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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21

the bed on 8 screw, and is lowered until
the slate is reduced to the required thick
ness. If the stock is for mantles it is put
upon smaller saws and planners, upon the
opposite side of the mill. 1t is then Ia ken
to band or endless saw, % feet long,
invented for saving scroll work, and in
troduced for the purpose Of saving slate
by Mr.. Vail. There is no lost motion
here as in a jig saw, bnt one continuous
power applied to The stone, until the work
is done. The stone is then put upon the
rubbing bed, which is II feet across, aud
which continually revolves. By means OF
an occasional handful of sand and small
stream of water, the slate is soon polished
as far as can be accomplished by this pro-
cess.
The billiard beds are then put upon a
"jointer "a machine that carries them
backward and forward, before! large
grindstone. some Is feet in circumference
and are made perfectly true, each piece
being Of exact size. The tile are treated
in the same manner, both slate end
marble, consequently they are of exact
size, and must fit perfectly. The black
boards are about one half inch thick, and
are very useful, and should be in every
school-house in our land. They are
furnished by the Union Slate Company
very cheap, and of superior slate, Of very
dark color. The knives used in this mill are
ground by machinery, and the saw
sharpened by grinding upon a GRIND
stone. This is very great labor saving
machine, as a man will grind saw q
feet long in twenty-five minutes, that
would take eight hours to file.
Upon the whole, the Vermont Unior
Slate Company have perfect mill, and il
ia managed by gentlemen who are liberia
in all their views. The men that WORK
| for them, like most men that work IL
mills of this kind, are poor. The com
pany never pursue any undetermined
course towards them trying to cheat then
cut of half cent here and two cents
there. They propose to pay their helI
money and discard the system of orders
and commissions, which has so nearly
ruined Fairhaven; they believe an Indiaf
as good as an African, if he is as honest
The best men OF. the mills are going tt
them, and can confidently say they vii
turn out the best work of the Slate manu-
featuring section. Though this company
have more of local than general i'm
portance, we feel like the boy with E
new top, anxious all should see it. NJ
one should visit Fairhaven without visit
ing this mill Mr.. Vail or his obliging
clerk, Mr.. J. W. Parkhurst will take
great pleasure in showing the manner il
which slate stone is converted into usefu,
and ornamental articles. May the Yer
mont Union Slate Company prosper, and
at least receive that encouragement from
Vermont that her sons deserve from Their
native State.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21
r,;a RUTLAND HERALD,
threatened Revolution in England


The failing health of Queen Victoria
and the probability that her reign is near
ly over, taken together, are working q
rapid revolution among the working men
n: England. Their leaders are mapping
ont ths future, and the political pro-
gramme is portentious of mighty changes
It il tolerably we'll settled that with the
demise of the Queen a republic Is ready
to be proclaimed in sill the leading cities
of the kingdom, and it would not be sur
prising to witness the success OF even so
radical revolution ii the great mass
of the population unite determined]y on
one side, they will be more powerful than
their rulers, and will take rights that are
now denied to them. The Prince OF
w les is evidently failure. Intelligent
Englishmeu undoubtedly regret the fact,
bat they cannot close their eyes to it. OF
himself, az to any qualities fitting him to
rule, he ia nothing. Divine right is no
longer recognized. The people will in
sist upon some better reason for the sue
c,asion than that he is the son of his
mother. 1t is probably unfortunate for
the country that he was not born a states
man, and lacks every element Of character
to nuke one. His misfortune, if not fault,
is the opportunity OF the people, and one
they ore not likely to neglect. A late
writer asserts that the Prince himself,
since his unlucky trip to Ireland, has ex-
pressed grave doubts as to the succession,
an apprehension probably well founded.
The country has been slowly changing its
ideas on the subject of government, and
for that reason will be ready to meet any
emergencies that may arise will cool
ness and discretion. What pity that
Ffenchmen, who are so quick to imbibe
new ideas, are so Glow to comprehend
them in all their bearings upon human
society
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21

| PROCTORsVILLE.-B the Probate re-
cords in Windsor district, it appears that
the first change in the spprais Il of estates
from reckoning in pounds, shillings, pence
and farthings, to dollars and cents, oc.
Cured January l, 1884, though some sp-
praisers appointed in the settlement of
estates used the old method of compu-
tation as late as 1898. Some probate
business was done in Windsor district as
early as 1862, but no records are found
till 1887, when "B. Brown, p. Clerk"
seems to have gathered the files together
and made record of them, commencing
on the 10Th day of May, 1887, and closing
the first volume April l, 1890. That vol
ume is still in the Registers Office here
unbound-in manuscript form, and COM
prises GA pages.
Hon. Ebenezer Curtis, of Wind
sor, seems to have been the first Prof
Judge, in 1876, and but for q she ~
In June, 1857, Hon. Briapt D. -
Judge, and in F. bruarv ,7ea e1 20
that Hon. Elijah Ro' ,n-on of ".
field, was Judge. He occupied tina, DO
sition for Il ye -.
INC 1t'' II order Of recorded estates, a
Se''iea' was that of John Williams, ID
la'0o Springfield, deceased, whose will Wal
r wed and allowed March 20, 1877, and
the mother of the testator is made sxecu
tor.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21
A Song OF Septenl Der.
BY THOMAS W. PARSONS.

September strews the woodland Ger
With many brilliant color:
The world is brighter han before
Why should our hearts be 6u!ler!
Sorrow and the scarlet leaf,
Sad thoughts and sunny weather,
All me the glory and the grief
Agree not yell together.
This is the parting season-thls
The times when friends are ying;
And lovers now, with many kiss,
Their long fsreweils are signing.
Why is earth SO gayly drest
This pomp that autumn beareth
A funeral seems, where every guest
A bridal garment weareth.
Each one of us, perchance, may here,
On some blue morn hereafter,
Return to view the gaudy yea,
But not with boyish laughter.
We shall then be wrinkled men,
Our brows with silver laden,
And then this glee may'st seek again,
But never more maiden!
Nature, perhaps, foresees that spring
Will touch her teeming bosom,
And that few brief months will bring
The bird, the bee, the blossom.
All these forests do not know
Or would less brightly wither-
The virgin that adorns them so
Will never more come hithe.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21

FIRE AT BENNINGTON.-From an ex'
ira of the Bennington Banner, We learn
that at about II 1,2 o'clock on Thurs
day forenoon last, fire broke out in pile
of shavings closely adjoining the main
building of Homer Lewis packing box
mandatory in Bennington. The flames
speedily communicated to the building
which was totally consumed. The build
ing was owned by Messrs. Hunt, Tilling'
hast & Co., and was valued at $4,000
and they also lose about $1,000 on ma.
chinery. Mr.. Lewis loses about $1,000 on
manufactured stock, and about $500 on
unmaHufactured stock and implements
There was no insurance on the premise:
or property burned. The exact origin OF
the fire is not known. Workmen had
been employed at the factory during the
night, but at the time of the discovery Of
the fire no one was at work in the build
ing. A bevy of boys had been seen short
ly before the breaking out of the fire
playing near the pile of shayinge, and il
is thought probable that it was through
their csrelesness that the fire originated
The new steam fire engine which ar
rived on the previous evening, was hasti-
ly brought into requisition, and did good
execution, though unprepored for such
sudden service.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21
,ours were all on board again and my

hours were all on board again and my
tale told.
But the captain still chung to the idea
that Seavy might have got hold of the
life-bouy, and SO we cruised all that day
looking for it, sharp lookouts with glasses
aloft, but we saw nothing more, and when
the sun went down, the old man' reluc-
family gave the order TO steer the course
again.
JsHe might have knowed,' said old Maui
that that ERE bird was Bills sperrit.'
3 And. as we shaped our homeward
course, and the watch ran away with the
stun'-sail halyards, and the ship bowled
away toward her port, had food for re-
flection as thought ofpoor Bill, and won
dered if the good people in their cosy
homes on shore realize how much of the
tragieal is involved in that brief notice
which they so frequently see in the ms
rine column of their newspaper, as they
sip their coffee at breakfast before the
snug ire-'Lost at Sea-
r. W. MEADE, .. S. N.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21

| SwINDLERs ARoUND.-Lastw eek,thret
men, claiming to be agents of John Wal
& Barton of Scotland, calling on certain
residents of Whitehall and showed sam
pies of excellent carpets, which they
promised to sell at ha!f their market value
on the Goth instant, when ell their good.
would be here. Meanwhile they had q
few cases Of cloth at the door which they
declared they would cell very low They
would sell cloth for six, seven or eight
suits of clothes for sixty dollars. Before
the bewildered customer could recover
from his delight at the prospect of a car.
pet, which even a child might know was
at half-price, he was trapped into buying
the cloths at their full value and short
measure. One sold the goods, another
made out the bill in the name of f.
Gesry, and the other did the express
office work in the name of P. McArdle.
They did not advertise extensively. but
they deserve a little assistance in that
respect, and we therefore give them the
benefit of notice before their advent in
Rutland.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21

A TERRIFIC EXPLosIoN.-A terrible
explosion occurred in q manufactory OF
fireworks on Beekman strest, New York
city, on Thursday afternoon, Sept. l4th'
The establishment was owned by Kluber
& Goldschmidt, and the explosion was
caused by the accidental falling of box
containing torpedoes which was being con-
veyed from the store to wagon in front
The conclusion caused by the explosion
outside the store exploded all the tor
pedoes inside. and in an instant the iron
doors and windows were blown into the
street. Henry Brown, aged fourteen
years, and an unknown man supposed to
have bsen the driver Of wagon, were
killed. Mr.. Goldschmidt, Mary j. Burr
aged ten years, Henry Reghart, aged
thirteen, and James Nolan, aged seventy
six, were terribly burned, and Gold.
schmidt and Reghart will die. A wagon
was blown to pieces and the horses SO bad
ly Injured that they will have to be kill
ed. A number of persons in addition to
the above, who were passing in the
vicinity OF the explosion, were slightly
injured. Not only houses opposite, but
all in the Immediate vicinity suffered
great loss in broken windows and avn
ings. The little girl, Burr, was killed
while sitting on the steIs of her house on
the opposite side of the street. 1t is
stated Kluber & Goldschmidt had been
Motif. d to discontinue the manufacture Of
this dangerous toy, but they paid no at
tcntion to the notice. The coroner ha,
eupsunoled jury 10 investigate the af
fir.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21

a WILD MAN.-The Brattleboro Pho.
me- says: Considerable local excitemen,
was occasioned the first of the week bv
TIE report that "wild man" had been
seen on Wantasiquet mountain; and on
tuesday party of a dozen or more from
THIS village was organized for search.
but without success. The individual
man or woman-is described as having
oeen In state of entire nudity, with red
mar reaching to the shoulders. Whether
some crazy person has escaped confine-
ment and taken refuge on the mountain,
OF whether the whole story is a myth, il
still unsettled.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21

LUDLOw.-The Young Mems Chris
tian Association has taken new start
here, the interest OF the young people has
been awakened, and every Tuesday even
ing gives them a full meeting. We are
glad TO see so much interest manifested
in so good Cause. Mr. ]. L. Barker, Of
the Middlebury Y II. c. A, is to deliver
an address before the association Of Thu
place on Monday evening.
The Adelphic Union Society has
started a library. its meetings, every
Wednesday evening, are largely attend,
ed, and the exercises reflect great credit
upon the members. Its members were
never ADLER or mare numerous than Row.
Every literary institution should have
such saciety connected with it.
The WOODEN mills are to suspen3. their
operations for a short term, in order TO
make some necessary repairs G. ".
Harding & Co, the proprietor, do large
business, and give employment to a large
number of hands.
Mr.. G. L. Fletcher, merchant tailor,
is on hand with his fall and winter styles,
of gents clothing. He always gives good
fits, AID his prices are most reasonable.
Hon. f. G. Robbins is putting up q
tenement house ia Pleasant street The
rattle of carpenters hammers is heard I'll
over the village.
We notice by the Gazette, that, fof
the first monthly report Of the fall term Of
Black River Academy, 70 students have
neither absence or hardness.
"A. A. Baldwin, Photographic, has
moved into his beautiful new rooms in
Wheldens Block.
The old building opposite the depot
was bought by Warren Adams, and hiss
been torn down. From the better portion
of the timber, we are told that Mr.. Adams
proposes to frame tenement house.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21
DefaIcasion of Paymaster Hedge,
WASHINGTON, Sept, IA
The following is Major. Hodges letter
of confession:
WAsHTNGToN, D. c., !
Sunday, Sept. 10, 2. III. !


WAsHINGToN, D. c., !
Sunday, Sept 10, 2. IL.
Gen s. w Brice-Sir -
have to inform you that am unable
to close my accounts, and l owe a fright.
full amount of about four hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, which sum l have
lost within the last few years in stock
speculations, going deeper and deeper IL
hopes of retrieving myself. 1 have nc
excuse in mitigation Of my course to offer,
and I propose to take the full cOuse
quences of my fin. l had thought for +
week of escaping from New York, but
believe have done better in returning t.
deliver myself up, as l felt was bound
to DO I can Of course make no preteG-
sions of excuse for the systematic decei'
I have practiced on you and the advan
tage I have taken of the special position
[ have held, and feel that you especially
have cause to be justly inexorable agains'
me. I have been led on by the infatua-
ton which always attends the course J
entered upon, hoping to recover my los-
and cancel my crime. I believe it is real
ly relief to be disco ered, for l have been
in hell on earth fer years and the alter
native of hope and fear l have gone
through, and constant care to avoid de-
lection, becoming too strong, desire to
to turn over my property. | have small
set off against my deficiency, and after
giving any information that will assist il
settling my acts, or if possible in recover
ing portion of what [ have lost. In
Justice to two parties in this city.
through whom have some speonlations,
I wish to ssythat they are perfectly inno-
cent of any knowledge that I was using
public funds. There are small balances
with each of these parties to my credit,
whenever accounts are closed. | made
nearly all my losses in New York With
enc house there, whose acts hold sahieot
to your order. I endeavered to induce
them to make good the amount lost with
them, which they knew was public money,
but they have refused.
I have been trying to make up my
mind to this confession for some days but
I could not bring myself to say it, and l
wanted time to write to my innocent wife
whom this frigbtful information will kill.
God forgive me for what have done TO
her and my children. All I ask from YOU
or the authorities that if possible some
small sum may be left her. enclose the
keys of my safe and box containing all
my old accounts, etc.
My present vouchers receipts, etc,
are in the hands of my clerks, who are
all of them perfectly innocent of any
knowledge of my deficiency. I ihall re
main at the house, No. 1923 K street, till
informed what action you may have taken
concerning me. There is no fear I will
go away now.
J. LEDYARD HODGE.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21

We have the following statistics re-
garaing the Universalist denomination OF
Vermont for the year ending May l, 1871:
Societies. 36 families, 1,S43 adult mem
bers, 1916; net gain for the year, 30; or
gsnized churches, 20; members OF same,
,O45; gain for the year, 135; Sunday
schools, 81; scholars, $500; gain, ooo
Total value Of church property, $780,
1853; total Indebtedness, 1850; $4,000
of this on one church.) Current expenses
of the year, $751; 22; church edifice re-
pairs. $4,0S7 debts paid, $4,000; missions
and charities, separate from the Murray
fund, 81 600.
METHODIST.
Quarterly Meetings in Vermont,
Sept. 18th, Stockbridge, Plaiufeld, Der
by. Holland and Morgan, East Burke,
West Burke, Bondville, Leicester and
Salisbury.
Montpelier District Preachers Meet
ing and s. s. Institute, Moretown, Sept.
26th, 9th and 2Sth.
Union Ministerial Meeting--Bur.
lington and Plattsburgh Districts-Bur-
lington, Oct Sd, 4rh, and 9th.
Springfield District Preachers Meet,
ing, Woodstock, Oct. Sd.
st. Johnsbury District Preachers
Meeting, Newport, Oct. Sd.
Fourteen persons lately united with
the NJ. E. Church at Hardwick, VT.
AT West Woodbury., VT, recently
six persons were baptized and eleven ad'
mitted to membership with the M. E
Church.
Nineteen persons united with the NJ
E. Church at Derby Centre, VT, on the
Goth ultimo.
Mr.. H D. Rolph of New York, has
given 100000 towards the proposed Meth
edist Conference Seminary at Hartford
Conn.
DIR. Gannett, the leading Unitarian
clergyman in Boston-Dr. Channing'f
successor-who was killed in the recent
terrible disaster on the Eastern Railroad,
was present at a recent communion sea-
son at the Church street Methodist Epis'
cops1 church, Boston, and inquired if il
was free. On receiving an affirmative re-
ply, he presented himself at the altar, and
partook of the sacrament of the Lords
Supper for the last time.
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The Vermont Union slate Company
FAIRHAyEN, Sept. 10.

FAIRHAyEN, Sept. IL, 1871.
Editor Rutland Herald Through the
politeness of Mr.. A. r. Vail, have been
shown through the slate mill of the Yer
mont Union Slate Company, and will try
and give you description of the same.
The mill covers an area of about IT'S by
200 feet. AS you enter the mill you como
to the largest .lw used in saving the
slate. The saw is about one.fonrth Of on
inch thick. The slate is fixed upon bed
which is propelled by cogs, and the stock
is sawed into one-fourth the sig. Of bill
lizard bed, these Ids being formed Of four
pieces. 1t is then removed to planer,
the bed of which is like that Of the saw.
The knife Of the planer is fastened above
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21

THE CHoLERA-The cholera in Eu-
rope is still raging. Adyices by cable from
st. Petersburg state that the reports ar
riving continually at that city from the
southern and central provinces show the
Asiat'c demon 70 be committing fearful
havoc among the population. Contrary
to former reports, it appears to be in
creasipg in virulenee and causing greater
terror to the Russisns. A case Of cholera
OF what type is not specified-has been
discovered in Newcastle; and the fact of
our agents considering it worthy of trans.
mission through tho cable proves it is
considered matter of considerable signi-
fcance in England.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-21

We often omit the good we might dc
in consequences of thinking about that
which it is out of our power to do.
Always to think the worst, l have
ever found to be the mark of mean
spirit, and base SOUL Bolinsbroke.
Benefit your friends that they may
love you still more dearly benefit your
enemies that they may become your
friends.
There are men who. by long consult
ing only their own inclinations, have for
gotten that others have claim to the
same Difference.
AS a matter of fact, Orientals who
get up early, are not nearly as healthy as
Westerns, who get up late, and do not
live nearly as long.
"A man who sings through life is like
the man who ascends the mountain IN the
car; the man who does not sing is Ike
the traveller who pants on foot up the
steep ascent.
No one are so fond of secrets as those
who do not mean to keep them such
persons covet secrets as a spenethrift does
money, for the purpose Of circulation
Cotton.
The man who can lay bis band upor
the neck of the lions within him, ano
they hold their peace; who can still the
tempest of turbulent disloyal heart, ii
the grandest of his race.
A man who gets up early and takes +
all day. may benefit by the exercise but
the walk would do him just az much
good, except in July or August, at any
other time of the day.
Death is the cure Of all diseases
There is no cqthoIicon or univera} rem
edy I know, but THE, which, though
uauseous to queasy stom achs, yet to pre-
pared appetites is nectar, and pleasant
portion of Immortality Sir Thoma:
Browne.
That every day has its pains aud sor
rows is universally experienced, and al
most universally confessed, but let us not
attend only to mournful truths. If vs.
look impartially about us we shall find
that every day has likewise its pleasure
and its joys.
You have seen a man under fl grant in
suit; have seen him turn pale and trem
Bile; you have watched the shock within
his soul, witnessed the conflict and tbs
victory, then heard the qniet soft reply
and have turned away saying, That mar
deserves to be crowned; be is a king
Rev. H. Moore.
DR.. johnson once silenced a notoriou'
female backbiter, Woo was coademnins
some of her friends for painting thei'
cheeks, by the remark that is is far Is.
burtful thing for lady TO roddeu he'
own complexion than to Llacksn her
neighbours character
The noblest thing on earth IS thu
man who rises to the dignity of self-mas
terry. The man who can refuee indu|
gence to clamoring desire; can hold the
craving appetite ungrstifad, and can say
to the rising passion, Peace, be STILL is &
hero above Alexander or Hercules.
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ENTERED INTO REsT.-Died at the
rectory Of st. Thomas Church, Brandon,
on the evening of Saturday the 10Th inst
the Very Rev. Joshua Newton Fairbanks,
A. NJ, Dean of Rutland and Rector OF
st. Thomas church, Brandon, in the 900
year of his life.