Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-04-13
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woman in Montreal, received Bible from
the British agent in that city. A Roman
priest. hearing of the circumstance, made
visit, intending to deprive her of the
precious gift. He offered five dollars for
the Bible. She declined taking it. He
then offered her ten, and aftcrward fifteen
dollars; she slil1 declining, he left her
The next day he returned and offered her
twenty FIVE dollars She accepted the of
fer, and with the money purchased TWEEN
ty.five Bibles, which she distributed among
her destitute neighbors, under such cobdi-
tons that the priest could not obtain them.
Governor Ellsworth of Connecticut has
signed the Washing1onian pledge.-.Maine
| Temperance Gazette. .~:.--.. -. y,
One of the effects Of the Temperance
Reform ia Portsmouth, has oeen 10 reduce
the salary of the police officer from SIS
10 S25.-B. ==-~ i ss1
Father Mathew is still at WORK in the
good cause Ia January last, be admin
lstered the pledge TO more than ten thou
sand in one day.-Ib. III: -.
An elderly lady in New York was in
the habit of reading in bed. Recently the
bed clothes took fire from the candle, and
she was so badly burned that she expired
soon after.-Ib. ...@-s# il. n"
! The Thames Tunnel is to be opened
for the public, on the "a or Sd week in
| April.-B. ..-@
! AN Iron CHuRcH.-The Little town
| Of EVerlon, near Liverpool, contains a
monument unique OF It's kiud, it is chnrch
entirely made of east iron. This building
is l19 feet long and 48 feet wide. The
plates of which it is formed we're cast in the
! foundry ofthe Mpssrs. Gaehome Brothers,
Liverpool, and are covered with Ornaments
4 In relief in the gothic style. There is 10
be erected npon this church steeple also
of cast iron of which the different paris
! have just been modelled. ~. .s- -
/ DR.. Franklin observed 1.-THE eyes oil
other people are the eyes that ruin US.
fall but myself were blind should want
neither fine houses nor fiue furniture.''
The CHINA AsTER.-"I planted it
with my own hand" said my lutte sister,
holding up the withered China Astpr,
| plucked up by the roots-s'I covered it
from the sun, | watered il night aud morn
ing, after all, (wiping her eyes with the
corner OF her froek,) after all, 1T is
dead r. i zs.*.- ~. IL. IL .......... !.
+ Alas how many are the occurrences
in life, thought |, which resemble Mary's
flower. Too easily believing what we
wish, we adopt some pretty trife, and lay.
ing il. as it were, in our bosom, love it
''as daughter""-fancy prints it in gay
colors; increasing in beauty, we see lis
leaves expand, and trace it's progress with
anxious solicitude from the swelling bud to
the full blow and then, when we are
| fondly expecting TO enjoy 1t, reality tell US
E-Gfter all. IL IS dead! -..-....1 z4.r.....
How often does a beloved son or daugh-
ter engloss all the cares of their parents,
and wind themselves round every fiber of
their heart-to cherish The idol is every
wish on the stfeatc h-to indulge it are all
the rarilies of art and nature procured
sIeepIess nights and anxious days are their
lot; and, 10 when they hope to see the
end OF their bors, struck by the hand Oh
disease, or defaced by the COMMUNICATING
touch OF vice, the aeoaizing parents fnd,
latter all, ii is dead! T.. ..:.-. ....