Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-03-26


entirely Of wood except the rims Of the
wheels, which are sheet-iron. The boxes in
which the axletrees ran, were simply holes in
the frame, lined with pork rinds. The whole
thing, with the exception of the wheel frames,
was so constructed that it could be taken
apart and piled up in the owners shed. lie
has been in the habit Of running the car for
some time, making trip almost every night.
Il would take three cords at time, and Myn-
heor was carrying on a brisk business, in op-
position TO the wood markets.
EXAMINE THE DosE BEFORE You TAKE
rr.-We learn that on the lth inst, Mrs. Ba-
ker wife Of ~ Baker, of Fairlce, came near
losing her life under the following circum-
stances 1T seems that Mrs. Baker being
somewhat indisposod. wished to take dose
Of EPSON salts, and not having the article on
hand. her daughter, Mrs. Leslie, repaired to
the drug store and procured what she suppos-
sed to be the desired article and returned
home with it, On arrival, [it being just at
dusk, the patient, without examining the
package, took some four or five teaspoonfulls
of the medicine. and after short time she
began to experience severe pains at the stom-
ach, which led 20 am immediate examination
of the drug She had partakon Of when to the
astonishmcnt of all IL was found that the
package contained SAFE pdcc! instead of epsoH
salts. a ncighbor's wife was Immediately
called, who had the presence of mind to adj
minister an cmctic. and n a short time the
patient was relieved and her life saved
Druggists cannot be too careful in dealing
ont medicines. and no person should take
them without first examining the article they
arc about to ake.--Bradjord Union.
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THE CHrNEsE CHARAcTER.-Rov. J. c..
Boocher, soamans chaplain at Hong Kong,
expresses the like opinion with Bayard lay
lor of the Chinese character lie writes to
the Sailors Magazine as follows:-
81 am more and more disgusted with Chi
nese character every day China is moral
Golgotha for sailors, and physical, too. 1t is
heart sickening to see and hear, from day to
day, the effects of vice and immortality. and
mournful to walk over grave yards whore
row after row of stoncless graves tell how
many friendless wanderers have fallen by the
way. and laid their bones in a strange land.
The Chinese arc a lying, thieving, licen-
tious race, dofling everything which comes in
contact with them, dccoiving from natural
instinct to deceive. 1t aggravatcs me beyond
measure TO see so much expended here to
Christiaui1o the Chinese, while in the whole
Of India and China, SO far as | know, Shang-
hal excepted, sailors. our own people, are all
adri1, robbed, diseased, plundered and muir
dered by these miserable hcathcn."
PRoBAnIE FATAL AccGnENr.-In Corn
wall about two miles from this village. on
"Wednesday oflast week, young man named
Henry Charter, in sliding from a hay-mow
came upon a horse-rake, an old fashioned re-
volycr) standing upon the ends of the teeth
One tooth entered the inner part of the thigh.
and passed up into tho cavity of the abdomen,
causing rupture of the rectum, lie has
suffered intensely, and we understand there
is no possibility of his ocovcry.-Mddiebwy
Register.
THE CASE OF JupGE LoRrNG.-The Mass
achusctts House of Representatives has adopt
ed, l27 to l0l, an address to the Governor,
for the removal Of Judge Loriug from his Of
fee of Judge Of Probate for Suffolk County ::
first. because Of his offence against the moral
sense Of the Commonwealth in the fugitive
slave case Of Anthony Burns where he pre-
sided Commissioner. and gave legal
doubt against the negro and second, because
he refuses to obey a Jaw of the State making
it Incompatible for a man to hold a State Of
fee and at the same time United States Of
fee which requires him to do the business of
slave-catching for the Southern planters
The address now goes to the Senate.
~ 1t is computed that in the Crimean
war the British army lost by the sword, by
disease and other contingencies Of war, one
hundred and eleven thousand, one hundred
and thirteen men, and that thirty-seyen thou
sand, four hundred more wcro left invalds for
life. What will be the loss of human life in
India, for five or ten years, commencing with
the outbreak of the mutiny there The an
swor would be saddoning exhibit of war S
morciless thirst for victims.
DoN'r CANE FOR THE PEOPLE. - Tho
Washington Union, in an article ON the Lo-
compton Constitution, says -
1--WE don't care whether the people like or
dislike the constitution. We are unwilling
to take any more testimony. The case has
been closed, the Judgment entered up, and the
execution is now in the hands of the officers. "
The people, however, viii beat the Admin
istration ON execution.
AN EDITOR IN OrFlcE.-" As will be
seen from the result of our town election we
arc getting very popular. Some of our
JitW"Hs "Ntl ldINlal 10 us, ana over esllndtlug
our abilities, voted for and elected us to the
dignifed and lucrative position of pound
keeper. We accept the post with great diff
donce but if any Of their cattle or hogs are
) caught in the road they'll wish we weren't
pound keeper. -BeiloCs Fails Argus.
KISSING ov THE IcE.-While party Of
Boston ladies and gentlemen were skating one
day last week at Jamaica Pond, young lady
promised any man who could beat her in
skating across the pond, kiss. As the
young lady was rather pretty, all present
, started off, and at the end of the journey, il
was found that young "darkey" was th'
winner. The lad says that the lady gave the
"buss' as though she was psed to the bust
/ ness.
n A tender swain reproachcd his fair one will
! letting a rival kiss her hand, a fact that sh
T. Indignantly denied. But sdwit" May
4 them" cried the offended fair, 81 am nov
S convinced you do not love me, since you be
licve your eyes in preference to my word