Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1840-04-03
NEW ENGLAND STAGE DRIVERS.


|. may moi be known 10 many Of our
readers (saysa southern paper) that stage
driving IN New England is profession,
and a CRACK profession it is too The gen
iletnen of the whip form very numerous
and distinct class which ranks scarcely be.
low any other. The New England. Stage
driver is quite different sort Of a person
from what you meet with in the same Dur.
suit in any other section of the country
genslemanly, intelligent, of superior BUSH
ness habits, $50 much 80 that he is frequent
y entrusted with large sums of money to
make purchases for dralers) well dressed
ollen the proprietor OF the horses he drives
always with plenty Of money for his own
uses ard universal iavoriie on his
route When The hour OF starting arrives,
bis coach IS driven 10 the door, be mounts
The box. takes Tibbands in his goved hands
cracks his whip. and dashes through his
route, drops his reins into the ostler's hands.
and gives himself no further concern of
horses or coach until they are driven to the
door again. for his return passage on the
following day. In the meantime he plays
the gentleman.
We remember one Of ,hese--a clever FL.
low, who formerly drove into Concord, N.
II. He prided himself on the heetness OF
his horses. which were his own. A South.
erner happened one day TO be among his
passengers. Unaccustomed 10 this rauid
rate OF travelling. he demonstrated apains,
what he considered the drivers cruelty 10
his horses. The driver said nothing. but
dashed onward The Southeruer insisted
The driver replied not, but. knowing the
mellle OF his team. cracked up the leaders.
The Southerner grew furious, and finally
swore terrible oaths that he would report
him to the proprietors as unfit for his place.
My dear fellow" said the driver, at last.
you have walked up the wrong passrn.
ger'--,hese horses are my own !" put his
noble animals TO still quicker speed. and
whrled the astonished passenger into Con.
cord al rate he had never imagined could
be travelled BY stage.coach.
a Hint 10 New England Girls Rev.
Mr.. Morrison Of New Bedford. in his Peter
borough centennial sermon. says:
Early in our history, the hand card, the
little wheel and the loom with the hand
shuttle, were almost the only instruments of
manufacture in the place The grandmother
of Gorernor Miller paid for four hundred
acres of land IN fine iaen, made entirely
leretpt getting out the faxl By her O,on
hands" %
Governor Hill, in his Farmers Monthly
Visiier, remarks on the above incident as
follows:
Here is an example for the ladies Of
New England that would be worth follow.
ing. Affected female deIcacy and refine.
ment have surely nurseda race inferior to
the first mothers of our land. We know
not why or how the linen hand wheel has
been thrown aside. II ought 10 be restored.
So ought the farmers of New England 10
keep up the fashion Of growing flax.-This |
article, on well prepared ground, NAV be |
made source Of profit. Where the climate |
is too severe for the growth of the mulberry,
let the experiment oil raising fax be tried |
The family manufacture OF linen will best |
indicate the talen, and capacity Of both male |
and female He must be a good farmer
who knows how to raise a good crop of
flax--to dew rot or water rot ii, and finally |
TO break and clean the fax fiji for the hatch. |
Ell. And the young lady who. under The |
guidance Of faithful mother has hatch elled |
and spun the beautiful fibre upon the hand.
wheel, wove and whiened her damusk linen
her twenty pair Of sheets. with |
double sets of pillow cases. her whi,o frineed |
window curtains. &c will better recommend
herself TO good husband than she who
has had thousands expended in teaching
her the use OF the piano forte. which. If she
ever had a taste TO play. must be thrown
away in day or month after marriage"