Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-01-08

ton, who recently burned his own house over his
head and persisted in the fire, did it in fit of de-
lirium tremens The last Green Mountain Free
man gives an account of horrid affair in Ran
dolph: man named Cain and his wife were indul-
ging in drunken orgies, when the former went of
for more rum, and on returning found his wife dead
burning on the floor
GooD.-The Caledonian (St Johnsbury) COM
menced the new year enlarged in its dimensions
and in new suit.
GONG WEST TO A GRAVE YARD-From an adj
dress, recently delivered before a Lyceum in Con-
cord ~ H., by Professor Hadduck, of Dartmouth
College, we take the following extract:
ale said, one half of those who emigrated
West, soon found grave in the soil from which
they had dreamed of digging gold, and the major
ity OF the other half would have been better off
had they remained among the granite rocks of their
native State"
O. The Wings of Nashua have presented the
publisher of the Telegraph a new patent card press,
handsome and substantial compliment
o. The Mails are shockingly inconstant and
irregular; the New York mail, due daily, has of
late failed about half the time owing, it is said,
will not understand that the quickest way to get
here is via Boston village" We suspect he vents
his Dutch spleen against Boston upon the unofTen-
ding mail bags On Saturday we received New
Orleans papers of Dec. 3 and Dec. l7-only a
fortnight apart.
o. On our first page is specimen of drunken
wit which thSeditofxsid not mark for insertion.
However it points to the grave truth that rum ru-
ms mems best intentions
FARMERS Save rswingle-tow. 1t is worth
$50 per ton delivered at our paper-mill, payable in
school and blank books writing paper, newspapers,
&c. As you come to the village, put on load of
swingle-tow or rags; "apenny saved is two pence
earned"
O. "Gen Sir George d. Cooke, NJ D., LII d."
is queer man, as his titles coat of arms and ad-
vertsement show; still, we have the warrant of the
most respectable papers of Albany for saying that
he is physician very eminent for skill in the class
OF diseases to which he is especially devoted A
word in reference to the admission of advertise
ments of this kind, and medical advertisements gen.
orally. 1t is not to taste; yet diseases exist
among men, the penalties of crime and vice, and
they are not confined to the guilty only Who
shall say that this plague, as well as others, ought
not to be stayed, far it is within the means of
human skill? We dare not say it. The principle
would exclude remedial means for nine tenths of
human Diseases which are but the fruits of violence
in some form done to human nature.
FoREIGN PRorEsTANr TELEGRAPH AND Euro
PEAN [STELLIGENcER: Boston, published by NJ. A.
Dow and Il. p. Brown-$l for 26 numbers We
are happy to see such paper started; while the
Catholic emigrants to this country have several pa
pers, it is we'll for the Proestants to avail them
selves of one suited to their tenets.
MARBLE CEMENT. An approved cement is AT.
tracing attention among builders. 1t Is formed of
plaster OF Paris, (Sulphate Of Lime) and Alum.
Common boiled plaster is stepped in solution of
alum, and recalcined, when it is fit for use. This
cement is incapable of enduring the weather, and
is principally esteemed for the beautiful stucco
which it forms, and which, form its great hard
ness and 6rlaney Of SURFACE face bears very near
ply ipparting lhs desired hue to the water used in
mixing it. 1t is susceptible of very high polish,
and Is extensively used for interior decorations
whenever its existence and the knowledge of its
composition are known.
The val of China. Schegel, in his Philoso-
ply of History, speaking Of this stupendous fabric
says Such is the height and thickness of this
wall, that it has been calculated that its cubic con-
tents exceed all the buildings in England and Scot
land or again, that the same materials would serve
to construct wall of ordinary height and moderate
thickness, round the whole earth"
Jeremy Taylor, speaking, of the widow ola black
smith who was constantly laboring to procure the
necessares of life, thus beautifully pourtrays her
character:
"Thus she lived, poor, patient, and resigned
Her heart was passion-hower, bearing within il
the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ. Her
ideas of Heaven were few and simple. She reject
ed the doctrine that it was the place of constant
activity, AMI not of repose and believed that when
she at length reached il, she should work no moro
bat SIT Arrays IN clean white apron, and sing
pSa'ms'
File your Newspapers. Every person who takes
newspaper land especially a weekly paper SHOULD
keep files of it, and every two or three years, ge
them bound. Every man who does This, leaves
valuable book TO his children, who will respect biz
memory and value the bequest more than ten time.
lis cost. a volume OF newspapers sixty years Ole
would now sell at more than cost any where. A
newspaper is the very best history of the time
which can be found and after long time they arr
resorted to by scholars and antiquarians with grea
interest.
Ye Bnwise parents who are so very anxious t,
see your offspring walking alone, bethink ye wha
rainbow shaped legs you may give your little one
by trotng them too early. We little boy
about fifteen months old, dragged through Wash
ington Square, yesterday, by his nurse, at brlsl
trot. His little body supporters were knockin!
their pedal extremeties at every step, while hi
knees were some six inches assunder; sight pain
full to behold, and criminal on the parents part"
HoRRBIE.-Tle dwelling house Of Nh VIM
Mangum, IN slaury County, Tenn, was de
stroyed by fire on the 9Th ultimo, and two of hi
little sons, one four and the other six years of age
! fell victims to the flames
STILL soRE sO.-A similar calamity happened
at Redbank township, i'll Armstrong county, Pa.
on the 9th ult., by which four sons of MIR McClel
Ian were burnt TO death-the eldest being Is ant
the youngest years old They were sleeping II
an upper room of log house, in which there wa
no window, and hence all the efforts of the fathc
TO rescue them were unayaIng.
Where the true preacher is at work, you vii