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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08
West Rutland.

The season for painful accidents
around the quarries seems to have ar
rived. Mr. p. Battles, workman in
the quarry of Parker, ellison & Dewey,
while descending the ladder, oae day
this week, fell a distance of twenty feet,
striking on his head and shoulders and
receiving serious, if not fatal, injuries,
On Tuesday Mr.. N. Clifford was severe
ly hurt by the falling of slab of mar
BILE which he was assisting to take from
one of the gangs in the mill of Sheldons
6 Slason. The bar, Mr.. Clifford was
using, struck him severely across the
breast and threw him beneath the gang.
His injuries, though severe, it is hoped,
are not internal.
Much interest is manifested by our
villagers In series of religious meetings
now being held in the school house and
Central Hail.
From a reliable source, we have
been informed that one of the best ar
ranged and carefully kept town houses
in the State is at Castleton. The gentle
manly superintendent, whose name, for
a long term of years, must be venerated
by many deserving poor, has received
high encomium from a gentleman of
our village, who lately visited the house
and noticed, with pleasure, the humane
and generous treatment of the inmates.
We met Goodies" at the depot on
Thursday He had been elevating his
spirits. Elevation weakened his limbs.
Found the platform constantly rising,
and awful sudden! His mittens had
dissolved partnership, couldn't reconcile
them no way. Embraced the corner af-
fectionately. Addressed it as an upright,
steady, friend Fell out with the cor
ner and again met the platform cordially
on his back. Unless we have some tenn
perance lectures shortly, Mr.. Toodles
will find it andy to have a coffin in the
'ouse.
Mr. c. Pike of this village, who has
recently sculptured, in marble, head
and bust of the celebrated divine, Rev.
H. W. Beecher, returned this week from
New York, highly gratifed by Mr..
Beecher's appreciation and acceptance of
his work, and bearing several orders
from the members of Plymouth church.
EXCELSIOR.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08
Bald Mountain Elk Association.

E'ditor RutJaid Herald i see it stat
ed in your paper that the Bald. Mountain
Lime Kilns have, with other property,
been sold for about one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars. This must be Ii
mistake Why should the company
sell, while their stock, by the latest
quotations, stands iii the great money
market of the world, at a premium of
280 in gold? The Elk Association is
the owner of the whole of Bald Noun
tain. and has no desire to dispose of any
part of it. The Association desires to
purchase, not to sell. Its property is too
valuable to be used for the burning of
lime. In fact there is no lime stone
there. The rock of the mountain is
mainly gold bearing quartz, with fair
proportion of silver, lead and steel ore.
The company now have in contempla-
ton the purchase of the Cuttingsyille
Menagerie as soon as the owner thereof
can be found, and a complete list OF the
animals can be furnished, and the ami
mails brought under proper restraint and
their vicious character be somewhat
modified.
If the Association should not succeed
in purchasing the animals in the Cut
tingsville Menegerie, they will take the
animals in charge for safe keeping in the
patent post holes.
We're it not for the weak and ineffi-
cient condition of the Atlantic cable
the association would not have troubled
you with this correction, but would have
telegraphed this rumor to all our foreign
directors. PRESIDENT.
- Bald Mountain Elk Association.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08
Scientific

The German opponents of the Oar
winian theory base their arguments on
the impossibility of an ape having been
the ancestor of a poet or philOso-
pher
Photographs enameled upon copper
have been produced in Australia. The
Australian Illustrated Neae8 pronounces
them beautiful as works of art, and al
most indestructible.
Captain Chimmo thinks that the fly
ing-fish consumes an extra amount of
oxygen during its flight. He finds that
life is maintained for seven to nine min
utes ott of water (by no means a won
derful fact), and that the fish has the
power of changing the direction of its
course during fight, using its tail as a
rudder
-1he generally received notion that
icebergs form a means of conveyance
for rocks and vegetation over great dis
tances, was asserted to be incorrect by
DR.. Robert Brown Of Glasgow, in a lee
ture which he recently delivered at that
city. lie regarded it as visionary in the
extreme to attribute to them any agency
in the dispersion Of plants.
MI. ClCulClSs IlIL well huOh II Liz
fish telegraphist, has invented a pho
tometer, which has proved that light
penetrates to a depth of one hundred
fathoms below the surface of the sea.
Hitherto it has been supposed that 30
fathoms was the furtherest depth to
which the suns rays could reach, but an
apparatus, of which the main feature is
chemically prepared paper, has proved
that the sun is three times as powerful
as was supposed.
"A writer in the British Journal Of
Ph0tOgraphy predicts that owing to
the perfection Of micro-photography,
brought about by the necessities Of the
Partisan seige, we shall soon have
our daily paper handed us the
size Of a postage stamp, and carry
our favorite poets in our vest buttons.
We will see a ''new edition of Macaulay
complete in three shirt studs, or ''the
tiny edition of Dickens" complete in
two sleeve-buttons. Every one will then
carry a microscope, as we now do pen
knife
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08

with some exquisite music, and We won't
go home tillmorning" wasrendered with
effect by DR.. Wakefield, and certainly
those present had no desire to ego
home" 50 long as the Doctors patients
would allow him to remain and make
fun.
The ever-genial Hon. Pitt ". Hyde
of Hydeville, was present, and assisted
in making those present happy. At
about eleven p. m. the company separ-
ated, hoping that these pleasant reunions
might often recur, and wishing long
life to the Knight House and its popular
landlord. one VINO Was THERE.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08
A Stranger I'm the Pew.

Poor little Bessiei She tossed back her
curls,
And, though she is often the sweetest OF
girls,
This was something she couldn't and
wouldn't endure
Twas the meanest, most impolite act, she
was sure, w.
And thing, she declared, she never
To go to church where one didn't belong,
Then walk down the aisle like the best In
And seat ones self plump in another ones
pew,
Humphl Didn't her father own his out
And didn't they I'LL it up full just about, .
When mamma and papa, and herself and
Were seated? And didn't their oots make
In moving aalong to make room for a
And wasn't it cool, with the brazenest face,
To expect at each hymn pa would find out
If Ben didn't, or Bob, but there wasn't
much dangel?
With such feelings at heart, and their print
on her face,
T'place" ..-
Who make room for girl, very shabby and
thin,
Who had stood in the aisle till mamma
The poor little thing tried her best not
to crowd,
And Bessie, forgetting, soon had the mis-
hap
To slip hom her drowsiness into anap,
From which she awakened by crying
aloud.
Poor Bessie sat upright, with cheeks all
At sleeping in church, and we felt for her
shame;
Our Bessie, now gentle as gentle could be,
Take the hand of the shabby young girl
in the pew,
And walk with her out of the church with
smile
That shown through the tears in her eyes
all the while,
And Frightened her face with radiance
new
''Good-by," whispered Bessie at parting,
''and mind
Our pew's forty-five, with pillar behind"
Then she stole to her mother; "Oh, moth
er, dreamed
Such q curious .dreaml Twas no wonderI
screamed,
With girl like beggar-chid right in our
pew ..-
We were sitting alone in this seat, just we
And felt more ashamed than you ever
could guess;
w ACIl3 al III u l1OllACllbg L1AC l4tuSAS grew
loud,
And on it came floating a beautiful crowd;
They were angels, knew, for they Joined
in the song,
And all of them seemed in the church to
belong.
Slowly and brightly they sailed through
the air:
The rays from the window streamed Grim
son and blue,
And lit them in turn as their forms ghded
through;
could feel their soft robes passing over
my hair
Zone came to my side. Very sadly she
said,
a stranger in here I lifted my
head.
And looked at the poor shabby girl with
disdain.
'Tis not She said the angel; the naughty
and vain
Are the strangers at church. She is hum
BILE and true
Then l cried out aloud, and the minister
spoke,
And Just as they fioated away awoke.
And there sat the dear little girl in our
pew! -
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08
WIG HEmraerer E.xncI,cn.

On Friday a party of twenty-five or
thirty masked men went to the jail
where Slough, who murdered his wife,
was confined, oyerpowered the sheriff,
took the keys of the Jail and proceeded
to Slough's cell and marched him out
short distance, where they hung him to
a tree. The mob then quietly dispersed.
The circumstances attending the muir
der are so brutal that the action of the
mob seems to meet general approval.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08

THE kANKAKEE COMPANY.-O read
ers will do well TO read this COmpany's
advertisement in another column. offer
ing for sale 5000, 600 worth of their 8
per cent gold bonds, at 30 and accrued
interest, payable in 1881. As we under
stand it, the issue of these bOnds-secur-
ed by a mortgage on all the valuable
property of the COmpany-is limited TO
5000, 900. The property consists Of lands
in the city of Wilmington, Ill, suitable
for factory and building lots, coal lands,
water power equal to that of Lowell,
with dams, gates, bulkheads and canals
completed, and locks and canals of the
most approved construction, to give 81
mics of navigation upon the Kankakee
river, forming in connection with the IL
linois and Michigan canal, water commu-
nication between Chicago and the best
coal, iron and corn producing districts of
the West.
The property has cost so far about
$3.50, 900, and the proceeds Of bonds now
to be sold are to be applied to the con-
structiOn of new dams, locks and canals,
still farther extending the nayigable wa
tiers owned by the Company, and adding
new value to the security. The Compa-
ny is organized under a charter granted
by the Legislature of Illinois, comforting
most extraordinary privileges, and is in
the hands of Massachusetts, men, at the
head of whom is ex-Gov. Clafiin. The
managing man is the Hon. E. p. Car
penter of Foxboro, whose sagacity and
energy are of themselves a sufficient
guarantee of success. We advise invest
ors to look into this thing and judge for
themselves - Rosf011 .TO7lrOnl
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08
Personal.


Judge r. H. Hoyt has returned
from the West, after an absence Of some
months
The Springfield Republicans Wash
ington correspondent, speaking of the
New York Custom House investigation,
says the fact that so many good men
who know Gen. Babcock intimately
have entire confidence in him, is a strong
point in his favor,
Hon. Charles Barrett of Grafton is
now in Boston, assisting a friend in
preparing for the press work on draw
ING.
The late Charles F. Latham of
Thetford presented the sum of $4,000
to Thetford Academy. for the erection
of q dwelling house. He was native
of Thetford, and a graduate of Dart
mouth College.
Col. George A. Merrill will retire
from the SUPPLEMENTARY Of the New
London Northern Railroad ON the LIST of
April and be succeeded by George T.
Benedict, recently assistant supcrintend-
ent of the New Orleans, Mobile and
Texas Railroad.
Rev. A. T. Deming of Newbury
accepts an appointment as assistant
teacher of natural science in Carlton
College, at Mortified, Minnesota.
The following Nermonters were
present at Mrs. Gen. Grants reception
on Wednesday last Judge \. 0. Adds
and lady, Mrs. Portus Baxter, Senator
j. S. Morrill, and lady, Miss Swan, Mrs.
J. F. De Richards, Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Kennedy; also Mr.. and Mrs. II. w.
Parker of Claremont, n. II.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08
England sgifEadrayys from the Ge-
neya Arbi1ration

The Observer states that the British
Government has sent dispatch to
Washington, withdrawing from its
agreement to submit the Alabama claims
to arbitration before the Geneva board
if the liability of England for indirect
damages remains an open question.
The dispatch is couched in friendly
terms, and gives expression to an earnest
desire ON the part of Her Majesty's Gov
eminent to carry out all the provisions
of the treaty of Washington
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08

THE PUBLIC DEBT.-Thc public debt
has been reduced since January 1st by
the further sum of five millions of dol
lars. This is not doing as well as the
average; but Secretary Boutwell, always
slows up when Congress is sitting, in or
der that he may not excite Congress into
thinking that he is progressing too fast
and arouse legislation prohibiting his
high pressure payment of the public
debt But when Congress is out of the
way he rakes in the taxes mercilessly
and pays off his ten or twelve millions a
month
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08

The PAPER mill of Shepley & Moore,
Bellows Falls, had a narrow escape from
fire the other day. 1t is supposed
bunch of matches went through the
picker with the rags, as the latter were
found to be on fire, but the presence of
mind of Mr.. Moore saved the building.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08

The LIBERTY AND LICENTIoU5&Ess OF
THE PREss.-Thc director of the official
journal of Paris under the rule of the
Commune, has been sentenced to trans
portation for having published the acts
Of the irresponsible government of the
Reds" Thus does the French republic
under Theirs define the difference be-
tween the freedom of the press and the
demoralizing RIGHTEOUSNESS of some in
dividuals who may chance to control the
great ciyilizing engine for time. The
unlucky director imagined that he had a
good thing" for a moment in Paris, but
he finds now, to his personal cost, that
President Theirs can 'control' the press
just as vigorously as did Bonapartc.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08

THE YELLOWSTONE NATIoNAL PARK.-
The bill has passed the Senate setting
apart, as national park, that wonderful
district, some forty miles by fifty, on
the head waters of the Yellowstone Riv-
er, among the Rocky Mountains, in the
Territory of Montana, embracing those
strange mountain peaks, cliffs, castles
and canyons, and those numerous Won
derful warm springs, hot springs, boil
ing springs, geysers, etc, etc, Now let
the friends of the bill in Congress push
it through the House, and then, by sim
ply marking off its boundaries, We shall
have the grandest and most wonderful
national park. and, in a year or two, the
most popular resort Of summer travellers
in all the world.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08
Received by the Bald
Mountain Elk Association.

Editor Rutland Herald As a strik-
ing instance of the value of the Press in
response to an article which appeared
in your paper of Saturday, the Elk As
ISOLATION has received the following tel
egrams
FROM GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN.
On THE Wine.
To ETo.--Will your Association get
up an electoral ticket in my behalf ?
Shall see Bald Mountain on Monday if
/ come by telegraph.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.
RErLY.--With Breckenridge in your
Cabinet? No!
FROM DANIEL DREW
WALL STREET, Feb. Sd, 1872.
VIII it be safe to sell your stock
short ?
d. DREW.
REPLY.-If you sell short don't fail to
deliver.
FROM LHE ''ROYAL MENAGERIE, LONDON.
To THE President, ETC.-We are eX-
tremely anxious to obtain ferocious
beasts. Send us the wild animals of
Cuttingsville with bill.
PRESIDENT
of the Royal Menagerie, London.
FROM MISS SAWYER.
ROCKLAND. Me.
To THE PRESIDENT, ETC.-The use of
your mineral spring water in compound
ing my salve has acted like charm.
Can have the use of one of the springs
permanently? Miss SAWYER.
REPLY.-Use the spring at pleasure,
but suppress that portrait.
PRESIDENT
Bald Mountain Elk Association.
FROM P. T. B4RNUM.
INGLEsGDE, Feb. 3, 1879.
Catch the animal Of the Cuttingsville
Menagerie! I would go snucks and
share expenses. Employ Monaghan to
act for me. Terms liberal
P. T. BARNUM.
From PETROLEUM '. MASSEY.
CONFEDERATE X ROADS,
whichis In the State of Kentucky.)
Save a corner lot for grocery near
one of your mineral springs, level as
you can. Mr. Gavit, Pogram and Nc
Pelter, will come. p Y. NAsBY
FROM ALEXIS.
MEMPHIS Feb. 3.
By some unaccontable mistake I have
not seen Bald Mountain. I have seen
New York, the Hub White Mountains,
the Plains, the Buffalos, Niagara, the
Mammoth Cave, the Capitol of the great
Republic, the great Rivers, and before
my return desire to vote for directors Of
your association on two shares of stock
held by the Car. ALEXIS.
FROM LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.
Please purchase for me five shares B.
NJ. f. A. stock to add to the great Pea
body fund. wish toplace the poor of
London on the sure road to prosperity.
THE LORD MAYOR
FROM SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
WAsHIEGToN. Feb. 3.
Please loan to the Syndicate 10 shares
B. NJ. E. A. stock We wish to estab-
lish our credit abroad.
G. S. Boutwell,,
Secy. Of Treasury
FROM HEATH & RAPHAEL.
New YORK, Feb. 3.
Would your company buy 100, 900
shares of Erie stock. If so we will run
regular trains by way of Bald Mountain.
HEATH & RAPHAEL.
BRr~npaL.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08

Notwithstanding Boutwell's great
victory on the Syndicate, in the House
of Representatives Thursday, shows
that if the democrats choose to fight
over the Syndicate as a party question
they can have it so.
The teacher who does nothing but
teach is not fit to teach. The preacher
who does nothing but preach is not fit to
preach. The man who does any one
thing and nothing else is not fit to do
that one thing.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08
FROM PETROLEUM V. Massey.

CONFEDERATE \ ROADS, }
which Is In the State of Kentucky
Save corner lot for grocery near
one of your mineral springs, level as
you can. Mr. Gavit, Pogram and Nc
Pelter, will come. p. V NAsBY.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08
wAsnINGroY CoUNTY.

Waterbury village has POP families;
Children under twenty years 312, aIa
eighty-four of these are under five years
Of age.
There are 121 boys in the State Re
form School at Waterbury.
Miss Ellen Briggs, living with jas.
\. johnson, Esq, of Mortified, got
bad fall on Monday, the 18th ult., while
hanging out clothes. She was severely
injured in one side.
"A leap year ball, managed entirely
by ladies, came off at Marshfeld, Feb
ruary 1st.
Mr.. Sidney Brown has decided to
remove from Waterbury, and is to 60
into business at Ogdensburgh, n. Y.
"A. II. Selleck and Eugene Boyce
have set up in the lower story of Selleck
81 Co. s factory, at Waterbury, curious
little machine for turning wooden boxes,
spools and like articles.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08

The commissioners in the estate Of
Jabez Hills, of Bellows Falls, some time
since, in looking over his room, found
an old tin teapot containing some $3.50
in gold.
Mrs. Willard F. White of Grafton,
who is under the treatment of DR.. Camp
bell of Saxton's River, has had since
May 18th, 1871, 3294 pounds of water
taken from her side at sixteen different
times.
The towns of Putney on the Yer
mont side, and Westmoreland, opposite,
on the New Hampshire side, are agitat-
ing the subject of free bridge at East
Putney.
j. Esty & Co., at Brattleboro, organ
manufacturers, have now six factoles
in full operation, and yet are SO drN.n
that they are making arrangements ~
put up a seventh. This is the iarggss
cottage organ mandatory IN e
country,
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08
ELEANs COUNTY

A little daughter Of John Wright a.
Newport Centre, was run over by LOAD
of lumber, last Friday. One runner
passed over her leg, badly bruising II.
but fortunately no bones were brokon-
"A Frenchman named Ed. Bodwine.
was chopping down a tree in the wood
near North Troy, last Saturday, when
limb fell from a tree in which ii was
lodged, striking Bodwine On the hsad
He remained insensible for some time,
but is expected to recover.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08

Editor Rutland Herald As a strik-
ing instance of the value of the Press in
response to an article which appeared
in your paper of Saturday, the Elk As
ISOLATION has received the following tel
egrams
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-02-14
FROM WASHINGTON.

Washington, Feb. 13.-There was a full
Cabinet meeting to-day, except Delano
No nominations were made.
The court OF claims have rejected thu
claim of Thomas Sterling, asking pay fol
property taken by the United States army
in King and Queen county, Va. Adjourned
to 4th of March.
Under the present law, tobacco is divid-
ed INTO two classes-one paying tax oi
sixteen and the other of thirty-two cents
per pound. The House committee of
ways and means, at their session this
morning, agreed to reduce the tax on the
latter class to twenty-four cents, leaving
the tax on the other as at present.
Ex-Congressman Stokes, of Tennessee,
has been convicted of acting as claim agent
while member of Congress.
treasury detectives, who recently made
several seizures of tobacco in South Caro-
lima, for violation of stamp duties, report
that two-thirds Of the tobacco in the rural
districts of that State has been purchased
from fraudulent peddlers in North Carolina.
who are engaged in the trade in violation OF
the revenue laws.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-02-14
MANCHESTER NEWS.

The colored people owning the Baptist
church building have voted not to allow
other than religious meetings to be held in
their house of worship.
"A meeting of the Southside Building
Fund Association was held last night, and
the amount of money on hand loaned out.
The association is in good working condi-
ton.
In our County court yesterday several
DEGREES were entered. Caroline Cook,
wife of r. Cook, deceased, qualified as ad-
ministratrix of her husbands estate.
Messrs. Ii. s. Morton, w. H. Christian,
and George M. Richardson qualified as at
torneys in the court. A protest was re-
ceved from Col. S. B. French against the
proposed riverside road. Col. French was
notified to appear in behalf of his interest.
The Board of Trustees met last night
upon the call of the president, to consider
the courthouse question. All the MEM
bers of the board were present. Mr.. S.
Brooks, in behalf of the supervisors of the
county, and Col. VIM. Amherst on the
part of the county court, appeared before
the board, and after lengthy debates from
these and other legal gentlemen, it was pro-
posed to vest the title to the courthouse in
the county, with the understanding that if
the county-seat is ever removed from Man
chester, the property is to revert back to
the town. The matter is now under con-
sideration by the committees, and we hope
will soen be settled.