those who are suffering under this gre;
e disadvantage to give him a call. See &C
vertisement in this days paper.-Zion
: Herald.
PROGRESS OF TEMPERANCE. I'll
l. whale ship Newark, of Pough&eepsie,
e now being fitted out for voyage upon th
q temperance plan. She will have no
J quors on board, and On this account. Ii
. company in which she is insured hf
5 agreed to refund five per cent of the DIR,
IS MUM paid.
D On her last passage home, she spoil
9e an English ship bound to the East Indie
e, from which she obtained a supply of Goa
D During the visit of the first officer of Il
OF Newark the English commander offer,
= the captain of the Newark half dozt
Up of wine. The offer was politely declin,
" with this answer, ave are retufn,r
G. from a As months voyage, which has tn
O. far been performed without liquor
lie board, and we would rather not acce
your wine"
c The abstinence Of the officers and ere
as of the Newark, under the circumstance
re Is as unusual as it is praiseworthy.
oy Whaling and switched have so long Ike
lis company, that the divorce is well wor
ay noting.-Poughkeepsie Journal
- - To destroy the White Weed, aohicb
T. T. no,o IN fill bloom IN the fields and pt
" lures IN this 0icinity Nov it down I
~ fore the seed ripens, for several years, Il
:" til the root dies Unless this is done, t
81 seed will be conveyed by the winds a CO
y 80 siderable distance, and scattered over t
-, =. adjoining fields There are other moo
80 &c of extirpating this weed, but it is believ
that seasonabie moving, covered as q
nd the fields in this vicinity, is the only pr
~ ticabIe method.--Portsmouth ~ H. To-
nal.
the AWFUL ACcIbENT. 1t is with m
ons painful feelings that we announce the n
ave ancholy intelligence of an accident VIII
fire occurred in Yorktown on Wednesday,
fire inst The Presbyterian Congregation