Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-08-17

l. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.-We have
rarely been more deeply panied than we
were at the relation ofthe casually we are
about to record. On Wednesday, of last
week, the lady of Mr.. William George,
residing on the Liberty Road, eight miles
from Baltimore, placed her infant daugh-
ter, aged about three months. upon bed,
spreading some light scovering over it,
where she left it in gentle repose A short
time alter, servant of the family entered
the apartment with bundle of clothes, and
without perceiving the child, threw them
upon the bed, where they remained until
the anxiety of the mother was excited by
the protracted slumber of her infant, when,
the apartment, she fastened to the bedside,
bat who can describe her agony at finding
her little one cold in death, suffocated By
the weight thus heedlessly placed upon it.
So severe pang paralyzed her every
faculty and rendered her indeed being to
be pitied-and even at the present moment,
we are informed, she can scarcely be made
J to acknowledge the reality of her melan-
choly Observation-Disclosures Clipper.
CoLD WEATHER.-Ont the first of Au-
gust the weather was unusually cold at
Montreal. The thermometer, in the NOR
ming, indicated SO, and in the course of
the day several flakes of snow were seen
TO fall. On Saturday at Montreal there
was a severe storm from the NORTHEAST,
which continued throughout the day
The same day at Whitehall, at noon, the
weather was clear, with the mercury at 90
The steamboat, which left Whitehall on
| Saturday, did not encounter the gale until
she reached Ticonderoga.-N. Y. Spec.
GREAT MoRTAL1TY-Duri the first
six months ofthe present year, the mortali-
" has been great in severa. towns border
ing upon both sides of Connecticut river
in Hampshire and Vermont Up to
the month of May there had been within
a few miles of HarverhilI Coner about one
hundred deaths, principally children
Yhe disorder most fatal has been malig-
nant putrid sore throat Gradually has it
extended to adults, and the disorder is in
almost cases fatal when it falls from the
throat to the stomach and lungs. The
towns of Bath and Lyman, situated on the
New Hampshire side Of the river, directly
above HarverhiII, have encountered NOR.
talitv to an extent equal almost to the des.
truction by the cholera in 1882 in some oil
our cities. Lyman has population oil
1900 and Bath 1000 souls. The number
of deaths from the first ofFebruary to this
time. (short of six months, rhas been sixty
10 Bath, making at the rate Of one death
per year in every fourteen inhabitants.--
Six persons are said to have laid uninter
: red corpses in the same day in Bath. Al
unsua! mortality has occurred among
women in childbed,-no less than thirteen
persons in the same town since the fataI
fever first made its appearance. There
were said to be more cases of fever in Bath
, last week than there had been at any prev,
ious time:-Concord Nv. H. Vssat0r.
The Thames Tunnel has cost two
millions of dollars. 1t is 1900 feet long
and is built in the most durable manner
so that it will last for ages, unless an earth
quake should interfere with it. 1t saves
three miles of travel through crowded
thoroughfares. With the experience &C
qnired in building this tunnel, it is sup
posed a second could be built for one hal
Of the money. Waterloo brige and Lon
don bridge, over the Thames, (stont
, brid9es) cost five millions dollars each.
The URsULINE CoNvENT-We re
dice to see that the State of Massachusctt
is preparing to remove a foul blot from
: her escutcheon, by making Remuneration
l for the destruction Of the UrsuIine Conven
; at Charleston. A report 10 that efec
: from comittee ofthe last Legislature, an
5 which will no doubt be acted upon by lh
e ensuing, is now before us-Courier an
Enquirer. .....-.. ~.-.a
~ We consider this question as standin
!. precisely on the footing of other claim
; for property destroyed by mobs. We
=. we citizens OF Massachusetts, we wou
~ treat it precisely on this principle. IF
II other cases of property destroyed by mob
70 Massac husetts is in habit of idemuifyin
~ the sufferers, or intends to do so in futur
rs then idemnty should be granted for ii
> destruction of the Ursuline Convent, ar
70 not otherwise. We are wiling to p
N Catholics on the same basis with 9th,
- citizens, as 10 rights and privileges, but "
- know of no reason why they should
r singled out. for special favors. We Won
;. ourselves go for law which should NAL
20 the public liable for any and all damas
~ done by mobs. Such a law was passed
Pennsylvania few years since, but o.
impression is that it has been repeaied.-
We There is, however. just as much reast
IF, for IDENTIFYING the coIored people Of Ph
er adeiphia who have had property destroy
ed by mobs, as the proprietors of the Charlt
oil town Convent A difference of color
- religious profession, ought to make
he difference ic the rights OF property, 7