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The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19

1t may astonish the ignoramus, who signs
himself Sold Harbor, to be informed that
General John w. Phelps, General William
y. w. Ripley, General George j. Stan
nard, and General James NJ. Warner, OBJ
tained their military titles while Serring as
Permonters, and that they did not seek
promotion by dsowning their state, and
claiming residence in the state of New
York-but such is the fact nevertheless.
Their several titles are actual ones too,
conferred by promotion, not merely by
brevet. John W, Phelps, while serving as
colonel of the First Vermont volunteers,
was appointed, May 81, 1861, brigader
general from Vermont William Y. w.
Ripley was appointed by, and received his
commission as Northumberland of the
sharp shooters from tie governor of Yer.
mont, and his appointment and commission
as mGjor-general srae .from Vermont.
George j. Stannard, while serving as colo
mel of the Ninth Vermont volunteers, was
appointed, March IL, 1868, brigadier-
general from Vermont. And james NJ.
Warner, while serving as colonel of the
Eleventh Vermont volunteers, was appoint
ed, May 8, 1865, brlgadier- general from
Vermont Try again dear "Cold Harbor.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19

1t must have been refreshing for Ger
tain aspirant for high office in Vermont,
yesterday, to take up his organ and find it
bewailing the election of William II. Bar
mum to the United States senate from Con-
necticut, over James T.. EnGlish who loan
"Barnum's spelling IS rather original ana
eccentric" He might further think,
while RECALLING his eyes with another par
agraph-in the editorial column of the
same organ-that the people of Vermont
may, and probably will, commend to it,
the same advice it gives to the democracy,
relative TO choosing successor to Fitz-
hugh, the illiterate door keeper of the ma
tional house of representatives Gas the
preferences Of the party at the present
time seem 10 be tor ignorance, pure and
unadulterated, it would be inst as well,
in order to be on the safe side, TO find
some man who cant write" He may
think, as the republicans of Vermont
think, that it is poor rule that will not
work both ways.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19
THE BOY MURDERER.
Frank Ruttan's Confession---He Drank Whis-
ky and Killed Sarah Conklin.

EIhnh huhlhn OOhAOooAoh--AAo OAhhh W hAo-
ky and Killed Sarah Conklin.
Some kind-hearted people have expressed
doubts that the boy Frank Ruttan, SEN
fenced to Auburn prison for life by Judge
Merwin of WATERFOWL last Saturday, did
kill the girl Sarah Conklin at Rutland last
November The Watertown Times of Fri
day evening, gives the following copy. OF
Ruttan's confession made to and copied
verbatim by Deputy Sheriff Herbert Bah
bitt, the officer who took him to the Auburn
prison.
about week before John Allen went
away he came to town and got pint of
whisky, and left some there in the bottle
when be went away. What was left In
| the bottle the day of the murder drank.
BERTHE Van Slyck told me that she Sarah
Conklin) had been calling me names. He
| told me the next night after John Allen
went away. / stood In the alley-way Of
the barn, after throwing down the hay,
| aud looked out. | saw her near the bars
by the school house. She was not in the
| lot. went out of the alley door and I'M
der the bridge. | went right close to the
orchard fence and came back the same
way. She got into the woods before / did.
asked her what she had been saying such
things about me for. She didn't make any
reply, but started to run. ran after
her with stick in my hand. 1 don't
know whether it was the stick shown
at the coroner's inquest or not for ]
didn't see that, but the one | had was a
good, solid maple stick with knot on it.
was about five or six feet from her when
| threw it. l hit her on the right hand
side of the head. She dropped where she
stood, and lay. She began to shake, and
then got up and staggered along. Then
went TO her again and frightened the scarf on
her neck She kicked, and tried to unite the
scarf didn't mean to kill her when hit
her with the club, but she looked so that
was afraid she would go home and tell OF
me, and they would do something to me-
and 60 l went back and killed her. l didn'
stay more than five minutes after | tight
ened the scarf. fed the turkeys before
left the barn. shut the grain barn door
but didn't fasten it. / had on a coat ovei
my frock. didn't get any blood on me
was scared about what | had done tina
night after got back to the barn.
At Syracuse, Ruttan denied the murder
and said he expected to be pardoned wher
he was twenly-One years of age, five year
from now. He would be good mate TO
the girl Mary Davis, the confessed accom-
plice in the Orlo Davis murder, with he
father and grandmother, the Fredenburghs
The fewer of such bad strains of blood a
these that are allowed to mingle with tina
of honest humanity, the better for man
kind generally Utica Herald.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19

A gentleman reading, yesterday, in The
GLoBR, the statement that the ST. Adams
Messenger claims Blakeley, the notorious
ex-pension agent of Chicago, as native
of Franklin county and recalling the fact
that the equally notorious Babcock was a
native Of the same county, expressed the
fear that the cup of Vermont's humiliation
and shame would be filled by Belknap
tracing his geology back to that county.
Belknap seems to belong to that formation
which has an abundance OF cocktail
grit, and the Messenger can, perhaps, re-
lieve the anxiety of the gentleman referred
to, by informing him whether that lorna
tion-Devonian-is peculiar to Franklin
county. IT it is not, his geology must be
traced elsewhere.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19
Vermont at the New York Confer
ence.

The list of delegates to the reform con-
ference which assembled 10 New York on
Monday, as reported from Vermont, are
Messrs. Frederick Billings, Woodstock ;
Harrington, ST. Albansi Edward j. Phelps,
W. Willard, Montpelier. Judge Prout
was detained by business from attendance.
Mr.. Willard Is one of the vice presidents.
we no,ice the 5ames Of we'll .I Hno,Sn e' War
monters, Henry e. Alvord, Massachusetts ;
Col. lie Grand Is. Cannon, New York,
Dorman b. Eaton, New York John A.
Graham, New York; William Hale, Mass
achusetts, and Rev. Dr. E. A. Washburn,
New York.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19
A Vermont Patriarch on His Travels.

An old patriarch alightod from the up
bound train at Ballston Spa, n. y, last
Saturday morning. He stated that his
name was Beniah Gallup OF GuilfoId,
Windham county, VT, and that he had
just returned from Minnesota tup, and
was en- route to Barkersylle to visit his
son, Rev. Joel Gallup. He was born on
June /, 1886, was accordingly 90 years of
age, and could read the finest print of
newspaper without the aid of spectacles.
He had made the trip alone, and was free
to state his ability to travel without assist
ance. The veteran claims that he hiss
'never been sick unto death, and don't
mean to be If can help It," He referred
to the death of George Washington as il
but of recent occurrence, saying "The
news came when / was out with the boys
on general training day and we reversed
arms and went back to our quarters cry
ing !" He is renal kably preserved for one
who has passed SO far beyond the allotted
three-score-and-ten period of man, and
may he survive to celebrate his own cen
tennial. -SdrdtO0ian.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19

The people of Vermont, having an in
q" telligent regard for the best interests OF
" Vermont, as well as the whole country"
are opposed to reciprocity treaties, whether
made with Canada or the Sandwich Islands ;
and 1t may be of interest for them to know
that Dudley G. Denison was found voting
with James G.. Blaine, in favor of the pas
sage of law to make effective reclproci-
ty treaty with the Sandwich Islands while
Charles II. Joyce and George W. Hendee
voted, as the people of Vermont desired
them to, against the bill.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19
RUTLAND WEEKLY GLOBE FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 49, 1876

upon his replying In the affirmative the
stranger turned and road out of town. He
passed several parties who knew nothing
Of the shooting, but their attention was at
tracted to him for 1.-THE reason that he kept
them covered with his six-shooter until he
had passed them some distance. Meanwhile
the negro had reached the bank from
whence they had started. Twichell was
shot three times, King three or four times,
and the negro once.
Another account says the assassin told a
woman who witnessed his cold-blooded
crime that he had killed King 10 self-de-
fence, and that he did not come there for
that purpose, but to murder Twichel.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19
Babcock's Mission to Vermont.

1t is rumored that Gen. o. Il. Babcock
and his counsel, William A. Cook, left
Washington on Sunday, ostensibly to visit
ment in the Vermont state prison at Wind
sor, some kind of an affidavit in relation to
the fe-burglary matter. They will also,
1t is said, visit Harrington, who is now in
Canada, and have a talk with HIM in regard
to the same matter. IL is further rumored
that Harrington, by the advice of his
father-in-law, will soon return TO the coun,
try and tell all he knows about the matter,
and let the blame rest with those who made
q dupe of him for their own purposes.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19

1t is reported that the delegation from
Michigan to the Cincinnati convention are
divided between Bristow and Blaine, but
will be satisfied with either. 1t being con-
coded that the vote of New York is neces-
sary for the election Of the republican can
didate for president, and it being admitted
As it is by nearly the entire republican
press of New YOrk-that the enmity be-
tween Conkling and Blaine would endaDg-
er, if not destroy, the chances of the lat
ter, 1t is safe to predict that the Michigan
delegation, as well as all other delegations
similarly situated, will be found, at Cincin-
natl, voting for Bristow.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19

An effort is being made to show that the
rejection OF Brstow by the Union league
club of New York city was utterly without
political significance yet Nasty, pretty
good authority, says that the programme
was arranged beforehand, and that 1t was
"the beginning of very dirty raid on
"Bristow." The effect, however, has
struck its orignators and promoters with
CONSERVATION, as, according to Nasty,
there are now thousand Bristow men
where there we're hundred before. The
result seems to be very significant.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19

The report that Orvile E. Babcock is on
his way to the Vermont state prison is
probably founded on the fact that 1t would
be the fittest place for him to retire to- but
there is an inherent improbability about
the truth of the report, from the fact that
he was never known to do exactly the fit
and proper thing. If, however, the report
is true, Babcock will probably find that
Miles is not now in proper state of mind
10 he easily fixed"
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19

FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1876.

How much danger the republican party
has to fear from the fact that Benjamin
II. Bristow is Kentuckian, is shown by
the further fact that 80 ultra and irrepres'
sible a radical as Parson Brownlow Of Ten
nessee, is enthusiastic 10 his support.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19
New Rails.

New thirty foot rails are now being laid
over a part of the Rutland railroad. Many
of the rails that are being replaced have
been down from the time the road was first
built-a period of about generation.
The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19
Frost.

The citizens of Vergennes were unpleas-
antly surprised Tuesday morning at the
destruction occasioned by the heavy frost
The remarks, about cold weather some
forty-two years ago, which appeared in
Mondays GLOBE, should have been thought
of and preparations made.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-10
THE OUTCAST.

Bleak winds OF winter, sobbing and moaning
Pluck not my rags with your pitiless hand,
Here in the darkness, cold and despalring,
Homeless, and triendless, and starving |
stand,
Scourged by the white icy whips of the tenn
wander forlorn in my desolate way,
Forgotten Of earth and forsaken of heaven.
Too frozen to kneel and too hungry to pray.
/ look at the stately and palace like dwellings
That line with their grandeur the pathway
tread,
| fancy the brightness and warmth of the
hearth stone,
The plenteous board with the wine and the
bread;
| SEQ the heads bowed with reyerent meaning.
blessing is breathed Ger the spurious fare;
Will it rise to the ear Of the pitiful Father.
Or die OF the cold like the vagabond's prayY
Hark! midnight. The chime from the church
tower aboveme
Drops solemnly down through the whirl of
the storms;
II one could pass through the gate to the portal,
Gould sleep there and dream it was lighted
and warm!
Give away, cruel barsl let me through to a
refuge!
Give awayl but rave, and the fierce winds
reply.
"No room in the house for his vagabond chill :
dren,
No room i'll his porch for an outcast to die"
No room in his dwelling-no room in the
churches,
y No room i'll the prison-for hunger's no
crime;
y there room in the bed OF the river, wonder,
Deep down in the pier in the oo2e and the
slime?
Neck on, haunting wind can laugh back an
Z answer,
An hour, and your bitterest breath defy;
oii1rc bars shut me out Of Gods house among
mortals
l will knock At the gate Of His home in the
sky!
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-10
ACTION OF BROMIDE Of POTASSIUM

Since the frs; Introduction Of bromide Of
potassium into the mnfsria medIcd there has
been great diversity of opin in regard to
its value As a remedy, some praising it ex-
travagantly, and others denying it any
specific virtue. Most writers, however, are
satisfied thai, judiclously administered. It is
substance Of very great merit, although
Its mode Of operation Is even yet not entire
ly understood. According 10 DR.. Amory
its effects are produced b. the direct action
on the blo0dvessels, or the vaso-motor sys-
TEN which controls the action Of these yes-
sells and he thinks that this action will
account for and explain all the physiological.
and therapeuiical influences Of the drug.
he states that the bomide il easily absorbed
by tae mucous membrane and BY the skin.
provided the water in which ii IS dissolved
i below the temperature Of 10 4; that its
e..mation IS conducted BY the skin aud the
Kidneys, and that in therapeuticai doses It
IS not eliminated BY the intersssnts or the
lungs; that 1t passes out Of the skin wiih>
out decomposition; that the larger the dose
the more intense and enduring the influence
IN the vaso-motor system !; and that lis &C
ton II the general nervous system is con-
seouentiJ dependant upon that OF the vsso-
motor nerves, upon which i. acts as soda
tive The highest value Of the remedy as
medicine Is said to lie in its rtnedial pow
ess over epilepsy. being Of sigma. service 70
the vast majority Of cases, while absolutely
curing very many, and rarely falling 10
diminish the number and violence OF the At
tacks where it does not cure One advan-
tage Of the bromide Of potassium - said 70
be that il can be given without any danger
~h>s>~xr r~~x-,u ,r~nmx enhances some.
times present themselves, sacs - the pro
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-10
POETRY
M.TtiE .CLoRY OF GOD IN CREATION,
BY THOMAS MOORE.

Thou art, 0 God, the life and light
Ofall this wondrous world we see:
Its glow by day, and its smile by night
Are but reflections caught from Thee!
Where'er weturn Thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are thine,
When day with, farewell beams delays,
Among the opening clouds OF even,
And We can almost think we gaze
Through golden vistas into Heaven
Those hues that mark the suns decline.
So soft, SO radiant, Lord. are Thine.
When night with wings of stormy gloom.
O'ershadows all the earth and skies.
Like some dark beauteous bird, whose plume
Is sparkling with a thousand dyes;
That sacre dgloom, those fires divine,
SO grand, so countlesst Lord, are Thine.
When youthful Spring around us breathes.
Thy spirit warns her fragrant sigh
And every, flower the Summer wreathes,
Is born beneath that kindiing eye;
Where,er we turn, Thy gIories shine,
Aud all things bright and fair are Thine
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-10
THEORY OF ATMOSPHERIC GERMS.

In paper on the Theory Of Atmospheric
Germs,' by DR.. Samson, published in the
April number Of the Quartely Journal o,
Science, after o critical examination and
testing of the various views held by differ
ent writer's on this question, the author
comes to the following conclusions: Il.
Putrefaction, mildew formation, and the
appearance Of organisms can be checked or
absolutely prevented by the existence Of
certain agents in the air supplied to o
putrescible body. 2. The power Of such
agents can in no sense be measured by their
chemical constitution and characters.
From many experiments, the following ex>
presses their order of efficiency from weak
est to strongest: a. chloride of lime; e. J
sulphurous acid, ammonia, sulphuric ether !;
g. chloroform; q. camphor; 81 iodine,
phosphorus, cresotc, carbolic acid. 3. The
agents which stop fermentation are vegeta>
BILE, not animal, poisons. Fungi will grow
in the presence hydrocyanic acid and Of
s,rychnia. 4. Comparative experiments
show that given volatile agent is far more
efficient when it is contained in the air
supplied to putrescible solution than when
an equal quantity is mixed with the solution
itself. 5 AL! fungoid organisms can be pre-
vented by the presence of a minute proper
ton Of creso,e, carbolic acid. ammonia, n.y.
drochloric acid, or sulphurous acid
in the air, though beneath the surface Of the
fluid are found numerouf bacteria and
vibrios. There seems 10 be no escape from
the conclusion that the germs of fungi exis,
in the air, and are destroyed by the volatile
poisonous agent"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-08-10
tl1HR|'4|kE.


The Loipdon Saturdays Review says
There are sspme thingo which everybody
scss' out wiz ich there i general reluc-
lance TO speak, about until some kind of ex>
plesion occurs and oompels attention. For
some years past. for instance, there has
been visible IN itsnglish society \ tendency
70 increasiuS ifeedom of manners, and q
reiaAasioh Oh ttcse prudent restraints on
giddiness or ior hardness which used to be
supposed 20 DC IN Indispensable protection to
all INQUEST Women. We have ourselves
repeatedly caifed attention to it, and urged
thAsehe spre5d If habits of dangerous la
mli1klty ought 10 be closely watched. and
seM4 ehecked By social influence on the in
tr00Aeio 81 novelties of this kind, all tend
inc iacne direction.
II would appear. however, that the de-
p&rttre FROM old>fashioned traditions o,
propfiety is growing still more marked,
And that syqtem OF social intercourse is
being gradually Established under which all
the eace recognized rules of decent behavior
areIeomplctelSe Bet al naught. Indeed, it is
be6e1ning i1&feasingly iifacul, in some
fashionable circles to form any estimate OF
tAe rsrsanef tespectahility of well, dressed
WGl1An 11enSher bearing and conduct. I,
isflthe I'D ,ha, the remarks which =
49, Aae fnst felt himsc bound to make
iA1 go of his duty viii suggest profit
Ions on this subject In di-
v0t( ~ which has been tried this week,
and into The nature Of which it is unneces-
sary TO enter In detail. Sir j. Hammer, in
summing up the case to the jury, made the
following remarks:
''Generaly speaking, when . young wo-
aaa made secret appointment with Z
young man, only one inference could b
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drawn from it; but it should be remembered
that the respondent had been leading life
Of frivolous gaiety, passing her time in
frivolous anusements, flirting with variety
Of men, and conducting herself in such a
way as to lead to her husbands remonstran-
ces. 1t was also only fair to remind them
that there had Of late years been q very
marked change in the habits and manners
of society, and that formerly women would
have shrunk from being seen with persons
and at places in circumstances which we're
now thought nothing of. He spoke of the
change with loathing but it was fact that
there had been such a change is that to
which he referred in fashion and in the hab-
1t OF young persons. Therefore. in these
days, the same conclusion ought not to be
drawn from conduct which would have been
drawn from it in former times"
1t is evident that things must have reach-
ed a pretty pass, when judge, sitting on
the bench. conld feel himself justified in
drawing such a picture of fashionable life;
and it can hardly fail to open the eyes Of
those who have either shut their ewes or
winked at the continual loosening of social
restraints. What Sir J. Hammer has said
would seem to come to this-that nowadays
it lis impossible to say from lady's manner
and behavior whether she is or is not re-
spectacle person, seeing that part at least
Of society has agreed to dispense with the
old rules on the subject. No matter what
may be the leyity and freedom of a womans's
ways, no matter what breaches of decorum
she may commit, it is not to be concluded
that she is not most a respectable
lady, for that is the way in which many
respectable ladies now conduct themselves.
Once upon time there was difference
between the manners of good and those of
bad society, and man could Judge from
the way in which lady received him on
what terms he stood with regard to her.
Butth test of propriety is now gradually
being given up. A woman may be quite
respectable, though not at all proper.
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curtains.
He rushed up stairs.
There sat another woman, also at work.
Again he gasped the question, "Who are
your
Mrs. Buskirk's regular seamstress,
please, SIR" said the woman.
ssAnd where is Mrs. Buskirk?"
Here, love-" said voice.
And there entered, from the adjoining
room, lady dressed in silk, and in expan>
sive crinoline, with bracelets, brooch, car
| rings and little lace cap worth a small for
tune.
"The furniture is ordered, and the pain
tiers are here, and I've engaged all the SER
wants, Mr.. Buskirk said the lady; and cook
wants to know whether you like beef under
or well done. In such things you shall have
your choice always. There was no time to
make pudding to>day, so we must have ices.
Strawberries, too, are only two shillings a
| basket"
"Mrs. Buskirk, have you gone crazy p
cried Peter; cor am dreaming?"
"Pm wide awake, at all events cried
the lady. GIVE starved long enough, and
worn that brown merino until hate it.
| always was fond of dress
s'Fond of dress !" repeated Peter, and
loved good things"
--"Loved good things" repeated the spouse
'.and now | am married | mean to have
| them
s'But if ad-known-I-" began
Peter.
| sWculdn't have married me, suppose, =
said the bride '.Well, my cousin, Mrs.
Brown, told me that, you know
Peter looked at her. TIE truth was plain
at last. He tried to speak but could not
He stared at his lady for five minutes by the
clock, and then rushed out Of the house,
muttering, Taken in taken in.'
| 1t is said Peter Buskirk never recover &c
the shock. Against his will he lived lux
uriously ever after; and his wife astonished
the neighborhood by her magnificent attire
and grand parties. But nevertheless Peter
himself expired in less than a year; and the
last words on his lips were said to be ''Tak
en- in ! taken in -