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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02
The FOREST FIRES AND THE RUINS

The FOREST FIRES AND THE RUINS
The long drought which has been dry
ing up the earth for the last two or three
months has extended over an immense
stretch of country on our Continent, and
its effect has been disastrously marked in
many spots by great forest fires. The
burning woods of Wisconsin and Michi-
gan, with the millions of property and
hundreds of lives destroyed, the ravages
of the flames among the woody noun
tains of California and Virginia aud
Maryland, and the threatening fires in
the wooded ranges of Northern and West
ern New York, as valuable in their an
cient beauty and grandeur as an old Eng
lish demense, and as thrifty and 5ustling
with human life as New England viii
lage-these dot out over a wide range the
points where the drought has been most
severe. The tinder-like dryness of the
earth and grass and forest trees has been
the one compelling cause of the great des-
tructiveness of these fires. 1t is hoped
that rains reported south and west will
be so extensive and liberal as to extin-
guish all these forest fires from the At
lantic to the Pacific.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02
Kansas and way STATIONS.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo, OF. %

ST. LOUIS, Mo, OFT. 80
We left the cars at East st. Louis, and
taking an omnibus for the city, crossed
the river on q ferry boat, for large and
enterpising as st. Louis is, it is without
any bridge across the Mississippi river !;
they are, however, constituting one,
which. it is confidently expected, will be
completed some time.
st. Louis has & population of about
three hundred and eleven thousand, and
is the fourth city regarding population)
in the United States, aud its friends con-
fdently assert that it will be only second
to New York at the next census, and call
it the Future Great City of the World"
and when we consider the advance that
St. Louis made during the last decade,
we can see that they had good basis for
their confidence. 1t is the business center
of vast agricultural, mining and stock
raising country, and is in itself an i'm
mense manufacturing depot, and the
country tributary to it possesses such
magnificent resources that we confidently
look for steady and rapid increase of
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02
vermont at Chicago.

Fairbanks, Greenleaf & Co., the Co. be.
ing Charles H. Morse, son of the late
John Morse, Of st. Johnbury. Their
stock of scales was all consumed, but they
did not own the store they occupied. For.
tuoately a large invoice of scales was on
the way there but had not reached their
destination. The stock burned was in.
sured, but they cannot yet ascertain the
amount eff their loss. They immediate.
ly secured another store, and on Tuesday
THE next day after the fire. their adver.
ti-emont appeared in the Ecenj'ag Journal
the first paper printed after the fire. Such
is western energy.
A letter received by DR.. E. s. Peck, OF
Burlington, says that Mrs. Edsall, oi
Chicago, whose husband, druggist, wa'
killed in his own house by burglars the
week before the great fire, and who, with
her baby, was reported burned in the sup.
posed fre-proof building, is now with
him at her fathers home, in Waddingtop
N. Y. She was formerly Miss Belle Will
SOD, of Waddingtop, and pupil of Mrs
Worcester.
Ransom J. Morse, son of Samuel Morse
of Jonesville, and formerly with Brins.
maid & Hildreth, of Burlington, is a
Chicago sufferer. He was largely in the
jewelry business on Lake street.
Gould Brothers of Chicago, are. about
to resume their linseed oil business, tho;
badly crippled, they are able to be on
their feet again.
Charles Davis, of Davis, Pope & Co.,
dealers in -four and grain,-both Dan.
vile boys,-writes that the store is gone,
but he thinks the books and papers in the
safe are preserved. -
Among the interesting incidents of the
Chicago fire it is said that John W Msrsb
and H. Chapman, formerly of Woodstock
were compelled to wade into the lake and
get aboard tug for safety, having been
surrounded by the fire.
George Chandler who graduated at
the University of Vermont in 1856, and
was of the firm of Gondy & Chandler,
lawyers, lost his house, Office, books and
papers.
Geo. E. Eaton, of Danville, and long 8
"tybo" in Burlington, lost quite heavily,
he having several "corner lots" out of the
city, the value of which is much deprecia-
ted by the fire.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

NATIONAL LINE OF STEAMERs.-The
."Italy," the vessel mentioned by our cor
respondent, ~. II. d." in our issue of the
Gath, is one of the vessels belonging to
the national line of transatlantic steam
ships. Sidney w. Rowell ef this place
is agent for this line, and also for the
Liverpool and Great Western and An
chor lines. Persons sending for their
friends on "the other side." or those in
tending to take q fereign tour, can ar
range for their passage, state room, letters
of credit and passports, at the agency
mentioned just as satisfactorily and with
less trouble to themselves than in any
other way.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02
POLITICAL.

jill lN1AlIs
Everything here indicates the
high political pressure under which
things are being conducted. Oppo-
sing forces are with fearful intensity
plying their little schemes for the saliva
ton of their country. Like giant mon
sters in training for the final combat,
party strength is being created and
economized to the furthest possible extent
in view of the impending struggle. Ma
tonal, state, and municipal committees
are prominent among the intricacies
of political machinery, and IS q general
thing one arm of the long lever by which
they move things is found to rest in
Washington. One sees much of this
here, and not unfrequently ia it that q
significant breath strikes one from the in
terna1 bre6zos Of other countries as we'll.
Connected with genuine love for the
cause, there is also that of personal inter
est-for strange as it may seem, there are
those even in politics, who, though they
NAV love the cause with all their might,
mind and strength, still they love them
selves the best. Ia vulgar parlance they
have "axes to grind" and the present is
thought to be a seasonable time for pre-
pairing the way. The maneuvers If this
GLASS heralds the coming of Congress and
lively times generally, as unmistakably
as the "yet tender buds" do the coming of
summer. Small officials, bureau officers
and the like, who have laid quiet during
the long warm summer, are coming to the
surface to elbow" They don't blow like
a sun flower, nor precisely like a whale,
but more like our oyster venders, they
blow their own horn as All advertisement,
and unlike them, their advertisement is
calculated to mislead. For instance,
Peter Pinchback, chief custodian of the
grab bag in the department of invisible
gi4nts, whose portly person has not graced
the surface of public prints for six months,
all at once is found to be alive and blow
ing. This process is always suited to
circumstances. It may be done in one
way or in another. 1t may be done by
coaxing some editor to publish an extract
from his official report of last year, which
if it has any real merit at all, must be of
a negative character since all it claims is
that, according to those statements he is
not defaulter. Then if to his statement
of debt and credit be appended an appeal
to deity for the good of his country, he
has touched off his big gun. The unsus-
peoting citizen who says that politics are
so corrupt, that he will in no way be
politically identified, may read Peters lit
tie puff, and without being able to tell
why, will some how become impressed
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02
Notes of the Day.
-Lingard fingers at New Orleans.
Liberia will also have civil war.

-Lingard fingers at New Orleans.
Liberia will also have civil war.
Washington has haunted house.
Savannah is being burglared extern
sively.
Rose Hersee is making sensation in
London
"A North Carolina rat vanquisbed a
rattlesnake.
"A swell among fowers-A dandeli.
on. [Puuch.l
An old coin, dated 1862, has been
found at Annapolis.
-Carbolic acid convinced Richmond
man that all is vanity.
Arsenic, used by mistake for soda,
made a Utica family sick Of cake.
About $4,000 men are now at work
clearing away the ruins of Chicago.
"A Louisville seven-year-old boy
drank quart of whiskey and died.
st. Louis has extended her hospitali-
ty TO 10000 fugitive Chicagoaus.
There is not water enough in any
Southern Illinois river to float ship.
-Anthracite has been found in vast
quantities in Northern Minnesota.
-Danvillians are luxuriating in Sec
ond crop of delicious strawberries.
Many of the Chicago weeklies have
transferred their Offices to st. Louis.
in Harrison county, Indiana, the
price for calling man hog thief is $50.
Atlanta resounds to tie strains of the
Jerusalem Singing Club, colored.
"A conscience-stricken Talladegan ad-
vertises pocket-book found in 1869.
They charge twenty-five cent admis.
sion to church weddings at Hamilton,
Ohio.
The fat hogs of Tennessee are being
thinned out by strange and fatal dis
Ise.
Virginia proposes to build a monument
to John Smith This is direct insult to
the Jones family.-Say. NeaoS.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

VIRGINIA CITY.-The kind of amuse-
nent- with which the inhabitants OF Vir-
ginia City, Nevada, are won't TO beguile
their leisure hours can hardly be con-
sidered of an elevatinQ character. But
short time ago they had a grand bull and
bear tournament, and now their "opera
house" has been the scene OF a contest be-
tween dogs and cats. At first the cats
bad things their own way, but the dogs
picked up courage and managed TO carry
off the palm of victory. The struggle
must have been desperate one, since we
read that the contestants fought 70
rapidly thst it reminded one of bunch
of fre-crackers exploding and whirling
about" When people find sport" in
such scenes, no wonder that they pick
their teeth with bowie-knives and shoot
one another. just to make their cemeteries
look respectable.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

THE MILK BUSINESS The milk busi-
ness along the Harlem Extension railroad
has been very prosperous, and has abolish
ed the cheese factory at Dandy. The net
profits of those who sold their milk dur
log this season have been double the
profits of those who took the same guam
tity to the cheese factory. Nearly two
car loads are transported every day over
the road. Last week two hundred and
eighty-seven cans were shipped between
Rutland and Chatham.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02
Personall
DR.. g. II. Plumley is about to remove
rom Montpelier to Manchester, n. 81.

DR.. g. Fl. Plumley is about to remove
from Montpelier to Manchester, N. 81.
Hon. Thomas G. Aylwyn, one of the
the most brilliant judges on the Canadian
bench, died at Montreal on Saturday. He
hadImany scquaintances and friends in
the United States.
Julius Movius, formerly prominent
railroad man of Buffalo, died in that city
on Sunday last, aged sixty years. He
had been i'll three or four years, his Hines
dating from fatal attack of disease upon
his wife to whom be was devotedly at.
tached. Her illness continued a long
time and he survived her but year and
a half
Senator Edmunds will deliver the ad.
dress at the annual reunion of the Yer
mont Officers Society, to be Ield at Bur
lington in January next.
On Monday of last week E. G. Pal.
mer, Esq, of 81. Paul, Minnesota, (s son
of Ex-Governor W. A. Palmer of Yer
mont was admitted to practice as an at
torney and counsellor in the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Mrs. Filkins, wife of the express rob-
Der, has lopened a small furnishing store
in Albany. She still asserts her firm be-
lief in her husbands innocence.
Spite of the efforts of friends TO pro-
duce a contrary impression, Chief Justice
Chase does not improve in health or
strength. His step is feeble and uncer-
tain, the hand tremulous, the face palid,
the voice husky.
Hon. John Wilder May, of Boston, a
graduate of the University of Vermont,
of the class of 1S45, has been nominated
for reelection for District Attorney by
the Republicans of Suffolk county.
Tho st. Albans Messenger says DR..
Gardner @. Cotton of nitrous Oxide"
fame is spending some days here with his
relatives. We believe this is his birth
place, as also of his famous brother the
late Rev. Walter Cotton, author of "Ship
and Shore etc. In one particular the
Messenger is mistaken. Rev. Walter Col
ton was a native of Rutland.
BY a recent copy of the Superior
Times we notice that party of railroad
officials had been there, consisting of D.
G. Linsley, Esq, Chief Engineer; @. s.
Hobart, General Superintendent; DR.. s.
W. Thayer, Medical Superintendent; and
Gen. Ira Spaulding, Chief Engineer
MINI. Div. Northern Pacific Railroad.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

NORTH BENNINGTON.-Chsrles Thaeh.
er, Jr., has gone to Chicago, to adjust the
affairs of the North Bennington Boot and
Shoe Company.
-Thacher s. yelling have made at
their paper mill, in six weeks on one
double cylinder paper machine, eighteen
tons of paper.
--Messrs. Hall & Jones, wove at their
mill during the week ending Oct. 14tb,
on their "a looms, Gil cuts of cloth, or
over $4,000 yards. Half the time there
were 10 weavers, the other half only o.
The largest amount woven by one person
was 50 cuts, or 1000 yards.
The Banner correspondent gets off
the following relative to happenings at
North Bennington
Speaking of vegetables. probably the
largest cabbage heGd ever raised in this
village, is on the shoulders of the boy who
allowed himself to be sent to the barber's
shop for basket of ShGUtngS.
We have families here who keep
COVE, pigs, etc, and also keep good fires
in their stoves, and yet they have no
barns or pig stys, and have not been known
to buy wood for some considerable time
past. We do not speak of this in fault
finding spirit, but it is to show examples
of "good managing"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

REUNION AND REFORM -Ex Govern.
or Henry s. Foote has written letter on
the subject of the proposed new party
Reunion and Reform, in which he
says that in view of the result of recent
political elections, and the indications OF
a similar result in other States wherein
elections are soon to occur, he "most
painfully apprehends that anything like
a democratic triumph in 1872 is an alb.
solute impossibility." These are certain
ly not very encouraging words TO the
Southern democracy.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

A PECULIAR LIBEL.-A peculiar case
of libel was tried by the county court at
Newfane, the other day. The aggrieved
party, Dwight N. Connable of Bernards-
ton, Mass brought action against Charles
B4bcock Of Guiford, for slander in utter
ing the words, Dwight took false oath
at Greenfield" aud for libel in publishing
some verses entitled "Dwight's charac-
ter" which placed Connable in rather an
unfavorable light. Babcock pleaded in
justification that all he had sid and sung
was true, and it seems that the jury
thought so too, as it returned a verdict
for B4bcock.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

New YORK AFFAIRs.-Solne of the
worst doctored bills and most f4grant
forgeries in connection'with the municipal
frauds had for some reason been placed in
a desk, where they escaped the ravages
of the rings thief when the other vouch-
ers were stolen. These have been pre-
served, and though at one time fears were
entertained that they would be stolen if
the fact became know that they had pre-
viously escaped destruction, that danger
is now passed, aud the documents have
been given into safe hands to be used as
evidence against the thieves.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

A PLAN FOR HELPING-George H.
Stuart, the we'll known Christian phlan-
thropist of Philadelphia has received a
despatch from DR.. Robert Patterson, of
Chicago entreating him to organize q
work similar to the Christian commission
to aid the suffering thousands left home
less and penniless there. Stuart also rec
ommends young mems Christian aasocia-
tions throughout the land to organize
immediately and appoint committees to
collect funds to be forwarded to D. L.
Moody. chairman of the relief commits
sion association, or to Stuarts office, No.
13 Bank street, Philadelphia.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

PARIs.-Ths Paris Patrie calls atten-
tion to an anti-communist association of
workmen in favor of order, the OuUriers
Compdgn0ns The society, which is said
to number 10000 members, has a COM
mittee sitting in Paris. It's programme
is short bat decisive. Each member. TO
whatever trade he may belong, pledges
himself not TO join any section of the In
ternationale." None of its members are
to join In sny strike. They, bind them
selves, moreover, that in all the towns of
France they will assist the government in
bringing about the pacific resumption of
labor and in maintaining order.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

The ENGLISH PRESS ON THE CHICAGO
FIRE The latest Numbers of the Eng
lish papers contain long editorials on the
recent disasterous fire in the Garden City
of the West. Surprise and sympathy
stand prominently in the comments of the
English journals. They express the con-
viction, however, that great as is the ex-
tent of the calamity, the irrepressible en-,
ergy of the American people will be equa
to the disaster, and that Chicago will rise
again from its ashes greater than ever.
purified by the flame, and seeking in the
future more glorious destiny than that
which favored it ere the misfortune which
strewed its streets with blackened ruins,
robbed its inhabitants of their property
and their wealth.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

THE DISAPPOINTED BoNAPARTEs.-
In spite of all the agencies, press man
agement and manufactured news to favor
the cause of the fallen Bonapartes and TO
bring them back to power, they seem to
fail everywhere on French territory. The
latest news shows that even in Corsica,
the birthplace of the family, where Bona
partisan was supposed to be in the as
cendant, Prince Napoleon was defeated as
candidate for the Supreme Legislative
Council of the Island. The Prince was
so disappointed that he made violent po.
litical speech at Ajaccio on Tuesday.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

T. o. of G. TAT the regular meeting
of Rutland Lodge, No. 78, 1. o. of G. T.,
held on Wednesday evening, the follow
ing officers were elected for the ensuing
quarter:
w. @. T.-Samuel III. Kelley.
W. Y. T.-Mrs. A. Baker.
W. S.-Geo. j. Hayles. -
w. T. S-Miss M. /. Atwood
w. T.-Miss A. Hannum.
W. M-Howe.
W. I. G-Mrs. NJ. M. Hill.
W. o. G.Fields.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

BUTLER ON THE TREATY-Ben But
ler delivered his lecture in opposition to
the Treaty of Washington in Boston
Wednesday evening, and as telling
stroke of diplomacy had the captain and
crew of the reoaptured schooner Horton
arranged on seats to the rear of him. At
preconoerted cue in his speech, calling
on these men to stand up and show the
people what manner of men they proposed
to consign to British dungeons, the seven
salt sea heroes rose up and somewhat
sheepishly faced the large assemblsge be-
fore them. 1t was a very effective piece
of claf trap, but Butler will have to get
up something even more pathetic and
startling before he can seduee the Ameri-
c " p. c5i. 10 lis mucA-desircd scheme
"f con Epg AID.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02
The Recent Poace Convention in
Europe.

The international Peace Congress, re-
Gently held in Switzerland, waa fsr from
being very explicit in is declaration
what are peace principles "a understood
by Americans. There was no denuncia-
ton of the abstract idea of killing, nor of
war as an institution. Louis Blanc gave
his opinion, fayoring the transformation
Of standing armies into national militia.
He also declared for a separation of
Church and State, for woman'5 rights, for
The establishment of the right of property
npon an individual and cooperative basis,
for general education, for freedom of as
-ociation, and for universal equality
From these and other expressions oi
views on public questions, it was easy
to be seen that the Congress itself was
5ut an out-growth or off-shoot of the
great international movement of social
revolution, and that the peace question
was made a subordinate issue.
M1zzini, the old revolutionary war
horse, with his usual frankness, repudiat-
cd peaceful solution of the social prob.
lem of Europe as utterly visionary. While
he expressed sympathy with the ultimate
aims of the Congress, peace, Liberty,
Association" he believed that they could
not be realized by any specific mission,
but by an inevitable, sharp and terrible
war. The present sceptical, egotistioal
aye of transition, which enervates and
corrupts all true manhood, must be
abridged as much as possible.
The Cd veteran ympathizas very little
with some of the ideas of the Congress.
His programme of social revolution is
end to tho conflict between capital and
labor by uniting them in the same hands,
He would break up the system of wages
and labor entirely, aud give to each ar
iztn share in the profits of the enter
prise. Ia the present aspects of European
society, he sees no way of arriving at this
end save through a violent revolution.
We trust he is mistaken, and that a
measure for the peaceful accom- pli1hment
of this great reform will yet manifest
itself In the meantime it becomes US
Republicans to study this problem with
reference to the accomplishment of the
same results ere the same conflict of cap
ital and labor, which now agitates Europe,
shall have been inaugurated in our own
country.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02
HENRY CLARK Editor.
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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

MARYLAND POLITICs. The Democrats
Of MARYLAND are not harmonious, and the
Republicans hope to make some gains at
the November election. Ever since 1867
the Democratic party hss had almost un-
disputed sway in that Stlte, but the Bal
timore AnlerjcH1 says that four years of
power have broaght out 50 many ambiti-
Gus cffice-seekers that there is danger that
the party will fall to pieces for the want
of union between the warning factions.
In some of the counties of the Eastern
Shore there are serious divisions, and in
two of them at least there are independ-
ent tickets. In Baltimore county the
Democratic candidates have become so
corrupt that the people, without distinc-
tion Of party, have risen against them,
and, nominated a ticketcomposed of up
right and honorable men. In Allegheny
county they are divided upon candidates
for Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit.
In Frederick and Montgomery counties
the Democratic Convention was unable to
agree upon candidate for Judge of the
Sixth Circuit, and adjourned without
making a nomination.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-02

The Odd Fellows of Boston have sub
scribed over 81, 1000 for tie aid Of brethren
in Chicago.