Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1852-02-18

~ bill to regulate the sale Of spurious liquors has
been reported to the Indiana Legislature and il is thot
will become law. 1t prohibits the granting of lcen-
provides for assessing fines those selling Civ
ing away intoxicating liquors to minors, and to all other
persons to be drank about the house Clubhouse where
the liquor is sold LIST offence fine Of dollars 3D.
twenty dollars 3d. forty dollars 4th, eighty dollars =
9th and all subsequent offences, hundred dollars the
offender to stand committed until the fines paid
repcved 1t also provides that the wife and all others
injured by the sale of Intoxicating liquors, may maintain
action against the vender who furnishes the liquor.
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The last Of The Christana Trials.-The case of Saml
Williams, the colorcd man charged with misdemcanor,
in giving notice of the coming of Gorsuch and his party
to arrest the fugitive slaves at Chrisana, has been
trial in the District Court of Philadelphia, during the
present week. The case was concluded on Wednesday,
and the Jury after being out all night, returned verdict
of not GUILTY. This, we presume, ends the Chrisana
trials and it is to be hoped effec,uay satisfies
"Southern brethren"
Too cold for the EsheS.-We learn from Capt Stubs
the vgan keeper of the lighthouse Cuttyhunk that
during the cold weather of the last few weeks
shoals of Tautog, backsh, driven out of their
hauns around the rocky lodges Of that island and
ashore in large quantities At Nomnsha Blight Gay
Head, they gathered up along the beach in
loads, and sent TO the New York markets Such an
has not been known since the winter of 1916,
when Buzzards Bay entirely closed over, and per-
passed and repassed the ice during several days
the wnole distance between Elizabeth Islands and the
main land.-.ltio Bedford Mercury
Five children of John Whipple, of Hamilton, Mass
were shockngly burned, few days SINCE by the burst
ing of a spirit lamp. They were sitting round table
studying their lessons, when it exploded and they were
Immediately enveoped in a sheet of fire One ran and
pitched into a drift Three were carried to the
pump and extingushed and the fifth soused into
tub OF butternilk. The youngest child has since died,
and another is in hopeless condition Why ,oU peo-
pie use powder magazine in their familes'
The Jury in the of Mary NJ Hubbard against the
town of Middctown Ct, have rendered verdict at the
Superior Court now in session in New Haven Judre
/ Iinnn in If fho
$780, damages and COSTS for the injuries received by
her the Both Of August, lSI9, defective road,
which said Mddletown bound to keep in good re-
pair.
. The Philadelphia Mint has Just struck gold dollar
coin Of design Itconssts of fiat ring on which
there is superscrption but head, the place for
the head is cut out. This form makes the
veniently large, that it is not liable be mistaken
for three cent or five cent piece
The Governor of Louisiana in his late annual MESA pe
recommends that the Legislature make an appropriation
for the erection of tomb the remains Of the late
President Taylor who a native of Louisiana. The
Legislature also called upon TO make appropra-
ton for the completion of the Jackson monument at N.
Orleans.
! PPPRoPRIATE.-Daniel Webster made speech be-
fore the colonization society at Washington last week
He always repudiaed that wicked scheme till he repu-
dated liberty now he is most suitable and fair rep
resentntive of Colonizatlon-PortlandL Inquirer
! very extraordinary of wholesale murder has
been lately before the of the north of France
The defendant, aged 45 accused with having
ed the death at various times, of less than 40 per-
sons. She condemned to death by the unanimous
verdict of the Jury-nothng wing been brought for
ward in mitigation of the crime she accused of.
The Cincinnati Commercial states the following
shocking circumstances IA half drunken woman
was FORMULATING the streets on Thursday night A
rowdy led her into paint shop Fifth street, and
daubed her face in mere backguard wantonness, and
then took her into bnek where there was light.
The light disclosed the face of his mother %
During the last three years, the wives of nine men
have been brought the Massachusetts State Lunatio
Hospital at Worcester, in consequence of their hus-
bands going to California.
The bill for calling the State Convention To amend
the Constitution of the State of Delaware has passed
both branches Of the Legislature.
distinguished physician has just invented new
pill as remedy for melancholy. 1t is made of STUN
and fresh air in equal proportions, 10 be taken with cold
water three times day"
Scarcity of PreaehsrS-The Norwich Courier states
that there twenty Congre gatonast churches
in Windham county, Ct, and of these eleven with
out pastors.
railway collisions that each train have of the Drec-
tors securely fastened in neat iron chair placed dFeo
! tly in front of the locomotive,
| California widows abundant in Michigan two
hundred married men having left county, and TWEEN
ty others a single village.
Fearful Result of Fright-We copy the following as
another warning against the nexcusable folly of fright
ening the young;-
The Female Seminary at Washington Pa was the
scene of a shocking occurrence few days ago, One
of the scholars had been dressed spectre and in that
condition entered the of another scholar, who
sitting with her back 10 the door.
The apparition stepped forward and leaned over tho
chair. The young lady, hearing noise Immediately be-
hind her, suddenly threw back her head. The moment