Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-03-23
NEWS T'TERES, &c.

NEWS ITEMS, &c.
How TO MAKE MoNEY.-Let the busisness of
every body alone, attend to your own. Don't buy
what You don't want. Use every hour to advan-
tage, and let your leisure hours be useful. Think
twice before you throw away dollar; remember
you will have anotherto make for it, Find re-
creation in looking after your business, aud so
your business will not be neglected in looking after
recreation Buy slow; sell fair, and take care of
the profits Look over your books regularly, and
if you find an error of a cent trace it out Should
stroke of misfortune come upon you in trade, re-
trench, work harder, but never Fly the track
Confront difficulties with unfinchng perseverance
and they will disappear at last Though You
should fall in the struggle you will be honored;
shrink from the task and you will be despised.-
But follow the rules, however, and you need new
er stay failed Pay debts promptly, and exact
your dues. Keep your word. Take good nows
paper and you must succeed.
APPOINT Of safety.-During the comet excite
ment at the south, bright specimen of humanity,
after listening to the stories respecting tbs destruc-
ton of the world, was asked what he intended to
do in such case.
We'll; am going oyerto neighbor GiIIespie's,
he's pretty KNOWN man, and if he says the
worlds goln' to be burnt up, here's what puts for
Canada
Among the Chinese. there are seven grounds of
divorce, of which the fourth is talkativeness in Wo-
men.
FoNDNEss FOR CHILDREN. F0ndness for children
denotes, not only kind heart but guieess one.
A knave always detests chiIdren-ther innocent
looks and open brows speak daggers to him-hc
sees his own vany reflected from their counten-
ances as from mirror. Always mark the man or
woman who avoids children
a fence made. Married at Barnstable, Mass. on
the Oath ult. by the Rev. J. Gates, Mr.. John Post
to Miss Sophia Rails. lfthis match don't make a
fence of the first quality, we should like to know
what stuff wll-Wo rkjqgman'S Press.
There is a minister in Franklin, Ct. who has
been settled over church 60 years He is now 90
yrs. ofage and still breaches.
W Instead of saying to young lady please
to take my ARM you should say in this polite age
WiIlyou cOndoscend so far to sacrifice your conven-
fence to my pleasure as to insert your digitalS
and part of the extremity of your contiguous arm
through the angular aperture formed by the crook
ing of my elbow against the perpendicular portion
of my animal frame.
what were the'dark ages?' inquired the school
master.
i guess they were the ages before spectacles
were invented replied the boy.
A planter in Virginia once owned slave in con.
necton with one Of his neighbor8. He was piou;
man. and often concluded his prayers by saying;
ooh Lord in addition to all the blessing, SIN
ner, have asked at your hands, will you, in youl
infinite mercy and goodness, condescend to bless
my half of Pomp."
A FABLE.-A certain crab, cast upon the shore
by the tide, and eager to regain his native element
was walking, as was his CUSTOM sideways, to the
waters edge. BY the way he met with an eel in the
same predlcament; but he, like most other people
travelled with his head foremost 81 do not see sir
said the eel, "Why you should refuse to conform to
the customs of the world and the habits of society
therefore, will thank you to turn about and walk
like other people," The crab maintained his right
to walk he pleased more especially as it was the
only way in which he could walk The eel persis.
out, and neither party being able to reach the wa
ter backward or forward, they were left to die OF
thirst upon the sand
A death blow to quack-efy, as the man said
when he knocked duck over with a club.
Extraordinarily Cincinnati Inquirer saws
On Saturday evening last, the skin of a negro
boy, apparently about five years of age, was found
floating along down the river, was taken to shore
at the foot of Ludlow-street ltWas found to be q
perfect hide from head to feet, carefully skinned
even to the toes and fingers and as yet without
smell. What tale of brutality is at the bottom of
this extraordinary matter?
Loro-foco matches, ignited by rats, set fire to
Mr.. Parks grocery store, in Philadelphia and des-
troyed the whole stock Of goods.
Teras.-We doubt whether the annals of all
time furnish a more horrible record than the fol-
lowing statement made by President Houston, of
Texas, in late speech SPIT. of Liberty.
81 ask you to go back with me to 'S8. Our in
tercourse with the Indians was characterized by
fragrant VIOLATIONS of justice on our part. They
came among us peaceably and tranquil. When
they returned home, traders went out with them,
packing poison with view to kill all those who
sat down at the first table, for they did not treat
their ladies with quite so much respect as we they
were rather ungallant, land always eat first. What
was the result? Three hundred and fifty Canaan
ches were poisoned and died / Many were poison
ed but recovered The survivors burnt the men
who thus treacherously sacrificed so many of their
people. This was proclaimed as foul massacre
of the Whites ON the part ofthe Indious only mur-
doring traders, who in fact had murdered thom.