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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-11-22

II seems that the illness OF President Jus-ez,
OF Mexico, was paralysis Of the nerve which
controls the beating of the heart. He 10 now
recovering from the attack. During the time
that fears were entertained that he would die,
the congress sat in permanent session, in order
to act quickly regarding the naming Of q sue
cessor to Juarez in case of his death, but fortu-
nstely there did not arise q necessity for such =
measure.
BY the way this reminds us that Mexico
hasn't had q revolution for months. We hope
there is nothing wrong there, but this sluggi sb.
ness is certainly unaccountable. The world
will forget that there is a Mexico If she goes on
IN this matter of fact, humdrum style. OF course
if che really means il, and has settled down,
after sowing her wild oats, to a steady peaceful,
domestic sort Of life we shall all be glad; but we
want to be assured that it isn't mere apathy
dont-care-itiveness on Der part.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-11-22

HOE. FOSTER BLoDSETT ACQuIrrnD.-The
Prosecution OF Foster Blodgett, United States
senator for Georgia terminated By verdict OF
SequittSl IN his favor By the jury In the United
otAtes Court In SavAnnAh yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-11-22
WOOD AND COAL.

NOAL AND WOOD.
I have received the last week Eve Garages bs-t
quality BED and WHITE ASH COAL, al .ifss
from Chestnut 20 furnace, and which 1 will sell fo<
the next thirty days at Q xmau advance over oosf
for Cash only.
Best quality OAK and PINE WOOD.
Orders left AZ Office corner 18th street ana Penn.
syly.nia syenue, OF .; the Yard, q street wharf,
promptly nlled.
JANE GLEASON,
seN-r fRepl Coai and Wood Ms-oaasa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-11-22

BOARDING.
pLEASANT ROOMS WITH BOARD AND
Il Home c. mforts can be had on moderate term,
by applying at 925 street. near 10Th no2l.6t~
LOOP BOARD AND ROOMS AT 73l SRI
~ street. between q and III streets Convenient To-
Census, Patent and Post Offices and both lines OF
cars po2l ST.
- the quiet of a refined HOME, where the mepaee
and surrounding are comfortable and agreeable
may ADDRESS II ,. D., Star ONCE. no2l st"
Il FRONT ROOMS, to be had on Reasonable
terms af 1901, cor. Pennsy vania avenue and 10Th
street. Good location and accessible mh1s-iy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-11-22
n~HEADQUARTERsM MILITARY pIyIsION
III DE THE MISSAIrRI

~HEADQUARTERs MILITARY DIVISION
S Of THE MISSOURI,
INSPECTOR GENERAL OFFICE,
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS November 10, l5,0
The examination OF the Montana Indian war
Claims of so. under the provision of ecent act o.
Congress- Is in progress at the once OF the On
dersigned In this city All parties interested ia the
same, DO have not already appeared, desired to
present their claims or vouchers, with sue proof in
the support a they may have to submit, eth in
person or by attorney, without delay.
JAMES A. HARDIE,
noioot Inspector General Y. y. Army
~LEyY COURT, WASHINGTON COTSTY
US p U, l4th Eoyemser. l1O-The Levy Court
Tor the County of Washington d c. having ,I,eua,i
4 c9nlucIYe to the public interests 10 open a New
h"ai NJ the County. Connecting the Piney Branch
ruad with the Blair road. through the land Of ]
II; Morrison, jos. y. Burr, DR.. Cockerrll, p
Ihoup>yn, and the heirs # Kitty Savoy, and have
caused the same 10 be surveyed By the County Sur
NeNor and plat OF the same TO be prepared which
l. now on ME in the office Of the Clerk u tLe Cont
notice Is hereby given 10 all persons interested i'm
said road and no have objections to the making OF
The ssle L. submit their objection this Court AZ
u neat regular session. The Court will then ana
there hear them.
by order Of the Court NJ CALLAN
nOi5 2aw3w Clerk q. the f,sx a Court
@NOTICE.-All UNRGDEENED PI, ma ~
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

THE CosT OF A MIsFR's PROFESSION
AL ADvICE.-Several months ago one
Lochy. Ostrom, female miser of Pough-
keepsie, died, leaving fortune of $685.
GOO to certain unknown heirs." A sim
gular trial, growing ont of the estate thus
left, is row progressing at Poughkeepsie.
The lawyer who managed her business
such as it was-during her lifetime has
brought a claim of $4,000 against the
estate as due him for his services" )"
These services consisted in his listening
daily, for six years, and for five or six
times day at that, to old Loehy's inter-
minabie gabble about her money, and in
his giving professional advice" each
time. Lochy's interviews varied in
length, sometimes fifteen minutes being
consumed, sometimes one hundred and
twenty mortal minutes passing away be-
fore she had wearied of her twaddle-for
she never had any real business to trans.
act with the lawyer. And now, when
the poor old miser is laid away in her
grave, comes this confidential legal agent
of hers and makes grab for half her for
tune. Could the unhappy Lochy only
have foreseen at the time what would have
been the upshot of her consultations"
with that smooth-tongued deoeiyer she
would doubtless have taken to her bed
and died of a broken heart. AS it is, it is
a wonder her bones do not rise up against
the bold lawyer and face him in the open
court.
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CabIegranaS

THE river Seine is filled with floating
ice
Mr.. Motley left London for the
Hague, yesterday.
The Prsssian Chambers will be con-
voked on the 18th inst.
1t Is rumored that Gen. Ducrot was
killed in his retreat across the Marne.
The libel suit, in London, of Ed
munds versus Gladstone and others, has
been withdrawn.
Upon evacusting Orleans, the French
spiked their batteries and destroyed ell
their war materials. The army retired
across the Loire.
1t is reported from Alexandra that
the Khedive of Egypt viii be prepared
within few days to arm one hundred
thousand men with breach-loaders.
The English government has given
a contract for sixty batteries, eight guns
each, of Gatling's mitrailieuses, TO be made
in America.
king Ludwig of Bavaria, has sent sp
autograph letter to King William of
Prussia. asking him to accept the title OF
Emperor of Germany.
Prince George writes the King of
Saxony that the total loss Of ths 6axons
in the late engagements was 20 cfacsrs
and 2100 rank and file.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

WEsToN's CONTRIBUTION TO KNOW
LEDGE.-Weston's contribution to science
as afforded by his recent long-continaed
walk, may be summed up as follows: In
creased urea, or greater purity of the
blood Diminished uric acid, freedom
from gout and rheumatism. Increased
phosphoric acid, greater activity of the
brain. The deductions drawn by the at
tendant physicians from the results of ex-
srcise on the human system as shown in
Weston's tramp are, therefore, that gouty
and rheumatic people should take excess
sive exercise. 1t would be useless, how
ever, to attempt to coavince the victims
OF gout or rheumatism that they should
walk when it is within their power TO ride.
II that is all that has been gained by
Weston's venture, we fear that except in
80 far as our stock of scientific knowledge
has augmented, the pedestrian has walked
in vain.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

CONNECTICUT CIDER BRANDY TRADE.
"A Hartford paper prints some figures
which show that the trade in cider BRAN
dy is an important item in the yearly re-
turns of Connecticut. This year the ex-
traordinary crop of apples in the State
will not produce quite as large yield of
cider brandy as was expected, owing to
the equally extraordinary lack of water.
Many of the stills have been unable to
convert one-half of their available supply
of the abounding fruit into this fiery dis
tiilation, because the ordinary water snp-
ply failed them. Notwithstanding this,
however, there is very unusual quan
tity of cider brandy this fall-more than
has been produced in any single previons
year for . great many years. One pro-
ducer in Slimsbury has paid revenue
tax of $1,000 on the amount be has dis
titled thus far He has sold 100 barrels
to New York at $175 gallon. he sx-
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

CALIFoRNIA--New discoveries are con-
stantly being made as to the capabilities
land of wonders is peculiarly adapted to
the cultivation of cotton, that the soil and
climate are remarkably suited to it, and
that the country is free from the chief
difficulties and embarrassments that often
make it failure elsewhere The season
ia uniform, there are no worms, no mop
FORTUNE rains, no early frosts, It is
among the possibilities that the throne of
King Cotton may yet be removed from
the shore of the gulf of Mexico and es-
tablished on the Pacific slope.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

VAGRANT Docs IN PARIs.-A corres-
pondent speaks as follows of the vagrant
dogs of Paris, forgotten or abandoned by
their owners in their hurried flight !:
Many of them are valuable poiaters or
settlers. A mouth is an enemy in these
days, when none of US find it easy to pro-
cure food. Left to shift for themselves,
the dogs hang around the camps or range
the fields. AS the hour comes for the
Paris gates to close they come trooping
back to town in great numbers. If they
find the portal inaccessible, they bay
prayer for admittance and in minute or
two turn their back on town and make for
some bivouac where they do duty as watch
dogs. Some of them have been useful by
the timely notice they have given of the
approaching Germans. Hundreds are
daily carried to the pound, where, after
the prescribed hours of grace have ex-
pired without bringing the owner, the
dog is slaughtered aud sent to the Garden
,f Plants to feed the carnivorOus animals
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15
Washington Letter.
ARLINGTON HOUSE,
Washington, Dec. 5, 1870.

Editor Rutland Herald For many
days the weather in Washington has beer
equal to the most beautiful of the early
fall days in Vermont. To-day Heaven
allotted an unclouded sky and the balm.
lest of atmospheres to the opening Of
Congress A majority of Senators and
Representatives were in their seats when
the Vioe-President in the Senate and the
Speaker in the House dropped the gavel
at IL o'clock, noon, calling to order. The
galleries in each House were pleasantly
filled, but not crowded. 1t was clear that
many, if not large majority, of the oc-
cupants of the galleries were strangers in
Washington, whose curiosity has led
them here from different parts OF the
country to be at the capital at the OPEN
ing of Congress. Immediately after the
Houses were called to order, prayer was
offered by the Chaplains, following which
Mr.. Colfax in the Senate and Speaker
Blaine in the House took their respective
chairs, and Congress was ready for busi-
ness. Immediately resolutions were pass
ed in each House dispatching committees
to inform the President that Congress was
ready for his annual Message.
While these committees were waiting
on the President, the time was occupied
with the ordinary routine of introducing
bills aud joint resolutions. The most of
the time was occupied on the part of the
House, however, in a recess. About ff-
teen minutes before 2 o'clock, the Presi-
dents Message reached the Capitol and
was read from manuscript in both houses
at tho same time. It was attentively lis
tened to and received as plain, straight
forward, general statement of the move
ments of the Government since the last
session of Congress, together with the
present status of its affairs within itself
and of its relations with the other gov
ernmeuts of the world-a clear and con-
else business document which means busi-
ness all lite sngeestinns plainly conceived
in spirit honestly studious of the high
est and truest interest of the nation. AT
ter the reading of the Message, as usual,
it was ordered printed, and after little
other general business, the first day of
the short and closing session of the pres
ent Congress was finished, and the MEM
bers scattered to their dwellings and
boarding houses for dinner, and after din
ner to pass the evening in different social
or political gatherings for enjoyment or
for determining plans for the morrow or
the remoter future. Everybody seemed
to pass the day in an agreeable. quiet
mood, devoid of all enthusiasm. Fl.
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TERMS $3.50 PER ANNUM

poets to make a lsrge quantity. The
Government tax is fifty cents gallon,
and the Government inspection and
stamps bring up the tax to about 65 cents.
Besides this there is tax of 81 for every
barrel OF forty gallons above the produc-
tion of 100 barrels. New York State dis
tillers get less price for their product
generally, this fall, about $1-25. There
are distillers at CRANKY, Barkhsmsted,
Canton, and other places. For cider,
when more of it is required than them
selves make, the distillers are paying 81
to $1.25 barrel; and for apples 10 cents
a bushel.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

DANBY.-At the annual election OF
officers for Marble Lodge No. 76, held al
the regular communication, on Monday
evening, Dec. 9th, the following officers
were elected and duly installed, viz:
w. II. Bond, w. NJ; ID. Fl. Lane, S.
w; C. II. Congdon, J. W.; B. A. Fisk,
Treasurer; A. S. Baker, Secretary; E. o.
Whipple, S. b; l.. S. Waldo. J. D.; o.
FL. Rounds, Chaplain j. G. King, J. j.
Soule, Stewards; William Vail, Marshal !;
B. Z Eddy, Chorster; Israel Sheldon,
Tyler.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

The ANXIETY AT AMIENs, FRANCE
A correspondent at Amiens says that city
has been prey to the painfulness of ex-
peotation. The troops are out, and right
well they look. The cannon shine bright
in the wintry sun, and the mitrailleuses
have terribly sullen, guillotine air about
them. Amiens is expected to give the
Prussians much work; very important
series Of earthworks must be taken first,
and then for the barricades. l would not
be surprised if the foe met with several
astonishments. The working people of
Amiens have received their muskets and
are very assiduous at drill. The hospitals
are full here of the wounded from Sedan :;
the poor fellows have been hit hard. One
patient ia quite a phenomenon. He was
struck on the right hip by shell, and
the left leg, though not so much as
scratched, Immediately became paralyzed.
having not the slightest sensation. even
though it be pricked with the lancet. A
wounded Frenchman lies as silent as a
statue he dreams of battle-felds no more,
and he is about right. The weslthiest
classes voluntarily accept certain num-
Der OF patients. know a Marquis who
@as fifteen braces in his splendid chateau,
and assisted by his son, performs all the
auties OF hospital nurse, Other persons
'aN, van one or two patients, according to
'"o'r ihN,us, but all do something.
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4sntland lailg Herald
THE RUTLAND HERALD
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1870.
POstmaster-Gene Report.

Postmaster-G General Creswell has added
his report to those finished. 1t is shown
that the whole revenue was $19,772, 800.
IS, and the expenditures of all kinds,
S23996 S37.63. For the year ending
June 80, 1869. the ordinary revenue were
$18 344,510T2, and the expenditures,
$23698, 1880. OF the receipts this year
all bnt So. 100000 was derived from let
ter postage, 20 that the number of letters
sent must have been at least SEQ 900, 900.
OF these fomethiug more than 100000
found their way to the dead letter office,
or one letter in every 40 or 80. The let
terra misdirected, not directed at ALL or
not prepaid, were less than 100000, or
not one in a thousand, The dead letters
contained money in yariOus forms amount
ing 10 more than $3,000,000, aud snme-
thing above that sum Was paid over to
the proper persons At the same time
the losers by mail were only 3,071. as re
ported, and the moueyIthus lost was near
lV 81 400, ,000,-le than half ~ much es
the government restored to persons who
had sent it wrong. There were in the
service If the department on the 3Oth of
June, 1870, 1926 contractors for the trana-
portation OF the mails. OF mail routes
in operation there were 1861, aggreg4t-
ing in length 231,232 miles; il nnnuul
transportation, 07,024, ,996 miles, and in
animal cost, $lOS84,G53. Railroad route,
--Length, 1921 miles annual trans.
portation, AZ, SOL $40 miles; annual cost,
S., ,901-about 1918 cents per mile.
Steamboat routes-Length, 20,605 miles
annual transportation, 4, ,122,375 miles
annual cost, $7O6, 154-about 17-12 cents
per mile. Other routes, on which mails
are required to be conveyed with "ceier-
ity, certainty and ecurity"-Length,
166,810 miles; annual Transportation,
45,350,641 miles; annual cost, S., 040 ,598
about 11.13 cents per mile
The amount paid for transporting for
eign mails was 1892 ,281S7, the teamer
receiving also the ocean postage. The
matter of carrying the mails to the North
German provinces, ia discussed ut length. |
The war has caused but little irregularity
in the mail service, none existing now.
During the year twelve postal oonven
tions have been held and reductions eff
rates been effected. During the year
$1,230,076S7 has been paid carriers. On
local matter 1851 ,86470 has been r-oeiv.
cd. The carriers have collected during |
the year 97,791 ,046 letters, and delivered /
01811,83l. Of money order offices there
are 2,076 in operation. The numher of
domestic money orders issued during the
year was 1871 1858, of which the aggre-
gate value was $34,054, 184 II
The number paid was 1,G75,-
228, amounting in value to 80, ,958, ,740 q
To which is TO be added the
amount of orders repaid to
the remitters, 1863, ,lS4 50
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

PoF1T AND Loss.--We have before Us a
catalogue OF an academy in neighboring
State, III which we count seventy-six
from Vermont in attendance during the
year.
The lowest rate of tuition is $50. The
highest including extras, $14S. Calling
the average $40, for the seventy-six we
pay $500. Board at $4 per week for
forty weeks for seventy-six is $12, ,16O.
And for iucidentals $40 each, 81 500, and
we have the amount paid out of the above
academy $4,000. We have not data for
tions are making ike drafts upon us. 1t
is safe to believe that we are paying for
academical education abroad at least $685.
600 year.
We find from the annual report of the
Trustees of the University of Vermont,
that of the 312 Vermont students at col
lege, 123 are members of Institutions out
side the State. Their expenses must be
on an average at least $500 year each,
amounting to $24,600. 1t is not an over
estimate, therefore, if we make the
amount that Vermont pays yearly for an
article, so to express it, that she might az
we'll manufacture herself, at $4,000.
Vermont colleges have graduated a
good many able men in all departments of
honorable effort. Before they were as
well endowed as now, they taught
thoroughly and well. Vermont acade-
mics have supplied all the training, the
school discipline, which thousands have
had who here at home or in other States
have done US ell credit. Why doubt
their ability te turn out similar products
now
State pride, as we'll as decent econo.
my, demands of us to patronize our own
institutions, and so enable them to add to
their facilities for instruction. In the
meantime let as pray, that some good
man, some Peter Cooper, some Matthew
Vassar, some Ezra Cornell, before his
heirs have an opportunity TO quarrel over
his wealth, will endow an institution in
Vermont which will be thought worthy
of the hearty support of all Vermonters
Messenger.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

THE WALooMsAC RAILRoAD.-It is
understood that so soon as the Vermont
Legislature adjourns, books will be opened
for subscriptions for the proposed railroad
from Bennington 10 State Line. II is be-
lieved sufficient sum TO build the road
can be raised in very few days. Many
business men of Troy are interested in the
road, and will probably subscribe.-NorM
adams NeacS
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

this is one of the most valuable fruit pro-
ductions that has ever been brought into
this country, and will be fully appreciated
by pomoIogists.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. - Yesterday
William ii. Reed was fined for intoxica-
.tion, including costs, before Justice Mar
shall, S12.33.
The same Justice imposed 8 fine and
cost amounting to $17.33 on Clark T.
Richardson, for violating the law in re-
ference to the sale of intoxicating liquors
The same amount was imposed on L.
ID. Kinney for violation of the same law.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

crop for the year will fall below the figure
of three and half million bales, at which
it has been estimated. In this case, with
peace in Europe, an increase of prices
may be anticipated.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

TALES OF THE LIVING AGE.-Litten
81 Gay, Boston, have just issued another
of those admirable selections from foreign
literature, which they are first presenting
to American readers. Against Time, by
Alexander Innes Shand, is their latest
volume, making two hundred pages, in
paper covers; it is an attractive story,
and one which will be sure to interest the
reader. Price 70 cents.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15
$33,027.924 70
11otaI payments,

Exc ess of issues over payments, 126,924 90
T he magnitude of the operations of the
none, T-order system is we'll ILLUSTRATED by
the st atemeut that, at the city of New
York .lone, the orders issued during the
last ear amounted to $650.25S.39; the
ordere paid to $3,S71 ,516.11; the remit.
tances received from postmasters to $5,-
9S7,SSS, and the drafts of postmasters
paid, to $3,43O,5S1. The Postmaster
General recommends increased facilities
in this direction.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15
RUTLAND VT, THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER I5 1870

In looking over the statement in the
last Independent and examining the case
as fully as l am able to do in the short
time given me, am entirely satisfied that
to our friend and fellow towpsman, the
Doctor, belongs the full credit of being
tie original discoUerer Of the Rutland and
Whitehall Canal.
1t might be urged that the Doctor in
the first PRONUNCIATION of his discovery
had the covert design of setting back
fire to the Woodstock Railroad project.
But as counter-irritsnts are, believe, not
admissible in homeopathic treatment, this
charge will of course not be sustained II
hope, therefore, that generous public
will gratefully acknowledge their obliga-
ton, and accord to the Doctor all the
honor that he 80 modestly claims in the
premises; and further suggest that so1en
the canal IS 6uilt, new COLOSSUS, not of
Rhodes, but of Rutland, be built to span
the grand harbor, or basin, which must
form its eastern terminus. This statue
would necessarily have to be little larger
than life, and one foot might rest on Bald
elk Association" not OBJ |
jecting- and the other placed on suit
able elevation on the other side of the
harbor. The figure and face should be of
the "Janus" order of sculpture, and face
East aud West On the west, the face
should wear the Doctors blandest and /
most winning smiles, az if welcoming the
commerce and heavy freightst t
from the Oocident~-while the eastern face
md figure should give an expression of
mpotent hate ana dissatisfaction and be
represented as blowing the smallest kind
If "little pills" through "rsm's horn" at
IN immaginary Woodstock railroad.
COMuS
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-12-15

THE Town CLOCK.-In our notice of
the town clock in yesterdays HERALD,
we omitted to mention that it was pur-
chased of Messrs Van Ripper & Buel OF
New York. Their town clocks have al
most world wide reputation, having
been set up in Rochester, Syracuse, Lock
port, and other places in New York. as
well as in numerous towns and cities In
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan. Indiana,
Canada and elsewher aN @