Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-08
THE RUTLAND HERALD
THURSDAY, JUNE s, 1871.
Review of the Week

weather that would have done no discred.
Il to August, while June came in holding
the thermometer among the nineties.-
One of the severest storms that has visit
ed this part of the country paid Rondout
and vicinity call the early part of last
week. Hail of startling proportions fell,
and the result was much destruction of
property, the crops being seriously injured
The weather was intensely hot, the Their
mometer marking 95 in the shade, and
then heavy masses of black clouds began
to gather in the west. BY l p. m. the
storm burst in all it's fury, the wind blow
ing a hurricane, tearing up trees by the
roots, Frustrating fences, graperies and
outhouses. Hail followed almost imme.
diately, and such a hail storm was never
witnessed there before. Chickens and |
birds were killed by the hail, and window
glass exposed to the storm were smashed
into atoms. For half an hour or more
there was a continual blaze of electricity.
lightning struck the school house at Ron
dout, where five hundred children were
assembled, and affected nearly all of them,
some seemed paralyzed while others hud-
died around the teachers with piercing |
shrieks. Three horses were killed while |
standisg under tree, and six head OF
cattle in another place. Division street
was flooded, and bales, barrels, etc,
foated into the river. The torrent
swept little girl from her feet, |
but she was rescued by some men. A
lady looking out of a window was struck,
the easement split, and her chignon torn
off, but she herself was unhurt. Hundreds
of acres of grain, strawberry fields and
grsperies were devastated.-Msy 30tb,
Decoration Day." was thoroughly well
observed, showing that the sense of the
obligation the country is under to our
soldiers is yet in full force. The day was
appointed later than heretofore, in order
to increase the chances of having good
weather-and if hot weather means good
weather, certainly better weather could
not have been bad. Twas hot enough to
toast and roast "A snow-bsnk, and to melt
the heart of an iceberg German
Peace celebration in Troy and other cities
was characterized by an unusual amount
of enjoyment in spite of the weather.
which was es hot as that which as GEL
eral thing the Fourth of July brings US
Lager, music, and the festivities at Rens-
selaer Park kept the participants in good
humor, and peace Was celebrated and
kept in a commendable manner. The pro-
oession in the morning was unusually
fine, and in the evening many buildings
were illuminated.-Mr Colfax left Wash |
ington for Indiana last Wednesday. He
is entirely out of danger.-Little Raven
principal chief of the Arapahoes-is lit !
tie rsvenous in bis demands upon his
Great Father at Washington, which he
evidently mistakes for his great grand
fatber.-Fires in the woods are very
common, both in this country and in |
the Dominion of Canada, and the are very
destructive. Those in Ulster and Sullivan
counties, n. Y, destroyed property of the
value OTIS 500,t 00.-Others there are on a
large scale in New Jersey and Pennsylva-
nia.-Vice President Colfax has been SEN
fenced TO abstain from tobacco. He is nei-
Their to chew nor snuff nor smoke. He
smoked too much, which came near MAX
ing him go ont in snuff, thereby reduc-
ing him TO dust, and ashes.--The u. S.
Senate brought its sittipgs to close on
Saturday May 9Th, after they had lasted
eighteen days. Hot weather was too
much for Senators as Senatorial dofngs
were for the patience of the country. Hon.
Senators stewed themselves in their cham,
Der, when and where the thermometer was
as high as ninety, if not higher, in the hope
of bringing Mr.. Rsmsdell and Mr. White
down upon their knees, when they would
have graoiously forgiven them,-which
proceeding would have been all the more
msgnanimous because the offenders weru
as entirely unC ffending as inoffensive. 1t
is easy, indeed, it is the easiest thing ia the
world, to forgive the guilty, but itrfquires
prodigious effort to screw up gracious,
ness, and magnampiuity, and all the rest OF
the chivalric quslities, to the forgiving
point when the accused are guiltless. But
the journalists would neither ask forgive
ness, nor admit that they had done wrong,
nor tell who teld them. how to get a COPY
Of the treaty. So Senators had to put their
dignity IN their pockets, and vote that the
journalist should be allowed to 20 at
large as soon as the Senate should enlarge
the area of its freedom by breaking up. Ii
would have been too great stretch OF
prerogative to have kept Mr.. Ramsaell
md MIR. White shut up after the Senate
had shut down on its work. Therefore,
Is soon as it had dissolved, and the Sena.
tors were on their several winding ways,
the journalists were liberated, and the
curtain was dropped on the farce. E;reaInt
omnes was the word.-The war of the
Commune came to an end, in Paris, Sun.
day, May 2Sth, when the last of the Com.
munists were beaten by the government
troops. and regular authority was restored
so "order reigns in Paris," as it did in
Warsaw forty years since, and from the
same oause,-from hard fighting. Yet il
accounts of the losses experienced are to
be believed, the proceedings were rather
of the nature of a massacre than a battle {:
for the loss to the Comm unists, or Reds,
is put at A 600, while that of the troops
was less than 5000. Probably these fig.
ures are incorrect, the one set being as
much too high ss the other is too low
Very little dependence is to be placed up
on any of these statements that have been
published concerning the Red war, and
probably it will be found that the amount
of destruction wrought in Paris has been
much exaggerated, and the insurgents are
not responsible for more than half of it.
President Grant has gone to Long Branch
TO make long visit.-The sun is striking
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