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Napolcon's Fukeral.

The preparations for the funeral Of the ex-
Emperor of France are progressing rapidly,
but with subdued quiet, at Chiselhurst. The
body has been made ready for the grave and
placed in the coffin. 1t is clothed in the uni
form of Marshal of France. The features
express sternness, care and the endurance
of great pain at the latest moments
Of life. The Gordon of the Legion
of Honor and small silver cross of
exquisite workmanship lie upon the breast.
The hands are ungloved, and on one Of the
fingers sparkles several diamonds set in q
ring the last gift of Eugene. The ex-
Empress is almost inconsolable, and the
Prince Imperial, her immediate support, re-
mains stricken with grief The public are not
permitted to view the remains, and great care
is being taken to prevent crowding OF the fune-
ral, which will take place next Wednesday.
Friends of the mourning family continue to
arrive at Chiselhurst in numbers from all parts
of the Continent and it is quite likely that
the French democracy will be largely
represented in England at the mo-
ment of the interment of the remains
Some of the imperialists have expressed their
grief for the widow. Democracy and French
royalist reactionism appear to have already
come on friendly opposition in the chamber of
mourning, for while many of the French
visitors regret the man who crowned the
edifce'' in Paris, on the Malakoff and. at Ma
genta, many others of their countrymen have,
it is alleged already addressed young Louis
as, ''Sire, Your Majesty, Napoleon w."
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The Climatic influences OF Our Snow
Mantle.

The Climatic influences OF Our Snow
Mantle.
The heavy snowfall of the present Winter,
have an important bearing on the whole
years climatology. Before the cold season
had fairly begun, or the earth had parted
with its Summer and Indian Summer sun
derived stores of heat, the storms of Deem
Der spread the snow mantle over the vast
country stretching from Montana to Maine
and thence southwark to the Gulf parallels of
the United States Where the sun or the rain
shower has since worn threadbare the crystal
covering additional snowfalls, especially in
the West and Northumberland continental
radiation is greatest-have patched over such
districts, and the larger portion of the terri
tory named-perhaps as much as eighty per
cents still snow-clad.
1t is said that the Highland shepherds of
Scotland, when exposed to great cold, dip
their plaids in the brook and allow them to
become ice-coated, knowing that such mail
affords the best protection Nature in fur
nishing the example for this practice, evil
spreading her feecy protection over the
earth when its breast is most exposed
Year before last distinguished member of
the Imperial Russian Geographical Society
instituted an investigation to determine the
climatic influence OF snow, and the result has
proved that where the snow mantle appears
regularly tho crops are always sure. In the
steppes of Southern and Eastern Russia,
where, in Winter, there is scarcely any
snowfall and the little is blown away by high
winds, Winter crops are seldom attempted.
On the snowless northern coast of the Black
Sea Summer wheat and Indian corn flourish;
but it has been found that Winter wheat is
most precarious and uncertain, while farther
to the north, in the foresight and snowy
regions of Fodolia, it is quite otherwise. The
same process of reasoning explains the re-
markable existence of the great "wheat-grow-
ing belt in our fur Northwest, extending
from Lake Superior to the Athabasca River.
There can be no doubt that the snow covering,
by cntangling within its crystalline inter-
stices particles Of air, becomes bad con-
ductor of heat arrests the earth's radiation.
and also sets limit to the depth at which the
soil is frozen, thus preserving the roots of
vegetation from destruction. Mr. Glaisher,
the English meteorologist, has found, by nu-
merous nocturnal experiments, that ther-
mometcr placed on long grass during cold
weather will read as much as thirty-four de-
grees lower than one placed on the snow.
showing that the effect of the snow was 10
keep the grass warmer by thirty -four degrees,
and therefore the vegetation generally wermca
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TRIPLE SHEE T.
New York, Monday, Jan. 10, 1879.
THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
To-Day's Contents Of the
Herald.

rMURDER AND HANGING EXAMPLES WANT.
ED STRANGLE ALL OUR MURDERERS
TOGETHER I" LEADERSHIP PAGE.
LYDIA SHERMAN CoNFESsEsl AN AWFUL
CALENDAR OF DEATH THREE FAMILIES
EXTlRPATED WITH ARSENICi THE COLD
FLOODED MURDERESS AT LENGTH 'GIvES
HERSELF UP TO CHRIST"-TurRD PAGE
--LATEST FROM CHIsELHURsT NAPOLEONs
REMAINS CLOTHED FOR INTERMENT: THE
DECORATIONS: CONDOLING WITH THE
EMPRESS: NAPOLEON THE FOURTH-SEv-
ENTH PAGE.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A CONNECTICUT MUIR.
DERER-MARITlME NEwS-OBrTUARY-
TENTH PAGE.
SPANISH EDITORIAL CRITICISMS ON THE
HERALD's CUBAN EXPEDITIONS YELLING
THE TRUTH A SENSATION IN THE CUBAN
OAPTTAL HOW THE WAR Is GOING
FIFTH PAGE.
MORE ABOUT THE CREDIT MOBIILER VII
!. LANYi DR. DURANT FURNISHES ADDI
TIONAL FACTS: BUYING UNION PACIFIC
BONDS FOR CASH: A 100000 GOBBLE
NIPPED IN THE BUD BY DURANT-FouRrH
PAGE.
EUROPE BY CABLE AN EMANCIPATION PRO.
CESSION IN MADRID: THE CzAR SEEKING
A HUSBAND FOR HIS ONLY DAUGHTER:
TIE POPE AND THE KAISER-SEvENTH
PAGE.
CUBA-PERsONAL NOTEs-LATE TELEGRAPHIC
NEwS-SBvENTH PAGE.
JERSEY NJUsTICEl BALEFUL POWER OF THE
WRIT OF NE ExEAT: THE SORROWS OF
NOEL. A KINSMAN OF BYRON: HIS
ROMANTIC HISTORY-FFTH PAGE.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON MIR. DAWES "AC-
KNOwLEDGES THE CORN IN TIE CREDIT
MOBILIER PLACINGS: THE JEWS IN ROU.
MAN1A-TENTH PAGE
THE REBEL ROSTER WHAT HAS BECOME OF
THE FORMER OFFICERS OF THE -" So
CALLED" CONFEDERATE STATES: THEIR
HARD LOT: FINANCES OF THE SOUTH
EIGHTH PAGE.
BLOWING THE REFORM BUGLE! THE COMP.
TROLLER'S FINANCIAL EXHIBIT: POSI-
BILE REDUCTION OF APPROPRIATIONS:
100000 LESS FOR YEARLY EXPENSES:
THE INCREASED PUBLIC DEBT-FoURrH
PAGE.
A FLATTERING OUTLOOK IN THE WALL STREET
MARKETS. THE MONETARY STATUS AT
HOME AND ABROAD: GOLD AND THE
FOREIGN TRADE-REAL ESTATE-NINrH
PAGE
HARVESTING ICE ALONG THE HUDSONi I'M
MENSE QUANTITIES COLLECTED: THE
STOREHOUsEs: LOW SUMMER RATES
BROOKLYN NEwS-EIGHrH PAGE
THE PREACHERS EPITOMIzEDi TIE NOTE.
WORTHY POINTS IN YESTERDAYS SER
MONS-OUTDOOR ENJOYMENTS OF SUM-
DAY-LAURA FAIR LlBELLED-THE MO-
DOCS-ELEvENTH PAGE
4 MEXICAN NEWS LETTER. THE POLICY OF
THE NEW PRESIDENT: PUBLIC FETEs IN
HIS HONOR: CLAIMS COMMISSION RULES
GAS Observation-Disclosures PAGE.
BOOKS FOR POPULAR Observation-Disclosures
CAL AND THEATRICAL JOTTINGS-BROUK.
LYN'S NEW CHARrER-NAPOLEON AND
THE Observation-Disclosures PAGE
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of our traffic in the Gulf of Mexico; and
Java or Sumatra is necessity for our traders
in the Indian Ocean. and we shall just as
much need commercial depot or two Of our
own among the islands of China and Japan.
Our true policy as the arbiter of the Amer
lean Continent and of its islands and OF the
Sandwich Islands Ia the policy of non-inter-
vention in the domestic concerns OF our
neighbors, save a. the champion Of their
rights and of our interests against European
domination or intervention. We have territory
enough to OCCUPY our energies and enter
prise for thousand years. and beyond that
period our posterity may be wisely left to their
own discretion. We want no more Mexican
wars OF civil wars or San Juan disputes or
Alabama claims or Geneva conferences from
this old warlike and barbarian policy Of an
nexation. Let us stop where we are; let us
develop the illimitable resources we have; let
US encourage our neighbors TO do likewise; let
Us be content to stand guard over American
local interests against European aggressions
and s'let US have peace We have all
that we want from the Sandwich Islands
as they are. We do not want their white
elephant.
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are upon her once more. What might have
seemed humanity now is seen in all its love Of
self. She casts the last child to them and
stands at last alone at her fathers door.
sWhere are the childrenp" ''The wolves !"
That is enough; an axe is buried in her
brains the murderess receives her reward.
This rough, wild woman of half-barbarous
Russia is q saint beside Lydia Sherman I; but
the law says that no outraged humanity shall
satiate itself in her blood. Clearly we must
return to the older law-to something a
change must be made. >~~-- -sse
We have Stokes condemned to be hanged.
We have Foster condemned to be hanged and
half Q dozen moro. We have awaiting trial
Sharkey. who slew Dunno; Scannell, who
blew out the brains of Donohue; King, who
shot ONeill dead; Simmons, who slashed his
victim Duryea into slivers almost with
knife. Are we to wait years and years to see
tho sentence carried out ON those convictedP
Are we to wait in shame and grief
at the laws delay twelvemonth for the
trial and conviction of the others if they are
guilty. We want speedy trials The new
District Attorney is pledged against pigeon
boiling cases, whether of murder or theft
whether the criminals be rich or poor, whether
they be Influential as the word has been
understood, or whether they are as naked OF
'inAuence' as Jack Reynolds. We call on
him to do his duty and speedily. If crime
will have its carnival, let justice in New York,
Love AL Lcx ~. - koo Nsxvo
us, then, at an early day, broad scaffold,
with the throats Of all our murderers in stout
ropes beneath it. Let them all swing together.
And then let US see afterwards whether terror
is better curative than encouragement. With
murderers we soy leave mercy to the other
world, on which nine out of ten of them in
their last moments are ready to rely.
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Tm Cnx's MORTALITY during the past week
amounted to sos deaths and Al stillborn. The
births were 4S4 and the marriages Oil, an
encouraging improvement upon the report of
the week preceding in every particular. The
fearful weather of our Christmas and New
Year holidays this season doubtless carried
of many enfeebled children and adults, and
particularly impoverished old people, who
otherwise might have still been living.
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SEVEN DEsERrERs FROM THE SENATE of the
Pinchback-Kellogg Legislature to the War
moth McEnery opposition establishment give
us the latest fact of Importance in the Louisi-
ana imbroglio There is something, then, in
name-P inchback, for instance.
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Dun WISE MEN ON TIE WEATHER warn us
of the probabilities of more snow or rain very
soon. More snowl What shall we do with
it, That is the question M
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y
child ever saw''-and the crime hns the
same pitiless excuse, 81 was discouraged"
Two other of her children die, but she prefers
to say they died natural deaths. She goes to
Connecticut and marries again. Her second
husband dies Of poison too. She marries
third time, and confesses to poisoning her
stepson and stepdaughter, and, finally,
the man she married. It sums up total
Of eight successive cold-blooded, pitiless
murders, which she admits. Two more Of
the deaths of those near her were
in all human probability her work.
She was nurse for the sick, and
how high her crimes in their cold
calculation may have mounted up in this pro-
fession, it would be impossible to say. She
was tried only for the murder of her last VIC
tim. The point, however, which we insist in
calling attention to is that, with all this blood
upon her head, she will be permitted to live,
communicating Gods air as long as prison
diet will support her life Is there no
reversal to this, we ask? If Connecticut
can try her for the other murders
she has committed within its borders 1t
should be done. If New York can still try
her and hang her for the murders she con-
fesses to ON Manhattan Island it should be
done. Not murderer within the Tombs
not wretch outside it with murder in his
heart, but will feel the devil leap within him
as he learns that half score of human lives
can be taken on the chance, and that slim
one, of being imprisoned for life, total escape
from punishment occupying the heaviest side
of the probabilities.
This woman's record is the most horrible
that has ever seen the light In Russia it is
told that woman with three children once
started in sledge over the snow upon jour
ney to her fathers house. Night comes on
and a pack Of bowling wolves pursue the
sledge. The woman lashes the horses, and
still the wolves are gaming. She filings
child to them and gains upon them Again
they close upon the sledge, and she hurls
them another. The baying of the devouring
wolves and the jingle of the bells drown his
cries Sheis nearing her father house. but thew
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sion to the throne; that Mr.. Fish is not an
annexationist; that General Grant breads the
fire, having burned his fingers in St. Domingo,
and that if We keep sharp lookout when the
sky falls we shall catch the larks. In other
words the administration has not the re-
hottest idea of trying the St Domingo expert
ment in the Sandwich Islands, although the
London Times appears to regard it as mani
fest destiny, from the facilities which invite
us and the advantages offered with this annex
alton.
We are glad to believe, however that the
st. Domingo failure marks the turning over
of leaf on this subject-that the policy of
annexation has had its day, and that our
god Terminus, South, North, East or West,
will be advanced no further. No doubt the
absorption of the pretty Sandwich group
of Pacific islands would be splendid specula-
ton, for instance, to q trarspacifc steamship
company in copartnership with Tammany
Ring at Honolulu but in the first quarrel
with great maritime Power this pretty prop
erty in the Pacific Ocean might give us q
sanguinary war and another debt Of two or
three thousand millions. OF course, we could
fortify the islands (; but the hundreds of mil
lions of money which would be required for
this work would he better expended in con-
structing ship canals across the Rocky Noun
tains And, then, If the Sandwich group are
necessary for our Pacific trade, the West
Indies are needed for the full development
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TEHE MILLS MAY GRIND SLOWLY

The mills of the gods may grind slowly
but they do grind exceedingly fine. The
people, if deceived for the time being and
follow after false gods, are, in the end,
true to themselves and to the country. A
popular favorte may, temporarily, ride on
the topmost wave of public favor, and
carry all in his wake, but when his unwor-
thiness is discovered, he is cast aside and
his disappearance fails TO cause the least
ripple. Urged on by some senscless cry,
the people, periodically, clamor against the
courts and the claws delays" but, at
length, reason asserts itself, and we are
SHOWN, IN the most convincing manner,
now much our safety depends upon this de-
partment of the government. Only three
years ago, Tweed and his associates held
unbounded control OF the politics and purse
OF the city and state of New York. Grad
ually, but surely, they were gathering the
reins in their hands, preparing to take the
same possession of the national government
and treasury. The people were apparent
ly blinded, and seemed to place implicit re-
lance in the high sounding protestations of
patriotism and economy, which marked the
letters, Grafton and addresses in Tammany
Hall, on the fourth day of July, 1870. A
portion of the judiciary was, also, blind
blinded, we now know, by the potency of
gold dust. A few thoughtful patriotic
men exclaimed, in their despair, is thercno
hopo for tho country In a moment al
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ITO take care that the laws be faith
fully executed" We have a sort of dim
recollection of popular superstltlon-t
must have been asuperstiton to the effect
that certain village officers were elected for
that purpose. How they took care, and
how the claws were " faithfully eXecut-
" ed" might have been seen on West
street yesterday afternoon. The situation
was, in passing from Merchants Row to
Court street, on the sidewalk on the north
side of West street, as follows A "lum-
Der box" sleigh, with two horses attached,
hitched to the fence, horses and sleigh on
the walk; gentleman (?) driving a
horse attached to- "cutter' on the Side
walk, until cottage street was reached
boys and girls using the walk for skating
rink countless numbers OF sleds,
manned" with boys and girls, coastlng
down the same walk, to say nothing about
the road being occupied by coasters, ska
tiers and sliders. The only thing to relieve
the scene was manly little boy of six
wears, who refused ''to have a slide be-
cause. as he said ''his father had told him
Inr ncvcoeiiy VI accuracy On lne part ol
newspapers was illustrated yesterday A
contemporary probably "edting with the
scissors" from New York newspaper
stated early in the week, that note fall
ing due Thanksgiving Day, was payable the
following day-Frday. Relying thereon,
one of its readers came here, yesterday, to
pay bank note due November 9th, but
found that the note had been protested
Wednesday. The lawsof Vermont require
that note becoming due on Sunday, or a
legal holiday, shall be payable the day
before, not the day AFTER: and an editor, es-
pccially when he is a practicing attorney,
ought to know it. In this case, the man
was compelled to pay the cost of protest
and explain to his cndorsers but if it had
occurred in one of our large cities, it would
have been considered an act of bankruptcy
and probably have resulted in failure, or
expensive litigation. Great care should be
taken to be accurate in all statements. If
man don't know anything in reference
to the matter he is writing about, then he
had better keep still.
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THIS EVENING.

We trust that we may be pardoned, If
we, once more, direct the attention of our
fellow citizens to the important duty they
will be called upon to discharge this even
ing. 1t is, necessarily, our last word. Our
personal interest in the matter, is just the
same as that of every other citzcn-no
more, no less. We have our one voice and
vote in the matter-so has each voter and
taxpayer in the village OF Rutland. We
are interested in having free public schools,
schools open and free to all, IN the educa-
ton of the children of the community so is
every other parent and citizen. We know
the dangers to be feared from ignorant, vi
cious, idle children and young men, and
we know that ignorance is the parent of
idleness, and that Of We've are assured
also, that each one of our fellow citizens
thoroughly appreciates the same facts A
tax would be as burdensome to us as to any
one, and we would be gladly relieved there
from, giving our voice and vote freely and
heartily against an additional tax, to night
if we could reconcile such action and vote
with our conscience and sense of duty
Every citizen of Rutland is undoubtedly,
as well qualified to give advice upon this
subject as we area number OF them far
better qualified-but occupying, as we do
the responsible position of conductor of
the public press, we feel that we should be
derelict to duty if we failed to call atten-
ton to the importance of this question,
and, at the same time, neglected to urge
upon our voters and taxpayers the duty to
be present at the meeting this evening. The
object of this assemblage is tersely stated
in the warrant" to be; $40 see if the
district will vote a tax sufficient to main.
tain the schools therein, the remainder of
the school year. and pay the indebtedness
of the district" Now we do not propose
to discuss or consider the question here
presented at length indeed, we do not
consider 1t necessary-we, certainly, trust
that 1t is not. What Is this question |?
Simply and solely, whether the public
schools of the village of Rutland shall be
opened or closed during the ensuing four
months. The question does not, and can.
not, arise whether the public money has
been judiciously or injudicousy expended
This must be settled in another manner and
at another time. Shall we have schools
this winter' This is the question for the
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Whatever may be the individual views
and feelings of the voters and taxpayers OF
the village of Rutland-whether they Ia
vor or oppose a tax, whether, or not they
are disposed to authorize the trustees TO
take such a course as will continue our
schools, whether they desire our school
houses closed for the next four months, or
filled with scholars under the care OF com
petent, proper teachers-wc trust 'ha'
each and every person entitled to vote VIII
he present at the Town Hall this evening.
Let us have fair, honorable, manly, full
expression of the voters. we all nave
equal rights, we stand on the same level,
let us boldly express our honest sentiments
without fear of any one, or the expectation
of favor from any source. Let us discharge
orr duty as American citizens as becomes
American citizens.
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THE RUTLAND DAILY MORNING

most, like clap of thunder out of clear
sky at MONDAY, came the explosion. a
political reform was worked out by union
of honest men, without regard to politics.
AS Judge Davis took occasion to explain to
Tweed, there was no question of party poll
tics involved. The bench was, also, puri-
fed and the last, the most fatal, blow was
given to the Tammany ring by the
courts. Without their aid, the victory
would have been barren. Look at the re-
suit, so far Tweed sentenced TO twelve
years confinement on Blackwell Island
Ingersoll and harrington convicted of for
gerry the other thieves, who fattened on
the treasury, to be tried one after another !;
Genet, asscmblyman elect, indicted for
high crimes eminent lawyers, who prosti-
tuted their heaven given talents in defence
of fraud and rascality, without caste or
standing in their profession, and compelled,
to-day. to apologize for their unprofcssion-
al, unmanly and dishonorable conduct, and
to receive. as once before. the stern rcbuke
VI u Just Jutl8t. Ht bul IIbNto0
had not been confined to New York city or
to Tammany alone. These same mills,
though grinding slowly, have ground very
fine the characters and reputation of Col
fax, Patterson, Pomeroy, Harlan and
others. Dishonesty and hypocrisy "don't
pay Rascality may, for time, appear
to succeed. but it is only seeming. The
more its apparent success, the greater tho
fall Let our young men remember this
Let our politicians bear this in mind. lion
esty is the best policy everywhere. whether
it may be in private or public life. lie
them remember that the slower the grind
ing the finer is the dust.
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Thanksgiving Services.

The National Thanksgiving was appro-
priately observed by religious services in
in this village at Trinity (EpiscopaD church,
and Union service of the Congregational,
Methodist and Baptist churches at the
Methodist house of worship at 1870 am
We give summary of the services and
abstracts of the dlscourscs in this village
and other places within the circulation of
THE GLOBE.
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The Springfield Republican tried, ant

The Springfield Republican tried ana
latter sort" accomplished the feat' OF
publishing paper yesterday morning-'he
dav after Thanksgiving-and this is how
If liked the undertaking 1.-THE RepudH-
can feels, this morning, as the wheels OF
O! Time had rolled Backward on it. But
Yesterday was Thanksgiving everybody
went home nobody made any news adj
verlising is not necessary and single
sheet contains all we know, and all that is
worth knowing, to-day" Jjst 81, ms the
blacksmith would say.