Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-08
Vermont In Congress.

When the supplementary currency bill
was under consideration a few days since
Mr.. Morrill, moved an amendment to the
4th section, providing that, when with
drawal of circulation from one point is re-
quired to supply Deficiencies at another
the revision shall be made upon banks
having a capital exceeding SloO,ooo
Mr.. Morrill, offered another. amendment
to the 4th section, providing that, where
transfer of capital is demanded, requi.
sition shall be made for the required sum
! commencing pro rata with Banks III cities
having an amount Of bank circulation
| more than double the amount which was
held in such cities by the state banks III
| 1860. Lost.
The judiciary bill passed by ia" House
was notification of one passed ten days
ago by the Senate providing that the
supreme court shall hereafter consist of a
chief Justice and eight acting associate
justices, and that there shall be appointed
a circuit Judge III each per,o,i., district,
with additional provision for the retire
ment, at their option, of judges when
| they reach the age of seventy years.
I Judge Polnnd, of Vermont, offered an
amendment prohibiting judges from sit
ting on the hearing o. apIeals on writs OF
errors from circuit courts, whore saei.
juegcs participated in the trials below ;
l. ,,..., l. ip 10
On the vote il the House to insist on
a disagreement on the tcnurc-of-otfirc bill,
Representatives Poland, Smith aud viii
lard voted in the affirmative.
4 MYSTERY EArLAINEp. The Wa
tervilIo Me a.a;l relates u story which
is not without many preeedeAt-. d. show
ing how easily men may be led by cir
ctmstauecs tu entertain unjust suspicions
concerning their neighbors Twenty five
years ago there lived in the town Of Clin-
ton, Maine, man named Bryant Fly. A
certain Mr.. Allen went from Vermont to
buy Fly's farm, and the two went TO Au-
gu,ta, the former with considcrablemoney
and Il W,&tc., N his pocket, for the purpose
of having the conveyance aiaIn. .ly
returned home with the money and the
watch in his possession, but Allen was
never hearI from again. The mail con-
tinues the narrative as follows:
In ti.ao letters Of inquiry came from
his relative in Vermont To persons in this
vicinity, and the account detailed by Ely
was sent to them III reply The circum-
stances were calculated to excite >uspi-
ciuns, though we do not know that the
previous character of Fly had aided them.
From day to day the story went from
neighbor to neighbor, and from town To
town-with such decorations, true or
false, AS were known or surmiSed Every
body who lived within The circumstances
Of the wonder at the. time, IA child or
adult. will remember having listened to
the story of the murdered Allen
In time it wore out, as such things
do now: and as it had never been shown
that there bad been u murder, OF course
there had been no arrest 0f the murdera,:
Years afterward Fly died in his bed as
other men do.
But now comes the revelation # for the
sake of which we have called up the ghost
OF this almost forgotten wonder. At the
time of Flys death a young man named
j b Farnsworth. now Col. Farm sworth,
OF Iowa. lived in Clinton, and was ia
miliar with the thousand-and-on stories
about the murder Indeed he WAS at the
death bed of Fly. Going afterwards to
the far West, where he settled business
led him several years later, away up to
Fox Lake, i'll Wisconsin. Here he stop
ped at atavern kept by Mr.. Allen, and
was detained several days by storm.
Talking one day with the landlord. he
spoke of his former home III Clinton, Ne
when Mr.. Allen inquired if he knew a
man named Bryant Fly-and the couyer-
sation ut once brought forth the whole
story of the murdered Allen. The land
lord was "A nephew OF the murdered man
He lived in Vermont at the time and
shared i'll all the excitement about his
lost uncle. But" said the landlord,
" the whole matter came to light short
time ago An aunt of mine. sister TO the
supposed murdered Allen. received a
letter from him from the city of New
York, saying that he was sick, broken
down and in poverty, and asking pcrInis-
sion to come and spend his last days in
hsr care"
\ lady in Wutcrvillc, sister of Colonel
Farnsworth, who has just returned from
"A visit to his family, gives u- the story,
with the assurance from the Colonel that
it is perfectly reliable solution of the
mystery of the murder charged upon poor
Bryant Fly.
Doc SToRY-A Portland paper has
the following story of a dog: The chill
dren were in the habit of sliding down a
hill near the house, accompanied by IA
vorite dog. Early one morning they
discovered that the dog had taken the
sled, drawn it to the top. and was now