Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-04-29

Poisoned IdouoRs.-That much Of the
crime which blackens human character in these
our modern days, is attributable to the poison
Gus Ingredients infused in alcoholic drinks, is
fact that cannot be denied. Formerly. the
intoxicaton produced 10y beverages sold as
well as manufactured and moderately whole
some liquors, such as we're fit to be used
incidentally, and even then only in solution.
was supplying, absurd, and sometimes fatal
But now. such is the aduteration, that mad
ness supervenes after any indulgence to excess,
and Juror takes possession of the soul, that
wildly impels to outrage, and often results in
murder.
The inebrated patient is frequently liable,
when under the demoniac spell, to fits Of ho-
micidal monomana. Hence occur individual
slayings and assassinations, either stimulated
by sudden and startling impulse or suggested
by vindcatiye and morbid moodines of mind.
How deeply dyed then in sin must any man
be, who mingles with his saleable drinks,
drugs that arc deadly the " juice of cursed
hebonon r. Such persons, and we hope that
they are few in number, might almost adyer-
tise in Shaksperian language
"And il a man did need poison now,
Here lives cahf wretch would sell IL him"
philadelphia inqUrer-
/ A LIVE MORMON CAoED.-James r. Moul-
ton, late Of North Adams, Mass. was arrest
ed at Little Falls, y. Y, on Thursday, for
bigamy. He is "down-easter,' hailing from
/ Bethel. Me, where he lcit his first wife and
two children He went from Bethel to Wor-
cestor. where he won the affections and mar
riod young woman whom he deserted on the
eve of confinement His third victim was q
girl of IS, daughter Of Morgan Stiles Of North
Adams She eloped with him in March, while
her parents were at church and went to Yer
mont, where they were married. They return
ed the same evening. and he left the next day
for Troy. where he at once engaged to marry
another woman. but being pursued fed on the
morning on which he was 90 have married his
fourth wife. He was traced to Little Falls
where he was taken. and returned to North
Adams He is now in Jail at Lenox, waiting
trial.
- A woman at a certain village in England
went for arsenic with which to poison her
husband, bu; the apothccary gave her soda and
informed the husband. The latter took the
poison and pretended to sicken and die and
when she supposed him fairly dead the wife
put a roap about his neck and undertook to
make it appear that he hung himself He
conld not stand that. and came to and used
the rope to give her right down good hiding.
II A deaf and dumb boy. seven years old,
a son Of Mr.. Ragan, section hand on the Pas
sumpsic Railroad, was struck by the engine
of the freight train on Monday Of last week,
at ST. Iohnsbury Centre and his legs bro
ken. lie was not seen 10y the engineer until
too late to stop the train,
l LIQUOR Sr11r.-Thc Middlcbury Register
says: Eighty gallons of whiskey was found
in the depot. last week, and duly split. We
understand that another cask is in durance.
~ The St. Paul Pioneer says that many
: of the settlers upon the public lands in Min
, nesota, advertised for sale in April, are aban-
doning their claims They have no money to
make good their pEe-emptions, and it cannot
be procured, as in more prosperous times, by
= mortgaging the land. In some instances, hard
working men, with families dependent upon
them for support, will be compelled to lose
the fruits Of ono and two years labor upon
their farms.
EXru1sIoN OF METHoDIsTs FROM THE
) SourH.-Therc exists considerable body of
" Northern Methodists' in Texas, who are
opposed to Slavery, and preach against it.
At a meeting of citizens of Faunin county, in
that State, on the 18th ultimo, preliminary
measures were adopted for making war upon
and expeling members Of this religious de-
nomination from the State, These Method
lists have belonged to the Church North, and
have incurred the displeasure and suspicious
of their brethren of the Church South.
Fatal FoLLY.-A boy named Somors was
, killed on the Boston and Maine r. r., at
Edgeworth, on Wednesday of last week. 1t
e was shown before the inquest that the acci-
. dent was occasioned by the boys attempting
to see how near to the approaching engine he
could cross the track.
n 70 The man threatened with lynch law at
Holly Springs, Miss. was not Bostonian as
y was reported, but was Thomas S. Young Of
Philadelphia, and bore requistion from the
governor of Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia
II Bulletin is indignant at such treatment, since
1.-THE fugitive slave law has always been faith
fully executed in Philadelphia Subserv-
\ iency fares no better than resistance.
+ ~ Francis DeLong of San Francisco, Cal,
!. has purchased Of Austin Dana of Cornwall
Il his two year old Black Hawk stallion The
i owner OF the Black Hawk horse, david Hll,
raised in Shoreham, and now in San Fransis
" co, has refused 100000 for him.
c. ~ The Middlebury Register changed
hands last week, Mr. CoBB, its editor here
toiore, retiring, The paper will be conducted
y by MEAD q FULLER, to whom we wish sue
cess.
is IzV' Larkin q. Mead has made a plastc
pit bust of VIM. c. Bradley of Westminster
:. 1t is highly spoken of by the Picnic.
in To After the capture of Burgoyne's force
IS the Americans thronged thither to see thu
u prisoners. Lieut. Mcneil said to an old wo
man who appeared to be an hundred $50 yol
IN old fool, you must come to see the lions.
But with great archness she replied, 'Iions
lions | declare now, think you look NOR
like sheep"
70 There is dew in one flower and not II
IN another, because one opens its cup and takes !
IT. in, while the other closes itself, and the dro
Is, runs off. God rains his goodness and mere
al as wide spread as the dew, and if we lac
them, it is because we will not open our heart
to receive them.