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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26

was all our patience or piety could en-
dure. All such teachers had better be
sent to spin cotton in Lowell, or to split
cord-wOod in the wilderness, than to be
employed in our schools to educate the
candidates for law abiding citizenship.
The modern custom of expelling the
scholar from school because the teacher
cannot inf1ict corporal punt shment by
reason of his physical incapacity to cope
with stubborn, resisting boy, is both
an evil to the scholar and an injustice to
society. Not few boys, to whom the
school is irksome, and whose law
less parents esteem vagabondage as
highly as virtue, take advantage of this
unwise custom and rebel so as to be
expelled. AS well might a parent turn
his boy yagabond and a curse upon
society because he cannot govern him
without the rod, as for the teacher
steal our chickens, forag eour fruit and
burn our buildings rather than chastise
him soundly, which he so sorely needs.
We have had fathers of our flesh, who
corrected, chastised US, and we gave
them reverence, and many manly man
can look back on his school days and re-
member with reverence the teacher who
led him to a higher manhood by some
deserved, though severe chastisement.
Economy is good, but the penny wise
and-pound-foolish practice of employing
inefficient or effeminate teachers because
less expensive in dollars, with the tacit
or implied understanding that they, be-
ing too effeminate to administer phys
ical punishment upon Unruly boys who
need the bdSti7a0dO more than anything
else; will not be expected to correct
such scholars, but send them home to pa
rents perhaps equally incapable or in
different as to their discipline, is an evil
that is multiplying pests and CRIMINALS,
and building penitentiaries and scaffolds
for those whom the rod might have
saved to society.
Skill and power to govern a school is
often as essential to the interests of the
scholar and the welfare of society and
the state, as tact to teach what has been
taken from the textbooks.
And, not unfrequently, better, far
better, for society and state that the
teacher incompetent to discipline be dis
missed from the school rather than the
unruly boy he has failed to conquer.
We wish there was law, well en-
forced, that when the scholar, after hay
ing been thoroughly tried, and all ways
and means have failed, it becomes nee
essary for the good and safety of the
school that he be expelled, it should be
a transfer to the reform school or house
of correction, rather than into our streets
With such law, enforced, there would
be less rebellion in our schools and less
outlaws and rowdies in our streets.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26

COMMENCEMENT AT CAsLLEToN.-The
anniversary exercises Of Castleton Semi
nary and Normal School commenced on
Sunday morning, June 22d, with SER
mon addressed expressly to the young
by Rev. Mr.. Ayers of the Congregational
church. The day was uncommonly pleas
ant, the congregation unusually large,
and the occasion one of marked interest
to the old as well as the younger portion
of the congregation Both classes were
well represented. Rev. Mr.. Williams,
principal of the institution, assisted in
the services.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26

MURDER OF RUTLAND COUNTY Man
IN KANSAS. Henry Chaplin, a nephew
of George w Chaplin, Esq. of Rutland,
a native and formerly resident of Clar-
endon, in this county, was brutality muir
dered, at his homestead on Prairie Dog
creek, four miles below Nortonville,
Kansas, on the night of Friday, May
I'd. His body was found by his neigh
bors on the day following, pierced with
bullets, stabbed with a knife, and the
head pounded with rocks.
Mr.. Chaplin had recently returned
from two years sojourn In California,
and had with him about So, 900, one-half
of which, in gold coin, he had incau-
tiously displayed in the vicinity, and it
is supposed he was murdered for his
money.
No clue to the perpetrators of the afro
ciOus deed has yet been obtained. Mr.
c. was over fifty years of age, and was
unmarried.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26
Out of Town Notes.
POULTNEY.

Rev Calvin Granger is about re-
moving from HuhbardtOn to East POult-
ney. lie is engaged TO supply the pull
pit in the Congregational church at the
latter place for time.
The trustees appointed at the last
annual meeting of the Troy Conference
held a meeting at Poultney, last week,
for making arrangements to open a
school in the college building in Septem-
Der next.
The town grand juror is disposed to
enforce the liquor law in Poultney. Four
complaints were issued against that num-
Der of persons for intOXicatiOn. Wheth-
er it will turn out, on examination, that
they drank "Rutland rum" is yet to be
known. Hotel and saloon keepers here
"don't sell any" So they say.
The grand list of POultney for 1878
shows that there are thirty-one men in
the town, subject to taxation, by the
name of Jones. There are fifteen Smiths
on the grand list, but only one John
Smith. John Jones is ahead in POult-
ney.
From ten to fifteen car loads of
slate per day are now shipped at Poult-
ncy. OBSERVER.
NUKTu CLAKEcNDoty.
We have seldom attended pleas
anter Sabbath-schOol concert than that
which was given at the North Clarendon
chapel on Sunday evening last. The re-
citations of Misses Lizzie Gibson and
Jennie Holden were finely given. The
Rotations, also, of Jessie Webb and
Ella and Ida Bixby were commendable.
Little Julia Potter, of Rutland, sang
two songs, one of which, 81 am Dream
ing of the Loved Ones" was rendered
very effectively, and it was the gem of
the evening. The chapel was well filled
and was tastefully decorated with flow
ers and evergreens. A very fine cross
of evergreens graced the platform. Rev.
Mr.. Shurtleff offered a simple and ear
nest prayer and pronounced the benedic-
ton. He also made some pertinent and
acceptable remarks during the evening.
As whole, the concert was most en-
joyable one to all who participated or
attended Robert.
Hon. Henry E. Stoughton, who died
in New York city on Thursday, was for
many years a resident of Chester. and
studied profession with Hon. Luther Adj
ans, of this town.
Norman o. johnson has sold his in
terest in the store of Adams & johnson
to B. A. Park, of Londonderry. We
are informed that Mr.. johnson will
spend the winter in Florida.
The concert given under the aus
pices of the choir connected with the
Baptist church, June 10, will be repeated
next Wednesday. Mrs. DIR. Noble and
Mrs. VIM. Prouty, readers, and Messrs.
Lane and Goodrich, of Westminster, pi-
anists, have kindly offered their services
for the occasion.
Rev. A. b. Flanders, pastor of St.
Luke's Episcopal Church, has been en-
gagged to deliver the Grafton before the
trustees of Norwich University, June
Goth.
yERGENNEs.
The Stevens House was sold recent
ly to David Mcbride, late of the Bran
don House, for thirty thousand dollars,
to take possession on the tenth of July,
1878.
I learn that newsman of this place,
who has been receiving six copies of the
Globe since it started, this morning
wrote the Globe Paper company to dis
continue them from this date, telling
them tho paper would not sell, and was
only waste of stock, time and money.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26

SKLLFUL SURGERY.-Dr. Pond has
obtained an enviable reputation as
skillful surgeon. His last success in
that branch was the removal Of an en-
cysted tumor of fifteen years growth
from the head of Fred. Stocker, of Sau-
gus, hass., riilo5o about oiaE 1aailOr
from Boston. The tumor was removed
on Friday last and Mr.. Stocker returned
to his home yesterday, which would in
dictate that the operation was complete
success.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26
..Thcy who i'm Quarrels ,nterpose.' -

A prominent manufacturer of SPRING
field, Mass, has just been taught, at the
expense of broken carriage, the impro-
priety of meddling in other peoples af-
fairs. He was going to Chicopee when
about half way there he saw cat and a
black snake locked in close embrace
The possibility of their being lovers at
first occurred to him, but their wild and
vicious manifestations convinced him
that they ment war. Then his sympa-
thies were enlisted for the cat, and, as
its ally, he procured big stick and
brought it down with a terrific thwack,
not upon the snake as intended, but up
on the cat, which, with uncomfortable
rapidity, scratched him three or four
times, and dashed between his horses
legs and past his nose whereat that sa-
gacious beast materially increased his
noses safety by standing on his hind
legs. Then he tipped the buggy over
and set out for home; while his master
laughed Historically and clapped both
bloody hands to his shirt bosom, as the
snake leaned up against the fence, and
seemed to be trying to set dog on the
unhappy ally, as he trOtted away.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26

The VERMONT ACCIDENTAL the last
session of the Vermont Legislature there
was passed an act chartering the Yer
mont Academy, to be located at Saxtons
River, in the town of Rockingham, Vt.
The trustees of the institution held
their first meeting in the parlors of the
Baptist church in this place yesterday,
accepted the charter and organized by
the choice of the following well known
gentlemen as officers:
President, VIM. N. Pingrey, of Per
kinsville; President, Alanson Allen.
of Fairhaven; Secretary, Rev. NJ. A.
Wilcox, of Burlington Treasurer, Mial
Davis, of Burlington; Executive Com
mittee, Lawrence Barnes, Burlington,
Rev. Charles Hubbard, Chester, J. J.
EstY, Brattleboro.
The subscription papers are drawn for
1926, 900, 100000 of which is to be
permanent endowment fund, and $685.
900 to be the building fund. The trus-
tees have resolved to get the endowment
fully pledged before proceeding with the
building fund. At present there are
sos, 900 of it pledged, $4,000 of which
was subscribed by the citizens of Sax
toms River, with the provision that the
academy be located there. There is,
therefore, wanting, now, only $4,000 to
complete the endowment. The move
ment for the establishment of this aca-
denny started about year ago, being
the outgrowth of strong desire in the
Baptist denomination for more educa-
tiOnal advantages, and which, in short
time, resolved itself into this particular
movement, and, in the end, will result
in the establishment of first-class AGA
demy--such as Phillips or Exeter-which
will be credit to the originators of the
institution, and to the State.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT
For the week ending June 21st, 1873.
Taken at the State Normal School,
Castleton, Vermont.
tRepoTted for the Rutland HerdLd.l
lermometer. Barometer reduced
REMARKS.

armest day, Igth-average 2.35
Coolest day, I7th-average 1884
Highest point of thermometer, 80, at
3 pm. on the 18th.
Lowest point of the thermometer, As
at a. M. on the 18th.
Range of thermometer during the week,
AZ deg.
Greatest range, in any one day, 2S5 deg.
on the 18th.
Day of least range, goth, l6 deg.
Barometer has ranged from 29.227 to
% SOB, but the general range is much be-
low the average. 1t would have indicated
q storm of rain, but the hygrometer has
reported the air as very dry, which condi-
ton is quite unfavorable for ain.
Only LILO inch of rain has fallen since the
18th.
The magnetic needle is increasing its
number of oscillations, making seven
changes in several different days.
The daily range of thermometer is very
great, averaging q deg. for each daY.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26

FUNDING INTEREsT.-W congratulate
our fellow citizens on the step taken by
them, Saturday evening, in funding the
enormous debt spoken of in the Globe
yesterday morning. 1t appears, from
their report of Mr.. Barrett's speech, that
the village paid "for interest on water
"bonds, in 1860, S1O.74; in 1870, S12;
"in 1871, $15, and in 1872, 5000.
"There is still due $3.50" After the
extravaganza of the last board of trus-
tees in paying sin 1872, $1,000" being
one hundred years before it can become
due and after they are all dead and gone,
and allowing $3.50 to accumulate, we
don't wonder that some of the voters are
boiling over mad. While congratulate
ing ourselves that we have forced this
enormous load of debt-amounting ex-
actly to fifty-two dollars and seventy
four cents-upon our posterfty to pay,
amt we glad that we shall not be around
to hear the aforesaid postority swear.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26

FIRE IN FAIRHAvEN.-Ac correspondent
writes US that Robert w. Jones dwell
ling house, situated in the south part of
Fairhaven, was burned Tuesday morning
at about five o'clock Mr.. Jones had
arisen, built fire in the stove and then
went to the barn to take care of his
horse. Upon returning he discovered
one end of his house in flames and i'm
mediately gave the alarm. His wife and
children barely escaped alive in their
night clothes. Loss $4,000; insured for
$1,000 on house and s., 900 on furni-
ture, clothing and provisions.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26
reported for the Rutland Herald. I
school Discipline.

SUBSTANCE OF REMARKS BY REV. H. F.
AUSTIN IN DISCUSSING THE QUESTION OF
SCHOOL DISCIPLINE AT THE MEETING OF
THE OTTER CREEK VALLEY TEACHERS
RUTLAND.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26

Quick WoRK.-The trestle, 430 feet
long, on which the regular trains now
cross the Winooski, near Waterbury,
where the railroad bridge was recently
destroyed by fire, was built under the
superintendent of Charles II. Clark,
master bridge-builder of the Central
Vermont Railroad, in twenty mine work
ing hours. When it is taken into con-
sideration that nearly all of the timber
had to be hauled from Canada, and that
three-fourths of it was growing at the
time of the fire, it is thought to be the
quickest time on record for that length
of bridge.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26

FIRE IL SHREws BURY.-The house and
some OF the outbuildings belonging to
Ellen Dougherty, situated about two
miles northeast from NOrtham, in
Shrewsbury, were burned on Friday
night, June 90. The house was a one
and half story frame building. All the
provisions and clothing belonging to the
family were consumed. The loss is
covered by insurance in the German
American Fire Insurance Company.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26

THE AUTHORIZED LoAN.-The follow
ing is statement of the amounts paid
by the village, on account of interest on
reservoir bonds, and the amount coming
due this year, which the village, Satur-
day evening, directed to be funded
1869 for interest on ''new reser-
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26

"A young man in suburban town
sent off his first postal card on on Tues
day morning. After writing message
on the back, he enclosed it in an envel-
cpe, clapped on three-cent stamp, and
dropped it into the postoffice, remarking
that it was very handy arrangement
and should have been introduced years
ago.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-29
Bad News for Bald.Headed Men.

Dr.. J. M. Toner, of Washington, a
physician of large experience and a
close observer of facts, says that nc
cording to his observations nearly all
persons of both sexes who lived to the
age of 80 years and over retained a con-
siderable if not a complete suit of hair
at the time of their deaths. He con
cedes that there are exceptions to this
rule, but insists that a large majority of
persons living at the age of 80 or up
ward retain a comparatively good suit of
hair, or are not bald. His hypothesis
is that a person who retains his hair
past the age of 65 has a good prospect
of living to be over 80. The rule may
be tested by any one calling to mind
the ages and condition of the hair of
persons of his acquaintance of the ages
Indicated, the condition of whose hair
is known to him. The vast majority of
persons who become bald, or lose their
hair, do so between 35 and As, and these
rarely live to be over 65 to 70 years of
age,
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-29

To PERSONS who seek insurance on
their lives, we recommend the New York
Life Insurance Company as the most
popular institution of its class in Amer
lea. On account of its large assets and
popular plans, agents find it a most de-
sirable company to represent. If one
desires q pleasant and remunerative
business, and does not care to risk CAPT
tai, he can find it with this company.
But it requires a wide-awake, active and
energetic man. A good business can be
lone in any locality. The vacant terri
tory is being rapidly taken up, and per-
sons Interested should apply at once to
the head Office, 346 and 34S Broadway,
New York.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-29
The Muscles.

The order in which the muscles lose
their power is worth knowing. The
muscles which move the arms and legs
usually become relaxed before those
which maintain the body in an erect po-
sition. In relation to the social senses,
that of sight is first lost, the eyelids
forming a barrier between the retina
and external world !; but Independently
of eyelids, if they had been removed by
the surgeon, or could not be closed by
disease, this is still the first sense whose
functions are abol shed. Some animals,
as the hare, do not shut their eyes when
asleep !; and in case of somnambulism
the eyes remain open, although the
sense of sight is temporarily abolished,
but their acuteness is much lessened.
Taste is the first to disappear, and then
smell ; hearing follows, and touch is the
most persistent of the senses. So, con-
versely, a person is most easily awak-
'ened by the sense of touch /; next in or
der by sound, and thea by smell.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-29
Arctic Exploration.

Capt. Halls Arctic expedition cannot
justly be called q failure. He did not
entitle himself to the reward of e5, 600
which was offered SO long ago as 1776
by the English Government f the ex-
plorer who should get within one degree
of the North Pole. He has not discov-
cred the northwest passage, a channel
which the commerce of the world has
long since ceased to think about ; but he
has undoubtedly by his intrepid explora-
ton added to our geographical and
scientific knowledge of that mysterious
northern region with which the names
of Cook, Ross, Parry, Franklin, Kane
and Hayes are forever associated. He
has carried his vessel within 464 miles
of the Pole, 219 miles further than DIR.
Kane went, and a greater reach of Polar
navigation than has ever before been
accomplished, and he seems to have dis
covered the true entrance into the open
Polar Sea, which has eluded preceding
explorers. Capt. hall, of whose death
on Nov. s, 1871, the world has Just
learned for the first time, from the lips of
nineteen survivors of his party, was in
early life a prominent Journalist of Gin
cinnati. He became deeply interested
in the subject of Polar exploration by
following the career of DIR. Kane
in his two Arctic expeditions, as well as
watching the searches for Sir John
Franklin. He determined to join the
search for the lost navigator, and in 1860,
when 35 years of age, sailed on an ex-
pedition of which q large part of the
cost was supplied from his own can
He was more fortunate in his search than
any of his predecessors, and brought
back with him, after an absence of two
years and three months, some very val
liable information in regard to Sir Johns
fate. He published a narrative of his
voyage under the title Explorations
and Adventures in the Arctic Regions"
He made a second expedition in 1864,
during which he spent five years in
learning the Esquimaux language, and
habits of life. He secured many relics
of the Franklin crew, and discovered
beyond a doubt that they had persisted,
and when and where. After his return
he spent a year in scientific study, and
sailed in July, 1871, eve to return.
The Polaris, which carried him, was q
Government steamer equipped with es-
pecial reference to his needs, with n
picked crew, scientific observers, and
all necessary appliances, for which Con-
gress had appropriated 800, 000. He
was sanguine of reaching the North
Pole, but has persisted in the attempt,
another sacrifice to the ambition to which
Kane and Franklin gave their lives.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-29

THE WEST SIDE BRIGGS HOUSE, CHI
CAao, changed hands May LIST, and is
now under the management of Mr.. B. H.
Skinner, so favorably known in the no.
tel business for twenty years in Chica-
go. He was formerly proprietor of the
Briggs and Metropolitan in ante-fire
times. This house is the most centrally
located of any hotel in Chicago. It is
Immediately accessible to the wholesale
houses, railroad depots, and all parts of
the city by cars and buses, they pass
sengers arriving or departing by either
P, Ft. w. and G. Railroads avoid omni-
bus transfers. The furniture is new
throughout, the table is second to none,
and the price only $500 per day. Do
not fail to go to the West Side Briggs
when visiting Chicago.
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-29

Reader, put yourself in the place of n dyspeptic
and bilious patient under the old-fashioned regu-
lar treatment. Allopathic doses of blue pill, pur-
gatives that go through him with the impetuous
rush of an avalanche, opium when he can't sleep,
and a little beef tea TO keep him alive under the
assaults of the medicine men upon his stomach,
his intestines, his liver, and his brain, all these
he has to endure. Is it any wonder that he be-
comes drcadfully weak, emaciated and detected ?
Reader, if you have any gumption " you would,
under any circumstances, and at all hazards, de-
cline to put rsef-other than SUPPOSE
tiousIy-fn that mans place. Now put yourselfi in
the place of a person with the same complaints
who has had the sense to resort to Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters as a remedy. He takes that
agreeable and potent vegetable tonic and altera-
tive, we will say, three times a day. AS a neces-
sary consequence his appetite returns, his diges-
ton improves, his bodily strength increases, his
bowels become free and regular, his sleep is
sound and refreshing, his spirits grow buoyant,
in a few weeks the cure is complete. This is no
fancy picture ; it is a brief abstract Of the expert
ence of thousands Of dyspeptic, bilious, debilitated
and despairing patients. Is it necessary to ask
the reader in which of the two places he would put
himself, If afflicted with any disease of tho stom-
ach, the bowels, liver or the nervesa
If you have Fever and Ague, try Shallenberger's
Antidote. You will then know of ONE remedy that
Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-05-29

CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin,
pimples, ringworm, salt-rheum, and other cuta-
neous affections cured, and the skin made soft
and smooth, by using the JUMPER TAR Soar,
made by CAswELL, HAZARD & Co., New York.
Be certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap, made
by us, as there arc many limitations made with
common tar which are worthless.-[Com.