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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-31

PoULTEEY. - The Poultney Musical
Union held its first concert on Tuesday
evening, and was a success in every re-
spect. The Union has been since it's Or
ganization under the direction of Prof.
I. J. Crowingshield, who demonstrated
on this occasion the possession of rare
qualifications as q musical director. The
ability with which the local musical
talent has been developed, especially in
the primary class, was marked feature
of the concert. We cannot specify those
pieces which were superior where all were
so finely rendered. The Union has exceed
ed the most sanguine expectations of it's
originators, numbering more than 80
members. 1t has now become one of the
permanent institutions of the town.
Much credit is due to John Jay Joslin,
Esq, who has been one of its foremost
friends, for his enterprise and liberality.
and we trust his labors will be fully ap-
preciated by the community so much
benefited.
Rev. John G. Hale, pastor of the
Congregational church in Poultney has
rendered his resignation, to take effect
March 1st., which completes pastorate
of seven years. Mr. Hale is the Oldest
settled pastor of a Congregational church
In Rutland county. On bis leaving, Or.
Seaver OF Rutland becomes the senior
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-31

many gentlemen at the capital looking
after the tariff.
The indications are that the combination
of Western wool growers and Pennsyl-
vania iron and coal men will be success
fnl, and that they will secure very high
rates of duties-far higher than the New
England manufacturers ask or desire.
The effect of this may be to secure veto
of the bill after 1t has been passed.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-31
Washington Iteas.


the time they were voted out of their
seats.
-Gens, GIANT and Logan were present
in the House Tor some time on Tuesday,
during the limited debate ON the Bout
well bill.
The Senate was rather dull Tuesday
over the tariGbill Mr., Cattell of New
Jersey made a set speech in support of
protective duties,
The ways and means committee,
have decided finally to so amend the
internal revenue law asto exempt $1,000
from being taxed as income.
Mr., Holbrook, the delegate from
Idaho, and Mr.. Cummings had a fight
with fists and canes at Wizards Hotel,
on Tuesday morning, arising from the
insertion by the latter, of a paragraph
in the Chronicle, accusing Gov. Murphy
Of Idaho, of malitasance in office. No
body hurt,
MIR, Morrill,, chairman of the COM
mittee on ways and means, made
speech Tuesday in favor of a contrac-
tion Of currency and indorsing sub
stantially the views Of Secretary Nc
Culloch. He says that Congress can
not afford to go wrong, because the Sec
rotary is right, though he is very much
opposed to McCulloch's political views.
MIR. StantOns friends say he is de-
iected over the condition of the country.
lie sees that Congress is determined
to execute the will of the people
Of the loyal States, and he fears
some rash act on the part of the Pres
ident, Any attempt to suspend the
President before conviction, would I'M
questionaDly be resisted by him with
force, but regular Impeachment and
conviction he will not resist.
The Attorney General has decided
that no soldier who acted under the or
ders Of his superior, in Selling private
property can be held liable in the civil
courts under the act of Congress of
March 8, 1868 The decision is made to
cover the cases of several Union soldiers,
who are under indictment in the civil
courts Of the rebel States. Gen. Grant
has just written letter, asking that a
former soldier of his army be relieved
from trial at Vicksburg for Selling two
government tents by his order during
the war, while in the hands Of private
parties.
The House has been greatly excited
over measures reported from the judici-
ciary committee. The first is intended
to protect all persons acting during the
war, and those who may be in danger
from the Milligan decision of the Su.
preme Court. 1t is a just measure,
though some claim it is too sweeping,
and will not pass when it comes up.
The second measure was introduced
by Mr.. Boutwell, with strong speech, in
the course Of which he characterized
the conduct of the Supreme Court In
severe terms. His bill makes it the duty
Of the courts to exclude from practice
attorneys who have been guilty Of trea-
son. MIR Hale Of New York spoke five
minutes against the measure, and the
Democrats were so offended at the at
tempt to pass it without debate, that
they resorted to dilatory motions, which
lasted far into the evening The temper
of the House was so excited that some
of the extremists claim that it looks like
Impeachment This is merely an 0pin-
ion, however.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-31

WEST PAwIET.-On Tuesday evening
last, a donation party was held for the
benefit of Rev. Mr.. Olds, Pastor of the
Campbellite church at West Pawlet, real
izing the liberal amount of 5000.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-31

DEATH OF BAPTIST CLBRGYMAa.-
The venerable Rev. Daniel Tinkham, of
White Creek, N. Y, was found dead at
his residence on Sabbath morning last.
His age was "a years, and he had been
preacher of the gospel over a half GEN.
fury.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-31

BILE. Preserve me from robbers aud
brigands. Make all my servants faith
full and dtyoted that they may watch
over my interests and relax not their
diligence by day or by night"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-31

CAsTLBToN.-The following is a sum-
mary of the births, marriages and
deaths in the town of Castletop for the
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-31

rested on suspicion, and is now In the
Auburn Jail.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-31

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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-31

THE RAILROAD IMBRoGLIo.-We have
received the following circular from No.
Bennington, issued by T. W. Park,
President of the Bennington e. Rutland
Railroad, which we publish for the in
formation of the public:
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-27

house, at Pine Plains, near Pougkeepsie.
n. T., became clogged with SCOT, throwing
the coal gas out into the school room, and
nearly smothered some twenty Of the
children. The schoolmistress dragged
them out into the open air and saved
The Maine Farmer tells of young
man and woman who got married in
Bethel, and the next day the happy couple
started on their honeymoon tour intO the
woods, where he had contracted to cut
large quantity Of wood. He built camp,
where she spends her time in promoting
the comfort OF her husband, and on every
saturday night they make their appear
ance In the village to secure fresh supplies
Tor their next weeks work, and return on
Monday morning to their camp home as
happy as king, and queen y~r-v y
The owner of catin Lewiston, Me.
taught Tom to trade mice for meat, receiy-
Ing from his master a piece for every
mouse presented. One day mouse was
brought and laid down before the clerk,
who did not understand the arrangement.
Tom, determined not to be baked of the
reward, carried the captive up stairs and
laid 1t before his mistress, who, not liking
such a present, scolded him for bringing It
into the house, and threw it out of the
window. The cat then ran down stairs,
went out and found his mouse, and kept il
until night, till his master came home,
when once more the mouse was brought
In, and Tom claimed his reward and re-
ceived it.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-27
ART and Science.

Timber in France is colored by liquid
dies poured upon the roots of the trees.
The tubes Of tubular bridges are gen
orally painted white, SO as to increase the
radiation and diminish the effects of ex-
pansion and contraction caused by the al
terations Of temperature
S. w Huntington, of Augusta, Me-,
has invented a machine for dressing and
backing boots, which is operated by foot
power. 1t can do the work of ten men,
and will save much labor in boot and shoe
factories. 1t is likely to meet with oppo-
sition from the street shoot blacks" At
tached to the machine are an emery wheel
and grindstone.
An inventor in Canada has constructed
an arrangement by which cars can be
coupled or uncoupled without going be-
tween them, or even crossing the tack.
The principle is precisely the same as that
in common use at present, q link and pin.
The invention not only prevents all posi-
bility of accident to employees, but saves
much labor, time and expense.
Professor Ell. A. Newton of Yale Col
lege recently explained to the Connecticut
Academy Of Sciences that the meteors, so
many Of which were seen in November
last, are in stream five thousand miles
thick, at least a thousand million miles
long, and of unknown breadth. La the
thickest portion of the stream the indi-
vidual bodies are twenty five miles apart
This stream runs around an ellipse once
In thirty-three years, and the meteeTic dis
plays occur at the end of these periods.
"A "real image" telescope has been
produced. In the ordinary telescope the
observer places his eyes opposite two lens.
es and sees the virtual images of two pic
lures apparently at the same place. La
the real image stereoscope the observer
stands about two feet from the instrument
and looks at frame containing single
large lens. He then sees just in front OF
the lens real and inverted image of each
of the two pictures, the union of which
forms the appearance of a solid figure in
the air between himself and the sppa-
ratus. aa
"A British engineer has invented a rail
of novel description. The new rail will
be of steel and have head and neck only,
instead of being double-headed, as is the
prevalent form. The rail will be support
ed upon rolled iron "cheeks," which will
form continuous bearing, rendering the
ordinary chairs unnecessary. The three
piecss of which the rail consists, are bolt
ed together by three, quarter inch steel
bolts, eighteen inches apart. This new
rail with steel head will not exceed in ex-
pense the ordinary double headed iron rail
in common use.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-27

The following are some Of the particu-
lars of the awful accident which occurred
on the Lake Shore Railroad, on the 18th,
near Angola, n. Y, twenty onemiles west
of Buffalo:
The train to which the accident hap
pened was the Lake Shore road New York
express from Cleveland, and due in Buffalo
at 1:30 o'clock in the afternoon, but was
two hours late, having been detained by a
broken bridge on the Cleveland and Toledo
road. 1t was composed of three frst-class
coaches, filed with passengers, smoking
the conductors6ip Of Mr.. Frank Sherman,
of Buffalo. Silver Greek was the last
station stopped at prior to the accident,
and Angola was passed about 8 o'clock, the
train going, as it is stated, at a speed of
about twenty miles an hour. From An
COLA to the bridge over the Big Sister creek,
however, the road is down grade, and it
is possible that the train was going at q
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-27

TO the Officers Of the late Army Of the Cumber-
land.
The following request has been received,
based upon o circular recently published
calling for an organization Of Society of
the Army of the Cumberland
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 9.
With view to the meeting in Cincinnati, called
in previous circular il is respectfully requested
that the following named gentlemen constitute a
committee to make the necessary arrangements
Gen Iii Long, Gen. Durbin Ward. Gen; H. M.
Cist, Col Stanley Matthews, Col. N. L. Anderson
Col L. A. Harris, Col. Hunter Brooke. Respect
fully, Sc. Il GEO. II. THOMAS, Maj. Gen. = "
VIM. D. WHIPPLE, Brey Maj. Gen.
Il. W. JOHNSON, Maj. Gen.
In accordance with the above, the Com
mittee SO named met at the Burnett House,
Cincinnati, on the 18th inst, and organized
by appointing Gen Eli Long, Chairman;
Gen. Henry M. Cist, Corresponding Secre-
taTy and NJ L.. Anderson, Treasurer and
Recording Secretary. ~ &
It was ordered that an address of invita-
ton be prepared to all the officers of
the late Army of the Cumberland to at
tend the meeting called in the circular
above referred to, at Cincinnati, on Febru-
airy 9th, 1868.
| In accordance Herewith, the following
| address Of invitation is published:
GENTLEMEN: On Thursday, the 6tn DAY OF FeD-
| Iuary next, the officers of the late Army of the
Cumberland will meetin Cincinnati for the purpose
| of forming an organization. ff
We have assurance from officers who held the
| highest rank in our army, of the great interest
| which they take in the coming Convention,
| and are already advised of the Intended pres
enee of many whose names are bright on the roll
| of fame.
| Those who expect to be present at the time APP
| pointed VIII please write to Gen: Henry M. Clst,
| Corresponding Secretary, at Cincinnati, Ohio as
soon as possible, announcing the fact.
AL information desired will be furnished on ap'
| plicaton to any of the Committee above named.
| ELI LONG, Maj. Gen. a-.rfoe
| HENRY NJ. CIsT, Brew Brig Ger.
| N. L. ANDERSON, Col.
The Western press is respectfully re-
Quested to give publ city to the foregoing
| announcement,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-27
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.
General NeWss

Edward Higgins, of Michigan, was con-
firmed by the Senate on the goth, as Sec
rotary of Utah.
The members of the medical profession
of Baltimore have petitioned the President
for the release of DR.. Mudd.
Ex-Mayor Horton, OF Mobile, has been
convicted on the charge of violating the
Civil Rights bill. He was tried for the
alleged illegal Punishment of negro from
the city.
The statement that no letters or papers
directed in pencil mark will be forwarded
to their destination, but will be treated as
dead matter by the Postof1ce Department,
is said to be incorrect
In the Louisiana Reconstruction Con-
vention on the goth, resolution was
adopted requesting Congress to provide
that all public lanGs and lands sold by the
United States Marshal, shall be sold in
tracts of not more than one hundred acres,
and only one tract to one individual or
corporation.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-27
CLIPPINGS AND DRIPPTNGs.

Personal ard Literary.
GEORGE T1cKEoR CURTIS is writing a
life of Daniel Webster.
WALT WHITMAN says he never had
more than 81 at any one time since he was
born.
O'BALDwIN, the Irish giant and pugilist,
has arrived in this country. His hight ls
6 feet 311a inches.
Mrs. SARAH BULLOCK, of Ballston Spa,
New York, is raising her third crop OF
teeth, at the age of SO years.
RICHARD GRANT WHITE says that Chas;
Reade stole the plot of his white Lies =
from the French, and Reade says that
White Lies when he says so.
THEODORE PARKER left thousand SER
mons and lectures unpublished. Among
them series Of lectures entitled, Great
Americans" They are to be edited, ana a
selection from them printed.
In Little Compton, Rhode Island, is the
grave of elizabeth, wife of William
Peabodie, who dyed May 81, TIT, aged
o." The inscription adds that she was
the "frst white female born In this
country"
COMMODORE VANDERBILT at the late
Directors election of the New YORK Cen
trail Railroad Company was elected Presi-
dent Of that road This great railway
king now controls if he does not virtually
own the Hudson River, the Harlem and
the New York Central roads. a
AN honorable Senator from the rural
districts, paragon of rural virtue, was
once approached by the late Mr.. Dean
Richmond in regard to bill to increase
the fares on the Central Railroad. Mr..
Richmond ably and earnestly discussed the
point. He alluded to the high prices OF
iron and labor, and appealed to the mem.
ber's sentiments of justice. Sir" said
he, with your vote the bill will pass.
OF course to such man as you cannot
talk money" "Can't you ?" answered the
rural member, "then if you can't you had
better send somebody to me that can q
1t may be unnecessary to add that the
member voted for the BILL rgl
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-27


-Bayard Taylor was recently i'll at
Rome.
The effective force of the French ar
my, October l, was 424,032.
The managing editor of the London
Times has q salary of $4,000 ($25,0O0) a
year.
France makes thirty-fve million
francs worth of watches and clocks an
nualy sn taa-t 'e
--Berezowski, who attempted to shoot
the Gar, is reported dying of consumption
at TOulon. -G'7 -1+
Eighteen new bridges have been built
across the Seine during the reign of Ma
poleon Ill, at a cost of about 100000.
Scotch papers announce the reappear-
ance of the cattle plague. Already num-
bers of sheep and other animals have
died
Many astronomers will visit India
next year to observe closely total eclipse
Of the sun that will be visible" there
only.
1t is proposed to establish temper
ance hospital in London, "where the
sick may be cured without the aid of al
coholic drinks"
The exports of wheat from Hungary
are 80 heavy that neither the Danube steam
fleet nor the railroads can carry the i'm
mense quantities away as fast as necessary.
The following epitaph on husband
and wife is found in Partisan cemetery /:
lam anxiously expecting you--A. D. 1877
...# Here ANA d. 1857" llt lr
An uninhabited island In the Pacific,
twelve hundred miles from San Francisco,
has been occupied by the United States,
and will be used as coaling station for
steamers. .-... liz -.aa
The framework of the Paris exhibit
ton building weighs 100000 pounds
In the whole there are 100000 rivets, for
the placing of which 100000 holes had
to be punched. ,.-.-
process by which photograph can be
printed in oil upon canvass. The effect is
exactly that of an oil painting.
Oxford, who was convicted many
years ago of firing at Queen Victoria, has
been released from the prison for criminal
lunatics. He is, however, never to be per-
| mitted to reside In England
"A Mr.. Burgess who "booked" Mr..
Dickens at Liverpool for his state room,
occupied the same desk and performed the
same service for him on his former trip to
America, twenty five years ago.
The chemist who has charge of the
Aluminium Works, near Paris, states that
the melted alloy when poured into the
mold is transparent. Other witnesses cor
roberate the statement. If true, 1t is q
very.singular phenomenon.
Ethan Allen, an American, claiming to
be descendent of the Revolutionary SOL
der, was recently hung in Montreal for
the murder in that city, last September, of
private Waterman Driscoll. On ascending
the scaffold Allen said 81 will die with a
smile on my face" and he did. About
three thousand spectators were present.
The Russian State debt now amounts
to 1918, 443,535 roubles (e165.000.000), on
which the interest due for the present
year is 73,843, 500 roubles (e9,230000). If
to this are added the various issues of pa
per currency in different forms made by
the Government since 1859, the total
amount of the obligations of the Russian
State will be found to exceed 2,000, 000, 600
of rubles (e250, 000,000),
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-27
POLITICAL.

~ In the article headed GA Retro.
spect," published in former number Of
this paper, provoking error occurred by
the substitution of the word and for the.
Where it read "Yancey and Wendell Phil.
lips, of the South" etc, it should have
been Yancey, the Wendell Phillips OF
the South" etc.
90 The editor of the Clark county,
(Ky.) Democrat, compliments the Sheriff
Of that county, among other things, by al
luding to the fact that during the war he
tore down the United States flag from the
Court House in Winchester.
gB Vallandigham tells the truth once
In awhile In one of his late speeches
in Ohio he said: 81 am the man who
watched and waited over the border. /
am Vallandigham, the traitor. We are all
traitors. You are all traitors like myself,
except that was tried and convicted, and
you were not"
s8 1t is stock assertion of the Democ-
racy, and one on which they have contin-
ually rung all the changes that their 70
cabulary permits, that the negro never
originated, nor ever can originate any
thing; and particularly is it asserted that
the African mind Is incapable Of produc-
ing any invention. The most apropos
commentary that can be made on these
assertions, is the following paragraph, TAX
en- from the Washington correspondence
Of the New York Timer: "The colored
race are coming forward as inventors, and
the Patent Office report shows that dur
ing the past year several have applied to
the patent Office for patents on their own
inventions"
T Kentucky is taking the first step in
the "policy' which would be speedily
carried out by our Government if the
Democratic party should succeed to power
In the nation. The Senate Of that State
passed a resolution on the 10th, appoint
ing a committee to ascertain the value OF
the slaves emancipated in that State by
the war and the abolition amendment to
the Constitution, with view Of making
claim upon the General Government for
compensation for the same All the Dem
ecratic members voted for the resolution,
of course-and should the Democrats get
the ascendency in Congress, they would
no doubt support the proposition to pay
the Southern ex-slave-L folders for their lost
"chattels," and thus saddle upon the Gov.
eminent an amount of Indebtedness that
would almost, if not quite, double the
present enormous debt and taxation with
which the nation has been burdened by
the rebellion of these same shareholders
Are the people ready for the restoration Of
the Democratic" party to power, under
these circumstances?
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-27

Speaking of the Court House "ghost "
in Chicago, the Journal of the 18th says
the report that the mysterious noises in
the Jail have been explained and sup.
pressed is not true The noises are still
heard every night between 10 and IL
o'clock, and thsir cause is as great a mys-
terry as ever. All efforts, by the officials
or others, to ascertain their origin, have
thus far proved abortive."
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-27
Incidents and Accfdents.

) "A chicken-thief, at Steubenville, Ohio,
the ether night, stole twelve hens, and left
wallet containing $50 in the coop.
Savoy, Mass, is SO healthy q town
that the single doctor there can hardly
live on his practice, and lately had 800
donation from the citizens.
"A piece of the thigh-bone of the man
Burns, recently killed at South Bergen,
N. j., by the nitro-glycerine explosion,
was blown distance OF mile. .e
One of the employees of the Harper
Brothers of New York, has been with
them forty years, two thlrty-fiV years,
and there are women in the folding rooms
who have been with them thirty years.
Two oxen got into fight on the rail
road track near Newton, Iowa, the other
day, but had their fun stopped by a loco
motive which ran over and killed one oil
them. The engineer says he admired their
courage, bat hadn't much respect for their
Judgment. .s M
Some time ago COW run in front ct a
train in Indiana, threw it from the track,
and caused the injury of several persons.
The railroad company sued the owner OF
the cow and recovered $4,000 damages.
The Supreme Court of the State has
affirmed the verdict on an appeal.
The Finncastle Herald is credited with
the following remarkable item; Edward
Watts, son of Col. ] G. Sperry, of Bot
etourt county, Va, has had the pleasure
Of seeing and conversing with his father,
grandfather, great grandfather, and great
great grandfather, all living at the same
time"
The stove pipe in district school