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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

SUPERsTITIoN.-In New Jersey an ab-
surd superstitious test was recently appii-
ed to discover murderer. David Sisco
was recently murdered at Bloomingdale
by, as is supposed, John J. Nixon. The
murderer was arrested and at the funeral
of his victim was made to place his hand
upon his body, the vulgar belief being
that blood would gush forth if he was the
murderer. No blood came and the saga
cious officers ought, logically, to have
discharged their prisoner at once but they
did not do SO and he has since been in
dictad
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26
Credo.
BIZ REV. RALPH Horr.

Lives household. Of The Kind
Often very hard 70 End,
Nestled in quiet vale,
Where temptations ne'er assaiI;
None 10 fret, and nought TO fear,
In that household all the year.
Father, Mother,-and there be
Sons and daughters-three and three;
Active, noble, modest, kind,
Rustic manners, yet refined:
Each the Others JOY and care:
IT'S household very rareI
There no wide dividing breeeh,
Such as lavless schisms teach;
But the Apostolic truth,
Still the same for age and youth;
Like some mighty rivers flow,
Now, as ages long agol
Gaze around the landscape now;
Fruitful fields, ana busy plow,
Born with plenty, and to spare
For the needy asking there;
Wealth and beauty crowns the soil,
Three united brothers toll
Round the porch the eglantine;
Roses here, and Iilacs there,
How their fragrance fills the air,
While within, three sisters speech
Sweet perfumes the task of each.
Would brother choose wife,
First, is hers Christian life
He DOR wealth nor passions slave,
This his loves o'ertopping wave;
If her bark abide its sea,
Happy shall their voyage be.
Comes lover to the door,
Hath he loved the church before
Be he good as Fanny fair,
he may plant his acorn there;
Slow the growth but strong the tree,
If in faith they thus agree.
Enter now the humble hall;
Tasteful pictures on the wall;
And beside the fathers chair,
The Great Book,-and Book OF Prayer;
Aged sire, and faithful dame,
Each dear and honored name.
There each morn and eve are heard,
Lessons from the hallowed Word;
When the week its course has run,
And the laborer's work is done,
Then from toll what sweet release;
Happy Household, Home of Peace
At the welcome evening board,
With abundant viands stored,
Meek the patriarchal eye
Seeks blessing from on high;
Smoking cakes, and steaming tea;
Feast of harmony and glee
Comes the sacred Day Of Rest;
In the temple each guest;
Trained from infancy 70 share,
AL the Ordinances there;
Keeping each perceptiye line;
Christian household; Rest divine,
Simple all the secret here;
FIlial love, and godly fear.
Dost thou see yon village spire
Tipt, as with celestial fire
There the whole enigma read
Gods Commandnents,-and the Greed
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

RACING.-The summer meeting on the
Rensselaer, Park Course, at Troy, N. Y.
will take place this year on the 18th
18th, 18th and 10Th days of July. The
amount of purses to be given has not yet
been determined, but it win not be less
than $4,000, and probably the entire
amount will aggregate $4,000. Presi.
dent Barnard is determined that the meet
ing this year shall eclipse everything ev'
err witnessed in these parts, and when he
starts out to do thing he generally &C.
complishes his purpose.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

HUMBUG.-A chap has been travelling
in the Northern part of the State, selling
what he terms Chinese tooth OIL" which
is said to be an arrant humbug. The
editor of the Dan (N.Y.) PlaindeaZe3' has
tried it, and warrants the oil to eat q
hole through a circular saw in fifteen
minutes" Look out for him.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

MASONIC ELEcTION.-At the annual
conclave of Killington Commandery No.
6 of knights Templar, held last Monday
evening, the following were duly elected
and installed officers for the ensuing year
Sir Z. M. 81. Smith, e. g.
81. E. Chamberlain, G.
L.. G.. Kingsley, G. G..
z. v. K. Wilson, P.
J. Fl. Mcintyre, S. w.
@. w. Stafford, ]. W.
G.. A. Tuttle, T.
G. e. Campbell, R.
J. w. Cramton, st. B.
A. Whitmore, Sw. B.
]. NJ. Otis, W.
Geo. j. Wardwell, Capt. Guard.
w. FL. III. Fisher, 2
% B. G.. Rice, 3
A. Pooler, Sentinel.
" 2. Y. K. Wilson, Prudential
/" I. G. Kingsley, commit.ea
NJ. III. Smith, '--A''oo'
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

AGRICULTURAL BooKs.-At this season
of the year, when all are interested in
gardening and Horticulture, we commend
the "Old Corner Bookstore" No. 1876
Washington street, Boston, as one of the
best places to obtain all the new works on
these subjects. Messrs. A. Williams s.
Co. make speciality of this class of books
and their stock is the largest in that city.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

MEMORIAL SERMoN.-At the Animal
Diocesan Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of Vermont, to be held
in Bellows Falls in June, Rev. Albert Ell.
Bailey, d. D., of Sheldon, will deliver a
memorial discourse on the life and char
acter of the Rev. John A. Hicks, d. D.,
for many years the beloved Rector OF
Trinity Church. Rutland.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

GEN. GRANT.-President Grant is ne
gotiating for fine estate five miles from
Washington, on the turnpike leading to
Baltimore, and adjoining the estate of the
late John @. Rives. 1t contains little
over one hundred acres of land, which
has been well improved by its two last
owners. Should the President purchase
the place he will reside there during the
summer months, coming to his Office at
the White House every day, and thus
escaping the visits of office beggars.
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-aMadam - said a nol;ta +r.ralor -

-" Madam" said polite traveller to an
old lady, "if I see fit to help myself to
this milk, is there any improperly in it Pr
I don't know what you mean but if you
mean to say that there is anything nasty
in that milk, I'll give you to understand
you've struck the wrong house. There
amt single hair in it, for as soon as
Dorothy told me rat was drowned in the
milk, went and strained it right over"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

AN IAiPosToR BROUGHT TO GRIEF
For some time past many of the citizens
of Lowell, Mass, have been greatly an
noyed by man calling at their houses
and requesting to know if any member of
the family was ill. If he received an an
swer in the affirmative he would request
to be allowed to see the sick person, assur-
ing the inmates of the house that he fully
| understood the diagnosis of the case and
could effect a cure in very short space of
time. In some instances he was admitted
to the bedside of the patient and there
would assume a professional air, making,
as the friends of the indisposed party
thought, thorough medical examination.
This sou doisant doctor having concluded
his bogus examination, usually informed
the inmates of the house that he had left
his notebook at home and requested to be
furnished note paper for the purpose of
writing prescription. While the person
| was gone to procure the desired article,
| the would-be physician generally managed
to appropriate everything that he could
conveniently carry off. On Monday NOR
ming this itinerant disciple of Eseulapius
called at the residence of a family on a
| certain street and after learning that there
was a sick person there he pleaded so elo-
auently to be allowed to see the party,
assuring those who answered his sum-
mons at the door that he could effect an
almost instantaneous cure, that he was
| admitted and conducted to the sick cham
Der. When our pretended doctor had
made his examination, written his pre-
scription and taken his departure, the
family missed pocket book containing a
considerable sum Of money, that was ly-
ing on table in the chamber when he en-
tered it. 1t did not take long for the
family to determine the manner in which
the pocket-book had disappeared from the
room. The police were informed of the
affair, and yesterday forenoon Officer Fa-
vor discovered and arrested the pretended
member of the healing art. He gave his
name as James Mcdonald, and said he
was 30 years of age. He was taken be.
fore Judge Crosby, who after hearing the
evidence of several. parties that had been
victimized by Mcdonald, sentenced him
to be confined at hard labor in the House
of Correction for one year.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

REAL ESTATE SALE.-L. H. Willard
has sold his house and lot on Perkins ave-
nue. to 7. s. ellison for $4,S0O.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26
FRIDAY, MAY 90, 1870.
The Constitutional Convention Of
1857.

The last Constitutional Convention held
in this State assembled in Montpelier on
the 7th day of January, 1857.
They were called by an ordinance OF
the Council of Censors of 1S55-56, and
consisted of 80 delegates, apportioned
among the different counties upon the ba-
sis of population, and elected in the seve-
raj counties on general ticket. As the
names of the delegates are to be found
only in the journals of the convention,
which have now become quite rare, we
give below the names and residences OF
the
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

DECORATION DAY AT MTDDLEBURY.
The Grand Army of the Republic at
MiddIebury are to observe Decoration
Day. Our townsman, Col. Charles H.
Joyce, has received and accepted an invi-
tation to be the orator of the occasion.
Col. Joyce seems to have been in demand
this year, having received similar invita-
lions from Burlington, Brattleboro,
Springfield and Ludlow, but having en-
gagged to speak at Middlebury, he was
compelled to decline the other four invi-
tations.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

hat sad 18th OF April was for man
,eeply and earnestly loved and honored'
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

Our member elect to the Constitu-
tional Convention favors all the proposed
amendments to the constitution except
those providing for the enfranchisement
of women and the appointment of Judges
for the term of elk years. Mr.. Hyde is
an able legislator, and will be useful
and influential member of the convention,
having served with distinction five years
in both branches of the general assembly
of the State.
AT the termination Of nine ballotings
Sam st. John of Hubbardton was declared
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

CAsTLEToN.-The Congregational Sab
bath school contributed between May /,
1869, and May 1, 1870, $175 for the sup
port of school teachers in the colored
schools at the South. This school num-
bers some 1876 scholars. The classes gave
from $12 to SIS each. 1t is generous
institution, and donated over 800 for the
same object the year previous
Among the solid temperance men of
the county as delegates to the recent
meeting of the Templars' Union were l..
d. Ross, III. D.; Elijah Ross Rev. Mr..
Farrah of Poultney; Rev. A. n. Adams,
Mr.. Fuller of Fairhaven; Rev. H. L..
Grose and Mr.. J. Smead, Hydeville; Rev.
Mr.. Gregg; James Rice, Esq, of Pawlet !;
Rev. Mr.. Brigham James Harmon, Esq,
Rutland; E. L. Barber, Esq; Mr.. Dor
sey, Benson; Rev. J. Phillips, Rev. R. G.
Williams and III. o. Brown of Castleton.
AT the third annual meeting of the
Clipper Base Ball club, held at the Town
Hall last Friday evening, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year !:
President, II. L. Clark; Vice President,
Seneca Field, Jr.; Secretary, A 81. Smith |;
Treasurer, c. E. Jackman Captain, I. S.
sherman. The day following the Clip
pers played friendly game with the Ar
lads of Fairhaven, which resulted in ia
vor of the Clippers. Our boys play a
match game with the Manchester club, for
the Congressional bat, on Thursday, the
Goth, at which there will be some sharp
practice. The campaign for the season is
now fairly commenced with tie Clipper
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

GRAND LIST OF RUTLAND.-The fol-
lowing is an abstract of the grand list of
thu town of Rutland for 1870:
2,053 polls, at $2.00 each, $410,6000O
Houses. mills, stores &c., 1894. OF
Farms and out lands, 9S1 1922 80
Personal property, 1,456, 90
331 dogs at 800 each, $4,000
S4,776, 27S O6
One per cent. upon which is $47,762 78
Largest list, $4,000
Lowest list, is
By additions for fractions in extending
we make the list amount to S47, 1854 %,
which is liable for highway taxes. Ex-
emptions for fire department, 143.
For convenience of reference we APP
pend an abstract of the grand list of Rut-
land for the year 1869:
1887 polls, at 50 $377, 1000
Real Estate, 2,111, 24600
Personal property. 1,51S,2739S
$40 dogs, at 81, 100000
$4,04O,9l9 90
One per cent. of which was 40,4O92O
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-10-15
Agents for Wells, Fargo q, Go.
SevlSS's Sale.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY,
2d ,TudiciaI District

I'd Judicial District.
John C!afk rs. James L. Wiley and II. X. Wiley,
his wife, and Robert Wiley.-Execution on
judgment of Foreclosure Of MortHagc.
10y virtue of duly certified copy of the Or
ID der of sale and judgment in the case of
John l.. Clark against James l.. wiley and II.
K. Wiley, his wife, and Robert Wiley, defend
ants, and to me directed, there will be exposed
to public sale, at the courthouse door at Cla-
quato, in Lewis county, W. T. On Saturday, 10Th
day of October, a. ID. 1870, at one clock p.
NJ. of said day the following described property,
to-wit: All the right, title and interest Of the
defendants in and to certain tract Of land situ-
ate in Lewis county, W. t., and described and
bounded as follows: Beginning at point on
line between Section three and four in Town
ship thirteen O3). North Range two west,
8-l00 chains south of the Quarter-sectiOn
corner, and running thence west 43 35-l00
chains to a post in mound at the southwest
corner of the claim, thence north 20 3G-l00
chains to a stake and mound, thence west 4
ll-lO0 chains, to A. s. Wilson's claim, thence
north 40 chains to northwest corner, thence
east lO4 20-lOO chains, thence south 62 $4,000
chains thence west SO 37.iOO chains, to the
place of beginning, containing GAO acres, more
or less, the same being known as the donation
claim of Elkanah Mills and wife, ard adjoin-
ing lands of Sylvanus Phillips and others.
Also the following described parcel of land
adjoining the foregoing, being lot two (2),
quarter of section No. 1, in Township No.
thirteen (l3), eight and sixty-two hundrcdth
Is 62-l00) acres.
There is on the foregoing, dwelling hoase,
barns, sheds, orchard of fine fruit trees, some
100 acres under fence, n portion Of which is
seeded down to timothy, and the whole is To-
Gated on the preliminary line of survey Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad.
L. l.. DUBEAU,
Sheriff of Lewis county, w.. T.
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WALLA WAILA.-Erum the Statesman

WALLA WALLA.--Frum the Statesman
Of October g:
CEowpEp.-Just at this time every
nook aud corner on the line of Main
street is crowded, aud if twenty new build
ings could be put up to morrow, they
would all be rented before night. This is
the condition of the business part Of the
town. Going back to the more retired
streets the demand for dwelling houses is
equally great. In many instances We hear
of respectable families absolutely unable to
find homes, aud in others two aud three
families are crowded into quarters scarcely
equal to the requirements Of single
household. AS a matter of course, this
crowded conditions of affairs speaks well
for the prosperity Of our town; but it does
not speak well for the enterprise Of our
men Of means who prefer to shave notes
rather thaa build house' for the accommo
dation Of those who desire to make their
homes in Wala Wala.
- MILIrARY.-.\ number Of officers visi-
ted the post at this place the latter part Of
last week, aud made a very thorough in
spcction of the military quarters. Col.
LudinSton, Inspector General; Col Tag,
CART, Paymas,cr; Col. James, Quarter
master, and LIT. Sears, Chief Engineer,
composed the visiting party. This iuspcc;
ton, AMI other movements recently made
clearly indicate the intention on the par,
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DIED:

On Chambers Prairie, Thursday morning,
Oct. 6, of cancer, J. NJ. WnIrE, after long
aud painful illness oftwO years and two months,
lamented by a bereavcd wife and numerous
circle of friends and relatives, to whom his
death will prove an irreparable loss.
Thy memory will ever keep,
Within this heart of mine,
And treasure it valued gem
Within its sacred shrine.
But yet mourn thee not in vain,
know tn on wilt arise,
And live where friends can never part,
Immortal in the skies X.
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Reader if you want permanent. profitable
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A Glorious Changed!
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Plantation Bitters.

This wonderful vegetable re-
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the feeble and debiiitated. AS Il
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for the nervous weakness to
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tie animal spirits. For sale by
all druggists.
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SEArrLE.-From the Mtclligcnccr of
October II:

SEATTLE, From the Mtell;ymcer of
October /:
Golp AND SILVER BEARING QUARTZ
DIsCuy EREp.--A most valuable discovery
Of groupings of gold and silver bearing
quartz rock has been made on a branch of
the SIX ykomsh river, about twenty miles
northeast of the Sultan river mines. The
character Of the rock is very similar to that
found in the famous Comstock lode in Me-
vada. Specimens were collected and for
warded to the Bank of British North
America last week for assay. We are in
debted to Capt. IL. II, Hyde, who has the
returns furnished by the Bank, for the re-
suit OF the assay made by it. The rock as
.ayei yielded S25 10 in gold and s5S OF
in silver per ton. A well defined ledge Of
this valuable rock is indicated by continu-
Gus groupings of the same kind for over a
milo in length, of which several tons
might be obtained at the surface of just as
good quality as that sent to Victoria
We learn that the party who have made
this discovery will Immediately send ton
or two of the rock to San Francisco for as
say, and also thoroughly prospect for the
ledge whose cutcrcrpings present such IT.
vorable Indications.
IMMIGRANTS COMING. --Wc learn that
several wagon loads of immgrants-mcn,
women and childrcn-lately passed through
Umatilla, in Oregon, on their way to this
city via Snoqualmio Pass. The ferrymau
at that place writes to resident here that
some three weeks since wagon crossed
the river there from Seattle over this route
and that its occupants reported that they
found great number Of logs in the way
and tho road, in places, muddy and quite
impossible. In view of which report, he
suggested that our citizens should send
some one out to meet this party and help
them through lie states that they will
be in the Cascades about the 10th of this
month, and that quite large immigration
will follow this fall, if this party cncoun
ters no difficulty in getting through. II
l.. Yesler, is going out upon the road
nearly to the Pass, where he set severa
men at work repairing and improving il
some time since, and when he gets there
he will dispatch one of them for the pur'
pose of meeting and conducting this party
across the III )untains.
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DlscHARGED.-Yesterday the Deputy
Sheriff Of kitsap county brought before
Justice ID. $. Smith, Of this city. Henry
Preis. the German who shot Mari Rouxcl
at Port Orchard last Wednesday. The
accused had surrendered himself to the
officer, and was brought here for cxamina.
ton. Justice Smith, after hearing the
evidence Of three persans who were pres.
ent on the occasion, discharged defendant
on the ground that the shooting Was done
in sclf.defencc.
LATER FROM ALAsKA.-By the arrival
of the steamer Geo. s. Wright, at Victoria.
from Alaska, VIC have the Times. of the
18th ult. The proprietor of the paper.
MIR. Murphy, having determined to TO-
move the concern to this city, publishes
valedictory, and in this manner refers to
the condition of society which prevails in
that distant Territory: "No less than
eight murders have been committed in
Sitka inside of the last three years and
every murderer has escaped the punish
ment he deserved, except one who is now
in the military suard-housc awaiting trial,
and unless VIC soon get Court he will
also escape the punishment he so richly
deserves. We have seen women and girls
knocked down in the street by an army
officer and U. S. postal agent we have
seen these two officers on the same day
knock down poor noffensive Russians, and
the army officer hand the postal agent a
pistol to kill an American. We have
known army officers to force their way into
private Russian houses and attempt to
take liberties with the women inmates that
in any other country but Alaska would
have cost them their lives. We have seen
two companies of soldiers stationed right
in the city, many Of whom were not fit to
run at large outside the walls of State
prison, and who forced their way into Rus.
sian houses as though it were a part Of
their duty: and what has been the result
OF all this? simply that all the refined and
respectable portion of the Russian popula.
ton have left our Territory, heartily sick
of and thoroughly disguised with the very
name of an American-and who can blame
them? Who will not llush when he reads
that out Of Russian population of five or
six hundred people in Sitka, there are not
over three young girls, of the age of thir.
teen years, who are not prostitutes; and in
making this assertion We challenge contra
diction. The soldiers being stationed in
the heart of the city, went around spread
ing contamination. disease aud a state of
Generalization, only surpassed by that
which existed at the time Sodom and Go
morrah were destroyed by an avcngng
God. We regret to say few of the army
officers, also, acted more Ike blackguards
than officers"
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MNN\ce.
L. S. LAND OFFICE,

OLYMPIA, W. T., Oct. 4, 1870.
N0MPLAINT having been entered at this Of
" flee by Morris Litteiohn against Joseph
Walker, for abandoning his Homestead Entry,
No. 1872. dated Dec. 10, 1858, upon the +. of
S. +. of Section ~, w. of, y. W. ! Section
80, Township II n, Range > W., in ThurSton
county, W. r., with view t; the cancellation
of said entry: :hc said parties are hereby sum-
moned to appear at this Office on the 22d day
of November, 1870, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ , to re-
spend and furnish testimony concerning said
alleged abandonment.
J. p. CLARK, Register,
+. NJ LAMPER, Receiver.
Oct. 8, 1870. 49:w6