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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-02

BOsTOH, April 90.
About a quarter before eight o'clock
this evening people in various parts of
the city were startled 10y hearing what
seemed like peal of thunder coming
from the southwest. People living iu
the vicinity of the Coliseum for the
coming Jubilee, were quickly aware Of
its cause as a gigantic truss wall and
towers of the building were prosiratH
in a mass Of ruins.
The report of the terrible crash WAS
heard for miles One Of the end tower,
had reach the hight of 10 feet, and the
truss, destroyed, was 40 feet high and
had a clear span of 800 feet nearly fits
thousand feet of lumber having been
used in its construction.
Tho wind was blowing at the rate O..
40 miles per hour when the disaster oc-
CURED. 1t had been blowing more or
less throughout the afternoon and about
four o'clock one hundred and fifty feet
of the eastern wall Of the building. next
to the Providence Railroad, was blown
down. Several watchmen were in the
vicinity of the building and a train Of
cars was passing but no one was in
jured
The accident viii cause only tenn
pOrary delay in the building operations
\ large force Of men will be set al work
TO clear away the debris and an incrcas-
ed number of workmen will commence
at once to put the structure in shape
again. Nearly a dozen of the large
trusses are already finished and ready 70
be placed in position.
At a meeting of the executive con-
mittee of the Peace Jubilee and Inter
national Musical Festival. who Were IN
session at St. James Hotel at the tine
of the fall of the Coliseum, it was voted
that 1--WE will commence at once the It.
construction of the Coliseum, Of the
same dimensions as heretofore contem-
plated and that, to this end, there be
employed such number of workmen As
shall ensure the completion of the build
ing by the 10th of June, and that, in
view of the limited time for prosecuting
the work, the general form aud con-
struction of the Coliseum Of 1869 be
substantially adopted"
Voted that the executive committee
desire to express to the community their
confidence in the plans and skill of the
architect, engineers, contractors and as
slstants engaged in the erection Of the
late building Henry G. Barker, secre-
tary, Geo. HI. Davis, chairman.
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Intelligence of the death of Rev. Jo-
seph Steele reached his family at Middle
bury, on Friday He died about 5
o'clock on Thursday afternoon, while
sitting conversing in the family circle of
his brother-in-law, in which, with Mrs.
Steele, he has passed the winter. at Mo
bile, Alabama. 1t is supposed there was
disease of the heart. His age was sew
enty-one years. He graduated at Union
College fifty years ago, was pastor of
the Congregational church at Castleton
twenty-siX years, and has been for six
teen years a beloved and respected citi-
zen of Middlebury.
1t is an interesting fact and Tailed
with his life of usefulness, that the last
of brief series of Letters from Ala
bama," in the Vermont Chronicle.
reached the notice of his friends here.
at near the same hour with the dispatch
respecting his decease to his family. It's
spirit is his own, jUlicious and kind.
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Bellows Falls.

R. Elwell. of Drewsville, y. H..
has been drawing lumber in large GUAM
titles to this place, which will be used
for building purposes the coming season.
The milk carts now run into this
place. All are doing a good and lively
business.
The river still remains high, and
flood wood is coming down in large
quantities.
The receipts of the ladies sugar fas-
tival, on Tuesday evening, amounted to
over $50.
The machine shop, formerly occu-
pied by Osgood and Barker, isnOw being
moved Their headquarters are now III
the brick paper mill.
Two paper mills are to be erected
here the present season, there being al
ready three.
DIR. S. Nichols is building him an
Office near his house on School street.
Frank A. Bellies and c. F. Eddy
were ADMITTED to the Windham County
Bar last week. STAR.
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GARCIA THE GAMBLER-A ONCE Nh
LIoNAIRE DIES IN POVERTY. There has
just died in great wretchedness, at &c
neva, Senior Garcia, one who. in the an
mails of those who made haste to be rich
by gambling, held conspicuous place.
Garcia, the hero of several seasons at
Homburg and Baden, was a scion of
good Spanish family, and was born at
Saragossa in 1880 and had some little
fortune left him, which he Immediately
lost at the gambling table. He turned
up in France in 1853, about which time
he became possessed by inheritance, Of
a small property, realizing about 12,OOO
francs. This was the neuclus Of the
enormous fortune that he won at ecarts'
at 6dccdrGt and trente ct qlldrdnte. lie
possessed at one time e160,0 600 which he
won entirely at gaming. He left France
at the time of the Calzado affair, and
the difficulty with the Duke of Gra-
mont Carderousse. He lived afterwards
at Baden, where he lost all he had pos
sessed, and at Monaco, where he became
waiter in cafe. He has died in q
wretched lodging in Geneva. He shut
fled off this mortal coil, leaving ia his
pocket five francs, the lowest stake al
lowed at rouge ct n0ir.
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a Protest,

No person will be inclined to question
the temperance principles of the writer.
or the kindness and courtesy of the soci-
ETY. he represents, but he earnestly pro-
tests, as he has already protested to the
officers of the society, against the in
temperate zeal with which the Sabbath
evening meetings are continued for two
long hours in utter forgetfulness of or
indifference to the religious meetings
that are to be subsequently held in the
several churches, in either case wilfullv
ana ineXcusably abusing the privileges
granted by the religious societies in the
use OF their houses of worship for the
promotion of this good cause of temper
f. Mills.
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from the Springfield Republican,
"Reminiscences of Rev. Dr. George
Es. Ede. ID. h., by "a College Class
mate.

To tile Edjt01 Of the Republican
In the notice of Rev. Ide, given in
your issue of the 10Th, it is said-"Up
to this time (after his gradustion) he had
been a free thinker, but his conversion,
which Occu red soon after, changed the
whole course Of his life, and he
resolved to become minister" | read
this statement with surprise, as it di-
rectly conflicted with my recollection of
DIR. Ide during my early college days.
George B. Ide entered the freshman
class in Middlebury college, in the year
1927. | entered the same class. We,
therefore, were classmates, and from a
mutual wish we at once became ROOM
mates was a member of COngre-
gational chucrch, and | understood him
that he was member of Bi ptist church.
In accordance with the these professions
we had daily worship in our room. In
leading this worship we alternated.
This was our uniform custom while
rO0m-mates. In his general depOrt-
ment as well as IN these particular de-
vOtiOnal exercises, he appeared to be
sincere disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ
and firm believer in divine revelation.
No symptom of disbelief in, or dislOy-
atty to Christianity appeared in his con-
versatiOn or conduct. We wOrshipped
on the Lords day with the Congregation
al church, Rev. ThOs. Merrill, pastor,
and on returning to our room we com
pared our synOpses of the sermons. Mr..
Idle inserted the skeletons he had made
in his place book, and thus added to his
store of Theological knowledge, of which
he was fond. The sermons were usual
" valuable to this end, as Pastor Merrill
was learned and discriminating sermon
izer. Our ultimate design was the Cos
pei ministry Indeed DR.. Ide told me
that in accordance with usage of his
denomination, his particular church au-
thOrized him to exercise his gifts as a
preacher, wherever God, in His prOvi-
dence might open door. His famil-
larity with the Scriptures showed that
his parents had been faithful and judi
cious in his early training. Thus it is
easy to see why, on entering on his pas
torate, he needed not the seminary
course.
AS I went to another college toward
the close of this freshman year, | can
only add, of personal knowledge, the
following In the winter of our Junior
year Dr. Idle supplied the pulpit Of the
Baptist church in Cambridge, Vt, and
| taught a school in the same town.
That Dr. Ide hesitated, after graduating
between the bar and the ministry, as a
life work, is possible; for, although fit
ted, by gift and grace, to shine in the
pulpit, he must have been conscious of
rare qualifications for the profession of
law. D.
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Heavier the Cross.

Heavier the cross, the nearer Heaven;
No cross without no God within
Death, judgment from the heart are driven
Amid the worlds false glare and din,
Oh happy he with all his loss.
Whom God hath set beneath the cross.
Heavier the cross, the better Christian;
This is the tombstone God applies,
How many garden would be wasting,
Unwept by showers from weeping eyes! .
The gold by fire is purified;
The Christian is by trouble tried.
Heavier the cross, the stronger faith;
The loaded palm strikes deeper root;
The vine Juice sweetly issueth
When men have pressed the clustered
fruit;
And courage grows where dangers
come,
Like pearls beneath the salt sea foam.
Heavier the cross, the heartier prayer;
The bruised reeds most fragrant are,
If sky and wind were always fair,
The sailor would not watch the star;
And David's psalms had ne'or been
sung,
If grief his heart had never wrung.
Heavier the cross, the more aspiring:
From wales we climb to mountain crest :;
The pilgrim ofthe desert firing
Lyings for Canaan of his rest.
The dove has here no rest in sight,
And to the ark she wings her flight.
Heavier the cross, the easier dying,
Death is friendlier face to see;
To life's decay one bids defying,
From life's distress one then is free.
The cross sublimely lifts our faith
To Him who triumphed over death.
Thou cruoifiedl the cross l carry,
The longer may it dearer be;
And lest faint while here tarry,
Implant Thou such a heart in me
That faith, hope, love, may flourish
there,
Till for the cross my crown L wear.
From the German.
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News of the World.

A fine hay crop is anticipated this
year.
Chicago has now eighteen public ia
70 banks.
The new Erie direction propose to
run 30 hour train to Chicago.
Capital punishment was abolished in
Norway nearly 20 years SINCE.
There are 300 religious newspapers
in the United States
When the constitution was adopted
there were IS post offices in the Union ;
now 80, $50.
There are said to be !, 800 900 people
in Germany who speak the English Ian
guage.
A story in title-"Quick as Light
ming. or the Chemists Journey; tale
of nitro-glYcerine."
Somebody estimates that ., 900 per-
sons are annually burned to death by the
murderous compounds used for illuminat-
ing purposes.
The longest bridge in the world is
the Texas and Mobile bridge at Mobile
1t is fifteen miles long, crossing both riv-
ers, where there are draws.
"A contemporary suggests that the
tailors should get up "Simon Tappertit :"
suits fog the gentlemen, to match the
Dolly Vardens" of the ladies.
The income tax was introduced in
England as temporary measure, by Sir
Robert Peel, about thirty years ago. He
estimated that at the rate of a penny in
the pound sterling, it would yield So
100000. Last year penny in the pound
yielded S7,900,000, showing that the
wealth of the country must have more
than doubled since the tax was first in
troduced.
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Republican Primary Meeting.

The Union Republican voters of the
town of Rutland assembled in primary
meeting at the Town Hall, on Saturday
evening, and organized by the choice Of
Henry Clark as chairman, and Chauncy
X. Williams as Secretary.
On motion of Walter c. Dunton, the
chairman appointed committee of nine
to nominate delegates to represent the
Town of Rutland in the State Conven.
ton, to elect delegates from Vermont 70
the Republican National Convention at
Philadelphia, as follows:
Walter G. Dunton,
George A. Merrill,
Lorenzo Sheldon,
Percy W. Clement,
Henry Hayward.
Charles II. Sheldon,
Albert H. futile,
James NJ. Putnam,
Erasmus A. Pond.
On motion of Wheelock G. Neazey
the delegates to the State Convention
from Rutland, were instructed to Oppose
the election of any Federal office holder
as delegate from Vermont to the Nation
al Convention at Philadelphia.
Walter c. Dunton, from the commit
tee, reported, and the meeting elected
the following named gentlemen as dele
gates to the State Convention;
George A. Merrill,
Wheelock @. Neazey,
Henry Clark,
Lorenzo Sheldon,
And as alternate delegates:
Henry Hayward,
Charles III. Sheldon,
Albert II. futile,
Percy w. Clement.
The meeting then, on motion, ad-
iourned.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-02

While the North Carolina case was
under discussion Senator Edmunds in
speaking upon an incidental question
said, he had no doubt the legislature of
North Carolina in assuming to elect
Vance had attempted to insult the
people of the United States, and he
would be glad to resent the insult if he
could do so according to law, but he did
not see how it could be done.
Mr. Poland has introduced bill
into the House to pay Danforth Mott of
Alburgh, the sum of 80, 7079 %. allowed
him by the Conrt of Claims for defend
ing himself in a suit brought against
him for acts committed while he was an
officer of the United States.
The Washington correspondent of
Troy Times speaks of Willard and Po-
land of Vermont as 1.-TWO of the bull
warks of reform"
While the Deficiency bill was under
discussion this week, in the Senate, Mr..
Morton predicted that if the Democratic
party should come into power the con-
stitutional amendments would be ignored
Mr.. Edmunds took the same view and
spoke of the Cincinnati Convention as
designed to be the nucleus of party of
which it should be the same as the dem
ocratic party in everything but in name
Senator Thurman, of Ohio, replied ac-
cusing Morton and Edmunds of making
speeches to alarm timid people Mr.
Edmunds replied saying that telling the
truth was neither a cause nor a sign of
alarm, and as to attacking the Cincin-
natl movement in the absence of its
friends he felt justified in addressing
himself on that subject directly to the
leading representative of the Democrats
in the Senate Thurman because he and
everybody else knew that the bottom of
that movement rested not upon those
Senators alluded to as its champions, but
upon the Democratic side of the Cham
Der.
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pox in Bethlehem, where he was engag-
ed in keeping hotel, and supposing
him to be dead the authorities, with the
haste of fear from possible contagion,
hurried his burial, as is no more than
the usual custom in cases of death from
this disease. A few weeks ago, his par.
ents, who reside in the county south OF
Bethlehem. desiring to have their sons
remains buried nearer their home, disln-
tered the body, whereupon it was dis
covered that in the agonies Of resusclta-
ton after burial, the footboard of the
coffin had been kicked out. and the man
was turned over on his face.
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GOOD lEMPLARs.- AT regular meet
ing OF Rutland Lodge, No. rs, l. O. of
y. l. held on Wednesday evening. the
loiiowing officers were duly elected for
the ensuing quarter:
b. W. Marshall, c. t.
Miss Matte Weeks, V. t.
David Boynton, Jr., Secretary.
=. Parmenter, Treasurer.
Miss Susan Southwick, f. S.
Rey. Edward Mills, Chaplain.
G. |. Cady, Marshal
Miss Jane NJ. Clapp, Guard.
Joel c. Baker, Seminal
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-02

LINCOLN's DREAM The President re-
marked that the news would come soon
and come favOrably, he had no doubt,
for he had last night his usual dream
which had proceeded nearly every i'm
portant event of the war | inquired
the particulars of this remarkable dream.
He said it was in my department-it re-
lated to the water; that he seemed to be
in a singular and indescribablev vessel, but
always the same, and that he was NOV
ing with great rapidity toward a dark
and indefinite shore; that he had had
this singular dream preceding the firing
on Sumter, the battles of Bull Run,
Antietam, Gettysburgh, Stone River,
Vicksburg, Wilmington, ETC. General
Grant remarked with some emphasis
and asperity, that Stone River was no
victOry-that few such victories would
have ruined the country, and he knew
of no important results from it. The
President said that perhaps he should
not altogether agree with him, but
whatever might be the facts, his singu-
lar dream preceded that fight. Victory
did not always follow his dream, but the
event and results were important. He
had no doubt that aEbattle had taken
place or was about being fought, land
Johnston will be beaten, for / had this
strange dream again last night. 1t must
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relate to Sherman; my thoughts are in
that direction, and | know of no other
very important event which is likely
Just now to occur.
Great events did indeed follow.
Within few hours the good and gentle
as well as truly great man who narrated
his dream was assassinated, and the
murder which closed forever his earthly
career affected for years, and perhaps
forever. the welfare of his country
Lincoln and Johnson" By Gideon
WeLLes. IN ApriL GALAXY.
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son.

M. c. Rice and John Balls are the
delegates to the State convention
The question of the location of the
new town hall has been finally settledhy
purchasing a lot off from the south end
Of the Congregational parsonage lot, 40
by $50 feet, giving therefor $50 andthe
interest the town has in the basement
room of the Congregational church.
The steamer W. II. Eddy is making
her daily trips from Whitehall 10 Or
well. X.
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THE PRESIDENT AND HIS SLANDEEERs. -
Perley the Washington correspondent Of
the Boston Journal sends to that paper
the following in reference to the Presi-
den and his traducers:
The crafty leaders of the opposition
to the reelection Of General Grant have
not thus far met with much encourage
ment. Their newspapers, aided by the
correspondents here of some other iourn-
ais which have prOfessedlY sustained the
Administration. have assailed him with
the rudest violence of denunciaton.
and have coined the vilest ISLANDERS con
corning his private life. Congress has
in organization a dozen investigating
committees at cost to the public of
half a million Of dollars, to cast ont drag
nets on all sides in the hope Of finding
somewhere something that will reflect
discredit on the Administration. The
disCOntented, the disappointed and the
dissatisfied have been stimulated to or
raniZe mass meeting at Cincinnati, in
opposition to the regularly organized
Republican convention which is to meet
at Philadelphia. But all these opera
tiOns have produced no visible effects in
injuring the soldier statesmen, honorcd
by every patriot as his country's pride
and beast, and as last resort new
methods Of opposition have been con-
cOcted. One these is a series of half a
dozen speeches to be delivered by as
many we'll known Senators and Repre-
spntatives. who have heretofore been
Republicans and the other is an adrOit
attempt to detaCh the soldiers from the
the party which stood by them while
they were at the front The three gen
erals who have been selected to organize
the desertion have not of late been
known to take very deep interest in
the welfare Of the Republican party.
about which they are now so SOLICITORS
and which they desire to preserve from
disintegratiOn.
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Hawthorne wrote: mo man can.
for any considerable period, wear one
face to himself and another to the null
titude without finally getting bewildercd
as to which may be true"
Charles Nordhoff says: eff you have
been on street car when it ran off the
track and was dragged over the cobbles
you way easily know the sensation of
a California earthquake
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-02

NATURAL CURIosITIEs. We have no
desire to fill with envy the bosom of any
maiden of uncertain age, but fidelity to
science of zoology requires us to state
that Hiram Perkins, ESQ.,, of Walden,
Vt, has most astonishing cat, of a
glossy black and blue color, with fur
from three to six inches long, with a
boa-like name, six inches long, around
its neck. and with tail like unto the
tail of foxi Vermont is clearly look
inc up in the natural historical line, for
at Putney, in Windham county, ont
from the center of log nearly eighteen
inches in diameter, leaped, when the
wood was split, frog which may have
been imprisoned nearly half a century.
~. \. Tribune.
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Letter From $. B. June.

BRANDON, April 26.
Edjtor RutLo1ad Herald In your
Daily HERALD of the 25th inst, under
Judge June's letter, l saw a prouuacjo-
me1lt0 of four "secedcrs" or retrOgrcssi-
onists from the call of the Cincinnati
Convention.
Of the chairman of this Quadripartite
l will only say, that I did not know that
he had signed the call until l saw it in
THE HERALD, those acquainted with
him know very we'll the "circle in which
he swings"
The three remaining jnditcidooaLs who
faunt out as a tail to this kite obtain
ed their signatures to the call which was
in the following words:
A call for State Convention to elect
delegates to the Cincinnati Convention,
in opposition to Grant.
made it short and supposed definite
so that "a wayfaring man. though a
fool, need not err, but see was mis-
taken.
Mr. Editor, | am the last man to deny
the ''inalienable right" Of these four
inditcid00dIs to make fools Of themselves
in trying to fool others, but the idea. of
publishing their folly in the papers, be
cause they could do it without costing
them anything, is, l think, entirely
original 5. 3. June.
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letter from Ex-Governor Fletcher

Just at this time we take the liberty to
publish the following private letter from
Ex-Governor Ryland Fletcher. Although
not intended for publication, the opin-
ions of men like GOV. Fletcher should be
known in this time of detection from
the Republican party:
PRocToRsvILIE, April p, 1871.
Hon. HENRY CLARK, Dear Sir: | have
recently noticed my name in THE Her
AID in connection with the Cincinnati
convention. If the writer thinks | am
in sympathy with that convention. he
has misjudged my position entirely. To
mingle with the elements that will prob
ably be there, would be an assimilation
that l could not endure. | have been
open. frank and decided in my prefer
ence for Grant. in view of the condition
Of the country. and of the parties |
think | have never been accused of at
tempting to ride two horses at once.
when they were headed in different di-
rectiOns. Sincerely yours,
r. FIFTCUFR
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Rutland Graded School District.

The following is the organization of
the Board of School Trustees for the
currant year:
PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
AND SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
Rev. W. J. Harris.
CLERK OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Albert H. futile.
TRUSTEES.
J. NJ Haven,
W. G. Dunton,
Henry Clark,
g. G. Ruggles,
w. Y. W. Ripley,
J. n. Baxter,
D. E. Grandey.
sUB-CoMMIrTEEs.
T n yR olaFE' } com foT
J. NJ. Haven, } Hiring Teachers.
J. NJ. Haven,
D. E. Grandey, Com. on Discipline.
G. c. Ruggles, J
J. n. Baxter, Committee on Music.
j. NJ. Haven, } Com. on Appor'nm't
A. H. futile, } of Scholars.
w n D,a4on } Com. Supply Books
w. " Du"'0i'' to INDECENT Scholars
W. J. Harris, Committee
Henry Clark, on
W. y. W. Ripley,) Examinations.
COMMITTEES TO TAKE CHARGE OF SCHOOL
BUILDINGS.
j. NJ. Haven, High School and Inter
mediate.
w. Y. W. Ripley, West Street.
w. c. Dunton, Green Street and Turn
pike.
d. E. Grandpv. School Street.