Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-07-29

avoided giving . direct answer, but said
he would think the matter over, and tell
him in day or two.
Meeting him few days after, he asked
if he was in earnest. Ide replied that he
was. Mr.. Mann replied that he did not
think such transaction exactly right,
but he did not know but he would take
hold of it, and asked a few more days
time to think upon it.
In due time Mr.. Mann told his neigh
Dor that if he was still in favor of stealing
COW, he would assist in the matter and
accept the proposal before made by Doe
to share equally in the beef.
Ide owned a COW and so did Mr.. Mann
these were allowed to range together,
through the woods, and the heavy cow
bell that each wore announced their
whereabouts if they were not about at
milking time. One evening just as Mr..
Ide had finished milking his COW, Mr..
Mann stepped over to his house and said
to him that he would go that very night
if desired, and steal, and help butcher the
cow Ide readily assented to the propo-
sition.
With rope, butcher knives and leather
apron in hand, the two men started as
soon as it was thought the people of the
settlement would all be sound asleep.
For time after their arrival at the set
Element, they were unable to find any cat
tie. They had evidently strayed off, for
in those days barn yards and cattle pens
were not common, and cattle were allow
ed to range at large in the wilderness that
skirted the settlement.
4 At last they discovered solitary COW
which they readily captured and led off.
A they were leading it off towards
their homes, Idc remarked that she was
the best COW to lead he ever saw except
his own. He remarked, too, that if she
only had u white face, and three white
spots on her shoulder, he couldn't tell her
from his own COW. Just before reaching
home, they turned from the road, through
q dense thicket, into a small clearing, and
there. by starlight, they butchered and
cut up the COW. To guard against the
discovery Of the theft, they took the pre-
; caution to bury all the blood, otfal, and
even the hide, Ill a hole, which Ide had
previously prepared. just before day
light, they finished their work and car
house OF Mr.. Mann, and the other to Mr..
Ides
When milking time arrived the next
morning. Mr. lde's COW did not appear,
nor could tine jingle of her bell be heard.
NJ Maun's cow came up, and a. II was
unusual for the two COWS TO be separated,
search WAS made for the missing one, but
she could not be found. Night came, and
was followed by the morning, but the
COW could not be heard OF
Before commencing the second day :
search Mr. Mann asked his neighbqr if II
, were not possible that they had nj lde q
mistake and killed the wrong COW, that
by chance might have wandered off to the
neighboriug settlement whore they found
her Ide replied that could t be, for
three reasons, his cow had II bell ii white
face AMI three white spots on her off ohou-
, der, but the COW they killed had none OF
these. Mr. Mann suggested the posi-
bility that hi COW might have caught
her bell strap on d hook or stub a1-l torn
it off, and in the burnt piece might have
blacktd her face and shoulder a. 10 III axe
har apper = perfectly black cow. These
I suggestions followed by che thar they 20
aud dig up aud examine the hide, struck
Mr.. Ide with such force that he repaired
, to the spot with shovel in hand and on
examination III broad daylight, found
, surely enough TIE had hutchercd his own
: IL --"4-.ly parpl-xed aud
wondered Why things had taken such an
, unfavorable turn wijn him He review ed
!, the circumstances q; Mr. NJ INNS hesitation
when he first made the proposition ~ thu
absence of All the cattle III the settlement;
, OF the otrangeness OF his cows leaving
Mr. Mann's aud wandering off alone to
the other settlements; Of her losing fl her
bell which was suspended 10y a strong
badly crooked in the places where the hair
was white, but none where the hair was
originally black and of Mr.. Mann's readi-
ness to return to him half the carcass a.
soon as the purported mistake was dis
covered. He queried whether it were
possible that al these things had happen
ed accidentally or whether Mr.. Mann had
BETRAYED him. and in concert with others
COW He was in bad spot He could
not raise courage 10 charge il upon his
neigh Dor. Ii Mr.. Mann had betrayed him
the people of the other settlement knew
it. He feared to meet them and although
no one alluded to the unpleasant circum-
stance yet he avoided society, and in veri-
fication of the proverb that ''the wicked
flee when no man pursueth," he stealthily
left the town and was not'heard Of after
wards. H.
The Sun CHoLERA RrAtEDY.-In an answer
to numerous applicants, publish the famous
ssun Cholera Remedy recipe, which has been
published annually in the New York Sun for
many years. II has been tried in great number
of eases, and is always beneficial. We advise our
readers to cut this out, and paste In a scrap book
for reference, better yet, to have bottle of the
preparation made, and keep in the house TO in
case OF an emergency. This remedy IS excellent
for darIhoe or cholera morbus, but in such cases
must not be taken so often:
Mix in small bottle equal parts of the Tinct.,
of opium, taudnum) TInct., hubbard Tinct.,
, capsieum red pepper double strength, Tinct.,
camphor, Spirits Sweet Nitre, Essence of pepper
mint-double strength.
Then shake all the ingredients together, cork
the bottle, and have it ready for instant use. 1t
l will keep for years.
: DosE.-For an adult, from to 80 drops (ac-
constitution ND savarity nf svrnntops az