Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-01-03
VOL. XI.--NO. 10
A MOTHER AT HER cnlLD,s CRAVE.

contemplating all tnOSe silent teachings a.
round US, when the sound Of many footballs
aroused US from the reverie. We looked up
and small funeral procession was close at
hand, directing lis course toward the place
where we stood, which was indeed, the en-
trance to a burying ground.
-Four lads we're bearing along little cof-
fin, behind which followed the parents Of
the deceased, and few relatives. 1t is
better TO 90 to the house of mourning says
the Scripture but as we had no invitation
thither, we joined the little train, and went
into the city of the dead The procession
paused, and gathered around small grave,
and the customary assistants took the coffin,
and lowered il into the marrow house ap-
pointed unto ALL No Office was said, no
clergyman was at hand TO apply the seal Of
instruction to the soGened heart 10 lead a.
way the thoughts Of the mourners from the
object before them to the contemplation Of
the probable abode of the better portion Of
what they loved, or to make each Of the pa
rents say, with the monarch mourner of old,
Il shall go unto him, but he shall not come
again unto me-
When the lines and other apparatus were
moved from the grave. the bereaved parents
stepped forward TO look down into the mar
row place, and took last farewell Of their
little one. The hardened features Of the
father were distorted by anguish, and he APP
piled his handkerchief to his eyes, which
seemed unused TO tears. The mother was
then led forward. There was less Of distor-
ton on her features She grieved much,
but she wept, aud those tears were for bless
ings. She leaned over the edge ofibe grave
and looking far down upon the unadorned
coffin OF her child. We could see when her
eye first met it. A sensation of sudden
pain was evident for a moment in her face,
but it passed away, and mothers grief,
aud mothers tears were INDUCED. The
friend who had conducted her ihither, and
sustained her there, then quietly Withdrew
her from the position but Just as she was
turning away, we saw a sudden disturbance
Other features, and heard her scream The
husband was at once at her side. Pointing
down into the grave, she said, with shud-
der, there is water there-coId water
The little train walked slowly away from
the grave yard. The mourners were TOO
poor and too humble TO induce a large pro-
cession, and that procession was too small
TO excite much attention. We looked down
into the grave, and some water had, indeed
collected therein, and being displaced by
the coffin, it seemed in larger quantities
than it really was. The poor mother had,
Of necessity yielded to the death Of her
child. In little time she had consented
TO bury the dead out of her sight, and she
had wound up her feelings TO endure, with
only customary expressions of sorrow, the
deprivation aud the last scene that shut for
ever from her sight the child she had borne
and nurtured She had schooIed herself to
a contemplation Of the darkness of the grave,
) and the earthly covering of her child, but
; she was not prepared for the unseemliness
Of the water. A sensation Of coldness,
worse than that Of the grave, come over her,
and, for a moment, she felt as IL her little
one was TO he sensible, amid its decay, 10
the discomforts Of watery grave Let none
E smile at this apprehension. A mother who
has lost her child, will not
The evening sun poured its yellow beams
upon the heap OF earth beside the grave,
. and the particles Of moisture that yet hung
upon the clods glistened with prismatic us-
e tire, as they dropped upon the coffin of the
: little innocent.-U. s. Gazcttc.
! BoLD THEF-On Sunday night last
; some one entered the Bindery Of G. Good
n rich, ESQ.,, aud took several books, but not
!, satisfied with them, he went into the Print
: ing Office where two young men slept, and
o was about leaving with the entire wearing
b apparel Of both and small trunk, when
f one Of them, Mr.. James Horton, about twen-
ty years of age, being awakened by slight
noise, started up, saw the figure of man in
the room, and missing his clothes, called
= upon his companion, and rushed at the fell
low, who gave him blow in the face that
knocked him down. He immediately gath
!. cred, and with the fire-poker gave the re-
treating gentleman few blows, when they
Il grappled and tumbled together down the
= first fight of stairs, young Horton coming
e uppermost at the landing. Here he at
! tempted 10 hold him until the other young
man could get light and come to his as
sistance. But the villain was too powerful
a for him, and after severe struggle effected
il his escape, leaving the stairs strewn with
i books, coats, pants, boots, &C.. and stained
!. with the blood of the combatanis. Horton
9 found himself perfectly naked. having lost
his shirt in the melee, and slightly bruised
. and scratched. but not otherwise injured Ii
n such daring villains infesi our village il may
: be well for people TO look to their locks,
: and see where the 6re-poker lies before re-
tiring.-Burlington Free Press.
', We learn from the Temperance Journal,
that at the late session of the Municipal
u Court in Boston, more than serenity rumseE-
: iers, of all grades from the highest to the
: : lowest, paid the penalty for the violation Of