Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-08-09


THE TWO RED CENTS AeAIN.-A
grocer in Clinton County sold drunk,
ard pint of new rum according to law,
and made two red cents clear profit. The
drunkard shot his son-in- law while intoX-
icated and his apprehension, confiae-
tnenI 10 Ill, execution, &c, cost the coun-
ty more than one thousand dollars-Which
the temperate had 10 earn by the sweat of
| their broWsl What say you, Tax-pty-
ers2 Are you willing 10 pay thousand
dollars to enable the grog-sellers to make
two red cents?
But the Larabee case is comparatively
nothing when conlrasteG with recent
transaction about the lst OF July, l843.-
An Indian, one Of those ha.f civilize ed, rum
| loving creatures who abound in the west,
stepped out Of Cataraugus county into
the State OF Pennsylvania, where, it seems
men sell indnlgences to sin as we'll as in
the Empire State; and then filled his peck
ct bottle with real "Red Eye" aud the SELL
er OF the poison made two re-. cents clear
profit again. ~ 49,
While und its maddening influence,
! be went into a farmers house near by
with whom he was totally unacqnainted,
and muir red a mother and five children ::
all that composed that li.lle family, except
the husband and father, who was from
home. When he returned to his little
interesting family what sight met his
eyes enough, it would seem, TO curd-
le his blood and change the man to stone.
| There lay the mother and her five little
ones from ten years of age down 10 in
| fancy, stretched upon the floor swim
ming in blood, and all dead! Oh! what
desolation was there !
''No more for him the blazing hearth shall burn,
Or busy housewife ply her evening care;
| No children run TO lisp their sire's return,
And climb his knee, the enyed kiss TO share. .
| Shall | say it Yes, must, if it does
disgrace Gods image. The Legisla-
tute legalized the sale Of the reason de-
stroying drink the Town Officers sold
the indulgence to kill and the pauper
maker cleared two red cents - Clinton
County Wing.
Beautiful it is 10 see and understand
), that no worth, known or unknown, can
/ die. even 10 this earth. The work an IN.
Known good man has done. is like vein
of water flowing hidden under grouad, Sc
cretlv making the ground green: il flows
and flows, ii join. itself with other veins
and veinlels one day it will start forth as
a visable perennial we'll Carlyle.
AMUSING. An eccentric friend of ours
in Yankee land, distinguished as muct
| oy the originality of his character as b,
his remarkable infirmity of stammering
went into bookstore in Hartf1fd ant
asked lne price ofan almanac. "TweIv,
and halt cents replied the clerk
"Ah." said Mr.. Comstock, ''y-y- you sure
, ly m-m-mistake- Nh. bib bourh
one for 6 Ia /" His" answered tn
salesman, " was torn" "W.wwell, then
! t-t-tear one for me! "-iSt. Louis Ariel
!. A BRAVE Bov-A liule son of MI
Prestwich. of this city, fell into the cana
: on Thursday afternoon, and while its dis
trac'ed mother was pleading, in caia, i
some men, 10 attempt its rescue, lad, un
der twelve years of age, sprang from
considerable height into the water, wit
I bis clothes on, and succeeded in DRAWN,
tie child 10 the shore senseless, but nc
entirely deat.-Prorideace Journal.