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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
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In letter to the New York Tribune,
Schuyler Colfax says: It has surprised
nae that in the discussion as to 'fne.igl-
bic presidential electors, " no reference
has been made to the famous John
Young Brown Congressional case Oh
nearly 90 years ago. When but liEFle
over'24 years of age he was nominsted
for Congress in a Kentucky district. as
the constitution required that congress-
man should be 25 years of age, his lack
of years was urged against him ia the
canvass by his opponents; but he was
elected, despite this fact, and on the dts
tinct understanding that he was not to
swear in till this constitutional disabiii-
ty was removed by his arriving at the
constitutional age of of %. 1t happen
ed that the Congress TO which he was
thus elected WIS that closely balanced
one in which for two months the Re-
publicans struggled in vain to elect John
Sherman as Speaker, and finally elected
Gov. Pennington by the vote of Henry
Winter Davis. AS you are aware, the
clerk Of the last House presldes during
the election of Speaker, makes up and
calls the roll Of the members elect, and
they elect q Speaker before any of them
are sworn in. During the whole of that
protracted contest the name of John
Young Brown as q member elect was
called on every ballot, and, although he
was present, he refused to- answer to his
name and vote. 81. .5... 81.
In June subsequently he became 20,
presented himself at the Speakers desk,
was sworn in, and for the first time
took hia seat as q member. No one had
contested his seat because he was elect
ed when ineligible, and no one, even in
those exciting times, when the power of
3 cl9sely-conteste House hung on q
single vote, objected to his acting as .
Congressman after the constitutional
disability was removed, nor to his bold.
ing his certificate of election IN abeyance
until he had the constitutional right to
accept or decline it. II MAJ be replied
TO this that sfterward, when persons
we'll known to the. voters &c. be as con-.
stitutionallY ineligible. as foreigners
could be had been chosen, in open and
intentional defiance of the constitutional
exclusion, they did not obtain their
seats. But this does not affect the
point settled in the case cited, where
the disability was one that was not per-
nianent, but was removable by time or
the act of the person himself *. 49,. s.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Judge Moses and Judge Willard, who
was once partner of Peter B. Sweeney,
and was always a Democrat until he
wanted office from the negroes, have
iued tue cauvassers fifteen hundred dol
ars and committed them to jail for con-
tempt Of court. The action of the court
is one of the most remarkable of all the
measures that have been adopted by the
Democrats to cheat the people of South
Carolina out of the fair and honest re-
suits of the election. They are now ex-
ulting in the assurance that the court
will declare the action of the board of
cauyassers null and void and saying that
the court will order its clerks to issue
certificates of election to the Tilden
electors. 1t is a strange proceeding to
make the board an agent, not of the pop
ulsr vote, but of a decree of the court
as has now been done, The law entrusts
the duty of counting the electoral vote to
certain officers and fixes the time within
which they shall complete that duty.
These officers having finished their duty
and issued certificates to the officers
found to be elected, and adjourned sine
die, having performed their office, and
exhausted their power, they are directed
by the court to reassemble, and make
recount, in accordance with the wishes
of that tribunal.
If this board had judicial power as we
understand the law gives them, the court
had no more power to direct or restrain
their action than it has to direct Gov
|ernor to perform or refrain from per-
Forming some executive act. We do
mot see, on the theory adopted by Judges
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

Trenton, n, j., boasts stallion six
teen hands high whose name touches
the ground when the animal is standing
erect. ii .Esg 5..,,...s...s..',. ..s.s ~
4 wicked critic OF Democratic torch
light praeessiDhs tried an experiment. on
one daring the week before election.
He rushed suddenly into the ye1y midst
OF il. aud raising up his Voice, shouted j.
mike Mike" Wneregpon the whole
procession stopped and answered,
'SWhst ''-SpytEqssld Republican 4
a missionary, who has been in South
ern Hindustsn nearly forty years, writes
TO q son IN Worcester, Mass, under date.
OF October z. .F.Fhe long continued and
unusual heat is very trying. and causes
good deal of sickness. ] on speak of 8
heated term of nearly four weeks. Here
the mercury has been in the nineties
since February without intermission-i.
e., seven months. During this time the
mercury has rarely been below 90 deg
in the shade, the middle of the day often
up 70 or above 100 deg. do not re-
member of ever having 30 long a season
of incessant hot weather. =
Photographs can be taken wit tout the
aid of the Gun. About three weeks ago
photographer obtained pictures of por-
tions of a cCal mine which illustrated
questions of practical niuing at issue in
a colliery litigation. The photographs
were taken underground fy means of the
oxyhydrogen light, generally known as
the lime light, in combination with
magnesium riband in combustion. The
process was very slow one, occupying
half an hour.
Steamboat captains in Florida say that
the alligators are apparently as numer-
Gus as ever, especially in the marshes
and lakes of the upper st. Johns. a
few years ago the skins were in demand
at from so cents to 81 each, and thou
sands were slaughtered. In one instance
a man killed within five months over
thousand to fill a contract, but as that
species of leather soon went out of fash
ion the business declined. The teeth
frequently command high prices, and
are as 1dard article of commerce in
the southern market, mainly for orna-
mental purposes.
The Oregon papers describe some
boiling springs in Wssco county whence
flow streams of chloride of silver. The
waters are 80 surcharged with soapy
gray silver that stone will not sink in
them, and when q crowbar is forced
down into pool the specific gravity of
the mass will throw it back into the air
like an arrow shot from an Indians bow.
The amalgam is worth $4,000 ton, and
there are go acres of these splings.
AS matter of course, the Constock
lode will be abandoned and all Nevad
will move to Oregon! A Gold Hill re-
porter springs to the rescue of Nevada.
The streets in the town were macad-
amized with silver ore of low grade
from the waste of the mines and are
literally paved with silver. A handful
of gravel which the reporter picked up
in trench on Main street, yielded 3d. rs
gold and $3.75 silver, the average being
Sc to the ton. The rarity of the atmos-
phere in these western towns seems to
favor elasticity of Imagination.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
PERM EMIL Y
CURED.

Sanford's Radical Cure for Catarrh is q
safe, certain md permanent cure for Ca
tarrh OF every foa n. .aHd is the most per-
feet remedy ever devised. 1t is purely q
vegetable d1gttnat 10 :, and Is applied To-
G lily by lauffiat ion, { I'd co3stitutionally
by internal administration. Locally APP
piled relief is. iBsba tar eous. 1t soothes,
heals and cleapEe- the nasal pass ages of
every ceiling OF heayiness, Obstruction,
dullness or dizziness. Gonstltutionally
administered 1T sLoyates the BLOND, q :
rifles it OF the acid dson with which it
is always charged catagrh. stimulates
the stomach, liver and kidneys, perfeets
digestion, makes now blood, and permits
the form allou of s0Tad, healthy tissue,
Ant. finally OBTAINS &C lplet9 control over
the eec - The remarkable curative.
powers when all other remedies utterly
ta'l, of Sanfn DIS Radical Cure, are at
tested by thcnss Ids who gratefully re-
como end it to fS townsville ers. No state
fp emit IS made concerning it.thEt cannot
be sapstantiatsd by tho most respectable
and Isli able references. 1t Is a great and
good medicirs.aad worthy all coincidence.
Zach package cpntsins'a Treatise on Ca
tarEh and Dr. Sauf0Fdis Improved lnhal-,
ing Tube, ana full directions FORTS use
3sl al cases. s'... l1. ~. De. ts-- b. 81,
sRnfordts Radical Cure Is sold by ali
sholeeaIe and retail druggists through
out tho Uatted StstDs. Price 81, q. 60.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
.ULCERA TIVE
CATARRH.

This is the destructive and terrible
stage of the disease. The whole nasal
passages. including the eyes and ears, the
become, one after another, affected, in
famed liberated, and succumb Ia , dly
to this fffght-ui monster. A pr culiar acid
is ger Grated and It at liberty by this
disea1 Q, which, pc 'neating the blood,
weakens and destroys Its renoyating
power, and Pl,ows the syst en- no oppor-
tun1- Y to throw of the naaLady until this
poison is neu.rali2T and expelled. II is
he G that constitutional treatment be-
CONES of tie most vit3l consequence,
stbec &uSe un1e IS arrested at this stage the
disease VIII make rapid progress towards
pulnonery consumption. - Warren S
Household Physician. Meanwhile sooth-
Ing, healing, and astringC Mt medicine
must be applied directly to the nasal
treatment of the disease. possible. :. q
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

TIE report of tue English Registrar
General coutradicts the popularity re-
ceived notion concerning the proportion
of the human race who die in childhood,
According to bis report more persons
die Of old age than oe infantiie diseases,
Old age ranks fourth In the list of fatal
ailments. Bronchitis carries eff the
largest number; then comes phthisis,
next debility, then old age, then heart
disease (mostly striking down the
adults), next commissions (principaliy
affecting children), then pneumonia,
scarlet fever, diarrh0s, apoplegy and
paralysis, measles, cancer, premature
birth and whooping cough.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

IT is d bad case of the "deyil and the
deep sea" with the Springfield Repu6h-
can. That journal now says that "the
whole question of the next Presidency
has now become involved in embarrass-
ments and complications. IF Tilden
finally goes into the White House, he
goes in under the cloud of having owed
his election to intimidation if Hayes
goes in, he goes in, according to all
present appearances, under the still
heavier cloud of having owed bis cleo
ton to that recently patented and most
dangerous continuance of figuring out a
majority for a candidate without regard
to the ballots. So far as the moral
question is concerned, we have no tears
to shed for the Democrats if they lose
the Presideney--they have not deserved
to win it our only doubt is whether the
Republican party ard the country can
afford to try the hazardous experiment,
for the first time IN our history, of
electing a President, not by majority
of the votes actually east, but by a ma
jority of votes which the party in power
holds ought to have been cast. .
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; n E E z I n 6.
...=...., .GATAR,RH

= This is, a constant sneeze, enee ze,
<neeze, until your head seems ready. 10
fly on, until your nose ana eyes discharge
excessive quanttties of Hnucus, thin, acrid
and poisonous, until, unfit for business or
p easure. you number you1 eff among the
most afhleted of mort.gls, destined to suf-
fer pc ioqlcaiiy the greg st distress wi d :
out relief or 'eonSo ton. Z, cry draught,
every De tn ot sjr SENS an enemy in
disguise. This is proper called Acute
Catarrh. ana commonly, OF in the Head.
IEs constaes recurrence due to eonsti-
tutionally week or diseased sal organs,
glanas:5 In the pc snaanent cure of this
distressing malady Sanford's Radical
Cure for Catarrh IL n never-fafIlng spe-
c1flc. Instant relief SOllOws the fl st dose.
It's use destroys the morbid sen sitiveness
to atmospheric changes which predispose
people 10 this GiAssse,s aITd ia sure to pre-
vent an attack of Chronic or Lucrative
Catarrh. gtsZ 80. :. 2,
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

The Boston advertiser favofs con-
stitutional amendment providing that
Presidential electors shall send their GER
tilted lists to the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court that he shall open
and count them in the presence of the
fall court; that objection TO any list
may be flied, with specifications, by a
day certain; that before THE tribunal
Excluding, if need be, judges appointed
within one or more years. all objections
shall be heard, tried and decided by
day certain, according to law and with
out appeal.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
senator Edn1undS and South
Carolina.

In conversation with q Tribune re-
porter, recently, Senator Edmunds said
perhaps he was not wholly qualified to
give an unprecedented opinion of the jus
tice of the accusations of fraud or IN
timidation made by each party against
the other in the South. The propriety
of the returning board of South Carolina
adjourning as it did depended on the law
of that State, with which he was not
conversant. He supposed it had acted
according to law. About a majority of
the citizens of South Carolina being for
Hayes, he thought there could be no
doubt ia the mind of an intelligent man
who examined the previous election re.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

A CORRESPONDENT of the Springfield
Republican writes to that journal that
he thinks that ''for the last two months
the Republican can carry off the prize
for thorough out and out partisanship, +"
and that eff it has let slip any opportu-
nifty to work its sweet revenge on the
Republican party, and to aid in the cleo
ton of Governor Tilden," he has failed
to see it. He backs up his charges with
specifications, and the Republican re-
quires more than two columes to answer
them.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

turns and the census. The proportion
of negroes to white men in the State was
such as to give the Republicans ma
jority of 10000 or $4,000 where a fair
and open and impartial election was
sought. BE regarded it as nonsensical
to say that the colored voters had voted
for Iilden of their own free will. The.
heart aud the religion and the hope OF
the negro made him inclined toward the
Republican party. 1t was only natural
that he should look for protection in
his exercise of the rights of citizenship
to the party which endowed him with
citizenship. b = $500.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

Moses and Willard, why they do not is
sue msndamus to an individual voter
and order him to vote the Democratic
ticket. In judging of this controversy,
says the New York TSmss, it is rs well
to remember that the court has, from
the first, been the aggressor. In con-
senting to argue about its powers before
that tribunal, the returning board may
have given some color TO q perfectly IN
Justifable usurpation, but such action
could not alter the fact that the board is
Judicial body of entirely Independents
jurisdiction, empowered to discharge
certain duties prescribed by law, which
the court might be called on to inter
pref, but which it had no power to set
aside. The court undertook to reduce
the members of the returning board to
the position of its clerks, but it over
reached itself. Now it has undertaken
to proceed with the canvass of the vote
of South Carolina as if al the functions
of the returning board had been trans
ferred to Justices Moses and Willard.
The court is, in fact, attempting to take
into its own hands the executive and
legislative, as well as the Judicial, func-
tions of the government of South Caro-
lima, ..-.- Xxi e..
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G I'll r n &c.
0AsAR.KH.

sgIap tomss-O Distracted breathing. par
tial closure OF one or both uost9ils, a
.'staffe6 app feeling In the ], ID, constant
blowing or the nose. disch8 'ges from the
nose OF Watery or thick yellow or green
ish mueus, frequently strsaked with
blood. sometimes the matter becomes
encrusted IN the nasal passages and is re-
moved only by prolonged effort. In the
morning on rising the symptoms are the
worst .Vl0lent BLOWN, hawking and
spi Ting until the ernsts are removed, at
from the matter that has accumulated
during the night, Finally the poisonous
secretions attack the throat, bronchial
tubes. lungs, terminating in pulmona airy
consumption. acc o mpanied by a most Of
fensiye breath and impaired eyesight and
hearing. t.,-5-,t-+ f--...0. s.. .-..-'ss- =
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

AFTER long absence and much brf-
feting of the waves, that self exiled
statesman, Tweed, has returned to the
chambers prepared for him in Ludlow
street Jail. He could not make better
return for the warmth of his welcome
home again from a foreign shore, than
by rendering what assistance he can to
the officers of the law in their hitherto
fruitless search for the property that he
calls his.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

REPRESENTATIVE FRYE, of Maine,
who, with Messrs. Hoar and Wheeler,
was q member of the Louisiana investi-
eating committee of 1875, has printed
an argument to show that they never
condemned the returning board for any
of its findings as to facts. He says:
s'They made o mistake in their con-
struction of the law, but to find them
corrupt for this would equally condemn
every judge of every court in the coun-
trv -
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

If Messrs. Erving, Pendleton, Morgan
and Ward, who met at Columbus, Ohio,
the other day, and made violent speech
es on the political situation, are pure and
disinterested patriots, we would suggest
that the best way for them to save the
country is by a heroic practice of the
virtue of silence.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
LAME BACK.


1lsA.h AED PAINFUL BACK. TW ELV.E
=, - - D.sES IN HOS PIP AL. 1890
,MgSsJS. EFec}as. 81 Potter Gentlemen - /
have, .lost fcEoEered from lame and
.paia6s4 h OK. through the. use. of Your
Collins Y6l taic. r tastsrs, Ny back was so
lame and painful that could not stoop,
wsGlfc or do. duty OF any kind, and was
placed ia the hospital for twelve days
wis bout eates j then asked permission.
OF the surgeon. TO try the C0lhas' Yoltaic
PtasteTs, and in q few hDnTs alter putting
enc ON was entirely relieved o. I, ain and
able bend nay l9actS aEn now thofjlNgh
~ well. .qonstda them simply wonder
ta3.s GGspsetfIltY y.o4lgs. Ss,st gs39 EFtr E
= 80 >, !. -! N194cRe JAMESON, ~
~.L.@ Col, fst ARTILLERY, Fort warren.
Bost0n, May s, 1875 +. tt:'.a 1900
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

forty years, by long continued series of
marvellous cures, that have won for it
confidence in its virtues, never equalled
by any other medicine. 1t still makes the
most effectual cures of Coughs. Colds,
Consumption, that can be made by medi-
cal skill. Indeed the Cherry PectoEal has
really robbed these dangerous diseases OF
their terrors, to great extent, and given
q feeling of immunity from their fatal eff
fects, that is well founded If therein edy
be taken in season. Every family should
have il in their closet for the ready and
prompt relief of its memb ers. Sickness,
suffering, and even life IS saved by this
timely protection. The prudent should
not neglect it and the wise will not. Keep
it by you for the protection it affords by
its timely use in sudden att acks.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
REMEMBER THAT
nURES HOLLIS,
IUKsS 0CGEs-.
LURES ,ATAEkssH.
UURE Sumption.

DR.. WIN. NJ. LADD, a leading Druggist of
Claremont, certifirs as ollows:
For many years have known DR.. A. j.
Flagg as a successful practising physician,
aad can assure the public that his repre-
sensations relative TO the Cough and Lung
Syrup can be strictly relied upon. II has
been used in his extended practice with
marvellous success, and know It to be
all that he claims for it.
VIM. NJ. LADD, ND.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
The Improved Singer

sSnON'T FORGET Ir.n-slnger's Safety
~ Guard is worth all tho Burglar
Alarms ever invented. Agents wanted
everywhere. Silver plated sample pre-
paid on receipt of 25 cents. Address A.
Ii. SINGER, 435 Walnut Street, Philadel-
phia, Pa ap6d
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
1T WILL CURE ULCERATED SORE
THROAT. TRY IT.

II viii cure Loss ofVoice, Night sveats,
Sweats, Hectic Fever, and all symptoms
of Consum ption. TRY 1T.
For every affection of the Throat and
Lungs it only needs a trial TO convince
the most skeptical of its wonderful cura-
tive properties.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
CLARENoEr, Nh, September. ls7

CLAREA0ET, n. H., September. 1875.
DR.. FLAGG-My Dear Sir: Your Coug=
and Lung syrup has proved a great bene-
fit to me, giving relief from severe coughs
remedies and physicians had failed. /
have never taken a medicine more plea
SAINT to the taste or more satisfactory in
its results.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
The Cough and Lung syrup

Is the remedy that during the past fifteen
reputation as SPECIALIST for THROAT
and LUNG Diseases. After 50 many years
trial it can be trutbfully said that 1t has
NEVER FAILED. even In the Worst Cases.
It is purely Vegetable. and its effect upon
the system Is at once Soothing and Tonic.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
GEWING MACHINE THREAD.

No. 1oe on fiveihundred yard spools, for
Grover q. Bakeri. Machines, just received
At K. N. MERRIAM,S.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

Sold by all druggists, Seat by mai on
receipt OF 25 cents f0F one, 81. IS for elk, or
S2,25 for Twelve. carefully wrapped and
warranted, by WEEES i POTTER, Pro-
prtAtors, Boston Mas. 81 l.gs,t ~. NIB
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

more e6ectuaIIy than any otBer remedy,
Dy siraDly removing the cause. Try IT.
1t will cure Bronchitis, by aIlaying all
irritation of the throat. TRY 1T.
1t will cure Asthma, afTordiDg immedi-
ate relief and perfect cure. TRY IT.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
4 YER'S CHERRY PICTORIAL,
FOR DISEASES OF THE THROAT
AND LUNGS, SUCH AS wHooPNG
COUGH, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA,
AND CONSUMPTION.

The few compost
tions, which nave
won the cophd-
ence of mankind
and become house,
hold words. among
not only one but
many nations Per-
kaps no one ever
secured so wide a
reputa tt o n, or
maintained il so
long az A Y e r 9
Cherry PectOral. 1t
has been known to
the public about
=
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30

SEWING MACHINE NEEDLES Of
~ all kinds at j. B. Meekeris Music
tore, % Merchants Row,
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TT WILL CNRE CONsUNPTION,

even after all other remedies have failed.
In the earlier STAGES of this disease it viii
effect speedy and certain cure; and in
many cases of advanced Consumption its
effect has almost seemed miraculous, re-
storing to full strength and perfect health
those whom physicians had given up az
incurable. TRY IT
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
1t viii Cure q Common Cold

in a few hours, not by drying It up, but
by removing il from the 5 stem. TRY 1T.
It viii cure Chronic Cough, by sooth-
ing the irritated parts and strengthening
the system
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
In General.

Trenton, n. j., boasts a stallion six
teen hands high whose name touches
the ground when the animal is standing
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