The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-23

the fires must have occurred between Aug
ust 1868 and February, 1869, and intimates
that there are not forty-six weeks in the
space which is a piece of sophstry and a
confusion of dates purposely made with
that reckless disregard of facts and fair
dealing with them, which is apparent in
every line of his paper, but shines form
witha sulphureous luminosity in his wretch
ed, purposey misleading special dispatches
The base and irrevcrend falsifier of his
tory in the dependent journal, denies that
fire took place every night for forty-sN |
weeks and pretends that from two months |
prior to the arrest of Clark to the time of
the imprisonment of the incendiaries in the |
states prison, there were just twenty-eight
fires. This insane desire to rob Rutland of
half her blazing glories, and trumpet her to
a soothing world as but shade in advance
of ordinary villages, is a stroke at her
dearly earned rcnown that deserves instant
rcbuke Mark how a plain, unyanished
tale shall put the detractor down Two as
proper men as there are in Rutland, who
went all through the fiery time, who cs-
capped from forty of those fires by flying
out of doors, jumping from windows,
| climbing down cutters and ilinging them
selves from roofs, who helped to put out
| six other fires, who had the hair burnt from
| their heads in two others, their whiskers
and eyebrows removed In one other, and
| lost their coats, hats and boots in another,
and who can show the scars and remnants
of clothing. are men likely to remember
accurately after such personal experiences
at,o th,,y notY And backed, as they are, by
those mute corroborative evidences which
cannot lie because they cannot talk, and
| being two trustworthy witnesses against a
single, Enthusiastically one, they are more
to be believed than he on his simple, UNI
supported word.
He asserts that ten of his twenty-eight
fires were "known to have originated from
accidental causes 1t is no use his trying
to smooth over those ten fires in that in
sidious manner. Doubtless he has reasons
for his apparent anxiety to have them lait
to accidental causes" In this connec
ton we call attention to the following re
marllablc words, in which it is cautiousl,
half admitted that there were some person
engaged in the business not yet caught
"ARd nine others are belicCod anil underStOO
10 hGcc originated .fi0m Otder means Mdn III
haHds If UoS6 1rhO are KNOWN rs the 'Rut
Jtnd iaceHdmlfes. 80 The italics and SINAI
capitals are our own. If we had used tn
same language in our true and vcraciou
history of the affair." the editor of our vi
lagc contemporary would have called it
mean, malicious insnuation, and rcsente
it ferocously, as personally offensive.
The editor of our village cotemporar
asserts that only three incendiaries, Pete
Nary, Thomas Dushan and William Butte
fly, were convicted and sent to the state
prison. The eight grew from confusin
those who are not known as the ''Rutlan
incendiarics" with the Rutland incendii
ries" themselves, and getting them all int
the States prison, and was not intended
hurt the editors feelings. If he consider
himself aggricved, we beg pardon.
He asserts the detective did not stay wit
; the Butterflies three months. If the edito
will come out in his paper and say that Ii
staid with them himself, so that he know
by personal observation, we will give u
the point otherwise We must contend tina
) he does not know how long that disguise
= sly-boots staid anywhere.
lie asserts that the jury thought more o
e an accomplice's testimony than of the dc
tcctives, in giving their verdict. When
S man arrives at the point Of impiously pre-
d tending to assume the powers of Omnipo
a tence, and undertakes to tell us that h
e | looked into the twelve distinct minds of til,
jurors in their isolation in the jury room
and can tell what they were thinking about
and what they thought of most, he knows
too much, even for the editorship OF a Ger
tain contemporary, and had better go to tell
:. ing fortunes, or follow the next circus as
juggler.