Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-11-19

the books and professional instruments
of phisioions, elergymen and attorneys.
at.law; the House did not concur in the
third proposed amendment, striking out
the words "onc or" before the words two
horses" &e, the House did not concur I
in the fourth proposed amendment, as.
sorting after the word "two horses" the
words such as the debtor may select in
lieu Of oxen or steers" the House con-
CURED in the fifth proposed amendment,
10 strike out the words that the forage
aforesaid shall not be exempt under the
provisions Of this act, unless the debtor
actually keeps one yoke OF oxen OF steers,
or one or two horses the House concur
red in the sixth proposed amendment, to
strike out the last olausc'ot the first Sec
ton, md substitute another clause.
On motion Of Mr. Hewett, OF Chitten'
den adjourned,
NFTERSooS-sESATR,
1 IdsWd-To incorporate the Vermont
/ Mutual benefit association, TO be located
Poul,ncy, or some other town in Rutland
/ County,
To pay Thaddeus Ashcroft the sum
/ therein named.
| To incorporate the North Troy mining
company,
The vote passing Senate bill No. 100,
relative IN oprroori~a s"A ve1atious
attachments on trustee process, was on
motion Of Mr., Barlow, reoonsidered, and
amended ON motion Of Mr.. Garfield. and
the title changed To correspond Herewith.
{ House bill changing the names of the
following persons were also passed, viz:
Milton C. King, Sarah Broderick, Nelson
Wilbur Mcdaniel, Ellie w Bailey, Rob
ert Benjamin and Katie Manning,
To incorporate the NJ. h. and j, C, Will
Hams cheese manufacturing company of
Danyille.
AFrERNonE--u HOUSE.
Mr. Fisher called up House bill No, 90,
10 pay Ambrose Arnold the sum therein
mentioned; the question being on insert
iug the sum of Sid9;, instead of sl?9 20;
the amendment was agreed to; third
reading ordered.
RtsoiwjH By Mr. Abel, of West
Haven, that committee Of five members
If thi, House he appointed to inquire
whether all the railroads of this State
have made reports 10 the Railroad Com
missioner as required by law, and whether
any further legislation Is necessary TO Sc
cure the making OF such reports adopted.
B2k Ptvoi-ln addition 10 chapter "a,
of the general statutes, relating to lay
ing out and disseminating highways and
bridges.
Rpoys-To enable the town Of Barre
20 aid in the construction Of the Montpel-
!,
To incorporate the Belaen Falls Branch
railroad company.
To change the names of persons therein
mentioned 81 reading ordered.
To authorize certain towns therein
named to aid in the construction of rail-
road, with amendment, which was agreed
10.
To enable the towns in the counties of
Rutland and Windsor to aid in the con-
structon Of the killineton railroad; to
com. on railroads.
To repeal an act for the more equal dis
tribution among creditors of property at
tached on mc~ne process; TO com. on lu-
dietary.
To incorporate the Springfield agricul-
tural society; to com. on corporations.
To incorporate the West Enosburgh
Slate manufacturing company to com.
on corporations.
To incorporated the City Hotel company;
to com. on corporations.
Bills Introduced and Rttar,d-By Mr.
Wilkinson, of Weston, i'll amendment Of
section chapter -, 5. relating to the
grand list; to com on the grand list.
The Bennington and Rutland extension
bill was then taken up, and occupied the
balance Of the session in putting the ques-
ton to com. on railroads.
METEORIC SHOwERs-Saturday morn
ing, about , o'clock, the promised meteoric
display was, apparently, at its hight.
Those who were fortunate enough to wit
ness this grand and magnificent sight
will not soon forget it. The heavens were
crossed in every direction, some of which
left trail of light which lasted, to the
naked eye, for several seconds. The fol-
lowing accounts give some idea Of the
scene. but it needed to be witnessed to APP
prcciatc the full beauty of the display:
/ Observations on the periodic meteors
made at the Dudley Observatory from
III. pom. p. III. of the 18th, to oh. Bonn. a.
IN. of the lith inst. Our efforts were
mainly directed to the determination of
the rate of fall and the time of fight
From llh Bonn. to IL o'clock, the rate of
fall was only two per minute They,
however, gradually increased in frequen-
cy, according to a maximum of twelve
per minute. at o'clock The whole num-
Der of meteors visible between III. 30m.
p. m. and Oh BON a IN. must have exceed
ed two thousand. During the meteoric
shower of last November, the time OF
maximum fall occurred half an hour ear
lier and the rate of fall was four times as
great yet the number of meteors seen
during the night did not exceed those of
this year.
The time Of fight of more than hun
dred meteors was recorded by electricity
on the chronograph, in the manner adopt
ed in 1868. The maximum of appearance
was eight-tcnths of a second, the mean
being about sixty ohundreths of sec
ond, not differing materially from the
same quantities deduced frem the observa-
, tons of 1863.
One of the mAt interesting features Of
, the phenomena gas the permanence OF
the train after the meteor had disappear.
ed. Advantage was taken of this circum
stance 10 examine the train with teles-
cope. As seen through one comet seeker,
the trim appeared brilliant gray band Of
light, which gradually changed its form
assuming great variety of shapes before
it disappeated. In general, the train first
became bent like piece of serpentine
braid, after which it gradually separated
in different pieces. Through tho telescope
the train of one was visible for more than
: ten minutes.
G.. W. HoUGH.