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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-23
POulfney.

in the last issue of the Rutland m
depeaadent | see that eye local. lis now
without school edifce." / hope 1t VIII
not be inferred that the district IS WITH
out a school. The lower story OF the
Masonic temple, formerly known as the
.sstone church." is now being used Tor
that purpose, and will be until the as
trict bnild new school-house. The OLD
school-house has been sold to J. Z. Der
by, who is pulling it down and will have
ND fine building in the place OF it IN
few weeks.
-Derby's and Mosely & Stoddard's
buildings, when completed, will be two
valuable additions to our village.
Highway Surveyor Broughton goes
out of office the 18th, and is closing up
his official year by making slate walks
in our streets Mr.. Broughton has held
that office three years, and has left his
mark in the way of improvements in a
good many of our streets and highways
Henry LOOMS, of Burlington, who,
I am told, is a prominent business man
| in that place, is about to open slate
! quarry about two miles from POultney,
! on the Hampton side of the State line.
| The quarry is on the Bcaman farm, now
owned by Eli Ray. Mr., Ray and MT.
| LOOMS have a contract, and MIR. Looms
is to commence work soon. The Slate
prospects are every day Frightening.
Norman Thompson, native and
former resident of Poultney, is now at
Bpaman's Hotel. Mr.. Thompson re-
sides in Illinois, and has for several sea
sons spent the summer here.
Preparations are being made at Bea-
mans and the Poultney House for the
summer business.
Hard times are felt in POultney as
elsewhere, yet there is an activity here
never yet more apparent than this spring
The sound of the saw and hammer il
heard all about us; we are growing
not rapidly, but securely; it is a healthy
growth.
--JOslin's store never looked as gay a.
this season. He has the largest anC
choicest assortment of spring and sum
mer goods we have seen, and is evident
ly doing a large business.
Our other merchants, too, are alive
We are not aware that any of them have
the Greeley hats yet. OBSERVER.
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,Ehe One Term for Governor.

Editor of Herald Il am glad to see
that the columns of THE HERALD are
omen to communications in favor OF the
one term theory for Governor. THINK
T can assure you that the people IN TINS
section of the State are very generally
in favor of the one term OF two years.
T hone this matter will be pressed home
to the people so that we may nave al
omen and honest expression of the pub
lie voice on this subject at our State
convention in June. Gov. Stewart is all
well enough, but is there anything about
him which entities him to hold the office
of Governor four years when all his pre-
decessors for thirty years past have helo
it but two years Gov. Paine, VIII
liams. Fletcher, Smith, Dillingham; and
others held the office for only two years,
and were content. Gov. Stewart will
hold the office at the expiration of his
present term as long as they did, and
surely he and his friends should be con-
tent. The office is mainly, almost en-
tircly, an honorary office, he can per
form the duties the two years after the
first two, no better than he has the last
two. It's an office that don't require
experience. Several of the States can
elect their Governor only once, a second
election being rendered impossible by
provision in their State constitution. 1t
is no worse for Gov. Stewart to receive
but one election than it is for the Gov,
ernor of Illinois The honor lies in re-
cciving one election at the hands of the
people for the full term of two years,
not in scheming for a second election
while in office, and receiving it as the
result of such scheming and wire pull
ling hope you will continue to adj
vocate the one term Of two years. 1t is
as much honor as Gov S. ought to ask
of the people, and as much as they viii
willingly confer.
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corrg suAFrsRrRy-This little vii

SoUTH SHAFTsBURY.-This little VII
lage, nestled among the hills on the west
of the Green Mountains, contains pop
ulation of five hundred. The principal
staple of the place is iron. George w.
SWEET moulds daily nineteen tons of pig
iron, and uses 1000 or more bushels OF
charcoal in his furnace per day.
SALISBURY is reached by rail from
Troy in one hour. There are here
pleasant drives, good trout streams, gen.
ial people and a newly erected church,
Rev. Mr.. Clements being pastor, and
for the past few weeks has been assited
by Rev. Mr.. Baker of West Troy, who
has inspired deep religious feeling in
this whole community. Excited by his
exortations, the whole congregation
went to the altar day or two since.
Such presence of religious interest was
never before seen in church or elsewhere
in this neighborhood.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-23
PERSONAL.

Hon. Henry Smith, Speaker of the
New York Assembly, received silver
service from his friends just before the
final adjournment.
"A writer, describing the personnel
of the Methodisr Conference, says:
Rev. DR.. Curry, known personally to
many of our readers, lis verb of the
active kind He is tall and wiry, slight
ly bent, has full white hair, rather
ford, square, shaped face, ringing
voice and incisiye manners.
Fred Graves, son of Luther r. Graves,
of Bennington, who has been at Jack
sonville, Fla. during the winter for his
health, returned home on Monday last
very much improved.
A. T. Worden, of Utica, will deliy-
er the Decoration Day address at Pros
pect, n. Y.
Miss Harriet ColfaX, sister of the
President, is light keeper, at
Michigan City, Indiana, at salary of
$500 per year. So says the Washington
Herald.
Hon. Edmund Kingsland ID, of
Keesevillc, n. Y, has high reputation
at Albany, as a fearless and honest leg
islator. He does his duty to the people
and the State.
The following epitaph will be put
on Mazzini's tomb -" Tribute of hon.
age to Giuseppe Mazzini. His body to
| Genoa, his mis- name to the centuries,
| his soul to humanity"
Chief Justice Chase wears a gold
dollar as a charm. He put it on when
he issued the first greenback, intending
to keep it there till the greenback was
as good as the gold dollar.
We notice that our friend Frank n.
Miller, formerly editor of the Ctronjcle,
is the most probable successor of the late
Horton Walker as Mayor of Ports
mouth.
Hon. Henry R. Pierson, the tenn
porary President of the New York Re
publican Convention, was formerly a
teacher in Troy Conference Academy at
Poultney.
Rev. Erastus Wentworth, d. D.,
is thus described by a newspaper cores
pondent from the General Conference.
He says: "There is DR.. Wentworth,
the genial, large-souled, impractical
philosopher Like Socrates he needs
friends to look after his temporal needs,
while he revels on Olympus and feasts
with the gods. And there is nothing of
worth in the feast of reason and flow OF
soul, but he has tasted and judges after
the style of a broad thinker. This mar
has excellent gifts and rare attainments
but when the waters of place and power
are troubled where is his good angel tC
put him in and bring him out as he de
serves ?"
Col. Oscar Coles, of Aiken, Soutl
Carolina, is making his fifty-ninth visi
to Saratoga Springs.
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An Honest Confession.

General Stanley Mathews, of Cincin-
natl, in the course of his speech on as
Stunning his duty as temporary chairman
of the late so called Liberal Republican
Convention held in that city, made the
following statement: "And so, gentle
men, is every department of the Govern
ment. The slow poison of corruption,
only not sufficiently slow, seems to have
pervaded the whole civil and political
administration of the country, from the
head to the foot" (Applause.) A per-
sonal friend of General Mathews, con-
nected with one of the departments in
Washington, after reading his speech,
wrote letter to the General calling his
attention to the above statement, and
expressing the hope that when he should
come to look calmly at the statement,
he would regret he ever made it. This
brought from General Mathews the fol
lowing answer, which is now made pub
lie with his permission:
CINCINNATI, Mayo, 1872.
Nh dear Sir: Nothing connected
with the recent disgraced and disgrace
full convention at this place has given
me so much pain as your note calling
nv attention to a statement taken from
a speech of mine, pointed with the in
depreciation you evidently put upon it.
Allow me in the first place to say that ]
was put forward as temporary chairman
of that convention without an hOnr's no.
tice, and that consequently what | said
was totally unprecedented; and in the
next place, that the extract you make,
and which, if [ had intended to be taken
in its literal sense, would be justly a
matter of regret that it had been uttered,
does not represent the truth of my SEN
timents. On the contrary, | have no
reason to believe, and never have be-
lieved, that personally the present Adj
ministration we're guilty of corrupt con-
duct or motives, and ought to have eX-
pressed myself so as to have avoided any
such charge. What | was striving to
say had reference to the general corruption
of our public political life pervading it
in every department, whereby personal
and party ends seemed to be substituted
for the public good, and the latest and
best illustration of which, | am free to
say, is now to be found in the action OF
the very Convention in the presence of
which this declaration was made. | am
greatly chagrined at the whole matter,
my own participation in it included;
and have concluded, perhaps not suffici-
emily soon, that as apolitician and Presi-
dent maker / am not success. great
Iy regret that have given cause of of
Tense to you, and to many other person
al friends, whose integrity / may have
seemed to have questioned, but which ]
can assure you was the furthest from
my thoughts. [ hope you will be ablC
to regard it as though it had never been
said.
Very respectfully your friend,
STANLEY MATTHEW'S.
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North Bennington.

AT about II o'clock p. M, on Wed
nesday, barn belonging to the Vermont
Mills was discovered to be on fire. 1t
was nearly consumed before the flames
could be subdued. The contents, consist
ing of one ton of hay, afew bushels of
oats, and sleigh valued at one hundred
dollars, belonging to j. L. Lyman. were
destroyed. Cause of fire unknown
supposed to be from the pipe of some
straggler who had sought shelter in the
barn
BOSS variety show, which exhibited
here Thursday, was well patronized.
over 1000 persons attending in the even
ing. The show was fair and attracted
considerable attention here, from the
1act OF its originating and starting from
this place. n
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GREELEY The New York Freeman 5
Journal Catholic says; Positively
the sore headed radicals have done the
very thing that in the bitterest ridicule,
we expressed the hope they would do.
They have nominated Horace Greeley
for President The journal believes
Mr.. Greeley viii not stay in the field as
a candidate, and that if he were elected
his life would not last over six months.
If he could be gotten to hold on as a
candidate, it says, there is no doubt he
would very seriously weaken the Grant
party, and so aid the election of Dem
ocratic President The Journal is con-
fident that the Democratic convention
will utter a voice that men who care
for their country can hear and follow.
Minds of moderate calibre are too apt
to ignore everything that does not come
within their own range.
If men would but hate themselves as
much as they hate their neighbors it
would lie goods step towards loving
their Deighbors as themselves. M.
Laurin.
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III. III. Waldo were chosen a commlttee
to attend to the securing OF the neces-
sary funds for carrying out order OF ex,
ercfses for the day. The Hlbernlan Alo
Society, and Chapman Lodge OF +. q
A. NJ, and the teachers and scholars OF
the graded schools, were invited to be
present and participate in the exercises.
The Post adjourned to next Monday
evening at 7:3O o'clock to make further
preparations, of which we will keep you
duly 'posted." +.
Nav 18th. 1872
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Drifting.
BY THOMAS BucuASAN READ.

NV soul to-day is far away
Sailing the yesuvian bay;
NV winged boat, like a bird afloat,
Swims round the purple peaks remote:
Round purple peaks it sails. and seeks
Blue infets and their crystal creeks,
Where high rocks throw, through deeps
4 duplicated golden glow.
Far, vague and dim the mountains swim;
While on Vesuvius' misty brim,
With outstretched hands, the gray smoke
stands
O'erlooking the volcanic lands.
Here Ischia smiles DER liquid miles;
and Wonder bluest of the isles,
Calm Capri waits, her sapphire gates
Beguiling to her bright estate.
1 heed not if my ripping skiff
Float slow or swift from cliff to cliff;
With dreamful eyes my spirit lies
Under the walls of Paradise.
Under the walls where swells and falls
The bays deep breast at intervals
At peace l lie, blown softly by,
y cloud upon this liquid sky.
The day, so mild, is Heavens own child,
With earth and ocean recOnciled :
The airs l feel around me steal
And murmuring to the murmur1ng keel
over the rail my hand trail
Within the shadow of the sail.
\ Joy intense the cooling sense
Glides down my drOWsy indolece.
Her children, hid the cliffs amid,
Are gambOling with the gamDOling kid;
Or down the walls, with upSy calls,
Laugh ON the rocks like Waterfalls.
The fishers child with tre8ses wild,
! Unto the smooth, bright sand beguilCd,
| With glowing lips sings as she skips,
| Or gaZcs at the far-Otf ships.
| Yon deep bark goes where traffic blows,
| From lands of sun to lands of snOWs;-
! This happier one its course is run
! From lands of SsOw to lands of sun.
! Q happy ship to raise and dip
/ With the blue crystal at your lip!
! o happy crew, my heart with YOU
/ sails, and sails, and sings anew!
No more, no more the worldly shore
/ Upbraids me with its loud uprOHr!
| With drCamtul eyes my spirit lies
! Under the walls OF Paradise!
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HEiddIetoyVn.

We have one man here who hurrahs
for Greeley The campaign may
bring out others, but not many. The
party can readily be organized, as it can
be called together without the expense
of posters or publication of notice and
our friend is of sufficient capacity to
discharge the duties of president secre-
tary, etc; and by the time delegates for
conventions are wanted, the half a
dozen, more or less, passive democrats
among US may be informed that the best
way they can serve their country (more
particularly the democrats) will be to
join the Greeley party. In that event
the quota of delegates from the town
may, upon a pinch, be obtained.
Our little village is now all astir in
its preparations for the summer business.
Mr. Richards, of the Montvert Hotel
has been here about a week, and, with a
large force of help, is preparing his
house and grounds for the reception OF
visitors. Many have engaged rooms,
and are expected soon after the first of
June. Sixty trees have been set out on
the grounds varying from six to ter
inches through in fact, the amount OF
labor done under the skillful direction
Of landscape gardener has made tn,
grounds beautiful and attractive
ETHAN
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ADvERTIsE.-It does pay to advertise.
There is some benefit derived from adj
vertising in THE HERALD. Witness one
notable instance of many. Chester
Kingsley advertised few days since IN
THE HERALD for a horse, and has al
ready had t0enty propositions from as
many different persons-one Of whom
resided a distance of over ninety miles
from R1tland
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w aiIinGf0Sd.


Death has been among us again aHi
taken from our midst thEen 81 our aged
and valuable citizens: within about
fortnight. ne past lew non}hS seem
TO nave nreh SIh21iarIy fa}aI l." the "'u
lnohumtm'S 81 II i"flheT generation 'L''
nave "o..iFr 20, aii"iied 'lhF"e-Scofr years
ana Ten. me HLSt on tl"Se was SaIa1rI
lo"hN'nd' WIZ" dl'I AnTiI 291l' aItrT
lingering ana paI4fuI Illness or ABOUT
seven years aged S.HVrn'X-Jiye. Mr.
L"WnNeh4 was a naive OF iarehuoh,
lie moved lhPh'' 10 w ailiH3i"Fu III 'Ilr
age OF zen years ana tlt REMAINDER OF
ms IlIe was spent III l,'iS town. ne was
engaged IN business mere Tor longer
tlme Ihah an "'hcf prIS24 III lnG ms
tory OF me l""n' l1. nartI'daIe mas
been IN business me next ion@'S,:) he
was engaged III IT., business an tir "''' III
the same puIil,lhg' I'!' "nj o"aN"''o
store that was burned ID i0o9' Tor tortE-
seven years. IL Is very rarc'E that
man mas lhoSe soma ana rGSoillc tfaitS
or character mat ehaoI'S MN I" 60
ten year oId BOY TO sucH a S'na'l NLtaG,"
as "aillhSloru was IN 1874; ana work
ms way onward ana upward as NE QId.
AS business man ne was cHrr'c' and as
CltlZeh ne was FespeciV4 by an Az
0Iher was Lenah C"W'PI-' VINO oiaI'
May l4th, at the advanced are OF 81.
d iS C.1 Nv Ho Tas o ~ oa,
t,,+;", o,,d Lo, ,,.,l..,,.4 ,,.;I, 1.l,I,
almost Tninlrair.L tla s4nr,,,s 81 o;,-j'4,,
l,,0T; C,''. C 80 49,, MS o. ,.'
U, nI,o LI., ,I j., Ky s y, MS ''l . ~, ne
tho d.,, and o7.o ms NM ai H. ;,t
o,r,ori. in thn cvnnin~ -'' sI,"rt INV INV.
.ftor he rptir4d for tha nirht his Wiz.
l.,~3 him nlaEin~ q stranTa no. no ..s and
anon gaing to his room. found him uqsD.
jnc for breath. and he Iiycj hnt few
Yinntps. How true il is tLat sin fine
midst Of life we are In death" Bnt
death SURPRISED him not Tie hal been.
for many wears. like a shook Of corn
fully :iHr. f'avaiting the summons TO de-
part md BE- with Christ. in his heavenly
h"rl". For forty years he was a mem
~" Of tn" Baptist church. Consistent
L. e. 81 l,.,.-
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Selections

He that is not open to conviction is
not qualified for discussion.-[Whately
Censure is the tax man pays to the
public for being emnent.-[ DeanSwift
There never was a great man except
through divine inspiration. : Cicero.
Providence, it has not been inaptly
said, provides for the proyident.
Men do less than they ought, unless
they do all they can.-[Carlisle.
A noble heart, like the sun, shows its
greatest countenance in its lowest estate.
We know God easily, provided we do
not constrain ourselves to define him
TJoubert.
The secret pleasure of a generous act
is the great minds great bribe.-Dryden.
Great powers and natural gifts do not
bring privileges to their possessors so
much as they bring duties.
The human soul like the water Of the
salt sea, becomes fresh and sweet in ris-
ing to the sky.
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FEiHor Items.

Ladies' now stalk the streets with
parasols that have handles four feet
long, apparently made for climbing pur-
poses.
An inhabitant of the Sixth Ward IS
so tender hearted lie can't bear 20 dis
charge a gun.
The newest style of walking cane
has a small pistol concealed in the top,
When a couple of young people,
strongly devoted to each other, COM
mence to eat onions it is safe to consider
them engaged.
Cupid will soon close out large
number of transactions in his tender line
in this village-that is he will bring
many of his victims to the stake
-Howes London Circus and Sanger's
British Menagerie combined-an enter
tainment on an unusually extensive scale
will soon visit Rutland.
A gentleman who has mule says
there is no instrument in the world that
combines so many rare cords as a mules
hind lee.
A gentleman about town remarks
that when he is buried he shall not be
particular about the hearse and its
plumes, but he would like to have some
body in the procession carry his life in
surance policy on pole that people may
see what rich widow he has lett.
The first silver Of the season. a
handsome bcmlock. was taken from the
foot of a Spring street boy Saturday
afternoon
,,...u,,,a... ,,..,.. indicate. flo, +ha
C,,:-.,I,I,, ,,.;I1 10 aa,,,,,lata5 two ,vaal,s
-',',l'' UNI " I - ~ ('''' ~',''
''' ''', .,.. 49,.
- ~ 40 yam, ,,,,.' r ~ , ao-a sGo,lI Le nsn6
~. ~ ~ };.t,,:,, ,r,a aa,.tl, o1,o,,t fine roots
l'' ~ =, l,1',-...,. ,,-... -
-, NV, NV - VI. lo;'l--,,''-, - C1;
f has race,,tiT, arrived in tIfs State
,,.;tI, ii. ,.if. bs,in,r six months, leave
of absnnca His address for the nrcsent
will Inc Rrandon. VI.
A naner costume recrption will soon
10 . sociaI s.rso4ior in Rutland
cT-,.--,...-- w -. 49,.
oo o,ioct;ons "a ATTENDING church pro-
vided tbov are allowed to indulre in =
a,,;o+ s,,,a1-o d,,ri,,, tbo so,,,,,
I''N' ,...-...... ..,
a man viz " 40 Wv, wi g. So go 90
mos since accidentally stenDed from fbe
nIatforn ON which he stood and fell
some distance "a the ground. huf striking
ON his feet continued undisconcerted
/ ..to come down IN fine level of my audi-
ence
There was . frost throughout New
Uannsbire an Wednesday nirbt.
7, ol,,soo,,o,,co IF tho b;rb ,,rica If
tobacco Ioet wear the farmers of the
Connecticut valley are nrel,arinr TO raise
,,,ors tris vaar thar, ever
r.-.....-.....- 80
ii''y rs Se'''r' 80, - -, Mi
70 food rrofn to tbeir stool, instead
p.of W. cha hol,oonis+ ,ror,s,s
To make q trim across the Atlantic in a
balloon. ascending from Boston Com
mon Jrlv 4tb
A milk train has been put on the
Rensselaer, s Saratoga railroad. starting
from Smiths Basin and making conncc-
tions with the Hudson River Railroad to
New York.
As some criticisms have been made
upon the manner in which the wife of
the murdered man Raw Of PittstoYn.
received the matter, the Troy papers de-
NY the sensational statements that nave
been made and say Mrs. Rays maiden
name was Smart. Her family resided
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\ PECULIAR MINISTERIAL CHARGE
At the installation Of Rev. Mr.. Sexton.
as pastor of the Westminster Presbyte-
rian church, at Troy, n Y, Rev. Mr..
Remick delivered the charge in the fol-
lowing magic words:
"You are aware that our field are adj
jacent. But | wish to say that have
built no fences and keep no dogs. Those
who are disposed to work for Jesus are
welcomed to any part of the field. We
need all available aid from any quarter
in our campaign against the devil, and
against intemperance and RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Between your church and mine there
are one hundred dram shops; between
your church and mine there are five
hundred persons who attend no church.
As | said before, have no fences, and
if have dog. he won't bite. In the
name of the Presbytery of Troy, [
charge you to be faithful in your new
relation as pastor to this flock.
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ADJOURNMENT OF CoNGREss.-It is
pretty certain now that Congress will
adjourn before the Philadelphia conven-
ton.
Gen. Butler tried, yesterday, to get
the House to vote to take a recess from
June 3 till the last Thursday in Novem-
Der, his object being to keep in the force
ku klux act till that time. The House
refused to do this, but on motion of Mr..
Dawes voted to adjourn sine die on June
3.
AS the Senate has already passed a
resolution to adjourn May 20, and is
known to be still in favor of an early
date, it will doubtless speedily pass the
House resolution, and June thus be fix
ed as the day of adjournment.
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A POLAR PASSAGE. most i'm
portant clue to the existence of Polar
passage, yet discovered, is the fact of
the crew of the Polaris having seen, fol-
lowed, and kill whale having in one of
its fins harpoon similar to those used
in the South Pacific; and this happened
in region where, as Captain Hall says,
''the sail of an American or European
vessel had never been given to the wind
before