Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-01-18
THE RUTLAND HERALD.
THURSDAY, JANUARY IS, 1879
Review of the Week.

Col. Fisk was buried at Brattleboro
on Tuesday last. A large lumber OF
friends from New York were present.
Col Fisk left most of his large proper
ty to his wife, after providing literally
for his parents support, and for that OF
some other relatives. He was thirty
seven years of age. His importance
proceeded from the circumstance that
his money gave him position, and that
possession of that position COVE him
power to move the moneyed world. OF
his power he often made most extraor-
binary use, dealing in startling surpris-
es," and making the world stare; but
we believe that it was his manner OF OPP
Grating, and not his operations, that dls-
tinguished him from most other great
capitalists. Men who long have possessed
propertv. or to whom it has come slowly
know better how to employ it than it is
employed by fashy upstairs, whose en-
ergies may be great, but whose intellect
may a5be small, and whose tastes
are vicious aud utterly depraYed.
MIR. Stokes takes his imprisonment
with great equanimity. He has a good
appetite and bears himslf with confid-
e1Ngs that springs from a belief that he
will be acquitted of the crime with
which he is charged. -Philadelp hia is
fireplace and June 9Th the time appoint
ed for holding of the Republican Ma
tional Convention proposition has
been made fsom a number of foreign
b5nkers among them being the Roth
childs, to take 5000, 100000 of our five
per ceE&s, and 5000, 900, 900 of our four
and-a-half per cents; but they require
that the interest on the four-and-a-half
per cents shall be paid in Europe. We
give these statements merely as reports
-VicSries OF the government forces in
Mexico are mentioned. Mormon
criminal cases have been continued to
,9he Gtho Of March, - and then,
we sdSpose, othey will be discon-
tinued. -8otts, who killed 'Pet"
hal&ad, in New Jersey, because
the 'rFet" had an intrigue with woman
ctAed Wilson, will be exeSuted on Fri
day, January Goth. 1t has come to light
that Mrs. Wilson is Bolts wife. Had
the factbeen knsfEn at the time Of the
trial, ii might have had some weight
with ttGiQry, and &erhaps have saved
the murderer fronDwearing Ga hempen
crasSt, a7Sort of necktie that is tight
fitE;J4Ir, Bergh has put stop to pigeon
shooting in New York, that is to pigeon
shooting matches but the right thus
toGloot pigeons is to be settled by a
friendly law suit. What possible pleas
ure can q rational being derive from
killing pigeons 2-Californias storms are
ssot over yet. Thousands of cattle have
persisted in tee floods in the val
leys Oof the Sacremento.-Mr. Fisk,
Gtather of the late Col Fisk, has gone
crazy. GASmall-pox is raging in the Ital-
ian cities, including those of Sicily. 1t
D. very severe in some parts of England.
Isle number Of deaths from it in Lon
doh1in 1871, was thirteen times as great
as tHG)average annual number for long
LEeceeding term, that is for thirty-one
, years.-American cars are to be immedi-
aT]y Ontroduced on. English railways.
9Tho English are ~o'Americaaizing all
tReir things, so that in TING they must
Become a great people,-provided al
ways that they s6ould get rid of Glad
astoRs3 Old Nap, Yho is almost GA,
giGS8 old Theirs, who q alneost rs, till
the 1st of July to get tripped up by
young0Gambetta He says the change
would9se better for the imperial cause.
Psssibly,-and the wish is father to the
thought with him. He desires that
Gambetta shd2ld get the better Of
Theirs. b52aus0h he thifksotha he could
get the better Of Gambetta easier than
he,(OlANap) could get it % NJ. Yhiers.
w are not sS,uoa that he is right as he
is himself, for NJ. Gambctta is a man
vic would clin2to power most tcnaci-
ousIy, once he should have grasped it.
Thy wonder is that the cX-Emperor
asould be able to have hopes of a
restoratiS. but then political eXiles
as ever fools, powerfully, and only
mfscount dis9suous chances. Kerosene
eaolosi0s have begun briskly in 1872,
and killed a elmher Of persons.-Rear-
D Iplmiral jenkins has been appointed to
the @}Sl9SnSof ow Asiatic squadron,
and Fear-AdmiIal Rogers is recalled.
T@Hcg commander has orders to draw
it mild coward tbe Corcans. This is an
aeSeucnt change. There is little honor
to be gained in cutting off Coreans, not
one in a thousand who ever heard of
America. -Grand Duke Alexis was vel
comeS.o st. Louis il a speech of,fow
lines. |Sich must have been pronounced
by II. l. Ii. the witties1 welcome he had
in America The Chicago speech of
welcome was about as Tong as the great
fire, but l@d little Of that fires luminos-
ity in it, If one were permitted to
guess, one would say that St. Louiss
welcoming speech was short, though
sweet because that of Chicago had been
long, Sgnd tot it would have been'long
odd tbg of Chicago been short,
Oar Washington letter.
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