Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-08-21
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The cars recently. wc overheard a conversation
that enlightened us some as TO the nature OF
various popular drinks. A young man had a
bottle containing a pint or thorcabouts OF
some dark colorcd liquid. which he was oN-
mbting Co his friend. and onlargng confdch-
TALLY on its great virtues. 10 evidently had
in one respect the power of the long sought
philosophers stone, that of transmitting
things into gold We gathered from the
young mans talk that be kept what is popu-
larly called restaurant, somewhere in the
country. cheap liquors being the principal re-
storativcs administered 90 his customers. lie
had lately obtained !he oil from which brandy
is made, and found that he could make the
article "all-frod cheap and just as good as
the best Ills friend seemed TO have some
doubts as TO the character of the wonderful
compound, and the honesty of selling 10 in %
diluted state for pure liquor. But what's
the odds said the bottc-holdcr. "Alight
as well make 30 myself as Co buy il ready
made m Neu lork-savo Che profits. You see
and It's iust as good as any other liquor
there is going nowadays. There was some
thing in his argument, certainly. If man
could honestly and honorably sell such vile
and destructive compounds at all, he might
as we'll make them himself as to share the
profits of the transaction with the Now York
liquor manufacturers.
The extent Co which the business Of coun-
torleiting liquors is now carried almost exc
cecds belief Rev. Dr. Mott, of Now York.
said, some time since 81 had friend who
had been once "A wine dealer, and having read
the startling statements made puolc IN reI9-
non TO ne brewing OF W'nes' ana tne aau'-
'eia,loh OF othei Hqu ors gener'ily,i inquire"
OF inc Illen' as 10 tne worry ol 'nc'e STAGE
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IuprcRors ScENu.-The following udi-
crous scene is copied from am article i'm the
April number of Blacllwood, entitled RE
monstrance with Dickens.
One of the most shameful recollcctions of
our almost irroproachable life lies at the door
of the mad war Dickens. We were attend
inc service i'm cathedral i'm a citv where we
were a stranger. and had been shown into a
pcw already occupied bv two respectable old
ladies. For time we behaved with our
wonted dccorum. tin some absurditv. COM
mittod bv the elder Weller. of which we had
been reading the night before. rose nm TO
haunt us. Had we been I'm the omen air. a
GOOD laupb would have relieved MS. but cnb-
biuod. cribbod. confined. MS II was. thc ri.i-
bilitv cxpandod fin our form svnlied ,isiblv
our face grow purple. and ve saw a medical
man in the neyt now feel i'm his ,yaiscoot noel,
ct as he apyiouqlv watched the veins of our
forehead. The coral symphonies off the ana
them invested Mr.. Weller's IMAGE with fftv-
fold absurditv. blending him as thrv did i'm
his ton boots and shawl. with ANGELS over
brigbt and G,ir Dosn,ir;n., ,f o,r ol,iI;t, IN
,rogo,t an os,los;on .rd 4, .li,,.. 1,o d..,..or
bcconino each moment i,,.,incnt for indio
rpbber itsolf npst have .,;,,,, was, ',rd.r t,o
accommodation, ,,ross,ro No. s,J,iort, Ii,.ol
with opr boad updor t,o a. HI ~, ,,I;cb ra
praver-book rested. and .,obod silentl,.
while our tears drowned l;i raip pnop tho
foot-sfool
We were beoinnino to ,,o,y c,lp, who,
looking round we saw tho ty,o old lodios ro.
parding us with mons horror tbropgh tboir
spectaeles. and siding off I'm tbcir avn and M
the new This set us off ogoin and down
went our head in n vain. ostrich liTc otfen,nt
at concealment for our shoulders and back
convulsively aoitntod from, name to y,ristbord
told of the internal struggle, TO say nothing
OF sounds that occasionally broke FORTH no
ways resembling the responses Conscious
that prebendary and preccntor were regarding
us from their ominence' we again raised our
head with desperate gravity and shall never
forget the agony OF shame with winch we be-
held an aged verger sternly approaching,
while two chuFch-wardens were quitting their
pews with the faces OF men determined to dis
charge palniul duty Nc'ertheless' at tine
lnsugauon OF ola Weller OH we went again
IN nj now qm'e euololo' ana were eVent"-
any maiehea Gown the center aisle between
rows oil iaces hAed IN oeNout horror with ow
hal,"ercI'ei ciuIhiheu nearly uo"h our thfual
ana "G'efy eyes starting out OF our mead IiN'
Iahu-crao $, ana so turning corner ou
uhuei 'ne olo 0aNoh afch-"ay INTO inc chutch
Yaru' "hore we cAaSpeiHteu the Nefger an'
ehurch-Wardens TO irenzy' sitting down ON
tombstone ana giving luI vent to our mlrth
1 NeN' gay All repentant, we waited upon thu
u'oh, Who' hlihseH rex lcRlon' gave u
aosoluuon IN the most KIN ily way, and W.
morocco and yold with tbo i,scri,t;o, ..fr,,
n nopitont Sobb,tb brookor ,,bic, f. 20 III
day eonsnicuous ON a sbolf of tbo Tniscon,
library