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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1876-09-08

Swanton, d. G. Potter.
Richford, A. S. Chase.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
Cambridge, John B. Page.
Hydepark, Randall.
Morristown, Alden Darling.
Stowe, A. HI. Slayton.
johnson, Mcfarland.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Bloomfield, Cyrus R. Blodgett.
Brighton, Joseph Andrew.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Bradford, j. W. Bliss.
Braintree, g. L. Spear.
Chelsea, B. Martin.
Fairlee, w. E. ScelIy.
Newbury, II. w. Adams.
Orange, R. P. Camp
Thetford, H P. Cummings.
Randolph, w. II. Dubois.
Tunbridge, E. F. Howe.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Greensboro, H. S. Callerwood.
Irasburgh, Eben P. Cotton.
Derby, A. B. Nelson.
Holland, Dr. B. Pinney.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
Barre, j. S. Spaulding.
Berlin, Chas. F. Dewey.
Cabot, G. NJ. Webster.
Duxbury, David E. Farran.
Montpelier. Charles Il. Sabiu.
Mortified. A E. Dewey.
Waterbury, W. P. Dillingham;.
Middlesex, G G. Eaton.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Bennington, M C. Huling.
Manchester, w. Bowen.
Rupert, G. NJ. Sheldon.
Arlington, j. K. Batchelder.
Sandgate, NJ Hamilton.
Pownal, L. Mason
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Benson, G. B. Goodrich.
Brandon, N. T. Sprague, jr.
Castleton, W. G. Guernsey.
Chittenden, H. Long.
Clarendon, John G CoIvin.
Dandy, G. r. Buckton.
Fairhaven, S. w. Bailey.
Hubbardton, Cyrus Jennings.
Ira, S. L. Peck.
Mendon, Reuben Ranger.
Middletown, A. Y. Gray.
Mt. Holly, w. Newton.
Mt. Tabor, G. S. Tabor.
Pawlet, S. S. Brown.
Pittsford, George N. layers.
Poultney, M. o. Stoddard.
Rutland, John A. Sheldon.
Sherburne, D. w. Taylor.
Shrewsbury, John Webb.
Tinmouth, Ii. Hopkins.
Wallingford, M. H. Dickerman.
Wells, Marcellas Francis.
West Haven, X. G. Abel.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
Athens, S. G. Ranney.
Brookline, w. w. Perry.
Brattleboro, Julius j. Estey.
Grafton, Charles Barrett.
Westminster, r. S. Stafford.
Townshend, F. w. Olmstead.
Rockingham, A. N. Swain.
Jamaica, Albert Sturgess.
Putney, S. 0. Parker.
Newfane, A. B. Franklin.
Marlboro, VIM. w. Lynde.
Halifax, A. NJ. v Hager.
Somerset, Asa Burnap, ir.
Wilmington, E. G. Sargent.
Dummerston, I. N. Read
Stratton, E. H. Willis.
Vernon, Dwight johnson.
Londonderry, j. l.. Martin.
Wardsboro, NJ. J. Gleason.
Windham, A. H. Mack.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Chester, Hugh Henry.
Hartford, w. Lindsay.
Pomfret, Ora Paul.
Royalton, Martin P. Skinner.
Springfield, Horace H. Howe.
Windsor, j. A. Pollard.
Woodstock, w. G. French.
Bridgewater, C. Z. JosEyn.
Cavendish, w. Hazelton.
Weathersfeld, C. L Stearns.
Ludlow, w. A. Patrick.
West Windsor. Allen Savage.
Andover, A. E. Stannard.
Reading, Geo. H. Parker.
Baltimore, o. ID. Freeman.
Plymouth, ]. c. Coolidge.
Weston, A. G. Foster.
Norwich, Bartlett Sergeant.
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SOME FAMILY HISTORY.

Mrs. Hayden was the youngest daugh-
ter Of the late Levi Spaulding of Derby
Line. Mr.. Spaulding died a few years
since, leaving large property to be d.
vided among his two sons and five
daughters. One of his daughters mar
ried Charles o. Brigham, son of Rev.
Elijah Brigham of Newtonville, Mass,
and he with his wife were boarding at
the hotel here.
Hayden has led the life of a PROLIFIC
ate, and had squandered nearly all his
handsome estate. He had also treated
his wife with such neglect and cruelty,
providing no means of sustenance, that
Mrs. Hayden some months since thought
it her duty to decline to live longer with
him This was last fall, and Mrs. Hay
den went to Boston and passed the win
ter with her sister, Mrs. Bixby, and
Hayden went to st. Leon Springs, P. O.,
where he has been assisting Capt. j.
X. Gilman in his hotel. Mrs. Hayden
returned to this place few weeks since,
and was spending few days with her
sister, Mrs. Brigham.
HAYDEN UTTERs THREATS.
Wednesday afternoon Hayden made
his appearance in the village and sought
an interview with his wife, and it now
appears that he told her she must pre-
pare to die, for he would kill her if she
did not live with him. 1t also appears,
from his own statement, that he left st.
Leon Springs with the intention of kill
ing her unless she complied with his
wishes.
THE FIEND sURRENDERs.
A third party came into the room,
when he said he would surrender the
pistol, which he did. He then surren-
dered himself to an officer, and was held
in $4,000 bonds, and sent to jail at
Irasburgh in this county.
The tragedy is appalling, from its
atrocity and the predetermination of the
assassin who deliberately left his occu-
patton and travelled 200 or more miles to
murder young and beautiful wife who
left home and friends only three years
since to marry him, against the best
judgment of all her friends.
THE VICTIM.
1t now appears that for two years he
has treated her with great cruelty, which
increased in severity as her property di-
minished. She was exceedingly amiable
and lovely, and never had an enemy.
Had her critical situation been known
before Hayden was committed, the
neighbors would undoubtedly have
lynched him on the spot Mr.. Brigham
had been pursuing the study of the law
in this place, and was intending to offer
himself for admission to the bar of this
county at the coming September term.
He is pleasant, gentlemanly man, and
is appreciated as gentleman of high
and promise; man who never
quarreled.
THE PRISONER UNREPENTANr.
The would-be murderer expresses no
remorse at shooting his wife. He says
that he hopes she will die, and regrets
that his shots were not Immediately ia
tai. He says he did not intend to kill
Brigham unless it became necessary so
to do, but that he is sorry for it. The
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CALEDONIA COUNTY.
RUTLAND COUNTY.

RUTLAND COUNTY.
The following is the complete vote of
Rutland County except the town of
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-26

Travelling by tho Sound Steamers.
The story of the man found swimming ut
night far out in the Sound had at least one
point in favor of it's credibility, which was
the simple fact of the mans presence in the
water at that place and that time Not even
the police have limited, we believe that the
man never was in the water, and that tho
boatmen who brought him to the shore were
his confederates in some new sort of swindle
the nature and proposed victims Of which
are not apparent 1t is little odd that the
police have not done this, for they seldom
lose an opportunity to discredit any occur
renee likely to furnish occasion for increased
activity on their part.
1t is admitted, therefore, that man was
picked up at night by small vessel SO far
from land that he might be said to be swim
ming in the open sea. 1t is not credible that
he swan thither from the land, or dropped
himself overheard from another boat merely
to hoax few simple Sound boatmen, be-
cause there is no sane human creature who
does not in some degree preserve relation
of proportion between his acts and their
proposed consequences. No way is appar-
ent by which swindle of that nature could
be made to produce money; and from the
mere impossibility Of explaining the fact on
grounds which assume that the story told
is false we are driven to believe that, al
though there may be variations in it, it is
not altogether devoid of truth.
The story told by correspondent, who
signs himself another Victim" comes di-
rectly to the support of the story told by
Burk, and here the capture of one of the
rogues and his incarceration for seven years
are circumstances that even policeman may
accept as removing the recital from the
region of dreams and visions TO that of
daily realities Yet, but for timely dis
covery, this passenger might also have gone
overheard as Burk did.
No traveller by the Sound steamers can
doubt that ii is possible to commit robbcries
and murders of this nature every night, and
the doubts OF the police only indicate their
want of acquaintance with the many posi-
bilities of the situation. The crime is pos
sibla. Is there any question that there are
rogues in our midst bad enough to commit
it? The more profitable way to regard the
case is for the public to remember it as indi-
eating n danger of such journeys, while, if
the boat owners and the police cooperate, it
cannot be impossible 10 trap the scoundrels
and so break up their game.
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ernment He would further put out OF
commission such utterly worthless and
expensive playthings as the Tallapoosa,
Despatch, Michigan and Powhatan at home
and the great wooden steam hulk Franklin
abroad; cease appointments to the Naval
Academy and to the grades of assistant sur
geon, assistant paymaster. assistant en-
gineer, assistant constructor, chaplain, civil
engineer and second lieutenant of marines
until Congress meets; recommend gradual
reduction Of the number of navy officers to
the wants of the service-say to q fleet of
thirty cruising vessels. He would also
practically close all but three of the navy
yards, stop recruiting for some months and
inaugurate system which would ultimately
weed the active and retired lists of their
worthless incapables. Finally, if he were
compelled after all to furlough officers, he
would commence by furloughing the least
meritorious of the two thousand men on the
list, and not strike at many of the ablest and
best officers in tho service because they had
the manhood and candor to declare the con-
dition of the service rs it exists, and not as
he would like to make it appear to the
country.
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Promise and Performance.

The republican party, through its repre-
sentatives and duly accredited organs, is
never weary of processing its undying and
hearty devotion to the interests of 'the BOYS
in Blue" We have been treated to a vast
amount of sentimental stuff in the columns
of the partisan journals of the republican
creed-n fact, to such an extent have the re-
publican ''organs" ground away at this tune
that the nero epithet Of '.Doy in Blue" is
nauscating to the soldier or sailor of the late
civil war.
In tho coming Presidential campaign, how
ever. we arc to be treated to more of this
nonsense, with the accompaniment of hats,
capes, torches, badges, our late veteran Gov
ernor, Centennial" Dix, Drake De Kay. &c.
The public will learn exactly how to value
these professions of regard for the men who
took New Orleans and gained tho control
Of the Mississippi River, maintained the
blockade and assisted in preserving the
union of these States, by reading Secretary
Robson recent General Order 216 by virtue
of which some hundreds of genuine and not
bogus "Boys in Blue" commencing with
<Autiiiiai oitti, VAC utTO VI tflc lhlSSiSSlHDl
River and Fort Fisher; Vice Admiral
Rowan, the hero of fifty fights, and ending
with some poor warrant officer, are placed
upon furlough and starvation pay, while
the genial and rubicund Secretary goes off
on pleasure trip in his naval steam yacht,
the Despatch. no doubt laughing in his
sleeve at the folly of Congress and the easy
gullibility of the American public.
If the republican party is DESTROYS of fals-
flying all its professions let its organs pass
over in silence and without word of reproach
this latest outrage of high official in its
camp. What more could the dreaded So
called Confederate administration do to
these men than Secretary Robson has
already done3 Nay. would it not be better,
perhaps, fer these officers to trust the gen.
crosby of the chivalfous and brave mon
whom they met and conquered in the late
rebellion rather than the tender mercies and
sham economies of the present joyial head of
! the NAVY DEPARTMENT?
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It is not to be wondered ut that Don Carlos
should object to be followed through the
streets of New York by number of spies,
and especially by person Of the name of
Billy. But in trying to deal with Billy and
his companions, who emerge from a neighbour
ing lager beer saloon whenever His Majesty
without q throne comes out of his hotel, our
distinguished visitor ran counter to q metro
politan magistrate of portentous mien and
unimpeachable grandeur. In avoiding Scyl!a
he was dashed upon Charybdis-- getting out
of the way of Billy he fell fiat before Kas.
mire. In his misfortunes no has our ten
derest sympathies. Billy was bad enough,
but his throneless majesty has been taught
once for all that in enduring the spy he cam
not escape with impunity from the Judge.
When Mr.. Carlos, remembering that he was
king. was pursued and prosecuted Mr..
Kasmire, forgetting that he is judge, kindly
waited on the uDthroned monarch of tho
Andalusian hills and offered TO arrest any
American sovereign whom tho crownless
king wanted locked mp. In the meantime,
however, Carlos changed his mind,
aided by light which shines for
oil, even for q king without court, and
sent messenger to Kasmire to tell him SO.
Kasmire felt and rightfully felt, that the
American Judiciary was being insulted in
his person, and he at once determined to vim
dictate the Bench by rebuking the levity of
this Spanish Bourbon. He acted with de-
cision and directness, and sent message
to His Majesty the throneless that there was
no escape from Billy except by coming to
Kasmire. Carlos came, but when he got q
sight of the Judge he prudently determined
to endure the spy.
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Phflsdelphia's Extremity saratogss
Opportunity.

A number Of well meaning gentlemen In
Philadelphia, almost totally unfamiliar with
rowing on large scale, have for long time
been arranging grand regatta, worthy
of the time and the nation. AS the day
draws near they find that while they have
assembled almost as brilliant ON array Of
rowing talent as the world can afford, the
handling it SO as to give to each contestant
the first and great requisite-a perfectly fair
race-is quite an undertaking. Just at this
juncture local organization clogs matters
all the more by very abruptly, and appa-
rently without just cause, disqualifying Ger.
tain we'll known oarsmen, whose status be-
fore has hardly been questioned. All who
saw the racing this week agree that it was q
piece of Encouragement throughout and
the prospect for the greater meeting
next week is so uninviting that
rumor says That it need not surprise
any person if some of our best clubs pur-
pose packing up ut once and returning
home. The Neptune Club has already left,
while the public has been left so in the dark
as to the programme that many who have
purposely deferred visiting the Centennial
until they could take in these contests ao-
tually do not know here two days before
the first racing day what the order is to be or
when the contests in which they may have
an especial interest are to take place. II
matters do not mend before the middle oi
next week Saratoga's chance has come-ona
that will never come again while any Of US
are alive. Let her on the week commencing
September 1.-THE very day, by the way,
when the Wards, five years ago, on her mag
nificent track rowed down England's fore
most oarsmen and became champions of the
world-let her that week have these four
races-namely, a single scull contest for anna
tours and one for professionals and four.
cared race for each class likewise. Let hen
transport, board and lodge the ten of each
class who at Philadelphia prove the best al
the SOULS, the ten fastest amateur fours and
the four famous professional tours. All
these oarsmen will still be in fine condition,
and Saratoga, with her steamers able to keep
up, her ample lighthouses, her commodious
hotels, and her lake worthy of q centennial
contest even for the championship Of the
whole world, would insure to every rover
race absolutely fair and to every spectator q
spectacle he would remember as long as he
lives
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-26

Our POLICE JUsTIsEs exert n singular au-
thority in cases where insanity is charged.
rs was illustrated by Justice Duffy ycster-
day. A gentleman was arrested by police
man because he was eccentric and although
his eccentricities were his own affair, he is
now in the Tombs waiting for the city ply
stefan to decide whether he is crazy. If
Judge Duffy's action is good as legal pre-
ccdent all of our police justices may find
themselves locked up some afternoon by the
only sane judge among them.
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Tho Battery Thirty-nins Years Age

"Bellini's celebrated opera Of Norma, so
we are informed by the HERALD of August
81, 1847, "sung by Tedesco last evening,
brought to the Castle Garden about two
thousand and three hundred people," We
are glad to learn that Tedesco, who was
indisposed on account of a fall in the street,
sang admirably the grand aria of "Casta
Diva" and that the whole performance was
in the most perfect style. These were the
days when the Battery was fashionable
place of resort, but of late the only music
heard there was the sweet German accent, the
rich brogue of the Irish and the Wagner-like
tones of the Mennonites of Russia. We can
not expect to restore italian opera to the
Battery, yet if Castle Garden is to be rebuilt
it ought not to be q depot for emigrants.
The resolution which Recorder Hackett
offered yesterday in the Sinking Fund Com
mission is an important step in this direction.
1t directs the Commission to eject the Emf
grafton Commissioners from the Garden,
and advises that the Park Commissioners be
restored to the control of the SITE so as to
preserve it for purposes of public enjoy
ment OF course this resolution made an
excitement, but no reform can be executed
in New York without opposition. The Bat
terry should be grand park for the citizens
of New York, and who knows but that in o
little time, with proper care, it will be
almost as popular for promenade in the
summer evenings rs it was famous thirty
nine years ago, when Tedesco and Severi and
Raineri sang to the orchestral undertpne Of
our splendid bay?
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They have fought for some days in front
of Alexinatz, and the latest indications OF
the fortunes of the battle are that the Mos
lens had driven in the Servian outposts to
such degree that they were able to throw
shells into the town and that an attempt to
assume the offensive on the part of General
Tchernayeff resulted in his return to his
lines with the loss of thousand men. In
stead of any more definite statement OF the
results of the collision We hear from Bel
grade only that Prince Milan has suddenly
changed his mind in regard to the war and
is now ready to make peace Two or three
days ago he was as fierce rs the 'bo'uHdnf
continue the conflict until he had annihilated
the Moslem butchers Then, encouraged
by the dispatches of General Tchernayeif,
he turned a cold shoulder to propositions OF
mediation in which oil the Powers were pre-
pared to unite. 1t is to be hoped that his
sudden change Of heart is not due to more
precise knowledge of the results of the
fighting Mt Alexinatz than has yet reached
the outside world. 1t is coincidence of
note, however, that the Turks protest against
an armistice, even with view to make
peace; circumstance which has its value
as an Indication, for it is always victori-
Gus force that hates to hear of an armistice.
1t is fact to rejoice over, however, that the
Servians have in their present position pre-
scented themselves as real obstacle in
the path of their enemy. They have
fought him there with some obstinacy,
though outnumbered, and if they feel
now that they are near the end OF
their capacity to resist, it is fortunate
that the opportunity is at hand to end the
war. There will, of course, be some diff
Guilty over the terms. Prince Milan, it is re-
ported, proposes as basis of negotiation the
return of the two Powers to the positions
they held toward one another before the
war, which is the proposition of one who at
least does not admit defeat. But the Turks
will demur, for they are not q people slow
tory. 1t may need all the authority of tho
Sultan's friends and supporters in London
to induce the acceptance Of peace on this
basis. No one need be surprised if the Sub
lime Porte proves obstreperous in this par
ticular, for the victories of the war have re-
vived the soul Of Islam, and that soul will
make itself felt. An unpopular peace will
involve another popular revolution" in
Constantinople and q new Sultan, and there
will be call for another pair Of scissors in
q royal palace.
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Secretary Robson having delivered him.
self OF his General Order No. ZIG, which will
furlough nearly four hundred officers on the
active list, including such men as Admirals
Porter. Rowan and LIE Roy, Commodores
Guest, Bryson and Fairfax, has gone of, it is
reported, to Rye Beach, to enjoy himself for
the remainder of the summer. 1t is worse
than idle to endeavor to lay the blame of
this iniquity upon Congress, as the Secretary
in his order speciously seeks to do. Con-
grcss never meant that the morally lame,
halt and blind of the navy should be pre-
ferred to posts of duty, and in some cases to
positions Of power and influence within even
the sacred walls Of the Navy Department
itself, while the healthy, strong and vigorous
should be laid aside as if in disgrace. IiSecrc-
tary Robson had any real desire to comply
with the wishes of 1.-THE representatives of
the people" he would at once commence
intelligently to reduce the expenses of the
service to peace basis, rs far as lay in his
power, by abolishing the numerous useless
Offices and sinecuros in the Navy Depart
ment and the numerous navy yards and
other places now held by the favorites,
dopondonts or nolitical friends of the 0ov-
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tide which beat against the republican party
was set back, and has since flowed in the
opposite direction. This is the main reason
why the parallel does not hold between 1910
and 1876. The whig party then pro-
posed a specific remedy the democratic
now merely rejects the republican prescrip-
tion The patient is left to languish while
the democratic doctors quarrel among them
selves, make imbecile concessions to each
other and fail to formulate a remedy which
anybody can understand. 1t is this broad
difference in the matter of remedies which
precludes the supporters of Mr.. Tilden
from expecting repetition of the great Har-
rison campaign.
There is no sort of resemblance between
the present fiat and apathetic canvass and
the tremendous popular t,rore which set the
whole country agog in the days of ''Tippe-
canoe and Tyler too" AS early as April IN
that remarkable year the streets of all our
principal towns were paraded at night by
torchlight professions, preceded by bands
of music and bearing miniature log cabins
and mimic barrels of hard cider on the
suOuluerS VI Wig euIuuSlitStS. l. ue eACiIc-
ment grew with the progress of the canvass,
and when, in September,
"Mane went he'll bent
For Governor Kent"
there seemed good grounds for tho
apostrophe to the democratic candidate in
another campaign song:-
cyan, Van
You are "A uscd-up man."
1t is, of course, ridiculous to compare that
spirited campaign of stormy enthusiasm
with the present Where are the Tilden
campaign songs? Where are the emblems
and devices which in 1910 gave broad
touches of the grotesque by sober daylight
but mado the nights picturesque, though
hideous? There was never such q campaign
before or since, and Mr.. Tilden's friends
only emphasize tho sleepy tameness OF the
present by suggesting such contrast.
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MuEDEREEs are generally magnanimous as
well as penitent on the scaffold, and James
Murphy, who was executed at Dayton, Ohio,
yesterday, was not an exception to the rule.
He confessed his crime. iorgave his enemies
and died in the hope of blessed immor-
tali.y. There is some consolation in know
ing that guilty man has been punished,
but it is not possible to read the details Of
the execution which we publish this morn
ing without feeling the barbarism exempli-
fed in this mode of punishment