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Washington Items.

The following Vermont appointment,
have been made:
l. +. Terrill, postmaster at Under.
hill Centre, vice c. w. Reynolds, resigned
i &C. G. Olmstead, postmaster al
! East Franklin, vice B. f. Cisco, resigned
Joseph Eaton, postmaster at Cam
bridge, vice W. s. Eaton, deceased.
Charles ]. Patch, postmaster at Hyde.
park, vice Charles Sutton, resigned.
/ Norman j. Bingham, of Vermont, is
mentionedlfor commissioner oficustoms, in
place of Sargent.
The President has nominated 4. B.
Cornell, of Ithica, to be surveyor,
| and E. A. Merritt, of st. Lawrence, to be
naval officer Of New York.
Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, is,
1T seems, disappointed man the roseate
visions of his early youth have faded, and
he sees around him nothing but corrup-
ton and imbecility. Happily, however,
he has not sunk to that depth of scepti-
cism and despair reached by the young
lady who discovered that her doll was
stuffed with saw dust His faith in
Sprasne and hia money con tinna4 ,.n.h..
ed lie Is still comparatively young
man, and, though in his inconsiderate
boyhood his Imagination was fired, BY
the meretricious but crafty charms of
politics, the gods, whom, in the full ma
turity of his powers, he sees to be alone
worthy of his trust, may yet offer to him
career more suited to his taste and capa-
city than gubernatorial or senatorial hon
ors have afforded.
Another severe legislative joke on the
Senate transpired on Thursday, similar to
their confirmation Of Mr. Stewart in the
face of the law Of ffS0. The bill author
izing the Secretary of the Treasury to
anticipate tho payment of interest on the
public debt5 was taken up for considera-
ton in the Ways and Means Committee
Thursday morning, when General Schenck
called attention to the fact that the Joint
resolution of March II, 1864, was still in
force, a better and more complete law
than that proposed by the Senate. 1t was
brought ~ - VI
Secra.4-.- ro4.well, who at once said that
was al the authority that be needed. and
he should act accordingly. Its existence
had been overlooked by the persons who
were instructed to examine the statutes
for this authority. The Ways and Means
will therefore report back the Senate bill
TOMORROW and ask that it be laid on the
table as entirely unnecessary. The SEN
ate, with all its lawyers, as Mr.. Sprague
would say, does not seem to make very
good use of its legal acumen.
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Selections.

Neutral men are the devils allies.
A small bug can make a great hum.
The great mind is ever studious and
humble.
Take the world as it is, not as il
ought to be-
Zeal without knowledge j. fire with.
out light.
What comes from the heart goes to
the heart.
No good work is foreign to the III,
terests of religion.
Have the courage to wear thick boots
in winter.
DO not stand in place OF danger,
trusting in miracles.
Discretion in speech is greater and
better than eloquenoe
We have souls here as much AS we
shall have hereafter.
DO not cry out before the calamity
has really happened.
No condition is unfavorable to virtue
where virtue is.
Always expect to succeed, and never
think you have succeeded.
The righteous is greater after his
death than during his life.
One thing acquired with pain is bet
ter than hundred with ease
Whoever has been bitten by SER
pent is afraid of robe.
The load is laid upon the camel ac-
cording to its strength.
We must tell some men great deal
to teach them little.
"A mans trials cannot be insuHerable.
4 he lives to talk about them.
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pamphlet ON the Bennington Court Con.
troversy, and of Structures on Civil Lib.
erty. He married, 16 September 1929.
Margaret Miller, of Coleraine, Mass.
History of the State of Yer
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cIess of II yesr 1882 By Zadock
Thompson, A. H., author Of the Gag.
etteer Of Vermont. Burlington Ed
ward Smith. 1888. limo. PIP. $50.
History of Vermont Natural,
Civil and Statistical, in three parts,
with a new Map of the State, and zoe
engravings. By Zadock Thompson,
Burlington: Published for the author,
by Chauncey Goodrich, 1912. 8 vo. pp
iv, 224, 224, 2O4.
Appendix to the History Of Yer
mont, Natural Civil, Statistical, 1858
By Zadock Thompson, Burlington: Pub
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son, Printers. 1853. vo. PIP. Ga.
This appendix is published as a
separate volume, is sometimes bound with
the original work to which it belongs,
and sometimes bound only with part first
with which it forms full and accurate
natural history of Vermont. Each of the
three parts of Thompson's History, being
complete in itself, is often bound sepa-
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merston, Vt, I'd March 1908, was dis
missed Is October 1887, and died in Ches-
terrified, N. H., Is October, 1858
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them in . short time IN honor to tn
1 town.
Schools, like everything else, are in al
cases what people make them. and if ther
are faults connected with them now, j
only needs the united effort of an intel
igent community to rid them of thei
faults and make them both pleasant and
profitable.
During the first term, and portion o
the second, the schools had the benefit o
the counsels of DR.. Aiken, who, while hi
health would possibly permit, visited then
often, and this report cannot close with
more fitting language than to incorporate
in it his expressed opinion of the system
under which we are acting.
The advantages of the graded system
which bring together in the same school.
room children of about the same age and
attainments, are too obvious to be ques-
toned.
The Rutland Graded School" is in ad-
vance upon the Union District" as the
several separate portions of that distric
are here consolidated in one school, all
the departments of which are plac ed I'M
der one board management and control,
thus laying foundation for increased
unity and efficiency of operation.
The success of education, however,
must mainly depend upon the wisdom,
skill and energy of those to whom its
management is entrusted and not less
upon the character of the teachers en-
ployed by them. Without teachers OF
intimate and familiar knowledge of the
branches taught, liveliness and tact in de-
vising means for awakening interest, and
keeping up mental activity in the school
room, the best of systems can reach no
high degree of success. Such teachers
are everywhere needed. They are too
rarely found. 1t is fondly hoped that our
Normal schools will be sending forth in
creasing numbers of them. And as soon
as the trustees of the Rutland Graded
School shall be able to provide such for
al the departments thereof, then the high
est expectations of our citizens will be
and progress of the schools.
But though perfection has not yet been
reached, let us not undervalue our pres
ent advantages. Under the present or
ganization, all the families within the
limits of the school are equally entitled
to its benefits. The poor man here stands
on perfect equality with his richer
not in the amount of his school
tax, but in the right to enjoy all the priv
ileges of the school. He may not be able
to pay three hundred dollars for years
schooling of a son or daughter abroad,
but for small yearly tax on his small
grand list, he can secure at his own door,
for all his children, an education equiva-
lent to any that could be obtained abroad
All this is as it should be. The public
good demands that all the children of the
poor, no less than of the rich, be well in
structed in all branches Of sound learn
ing, as constituting the only solid and en-
during basis Of public virtue and happi-
ness.
n. 7. SIMoNs, For School Trustee.
Rutland, March 2jth, 1869.
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degrees; line north 81 a...
would not fall inside of the 80 =.
way; the road from the scbo'l !,
north curves to the right. b.,
The government closed its ev;s,
BIB in the afternoon. .
Attwenty minutes past 8, Mr. -
commenced the argument of ID.
the prosecution, and occupied tie -.
der of the session in the argume,,
law OF the case to the court, and a..
sion OF the facts to the jury.
Thursday, March 25M The emit.
was devoted to the arguments Of e,r.
in the case of State VS.. Ziba Plum
al G. II. Joyce, for the re-pondeif.
cupied the entire forenoon se-sio,,
closed his argument at 3 p. m. L.
Roberts, in behalf of respondents,
pied the remainder of the afternoor
had not CONCLUDED his argument i,
adjournment of the Court.
The petit jurors in attendance ur--
court, except those on the abore
were discharged until Saturday.
Fr7day, March 2s1, 1868. -The ,
convened at the usual hour. and M
erts resumed his arguments for IT,
spondents in the case of State g.
Plumley ct al, and spoke until lH i
m. Charles c. Dewey then comm
the closing argument for the rcs.ls
occupying the reminder Of ne
Sithout concluding his argument,
the court adjourned for the day.
Mr. Dewey will conclude biz arg
to-morrow morning. after which p
Steele will deliver the charge 81 the
to the jury.
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the first settler in Coventry; and csme r
that place in June, 1900, whom ths whole
town was wilderness, except two small
clearings, made by her father and broth
err. Mrs. Judge Parker is the last surviv.
or of the original settlers, who still lives
in Coventry, and there are only three
others living elsewhere.
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Mix well together in the spoon / ,rU,
and take Of the mixture once a day for
six weeks, and the disgusting, filthy habit
and practice, will be gone under for all
time. The above prescription can be had
without soinl 10 any druggist, without
money and without price"
QUID, PIPE, CIGAR AND SNuFF-BoN.
All other antidotes are as uncertain as
the Indian said white mans politics are
very.
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a MAN DIGS HIS OWN GRAVE AND
COMMITS SUICIDE.-The Norwich BuIle.
tin says that for some time past Isaac S.
Pickering. of Brooklyn, Connecticut, has
been digging his own grave and speaking
OF taking his life. Everybody supposed
him to be joking, and few days ago, in
speaking about it to neighbor, an offer
was made to help him dig his grave when
he got ready. The offer of assistance was
made in derision, but he accepted, and
procuring shovels, the two went to his lot
in the cemetery and commenced digging
near his wife's grave. After working
awhile the neighbor told him that he had
carried the joke far enough, and quit
work. Pickering, however, finished the
grave before leaving. Thursday noon he
went to the post office and remarked.
while there, that he would go off in about
two hours. Soon after he started for the
cemetery, followed by two or three bows.
On arriving at the grave he took of part
of his clothes and tod the boys to carry
them home. About half-past two he sent
up to the village to have more come down
to see him kill himself, but with the ex.
ception Of few more boys nobody came.
A few minutes before three he drove the
boys back from the grave and beyond the
hedge, and precisely at three he shot him
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-01
The Public Debt.

On the 3lst day of August 1850, the
total amount of the public debt was stat,
ed by the Secretary Of the Treasury to
be 50 ,742. On the lst day OF
July 1867, it was -. i59, SO, 215 - On
the first day OF July 1868. it was - .442,-
241, G92 30, showing reduction Of $11,-
|6l3,5S323 in the space of one year On
the first day of January. 1869. the public
debt was S2,473, 024, 9s7G1, an increase OF
$50. 111.295.oi during period OF six
months. On the 1st OF January. 1869.
there were $1.ss6 2iG.05O. Of the L. $.
bonds hearing interest at six per cent.
1921 ,5S9.3oO at five per cent. and 500
$50, 900 Of the temporary loan certificates
at three per cent. making the total
amount Of annual interest about Sl2G.-
100000. No part of the principal Of thi.
debt Is payable until after 1880, except
the loans Of 1853 and t>Go, together
amounting 60 92',000,G00. due in 1870
and 1873
Now, Mr.. Editor,.is.it accessory, in or.
der to uphold the faith, honor integrity
and honesty of the Government, that We
must pay the sum OF S12G.000.0OO annu-
ally for twelve years, lmaling the sum OF
sl,5l2,O00,OOO, the interest paid on the
debt before Congress has legal right to
enact some way whereby the principal
can be reduced
Has not Congress a legal, equitable and
moral right to devise some means for re-
ducing the national debt at the earliest
possible moment outside of population ?
Is the Government morally bound to wait
until the maturity of the bonds before it
can redeem the same T. the Government
justified in taking the sum of Sl.jl2.-
100000 by taxation, Through an internal
revenue) out of the capital of the coun-
try, and employing the same in paying in
terest on debt when it is providing no
way for reduction of the principal
A SEEKER AFTER THE TRUTH
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self in the temple, killing. himself in
stantly. He was nearly Fifty years Of
age, and was always of an eccentric turn
of mind.
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OBTTUARY.-Mrs. Lattice Cobb Day,
who died in Stanstead last Wednesday
night, was q daughter Of Samuel Cobb
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SNAKE BlTEs.-Ammonia continue, to
be used with great success in Australia
as an antidote for snake bites. The papers
chronicle numerous cases where the in
lection of this article into the veins has
saved the lives Of persons bitten by
venomous snakes. The wound Is also
bathed with liquid ammonia, and stimu-
lants are given to keep the patient from
falling into u lethargic state.
TOBACCO ANrIDoTE-TLc Banner
prescribes the follo.ing antidote for to-
bacco victims: AN enemy Of the sweed
in this town, sends Us the following to-
bacco antidote, which he warrant, sure
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.- A Descriptive Sketch of the
present State of Vermont, one of the
United States of America. By J. A.
Graham, Ii d, late Lieutenant Colonel
Ill the service Of the above State. Lon
don Printed and sold for the Author.
by Henry Fry, at the Cicero Press,
FinsburE Place. 1877. $ vo. PIP. viii,
Isl
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"A History OF the State of Yer
mont, from it's Discovery and Settle
ment to the close of the year MDCCoxxx
By Nathan Hoskins. "INi, ibertat,
adepta, Joruerunt" yergennes Pub
lished by J. Shedd. 1881. 12mo. pp
SIG.
Nathan Hoskins was son Of
Nathan and Sarah (Oakes) Hoskins, and
was born in Weathersfeld, VT, 81 April,
1895. He was graduated at Dartmouth
in 1920, and taught at st. Adams in 1891
and 1929, at the same time reading law
with the Hon. Asa Adds. He practiced
Law at Vergennes from 1923 to 1881, dur
ing three years of which time he edited
the Vermont Aurora. David Edmond.
the eminent Vergennes lawyer, was in
the habit of saying of him, that she
didn't know anything this side of Ammo
Domiri" In 1881 he removed to Ben.
nington, and thence, in 1859, to Williams
town, Mass. He was the author OF
"Notes upon the Western Country, con-
tanned within the States of Ohio, Indi-
ana, and Illinois, and the Territory of
Michigan. Greenfield, Mass. James p.
1lasg, 1885," Rmo. PIP. 10e.; Of q
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suu5dag, Nareh p. lsG9.-The
convened at the usual time. anl M e.
ey resumed hi. argument ia the Csc.
State v Ziba Plunl-y et al, eln-l--
1910. Judge Steele then Delivers
charge Of the court L. the jurr. r.
livery Of the charge occupied nearly ~
hours. The court room was p4cksL
Of listeners Of both sexes. and iha
careful attention was given 10 the r., --
We obtained. and give our retder
following:
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-01

VISITORS Hon. VIII. H. Bingham.
of Stowe, James T. Thurston, ESQ. and
Denison Taft, Esq, of Montpelier. were
in town yesterday, locking over our pub
lie buildings, and confering with j. r.
Randall, ESD, i'll reference to plans for
the new offices to be erected by the Yer
mont Mutual Insurance Company at
Montpelier.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-01

TRANSFER OF REAL EsTATE-G w
Tower has purchased one-half of the lo
on the southwest corner of Center anc
Wales streets, for which he paid So 26O
We understand that an elegant block i,
to be erected upon this lot.
Mr.. s. p. Curtis has bought eight
building lots of G. w. Tower. situated on
Park street, near the fair grounds. paving
for the same sc, 800
The NEW COURT HousE.-A view
and plan of the Rutland County Court
House, soon to be erected, are on exhi-
bition at the Bardwell House. Our citi-
zens should call and examine them. Fears
are entertained that the committee are
working upon TOO limited plan for the
future wants and interests of the county.
The future wants of the people should be
anticipated in the erection Of public
building, and not be confined to the
present needs, especially when the popu-
lation and business is increasing as rap
idly as it is in Rutland County.
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Shrewsbury Murder Case
Conclusion Of the Testimony.
ARGUMENTS COMMENCED.
s E V E n T Fl D A Y :.
Rutland County Court.

HON. BENZ. H. STEELE, Presiding Judge
II On. DANIEL CRoFooT, Assistant
HON. JOHN CROWLEY, Jadges
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- The Natural and Political His
tory of the State Of Vermont. one of the
United States of America. To which
is added, An Appendix, containing
answers to sundry queries addressed to
H. ~Hlhor. By Ira Allen, Esquire,
Major General Of the Militia IN the
o'o'o at Vermont. London Printed
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Row, aud sold by w West, No. l..
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Of Vermont. BY Samuel Williams, L
LID. Member of the Meteorological So
eiety in Germany, of the Philosophical
Society in Philadelphia, and of the
Academy Of Arts and Sciences in Mas
sachusatt1. In two volumes. The Sec
ond edition, corrected and much en-
larged. Burlington, Vt. Printed by
Samuel Mills Sold at his bookstore in
Burlington, by Mills & White, Middle
bury f-4iab Thomas. Jun, Worces-
ter, Thomas and Andrews, Boston, Thorn
a. and Whipple, and S. Sawyer and
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ass.
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would disappear
/ The primary schools have for this year
been under the instruction of Miss Rug
gles on School street Miss Lee. ON the
/ Turnpike; Misses Melden and McDonough.
on Green street, and Misses Reynolds and
Hitchcock, on West street
All of these schools have been making
good progress in their studies, and are
quiet and orderly, and, as general rule,
very pleasant relations have seemed to
exist between the teachers and scholars.
The primary schools, on West street have
been very full Miss Hitchoock's number
ing, during the fall term, when all were
present, eighty-two scholars, and NJ ISIS
Reynolds seventy-fve.
Of course with this number of schola rs.
the teachers could hardly do Justice ,by
their classes, but, notwithstanding this
very good advancement has been made. !
The secondary schools for the year, have
been under the care and instruction of
Miss Spaulding on the Turnpike; Miss
Lee on Green street; Miss Grandey On
School street; and Misses Robinion and |
Pitkin on West street These schools
have been, generally, very good, and in
some respects. all that could be wished
yet it is hoped by the trustees that they
may be able to raise them to higher
standard of scholarship than they at pres
ent possess.
During the year, more attention has
ben given to the schools by the parents,
than has formerly been given, many
persons who have heretofore uniformly
sent their scholars to private schools, have
this year patronized the public schools.
This is as it should be, and our. schools
only need the encouragement and aid Of i
he leading citizens Of the place to male Il
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-09-11

REAppEARAScE OF THE TsxAs CATTLE
DISEASE IN OHio.-The dreaded cattle
plague has again made its appearance
in this vicinity. A short time ago a
herd of some 300 head Of Texas cattle
we're brought Into Brown County, Ohio,
and within the past few days tho fatal
effects OF this importation have been
seen. Last week, all along the line Of
their march through Clermont County,
the cattle OF the farmers began to die
at a fearfully rapid rate, and under such
circumstances that there can be little
doubt that the u~uaccountnble Texas
rinderpest is the cause. Mr. Ham. AL.
len Of the Broadway Hotel is our in
formant, and be expresses it MS his be-
lief that not less than so head have al
ready died, and the disease continues to
spread. Several farmer, in the vicinity
Of Amelia and Bethel have lost from
three to eight bead, and many others
one and two each. Mr.. Allen assisted
at examinations Of the enrcasses Of sew
eral cows which had died suddenly Of
tho disease, aud found a uniform state
Of facts, rs follows: The heart, liver
and oue-half tue lungs were congested /;
the gall was swollen to about four times
the natural size, and Of a dark yellow
color !; the bladder was filled with a
compound of blood and water while the
food in the stomach was in a dry, hard
packed condition, no progress toward
digestion having been made. 1t is re-
ported that the disease has also made
its appearance on Bullskin Greek, in
Brown County, and other localities In
that vicinity Cincinnati Times.
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-09-11
THE MAINE ELECTION.

In Maine an election for Governor and
members Of the Legislature takes place
next Monday, tho 18th instant, and as
there are three tickets 10 tho field,
representing Republican, Democratic
and Prohibition parties, the contest po'-
,esses considerable interest, especially
rs the Democrats are inspired by a hope
that the defective prohibitiouists will
naturally weaken the Republican organ
ization and leave their own intact.
They do not expect to elect their Guber-
Material candidate by a popular vote,
but as the ro,e devolvss upon the Legis-
lature If no one candidate receives a
larger vo,e than oil his ompetitors,
i, is barely possible that they may gain
o majority in that body, through the
divisions Of their opponents. 10 any
event, they bopc to encourage their
fellow-partizans in Pennsylvania and
Ohio, where the most important contests
Of the year come OF in October, with
what they deem good news from Maine.