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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-30
..rhe Life ON ,ho ocean wave,

THE following lines are commended
to the careful perusal of those contem-
plating an ocean voyage. They express
the experience of a well known railroad
president on a recent voyage across the
Atlantic, put upon paper at the time,
for the qualification of his fellow yoy-
ayers, and sent us for publication -
ED. RUTLAND HERALD
Ger the rough pillows Of the boist'rous
main,
With pulses throbbing and frames racked
with pain,
When shall our eyes, beyond the watery
foam,
See, terra J5,z,sa, and behold our home?
Awful that rule, nc limit TO its sway,
Neptune exacts and all the world obey.
Ours the dread fate, in anguish still 10
creep,
From berth to deck in vain attempt to
Sleep.
Oh! who can tell? not thou, who'ere you
Whose soul ne'ersickens on the heaving
Not thou, deck Iounger, mid tempestuous
seas,
Amphibious monster, ever at thy ease.
oh who can tell, save he, whom, stomach
tried,
Hath cast up torrents DER the vessels side.
The sinking dread, the faintness, worse
than all
That witness the sea, sick in its Ianguid
pail.
That of itself alone, unnerves the brave
And turns the hero to a trembling slave,
That penetrates with an emetic zeal,
And makes US sometimes faint, but always
feel
Feel, in the rising stomach's Utmost cell,
It's contents mastering, ready to rebel.
No dread of death, if with it there comes
rest.
Thy waves eternity alone are blest.
Come if it will, the joys of life are fed,
And rest and peace are ever with the dead.
Still must we crawl, o'erburdened with oar
Cling to our berth, and wait upon our
Heave all our woes and toss the aching
Keep down the flood with Cruel and brown
bread,
Till, gasp by gasp, IT struggles to be free,
And, in one cataract, leaps into the sea.
Let him whose nerves were never known
to fail,
Gorge with Welsh Tarebits' and imbibe
pale ale.
Ours are the pangs, not few, sincerely felt,
at Hunger's mandates never known TO
melt
ca,.r4z - . lar, 4 t.ets fund delights supply,
And oaf meal purcid ge crowns our misery.
One only hope iIu,nes cET |Tetched way,
That with the beams OF each returning
day, --..-..
AS dawning morning breaks with roseate
light.
The welcome cry may come OF - Land i'm
sight.'
Steamship Scotia, Sept. Il. ls7S
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Life I'm the Bcseiged Town OF Carr
Iagena--The Valiant SenIineIs.

The correspondent Of the London
Times, writing from Cartagena, says:
Our life, as you may imagine, is not
of the liveliest, and / scarcely know
what we would do to fight off utter
stagnation if it were not for the false
alarms, which are fortunately frequent.
They never, of course, occurr by day,
which passes off so quietly that were it
not for the dreary, deserted aspect of
the streets, and the occasional firing of
the forts. there would be but little to re-
mind US that we are in besieged town;
but at night, when it gets dark, the sent
ries begin to think more of enemies,
ghostly and fieshy alike for the Carta-
genians are very superstitiOus, and de-
vout believers in devils and hobgoblins
of all descriptions Their chief duty is
to shout "Alto" (halt) from some
dark corner when anybody approaches,
and gdOubtless to show they are not
afraid, they shout with an energy that
must, you feel, half lift the sentry.
often small boy-half off his legs and
ii is as sudden as stentOrianp-robably
lifts you wholly off yours. You duly
halt, and the sentry then shouts, but in
more subdued tones, as if he were par
TALLY exhausted. ''Quien vive ?" You
reply, ''Espana EQue genie p E'Cui-
dadanO Tomkins." "Pase ciudadano
something or other" and you go on
quietly until you are again challenged.
After this ceremony has been repeated
several times, young sentry is apt to
get so sharp or So nervous that he sees
something moye-it may be dog or a
moving tuft of prass-and getting no
answer to his repeated challenge, shOul-
ders his rifle and blazes into space. In
less than a minute his comrades all
down the line are doing the same thing,
and before the echoes have died away it
is reported all over the town that the
enemy are attacking, and there is a gen
eral call to arms. | have been aston
ished at the rapidity with which the
troops muster and mass upon the point
supposed to be attacked. 1t looks as if
their discipline were not quite so bad or
their distaste for fighting so pronounced
as their benevolent" enemies make out.
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SainEa gundi.
Steamship Scotia, Sept. Il, 1878.

Who is the first boy mentioned in the
Bible ?-''Chap. /
Every card of wood given TO the poor
is recorded above.
A kangaroo is d curious chap; when
it's wide awake it's leaping.
Last words of Jack-s'Ill be hanged
if / go upon that platform"
You don't do that again." said ia
pig to the boy who cut his tail off.
When are skipping lambs Ike litera
~ volumes? When they are boundin
sheep.
To keep warm on a cole day, the
women double the Cape and the men
double the Horn.
A Justice Of the peace at Kansas City
puts it: sNow let the gaul darned jade
vince
Many a man, who thought he had
made bargain in buying silks, found
he had got worsted.
A Georgia firm win manufacture paper
from banana skins, If they don't slip up
before they get at it.
A Fort Plain merchant advertises his
goods at oxyun. That man has always
steered clear of newspapers.
Observation-Disclosures is the title by
which conjurer of Harrison, Penn,
chooses to advertise himself.
When Jonah's fellow passengers pitch
ed him overheard, they evidently regard
ed him as neither prophet nor loss
. The editor of a Nevada newspaper
gives notice that he cannot be bribed
with FIVE cent cigar To write five dol
lar puff.
A Scranton paper, in giving an account
of shooting affray, says the wounded
man is expected to recover, as the pistol
ball lodged in his dinner pail.
In passing through dark tunnel on
Pennsylvania railroad, woman's voice
was heard exclaiming ''DOn't you
fool around l carry pistol in my
panier :"
A Louisiana man puts a two ounce
can of nitro-glycerine inside chicken,
losses the chicken to an alligator, and
the bayou which once knew that aliga-
tor, knows him no more.
'Raw Recruits for Satan, is the
kindly compliment bestowed by the
Northern Christian Ad0ocate in record
ing the admission of two hundred new
students into Cor nell University.
"How does that look, eh p said a
big listed Wall street man to a friend,
holding up one of his brawny hands.
'sThat," said the friend, 'tlooks as though
you'd gone short on soap.
A Texas barber, who ornameDted his
front door with white knob, is said to
have had no peace until the last vestige
of it had been shot away by his neigh
bOrs, who used it as a target.
The city carrier of Missouri paper.
on publication day, seats himself in the
nearest saloon, and in the course of a
few minutes delivers each subscriber his
paper In person, thus saving time and
shoe heather.
So witty a compliment is rarely made
as that of Sydney Smiths TO his friends,
Mrs. Tighe and Mrs. CUTIE 'Ah, there
Won are, the cuff .that.teyery one would
like to wear, and the tie that no one
would lose.
A Western editor complacentlY OBJ
serves 'sA perseyering contributor to
this journal, who properly writes only
ON one side of his paper, has furnished
material for the editor TO write his cdr
torials on for the last six months-on
the blank side of said paper, furnished
postage prepaid. If economy be a vir-
tue, we win certainly be blessed.
O o..
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West Rutland Notes.


Prof, r. F. Hascall, former resi-
dent Of this place, has returned from his
home in Durham, Me, and is to spend
the fail and winter in the instruction of
vocal music in Rutland county. Towns
desiring the services of a first class in
structor in vocal music should lose no
time in securing the services of this dis
tinguished teacher.
Miss Gilmore has just commenced
the fall term of instruction in vocal mu-
sic to quite large class. A just ap-
probation of her superior merits as
teacher is apparent from the constantly
increasing numbers to her class at each
succeeding term. Acceptable worship
upon the Sabbath depends largely upon
the singing and the nearer it approaches
perfect harmony, the nearer it is to Di-
vine acceptance. ....
j. E. Leonard, ESQ.,, the efficient
principal of the Catholic Academy in
this place, is making additions to his
pleasant residence. Long life and much
pleasure to him and his accomplished
bride. j. e. NJ.
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earliest convenience, prepare a rate bill
reducing the fares to three cents per mile
as nearly as practicable. In arriving at
this conclusion do not forget the pecu-
liar character of the road, that it is
made up of short lines branching out in
different directions and being route
for pleasure travel, large part of our
equipment is housed for nearly two
thirds of the year, rendering it impossi
BILE to operate the road with anything
like the economy that it could be done
if the business was regular and uniform
Notwithstanding all this, we are willing
to make the trial in the hopes that the
increased travel will compensate for the
reduction in fares, and with view to
meeting the demands that are made upon
us by the travelling public. You will
please send me copy of the modified
bill as soon as you have it prepared, and
you may give such notice of the pro-
posed reduction as you may deem pro-
per. Respectfully yours,
THos. Dickson, President
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The GraEsgers.

The Patrons of Husbandry now have
''granges" in nearly every State Among
those not favored are Maine, Rhode
Island and Connecticut. New Hamp-
shire has four oranges, Massachusetts
five, and Vermont twenty-seven-the
last named having the only State organ
ization in New England Iowa has
1911 oranges; Missouri, 872; Illinois,
652; Kansas, SIT Indiana, 321; Min
nesota, Mississippi and Nebraska each
between 300 and 400. Ohio, the State
of the William Allen and Democratic
resurrection, has less than 200 oranges,
and the political change there was I'M
doubtedly due to some other cause.
Pennsylvania has twenty-six oranges
and New York only eleven.
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The balance of Power.

There is no doubt but there is every
where great respect for farmers, and
that they exert a strong influence IN
government, in literature, in morality,
in all the great interests of mankind;
but it is clear that at present the balance
of power is against them. The mechan-
ical, commercial and literary interests
of the world quite overpower and over
ride the agricultural. The scholars, pro-
fessional men, editors and leaders in the
center of trade, money and talent, hold
the great reins of influence largely in
their own hands They monopoliZe the
sources and instrumentalities of power !;
they command the school, the market,
the press and even in the church they
hold potent sway. Everywhere the
farmer holds less power, wields less in
fiuence than justly belongs to him. He
ought to be the man of power. He
ought TO sway largely the leading inter-
ests of every enlightened community.
His vote should decide the election !; his
voice give tone to the statute. His opin-
ion should weigh heavily with the press.
His interests should be considered in the
bank and counting house. If so, soei-
ETY. would have more moral health,
and enjoy far greater and better pros
perity. ..,.....,a..s.
How shall the balance of power be Sc
cured to the farmers? BY education.
The educated classes will always hold
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the balance power. Let farmers cult
vate their minds as well as they do their
fields, and they will have authority.
Give them thoughts, opinions, tastes, as
pirations, a knowledge of men and
things, and whatsoever enters into the
capital stock of an educated mind-and
they will secure the place and power to
which they are justly entitled.
Let their boys and girls be thoroughly
educated and animated by the stirring
thought and philosophy of the times, so
that from our farms shall come books,
essays, poems, laws, works of art, con-
situations, social reforms, criticisms,
judgments, approvals and censures,
bearing the marks of power and taste,
and they would soon receive the defer
ence always paid to cultivated mind.
Educate, should be the farmers
watch-word. His whole hope is in this.
His profession is the most honorable one
to which men give their labor. 1t is
nearest to the divine order of livelihood.
1t is making, creating, supporting, pro-
ducing; it IS healthy, moral, useful, es-
sential, and greatly dependent on Divine
favor. Ii is, therefore, mans proper
business, and in every civilized com
munity should hold the balance of
power. Let mind and muscle work
well together CoInaan's (St. L0ltis)
World.
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JOHN G. I1EENAN.

The sad death of John G.. Heenan,
The world renowned pugilist, which re-
Gently occurred at Green River, Utah,
recalls to mind about the only man who
ever did his country any good in the
Prize ring. We have no sympathy, and
Out little patience, with any of the de-
Oasing sports in which rough men wear
OF their vitality by bruising each other,
or in giving pain to people who have a
night to enjoy the blessings Of life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness; but
as long as the brute classes of human
l'y exist and keep themselves out of the
reach OF christian influences, and away
from the refnements of educational and
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EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS. - The
times fixed by the town superintendent
of the several counties of the State for
the regular fall examination of common
school teachers are as follows:
Addison, Saturday, November
Bennington, Saturday, November /.
Caledonia, Saturday, November Is.
Chittenden, Saturday, November Is.
Essex, Saturday, November 49,
Franklin, Saturday, November %.
Grand Isle, Friday, November IA.
Lamoille, Saturday, November Is.
Orange, Saturday, November Is.
Orleans, Saturday, November 80
Rutland, Saturday, November s.
Washington, Saturday, November %.
Windham, Saturday, November %.
Windsor, Saturday, November s.
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Reduction of Rates.

Several papers having taken the trouble
to deny the statement made by us re-
Gently, that the passenger fares along
the Rensselaer, & Saratoga railroad were
to be reduced, we publish below the
official order of President Dickson con-
frming that statement. We thought we
knew what we were talking about when
we made the statement:
PRESIDENTS OFFICE, DELAWARE AND
HUDsoN CANAL COMPANY, AND RENs-
eELAER AND SARATOGA AND ALBANY
AND SUsQUEHANNA RAILROAD CON-
PANIEs.
New YORK, Oct. %, 1873.
II. A. Fonda, General Super5mten-
dent.
DEAR SIR: During last winter, at
the time our fare bill was being agitated
in the Assembly, | gave assurance to
some of the members that so soon as our
route through to Montreal was complet-
ed, and possibly before, we would re-
duce the rates on the Rensselaer, and
Saratoga. AS the question seems to
be agitated more or less along the line
of the road, | have decided to make a
reduction dating from the 1st of Janu-
airy next. You will therefore, at your
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-30
Terrible Railroad Accident 80 An
Unknown Young Man Killed.
His Body Badly Wangied.

About three o'clock Saturday after
noon, a young lad, aged sixteen, board
ed freight train in the old railroad
yard, at Albany, and rode as far as West
Albany, when by some means he fell
from the car, several of which passed
over him, severing his body nearly in
twain. The body was brought to the
Third Precinct Station, where hundreds
of people called to view the remains but
were unable to identify them. The boy
stated to the brakeman on the train, that
he was swindled out of his wages by the
captain of canal boat, and wanted to
get ride to his home in st. Lawrence
county, about sixteen miles from Ogdens-
burgh The body was removed by the
coroner to his room. 1t is five feet six
inches in height, with light hair, dressed
in gray plaid shirt, gray jacket and vest,
two pair of pants, the under one gray,
outside one light brown; kip boots,
black Kossuth hat. No article save
briar-wood pipe was found on his per-
son.
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out of Town Notes.
CASTLETON.

MIR. Peter Robinson, who left this
town about 1926. a young man, and has
resided at the west and in California
since that early day, has, with his wife,
returned to Castleton, and taken rooms
for the winter at the Bomoseen House.
They have son a popular and talented
preacher in Troy, N. Y, at high
salary. a.r
William Denison has been on visit
to Castleton, his native town, after being
abroad in Michigan and Indiana thirty
years or more He is the eldest son of
the late Deacon Denison. This was
numerous and influential family
here at one time, but not one represent
alive of the name resides in the place at
this time. One of the daughters mar
ried Rev. Mr.. Lyman, who, with his
wife, are missionaries in Oregon. Mr..
Lyman was ordained as a minister and
missionary at the Congregational church,
20 years ago. Rev. DIR. Beman, of
Troy, preached the ordination sermon,
and we well remember that it was an
occasion of deep interest. Mr.. and Mrs.
L. have never returned home.
Edward Eaton, one of the oldest
inhabitants of the town, died last
Wednesday at the good old age of 80
years. He is the last member of a
numerous family of Eatons that have
lived on what has been known as Eaton
Hill for 20 years or more. Among them
who has died since my remembrance
was Noah, Daniel, Elihu, Jonathan,
Stephen, Arden, Oliver, Arson and Ed
ward. They all lived to see many years.
Only one family of Eatons reside on the
hill now.
Samuel Langdon died last Friday
evening at the residence of Mrs. Charles
Langdon. He was the second son of the
late Marcus @. LangdOn; his disease was
consumption. He returned home from
Battle Creek, where he had resided some
fifteen years, about four months since in
a low state of health, and from that
time gradually declined until his death.
"A man who has resided three miles
from this village for twenty years, never
failed visiting it from one to three times
a week until last week, when he did not
put in an appearance. He says it was a
dreadful long week to him, and it seemed
to us as though everybody in the place
had gone visiting, it was so lonesome
without looking upon his person and
hearing his charming voice as in years
and weeks past. ... .....
The greatest difficulty a wOuld-be
prominent parsonage in the west part of
the county has to contend with is, how
he shall contrive to cause the removal of
your CastletOn correspondent. His last
resort was to circulate a petition, adj
dressed to the preprietors, praying them
to discontinue nv services as reporter
for the HERALD. Such is life, and we
amt dead yet, and expect to stay as long
as we can see anybody live.
Rev. Bostwick Hawley. D. D., pas
tor of the Methodist church in 1865 and
'66; Rev. j. Phillips, pastor of the same
in 1869, 20 and II, and Rev. H. G.
Farrar, pastor of the church in 1872,
have all recently been in the place. The
latter preached one of his convincing and
characteristic sermons last Thursday
night, in the lecture room of the church,
to highly pleased congregation.
b. W. P.
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pITTsFoRD

r. Our potato market is closing well.
Prices have raised from 80 to soc at
present soc. is the going price. 1t is I'M
certain what a day will bring about in
prices as il varies almost every day.
The farmers here think they have had a
very extra large yield, and what is bet
ter, there has been a competition be-
tween parties here as to the price, and
they have been. very successful in keep
ing up the price. .......
Butter of a nice quality sells readily
at 80 and 33c.; common is worth % to
SOC. Summer and fall diaries of good
quality bring about SOC. The shipments
for this week are about 2, 500 lbs, of
which Messrs. Denison 81 Bros. ship
1000 lbs BY the way, we are inform
ed by Trustworthy authority that they
have renewed the lease of the store they
at present occupy, and bought the Taft
place opposite their store, which certain
ly looks as so they would remain with
us. We wish them success, and hope
they will.
The egg market is nearly run dry.
The hens don't lay, as their early train
ing taught them to. Eggs sell for about
CSC. here.
Cheese does not bring the price in
proportion to the price of butter that it
did two months ago. Mr.. B. j. Doug
lass recently sold his whole dairy at &c.
He is the largest cheese maker in our
town. He ships all his cheese to Bos-
ton, where most of our produce goes.
CARL.
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the respect of all who knew him. He
was member of the Masonic order, and
the members of the Granville and Poult-
ney lodges, in large numbers, attended
his funeral He lived in Poultney some
years before his decease, but was buried
in Granville, where he formerly resided,
and where his kindred in this country
were buried. 1at a
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A SERIOUS Aecidcnt-De al. Rlen-
....... .-.- son Landing ...... -.

John Carlton, alaboreron the railroad
while eating dinner on the rock cuts, at
Benson Landing, few days age, met
with q serinus accident, from which he
has since died. 1t seems that he did not
hear the signal given before n blast was
let off, and one of the falling stone hit
his foot, making an ugly cut, and break
ing his leg; gaugrene set in and he died
Saturday night. He was man about
thirty years of age, Of steady habits, and
had no relatives but a sister who lives in
New York. Unlike many Of the rail
road !aborers he saved his, earnings.
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SAD AND UNAoooUNTABLE SUICIDE
Miss Sarah Francis Baldwin, daughter
of Samuel Baldwin, ESQ.,, of Benning-
ton, N. H., committed suicide by hang
ing, at the residence of her sister, at
South Antrim, on Sunday afternoon,
October 26. She was about thirty years
of age, beautiful lady, of rare accom-
plishments, and seemed cheerful and
happy up to the time she last entered
her room. She was found in closet,
suspended by the neck by pocket
handkerchief Before retiring to her
room she said she was going to write
some letters, and some twelve or thir-
teen letters to friends were found upon
her table, but none of them contain any
intimation that the writer intended to
commit the act. She was surrounded
by kind friends, abundant means, and no
reason can be assigned for the deed.
She had taken music lessons in this city.