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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-25

LIGHT IN DARKNESS. The Paris FL
CARO- gives the following method of OBJ
tanning light, instantaneously, without
the use of matches and without the dam
ger of setting things on fire:
Take an oblong vial of the whitest
and clearest glass, put in it piece of
phosphorus about the size of pea, upon
which pour some olive oil, heated to the
boiling point, filling the vial about one
third full, and then seal the vial hermet-
icaly. To use it, remove the cork and
allow the air to enter the vial, and then
recork it. The whole empty space in
the bottle will then become luminous,
and the light obtained viii be equal to
that of lamp. AS soon as the light
grows weak its power can be increased
by opening the vial and allowing fresh
supply of air to enter. In winter it is
sometimes necessary to heat the vial be-
tween the hands to increase the fluidity
of the oil. Thus prepared, the vial may
be used for six months. This contri-
vance is now used by the watchmen OF
Paris in all magazines where explosive
or infammable materials are stored.
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ATTEMPT AT HIGHWAY RoBBEEY.-As
Mr.. Lyman H. Payne, of Cornwall,
was returning home from the Crown
Point races, on the evening of the 10Th
inst, when near Mr. A. G. Hamilton's,
in Pridport, it being very dark, suddenly
a man caught his horse by the bit and
stopped him, while another man APP
preached the side of the wagon and, pla-
cling his hand on the end of the seat,
said. with an oath, 'NOw, we will just
take what you have got - ''All right"
responded Mr. Payne, and instantly
placed his hand in his breast pocket and
drew a large California knife, with
which he dealt the ruffian powerful
blow, sending him tumbling with cries
of pain over an embankmeat into the
bushes below. In what portion of the
body the knife struck the robber, Mr..
Payne does not know, but on reaching
home he found the point Of his heavy
knife broken by TIE force of the blow.
AT once, after the blow was struck, the
man IOiulilS lhC llolSC iCAt ITO htoSA anu
started toward the wagon Mr.. Payne
started his horse, a young and spirited
one, and the wagon wheel struck the
man and dashed him aside, and Mr.. p.
pursued mis- journey homeward. Who
these highwaymen were, and how seri-
ously one of them was injured by the
knife, is a mystery yet unraveled.
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wit and wisdom.

Anna Dickinson is not lecturing to
Rocky Mountain grizzlies.
The great question-"Did the Rev.
Mr.. Murray eat venison in July?'
The wife of a Wisconsin postmaster
has been detected opening letters. He
prefers divorce to removal.
The death of the Emperor of Morocco
will not do away with the artists.
There's nothing like leather.
The New York Post says the trouble
with the lame ducks of Wall street is
that they have been riding on imaginary
railroads.
A western man who had been sitting
on a wasp had just noticed it, arose
partly to his feet and with pathetic ten
derness remarked ''Ouch!" just at the
time when the lecturer intended to have
the people laugh.
A sufferer suggests an improvement in
the photography of the word panics.
He thinks it would be better to spell it
pay-nig 7
Ladies just returned from Europe
wear the hair very plain and low on the
neck, a style, we are assured, =" all the
rage - in Paris.
When broker advises you to sell out
five tWenties and buy ''first-class" rail-
road bond, ask him how much commits
sion he receives for placing them and
whether he sees any hay-seed in your
eys.
An OswegO IN. W widow left par
ticular orders that she should not be
buried within ten miles of the sepulcher
of the "old man" She also desired that
her dog might be killed, least he should
visit an obnoxious neighbor. Finally,
she requested that she might be buried
in the finest coffin which could be had
for money, and that her pale form should
be wrapped in robe of white alpaca.
Her wishes have been shamefully elisre
garded The ten miles was reduced to
five; the dog still lives and barks; and
the coffin was medium-cost one. There
will be some tall rapping in that vicin-
ity.
If anybody wants to understand the
precise value of public confidence, let
him watch the progress of what is call
ed a run on ile bank. And if he wants
to appreciate the fQolishness of the pro-
ceeding in most instances, let him recall
the remark of a German who had been
successful after terrific struggle in get
ting his money, "'Shoost you dakes der
money pack ag'in; / shoost want to
know we're git him ven WANT him."
A householder at Lampasas, Texas,
wishing to render the entrance to his
home as lovely and impressive as pos
sible, decorated the door with white
knob. 1t was the only one in the place
and the citizens fastened to utilize it.
They constituted it target and began
rifle and revolver practice Immediately.
The unfortunate householder retired to
The the cellar for safety, until, under the
influence of steady shower of bullets,
IN inc new knob had entirely disappeared
Inc door now opens with string, run
ming through bullet hole.
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Jay Cooke was horn at Portland. o..
August 10. 1921, of a good old Pilgrim
family, his lineal ancestor, Francis
Cooke, having come over III the Nav
flower in 1920 and erected the third
house in Plymouth He was educated
at home by his father, EleutheTos Cooke,
the leading lawyer of Sandusky county.
and first Grand Master of Ohio Free
Masons. Poverty assailed the family.
and at thirteen the boy, resolved to earn
his own living, sought and obtained
clerkship with a Mr.. Hubbard in San
dusky. He soon attracted the attention
of bis brother-in-law, William c. Moore
head, who employed him as bOokkeeper
in Philadelphia. He subsequently en-
tered the service of L. w. Clark 6 Co.
of that city, the largest domestic ex-
change banking firm in the country. He
became a partner when twenty-one
years old, and remained in the house uD-
Ill 1853, when he retired on a compet-
ency, having gradually obtained the
leading position in it. When nineteen
wears of age be wrote the first money
article ever published in a Philadelphia
paper, al d was engaged as financial edi-
tor Of the Daily Chronicle In 1861 the
firm of jay Cooke & Co. was formed
between himself and Mr. MOorehead
and now commenced his successfully
patriotic efforts TO relieve the govern
ment. harTassed by the rebellion, of all
financial trouble. In the spring of 1861
Cooke. without compensation. procured
a large number of subscribers for the
first government loan. He then placed
a war loan OF several millions for the
State of Pennsylvania at par. Mr..
Chase, noting his ability, appointed the
firm to one of the 400 special agencies
for a loan of $50, 0GG, 900. Jay Cooke
& Co returned one-third ef this. This
led Mr.. Chase to select Mr.. Cooke as
special agent to place the $500, O00, 900
of fiVe-tWenty bonds authorized BY
Congress. 1t was monstrous task, en-
tailed an enormous outlay and brought
little profit, though an immense reputa-
ton, to the master mind who engineered
it, His efforts kept pace with and were
always equal to the yicissitudes of the
war, and counteracted the dreadful de-
preston of the currency. When Mr.
Chase resigned, in June, 1864, and gold
rose TO 1876 per cent. premium, from IS.
in fifteen days, Jay Cookies shoulder
was put to the wheel, and early in 1868.
$500, 000, 900 OF seyen-thIrty bonds were
placed in Europe, and were subsequent
~ increased to nearly $500, 900. 900. The
government had to spend 50, 600, 900 a
day, and with it saved the Union. Jay
Cooke provided the money. His oper-
atoms since the war are a part and par
Gel of the history of the day, the most
recent and gigantic being the participa-
ton of the firm in the famous Syndi-
cate, of which Drexel, Morgan & Co.
and Morton, Bliss 81 Co. are the other
partners, and through whom the Ala
bama difficulty has just been happily
terminated. A man of princely liber-
atty, dispensed in widest streams, the
misfortune that has now, il is TO be
hoped temporarily, befallen him, must
be deplored by thousands of benefciaries,
| and is, indeed, matter of national re-
gret.-N. Y. Times.
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he has friends who will make good any
deficiency. A1r. Carleton is of the opin-
ion that his son has been crazy since the
death of his wife. He also states that
the loan he received was from the Trust
company, and not from his son. Young
Carleton has not yet been arrested. The
police have not yet been officially mott
fled of the defalcation.
HENRY CLEWs SUSPENDED.
Pas p. m.-Henry Clews & Co., have
suspended.
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POLICE Court.

At Police Courts holden by Justice
Marshall the following cases were dis
posed of \: e @
Richard Clark, intoxication, fined
fine and costs amounted to 1894.
Clark disclosed on j. & F. Caden, who
were fined $50 and costs. Appealed.
c. E. Stone-for assault-convicted
and fined $500 and costs. Appealed.
The court room on this trial was crowd
ed, and some of the proceedings would
hardly bear reporting for publication in
a newspaper
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ACCIDENT ON THE ADDISON Road
The mail train over the Addison road,
which usually leaves Port Henry at 7.15
a m, was, on Saturday, detained until
2 p. M, owing to the engine (the Pico)
running off the track at a defective
switch. "Brim" had his hands full for
few hours, but his pluck and energy
were, as usual, equal to the emergency,
and Notwithstanding all the predictions
that the ''Pico" could not be run to
Leicester Junction, ''Brim" said she
should go aid she went.
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CAsTLEToN.

Il failed to put in an appearance in
the HERALD, last week, only for the Sec
ond time in the last five years or more.
How is that for faithful reporter under
the head of 'sOut of Town Notes p
We have new drug and book store
firm. in the name of Kellogg 81 Rice,
the latter having purchased half inter-
est of the first in the business
The photograph firm of Bibbins &
Gorham has been dissolved. The bust
ness is continued by A. t. Gorham in
the rooms occupied by the former firm
of B. g. G.
The arrival of fifty or sixty Semi
nary and Normal school out of town
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attached to the Montreal express from
the north, when coming into the depot
yesterday, struck a cow at Landon &
Huntoon's crossing, throwing her on
to the cow-catcher The air brakes were
set on the train, and though running
pretty rapidly it was brought to a stand
still, few rods above the depot. The
cow got entangled in the cow-catcher
and was not run over, but was 50 badly
hurt that her throat was cut. She be-
longed to James Burke, poor man who
lives on Granger street, who had just
taken her from the village pound where
she was driven the night before.
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RELIGIOUS CONVENTIONS State
Sabbath School Conventions will be held
at Chester, October Sth and 9th. The
Vermont Baptist State Convention will
be held with the Baptist church, Rut-
land, on Wednesday and Thursday, De-
tober 1st and ID the annual sermon by
L. ]. Matteson of Brattleboro. The
seventh annual convention of the Young
Mems Christian Associations of Vermont
will be held in the NJ E. Church, Bur
lington, on Wednesday and Thursday,
October 18th and 10Th.
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Coon TENPLARs COUNTY VISITING
CoMMITTEE.-At the meeting Of the
Rutland County Good Templars Union,
recently held at Castleton, a committee
was raised, styled the County Visiting
Committee whose duty is "to visit and
encourage weak and failing lodges, and
cndeavor to restore them to life and use
fulness. This committee holds itself
in readiness, by deputation, to respond
to any call that shall be made in further
ance of the object of its appointment.
Application may be made in person or
by letter to Horace Campell, w. c. t.
of the Onion, at Poultney T. p Smith,
county deputy, at Castleton, or Hiel
HOLSTER, chairman of the committee, at
North Pawlet.
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Th Annual vemtioW of Ihe v. w.
G.. A.

The following is the circular sent out
by the executive officers of the Vermont
Y. NJ. C. A. to churches and associations
inviting the sending of delegates to the
convention, to be holden in Burlington,
Oct. 18th and 10th.
To tie Christian Workers IN tile Young
Mems christian associations and KUdR-
qeljc0I Churches IN TemOnt:
DEAR BRETHREN-Burli has sent a
cordial invitation to the Association
workers of Vermont to hold their seventh
annual convention in that city,o the 18th
and 10th days of October next.
In the acceptance of that invitation,yOu
Committee would urge you to avail your
selves OF the representation to which you
are entitled, and send men whose hearts
and heads are ever ready for the Lords
work. The delegation IS to consist of not
more than five members from each ascot
alton. Each Evangelical Church is also
invited 10 send one delegate, either pastor
or laYman.
Friends from outside the State are ex-
Dected to be present, with words of wisdom
for our guidance and encouragement.
The following topics, among others, will
be submitted for consideration and dis
cussion:
The difficulties and encouragements in
our work.
The need of revival influences.
How can Christian homes be rendered
more serviceable in restraining young
men from evil and in winning them to
Christ.
The necessity that Christian organiza-
tions should more effectively strive pro-
mote the cause of Temperance.
The value of Association Bible Glasses
and the best method of conducting them.
Brethren, pray for blessings on this con-
vention.
That we 'smay with one mind glorify
God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christi is the prayer of
Yours in Christian Fellowship,
Ii. X. CHASE, Chairman St. Elk. Com.
a. j. HOWE, Cor. Sec.
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A CoLLIsIoN.-An extra freight and a
& Saratoga railroad near Fairhaven sta
ton yesterday. No one hurt, but sew
eral gravel cars were demoralized.
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METEOR CAL REPORTs 50
For the week ending September 20 1873.
Takenat the State Normal School,
Castleton, Vermont. 7r
Reported for the Rutland Herald.l

Warmest day, 1Stn-aYefage b93o
Coolest day, 14th-average 1928
Highest point of thermometer, 1875, at
8 p. m. on the 18th.
Lowest point of the thermometer 81
at a. m. on the 10Th.
Range of thermometer during the week,
1915 deg
Greatest range, in any one day, 255 deg.
on the 18th. .
Day of least change on the l4th, 81 de-
greeS.-C
Greatest change in one hour 6.5, between
and p. m. on the 18th.
Period of least change, from to p. M.
on the 18th, another, about the same form,
to 10 p m. on the 18th.
Barometer has ranged from 29.310 to 20.
S76.
Rain on the 10th and 10Th, O.45 inch.
The first frost of the season occurred on
the morning of the 18th.
Last year on the 4th of October, 1871 on
the 18th September, in 1870 on the 18th OF
september, in 1859 on the 18th of Septem-
Der. gf III 'aEf.
Magnetic needle shows good deal of
disturbance, making 6 to 8 movements
every day.
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MIDDLEBURY.

Jerry Doyle, young man living
with Mr.. Braisted on a farm east of our
village three miles, was seriously hurt on
the 10Th inst, by being thrown from a
horse against a stone wall His scalp
was badly lacerated, and his skull badly
bruised. He is now improving and will
get well.
Mr. Robert Hayes, while at work
at Bellows Falls, on the 10Th inst, paint
ing the outside of the building in which
marble is sawed, was caught by the shaft
of the wheel running on the north side
of the building outside. and being unable
to disengage himself his clothes became
twisted around the shaft, and he whirled
with fearful rapidity until his clothes
giving away he was dashed to the ground
terribly hurt. Hopes are now entertained
of his recovery. 1t is a wonder he was
not killed outright.
A man named Mr. La Bonita was
returning home to his residence, one
mile north of our village, on the night
of the 18th, in wagon, with a lamp
burning in a lantern, when the lantern
accidentally broke and his clothes caught
fire. He was unable to squelch the fire
until he was so seriously burned as to
cause his death on the 18th. He was a
very kind, obliging man, and highly re-
spected. He was buried on the 10Th,
Rev. w. H. Meeker, officiating clergy
man.
Our community was shocked on the
morning of the 14th inst, by the news
of the death of Mrs F. A. Leland, of
East Middlebury, who was found lying
on the floor of her sleeping room, dead,
in the morning. She was in our village
on the 18th, transacting some business.
Her husband is in one of the Western
States. Mrs. Leland procured some
strychnine at drug store ON the 18th,
and the presumption is, that with this
she committed suicide. y post norton
examination was held, but no poison was
discovered in her stomach The father
of Mrs. Leland hung himself several
years ago in his barn, and her mother,
very aged person, was found dead in her
bed, having died natural death. Mrs.
Leland was a very excellent woman,
and highly respected by large circle
of friends. She leaves a daughter
and husband to mourn eruntiInely END.
Her remains were inferred at East Mid
dlebury on Sunday last.
CANDOR
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FIREMEN's MUSTER AT BRATTLRBoRo.
The firemen's muster came off at Brat
tleboro on Saturday last, as advertised.
The prizes were as follows: First prize
$500, second prize 5000, third prize
800. The trial resulted as follows:
Erving, Mass, company, first prize,
$400; throw 1873 feet.
Gardner, Mass, company, second
prize.
Orange, Mass, company, third prize.
These machines are all Zimmerman
make.
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JOHN Ell. Flagg of Bennington, execu-
tive clerk of the United States Senate,
has left Paris for Switzerland. He will
return to America in November, so as 10
reach Washington before the next ses-
sion of Congress.
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BRANDON.

Rev franklin Tuxbury, for the last
eight years the able and efficient pastor
of the Congregational church in our
ignation. Mr.. TuXbury has labored
earnestly and faithfully among MS, not
only in holding up and strengthening his
own church, but has been first and fore
most in all efforts for the moral and in
tellectual elevation of our community
Not only his church, but our entire peo-
pie will sustain a great loss, if his resig-
nation is accepted. If a little more of
the needful in way of salary is required,
we hope it may be forthcoming,
Several cases and some deaths have
occurred here from disease said, by
the physicians, to be as near the Asiatic
cholera as the climate will admit.
About three hundred pounds of but
ter, was sold on Friday at thirty cents
per pound. Mr. Geo. Stowe of Yer
gennes, is ready, at the store of Ross X
Pitts, on every Friday, to purchase all
good butter that is offered.
More than 1000 tons Of coal has
been brought into the town Of Brandon
the present fall. Five years ago not 30
tons year was used.
Our summer visitors are leaving,
and our autumnal visitors are taking
their place. The most prominent and
OF the latter is one Mr.. Jackson
Frost and family, between whom and
our city boarders there seems to be
good deal of GOODNESS, and anything but
friendly relations.
The Farmers Club discussed the
''fish question, " on Friday evening last
Several interesting fish stories" were
told, aud it was pretty well settled that
we could hatch and raise fish as easily As
chickens. H.
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Out of Town Notes.
PAWLET.


Is During the current year the several
churches in this town have all changed
their ministers. They are now supplied
as follows: Congregational, Rev. Mr..
Aiken; Methodist, Rev. Mr.. Mott
Baptist, Rev. Mr.. Allen; and the Dis
ciples', Rev. Mr.. Wells. These clergy
men are mostly young men.
Several new dwellings are in process
of erection in West Pawlet, and a gene
raj air of thrift pervades the place. The
Baptist church has been enlarged and
renovated, though not yet opened for
service. Two or three slate veins have
been recently opened, and a demand has
arisen for dwellings to accommodate the
workmen. l83
The crops in this town have proved
better than was anticipated in June, and
will be nearly an average. Early sown
oats were generally very light. Apples
are very scarce. The later crops of
corn, buckwheat and potatoes promise
fairly and will prove a good crop if
frost does not interfere.
The attention of our farmers is di
reetcd more and more, from year to
year, to the manufacture of cheese.
-Four cheese factories are in successful
operation and there is little or no cheese
made at home. Besides these five other
cheese factories are within two or three
miles of this town. -......-.
The keeping of sheep is almost
wholly discontinued, there being, prob
ably II a thousand sheep in town.
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NOTE.-To all attending the Convention,
having paid full fare over the Central Yer
mont, Portland and Ogdensburgh-Vt.
Division, Conn. and Pass and Montpelier
and Wells River railroads, will be furnish
ed return checks by G. z. Smith, railroad
secretary.
From some roads have not yet heard.
Each Association is earnestly requested
to send delegate prepared to give "a three
II a. m.
The meeting of the State Committee will
be held in the parlor of the Methodist
O'Clock on Tuesday evening.
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HYDEYILLE.

Deacon James Williams and Wu.
Cook. old residents of this place and
highly respected, have been dangerously
i'll for several weeks. Some hopes are
entertained that the former may recover.
E J. Hyde, who has been spending
some time West, was sunstruck in Chi
cago, H., few days since. He has r.
turned home, but is still dangerously i'll.
-Dyptheria is prevailing in this Vi
entity and several deaths have occurred
From one family in West Casteton,
named Shaw, three children have died.
A. J. Pierce has exchanged his house
and lot for "a house and lot in Fairhaven.
MIR. Cotter is repairing quite ex-
tensivelv his dwelling, recently bought
of the Hydeyille Co.
A short time since J. T. Freeman and
several employees entered and repaired
the inside of the tube that conducts tic
water from the fiume to Sherman's
marble mill, the water being kept back
by head gates in the flume The last
man cut was hardly on the bank when
the head gates gave way, filling the tube,
some five feet in diameter, almost in
stantly. The gate at the lower end being
closed, the air in the tube became power
fully compressed, and when it reacted
column of water was thrown from the
upper end of the tube distance of forty
feet. A moments delay in the tube
would have been fatal to the whole
party.
Rev. Il. Smith, Of Whiting, is to
preach in the Baptist church next Sab
bath. X.
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Jay Cooke.

SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND FINANCIAL WORK
or TIE HEAD OF THE GREAT BANKING
HOTSE.
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SUICIDE AT EAST MIDDLEBURY.-Mrs
Fred A. Leland of East Middlebury,
committed suicide by taking poison, on
Thursday night. She was respectable,
kind-hearted woman, beloved by all who
knew her. Her husband was out of
town at the time of the sad event. The
suicide is attributed to domestic trou-
BILE.
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GOLD EXCHANGE CLOSES.

1920 a. m.-Gold opened at SIP
amid some excitement.
1890 a. m.-Thc Gold Exchange has
just closed, the same as the Stock EX-
change. SLIP has been established as
the basis of settlement. The rate of in
terest is fixed at seven per cent, for car
rying.