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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-08
AMOUNT AND KIND OF CLOUDS.
A Sermon.
By MRS. OLIVE E. p. THOMAS.

Frien3s Strangers! 10 / speak to you to-day
From out humble cottage, yet true
Heart home My text, D mestic peace. I'd fam
Reveal the treasure 1 discover, which
No diamond eer outshone to eyes that long
Have sought despairingly its magic ray.
Why, oh why, I questioned in departed
Years, do lives like joyou- streams rush down the
Hills of life, to mingle in a solemn
And enduring flow; to find the channel
Where such sweet h pes met, only tUrgid
Bed, where shadow lie a. MONDAY, and the
Stars of Heaven refuse TO peer within the
Tender night Why do harmon1es SO pure
And perfect on the Tyres Of earth, so like
To those by angel hands enwrought, die out
In discord, wearlness and pain?
lis not
For lack Of gold 4 million courrly homes
Stand in the borders of our euvied land
Where beauty, grace and ease combine to rear
A Parad Sc on earth. But lOi there lies
A serpent colng mid exotic flowers,
With venom sting the glory Of each seene
To mar! It's not for lack OF learning or
OF talent. Lo! million roofs where lights
Of genius fash and spark Ike the suus
of August noon; where minds of culture meet,
And inspiration wondering thousands find.
But still a shallow IN the threshold lies,
And in the spirits inner shrine are forms
Of hatred aud distrust, that walk abroad
To chase the brightness Of the noon OF fame
Where is the hidden key to happiness!
The fadeless GLADDEN. Tor mortal brows!
And what mid all these radiant gifts
Can bring sweet rest? One motive power, alone.
And few there b &c, Mo STAT 45o BOT o tg9jte
In life, beneath the green O. r-archiDg palms
OF love. all holy love- Then If the trust
Eden vouchsates to lure to boiler heights
In amulet be bour d, oh what can Stake
joys firm, defiant base!
The talisman meath which no life We're blank
Is wrought Of loving wolds I've found place
Where morn, and noon, and eve their music falls
To SOFTEN all the rugged paths of care,
To scatter far the voices of distrust,
To tighten all the burd-ned hours Of pain,
To bid defiance to a stormy world without
And form within the soul a type of Heaven.
That ark OF rest is mine! That home Is mine,
And though the god Of Ophir fieth not
My Golfers, yet the millionaire no prou5er
Is in his estate just Ger the hill, than
1. Oh loving words! oh tender wOTdsi Dew
On the thirsty heart, found ia the desert
Wild, unto the storm-tost sailor, light
Friends Strangers! all who hear go test their
power
See If TO darkened beaIths sunshine CONES not.
My sermon ends, this benediction falls:
May the strong bands of human tenderness
Each heart enfold, until the weary march
Ends at the household shrine beyond the blue.
Where all Is peaee-sweet peace!
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County Temperance Rally and Pic.
mic.

A preliminary meeting of the friend
of Temperance from the different town
of Rutland County vas held at Rutland
on Wednesday last, for the purpose of con
sidering the proposal for a grand rally O
the temperance men, women and children
at some place in the County, during tn,
month of September.
Lorenzo Sheldon, of West Rutland, wal
made Chairman, and Newman Weeks O.
Rutland, Secretary.
On motion it was voted to have Grand
Temperance Rally and Picnic, on Satur
day, September "a, 1870, at Castleton.
The following officers and committee.
were appointed:
President.-Ex-Gov. John B. Page, o.
Rutland.
Vice-Prasidents.-Re C. A. Thomas
d. D., of Brandon; Rev. A. Walker, ID
D., of WallingfOrd; NJ. G. Rice of Ben
son.
Marshal.-C. NJ. Willard, of CastletOn
Secretary.-Newman Weeks, of Rut-
land.
Superintendent. H. @. Brown, Of
Castleton.
Committee to procure speakers.-Dr
Lorenzo Sheldon, West Rutland Rev
J. Phillips, Castleton.
Committee to make arrangements with
Railroads. Newman Weeks and james
K. Mclean, of Rutland.
Committee on Music.-R. G.. Thrall
West Rutland.
Printing and Publishipg.-James K
Mclean and DIR. G. Woodhouse, Rutland
Town Committees to stir up the people
in the several towns.
Wallingford, J. p. Farrar, E. Hill
Mt. Holly, David Eddy, G. w. Marsh.
Dandy, Rev. A. w. Eastman, e. A.
Smith.
Benson, E. L. Barber, Rev. Fl. T. Aus
Mt. Tabor, L. p Howe, E. B. Bond.
Poultney, FL. Campbell, Rev. J. Goad-
Castleton, B. w. Burt, Rev. W. t.
Ross.
Pittsford, D. K. Hall, S. D. Winslow.
MeDdon, Rev. III. W. Stewart, VIM.
Kimball.
Sherburne, d. w. Taylor, A. D. Esta-
brooks.
Pittsfeld, Rufus Holt, A. Vose.
Chittenden, w. O. Harrison, Asa Col
Inns.
Brandon, Rev. F. Tuxbury, John
Capen.
Hubbardton, Rev. @. Granger, G.
Roach.
Fairhaven, Rev. W. W. Atwater, u.
G. Ellis.
Pawlet, James Rice, DIR. 1. Monroe.
Wells, E. R. Pembsr, Rev. w. ID.
Hull.
Middletown, II. Cliff, e. w. Gray.
Tinmouth, A. ]. Meanwhile, ID. L.
Strange.
Clarendon, w. d. Marsh, Rev. w. T.
Herrick.
Shrewsbury, Charles Foster, B. E. Hor-
ton.
Sudbury, Rev. FL. f. Rustedt, f.
Holmes.
West Haven, II. j. Hunt, r. c. Abel.
Ira, Bradley Fish, Rev. Mr.. Kinney
Rutland, E N. Merriam, j. NJ. Haven,
]. E. Manley.
1t is proposed to procure prominent
speakers from abroad, such as will draw
together large. number of the people of
The county. A dinner will be provided
in the park, in old fashioned style, all
who are able bringing their own pro-
visions, each town delegation being loca-
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Although offered at a very high rate
OF interest, only 100000 of the North
German war loan have yet been taken
up.
The NORTH German Gazette processes
to be assured that the English Govern
ment will not interfere to prevent Prus-
sia's attempts at territorial agrandize.
ment.
The difficulty of obtaining supplies
of food must be one of great and growing
Importance TO both the immense forces
which are huddled together in country
by no means the most productive in the
world
:. During the present war the most bril-
liant Il courage has been displayed by the
french troops. King William himself
was Obliged to confess that they fought
WIN consummate bravery and history
Will state that superior numbers, not SUI
perior courage, conquered them.
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CAsTLEToN.-The largest and most
enthusiastic primary political meeting ever
held in Castleton, was on Saturday even
ing last, for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for town representative. In ac-
cordance with the call at an early hour,
two hundred voters assembled at the
Town Hall ready for business, besides a
large number of lockers on in Venice.
The meeting was called to order by L. W.
Preston, Chairman of the town committee.
FL. f. Smith was elected Chairman, and
NJ. B. Dewey appointed Secretary. A
committee of five was appointed to nomi-
nate Justices of the Peace. At this a
question arose, whether the town was en-
titled to twelve by reason of increased
population to over three thousand. At
ter brief consideration the committee
were instructed to report twelve names as
candidates, which was done and they
were unanimously nominated.
The meeting then proceeded to vote for
a candidate for Town Representative
The ballot between the main candidates
stood as follows:
r. Morris Copeland, 70
Pitt w. Hyde, 70
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Fires in the yyoOds-A Summer of
Forest COnfIagFaIions.

Among the worst results of the contin-
uous hot Weather of the present summer
are the fires in the woods We hear Of
their ravages in every direction through
out Canada, North, East, and West in
New Brunswick, in the remotest regions
of Maine, in the mountains of Peunsylva-
mia, and, coming nearer home, along the
entire valley of the Hudson south of US.
in the Heidelberg mountains, and On
Long Island. Our own immediate vicin-
ity, and especially to the West and North,
has been favored with more rain than the
localities mentioned, which is the reason
that the fire has not been brought TO our
very doors. But the destruction of pro-
area of the fires has been, can be counted
by hundreds of thousands Of dollars, while
that in Canada will probably be reckoned
| by millions And worse than this il the
some portions Of Canada, so dry has
been the earth, that the fire has pene-
trated to depth of many feet, and In
one of these cavities two men are said to
have fallen and persisted. Railroad trains
run through blazing woods, and on Rideau
river the steamers sail between fires on
either shore. Whole villages have in
some instances been swept away, and
farms with their buildings, fences, stacks,
and standing crops, have been laid waste.
People have fed for their lives, and now
are dwelling in tents, famished, naked,
and dependent for subsistence upon the
charity of neighbors almost as poor as
themselves The danger of Ottawa, the
Dominion capital, was last week very
great, but the crisis has probably passed.
Never in the history Of the country has
the scourge of fire been so terrible. And
yet in many instances these great confa-
grations are due to little act OF careless
ness, the building of camp fires by hum
tiers, the tossing Of burning cigar among
the leaves. or even the discharge OF gun.
There can of course be no preventive of
spcb results, but il would be strange il
any village of considerable size should
fail the coming Winter to put clearing
of a mile or two between it and any adj
iacent forest. Unless this is done, few
insurance companies will be willing to
assume risks in towns unduly exposed.
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a German Batfle-SOng.
ny HENRY o'RIELLY.

Ho! Germans all from south and "North,
Wheel quickly into line;
Your rifles grasp, your sabers draw,
For battle on the Rhine
United all D.! with heart and hand
Like brethren stand for Fatherland,
Or fall beside the Rhine.
Invading hosts attack your coasts,
IneIr m1It1or p"2'nars shine
Across your borders everywhere
Along the storied Rhine.
The fierce invaders now drive back
No coward hearts are thine
Up, Germans, all repel attack
In battle on the Rhine
Your distant friends, on foreign strand,
Watch eagerly your Cline"
And pray God crown the Fatherland
With triumph on the Rhine"
o bravely stand for native land,
For home and holy shrine;
For all the hopes of Germany,
Now center on the Rhine.
United all with heart and hand,
Like Germans stand for Fatherland,
Or fall beside the Rhine.
". Y. Iri5uue-
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Political Gossip.

The Republicans have nominated e. <
Governor Newell in the second, an d Jot IL
Hill in the fourth New Jersey congre s
sional districts.
One hundred of the delegates to tll
Missouri Republican State Convention a,
colored men.
Hon Orestes Cleveland has been re-
nominated by the Democrats of the fifth
congressional district of New York.
The Virginia Republican State Con-
vention is to meet at Richmond Septem-
Der 22d.
Aaron F. Perry has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the
first Ohio district.
The Republicans of the second Ohio
district, have nominated Job E. Steven
son for Congress.
The Michigan democracy endorse
the Administration by adopting these re-
solutions:
ResoIoed. That the best financial policy
for the times is honesty and frugality :;
honesty in the appropriation of the pub
lie money tor the proper purposes and
rigid frugality in its expenditure.
Resog0ed, That to maintain the honor
and good faith of the nation it is neces-
sary that the public debt should be stead
lily decreased, in accordance with its
terms. ......
The N. Y. Herald says of the admin
istration that, ''it has, by it's honest col
lection of taxes, its economy, and its re-
duotion of the public debt, commended
itself to favor both at home and abroad ;"
The New York San, however, speaks of
the administration as "dead weight"
as unpopular, imbecile, corrupt and junk
citing"
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Vermont at the New England Fair.

The following is the list of officers and
committees at the New England Fair that
commences to-day at Manchester, Nav
Hampshire
CE-PREsIDENT-Col. E. S. Stowell
TRUSTEES Henry Clark, Rutland; G
G. Chandler, Montpelier; o. s. Bliss
Georgia; L. T. Tucker, Roya.ton Harley
NJ. Hall, East Burke; L. s. Drew, Bur
lington; H B. Kent, Dorset; George
Campbell, Westminster Peleg Winslow
Putney.
JUDGEs.-Sh0Tt Horns-A. G. Cum
mings, East Montpelier; Daniel Kimball
Clarendon.
De0onS-H. NJ. Hall, East Burke, H. G
Cleaveland, Coventry.
Ayrsbjres Carlos Baxter, Burlington
Rufus Nutting, Randolph.
Heret0rdS-Amasa Bemis, East Burke
Jerseys Thomas Baker, Barton E S
Stowell, Cornwall.
Dutcb-Jerome Holden Westminster.
GRADE or Natjoe-David Goodell, Brat
tleboro; Franklin Billings, Rutland.
Working Cattle - franklin Billings
Rutland; Charles R. Gray, East Mont
pelier.
Steers H. NJ Arms, Springfield.
Fat Catde-Charles W. Bsgley, East
Montpelier.
CalUeS-J. S. Benedict, Castleton.
Horses - George G. Chandler, East
Montpelier; Henry B. Kent, Dorset; J.
D. Wheat, Putney; J. H. Peters, Brad.
ford; Henry Chase, Lyndon; Dan Shaw,
Bolton; D. Gilmore, st. Adams; William
r. Kimball, Westminster; Henry Keyes,
Newoury IMAM hUUOL U5OIl, l. uUnVy
10 D. Hatch, Burlington; J. D. Taylor,
st. Adams; George A. Merrill, Rutland
Sheep Gregory, Mortified; Red
field Proctor, Rutland: L. S. Drew, South
Burlington; Henry Towne, Montpelier.
S10tae-D. S. Pratt, Brattleboro.
P0ukry-H. Il. Merritt, Brandon.
Agricultural Pr0duct5onS-Henry Boyn.
ton, Woodstock; John A. Taft, Montpel-
Ter.
Vegetables Middleton Goldsmith, Rut-
land.
Frujts-James NJ. Ketchum, Sudbury.
FJOrers-Thomas H. Hoskirs, New
port.
Butter-B. f. Rugg, St. Adams.
Choese-E D. Mason, Richmond.
Sugar and Honey-Henry Clark, Rut-
land.
agricultural Implements - gobn Lam
don, Rutland; @. Horace Hubbard,
Springfield A. D. Smith, Dandy; Samuel
Everts, Cornwall.
Household Man,Jactures-Henry SAT-
ford, Springfield.
Leather ArtjcIes-George E. Graves,
Rutland.
Observation-Disclosures D. Hager, Proc
torsville.
ESsayS-James B. Angel, Burlington.
Carrjage8-John w. Clark, Montpelier.
LAMOILLE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC Con-
vENTIoN.-The Democrats of Lamoille
County held their convention at Hyde
Park on the 9th ult., and nominated the
following ticket:
Senator-Henry Smile, Cambridge.
Assistant Judges-Nathan Mcfarland,
Cambridge, and Healy Cady of Stowe.
Judge of Probate-Samuel Andrews,
Johnson.
States Attorney-Gerge L. Waterman,
Hyde Park.
Sheriff.. M. Clifford, Wolcott
High Bailiff-C. T. Douglass, Stowe.
County Committee-W. Fl. FL. Bing-
John Patterson, Wolcott.
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Burlington, 1t does an injury not only to
the Republicans of Burlington, but to the
Republican party of the State, whose in
terests would be seriously prejudiced by a
Democratic victory in this city. But DR..
Carpenter has the united and hearty sup
port of the Republicans of Burlington,
and his Democratic traducers are destined
to Waterloo defeat, in spite of the
assistance of their new ally.-Free Press.
The Burlington Free Press is of course
at perfect liberty to consult its own taste
as to copying scurrilous attacks and giving
currency, column after column, to false
and abusive attacks upon the editor of the
HERALD, and it is all right, just, fair and
honorable in the eyes of the immaculate
editor of the Free Press. As in the name
of Vermont, he interefered with the cleo
ton in the first Dristrict, we, too, in the
name of Vermont, had an interest in the
election of the representative from the
city of Burlington. 1t seems to make diff
ference whose OK is gored. 8.
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LIrrEnn's LIVING AGE. - Littell's
Living Age, for Sept. 3, is at hand, with
its usual store of valuable and improving
literature. The contents this month are
The English Revolution of the 10Th Gem
fury, by Professor Seeley; Earls' Dene,
Part X; Sir Thomas More on the Politics
of To day; What Fills the Star Depths
Rest Precious land Curious iStones ;
Lamp Voting for School Boards; A Sum.
mer Trip in 1854; Why England Ought
to Fight for Belgium; Poetry and short
articles.
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ted in groups. Short speeches, and other
exercises will also be had, of which notice
will De given in posters and programmes.
1t is to be hoped that all the friends of
temperance, without distinction of party
or color, sect or creed, will find it con-
venient and profitable to give this day to
the cadse of temperance-the cause of
God and humanity.
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THE POTATO SPECULATORs. - The
potato spectators have inaugurated the
fall campaign. From four to five hun
dred barrels are sent to New York
nightly by steamboat from Troy. The
crop this year is large-some say as large
as last year when there was an unprece-
denied yield. Farmers are bringing
their products into market as fast IS pos
sible, for it is expected that within a
short time, as the supply becomes larger,
prices will drop. Chilli reds are bringing
$212R, peach blows 1925, jackson whites
$1623 and $1.754 per barrel.
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many others received scattering votes, in
all between 40 and so. The second bal
lot resulted as follows:
Il. M. Copeland, 101
P. w. Hyde, SO
Scattering, 8
Thereupon R. M. Copeland was declared
the nominee for Town Representative.
Notwithstanding the action of the primary
meeting, it is conceded on the part OF
many that Mr.. Hyde will be probably
elected by handsome majority on Tues
day. The people of Castleton all remem-
Der his cou,se of action through the civil
war, and believe him from his past expey-
fence the best fitted for the position of
any man in our community at this period
of inaugurating the new system of legis-
lation in Vermont.
The past season in Castleton has been
far more lively and gay than before for
many years. More people than usual
from the city have passed the summer
months in town. They have mingled in
good degree in the pleasures and fes-
tivities of our people, in the ejoyment of
pleasure parties, social hops, excursions to
Lake Bomoseen, Bird Mountain, the mar
BILE and slate quarries, Middletown, Clar-
endon and Saratoga Springs, also to that
temple of industry and curiosity, the
pencil mill, where two hundred thousand
pencils are daily finished, instead Of 6
mill at Rutland, as has been reported in
the papers.
We begin to congratulate ourselves thai
there are prosperous and happy seasons il
store for Castleton in the future. This il
indicated by our fourishing seminary
the largely increased Accommodations ant
well conducted hotels, our pleasant drives
and points of interest and industry on al
sides. Remembering that the editor o
HERALD is an ardent friend and advocat'
with voice and pen, of popular education
we cannot omit to mention that our pub
lie schools opened last week with on,
hundred and ten pupils, sixty of them il
the State Normal School.
The temperance people of Castleton ar
highly gratified at the result of the pr
mary meeting of delegates held at Rut
land few days since, in locating tn
county temperance rally at this place. /
its results prove as beneficial to the caus
of temperancea as have the results of the lat
reunion of students to the cause of edu
cation, they will be content. The friend
of temperance at this point are quit
numerous, and they will perform all il
their power to make the occasion worth.
of the cause it proposes to aid by it
gathering.
The HERALD extra of Saturday con
tanning the latest war intelligence from
the old world was eagerly sought for an
perused by your numerous readers. The
speak praise of your enterprise in behal
of patrons at home and abroad.
The independent was circulated freel,
among US last Saturday afternoon in
quarter sheet extra. Its mission was de
cidedly different from the pacific mission
of the HERALD extra. B.W.B
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sJ We have been too long palled by the vii
famous trash sold as pure wine Our bons wants
will be pleased with the rich taste, agreeable IA
vor, and fragrant boquet of Speer's Sambuei
wine. 1t is especially recommended 20 weak and
sckly ladies, by physicians, for its purity, nom
Intoxicating qualities and tonic and restorative
properties. wine glassful of this wine, with a
fresh raw egg or new milk, taken first thing in
the morning, ia said to prove highly beneficial in
cases of Pulmonary Consumption.
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JOHN CHINAMAN IN MEXICO Thew
have summary way of dealing with the
Chin Sc question in Mexico. Twenty
Cinnamon went to Mexico from San Fran
cisco recently, ostensibly for the purpose
OF gathering oysters. but returned after
a brief sojourn, they having met with too
warm reception. After reaching MAJ
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snake. 1t may be good variety, but we
should prefer to have it grow III more
pleasing and less suggestive state.-Neao-
port Erpress.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
"A Montpelier man has just found
cent of the coinage of 1914, which he lost
in 1920.
N orthfeld boasts that 14OO teams
were driven on the grounds in a single
day during the camp meeting there, re-
Gently.
John Sullivan of Mortified, who was
recently run over by the cars and lost
leg at West Hartford. has died from his
| injuries.
jackson A. Vail, formerly promi-
nent citizen of Montpelier, has been re-
Gently arrested for store breaking and
other misdemeanors, but will probably
soon be removed to an insane asylum.
The general term of the Supreme
Court for 1870 is ordered to be held at
Montpelier, on the first Tuesday of No
vember next.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
Application is to be made to the next
Legislature to set of a portion of the towns
of Grafton, Rockingham and Westminster
including all of the village of Cambridg-
port to Athens. ... ....
George Howe Esq, Col. Kitteridge
Haskins, Edward Crosby and Charles I'll.
Stevens are all candidates for the Repub-
lican nomination to the legislature from
Brattleboro.
Two little boys in Stratton aged re-
spectively, 10 and 10 years, recently start
ed young bear while fishing, and with
the aid of a dog drove him up a tree,
where one of them watched till the other
raised help half mile distant, when the
cub was killed, and the two boys received
their bounty.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Paul Cheney of Sharon, 70 years old,
hung ni4Aeelf recently in the insane asy-
lum at Brattleboro, us which he Was an
inmate.
The house, barn and other outbuild'
ings of Oramel Averill, three miles west
of the village of Woodstock, were burned
early Wednesday morning, with nearly
all their contents; insured for $2700.
Jacob Bailey and son recently took
up a wild swarm of bees at Andover
which they had found in the woods, and
got rs pounds of good honey.
"A party of eight persons in Weston
recently went to Sunderland for blueber.
ries and got ut bushels II single
days picking.
The drouth is quite severe in Ando.
yer, and corn and potatoes have suffered
considerably. The hay crop was gener.
ally good, and other crops are at least an
average Fruit has not been more plenty
for many years
SFOCK CERTIFICATEs.-P holding
life membership certificates of the Rut
land County Agricultural Society are re.
quested to forward them to A. D. Smith
of Dandy, the Treasurer of the Society,
that he may issue them certificates OF
stock before the annual Fair.
i HENRY CLARK, Secretary.
/ Rutland, Sept. 5, 1870.
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PATENTs.-The following patents were
granted to Vermonters for the week end.
ing August Both: .H
Isaac Gale Batcheler of Wallingford, for
machine for bending forks.
George B. Stafford of Burlington, for
treadle motion .a.#. a
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allan they went to work catching fish, etc.
when the Mexicans held a meeting and
decided that John mnst skedaddle, as be
was not the man they desired to have in
the country, John acted promptly on the
suggestion and travelled.