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The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-24
FEE VERMONT DAIRYMENs,
ASSOCIATION.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

I. 5. Gold opened the afternoon session
by an address on Feeding" as follows;
The most natural food for the COW is
grass in summer and dried grass in winter.
There is no successful farmer who does
not furnish good garbage In Vermont
you are in the most favorable section for
daryng. There are some special provi-
sions which the dairyman is compelled to
provide some artificial methods for
feeding the animals while it is more profit
able to supply the natural food, yet it is a
necessity to furnish other methods of Civ
ing nutriment to cattle. He recommended
corn fodder especially sweet corn, al
though he did not place as much value to this
rs some others have done, and did favor
great efforts to raise this variety. The but
ton corn was a good variety to SOW for fod-
der, cultivated in drill, which made it more
useful and easier of gathering Hungarian
grass was also another product of value es-
sental to feeding. Two tons to the acre
may be secured by proper precautions in
cultivation. In reference to corn, it
should be sown in successlon-so that it
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-24
The Louisiana Legislature

The proposed constitutional amendment
limiting the state debt to $4,000, 900 and
taxation for all purposes to SO, 800, 600,
guaranteeing the principal and interest Of
the new constitutional bonds to be Issued in
funding the bebt, and providing That the
revenues Of each year derived from taxa
ton shall be devoted solely TO the expenses
of that year, has passed the House by a
unanimous vote, They had previously
passed the Senate. The bill funding all
the valid outstanding bonds of the state at
sixty cents on the dollar in seven per cent.
bonds principal and interest secured by
the foregoing constitutional amendments,
also passed the House Ivy large majority.
1t repeats all contingent debts of the state,
consisting of bonds not ISSUED and stock
not subscribed, amounting 10 over SIS, 600,
000 The bill with two slight amendments
is substantially the same a. recommended
by the chamber of commerce. II goes &C.
the Senate for concurrence.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-24
A Civil Justices salary.

An instructive illustration of the difficult
ty surrounding the payment of some of the
claims presented to Controller Green is
found in tho case Of the salary of we'll
known civil justice. In April, 1878, the
rate Of $1,000 Aayng been fixed by the
courts, preparations we're made by the de-
partnent of finance TO pay Inn his salary
for one year and eight months, dating from
Sept. /, 1871. which amounted to SIC, G66.-
So, but on an examination of the records of
the department there we're found seven as
signmcnts or claims against the salary,
amounting to Sl2,S471G As $1,000 had
been already paid to the judge on account
during the previous year and he was still
claimant for the balance, II was found
impossible to discnlanglc the claim from
this mass of complication, and payment
could only be made 10y order Of the courts.
Judgements were subsequently recovered
by some of the assgnces which amounted
to Sll 900. The balance of 81 ,666GG is
now being fought for by four claimants,
whose demands mako mp total of S2.219.
%, and no payment can be made by the
Controller until Judicial decision atlirlns
the preference of the claims.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-24

1t is the intention of Dr. Hawley to hold
as soon as practicable memorial services of
those who were members of bis Sabbath
School, for the especial benefit of the as
ISOLATED scholars, teachers and friends of
the deceased, and we also understand that
q union memorial service will probably be
held on some day not far distant. B.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-24
Eho Coal Ouslook FOR 1879

Nearly all the leading coal companies in
New York city were represented by one or
more officers of each at Il meeting of the
anthracite coal trade, held Wednesday af-
ternoon at the Office of the Delaware IL
Hudson canal company, No - Broadway.
Among others may be mentioned, the lie
high and Willcsbarrc, the Philadelphia and
Reading, the Delaware AMI L1ckawanna
and the Delaware and Hudson. After an
informal discussion it was decided to con
duct the business on the same general plan
as in 1878, making the average increase in
price of 10 cents per ton per month \
schedule OF prices substantially the same as
last years was adopted for the month of
March, considered the opening month OF
the year in the trade. The Philadelphia
coal company had no representative present
at the meeting. According to views Of
prominent dealers in New York city no i'm
mediate advance in the price of coal need
be expected on account of the price, though
the April price will probably be higher than
last year. They predict compromise
with the miuers on the old terms in March.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-24

We trust that the Troy Times will feel
as philosophicslly about being called n
democratic newspaper" as we do The
trouble with the f---s, fellows We mean
Of course, is they cant tell by reading pa
per whether it is political or religious. or of
,vhot i,ind
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-24
Druas and asleditines.

HACK HACK. cotton! cotton!
Cough Is symptom By which various dsens.
cd conditions Of the Throat Bronchial TUBES
and Lungs manifest themselves. But, whether
1t arises rom the irritation produced Ia the
Throat and Larynx BY taking cold, from 90 at.
tack Of bronchitis. from iDclpleht consumption,
or from various other causes, nothing will allay
than DR.. Kendolls Pectoral Bal5aIn It does not
gerlng Cough The Dalsom Is, In either cas-, .
equally well adapted for It's relief and pcrma.
nent cure. In fact, 1t Will cure a cough In one.
half lifetime necessary to cure 1t with any other
medicine and It does not by drying 1t up, but
by removing the cause, subdulng the irritation,
and healing the affected porta.
No time should be lost In commencing the
use of proper medicine for the relief OF a
Gus and dangerous disease Of the Lungs Is liable
TO result. Try 1t. Sold by all dealers in Mcdi-
cine. 1an6dtf
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-24
state Grange of wisconsin.

The state grange of the "Patrons of
Husbandry" for Wisconsin, was held at
GAINESVILLE, Wednesday, when there were
presented the reports of the secretary,
treasurer, purchasing agent, and executive
committee. Tho seeretaiy's report
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-24
Matfltes and 3ewelru.

II II E T I NJ E $
to be without the good feeling guaranteed In
every family, and "sometlmes little outside
the family" by our failing to remember as IN
former years, at this season, our friends.
How many cheerful rcmcmbrances have been
occasloned by seeing the fine little watch, q gift
OF some former Christmas. or some article OF
Jewclry, so constantly about the person. OF. at
the Family Table, pieces OF silver. all telling of
some happy December 25th.
Times may be hard. but cnn you afford 10
loose such golden opportunities to give lasting
rcmembrances which can be had so cheap, and
of such superior quality at the BEE HIVE
BEN X. CHASE e co
- MERCHANTS ROW, RUTLAND, VT.
deci5dtf
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-24

country, "the career of Nine. Parepa has
been unexampled as a successful artistic
since the DAYS of Jcnnic lind"
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-24

The evening session was opened with an
address by r. S. Gold of Connecticut,
which was followed by heightened dis
custom
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-26
A Fearful Struggle.

Patrick Feeny, farmer near Oak
land, CAL, got hurt in the head. The
outward wound disappeared, but the
injured brain did not heal. He was at
times Eighty and dangerous. Some
time ago he administered poison to his
wife and three children, but told them
of what he had done in time to save
their lives. They broke loose from
that grapple with death and recovered.
Mrs. Feeny was thereafter very watch
full. She felt as if she had slayer in
the house and did not sleep soundly.
The other night Feeny was restless in
bed. He got up, went out and returned.
Mrs. Feeny observed that he held his
hands behind him. She asked him
what he had there, and he said "noth-
ing" She sprang out of bed and caught
him round. He disengaged his arms
and raised an AK over her. She called
TO her three children, the Oldest girl
of II, and told them to leave the house.
They got up, saw their mother strug-
Cling with their father, and came plead
ing and clinging around the two. The
father welded the ax as well as he could
with such family clinging around him.
The mother caught at his arm and
broke the blows and fought to protect
her little ones from the red hand of
their mad father. All the children were
cut, the oldest one badly; and the
woman blew out the light in forlorn
hope for greater safety, since she could
not persuade her babes to leave her.
She was badly hurt herself, but strug-
gled with the resolution of despair to
disarm the mailman, or wear his strength
out. He finally became less violent
seemed to forget or recollect himself
for Il moment, and she took the AK from
him. The mother crept off with the
reeking AK, and dragged her children
with her away into the dark. They
were all quiet, and the room was still
as death. The silence was broken by
the man striking at something. Pres
emily he fell to the floor. His wife went
to him; he was helpless. There were
half dozen butcher-knife stables in his
breast, one OF which penetrated the
lungs and was necessarily fatal. He
had good farm and other property,
and was worth about so, 900.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-26
For the Spoilers.

1t is said that the following arrange =
ment of words, If dictated with any de-
gree of rapidity, will stump the best
spoilers The most skillful gauger
ever saw was maligned cobbler, armed
with poniard, who drove a peddler's
wagon, using mullein-stalk as an in
strument of coercion to tyrannize over
his pony, shod with calks. He was
Galilean Sadducee, and he had phthis-
icky catarrh, diphtheria, and the bilious
intermittent erysipelas. A certain sibyl
with the sobriquet of Gypsy, went into
ecstasies of exclamation at seeing him
measure a bushel of pease, and separate
saccharine tomatoes from q heap of
peeled potatoes without dyeing or SINCE
ing the ignitible cue which he wore, or
becoming paralyzed with a hemorrhage.
Lifting her eyes TO the ceiling of the
cupola of the Capitol to conceal her I'M
paralleled embarrassment, making Il
rough courtesy, and not harassing him
with mystifying, rarefying and stupefy-
ing innuendoes, she gave him couch, a
bouquet of lilies, mignonette and
fuchsias, n treatise on mnemonics,
copy of the Apocrypha in hieroglyphics,
daguerreotypesof Mendelssohn and Kos
ciusko, kaleidoscope, a dram-phial of
ipecacuanha, teaspoonful of naphtha,
for deleble purposes, ferule, clario-
net, some licorice, a surcingle, a cornell
ian of symmetrical proportions, chro-
nometer with movable balance-wheel,
box of dominoes and a catechism.
The gauger, who was also a trafficking
Il ,ol, Of,
ferred a wooden surtout CHS choice was
referable TO vacillating, occasionally
occurring idiosyncrasies) wofully utter
ed this apothegm Life is checkered,
but schism, apostasy, heresy and vii
lainy shall be punished The sibyl APP
ologizingly answered: There is nota-
bly, an allegeable difference between a
comfortable ellipsis and a trisyllable
dieresis. We replied in trochees, not
her suspicion"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-26
AsphyXiating Burglars.

The manufacturers of vaults and safes
for the preservation of valuables, and
also those whose profession is to enter
them for the purpose of plumber, con-
tinue to develop vast amount of in
genuity. Almost as soon as we have
the triumphant announcement of abso-
lutte security as the result of some COM
bination or construction, we find that
the device has been successfully evaded
All the arrangements of chilled iron and
other modes of protection seem to be
of no value against the efforts of ex-
perienced cracksmen," and attention
now appears to be directed toward the
addition of defensive weapons that shall
MAIN or otherwise injure the intruder.
One of the most recent devices of this
kind consists in what is called the
chemical arbor for bank vaults, which
so adjusted that should the interior of
the safe be penetrated by violence, sun
dry glass walls, filed with sulphuric
acid, are necessarily broken, and their
contents discharged in powdered car
Donate of lime, resulting in the instan-
taneous production of carbonic acid gas
enough to asphyxiate regiment.
What mode of defense will be adopted
by the opposite side, should this device
be carried out to any extent, remains to
be seen.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-26
The Road 10 Wealth.

Uniting our destinies when she was
not Is and 1 was only 10 years old, my
devoted wife and myself, without any
patrimonial estate, acquired during a
happy union of more than ffty-tive
years a comfortable independence, ra-
tionally enjoyed as the fruit of our CO.
operating energies. After devoting to
the advancement of our children at least
$50, 900 in various ways, still retaining
property sufficient for the comfort of
my desolate old age, desire that what
1 shall leave behind me undisposed of
in my lifetime shall be distributed
among my descendants in such portions
as will as nearly as possible approach
legal equality; and for calculating that
end now publish the testamentary dis
position of the residual estate which
Providence enabled my admirable wife
and myself, by habitual industry, to
earn, and by self-denying economy and
systematic prudence to save.-Ertract
from Chiet-Justice Robertson's WI.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-26
Morbid ImDuIsc.

DIR. Hammond, an eminent New York
physician, delivered lecture few
evenings ago on the subject of Morbid
Impulse" which will offer new loop
hole for the escape of murderers from
the penalty of the acts far better than
the hackneyed defense of emotional
insanity" 1t is the Doctors theory
that human beings, while in apparent
health mentally and bodily, may be
seized by an uncomfortable impulse to
destroy property or take the life of
themselves or that of being.
One of the phases of this morbid i'm
pulse was by the lecturer denominated
imitation" and he cited many in
instances wherein persons were actuated
to take life by mere force of example.
The frequenting and visiting of the
place where a murder has been com
mitted, the viewing of the instrument
with which life has been taken, the
spectacle of retributive hanging-even
the mere recital of the detail of some
bloody tragedy-have been known to
cause a morbid brooding, ending in the
committing of a similar crime. The
fact that the more desperate and savage
crimes are almost invariably followed
by others of a similar type is accounted
for as being the effect of this morbid
impulse compelling imitation. Suicide,
which sometimes RACES like an cpl
demic, is within the theory the result
of example. The attention of the mind
is drawn to the case in point, and
around this nucleus gloomy brooding
thoughts are formed, the cares and
anxieties of life are magnifed, and from
this the employment of the brain is to
cherish a desire to quit the world, until
the plans for self-murder in all its ugli-
ness and cowardice are formed, and with
the most consummate cunning the
means are devised and the act COM
mitted.
The actuatinR reasons for such an act,
stripped of all the excitement, seem to
be the result of only the lowest and
most brutal instincts, but in the undue
excitement of these faculties, which,
under other circumstances, are the
means of refinement and culture, must
the cause be looked for.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-26
A Fearful Hailst0rm.

Messrs. James J. NJ. Smith and
James Il. Nj. Saunders write as follows,
under date of May %, TO the Fort Gaines
Messenger, from Wesley Chapel, Clay
ton county, Ga: 1--WE dispatch to
you a partial account of terrible hail
storm, the severest that probably ever
visited this section of country The ter
ritory visited by the heaviest of the
storm was not more than two square
miles, and we are glad to know that it
was not more extensive. 1t covered the
plantations of James Bigbie, the Rev.
frank McKimmie, Mrs. "Bobbie F"
Green, Fuller, Frank Nelly, and Mr..
Torbett. 1t hailed for one hour and
twenty minutes i'll terrific fury, split
ting the shingles and boards on the
house-tops. and tearing some of them
off, The forest is nearly as bare as
winter. Pine boughs are cut off, and
nearly all the straw is stripped from the
pine trees ; the bark is peeled off the
bushes, and nothing remains of the
cotton but an occasional stem. Corn is
considerably injured-beaten down, cut
off, and even torn up by the roots.
Oats are completely demolished, stock
were crippled, and an immense amount
of timber and fencing blown down. To
give you an idea of the quantity that
fell, we saw hailstones drifted up two
or three feet, and covering acres of
ground. The average depth was about
twelve inches, making eight tons per
acre. An uncommon quantity OF water
also fell, and so terrible was the roar of
hail and rain that even the peals of
thunder could not be heard. No lives
were lost, but it must be a miracle.
Numbers of citizens can testify to the
above facts. At noon next day cart
loads of hail could be seen in the drifts
i'll the field. The hailstones were gen
orally about the size of partridge and
guinea eggs, and many of them much
larger. Apples, peaches, and plums
are all beaten off and the frees ruined. !"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-26
Agricultural Origin of Weights.

The origin of all weights and meas
ures in England was derived from a
grain of wheat. According to the old
statute thirty-two grains well dried, and
gathered from the middle of the ear
were to make one pennyweight, twenty
pennyweights one ounce. IL was after
ward thought better TO divide the pen
nyweights into twenty-four equal parts,
called grains. William the Conqueror
introduced into England what was called
Troy weight, from Troyes, town in the
province of Champagne, in France. The
English were dissatisfied with this
weight, because the pound did not
weigh so much as the pound in use at
that time in England. Hence arose the
term avordupois, which was medium
between the French and English
WEIGHTS
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-26
The Latest Literary Forgery" Binley
and 49,,

For some time past poem entitled
Binley and '46 has been going the
rounds of the press, purporting to have
been written by Bret Harte OF course
the average editor, on seeing a poem
by Bret Harte, grabbed his shears and
cut it out to reprint 1t finally reached
Frank LeSLie'S, and was given the bene-
fit of full-page illustration by Matt.
Morgan. The poem appeared for the
first time in the open Letter., and it's
history is as follows
Some weeks ago one of the editors of
the open Letter made the assertion
that a poem written in the style of a
well-known poet, no matter how absurd,
would be copied clear to the Atlantic
seaboard. This point was disputed.
Accordingly the poem was written in the
open Letter Office as contribution by
Bret Harte, and published rs such. The
result was as expected. The papers
we're sold, and we now take the oppor-
tunity of informing them that, as the
joke has gone so far, they might as well
know all about it.
In the first place, the complete alb
surdity of the poem ought to strike any
body. 1t represents an engineer run
ming through a snow-blockade without
any stoker, and at last freezing to death
by the very side of blazing fire with
steam up. The publication of the
literary fraud had two results-frst,
how much the acceptation of matter
depends upon the name it bears sec
ond, that the discriminating and crit
zeal powers of the average American
editor are of the lowest. San Fran
cisco ODen Letter..
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-26
That Hatchet Story.

The affecting story of the little Ratchet
exerts considerable influence upon the
youth of Pennsylvania. IT was only re-
Gently that the little boy dug big hole
in his fathers garden, and the parent,
of course, wished to know who did it.
Now was the test he hesitated, looked
at the hole and then at his father, a
smile overspread his face, and he yelled
at the top of his voice, as he disap-
peared from the garden gate, 1t wasn't
George Washington !" The boys
father did not act in the same manner
as did the parent of G.. W., however,
for yells and threats of infantile ven
geance were heard in that locality for
some time afterward.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-26
The Greatest River in the World.

The Amazon is the most volumlnous
of rivers. At the narrows OF Abydos,
six hundred miles from the sea, half
million cubic feet of water pass any
given point every second. Born IN Lake
| fauricocha. among the Andes of Peru,
the main trunk runs Lortberly for five
hundred miles in continuous series OF
rapids. and then from the frontier of
Ecuador, it flows easterly twenty-five
hundred miles across the equatorial
plain of the continent. The average
current of the great river in its passage
through Brazil is three miles an hour.
At Tabotinga, two thousand miles from
its mouth, the width is mile and a
half, with depth of eleven fathoms !;
at the entrance of the Madeira it is
three miles wide, and below Santarcn it
is ten. The tributaries are in keeping
with this colossal trunk. In fact, the
Amazon is great river system rather
than one river. 1t has twelve afiuents
over a thousand miles long, the largest,
the Maderai, equaling the Arkansas,
entering the Amazon nine hundred
miles from its mouth.
Besides these and a host of minor
tributaries, there is a wonderful net.
work of natural canals alongside of the
main river and joining the tributaries,
called t9drdpes, pardaas and .furOS.
These by-paths are of immense advan-
tage for inter-communication
They are characteristic of the coun-
try, and are so numerous that Amaze
MIA is truly cluster of islands. Alto
gether, this island or fresh-water sea
drains territory of two million square
miles, reaching from the Andes to the
Atlantic and throwing out its arms to
the Orinoco and Paraguay. On the
lower Amazon the annual rise reaches
its maximum about the middle of
June, and its minimum i'll December,
the difference of level being about three
feet.
No other river runs in so deep chan
mel to SO great distance. No other
river can furnish over six thousand
miles of continuous navigation for large
vessels. For two thousand miles from
its mouth the main stream has not less
than seven fathoms of water and not
fall interrupts navigation for twenty
five hundred miles. The Pongo de
Maneriche is the western limit to navi-
CATION on the Amazon proper. While
the current is ever east, there is con-
slant trade wind westward, so that nav
igation up or down has always some
thing in its favor. In August and Sep
TENDER strong breeze sweeps over the
lower part of that main trunk, so that
schooners often go from Para to Abydos
in ten days, or one-third of the ordinary
time.