Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-06-15
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Balance unpaid last year,
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Excess Of expenditures, 1914 DC
The receipts have been $4,000 above
the expenses of last year, and the expendi-
lures $500 The Society originally con.
sisted of 400 members, now it numbers g.
000 The Report was accepted and or
dered to be printed. -s.....~-.......
After the reading Of the Report, Rev.
DIR. Edwards addressed the meeting with
great power and eIoquence Tor thirty min
utes. His address was sound, judicious,
and strong appeal for all to engage 10 the
Temperance Reform. In the course of
his remarks, he noticed the rise and=prog-
ress of the cause in most interesting
manner. The meeting was also address
ed by the well known advocates of the
Temperance cause, John Hawkins and
Charles Jewett Il .s~-....
Observation-Disclosures from Athens
ofthe 18th of April state that several vio-
LENT shocks of an earthquake were felt 10
various parts Of the Peoponnesus.; on the
18th, at Sparta, the shocks lasted from IS
to 80 seconds each. The Inhabitants ran
Terrified out Of their houses. On the
same day, and IN the course of the night,
four or five siighter shocks We're exper-
fenced. Beyond The Enrotas an immense
rock fell from Mount Menelas, near the
village of Drouchas. An old tower stu
ated in the town of Magoules was thrown
to the ground. AT Mis.ra the soil tren.
4 bled with more violence than at Sparta
and a portion Of the Hellenic College ane
several houses were destroyed. The wa
/ ter of.the springs and wells became turbid
and an enormous rock, having detached
/ itself from the summit of old Mount Mis-
ltra, rolled with terrific noise into the town
At Chamet the first shock, felt al half pas
9 o'clock lasted between 40 and SO sec
onds, and there were ten others. from tha
3 hour until midnight. at intervals of tire,
quarters of an hour. Most of the house.
were damaged, and several in the neigh
s borhood actually gave way. Upward 0
fifsv dwellings were thrown down at Are
opolis, and fifteen towers crumhIed a
s. GtvIus. Many persons were buried IN
der the ruins oftheir houses in the prov
ince of Mama. At Androusa severa
churches fell In On the 25th ult, {
about 4 o'clock, A. NJ, another shoe
was felt at Patras. which lasted minui
: and half The Courier Gree annount
es that red rain had fallen at Tripolitz
and elsewhere, and that the Minister ,
the Interior had collected in formation +,
speeding that phenomenon, which woul
be submitted 10 the examination of lhean
ical board.
q GREAT FIRE At STEYER.-A le.te
a from Steyer, manufacturing town
Austria. with 10000 Inhabitants. gives a
account of dreadful FIRE at that plac,
1 The letter. which is dated the 9TH ms
Y and is published BY the Augsburg Gazett
g says Ga the Sd. at four in the afte
r noon, violent con6agration burst forth
3 the fanbouTg of SteyrdorE The fame
excited by high wind, made rapid pr
gress. and BIZ the next morning, atslx, d
y less than 243 houses were reduced 10 as
: es. We are surrounded with ruins; d
g streets are filled with dead bodies. and "
!, men and children are uttering cries OF q
$ SPAR. The working classes are the pr
|" cipal sufferers By this catastrophe. Sc
eTal hundreds are reduced TO beggary.