Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-04-13
/, the res, nav % cents apiece to sustain the


of Eve 10 family. These families pay,
on an averag So cents a year 10 postage,
equal 10 the postage, Of one weekly news
paper TO family. aud one letter year
to every three families. Deducting the
college postage, and the average would be
SO cents to each family. equal to three let
ters to family, or one letter to family,
and one newspaper 10. two families. II is
TO be borne in mind, that this must be the
foil measure Of the intelligence received in
the district from abroad, inasmuch as there
are no country papers TO be circulated BY
post riders, such as are found in the en-
lightened paris of the country.
| 8. 10 Judge ofthe prospect of future i'm
provemenl. we look at The table ofschools,
and find that ia population of 52.923
there are 70 schools, educating 1853
lschoIars. of whom 387 are taught a, the
public charge. The scholars are S per
cent Of the whole population, or per cent
of the white population. The proportion
of scholars TO the whole population in the
whole State of New York is very nearly
81 per cent. 49,:
II is to be borne in mind that this is not
aNdark and secluded region, but the oldest
settled country in the United States, in the
heart ofthe Union, on the seaboagd, and
has always boasied of being the seat of,he
most refined and enlightened arslocracy
III the Union. the home Of the President
of the Uuited States, Of the Secretary of
the Navy, oflhe crack orator oil Congress,
OF President Dew and Professor Tucker
the eye. of the republic. ..-.
I The Fly AND POISONED TEA
Look at the flies around your table of a
summers day How countless their
number! how quick their flight Now
they are here then on the other side of
the room. and soon, perhaps. they fly out
OF an open window and disappear forever
How amazing is the greatness of His
providence, who watches over them alt !
The interesting manner in which he brings
great results from seeming rifles, is Illus
trated by the story am going to tell you
of the fly and the poisoned tea. A certain
man who had an excellent wife, was so
wicked as to kill her. He had promised
when he married her, that he would love
and cherish her In sickness and in health.
Ii he had fulfilled this promise which he
made before God and men, they might
have been happy pair. But ne began
to indulge evil Thoughts towards her. He
would rot be pleased with any thing she
did, and at length he made up his mind to
put poison in her tea. Thus a person
may be led into the greatest sins, if he
yields to Satan's temptations and cherishes
feelings OF hatred. "
! After she had poured out the tea one
night, he contrived to put some poison
into her cup while she was attending 10
4 something else. While he was waiting
with emotions of guilt and fear, 10 see her
swallowthe fatal drink and sink, death smt-
ten TO the floor, he heard some one knock.
He rose and stepped to the door to see
who it was. What arm OF Gods could
then save The afectionate wife, and punish
the murderous husband ? He did both.
He so ordered il that the wife's affection
for the guilty. wretch should save her,
while he was taken ia his own net.
/ The wife saw fly fall in her husband S
cup. She took it to herself and put her
cup--the poisoned cup, ia its place. The
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mislrusting- The change, but soon felt the
effects of the poison. aa..:..=
/ !" Did you change the cups of tea 2"
said he in alarm. .~....... .. .
Yes, my DEAR" she replied, "a fly
got into yours" ... i, .....=.,. 49,. :,
Then am dead man." said he, and
he confessed his awful guiltlo his wonder
ing wife - acknowledged that God had
punished him justly, and soon after died in
dreadfula agony.
Reader, never devise evil even in secret,
for God knows how TO punish you for it.
Sabbath School Monitor.
; Bishop Watson found that even when
; there had been no rain for considerable
time, and the earth was dried by the parch-
Jag heat Of summer, it still gave out con-
siderable quantity of water. By invert-
ing large drinking glass ON close
mown grass plat. and collecting the vapor
which attached to the inside Of the glass,
be found that an acre 0: ground dispersed
into the air about 1900 gallons of water
in the space Of IL hours of a summers
day. sa
| Evil. EFFECTS OF TIeHT-LAcING.-
A late Liverpool paper. states that a
coroner's inquest was held at Chard, upon
The body of . young lady fifteen years old,
who dropped dead in the street from the
bursting of blood vessel OF the lungs.
caused by tight-lacing Of her STAYS. MIR.
Spicer, The surgeon who op ned the body,
atated that the deceased bad died from The
effects oftig ht-lacing, andlhepressure of,he
bone Of The stays ubon her chest. He
also gave il as his option that manv Of
the sadden. deaths of young females were
could by the overlacing of their saws,