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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06
Reply to Zero.

"It is great pity if a" woman cam
write for the newspapers" without being
requested to answer public letters by pri
vate ones, and accused of striving tt
wear the unmentionables, and doing
everything that men do. If this last be ths
fate of strong-minded women, we almos'
wish we had been born "soft, or ordi
nary" (if these three classes include al
women, according to Zero's estimate
in his first essay. Only think of it
strong-minded sisters, to. be obliged te
puff our own praise in cloud of tobacco
smoke, or roll the quid of disappointment
under our tongues in the form of a quid
of the obnoxious weed, to say nothing
of visiting haunts of sin and iniquity
aud drinking bad whisky at low grog.
cries.
Our young lady friends have been in
quiring, for several weeks, after our
Ticonderoga correspondent. We sup
posed when he informed them this morn
Ing tudt Ut was UdCncloEs anu iheohooo
remaining such, it would satisfy them,
but the questions came thicker and faster,
"is he old SIS he rich ?" ""is he young y
dis he handsome ?" To answer these
questions we can only refer them to Zero
himself, and hope he will favor them with
an answer in his next communication,
also as much more of his private busi-
ness as be thinks proper.
On tie whole, he has a very delicate
way of advertising for lady correspond
ents. We must respectfully decline
sending him private letter ourself; ibid
he expect our photograph P we were
trained by careful mother, and never
wrote private letter to bachelor, young
or old.
I believe that, at The last woman's
rights medical convention, the prescrip-
ton for fretful babies and iratsble bach
elors was a dose of Mrs Winslow's Sooth
ing Syrup. Will Zero try the remedy
and tell us whether we are correct, and
the remedy good one.
LINNIE LEE.
Rutland, March Goth.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

Slow RAILRoADs.-They have some
nice railroads in Missouri. A Layfayette
county paper says: "Confound such a
modern improvement The bob tail
railroad threatens to lead us into grievous
fractures of the third commandment yet
Who ever heard of such creep easy con-
Germ? A wheelbarrow would be bully
compared with it. A batch of important
papers. mailed to the clerks of onr Circuit
and Common pleas Court, from Richmond
on Friday, the 10Th inst. didn't get here
till Tuesday, the 14th Four days coming
eight miles-all rail route2 Two miles
day by lightning express! How's that
for fast? All the curses vented by Rich
mond lawyers on the negligence of our
clerks and their Deputies, should have
been expended on the insuferable drag
along and -don't-care-a-cent-ish-ness of our
pestiferous small roads,"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

VIcToR EMANURL-Victer Emanuel
as Justin Mccarthy sees him: I am con-
vinced the poor man has no more ambi
tion than his horse. But some implacsble
destiny, embodied in the form of Cavour
or Garibaldi, was always driving on the
stout king and bidding him get up and
attempt great things,-be patriot and a
hero. The single merit of Victor Emanu.
els character, if we put aside the element
of personal courage, is its rough integrity.
He is galantuomo, an honest man,-in
that sense man of this world. He gave
his word to constitutional government
and to Italy, and be appears to have kept
the word in each case according to bis
lights. Let us do him the justice to &C.
knowledge that be never sought position
or glory. He accepted both as necessity
OF his birth and his place, formal duty
and bore.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06
ARKANSAS PoLITICs.-The title oi

ARKANSAS PoITICs.-The title of
"Brindletajls," in Arkansas politics ap-
piled to repub blicans before election who
became democrats after, is thus explain
ed in the Cincinnati Commercial: Rev.
Joseph Brooks is a hesd-center in the
Johnson Mcdonald wing of the party.
During the last campaign be was the
owner of bull with flourishing brindle
tail, and it became a matter of common
remark that the face of the bull and the
face of Brooks looked a good deal alike
Finally they got to calling the bull Old
Brooks, and Brooks they honored with the
name of Old Brindle.trial. From that
they went still further, and called bis
friends the Brindle-tails, and so the ridi-
culous name originated. Now it is more
common here than democrat OF republi-
can The name of "Minstrels," applied
to the other party, originated from the
fact that John G. Price, editor of the Re-
publican, is reported TO have been a mem
Der of the burnt-cork profession before he
came South.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

FEVER AND AGUE.-The following ap-
pears as leading editorial in the Cleve-
land Herald "We wish to give q very
simple remedy for fever and ague, and
wish to emphasize it by saying that it
has, to our knowledge, proved very effica-
cious. 1t is simply common salt. A tea
spoonful taken in water, and teaspoon
full deposited inside each stocking, next
the foot, just as the chill is coming on.
That's all there is of it but knowing that
it has been very eficaoious in breaking
the chill and perfecting cure, we put it
in our editorial columns, where no hum
bug remedy shall ever find place if we
know it."
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

THE ETHICS OF Law AND LAWYER
Bnt there is no rule of law, much less q
rule of morality, requiring a lawyer to
protect q scoundrel in his ipiquities. He
may, he must, defend him against any
charge of crime or misdemeanor he is
under no obligation to defend him against
the demands of other individuals on &C.
count of corrupt and dishonest proceed
ings. 1t is because lawyers do take
charge of the cases of such men as Fisk
and Gould it is because they do, in the
conduct of them, with all the powers of
eloquence, and all the force of learning,
acumen and intellectual brilliancy, make
the worse appear the better reason-that
such men prosper; that justice between
man and man is trsvestied by the courts !;
that the profession is looked upon-and
how can it be otherwise when David Dud-
ley Field is the professional adviser of
Jim Fisk Pas little better itself than an
association of shrewd and brilliant ras-
calls, with the constant object of defeating
Justice instead of maintaining it. The
truth ie, the professional ethics of the bar
are not elevated. The general rule is-to
take any cause whatever, The true rule
both Of law and of enlightened morality
is-to defend any person charged with
crime, and to help those only in civil
causes who have some reasonable grounds
for believing that they have sub-t,ntial
justice on their side. Suppose Mr.. Field
should say to Fisk: "Sir, will defend
you to the last against Indictment for
crime, but must not and will not use my
powers to aid you in retaining the money
and property which before the law and
heaven belong to other men. MY advice
ia to restore the property and money to
it's rightful owners" If Mr.. Field should
say this, he would not be a professional
partner in some of the most dishonest
schemes of corruption and plunder with
which the records of INSCRIPTIONS specn-
lstion are dishonored and blackened. TAX
ing the other course, against morality aud
without leesl obligation, be does all that
he can to dishonor and blacken a profess
sion which, in years gone by. he did 30
much to dignity and adorn.-Chicago
Post
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06
March 22th 1898
John Darlington
Nicholas Carington.

NARROW ESCAPE OF AN AGED CLER.
John Thompson of Sara
toga Springs had a narrow escape from
death few nights since. The Saratogian
says:
"He had been to see soms friends off on
the evening train, which started without
his knowing it. In endeavoring to get
off he made misstep in the dark, and
fell 30 that his head lay close to the track.
Being about eighty years of age the fall
paralyzed him, and he lay without power
to stir till after the whole train had
passed, the iron wheels laundering by
within few inches of his head. He was
able to walk when he got up,
and is still suffering from the jar to his
system. Younger men than Mr.. Thomp-
SON have found it dangerous business to
alight from trains under motion, especi-
ally in the night, and our aged friend is
certainly fortunate in escaping more ser.
ious injury"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

BLOOD CATTLE FOR THE WEsT-
Hon. D. r. Bailey is about to send from
here to his farm in st. Croix county,
Wisconsin, seven head of thoroughbred
short horn cattle, all herd book animals,
and some of them noted in this vicinity.
Among them are the "IVth Duke of
Stanstead,' purchased from the celebrated
herd of the late Carlos Pierce, and four
from the noted herd of Hon. Geo. V.
Hoyle of Champlain. These latter are
named "Hoyle's Duke" year old, got by
"Agate's Airdrie" and out of "Elsi by
Marquis" Calypso" an s year old COW,
the first thoroughbred short horn that
Mr.. Hoyle ever raised; "Parepa Rosa"
! 1 2 years old, got by Agate's Airdrie
and out of "Phsbe Sd by Fabius Sd !" and
"Lady Laura," not yet quite year old.
got by "Malcom" and out of "Dora by
Agate's Airdrie." These are all beautiful
animals and of undoubted blood, and the
neighborhood Of Mr.. Bailey's western
farm lis to be congratulated on such .
valuable importation from the east.-i&.
A1ans Messenger.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

JUSTICE ON THE TRACK OF A CRIMI-
NAL The PERPETRATOR OF A CRIME
IN 1867 JUST ARREsTED.-In the year
1867 the house of Ira Harrington, an
aged and respectable citizen in the town
of Hoosick, was entered one evening by
two burglars, and himself and wife
bucked and gagged and the house robbed
OF considerable amount of property.
The aged couple were alone in the build
ing, and when the robbers departed they
left them still confined. When their con-
dition was discovered the next morning,
they were nearly dead from fright and
exhaustion. Suspicion pointed to a man
named Gardner Wood or Woodard, who
shortly afterwards disappeared, and was
not positively heard from again until
Wednesday evening last, when District
Attorney Banker received dispatch from
Whitehall announcing his arrest in that
place by officer LAYERS. The District
Attorney had previously heard rumors to
the effect that he was in the vicinity Of
Whitehall, and took the necessary means
to arrest him in case he was there. We
are happy to know they were successful,
for the crime which Woodard committed
upon an old and inoffensive couple was
most heineus one, and deserves the Sc
verest punishment.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

RICHMOND NEwsPAPERs.-Richm
Va, is at present paradise for editors
and printers. but not particularly popular
with newspaper readers. By an agree
ment among the proprietors Of the differ
ent journals, all the papers for Monday
morning are put to psess on Saturday
night and left to season until Monday,
when they are delivered to their subscrib-
ers. The papers for mail subscribers are
put in the post-oface on Saturday night,
and readers in Petersburg get them on
Sunday morning; but no copies are al
lowed to be given out in Richmond on
that day. The consequence is that If o
citizen wishes to know what is the news
in Richmond on Sundry, he is obliged to
60 to Petersburg to satisfy his curiosity.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

CONDITIONAL REQUESTS TO THE UNI
vERsITY OF VT. AND ORPHAN ASYLUM
Mr.. J. A. s. White, of Wait-field, VT.
recently deceased, leaving property esti-
mated, we believe, at about $75, 600. By
the terms of his Will this property is
placed in the care of trustees, for the
benefit of his wife and maiden daughter,
during their lives. Upon their death, if
no grandchildren survive them. the trus
tees are directed to pay $4,000 to the
"Providence Orphan Asylum and Hospi-
tai at Burlington ;" and the remainder of
the principal to the University of Yer
mont, in trust, to be held as permanen ent
fund, the income of which is to be used
in defraying the expenses of INDECENT
students in the University from Vermont,
preference to be given to students from
Washington County, and the amount 50
expended not to exceed $50 year for a
student "and colored students not to re-
ceive any portion of said income and in
terest" Provision is also made for giving
of proper security for the. execution of
the trust, and the University is required
to report annually, in its catalogue, the
existence of said fund, which is to be ap-
propriately named, and the use to which
the income is applied, as oresaid.-Free
Press
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

PERsoNAL.-Andrew Mowry, now of
Kansas, formerly of Greenwich, N. Y, is
Speaker in the Kansas Legislature.
"A letter in the Saratogian says that
the veritable Rev. s. M. Merrill, formerly
of Poultney, who was not drowned ut
Plattsburgh, N, Y, in July, 1857, is now
preaching in two congregations, one at
Spring Prairie and the other at Lyons,
Ill. One of the churches is Union
church OF Congregationalists and Meth
odists. He is said to be very popular and
seems to be doing great deal of good.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

Where the world rebuketb, there
look for the excellent.
The only way to be permanently safe
is to be hsbituslly honest.
Men of the noblest dispositions think
themselves happiest when others SHARE
with them in their happiness.
DO good to your friend that be may
be more wholly yours-to your enemy
that he may become your friend.
Use not evasions when called upon TO
d. good thing, nor excuses when you
are reproached for doing bad one.
The noblest friendship is that which
springs from sincerity, cnnstancy, frank
ness and forgiveness.
"A person who tells you of the faults
of others. intends to tell others of your
faults. Have care how You listen
-Self-reverepce, self knowledge, self
control, are three hinges of the state of
life that open into power everyway.
Posts of honor do not confer true
glory. It ia the manner only in which
we fill the eminent stations that can really
dignity us.
1t costs much more TO be vicious than
it does to be virtuous. 1t is a matter of
economy TO practice virtue in all things.
One vice often costs more than ten vir-
tues
The water that flows from spring
does not conge.l in winter, and those sen.
timents that fow from the heart cannot
be frozen in adversely.
As conformity of manners goes one
step towards the establishing of friendship,
the a.terer will be sure to take care to
suit the temper of him be intends TO play
upon.
Prefer solid renee to wit; never
study to be dvertipg without being use-
ful let no Jest intrude upon yonr good
manners. nor say anything that may Of
fend modssty.
We should never estimate the sound
ness of principles by our ability to DE-
fend them, nor consider an objection as
unauswerable to which We can find no
reply.
That calling and condition in life sre
best for us, and to be chosen by us, which
are best for our souls, which least expose
Us to sin and give US more opportunity OF
serving and enjoying God.
-Friendship is very seldom truly tried
but in the greatest extremes. 10 hho
friends when we have no need OF them
and 10 want them when we have, are
things both easy and common.
To be angry about trides is mean
and childish, to rage and be furious Is
british, and to maintain perpetual wrath
10 akin to the practice and temper OF
Of devils. But 70 prevent or suppress
rising resentment IL wise and glorious, Is
manly and divine.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

ARLrNGToN.-Eli B. Lathrop has sold
his saw mill to VIM. L. McAuley.
Arlington suffered severely in the
great freshet of 1869, and great expense
has been incurred in rebuilding bridges,
wharfng and graveling highways, and
strengthening abutments, etc. This work
is now about all done, much to the relief
of the taxpayers.
The Auditors Report made at the
March meeting showed the town debt, at
the commencement of the year, to be
$15 2S5-add expenses of year, $3,434 !;
total debt. $18,719. Receipts during the
year, S4233; cash on hand and taxes
due, $4,720; balance, $9,766. Three
fourtbs of the expenses for the year hav-
ing been used upon roads and bridges.
The town voted a tax of one hundred
cents, which, unless something extraor-
dinary happens, will materially lessen the
debt, and leave a mere nominal sum to
take care of hereafter.
The school superintendent reports
the schools of the town as poor, taken as
a whole, and the whole thing almost a
failare and the money expended as about
as good as thrown away, owing to lack
of attendance of the scholars, interest
among parents and almost total unfitness
of the school houses in town. Some of
them being uncomfortable, unhealthy and
even endsngering the health of the
scholars sent into them. There is in
town, 8 districts, Gil children. The re-
ports show that 800 of them have been to
school some during the year. The aver
age attendance, however, is only ia. or
little over one-fourth of the whole.
Amount expended for schools little less
than 81 800. There are also two select
schools in town, with small attendance.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06
PROCLAMATION FOR FAST.
STATE OF VERMONT.
BY JOHN W. STEWART, GOVERNOR.
Il PROCLAMATION.

l do hereby appoint Friday, the 7th
day of April next, as day of Fasting
and Prayer. ....-.
Let us, as people, on that day refrain
from our accustomed secular affairs, and
unite in humble acknowledgment of our
dependence upon God.
Recognizing Him as the "God of Ma
tions" as well as individuals, let US in
woke the ontinued bestowal of the bless
ings we have hitherto enjoyed, and entreat
Him to avert from US the evils of war.
pestilence, ignorance and every form of
social vice. As children of common
Heavenly Father, let us unite in humble
confession of our manifold sins-in earn
est prayer for Divine forgiveness, through
Christ our Savior for more perfect faith
in Him, and that through His Grace we
may attain to complete Christian civili-
cation.
Given under my hand and the seal of this
State, in the Executive Chamber, this
twenty-six day of March, one thou
sand eight hundred and seventy one,
and of the Independence of the United
States the ninety-fifth. az, -
JOHN w. STEWART.
By the Governor,
JAMES NJ. SLADE, JR.,
Sec. of Civil and Military Affairs.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

DEATH OF A FRENCH LADY-Madame
Busque, enc of the best esteemed of all Pa
risians to Americans. especially New EGG
landers, for some fifteen years, is dead.
She kept restaurant near the Madeline,
with the speciality of plain food of true
Yankee sort, pumpkin piee, buckwheat
cakes, gingerbread, johnny cakes, Goldfish
balls, baked beans, hominy, ETC., along
with beefsteaks, mntton chops, coffee and
tea. 1t grew to be a notable center for
American soiourners in Paris, and Mad
anne Busque was very popular. During
the war In the United States, she fed
those Americans gratuitously who had no
means; and was always very charitable
and kind to all who approached her. She
died OF the hardships of the siege, and
her funeral was attended by many Amer
leans.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

SCRIBNER. Scri6ner for April we
find goodly number of short articles,
such as Mr.. Bigelow's Breakfast with
Alexander Dumas" an account of the
Hildesheim silver vases, supposed to have
belonged to the defeated Roman general
Varus, and the editorial comments on var
ious topics of the time; also some longer
descriptive papers about New Zealand,
the working children of New York, the
Pennsylvania anthratic mines, etc. the
continuation of George MacDonald's and
Anderson's stories, and other good things.
For the new volume which begins with
the May number, DIR. Holland announces
that he has engaged Miss Thackeray,
Mrs Oliphant, Mr.. W. ]. Stillmsn, Dom
aid G.. Mitchell, and Mr.. Warner of the
Hartford Courant to write stories and
essays. With these and other additions
to his present list of contributors the mag
azine ought to go on swimmingly, and we
doubt not it will.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

CONGRESS- s.-Among the members Of
the present national House of Represent
atives there are one hundred and thirty
one lawyers, twenty-four mechanics,
eleven physicians, eleven journalists, Fix
bankers, five manufacturers, four lumber
men, three railroad managers, three gen.
eral business men, two clergymen and one
teacher.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

CASH ON HAND.-Who isn't fond of
sash-and the more the better Nilsson
has 81 100000; Kellogg, $3.50, 600; Bar
ney Williams and his wife, $704. 900 /;
Henry Ward Beeoher, $114,000; Henry
o. Bowen, 100000; Horace Greeley.
$4,000; Ben Wood, $3.50, 900 James
Gordon Bennett, 81, 900, 600; Wm. @. Bry-
ant, $S2. 600; James and Erastus Brooks,
$4OO. 600; Manton Marble, ga, 4,8O7 Ohas.
A. Dana, $4,000; Rob.rt Bonner. $s,-
100000.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

KU KLux.-The New York Dispatch
says that. one day recently, couple Of
Democrats were heard in earnest converse
tion, when one of them said, in tone of
utter disgust The Southerners are the
d-dest fools that can be scared up. No
sooner do we carry q State than they
commence kicking up shindies. Their
internal kuklnxing will lose us the fall
elections, sure. Why can't they wait till
We elect President ?"
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

LIPPINCoTT's MAGAZINE. - Lippin-
colts for April bears some of that quiet
and self-repressed aspect that is SO quail
fcative of much that is Philadelphia.
Mr.. Donbavsrd contributes the first of q
series of papers which have for their
theme, "Wild ireland )" there is an arti-
Gle also upon subiect-"Charles Francis
Adams"-respecting which information
is unquestionably desirable; Frederick
Lockley is adequate to the description of
"A Western Newspaper Enterprise !"
Emmanuel Swedenborg" receives intelli-
gent treatment from Lucretia Pontiff !;
Mr.. Stephen Powers lengthens out his
agreeable Student Rambles in Prussia !"
"What Shall We Drink p is the startling
question proposed DR.. John Bell, but
which must by no means be interpreted
as synonymous with "What will you
take ?" Several poems add the flavor of
rhythm to the repast, and "Our Monthly
Gossip" and "The Literature of the Day"
consider various political, literary and
miscellaneous propositions.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

A MARRIAGE CoNsENT.-The Jour-
nal says the following is copy of an an
oient document left with us by Col. FL. s.
Hard of Arlington, showing how the
thing was done in the olden time. 1t was
picked up by him, with other papers, in
Virginia during the late war. The paper
on which it is written, as we'll as the
style and spelling, vouches for its anti.
guilty:
81. -.. March 22th 1898
this is to Cartify that sm Willing that
Lysons Shall be Granted to give my
daughter ann Simms to VIM Dulaney in
holy mattermony as witness my hand and
Seal. WIN SIMMs TSeal1
Test
John Darlington ... ..
Nicholas Darlington.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-06

MINISTERIAL ANECDoTE. - 1t is re-.
lated of clergyman in northern Yer
mont, who years ago made visit to New
York, and was invited to fill city pulpit
during the time of dog-day pastoral vaca.
tions; that he never had the pleasure of
listening to church organ, and was to-
tally unacquainted with the fashion of
hiring few vocalists to do the singing
for the congregation. Giving out the
first hymn, the organist played fancy
prelude, and in the highest style of the
art the choir rendered the four verses.
Addressing the throne of grace in a fer
vent invocation, which stamped him as a
man of intellect and power with his au-
dience, he coolly re.opened the hymn-book
aud turning to page, exclaimed :" The
audience will now join with me in sing
ing good old Methodist hymn, and
those persons running that bag of wind
in the gallery will please not interrupt"