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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-20

BENNINGTON AND Troy AND BosToN
RAILRoAD.-The Bennington Banner an
nounces the following programme of the
movement of the Troy and Boston Rail
road, should the contingency arise that
the rails from North Bennington TO the
State line are taken up by the present
owner: at is said that in case the rails
from No. Bennington to the State Line
are taken mp by the present owners OF the
Bennington and Rutland Railroad, the
Troy & Boston Company will at once put
on three passenger trains a day, besides
freight trains, running a regular line OF
coaches and freight teams from this VII
lage there, and so make as sharp a night
as possible with the Lebanon Springs
Company for the New York business.
shipping by boat from Troy. Well, the
people can stand this, for it looks as If
they must certainly be the gamer under
such an arrangement.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-20
From the n. Y. Tribune.
Ieiyef the Last Pacific Rail
by GEORGE W. ruNGAY.


Riyct the last Pacific rail,
With SILVER hammer and golden nail
For over the hill and over the vale,
The iron horse il swiftly coming.
Along the prairies wild flowers sweet
With rel lips kis. his dying fet,
Wild eagles his wild sore repeat -
HIS hymn Of praise the bee is humrning,
Hail to The day and deed
Hail To the iron steed
Han TO the iron rail
Hail to the West, all hail
Now the rising and setting
Shal see the la st and West are one,
Wherever the steed OF steam shall run,
The Union shall be one for
State linked with State with iron bands,
Hearts linked with hearts, and hands with hands
Hail to our broad free lakes and lands
Hail to our free lands f.!
Hail to our tree lands
Hail to the gold nail
Hail to the last rail
Over praires of gold and green,
Over rivers that roll between
Plumed mountains Of richest sheen,
The steam horse tolls harder and harder,
Now soaring the wild herds and 1ocks,
Now laundering over granite blocks,
Now climbing the steep shelving rocks.
Now up the Sierra Neveda.
Hail to the plains below,
Hail to the peaks of snow
Hail to the hammers stroke
Hail to the echoes woke
From ocean to ocean the rail
Runs over the mountain and vale,
Which echo with blows on the nail,
Now heard by the list'ning races.
Hail to the pathway OF nations here
It runs to-day through hemisphere,
The good time coming must now be near,
1t shines on our hope-lighted faces,
Hail TO the age Of steam!
Hail TO the iron team
Hail to our iron bars
Hail to our flag OF stars
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-20

BURLMGToN.-The amount of the he.
nevolent contributions Of tho First Con.
grsgstional church in Darlington. In
1895, was $1,1S3.
The winter term Of the University Of
Vermont closed on Thursday morning.
Vacation one week. Sophomore exbibi-
ton occurs next week Thursday.
The house of Peter Carpenter, just
north of Muddy Brook in South Burling-
ton, was consumed by fire Tuesday after
noon, catching from spark from the
chimney. The house was worth about
$1,000, and insured for $500.
The Burlington lumber market re-
port says that there are some four or five
million feet of lumber on the way to that
place, which should have arrived before
this time, but the high water in Canada
has delayed navigation. The following
are some of the quotations of the prices
of lumber at Burlington, May 18th: Sc
lects, per 1000 feet, $40 to S53, shelving
$50 to $43, second quality shelving 500
to $32, sleepers SEQ to $50, common $50
to s23, pickings and cut-ups S22 to S35,
Ottawa sidings as run $33 to 30, stock
boards $26 to 80, culls and splits SIG TO
$50.
The following are the incomes of
some of the citizens of Burlington, as
returned to the Assessor of the Third
District: Lawrence Barnes Sl13.G44,
Hon. Leverett b. Englesby S3O,1 n.
c. Spear S1O,O35, T. II. Fletcher sl4,Oi6,
Stephen Gates estate Sl5,09l, Henry
Loomis S15, 197, President James b. An
CELL 81 1892, Capt. w. III. Flagg S2,0Os,
Rev. Theodore A. Hopkins S5,4O7, Dan
iel C. Linsley S3,711, b. S. Nichols s. 900,
Vernon p Noyes $1,000, Edward j..
Phelps S1,450, Daniel Roberts S2,342,
James A. Shedd S3,033, Fred, NJ Van
Sicklen $3.50, Carlos Baxton $1,000,
George f. Edmunds S1,301, William G..
Shaw 1905.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-20

BESXINGroN-There are but a lew
changes in real estate in Bennington this
spring.
The salary of the postmaster At
North Bennington is S4O0.
Rents are higher in Bennington than
last year.
Scarlet fever is prevailing among
children in Bennington.
The two fire companies of Benning-
ton were ont on Monday afternoon for a
trial of machines.
"A sash, blind and door manui.rtory
is projected in Bennington.
IL IL Thrasher. of Bennington, has
come in possession Of So 900 by the death
of an aunt in Ohio.
The Band paid Dr. + y. :. Nor
gan and wife, and W. T. Horrohin and
family, recently returned from Europe,
the compliment Of serenade. or Sstur-
day evening.
The summer residence of : Il Hunt.
ESD, one of the most beautiful in it, ,ur-
roundings in New England, l. being thor
oughly renovated for occupancy the COM
ing summer.
Eleven car loads al coal were re-
ceived at Bennington one day lat week,
via Lebanon Springs railroad.
Heavy freight trains are nov, arriv.
ing and departing from bennington
daily. over the Lebanon Spring railroad
The Lebanon Springs railroad j. rap
idly being pat in order. and it u an
nounced will be open FOR general through
passenger and freight business the first q
June. Another side track Is to be iIrme
diately put in at Bennington. Seven Of
eight car loads of lumber went down the
line of the road on Monday raorning last
number of locomotives will soon be on
of the shops ready for business
The Banner gives the foil owing de
scription of recent funeral at Benning
ton:
The burial of Miss Lavancia Morse, OF
last Thursday, deserves passing notice
In her death, we lose from our col anu
nifty a highly cultivated young Indy
whose graces and refinement would hllv'
adorned any society. Many were h e
friends, and during her sickness kinC
neighbors and acquaintances ministered
to her, for which her relatives wish us to
express their heartfelt thanks. The large
attendance at her funeral obsequies at
tested the regard and esteem in which
she was held. The funeral services were
celebrated at st. Peters church, and were
very impressive. The elegant casket
which held her remains was placed in
front of the chancel. A white pail was
spread beneath it, and on the right rested
floral cross-the emblem of faith. The
solemn burial service was much height
ened by the most appropriate music. No
where does music, and the solemn chant,
seem more BETTING and boautiful than at
the burial of our friends. The eommittal,
in which occur the words-"earth to
earth, aahes to ashes, and dust to dust,
and the whole service, ives read at the
church, as 10 not an unusual custom. The
body OF the deceased was carried to Al
bany, attended by the bearers and mourn
ers, and deposited in the cemetery of that
city.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-20

WIuTEHALL.-Among the income re-
turns of Whitehall are the following: w.
w. Cook, $4,000; Emerson E. Davis,
$15,574; Henry c. Hall, $S,613; Philip
Scribner, $3.50; Taylor Manville, $s,-
Ola; Dennis Jones, $6,10S; Newton II.
Ames, 1910; and D. G. Percival, $4,141.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-20

RICHMOND MARKET. - There were
shipped from Richmond on Monday 100
tubs of butter, the price paid being from
30 to 80 cents per pound; also about 100
boxes of cheese, a SKINNED article, which
sold from to 10 cents per pound. No
new cheese has yet beer offered.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-20

RENssELAER AND 8 AhAi p,s.
RoAD.-The annual elect. 'on Oh LIZ ,.osst
elaer and Saratoga Railroa take I'd,
the Office of the Company IN sleyep
N. Y, on Monday June y ~
o'clock am.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-20

CnEsTER.-on Sunday, May 9Th, alil-
ton II, lad seven years of age, On. oi
Loring Dennis, lof the firm Hilton, Mil
Ter Il Co., had the two first fingers OF his
left hand, above the first joint, accideI tai
ly taken off by straw cutter.
During the week ending May s;h,
there were 1l2 arrivals at the lngraham
House, and so at the Chester House.
1t may not be generally known to
the farmers and others interested in agri-
cultural pursuits in this vicinity, that at
the Town Clerks Office, in this town,
there is one of the finest agricultural
libraries in the State, which has been
selected with much care, consisting OF the
latest editions of the best American and
foreign authors. The library how. mum
bers over 200 volumes. and We trust those
persons who are interested IN reducing
the tillage Of the soil To = science, viii not
neglect the opportunity now presented 70
enable them to become scientific agricul-
turists.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-20

( LuDLow.-on Tuesday Last, as Doras-
tus Adams was driving near Grahams.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-20

was given to an insult, was also related to
US. An old soldier from Indiana, whose
appearance was extremely wretched, at
tracted the attention of party of South
ern ladies, by whom he was passing.
They turned up their noses, and pointing
their fingers ct him exclaimed, "See that
rugged fellow ! good enough for him the
vandal Yankee |" The soldier suddenly
stopping, threw back his shoulders, and
Eaidng his weary head to q defiant atti-
tudes shouted, a. he struck his naked
breast "YeA half naked, weary, sore and
siok; but thank God, loyal YET"
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-02

stationery contractors from all blame, and
We noticed in the New York HaraJd'S cor
respondent, that taking the report Us a
whole, the impression isthat the stationery
contractors executed their contract faith
fully, though the contractors we're offered
an opportunity for making large and pro-
fitable bargains, and, Of course, they ex-
pected to improve this opportunity. This
is the sum and substance of the correspon-
dents conclusion. Now, there are facts
shown to be facts by the testimony Of
men among the highest in the Patent
Office, and figures, which. as a general
thing, don't lie, to corroborate this testi-
mony-which conflicts NEST materially
with the Secrctarys report.
It seems that there has been charged
the Patent Office during the year immedi-
ately prior to the present Commissioner
entering the Office, index books, cards for
models, file wrappers, large envelopes for
enclosing letters patent to the patentees,
patent heads, printed blank letters, &c,
from double to eight times their fair mark
ct value; and the amount charged for has,
think, in every instance, Exceeded by
far the amount needed or used i'll the Of
fee, and in most instances it is shown
that either the contractors have rot far
nished the complement charged for, or the
Patent Office used last year for improper
purposes the deficiency, in the amounts
charged Cor, now existing in the Office.
For instance, the Patent Office has been
charged for 46 oayeat books, varying at
$40 and Sal, which are worth only 800
| each, and the number used ard on hand
does not exceed s. Cards for models
small bits of pastcboard, having the year
indicated upon them, to b6 ATTACHED to
the models deposited in the Office are
charged the Office 1000 in number at
$40 per thousand, eight times their value.
But the Patent Office has no need of $50,
600 Of those cards year, and has, in
fact, used only 10000 the last year. 500,
600 printed blank letters at rates double
their value has been charged for, while
the demand, per testimony Of MIR Morley,
does rot exceed 500 per day, which
amounts to less than two hundred thousand
year.
The above is sufficient to indicate that
there is need of thorugh investigation in
this contract system with the Government
| am sure the present Commissioner Of
| Patents will ventilate matters in his Of
flee before he is through. J,E,
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-02
M i - q e l | "a N v.
ACCIDENT Ar SALISBURY, Nh.

As M. Sylvester Scribner of Salisbury,
N. H., was returning home with his team
from his work in the woods, on the after
noon of the 3lst ultimo, his attention was
called to his dog, which every two or three
minutes would jump on to its hind feet,
and, intently looking away into the forest
would listen as ifyo some sound and then
utter low cry. The dog repeated his
singular acts several times, till at last
Mr.. Scribner stopped his team and, listen
ing, he heard confused sound--whether
human or not be was unable to tell. Leav-
ing his team he started in the direction
of the woods his 6oa cheerfully proceed
ing him. and often looking back to learn
if his master was following. On they
went through the wood, Till at length Mr..
Scribaer was satisfied that the sound came
from human being in distress. Hurry
ing toward it with all possible haste, his
surprise may be imagined when, on COM
ing suddenly into low valley, he discoy-
cred one of his nearest neighbors, Mr..
Robert S. Batchelder, crushed under the
trunk of an ash tree, eighteen inches in
diameter. The poor man could hardly
articulate. one thigh was terribly broken,
the bone protruding and the wound bleed
ing. The other leg was crossed over the
broken one, and badly bruised. Other
parts of his body were also injured. In
his despair the poor man had worn his
fingers nearly to the bone in yainly at
tempting to dig into the frozen earth and
thus ease his suffering limbs. Mr.. Serb.
ner went Immediately to work to rescue
the poor man, and, after displaying al
most superhuman strength, he at last sue
ceeded in getting Mr.. Bachelor from un-
der the tree. lie then went for his team
and loading his neighbor on to the sled,
carried him to his home with all possible
dispatch. The distance was about two
miles, and on reaching it Mr.. Bachelor
was but just alive. Prompt remedies par
tally restored him, and he has since been
gaining, and there hopes Of his final re-
covery. He stated that in telling the
tree it lodged against another, and threw
the butt from the stump and struck him.
1t is not probable that he could have liv.
ed an hour longer had he not been fortu-
nately discovered. He owes his life to
both man and dog. Mr.. Bachelder is one
of the most esteemed and substantial citi'
zens of Salisbury. n E KIN
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-02
P o q L T. "
FOREIGN FASHIONS.
A HUMOROUS SKETCH IN VERSE.
by G. W. BUNGAY.

Pray, is it false, or is it true,
The tale of Monsieur DUCnALLu?
will not swear TO it !; will you?
Of Equatorial Africa,
heard him in lecture say
The dandies bear the palm avny.
An eBon king as black as SCOT
Wore little save an ovc-coat,
Snatchcd from sinking ship or boat
And that he wore when summer stars
Melt down telltale thermometers.
Our fops would add canes and cigars.
His Minister of State, fat
Tall negro, wore stoyepipe hat,
Minus crown, but what of thatY
He may have been like men in town,
Opposed to monarchies, and "down''
On everything that had CROWN.
His Retresehtative of Law,
A man who often found a flaw
In his own face,--indeed his jaw
Was asoverworked, but not his head
Wore wide necktic, blue and red,
And little else, the speaker said.
His Scribe of the Interior wore
A shirt the waves had washed ashore,
But not washed since ten years and more
Had seen that garment darker grow,
And lose in dust its shining snow,--
But all things there grow black, you know
The ladies' there appear in black,
And they wear waterfalls stack, >.
OF crisped curls, from crown to back.
But since they cannot use the comb
In cllrls so coarse, some things will come
Which tidy folks don't welcome home.
The Sandwich Island beauties dress
With such economy, that less
Apparel would, must confess, .t
Outstrip the style of summer where
We see too mnch that's passing fair,
And wish that woman's charms were rare.
In China, women "short and sweet"
Walk in raw silk the busy street,
And with their blessed little feet
They trample on the heart of man,
Whose only shield, a palm-leaf fan,
Can never save him; pray what can
From foreign lands, oh, let us look
At our "White Fawn'' and "Sable Crook"
And styles IN the sensation book.
Old men and young in tailless coats,
Il.
And some whose calf is not in boots.
Here loose young men, who late at night
Come 10 their lonely lodgings tight,
Rise,-when the morning strikes light
To put on padded tights and hose,
And corsets with their underclo's,
And boots with little turn-up toes-
Here old men, who should never dye.
Lose their soft silver locks, and why
Do they turn black to charm the eycY
Docs second-ehildhood bless the sight,
And darken hair that once was white
No, fashion is the changing sprits.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-02
A REPUBLI CAN BOURBON SAUL AMONG
THE PROPHETS.

..... IiIE ! ttOl III To-
Republicanism in Spain has received
an uueErected adhesion. DuF foreign
files, received by the Morayian. contain
letter frem the Infanta Don Henry Of
Bourbon to the Provisional Government
at Madrid, in which he avows himself un-
reseryedly for republic, and declares
that what his country has need of is a
Washington and not Caesar. Don lien-
ry is the brother-in-law of Queen Isabella,
the brother Of the King Consort, and
twenty years ago was. - yice-admiral of
Spain. He is extremely bitter in his
denunciations OF those who are plotting to
erect new monarchy in his county, and
especially of the Duke de Montpensier,
sco'lrging that pretender to the throne
in the following vigorous terms
When | observe the fevel+sh, ambition
which devours the Duke of Montpensier !:
when / witness the explosion Of preten-
sions hatched for many year to take
possession Of the m0harchical power in
Span---in Spain, free and independent,
to which he returned without honor as q
fugitive when his father, Louis Philippe.
fell from the throne by proyidential JUS
tice; when | examine this stranger, a
prince without energy or elevation Of char
rater, and SO full of vanity and selfshness
that he thinks everything due to him, and
that no one in the world should refuse
him the distinguished honor of becoming
his courtier; when his cupidity accepts
with one hand the gifts and fayors Of Isa-
bella H., and when, qngrateful and trail
torous, he strives with the other to usurp
the place of his bcnefactors who reposed
| full confidence in him; when [ see him
coldly speculating at a distance on the
blood stained field Of Alcolea, ready to
rush, without, however, exposing himself
to danger, on the spoils Of Isabella, like
the bird ofprey on dead body; when l
find him at Lisbon watching for the fav-
orable occasion of imposing himself on
Spain, and impatiently counting the mo-
ments, and, after those moments calculat-
led by, him. settling with miserable mig
gardliness tho accounts of his cook when
| see him, in so impertiment and comical
fashion, desiring to meddle in the recent
struggle which has left the noble and lib
eral city of Cadiz in mourning and when,
to crown this Orleanist conspiracy, | hear
Spaniards, unworthy to bear that honora-
Bile title, proclaim the ridiculous and anti
national name of this stranger forced up
on us as if it were the name of hero, and
when they thus trample underfoot the
ashes Of the martyrs Of Carral- the ashes
of the illustrious members of the Spanish
army shot by the treachery of the Madrid
Government, delivered over, by Louis
Philippe--when | behold all this l can
not help feeling indignat as a Spaniard,
and as belonging to the Liberal party, at
the unjust and unpatriotic privileges ac-
corded to Montpensier
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-02

THE DEAD OF Tns EAR,-Horace Gree
ley closes an article on the past year with
the following fine paragraph
''The year bears with it to to the tomb
many who go out, like stars in the heavens,
leaving points whence darkness radiates
Brougham the eloquent defender of Queen
Anne, and Thaddeus Stevens, the daunt-
less champion Of the weak and impeacher
Of the strong; Sir David Brewster, the
venerable pioneer in science, and Lord
Cardigan, of the famous "charge of the
six hundred" While many others we
might name have seemed to iill large
spheres in life, few have been more Mourn
ed or missed in death than our pleassn'
friend Halpine, 50 rarely endowed
wit and genius. Art loses a devoted uro
want and master in Chas. Loring ElBaSIiii
and Music trembles mournfully through
her chords over the grave of the g.
Rossini. Thus the old year sleeps w'hls
its joy and sadness, its hopes and feqd..
sleep with it. But out of all this dc N''
there suryiyes-for the race defes d[lv
and advances with steady step througfup'
the years and centuries and
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-02

TRUST IN GoD.-Oh, for the blessedness
of that man who has been enabled to rea-
lize the most entire conviction-and that
not as theory, but as practical truth
that God doeth all things well, and that
His work is perfect. a.s x,,l.!sss
The grinding and low cares Of this life
have no place with Him. He knows that
all His affairs are guided by One who
cannot err-that he is watched over for
good by One who is never weary. HUI
man friends may weary of him and shake
him off, il he becomes troublesome by his
wants, but he heeds it little--his God in
vites, soliitsc, is gratifed by the entire
ness Of his dependence and by the. full and
undivided burden of his cares. ~
Strange it is that we are so slow to claim
the rights thus given us and which we
ought to regard as inestimable privileges,
Yet how few are known to any of us who
do truly realize the many promises and
gracious invitations to DO that which can
alaqe wsE6ai sE6ai,tsj tsis JiiEs taA1yokl4Nrs,S ,S0'0"ted
GRAFTON PAINT BY THE KEd OR BBL.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-02

Here lovely woman, mans best friend,
Goes STOPPING with the Grecian Bcnd
She stoops to corqueiS gains her end,
And sweeps with satin skirts the street,
Scows at the awkward men she'll meet,
Who tear her dress with clumsy feet.