Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-12-18
THE UNION.
Tidings of Interest from Eas; and
West.

NEW DECISION. IL THE BANKRUPT LAW.
Judge Biodgett, in the United States
District Court, at Chicago, ON Friday,
decided that hotel-keeper did not come
within the terms of the bankrupt law as
merchant, manufacturer, or trader, and
hence it was not an act of bankruptcy if
he suspended payment for fourteen days.
If he committed fraud in attempting TO
conceal property, then he could be
thrown into bankruptcy. The point is
deemed new and important one.
FREE POSTAGE.
The House Committee on Post Offices
held meeting Friday morning at which
the bill prepared by the subcommittee
with. reference to the delivery of public
documents through the mail was adopt
ed. Tie bill agreed upon, in substance,
authorizes public documents to be sent
free through the mails, the free exchange
of newspapers and free delivery Of
newspapers in the. counties wherein they
they are published. In distributing pub
lie documents a stamp is provided to be
placed in the custody of an officer of the
House, to be attached to every book,
pamphlet and document sent from either
branch of Congress. To prevent an
abuse of the power by unauthorized
parties, ii is also necessary for the name
of the member sending adocumeRt to be
appended to the package. The Com
mittee agreed to report fayOrably bill
looking to the free delivery of seeds from
the Agricultural Department, and win,
no doubt, regulate their distribution by
similar means to those provided for send
ing public documents,
DEATH OF JUSTICE SAMUEL NELSON.
The Hon. Samuel Nelson, ex-jusiice
of the United States Supreme Court.
died suddenly of apoplexy, while sitting
in a chair, at half-past one o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, at his residence in
Cooperstown, II. Y. Judge Nelson was
about month over 50 years of age.
His public life began early. In 1921 he
was member of the convention which
framed the constitution of the State of
New York and in April, 1923, be was
appointed Circuit Judge, and as such
for many years presided in civil and
criminal trials at nisf prias. 1t was then
a tribunal of great dignity and learning,
with fame so illustrious that its de-
cisions had long been cited as authority
in Westminster Hall, and in all the
States of the Union where the common
law prevailed. The dignity of this Court
was not lessened nor its 1ustre dimmed
during the period Judge Nelson there
presided.
THE PORTLAND AND oGDENsBURG Rail-
ROAD.
Officers of this company have author
lied the publication in the Portland
papers of the statement that, while no
contract had been signed with the East
ern railroad company, agreements have
been made substantially the same as
those published. The Eastern railroad
company does not guarantee the Port
land & Ogdensburg bonds, but guarantees
the road 30 per cent. of the proceeds OF
the gross business passing over the
Eastern from the Portland & Ogdens-
burg, and also the Portland & Ogdens-
burg's proportion of 80 per cent. ac-
cording to the proportion of mileage
that road bears TO the whole mileage,
with 10 per cent. additional as compen-
satiOn for the heavy expense incurred
by building the road through the Notch.
A preliminary agreement was first
entered into between the roads forming
the line from Montreal to Portland.
whereby the commercial and business
interests of Portland were protected.
The agreement with the Eastern is only
for business which would seek Boston
by some channel, and, if this one was
not opened, then by some other. The
laws of New Hampshire authorizes a
connection for business of roads running
together, and the object of the Eastern
in making this guarantees 10 assist in
building the road.
LOSS OF THE SHIP ARABIA AT sEA-THIR-
TEEN OF THE GREW DROWNED.
News is Just received of the loss OF
the ship Arabia, Captain Fleming, which
foundered at sea in latitude % ", longi-
tude SO w. The vessel left Calcutta for
Boston, May 26, and was reported As
having Dassed st. Helena September %,
hut the date of the disaster Is not given
The survivors of the ship were rescued
by the baraue Tropic from Kingston,
Jamaica, and were landed at Gravesend
on the 18th of December.
PUNISHMENT OF ELECTION FRAUDS TX
CHICAGO.
Donald Mckay, indicted for issuing
fraudulent naturalization papers, was
sentenced in Chicago on Friday by Judge
Hopkins to three years imprisonment in
the State Prison. The Judge said this
was the first case in this state under the
present law, and claimed that il was the
first in the courts of the Union. He
said people did not seem properly TO APP
preciate the importance of the elective
franchise, and il was too common TO
speak lightly of frauds in election If
the government cannot proyidc adequate
means to ascertain the honest c.5lni9rs
of electors then is the government
farce. The crime of Mckay was, in
the judgment of the court, the most
grave and serious named in the law
!. --s.Pretty bad under foot, SAID one
citizen to another as they met in the
street. Eyes; but it's fine overhead,
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