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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-09

4 COOP PEDESTRIAN man sixty
five years old, residing in Castleton,
came to Rutland on the cars, Saturday,
intending to return in the same manner
in the afternoon, but, from not having
finished his business or some other
cause, he failed to reach the depot in
time for an outgoing Castleton train.
He had the alternative before him, eth
er to remain in Rutland until about two
o'clock Sunday morning, and taking the
midnight train or of footing it, some
eleven miles. He chose the latter course
and walked over the horribly conditioned
roads, reaching home between nine and
ten o'clock in the evening, somewhat
foot-sore and weary, but plucky still.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-09
THE WrrcucRAFr DELUsIoN.-The 7

THE WITCHcRAFT DELUsIoN. re-
cent address of Rev. Z. P. Hooker, at
the Forefathers celebration, in Middle
bury, was limited to an able and COM
prehensive examination of the famous
Witchcraft Delusion" in New England.
The subject is an unpleasant one in our
history, and has a bad odor with that
portion of the public who will not see
anything but good in our ancestors. 1t
is, however, a subject that will not
down at the mere bidding of a sensitive
and fastidious taste or prejudice, and is
now receiving, and will continue to
clam, new and wider investigation and,
perhaps, reconsideration in the light and
experience of kindred, if they may so be
styled, phenomena of our own day. In
this view the address was in advance of
the average common impressio ns re-
ceived from general history. ana' as a
lecture in illustration of an important
and much agitated subject, was interest
ing and, to judge from the general ex-
preston of opinion, satisfactory.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-09
From the st. Louis Democrat. Dec. DO
River Disasters During the Year.

From the ST. Louis Democrat. Dec. 30
River Disasters Burning the Year.
The past year has been prolific of
river disasters, the amount of property
lost thereby amounting in the aggregate
to SO. 225, 200. 1t is found that the river
on which the heaviest losses occurred
was the Mississippi, viz: Sits, $50.
The Ohio gives a loss of S1,052, 100.
Simple improvements made in the rivers
would probably have saved One-half of
this amount of loss. Although naviga-
ton has been much restricted in the Ar
kansas, that streams share of the gener-
al loss is S163, 600. Red River renown-
ed for its vast steam boat business in
former years, makes a trivial exhibition
in the matter of losses there being only
1904, 500 This may be ascribed to the
fact that the stanch boats of St. Louis.
and the boatmen of the Missouri, ccle-
brated for their skill and tact in naviga-
ton, have been largely introduced into
the Red River trade. The Missouri cX-
hibits remarkable falling off, which is
readily explained by the fact that rail
roads mOnOpOliZe nearly all the business
of that stream, which in former years
employed as fine a fleet of steamers as
can be found in the merchant service
upon any river IN the world. Steamers
ran for about eight months between
Sioux City and Fort BentOn-that is, on
the Upper Missouri" Singular as it
may seem. no steamers sunk there dur
ing the year, and not an accident of any
kind is reported. The business of the
Upper Mississippi is done almost exclu-
sively by stern-wheel steamers; yet the
underwriters, a few years ago, would
not take risks on these steamers for any
portion of the Missouri, except at rates
so enormous as to be prOhibitOry. A
side-wheel steamer is hardly ever seen in
the Missouri higher than three hundred
miles.
White River, the Kentucky, Ouachita,
and St. Francis furnish small quotas.
The beautiful Cumberland, formerly of
great commercial value, was used 50 lit
tie by steam boats that no loss is men
toned in the reports of its navigation.
Fifty-eight lives were lost during 1872
by explosions on the Western rivers.
By the Oceanus alone, forty-One lives
were lost The Dan Mcdonald and
James MalbrOn each lost eight. The
two latter were exploded under circum-
stances so similar as to cause much COM
ment at the time. Very few lives were
lost in addition to those by explosion, If
we except 375 estimated TO have fallen
overheard during the year upon the
Western rivers, and it is probable that
twice that number would be nearer the
truth.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-09

A correspondent wants some one TO
tell him who Richard III. was before be
was "himself again"
1t Is stated that the two daughters Of
the late Charles Lever inherit from their
father about $1,000 each.
Any person who wears diamonds Ia
Colorado is said to be s.salted."
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-09

SENSATION IN HIGH LIFD AT SARNIA-
A JEALOUS HUSBAND KILLS HIS WIFE IN
A HORRIBLE MANNER.
On Tuesday night an alarm was sound
ed at Sarnia, and the report was soon
spread that lamp had exploded in the
apartments occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Smith, at Mrs. Fishers house
At first, and in fact for several hours af-
terwarG, it was supposed that lamp
explosion only was the cause of the eX-
citement. 1t has since transpired, how
ever, that the lamp was thrown violent
ly at Mrs. Smith by her husband, injur-
ing her head severely and burning her
horribly, so that from the combined in
iuries she has since died.
Mrs. Smith, whose maiden name was
Lester or Leicester, was 3 highly edu-
Gated and refined young lady, well
known in Sarnia and this city, and uni
versally admired wherever known, NOV
ing in the best circles of society. Smith
is spoken of rs a gentlemanly person,
whose otherwise good character was
spoiled by being of a jealous disposition,
hot tempered and addicted to drink.
There are always two sides to story,
and his friends assert that he was driv-
en- to evaporation by the conduct of
his wife, who, it is claimed, was notori-
ously a tlirt, keeping company with
young unmarried men, and conducting
herself in such a manner as to bring
down upon her good name the darkest
kind of a cloud of reprOach and scan
dial. Be that as it may, for that or some
other reason he was very jealous of his
attractive wife and frequent storms of
abuse and anger fell upon her head. At
times he has abused her shamefully, it is
asserted and she has often been heard to
say that her life was in danger, - for
Arthur will surely kill me sometime.
The particulars of the horrible TRACE
dy on Tuesday night perhaps viii never
be known, but it ended in the young
and handsome W0man's death and the
arrest of the guilty man, who is now
confined in the LambtOn county Jail in
Sarnia. Mrs. Smith was heard to cry
out for help, and help was Immediately
summoned, but on arriving at the scent
the room was full Of smoke. the carpets
were burned, and Mrs. Smith lay burned
and bruised upon the floor Smith bad
evidently eudeavored to put ont the fire
and was also burned considerably. His
story at first was THAI the lamp had eX
plodcd in his wifes face, hut circum-
stantial evidence was found that went
far to prove that he had thrown the
lamp at her, crushing her head and set
ting her clothes on fire. Since his ar
rest he has either gone stark mad or else
feigns madness very closely. The most
intense excitement prevails at Sarnia.
The action of the Coroners jury is
awaited with the greatest anxiety and
public opinion against the prisoner has
been wrought up to the highest pitch.
Port Huron Times.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-09
jealousy and Kerosene.

A SENSATION IN HIGH LIED AT SARNIA-
A JEALOUS HUSBAND KILLS HIS WIFE IN
A HORRIBLE MANNER.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-09

The breaking of telegraphic commu-
nication with New York, Sunday night,
caused the non-receipt by us, of the clos
ing scenes of the Stokes trial, we there
fore reproduce, this morning, from the
New York Times, the charge of Judge
Boardman, the verdict of the jury, etc !:
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-05-23

There is crying need for reform
in education of youth. We see evi-
dences of this in the army of place
seekers, who become politicians at
first and often settle down into gamb-
lers and rowdies afterward. We
see it in the hundreds of briefess
lawyers and "patientless" if not i'm
patient physicians, in the vast multi
tudes of gentlemen who live bv their
wits and who so often complain that
they know nothing practical. Men
OF brains may always get along,
though often with difficulty, but the
mediocre ones will go to the wall
unless they turn to something prac-
tical.
The future of girls is still more
uncertain and dangerous. Without
natural supporters in 4 city ike this
it is beset with difficulties, th more
so that they seldom know anything
practical. The extravaganza Of the
average young lady, anl her false
idea as to respectability, &C., keep
many a young man from marrying !;
and as housekeeping is onerous
enough under the most favorable cir
cumstanGes, it becomes almost i'm
possible under such conditions.
The movement, started by certain
ladies, would be productive OF great
benefit if properly directed, but GER
tainly it is not competing with men
in fields which require muscular
strength and energy that women can
hope to succeed. There are several
branches monopolizci by men which
could be as well filed 10y women and
it is toward these that steps should
be first taken.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-05-23

and the nervous fingers of the mob
cannot pick stones out Of cement
pavement. In short, the Emperor
abolished lanes, so far as he went.
And so long as there are lanes in the
world there will be the elements Of
mobs, the lairs of crime, the dens Of
vice and wretchedness. Nor ought
the unfortunate good people to be
driven, by any allowed social force,
into those narrow passages where the
unfortunate bad do congregate Ly
their vile aflinities.
The true evangelization of cities, it
would seem, must include water, air,
gas and sunlight. The municipal
authorities themselves have mission
ary work to do. Would it not be
quite as sensible to vote appropria-
tions for the extinction Of lanes as
for parades and welcome to foreign
princes or native politicians?
Society makes its own volcanoes
and the lava is generally ignited in
the lanes.
If the good people Of the earth
would make up their minds to abol-
ish these narrow ways, cost what 1t
might, they would probably find that
by this very process they had cast
up the high way and broad way of
the Lord for the Heavenward jour
ney of humanity.
Instead, therefore, of dividing the
black fleece with that little boy in the
lane, take him out of the lane alto
gether.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-05-23
What a Baby Thinks.
Who can ten what a baby thinksg

VINO can tel what baby thinks?
When 1t wakes from its forty winks,
And rubs its face into numerous kinks.
Ana stalts at the light that comes in at the
chinks
vi Its rock-a by nest, and gaps and b'inks-
Who can tell what a baby thinks?
Who has courage to hazard a guess
AS to what the baby may think of its dress.
Trimmed and ruf1ed to such excess?
Of what the baby may think of the mess
For the headache, toothache and stomach dis
tress,
And for all its ai.ings, more or less?
What does it think when it wakes in tho n,ob+
with all the pretty things out of sight.
And nobody stirring and making a iight9r
Does 1t think its conditun is far from ripht
And that big folks are far from polite.
And that darkness is meant for a personal
sight7
Is that the reason it takes delight
In screaming with all its personal might.
And rousing the neighbors at dead of night?
And what do you think the baby thinks?
Looking around ike mild-eyed lynx.
Watching the snow that lrinkles and cbinks
While papa is warming its cafnp drinks
Over candle that gimmers and bIinks
Humming and drumming out Captain Jinks -
What do you think the baby thinks?
Do you say that babies are thinllless things?
With no other light than in ,tinct brings,
With brains as downy as butterflies wings
And heads as empty as a he'll chat swings?
DO you thin that babies are thinkless things?
Then when does the think begin to grow?
And when does the mind begin to show?
And when does the baby begin to know
That this is true or that is so?
When you find out viii you please let me know 9?
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-05-23
SITS A YEAR

none too common for his admiration;
and just here, as entirely apropoS.
allow me TO quote from Professor
Russell, the eminent microscopic bot
anist: "Cunningly, wisely, and full
OF secret, hidden meaning, thou
sand forms of the lower vegetable
life look up into the faces of pe,les-
trians who, with repressed curiosity
and not quite willingly, tread them
under foot. They are leaves Of the
great folio, marginal notes on the
pages of the book of Nature, often,
and to many, and for long period
to every one, hieroglyphs whose de
ciphering would repay all the requi-
site toll"
But to resume: take the lovely
little Anemone nemorosa. or native
Wlld-flUwcr." 1t il here grown in
quantity, with n double form Of the
flower as well. And then another
of our well-known harbingcrs Of
spring, the Hepatica triloba, or Liv-
er-leaf, sporting into VARIOUS uniqnc
colors and forms. Even the little
Claytonia sirginica. or "Spring Beau
ty,' and the less snowy Polvgona.
tum bi1orum and P. giganteum, the
Smaller and Great Solomon's
Seals, are cultivated with the great
est care. | noticed as we'll beds of
Sanquinaria Canadensis, or " Blood
root" and close beside it Erythroni-
um Americanum, or "Dog's-tooth
violet" (the latter title only by cour-
tesy). Our native lilies, Z. Phila-
delphicum, l.. Catesbaf, L. Cana
dense and l.. Supcrbum received the
/ fostering care OF their owner equally
with those that had received high
sounding titles.
The collection Of Iris, or = Flags"
IS especially worthy Of remark, and
the well-kuown l. Germanica. or
German Flag" by skillful hybrid
izatioh has sported into such a diver
sity OF color that the list of names,
With descriptions of each. would
form quite little volume. Every
tint is here represented, FROM pure
white to the deepest shade Of indigo,
and very many with delicate vine
like markings on the richly-colorcd
petals.
The American botanist will detect
his own lovely species, |. Versicolor
and |. Firginica, as in all other ge-
nera Of bulbous and tuberous plants.
1t is perhaps needless to add they
become vastly improved by careful
and generous cultivation.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-05-23
y LEGITIMATE INFERENCE-thata Il
dentists Office is a drawing-room.

4 PLEASING instance Of what an
earnest, faithful woman can do sin
gle-handed comes to US from North
Carolina. OF the lower coast Is
Harker's Island, inhabited 10y poor
fishermen. both white and black.
among whom went about nine years
ago Miss Bell, the daughter Of a
Rhode Islana clergyman. She took
with her wonderful energy and per-
severance. and IN time, with the aid
Of her friends, she established farm
where the natives said nothing could
DE raised. But under her personal
supervision men and boys have been
taught practical farming and are
shown the capabilities Of the island.
The good effects Of this labor are
seen now i'll the garden patches
about their own cabins. Close by
the farm is a schoUiLCuse where Miss
Bell teaches four hours daily for
about seven months Of the year.
The children are bright and interest
ed i'll their lessons, while cleanliness
is taught as cardinal virtue. Ou
Sunday there is a school and MORN
ing meeting, at which this woman
teaches the simple Gospel truths.
Says local paper, Miss Bells in
fuence is fell through all the region
and her hands should be strength
ened. She is about fifty years OF
age and the vicissitudes of her life
have fitted her we'll for the arduous
work. She has great tact With the
people and to them she is the law,
while at the same time she sympa-
thizes in their joys and sorrows, feeds
the hungry, clothes the naked, visits
the sick and is every way thoroughly
absorbed in her endeayor to enlighten
and Christianize the Inhabitants Of
Harker's Island .4-Ghrisftaa Union.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-05-23
From the Christian JLi0E.l

Very few Of our florists have any
idea Of the extent Of The bulb busi-
ness in and around the old Dutch
city Of Haan IN. Trae, some kinds
Of bulbs can be and are grown in the
vicinity Of Amsterdam, the Haage
and other Holland towns, but the
peculiar nature ofthe soil at Harlem
defes all competition in raising large,
healthy hyacinth bulbs. In this coun-
try, and throughout Europe as well,
save only tue above-named point, hy-
acinths will detcriorate under the
most careful treatment; but ct Haar-
lem florists will flower the same plant
year after year without any percepti-
bic diminution Of It's yigor.
The superficial observer cannot de
tcct anything in the nature of the
soil to account for the superior quat-
ity Of the bulbs grown here, but a
careful examination disc!oses the fact
that it contains a certain amount of
decayed vegetable tissue, although
the surface-soil is apparently pure
sand. and yet this land commands
$4,000 per acre when sold.
The soil for bulbs is prepared one
year in advance by digging in very
heavy coat Of pure COW manure and
planting potatoes therein. The sue
ceeding season, all heat and rank
efiluvia having passed away, the sets,
as they are called, or more properly
young bulblets, are planted and the
subsequent growth is really aston
ishing.
The method of propagating hya-
cinths is very interesting and, al
though a tedious operation, develops
some new ideas to American florists.
Large, sound bulbs are essential for
the purpose, and are selected from
the whole salable stock. They are
then removed to q room where the
workmen carefully cut out the bot
tom or root end, making basin as
it were to the bulb. They are after
ward placed upon rack in a shed
to dry and in short time removed
to the open air, where the SUMS pow
er aids the urying operation still
more, and after a time are again
placed on racks in the shed. The
ensuing spring they are planted and
by midsummer great numbers OF lit
tie bulblets are formed on the cut
portion.
The following year these are sown
thickly in rows and by the ensuing
autumn will grow to the size of mar
bles. -Four or five years are neces-
sary to perfect a salable bulb, and
the increase from each one Of the pa-
rent bulbs is generally from thirty
to forty young ones.
Another method OF increasing the
hyacinth is to make two deep Incl
sions crosswise on the bottom OF the
bulb and cultivate, very nearly az
above described, the small bulblets
forming at the scaritied lines.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-05-23
lFrom the independently
About Lanes.

Soothing my sick little boy last
night with the celebrated and vener
able nursery rhyme about the black
sleep, whose wool was to be shared
between the master, the dame, and
the little boy who elves in the lane"
| found my thoughts and sympathies
somehow specially enlisted in that
mysterious lad. And thus gradually
the general idea and theme of lanes
came uppermost.
That little boy in the lane. what
right or title had he to a share in the
sable fleece? Had it been a golden
fleece, would his claim have been
equally valid?
Evidently he was not one-third
proprietor of the sheep herself; but
only part Of the wool was going to
him, out Of some special considera-
ton. Was he sick? Was he poor?
Or was he a lame boy who could not
race and skate with the other lads of
the Deighborhood? Perhaps his
father was dead and his widowed
mother one Of those hard-working.
washing, scTuhbing women who toll
and moil with endless drudgery to
keep their children's heads just
above the black waters of staiva-
ton.
doubt if anybody, even the
learned editor Of Notes and Queries,
could confidently answer these ques-
tions; nor is any answer required.
This boy is typical. He belongs to
the great Lare tribe of humanity.
And this tribe is just as distinctly
marked among mankind as are the
Gips.es or apy other.
What is a lane? 1t is not a bou1e-
ward, not an avenue, not a street, or
a highway. 1t is the bottom on the
descending scale Of passageways. 1t
is a low way; it is narrow, untidy,
often unpaved, looking up with meek
eyes at the rears of houses and the
sides of stables.
No splendid carriage, with liveried
driver and footmen, ever rolls along
its mud. Beautiful ladies, with
sweet children, in holiday attire, out
for the sun and air, never stroll down
it in long professions Of gayety.
The regiments on parade seem never
to think of the lane in their line Of
march; so that the maFvels of drum
and fife belong to the outside world
for the laners. Torchlight process
sions, that make all sorts of other
mistakes, never 80 far forget them
selves as TO stray INTO the alley; but
they go flashing and smoking and
suffering up Broad Way, Wide
Avenue and Spacious Boulevard till
they 90 out.
These may be the people spoken
of as ''in darkness and the shadow of
death" waiting for some great light
to arise, something better and less
expensive than gas at so much per
thousand feet.
These laners are, at least. not the
people who have diamond weddings,
90 to the opera and take trips to the
| Alps or Yosemite. Their travel con-
sists chiefly in straying around the
/ corner, into the streets and avenues.
to steal a glance at the big world in
whose shadow they dwell. They are
outside the popular routes for tour,