Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-05-29
From the st. Adams Messenger.l
Curiosities of an Old Paper.

Mr.. G. w. Kendall has shown us a
copy of the Rutland HERALD of Februa-
ry 9th, 1905, which is of less than one
half the size of the Daily HERALD of
to-day, and printed on paper cheaper
and coarser even than that used by the
Ogdensburg Journal The HERALD was
then the official paper Of Vermont and
in this issue we find notices of special
tax assessments on st. Adams, Berk-
shire and several other towns for the
Improvement of highways. The tax on
st. Albans was two pence per acre. The
paper contains no editorial but several
news items, all told, with much more
prolixity than is permitted in these
telegraphic times. It's leading article is
a scathing letter from Udney Hay of the
county of Chittenden, in reply to Hon.
Elias Buel, who had attacked Hay
through the HERALD as an advocate of
turnpikes. In concluding the article
Hay presents the certificate of two citi-
zens who had heard Buel say in an inn
that as member of the approaching le-
gislature he should give his vote against
turnpikes, using the ordinary argument
s'that a multiplicity of corporations in
the State gave them an ascendency dan
gerous to liberty" but that he could
conscientiously advocate turnpike to
go past his own door because he did not
''chuse to grant franchise to others
which he could not enjoy himself - 1t
seems that the editor had some idea of
either the limitation of his space or the
improperly of personal warfare and
SO he said at the bottom, what an editor
would probably be censured for saying
. In, fhaua Jauc "a har, avoYxghoIly thinlyo tho
press is for his own use, Nothing fur
ther upon this subject from either of the
parties can be inserted in the HERALD"
II is really curious TO notice the style
of telling things in those days. A news
item from New York, dated Jan. Goth,
eleven days before the paper.was issued,
gives an account of the freezing to death
of three boys of Mr.. McIntfre, who
"were so imprudent as to venture upon
the ice" "Thus by an ill-iudged te-
merity they have dug for themselves an
early grave and plunged in immeasura-
BILE distress their family and friends. :"
The following extract, too, will be read
with curious interest
from a late Baltimore paperl
DIED, at Grand Ecore, on Red River.
of a typhus fever, after eight days sick
ness, on the 18th of Nov. 1904. John
Hitler, aged 06 years. This man never
had days sickness in his life, (small
pox, measles, &c, excepted) until the
pneumonia complaint that carried him
off. He was born in Germany, and in
1857 was soldier in the French army
in Canada; being out on command with
a small party was taken prisoner by the
English, and sooE after abjured the
French service, and enlisted in the
British army-he was in 1853 taken pris-
oner and scalped by the Indians, and
otherwise so wounded that he was left
for dead he was in the battle at Abra-
hams Plains in 1859, and in 1850 was
was at the siege of the HAVANA, and was
one of those who placed and sprung the
mines of the Moro Castle-in 1868 after
the Havanna was restored to Spain. he
was removed to Pensacola, and was soon
discharged ON account of his advanced
age, and came from thence TO Nachito-
ches, where he has lived about 40 years.