Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-07

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PEnRuARY 90, 1867.
The Ipstitoot Is l may say, success.
Contributions low 10 slowly bat shoorly
fast eRu1 indeed to give each Nv the
Board rev SCOT nv close, and we, spec
ially, who heV the flrst handlin NV the
money, several other comforts. But
tha, corner stun troubles rs. Sum hum
dreds Of people saw that bottle NV lik-
her and q greenback wuz deposited unaer
IL, and regerly every mite It's bin over
Turned by persons In search nv them rel
les Al great expense we built onto 1t
section q. wall, but making no account
nv Our cxpenditoor, they overturned 1t
we then hlsted q sign board bearing this
legend, "The whlskey Is gone and the
greenback also" signed by the Board,
bat one. ha!f nv the citizens nv that
lokality don't read and tother didn't hey
the nessary confidence In the truthful
ness Nv the Board TO prevent em rom
going for the artiklee, tho the very
knowledge nv MS which brought about
this state Of disbelief, shood, one wood
suppose, hev taught EN- that the green
back and likker Coodnt possibly be Their
after so long period he'd ensoOd. SoeZ
a last resort we stuck two posts In the
ground and drawed an iron chain over
Ii. That got EN-. Force is about the
only thing Nv any account in this coun-
try.
The Board met last mite at the Post
Offs, WITCH until we git the lnstitoot
built, will be the headquarters Nv the
Trustees, to consider the pTopriety nv
publishin q series nv school books adap-
aid especially TO the Southern iutelleck
and calculated partikelerly TO keek alive
in the minds nv the buddin yOOths NV
the late Confederacy, witch Is untort-
nifty deceest; lively opinion NV them
selves and 3 correspondent hatred nv Moo
England and the North generally. We
hey he'd serious doubts whether proper
ideas Good be instllled intoa youth from
book written by Boston man, printed
in Connecticut. onto, paper made in NUO
FORK.
submitted 10 Tie Board example
for new arithmetic, TO wit:
A Yankee sent 3 substitOOt into the
FEDERAL army at q cost nv 81 900, passin
of onto him two ten dollar counterfeit
notes. To make up the expenditoor, he
10 wuust swindes innocent Kentuclt-
Ian ont NV Sl60 in patent rite, a Ali
bamian out Nv 5000 in Western land
trade, and the balance he makes up by
sellin wooden nutmcgs, witch be turns
oat Nv bass wood at q profit nv 4 cents
per one. The crate moral question is,
how many nutmegs must this ingenious
but uDprincipled Cuss manuiaEtur and
how long does it take him with the i'm
proved machinery they heV to do it
The Southern sojeTs at the battle Nv
the first Bull Run captured Is Federals,
one nv whom he'd upon bis person Sl2
In greenbax snd tOtheTs So each. How
many nv Johnson's postmasters Good be
bought with the proceeds of the cap
ahers
Deekin Pogram approved NV these eX-
anples, but he kept iDsistin that there
wuznt enuff in EN- to Are the Southern
heart. The Southern heart WIZ a per.
petooal funeral pile witch needed cCntin-
vocal Erin. Onless fred 1t wuz gloomy
mass nv very onsghtly black cinders,
He proposed that dhe forthcomln book
shood be coal oil on the slumberin en-
bers NV the youthful Southern heart. lie
he'd example.
The battle nv Chickamauga wuz fought
actrlain number NV miles from Chat
tanooga. One regiment Nv ContedTlt
soljers druv division NV Federal mcr'
senaries into the town. Allowin that
each Fedral, G. well a. Coniedrit, he'd two
legs, how many more steps did the Fed
rails take TO get EN- into Chattanooga
where they WIZ comparatively saft
from Confedrit rage and valor and SIGH
than 1t did the COntedrits &c drive en-
ther I
Bascom remarkt that he he'd one wiCl
he felt it his doety to perpOse:
A strikly conscienshus grOsery keepe
starts in biznis worth four hundred sol
lars In clean cash. He pays for hi
whiskey two dollars per gallon In Lools
vile, and htz for reglar customer 1
Postmaster, wich drinks forty or sixtl
times per day, and slluz tells him t,
-tst chalk 1t down" REQUIRED, tk
length Nv time ncsSaFy w bgsb 1EUc
them ifiictia Circumstances.
Bascom remarkt that long before th
book appears In print, he wood be abl
TO furnish the anser to that littl
problem. Considerin the example di!
dirsc, at me, wUz Nv nOshen TO re
tort, but Their WIZ stch look Nv injert
innosense onto Bascom's countenaBc
that RELY coodent. Suthin must b.
done for Bascom--I hev lived Onter hin
too long. The next contribushes I re
seeve from trends North, shell be devote,
to hquidatin, In part, the debt ow
him. l Good bust him, by not giyin hin
at least cost for bis likker, but was fol
lowsi There's the rub. Wood be whit
come after give me credit? Better bea
the Ills we hev than fly to them TO wiCI
we hevnt bin interdoOst.
Joe Bigler, the drunken COnSedri
soljtr happened in, and heard the las
two examples, and remark that he cOOt
furnish US any number Nv examples a
site We never stop Joseph 10 anything
he Proposes to do, for he hez habit u
csrryin navy revolver slung 10 him
and be shoots. Joseph wug, therefore