Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-04-20

acre, and sells for 50 30 per bushe:.
Large quantities of mustard are now i'm
ported from Europe Tenn. Gazette.
Fatal AFPRAY.-The New Orleans
PIeayune relates another ofthose shocking
ARRAYS which too often disgrace the South
and Southwest. A man named Michael
Carr got into difficulty with hands of the
steamboat Madison, who put him ashore.
He challenged any one of the party to
fight, and some of them having followed
him, armed with billets of wood. general
fray ensued, in which Carr was left for
dead on the Levee. and two Others danger
ousl " beaten. Carr died shortly AFTER
wards, and one Of the others, said to be his
brother, cannot survive. Some OF the par
ties have been arrested.
An hour afterwards, Robert Cotton and
Henry Williams quarreled on board of
another steamboat. Cotton knocked Will
lam down, whereupon Williams ran for
his knife, and 5u,chered Cotton in an
awful manner. His BODY, says the Plea
yune, presented frighful spectacle
twelve or fourteen CORY wounds through
which the vital fluid was fast flowing,
Williams was arrested.
HORRIBLE MURDER-A man named
Jones, shoemaker, in Meade township.
Belmont cnntry, on Saturday last. in a
fit of anger and inloxication, commented
whipping his son. aged about l3 years,
with a switch. Not satisfied with that
he took cane, then a shoe knife which
he used in muilating his head. face and
stomach until he killed him. Wheeling
Times.
NAVAL ESTIMATES. From Parl;a-
men,ary papers, issued on Monday, it ap-
pears that the gross total estimates for the
year 1912 43. amount 10 sc. 92I,587 but
that the total sum required to be voted
ouIy amounts to g6.739,318. The last
vote for the financial year l84l42,
amounted to SOCIALIST.
It is stated that about eighty teams have
for sometime been employed at Bucks
port, in getting cut the ice from their
favorite pond. About ten thousand doll
airs, it is estimated, has been left in that
town from this business alone, the past
winter and spring. The village has
been quite lively. Many of the cellars
there are filled with ice, and it is slowed
about in various ways either already sold
or waiting for market. They will proba-
bly, have enough left TO cool all the lemon.
ade, and make all the ice creams, that will
be wanted for the next six mon.hs.-Ban-
gor Wing.
NATIONAL PERFIDY-PubIic meet
ings have been held in New-OrIeans and
other southern Cities 10 raise money, men
and arms to assist the Texans in their TO-
famous struggle against Mexico. Our
government looks tamely on. Every at
tempt is making to involve this country
10 war with Mexico, in order to effect
its overthrow, and 20 insure the annexa-
ton of Texas to this Union. Will the
freemen of the Norh consent to Sustain
such war! Never! 1t appears that
the Mexican force in Texas was a small
one, and that San Antonio has been evac-
uated, after having been plundered. The
clustering ofthe Texans is terrible, very
terrible. "-L9be7 ator.
ATTENTION ABoLITIoNIsTs - The
| President ofthe United States, used prompt
and energetic measures, when the Nc Leod
excitement threatened war on the Canada
borders. Will you not petition, and that
forthwith, that measures equally prom?
and decisive, may be taken to prevent the
aggressions of our citizens upon Mexico
"a neighboring nation, at peace with US
and that has already suffered greEious
wrong at our hands ?-Nationat A. S
Standard.
We have been favored with the resul
of an experiment made by MIR. Solomo
Allen, OF Panton, VT, in relation to III
number OF sheep which can be KEEP, by tn
farmer at the same expense that he ca
keep one COW. He has tried the exper
ment several months and with two COW:
weighing his hay regularly previous t
toddering. He finds that IL sheep ca
through the foddering season per day, O.
an average 23k lbs, while COW consume
"a lbs. This is the result Of two corret
experiments made for two successive seas
ons.- Yer. Vermoater.
CASE OF Mr.. G1DD1NGs.-On the re
tura of Mr.. GiGdings TO his district, i
Ohio, a public meeting was held, ais
without distinction of party, at which b
was present and gave history of the cas-
: with his view upon it. Resolutions man
fully sustaining him and nominating biz
e for immediate reelection, We're offered b
one of his political opponents and adopte
J by reclamation. So il may be considers
d certain that he goes back TO Washingto
with the strength ofthat whole constit'
l. enev added 10 bis own. H..
GREAT FIRE AT BABYLON, L. Nv
At learn from the Jamaica Farmer that Il
II pine woods at Babylon took fire from Il
-. Il Ii, Island II