Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-09
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Eyes, pretty well along, but | guess
I'll live about eighty years longer.
.sBut YOU are quite i'll, and we all fear
that YOU may not recover. In that case
do YOU feel that you are prepared Tor
the great change that awaits us all Z?
..Yes. if any man on earth IS, l am.
Why built the first turnpike over made
over the Green Mountains. BY the
wav. Mr.. H.. have you heerd whether
the BOYS have ketched that bear yet =
After partially recovering from
the effect of this inquiry, Mr.. H., asked
the Judge if he would not like to have
him pray with him.
sob, yes; | spose that is what Mrs.
K sent for you for.
'EWell, Judge, have you any partlcul-
ar request which you wish to have pre-
ferred in in our petition to the throne OF
Grace :"
'Oh, no Mr.. H., think you are
very smart and promising young man,
and leave it altogether to your better
Judgment and ingenuity"
The effect can be better Imagined
than described.
MORE SNAPS AND SNARLs.-That pa
tent inside sheet printed one-half in
New York by an advertising agency and
the balance in Rutland) styled the Rut-
land T1adeDende71t, has formed another
alliance with John Cain of the Courier.
Heretofore it has been politics; now it
is to abuse the HERALD and its publisher.
In replying to them we will not stoop to
the personal twaddle in which both
these papers INDUCED in their last issue.
The purpose of the HERALD is higher
we propose to give facts. The Co1rteTS
last grievance is that we have directed
our newsboys toastop leaving a Daily at
the Courier Office, and hence a whole
column of personal abuse. 1t is true that
we have given orders to the newsboys
as claimed, and it is also true that, as a
matter of courtesy, we have furnished
the Courier with a copy of our Daily for
years with scarcely any equivalent. The
courtesy of an exchange will no longer
be granted If the Courier man wants
the reprint sheet Gas he styles our
Daily) about which he is making ter
rible fuss. on account of its non-receipt,
he can arrange for its delivery promptly
by paying for it, as other people do. Be
cause we will not exchange our Daily for
his weekly paper, the Courier man says ::
"And every man of sense in Rutland
will now see the necessity of another
daily. if they never did before" Con-
c7,lsire reason -! We wonder Cain did
not. after the Rutland Railroad mana
gers Cancelled his pass, for that reason
advocate the building of a rival railroad.
We have entered the Courier for a copy
Of the WEEKLY HERALD in exchange for
that paper. and this is more than a fair
exchange from us.
The grievance Of the editor Of the Rut-
land Iadependent is, that the publisher
of the HERALD says, in a recent prospec-
tus. that the WEEKLY HERALD has three
times the circulation of any other week
" paper printed in Rutland county
which statement we now reaflirm. He
SAYS we tell a "fib." More about this at
a future time. when we shall see who
has told the NIB. The Rutland hide
pendent. as we before stated, is q patent
inside sheet that is. the inside of each
Issue is printed in New York, by an adj
vertising agency. This agency sent that
paper. the last we knew anything about
it, Just thirty-six quires of paper, which,
if every sheet is saved and sent out,
wou'l make a circulation of 864 copies
Now. from these figures must be deduct
ed the circulation of the Dandy Nelrs
and the Rutland County Journal, as they
are printed at that office from the same
PACKAGE Of sheets from New York. We
do not know what circulation these pa
pers have, but together they must have
several hundred, so that the circulation
of the Iadependeut sinks to a beautiful
insignifcance and the publication of
the paper must be a very profitable bust
ness for its publisher, and rs an adver-
Using medium, of great benefit to its
patrons. The circulation was once near
" 1900, we have been informed. but has
dwindled wonderfully through the mis-
management of James K. Mclean. who,
from our standpoint, is a man who never
was successful in anything he under
took, except to be mean, and in that he
has succeeded admirably. He loves no
one, nor anything. and acts as if he was
determined that every mans hand should
be raised against him. Scores Of the In
dependeJt subscribers have, during the
past few weeks either visited our Office
or written us, subscribing for the HER
AID, and expressing themselves freely in
regard to the man and his paper.
We ask the pardon of our readers for
the valuable space we have taken for
the benefit of our good-natitred cotempo-
raries-the Courier and Independent.
We detest these unpleasant newspapers
controversies. We are merely acting on
the defensive The Courier has, entire
ly unprovoked, been meddling with our
business and abusing US for weeks, and
now the Jealous Tl1depende1lt joins it. Go
ON, gentlemen, we care little for your
abuse.
ALMOST BURNED To DEATH WHILE
ORR RTDySC Two women mother o,J