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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-25
Personal.

Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe will
give a series of readings from her OWE
works, in Boston, next winter.
Nasty is to lecture next season in
opposition to the Woodruff theory of
marriage His title Is "Hannah Jane. u
Gen. Judson Fitzpatrick is said to be
realizing neat little fortune from his
lectures.
More than $40, 1000 have been con.
tributed for the Greeley monument.
Rev, E. H, Chaplin, D. D., has been
and is quite Ill with the rheumatism.
Henry Ward Beecher Is So years old
and nearly as good as new.
August Belmont never yet has voted
in this country, and is chairman of the
National Democratic Committee.
Rev. George B Ide, d. D., the emil
nent Baptist clergyman Of Springfield,
Mass, died on Tuesday night, suddenly,
of heart disease, at lhe age of da years,
He was a native of Coventry, Vermont,
Mr.. Ida and Hon. Isaac F. Redfeld, of
Boston, were the first white children
born in that town. He and Judge Red
field both began the study of law at
Brandon.
Hon. Joseph White, of Williamstwon,
Mass, Secretary of the MASSACHUSETTS
Board of Education, while attending a
a lecture at the Normal School at West.
field, was taken suddenly sick and was
carried to the house of the Principal,
Mr. Dickinson. The case was pronounc-
ed to be small pox.
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Resignation of General Stannard.


We publish the following statement
of the case of Gen. Stannard, taken
from the Burlington Free Press, which
is written in direct and kindly spirit,
of the defalcation and it's causes, and of
the noble characteristics of the head and
heart of Gen. Stannard, which we en-
dorse in the same spirit. While the
large circle of his friends, which are not
confined to the State, deeply regret the
circumstance, yet they deem it an omis-
sion of duty rather than a crime-and
that there is no call for bitter personal
denunciatiOn as often times is the case in
such instances. 1t is bnt the results of
an extravagant life and liberal courtesy
towards friends, flowing from gener-
Gus nature and liberal heart without cri-
minal intent, and is one of those eXcep-
tionaI cases that appeals to the charity
of his fellows rather than condemnation
Gen. stannard has, and will continue to
have, warm personal friends who will
sympathize with him in his misfortunes,
while they regret, and condemn his mis-
deeds
We announce with more pain than we
can well express, the resignation of
Gen. Geo. J. Stannard, as Collector of
Customs for the District of Vermont, in
in consequence Of heavy deficit in his
accounts, which has suddenly come 10
light. We understand his coin account
with the government, for customs, to
be square but in the account for fees
and perquisites, which is required to be
settled annually, balance of S36, 900
appeared against him on a recent settle
ment, which he was unable to make
good. An agent of the Treasury De
partment came on, last Friday or Satur-
day, to investigate the matter, and the
result Is the disclosure of the deficit
the holding of his bCndsmen for the
amount, and the resignation Of General
Stannard, who has also gone into bank
ruptCy to secure his bOndsmen with what
property he has, as far as it will go.
This disclosure has affecred Gen. Stan
nard's numerous friends with the ut
most surprise and astOnishment. We
have not been with Gen. Stannard much
for three or four years past but in for
mer years we knew him intimately, and
knew him for a brave, frank, honest.
upright man. Nobody who knows him
now will suppose that he has stolen this /
money bnt he lived expensively; he is
free handed; his purse has been open I.
to every applicant to him for help, and .
he has kept too little account Of his eX-
penditures. The result is Il balance .
against him, which he is wholly unable /
to account for.
The government will lose nothing, as
his bOndsmen are amply able to make .
good the loss, and will do so at once.
The news of this sad piece of business
became generally known yesterday in
town, and caused very great excitement
in our community. Gen, Stannard's re-
putatiOn as one of the bravest and best
OF the soldiers of Vermont, has been dear
to many who have fought under and
with him, and to Nermonters generally.
All were glad when he was placed in th"
best Federal office in our State, and all
viii mourn his sudden departure from
it, for such cause.
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Political Notes.


The Orange County Eagle favors
the Liberal Republican movement, and
suggests a mass State Convention
to choose delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention.
The Windsor Journal and the
Orange County Eagle, advocate the
claims of Hon. Julius Converse for next
Governor of Vermont.
1t is again rumored at Washington
that Hon. George P. Marsh, our present
Minister to Italy, has been rendered the
Spanish mission.
If one did not read the Democratic
papers, he never would suspect what a
complete wreck they make of the Re
publican party. Fallstaf was no
where, when we consider the wonder
full faculty they have Of demolishing
things. In their utteranees one would
conclude the radical party was not only
disrupted as matter of course but an
utter wreck. Within the last few days
they have torn it all to tatters, in print
Is it not barely possible that it may re-
quire something more than the apostacy
of a few doubtful characters to defeat
the party headed by Grant.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-25

NOBILITY OF CHARACTER. The habit
| of acting from the highest cOnsidera-
tions is that which makes man noble.
Nobility may be conferred upon men in
only one way. The recognition Of il
may be conferred upon them. The king
lays his sword on a mans shoulder. and
calls him a knight but he was a knight
before he was knighted. or he would not
have received the title. 1t was the
heroic endurance. the death-defVing
courage, the skill and GOODNESS with
which he achieved his noble deeds. that
made him knight He was In himself
rOval and noble. and the king, seeing II.
said to all men, Il see il, when he laid
his sword on his shoulder The thing
itself was wrought out. If YOU make
nobility hereditary. see TO ii that you
bring up your children to be as noble as
their fathers were. Otherwise. nobility
becomes a mere occasion. For mobiles
Sons are oftimes monkeys, they them
selves being clods. And where king
ship. or earlsiip. or knightship descends,
As a matter Of course. il may or may not
descend nobly. We have families in
America that. from fathers 10 Sons. are
historical. all Of them having the same
superior traits and pXCellencics: and
thOse families are noble Nobility is the
power of doing everything, little or
great. from the highest motives. Il is
not merely doing hard things. Many
people seem TO think that nobility con-
sists in doing something that other pco-
pie cannGt do: but il consists in bring
Ing to bear motives which common and
and vulgar men do not know how 10
use. He that knows how 10 DO daily
deeds that every body does. from the
top OF his head, Is noble. And that
which he achieves easily, because he has
long been in the practice Of acting from
the highest and nohlest considerations.
Valor, defiance Of death, willing 10
be sacrificed for ones cOuntrv-fhese
are bred in men: but they were in them
before the occasion found them. or they
would not have developed in them.
The trouble is not that we have no op-
pOrtunities for herOism, but that the OF
pOrtunitics come and we do not recOg-
nize them. God rings, and clears the
stage. and no actor appears except some
lester. who comes out trumpeting and
dancing across the stage. and leaving 10
impression. But the habit Of acting
from the highest ranges of motives is
ready when the occasion comes, ard
strikes the blow, and speaks the word,
or does the deed and many people say
that tine man is a hero. and envy kim.
Greatness is not an accident. Now and
then a man seems to come TO il by ac-
cident but no person ever gains and
keeps a reputation for nobility who has
not acted daily and faithfully from the
highest reasOns.-H w. Beecher.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-25

a RESTORED WOMAN PLEADING FOR
HER FALLEN SIsTERs.-Mrs Alice B.
Wayne, from Washington, spoke elo-
quently in fremont Temple, Boston, on
Tuesday evening, pleading for "Fallen
Women" Mrs. LivermOre introduced
her, prefacing the introduction by relat-
ing the story of Eliza, in Uncle Tom s
Cabin, who endured so much pain and
peril, yet at last found friends to help
her from a life of bondage. She earn
estly pleaded for this Magdalen who had
unmasked herself to uplift her sisters,
and asked her hearers to help her by
the sweetness and holiness of a life, to
live. 1t was woman who made the re-
turn to virtue so hard, blocked the
path in which many have stumbled.
Mrs. Wayne is not beautiful in the su-
perficial Interpretation of the word, but
she is beautiful with the impress of re-
demption, beautiful with the love and
purity of an elevated and elevating
office, beautifully in earnest Clad in
simple black, her pale, sad, serious face,
appealing eyes and graceful dignified
presence, at once won attention, conf
dence and respect. Her story is that of
many thousand helpless, hopeless wo-
men, crushed by circumstances, not
choice, driven to despair and disgrace by
the injustice of mems law and consci-
ence. She moved her hearers deeply as
she developed the misery, agony and
degradation of fallen women, imploring
the mothers present to extend a helping
hand, for their daughters sake and safe
ty. She was rightfully pitiless with
condemnations of the injustice and inse-
curity of society, the feebleness of lib
erty and morality, which would weigh
the seduced in the balance and not put
the seducer in the opposite scale. She
compelled the audience to acknowledge
twas easy to compute where we '.know
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PittsfOrds

Austin A. Dickerman made last
season from 20 COWS and 6 twO-year-Olds
1884 36-37 pounds of butter, which net
ted him 81, ,70014. For the last four
years he has sent his butter to New
Haven, Conn, to Cornelius Pierpoint.
The Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton held their quarterly meeting April
9th, making choice Of the old board of
officers for the ensuing quarter.
Thomas J. Tiffany, who has been
nominated postmaster for Bennington,
ia a son of a. J. Tiffany of this place
Thomas Ames has been appointed
station agent at the Pittsford Quarry
Station,as well as clerk for the Pittsford
Quarry Company in place of II. D,
Stanley resigned.
Frederick Schofield who died last
Monday morning, at Brandon, was the
father of L. F. SchOfeld, proprietor of
the Otter Creek House, of this place.
The village school will commence
April 22d- Florence s. Wheeler is to
be teacher the present term.
L. T. Schotield, prudential commit
tee Of school district No I, has made
some improvements in the schOol-rOOm.
which, We think, will be far more pleas
ant to the teacher as we'll as the scholars.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-25
Selections.

Revenge a wrong by forgiving it
Better be alone than in bad com
pany.
Our sins and our debts are often
more than we think.
The rabble condemn what they do
not understand.
Never part for a day without loving
words TO think Of during absence.
Might does not make right. ssestab-
lished facts" to the contrary notwith-
standing.
- He who viii not reason is a bigot
he who cannot is a fool. he who dares
not is fool
Hold on to your hand when you are
about 10 strike or do any wrong.
A mans own gooC breeding is the
best security against other peoples IN
manners.
The work of righteousness shall be
peace, and the effect of righteousness.
quietness and assurance forever.
Poetry is the flower of thought;
sarcasm the needle; wit the honey;
and punning the small beer
Hold on to the truth, for it will serve
you well, and do you good throughout
eternity.
= To address man wisely, you must
not forget thA his life is partly animal,
subject TO the same laws with nature.
Hold on to yonr temper when you
are angry, excited or imposed upon, or
others angry about you.
"A wordof kindness sseldom spoken
in vain. 1t is a seed which, when even
dropped by chance, springs up a flower.
Hold on to your good name at all
times, for it is much more valuable to
you than gold, high places or fashionable
attire.
Gifts from the hand are silver and
gold, but the heart gives that which
neither silver nor gold can buy.
No man does his best except when
he is cheerful. A light heart makes
nimble fingers, and keepeth the mind
free and alert.
Hold on 10 your tongue when you
are Just ready to swear, or speak harshly,
or use an improper word.
The memory Of past favors is like a
rainbow, bright, vivid and beautiful;
but it soon fades away. The memory
VI M uLItS u tASidh EA olA bMc LcdFA aAA1
remains forever.
Hold on to your feet when you are
on the point of kicking, or running
away from study, or pursuing the path
of error, shame or crime.
Help andAgive willingly when you
have anything, and think not more Of
yourself; and if you have nothing.
keep the cup of cold water always at
hand, and think not less Of yourself
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-25
Liqnor Notwithstanding Facts.

Rev Mr.. Ingersoll preached a bold
sermon on Sunday evening lastin Brook
lyn, N. Y, on fast life, in which some
startling statistics are given in reference
to the liquor selling of the City of
Churches. He says that within the pre-
cincts of that city there are 1881 licen-
sed liquor saloons, besides a hundred
druggists who are licensed to sell, max
ing the total licenses 1851.
The average cost of licenses is $50
each, making an annual license income
of 1882, $50, all of which comes out of
the consumers pocket.
The average amount of money taken
in each saloon is 800 per day. This
will foot up $40, 352 300 annually! Add
to this the liquor sold stealthily by those
who defy or evade the law; by distil-
leries and wholesale houses; the quanti-
ties purchased in New York and con-
sumed in homes and places of business,
by men who consider themselves res
pectable too respectable to frequent
saloons, in patent medicines, offered as
panacies for disease, but really drunkard
makers-add these and there is at least
$25, 100000 expended annually for
drink? ......,
Mr.. Ingersoll says that there is enough
money spent annually for liquor to re-
build every Brooklyn church, if every
one should burn down.
An examination of the report of the
Revenue Agent for the fiscal year end
ing July 1867-fearful in the records of
corruption in evading the Revenue tax
and therefore fair year to found the
figures upon - reveals the following
facts: .... r#
The retail liquor sales in the United
States for that year were 81, 593, 491.-
S65.
The liquor sales constitute nearly one
eighth of the entire annual sales of all
Kinds OF merchandise by wholesale and
retail dealers during the same period.
Inc liquor sales of the United States
are more than the entire production of
precious metals from all the States and
Territories west of the Rocky Mountains
for the twenty years ending IN 1867.
The sales are more than ten times the
value of all church property in the Unit
ed States.
They are more than one-half our Ma
tional debt, and if men would pour into
the National Treasury the wealth they
pour down their throats, in tsoo gears
thaey could pay the National debt.
our nation is webbed all over with
railroads, and yet the cost of building
and running every railway in the United
States from the first only exceeds the
amount of money actually expended in
strong drink by the value of the rail
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-25

A COMMUNISTS WRoNGs.-The Lon
don Times publishes letter from a
refugee Communist, giving an account
of his sufferings On May 20, 1871,
after four days of hideous suffering on
the plain of Satory, during which go
prisoners died from the weather, he was
sent with 600 others In cattle trucks to
L'Orient, where he was confined on
board an old man-of-war, without bed
or covering except an old rug full of in
sects, and here he remained nine months,
fed on rations 50 small that many died
of starvation, and the majority were at
tackled with scurvy. At last the writer
was sent to Paris, and thence, after a
stay of five hours, dismissed to Bou-
logne, where he was thrust on board a
steamer for Folkestone, where he arriv-
ed absolutely destitute. He does not
appear to have been handcuffed, but the
rest of his story exactly bears out the
statement of Mr.. F. Harrison, that NJ
Thiers is .ridding himself of patches of
Communists by forcing them, handcuff-
ed, in rags and destitute, on board the
steamers for England, ''about as serious
an outrage" says the London E'rominey,
''as this country ever sat silent under. !"
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chester.

/ ON Sabbath morning, April 14th
while the sound of the church going bell
Was calling the people In this town 70
wait upon God in places set apart for
His worship, the announcement of the
sudden death of Susie r. Gibson startled
the community like thmder-bolt from
a clear sky. For us who regarded her
aS one Of our dearest friends to write
about it calmly and coherently at this
time l., simply impossible 1t is too
suddcn-too awful We have not begun
To realize if. We are all conscious of
q daztd fccling-a, Of being in a fright
fll dream from which we shall present
y awake. The pen partakes of the
emotion which makes the tongues Of SO
MANY falter in speaking the sad news,
and almost refuses to write when its
burden is the announcement of our dear
friends death. 1t is a duty we had
never contemplated for it is a hard
and unnatural thing to associate Susie
r. Gibson with any thoughts of death.
The particulars Of this sad affair as
we have been able to learn them are as
follows She was last seen alive about
four o'clock Saturday afternoon by Mrs.
Aldrich who lives a short distance from
the residence of Mrs Gibson. In the
evening her brother, T. H. Gibson, came
home from Bellows Falls, and not see
inc his sister supposed that she had gone
to the village for the purpose of calling
upon some of her friends, About nine
p. m, he locked the house, and himself
went to the street, and remained over
night. He returned in the morning about
eight O'clock and found the house lock
ed, and upon entering it. found that
everything inside remained the same as
when he left the evening before. He
began to suspect that something was
wrong, and upon going to her chamber
found his sister in the repOse of death.
From all appearances it is evident that
she must have fallen Immediately after
entering her room. But how, or at what
hour, or in what manner she had died
whether the summons had been slow or
sudden, whether she had tried to call
assistance and failed, or whether calling
no one or troubling no one her fearless
soul passed thus solitary unto its Cod
none know or ever can know. But she
has gone to her long home to dwell with
her Heavenly Father,
''In brighter worlds above"
while the recollection of her kind and
loving heart shall long live in the men,
ory of her mother, brother and the large
circle of sorrowing friends which she
has left behind. J. S. A.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-25

VINO Is Miss SAWYER Some have
queried as to whether our friend Mr..
Robbins, of Rockland, Me, manufactur-
er of Miss Sawyer's Incompatible com
pound. did not use her name fictitiOuslV.
In that misgiving we never for a mo
ment shared, for the name of Miss s.
has long stood on the list of our Rock
land readers, and we have known that
she is both an estimable lady and mem
Der of the Baptist church in that city.
Only last week it was our good fortune
to meet Miss s., who is lady of fifty or
more years, at the Waterman office, and
the interview left no doubt either as to
her personal identity, (of which none in
fact in our case ever existed or as to
her well applied benevolent skill. She
has been the benefactor of many thou
sands, and promises TO be of many thou
sands more. since we learn that the
Salve, of which she gave the original re-
cipe, is in greater demand than ever be-
fore. Careful as we always aim to be
not to lend our columns to an endorse
ment which we do not believe. il gives
Us only pleasure to speak thus of Miss
Sawyer and her efficacious remedy. and
also to learn that by being brought 50
largely to the knowledge of the public
through these columns, its sale has been
greatly promoted. = Wdtchn1Gn d; Refiec-
tor, March %, 1872.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-25

THs GRIP" OF A GREAT CORPORA
TGoN.--The more intelligent citizens of
Washington are at last waking up to op-
pose the attempt of the Pennsylvania
RailLoad to destroy the possibility of a
splendid park, stretching from the Capt.
tol to the Presidential mansion, and
they are going to hold public meeting
to protest against Congress glung a de
pot cite in the heart of the Government
reservation. 1t is probably too late to
prevent the success of the project, as
the grip of this great corporation upon
Congress cannot be easily broken off
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-25

A REMEDY FOR THE HEADACHE
DR.. Warburton Begbie Edinburgh Ned
icaL J0urnaD advocates the use of tur-
pentine in the severe headache to which
nervous and hysterical women are sub
ject. There is, moreover" he says,
''another class of sufferers from head
ache, and this is composed of both sex
es, who may be relieved by the use of
turpentine | refer to the frontal head
ache, which is most apt to occur after
prolonged mental effort, but may like
wise be induced by unduly sustained
physical exertion-what may be styled
the headache of fatigued brain A
cup of very strong tea often relieves
this specie of headache, but this remedy
with not few is perilous, for bringing
relief from pain, it may produce gener-
al restlessness, and, worst of all, Danish
sleep. Turpentine, in doses of twenty
or thirty minims, given at intervals of
an hour or two, will not only relieve the
headache, but produce in a wonderful
manner, that soothing influence to which
reference has already been made"
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THE PUBLIC DEBT REDUCTION FOR
THREE YBARs.-The Secretary of the
Treasury has caused the preparation of
a comparison between the public debt as
it stood April 1st 1872, and as it was on
on the 1st of March, 1869, which we
publish elsewhere. The comparison is
interesting as bringing into birds eye
view the chief features of the national
finances, as well as shows that General
Grants record in the White House is
quite as victorious as they were in the
war. In the first place, the public debt
has been reduced about three hundred
and fifteen millions of dollars since Gen.
Grants Inauguration, and now stands at
two billions one hundred and seven
ty five millions of dollars. The annu-
al interest charge has been reduced
about twenty millions of dollars, and
is now less than one hundred and six
millions of dollars.
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roads in the State Of Pennsylvania The
total value of railways in New York
State is from $175, 900. 900 to 5000, O00.-
900. While the annual value of the re-
tail liquor sales is $50, 900. 900 more an
nually, in strong drink, than the value
of our railways, rolling stock, equip
ments and buildings.
These facts we have condensed from
a report of the sermon in the Brooklyn
Eagle, and shows an alarming state of
affairs.