Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-05-07

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LoRn HurIuNsoN-A friend send,
W. the following: The Lord IIutehin-
son" spoken az in the railroad debate at
Portland, and reported in Yesterday,
lIEENp,us killcdAthcT iv,rPo6lrailway,
must be Mr.. William Huski,sor, who, in
intelligence, intluaUo AMI cnery had
fcw equal. in Euslg1
ACENowIEpCWrNr- Prom Bangs,
Morwin X Co, NcvYnk, a Catalogue Of
standard and miscellaneous book" 20 be
sold at auction MAY ath
Prom l.. S uma Report Of the
Secretary Of STATE an ',he claim Tor Alta
Neh Island with maP-
From Hon I r. Woojbudyc, PRO
ccclins oil tin impeachment Court
Nm,t-cutb Annual announcement
Of the Woman Mcleod Cclleg, If Penn
sykania, l~Gs-9
Vdediotory Addrss to the gradual.
Ing elias Of the Woman, Meiipi College
of Pennsylvania, at the 10Th annual COM
meuccmcnt, March ith lSGS, l., Emiliuc
H. Cleveland, VI u.
OBITUARY. DIR Levi 2. Sawyer "a
prominent physician and highly respected
citizen OF Nashua. died on Wednesday
last. lie was a native Of Storkbridge, VT,
and about fifty years of age lie had
filled responsible positions in his city and
county and was two year, member Of
the state Legislature
. BENsoN.-S. NJ Hewlett Esq, delivers
a lecture before the Good Tcmplars Of
son, on Monday evening, May nth, at :
o'clock, at the Congregational church
Subject The Curse and the Cure Mr..
Hewlett /, one Of the most eloquent lee
turers in the country, and the people Of
Benson and vicinity should not fail to
avail themselves Of this opportunity to
hear him.
Tm CHlrrENpEN CotNrl FAIR The
Board Of Managers Of the Chittenden
County Agricultural Society met at Bur
lington on Saturday, and, voted to hold
the Annual Fair on The It'll, 9Th and 9th
of October next
TRAPPING RA1s-E. W. Waterman
of Shrewsbury recently succeeded in cap
turing Three rats in a Small-sized steel
trap, We have heard Of such thing as
killing two birds with one stone, but such
a feat, performed on such wary animal
as the rat, we have never seen recorded
Besides, there was three Of them
JAN DELIVERY At ST. ALBANs.-Las
Friday night another delivery" was ef
fected by the inmates OF the Franklin
county Jail at St. Adams, when, Of tn,
six prisoners confined there, five a. fol
lows, gave "leg bail for security:
Vim. d. Jones, in for stealing harness
, &c., of VIM. n Smith Hosea Comstock
of Swanton, in for stealing; Richard c
CheeSman, !Swanton. in for forgery Mer
rift Leonard and Ed st. Lewis, for bur
glary in Fairfax
The St Adams Messenger Of Saturday
comments as follows upon the ronpd. elt
: Of the prisoners
The inmates of.our county Jail enacted
another original version of Hole in the
Wall" last night, and though Sheriff
Soulc was not present al the performance
he assures rs it was entirely successful
And we rather think it was, as the "holt
in the wall is plainly visible this morn
ing and the actors are well, they have
"evaded' the premises
But ope of Sheriff Soulc's prisoner, re-
mains-thc son Of Leonard--who being
only candidate for the Reform School,
disdaincd flight He says-and circum-
stances corrobnrate his story that tho
prisoners had struggled in from the out.
side a case knife and file, which furnished
file and saw for active operations. With
these Comstock severed two bars in the
grated door of his cell Saturday night
Sunday night, Jones, reaching through
:. the bars of his cell door, with a wire
I picked the lock Of handcuf with which
it was secured liberated Comstock by
bending up the bars which he had severed,
and they broke open the other cells. They
then attacked the wall at the end of the
alley fronting the lower tier sf cells, and
as they had nothing to do but to saw of
one scantling, cut couple of bolts and
bend back an iron bar, and then dig
through the outer brick wall, they speed
lily made way for liberty and departed.
The frequency. and ability with which
these things are conducted, leads to the
suspicion that our County Jail, rs . jail,
isn't much Of an institution. We don't
know but all reasonable precautions were
taken for the safe keeping of these prison
ers. They were locked in separate cells
The fact is, any body that don't want to
stay in Jail, dent stay. They are put into
an old siere and come out badly for the
ends Of JUSTICE "bolted" States Attorney
Bailey remarked to the Court, yesterday,
in fling informations for the trial of these
prisoners, that he might as well enter a
mol pros; he didn't think they could be
induced to stay for trial Evidently our
Jail was in bad repute, and the "hole in