Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-10

good and faithful servant"
He was the sixth native of the Com
monwealth of Massachusetts, who had oc-
cupied the Gubernatorial Chair in Yer
mont His predecessors, Moses Robin
son, Ezra Butler, Charles Kilborn Will
liams, Erastus Fairbanks and Paul Dilling-
ham, were natives of that State. Gen.
Washburn is the first Governor of Yer
mont who died while in Office.
AS lawyer, Gov. Washburn stood in
the first rank of the professionals a man
and citizen he was honest, upright and
philosophical. His labors in the con-
struction of the Woodstock Railroad have
given evidence of his indomitable energy.
1t may be said, with great correctness,
that he fell martyr to that enterprise,
and is numbered among the foremost men
who fell at the post of duty in their labors
to construct great public works which
were to bring wealth and prosperity to
the State, especially to the people among
whom they labored and lived. He is an
other to be added to the self-sacrifcing
list of the benefactors of our State who
have fallen victims to the construction of
railways, among whom were Charles
Paine, Timothy Follett, John Smith, Har-
ry Bradley and Horace Clark, and whose
names will be inscribed upon those monu-
ments of enterprise-the railways of our
State.
The death of Governor Washburn is
both shock and loss to the State, An
honest, earnest, active, resolute, decisive
and efficient man in all public relations
the man of all men for the part he had to
play. 1t may be said at times he was
rough, imperious, despotic, but, measured
| by his services, he stands first in the list
of the great champions of our State. He
was the war Adjutant of Vermont history
our Carnot in organizing and admins
trative talent-our Louvois in energy
and executive force. We do not seek to
conceal that he had faults, but they were
supplemented and over-lapped by his
merits and renown. His figure will loom
up on the canvass of the historic age of
our commonwealth, grand in proportions
even among its mightier personages. His
memory will long be cherished and his
services gratefully remembered and
honored. Thanks that he lived to see the
Union triumph consolidated, and that no
anxieties for the future of his State or
country disturbed the last pulsations of
his brave and honest heart.
There is peculiar sadness heightened
by sense at disappointment about death
when it comes to one who has tasted but
for brief time the concluding honors of
life. His memory will be crowned, how
ever, and that with care commensurate
with his worth. Cromwell lives brighter
and brighter every succeeding day. A
future history will accord to him dig
nifty of purpose, a patriotism, power of
organization equaled by few men of his
times.
He sleeps his last sleep. That clear
and fertile brain is at rest. That strong
and manly heart has ceased to beat. 1t ;
throbbed ardently for his country's veal,
Its pulsations for the honor of his beloved
State were like the pure and living rivu-
let beneath the frozen surface. 1t is now
forever still. But the name and fame of
Peter t. Washburn are not to die. To his
memory his State will render homage, and
his children will rejoice in their proud
h eritage-the glory of patriot father
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ACCIDENT AT WEST RUTLAND.-AboutI
10 o'clock yesterday forenoon an unantici-
pated discharge of blast occurred in ,
81 Slason's new covered marble
quarry in West Rutland, by which boy
named Michael Tigue sustained severe in
ternal injuries, one of his legs being also
80 badly injured that it is feared amputa- /
ton will be necessary, if indeed his other !.
injuries do not prove fatal previously. 4,
1t seems that ON Saturday several holes
were drilled in one of the walls OF the
quarry, which were filled with powder,
and all supposed to have been exploded,
one, however, going off by the rock be-
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pletely out and most of the fuse, powder
and tamping being blown out by the rock.
The suppositiou that this blast was fully
exploded was the occasion of the painful
accident we have to narrate, Yestel day
it being necessary to erect
it was contemplated to use
the hole in which this blast had been
originally inserted in which to place an
iron pin for the support of the scatfold-
ing. Between Saturday night and Sum ,
day morning drip of water had filled i
the hole with water, which had formed I
into ice, to remove which a heated bar l
but short time, when a loud explosion !
took place, carrying out mass of rock /
400 or 500 pounds, and hurl- I
ing it some distance with great force. L
The passage of this and the bar IL ed in I
iured young Tigue as above, and another i
young man named John Hanley consider @
ably in one of his arms and shoulders, t
though no serious results are apprehended I
In the case or the latter. l. ne mass OF ToCh n
passed about one foot from Mr.. Hiram =
Smith, foreman of the quarry, who was I
standing near by, but fortunately done o
him no injury. Two or three other EN- .
ployes of the company suffered somewhat :
by the force of the concussion, but they +
speedily recovered. 1t is now thought v
hat the powder was not all removed from h
the hole by the blast of Saturday, az sup u
posed, and that IA soon AS the heated bar T
reached it through tina ice the explosion a
was caused as above. Medical assistance A
was promptly rendered, and everything is c.
being done for young Tigue that is posi- Il
Die, though, as we have stated, the {
ymptoms in his case are decidedly against :