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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
sporting Notes.

Atwenty smile BICYCLE match viii take
place on Monday evening next, IN New
J ork. between William Mcclellan (the
champion and William DeNoielle.
William Sexton, the young Burling.
ton bilfiardist, now in New Orleans, has
forwarded challenge to Joseph Dion to
plsy for the Delaney medal and the
championship, ~ s. 4. Il. 81 $50. *.
!: o Legry, the Chicago pedestrian, is
fun of business IN England Having
succeeded IN beating Weston . time, he
was not accorded the credit of being the
fastest walker of. the two; and learning
the fact, he. recently issued a challep ge
TO- Weston; *. s.. ~,
The ST. Louis base ball club proposes
to contest the second position on the
championship list with the Hartfords,
and to this end will file protest with
the League, claiming second rank under
article 10, section 2, of the League con.
stitution, by which they hope to have
credited to them as forfeits three games
due them in st. Louis from the MutHals.
AS the Mutual club ceased to exist long
ago, the claim would hardly seem to be
of any value.
Yates, the checker champion, offers
to put up the champion medal against
deposit of $50, not as wager, but
simply to compensate him for time
spent In preparing for a match of fifty
games OWNS and draws to count. In
case Mr.. Yates should lose, he resigns
the championship of the world and the
medal to the victor, who in turn must
play for it (if ohallengeO upon similar
terms. This offer Is rendered to all
players, match to come eff in two days
after signing articles.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
seasonabIe Suggestions.

Frosts, braeing winds and spits of
snow warn US that the summer IS past
and that winter is approaching and he
is wise who puts all things in readiness
to meet the approaching cold season.
Our Northern winters vary in severity,
and as we have no certain means OF
foreteIliue the season, that course is the
safest which prepares for the most Sc
we're ard Indictment season in advance.
Farm buildings need looking TO, 10 see
that there are no loose boards or shin
giles TO be blown away, ard thereby sub
iect the building and its contents TO
greater damage and ourselves TO loss
Tight barns and stables with suitable
ventilation, keep hay, etc very much
better and the stock warmer than those
which are well supplied with large
cracks and poorly hung and badly con-
structed doors. If our stock are kept
warm, by warm stables, they require
less heating food to keep up the temper
allure of the body SO that their food, in
stead of dissipating in heat, is changed
into more profitable elements which go
10 build up and perfect the body and its
products Look st it in any light, we
shall find, by experience, that good,
sNSbkt4ls al MY Vic
comfortable, are the most economical
in; every sense. Good boards and nails
are S6kaper than hey and gain, and are
oe5n9nfiSai 81, Sssa,sltes. SO far as they
60, tor those essentials. Many harms in
rural neighborhecds are SO constructed
that by banking against the foundations
very much cold will be excluded. Sta
bles can be made warmer by inside.
boarding or balteniug over the crscks
of the outside covering. Anything
whereby they can be improved to ex-
clude the cold will save much hay In
this year of short supply; the milk Civ
ing COWS will more than make good any
extra expense aud trouble in providing
for their comfort and so of all other
stock. 81. -.
In the garden aud about the grounds
there are also many things which, I'M
less reminded of may be left undone TO
our disadvantage !; mary shrubs, trees
and vines are the better for some little
protection of root or top against the sun
and cold. Young fruit trees may need
the stinlulous of manure about the base
of their trunks asparagus beds need q
good covering Of ccarse manure, and
shrubs and bushes may need some dress
ing of 8 similar nature. Grape vines do
very much betterEy being laid down and
covered with few inches of sand or
hight soil, or even board. Such as
cannot be well laid down may be pro-
tected by setting and tying evergreen
bnughs closely about them. These
boughs are much preferable TO slrsw
for covering strawberry beds and for
protecting roses. Cleaning az the
grounds and making Gsety,iIing snug
around the builGinss Il; a'so in order.
Everyone know: sbH mach better and
attractive D place looks where every
thi1g u soCg aid neat, than the same
Place Goes with everything at loose ends.
Country Gentleman.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
Fight Between Trout and a
FL. Water

a. w. Chase of the United States
Coast Survey, in note to the editor of
the Popular Science Monthly, describes
as follows contest which he and a
brother officer witnessed in 1867 on the
Purlssima, small trout stream about
twenty-four miles south of San Fran
cisco:
We had been fishing on the stream,
and came to q high bank which over
looked a transparent pool of water about
ten feet 10 diameter and four feet in
depth. The pool was fringed with vii
lows, and had on one side small gravel
bank: The trout at first sight was lying
in. mid water, heading up stream. It
was, as afterward ascertained, fully nine
inches in length, q very desirable prize
for1sn angler. While studying how to
cast cur flies to secure him, novel fish
erman appeared, and SO quick were his
actions that wesuspended our own to
witness them. This new enemy of the
trout was a large water-snake of the
common variety, striped black and yell
low. He swan up the pool on the sur
face until over the trout, when he made
a dive, and by dexterous movement
seized the trout in such a fashion that
the jaws of the snake closed its mouth.
The fight then commenced. The trout
had the use of its tail and fins, and could
drag the snake from the surface when
near the bottom, however, the snake
made use of its tail by winding it around
every stone or root that it could reach.
After securing this tail.hold it could
drag the trout toward the bank, bat, on
. letting go, the trout would have new
advantage. This battle was continued
for full twenty minutes, when the snake
managed to get its tail out OF the water
and elssped around the root of one of
the willows mentioned .as oyerhanging
the pool. The battle was then up, for
the snake raduany put coil after coil
around the root, with each one dragging
the fish toward the land. When half its
body was cooled it nhloosed the fret hold
aud stretched the end of its tail out IN
every directions, and, finding another
root, made fast, and now using both
dragged the trout out on the gravel
bank. IL now had 1t under control, and
unceiling, the snake dragged the fsll
fully ten feet up on the bank, and I sup.
pose would have gorged him. We killed
the snake and replaced the trout in the
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
"FooI Friends

Il. Nothing hurts man, nothing hurts a
party, sy terribly as fool friends. /.
= 4 fbol friend is the sqTer OF bad
news az SANDER. and all base ana ur-
pleasant things,
fool friend always knows every
mean thing that has been SAID against
you and against the party.
He always knows where your party
is loosing and the other IS max ing large
gains. 80
He always tells you the good luck
your enemy has had.
He implicitly believes every story
against you, and kindly suspects your
defence.
A fool friend is always full of kind
OF a stupid candor.
lie is so candid that he always bel "
ea the statements of an enemy.
He never suspects any thing on your
side.
Nothing pleases him like being shock
ed by horrible news concerning some
good man.
He never denies lie, unless it is in
your favor =
He is always finding fault with his
party, and is continually begging pardon
for belonging to the other side.
He is fIightfully anxious that all his
candidates should stand well with the
opposition.
lie is forever seeing the faults of his
party and the virtues If the other.
He generally shows his candor by
scratching the ticket.
He a ways searches every nook and
corner for his conscience to find rea-
son for deserving a friend or principle.
In moment of victory he is mag
naniously on your side. In defeat, he
consoles you by repeating prophecies
made after the event.
The fool FIJI md regards your reputa-
ton as common property and az COM
mon prey for all the vultures, hyenas,
and jackals.
He takes sad plea ure in your mis-
fortunes.
He forgot his principles to crafty
your enemies. 0.
He forgives your n aligner a~d sim
erer with all his heart.
He is so friendly that you cannot kick
m.-Fr0m Carl PreizeEs Weekly.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
An Eccentric Philosopher.

A tall, gentlemanly looking man, with
rather care-worn visage, walked into
Websters lunch room, and stepping up
to the genial Turner, who presides over
the biyalves, said, in almost stage
whisper:
"Have you any bad oysters ?"
f'Haye / achdt ?" said Turner, staring
at the fellow.
"HaYe you any bad oysters2" inquir-
ed the stranger; ''any gerry bad oys-
ters?"
swell" saia. ?'uruer, almost non
plnssed, suppose / could shl1ek out a
few, although ours are, generally speak
ing, very nice"
s'Then," answered the melancholy In
diyidual, "please give me a dozen on the
half she'll"
With wondering eyes Turner turned
over the pile, and with difficulty manag-
ed to extract twelve really bad oysters,
which the stranger swallowed win SO,
Der, even q pensive air. When ne hau
finished them, something like pros
phorescent snliie lit up his lantern aWeo
features, and turning to Turner he ASK
ed him if he had got any OF the very
best New York oysters.
oh, yes I" replied Turner. ust
from Princes Bag. p ....is s,
Cali right said the stranger, ana
having swallowed the plump biyalyes
with an air of satisfaction, he inquired
for the bill and paid it. AS he was leaY-
ing, Turner said to BIN :
Excuse my curiosity, SIR, but may 1
ask what all this means
: Certainly replied the stranger
ssThe fact is, / am a sufferer from an
insatiable tape worm, and if you think
am fool enough to feed that fellow on
nice New York oysters, when bad ones
will do just as we'll, you must think me
green ndet d !" ,s,rs,{ g.
The railroads have made handsome
thing out OF; the Centennial. On Tues
day last. the. Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany circulated q congratulatory address
to the employees of the road for their
faithful attention to duties duting the
gentennial, The Baltimore and Ohio
railroad sent. their employees 8 check
beginhiag with the caRdlctors at 800,
and 90 :grsdualiy down TO the f,renen
who received SO each.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
The Vote In eiosida
DEMOCRATIC FRAUDS.

=. %
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2G.-Ex- United
States Senator Osborne, of Florida, has
written a letter to friend in this city,
explaining the operations of the Demo-
Gratis in reference to the vote in that
State. MIR. Osborne has made an anaJy-
sis of the Democratic vote, and says he
finds that it shows at all points a uni
form increase of one-third IN maJorities
over previous elections This uniform
ity of increase is the result of q defiber-
ate plan matared prior to the election,
and was secured in various ways, the
general instruc tons of the Tilden man
ayers to the Florida county committees,
to make their msjolities show this in
crease, leaving the methods of accom-
plishment to- the local managers. In
some insta' aces the result was accom-
plished by importing and voting Demo-
Gratis from Georgia and Alabama in
others, 10y violence and intimidation,
and in &c Jme cases by altering the returns
after th polls had closed. Mr.. Osborne
says tie fact of the uniformity of in
crease In the Democratic local MAORI
ties xsin be established by an inspection
of the vote, and that the methods by
which this remarkable result was ac-
coEaplished can be satisfactorily proved
by competent witnesses. ~. X. Times.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
In General.

Brother Sherman is said 10 have fig
ured up bill of costs against Mutual
Friend Moulton which provoked a dis
charge of gorgeous. rhetoric. Moulton
thinks it would be cheaper to try the
case in Delaware county or in the In
dian Territory, especially as there are
Pryor Claims Graphic.
The New York Tribune asserts that
the arrest of Ebert A. Woodward, of
tae Tweed ring, was prearranged and
understood by him. His revelations
will involve many Republican, as well
as Democratic, officials, and particulars
of the dividend OF funds raised in Court
House frauds will involve scores of peo-
pie who have been hitherto unsupported.
There is more warmth in snow than
is generally supposed. During the re-
cent Arctic voyage, the deck of the
Alert. was covered with two feet Of
snow for eeonomizing heat below.
While the sir on the upper deck waa
seventy degrees below zero, equivalent
to one hundred degrees of frost, on the
lower deck, mean temperature of for
ty-nine degrees was maintained.
Many New York pastors have reduced
sheir salaries in view of the embarrass-
ments of the times. Several have re.
linquished $1,000; some have agreed to
preach year without pay, and there
has been general reduction all along
the line. A clergyman. recently told of
an instance of forethoua htquite remark
able. The parish took 1000 off the
pastors salary and spent it on q quar-
teite choir. DIR. Robinson, of the Mem
orial Church, ia the banner pastor in
this wise. he has made q good deal OF
money on his hymn book he gave $685..
900 the other day to reduce the debt on
his church. lf.[ p. .... !, II
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
The Younger Family.

The Younger brothers, who were in
dicted on November Is for the murder
of Haywood, the cashier of the North
field (Minn bank, and of Nicholas Gus
tavsen, are in excellent sphi:s. Cole
writes poetry in the Faribault jail Jim
eats with difficulty, owing to his wound
ed Jaw, and Bob shows a hard kind of
grit in never moaning over his arm,
which was pierced by musket ball at
Mortified, carried in sling through
storm and swamp during his desperate
attempt to escape, and finally reset ia
the jaii. HenTielte, sister to the three
brothers, ana Mrs. TwymaD, amt 10 TIE
same, are ministering unto them. GeH-
rieite sternly denies the imputatiol Tia.
she loves Jim more than Cole or Bob.
She loves them all alike, and she wears
a cloak trimmed with fur. When pee
pie stare at her in the court room she
freezes, but when the pleasant young
gentlemen who represent the st. Paul
papers draw near with gentle courtesy,
she breaks through her reserve and
bursts into a freshet of talk. All in all,
she is sister of whom the Missouri
night-raiders may well be proud.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
says he was welcomed by what he calls
a tsthuuderiup curiosity - .ftse-.' - Z. Il

says he was welcomed by what he calls
a 'sthundering curiosity" +
Mr. Drew, the Democratic candidate
for governor of Florida, formerly lived
In Alton, N. lei.
An Irishman named O'Keefe has died
in India leaving property valued at $685.
100000, and no immediate heirs.
MIR, Green Clay Smith, the prohibition
candidate for President, received only
tseerty votes in his native county IN
Kentucky. sse:s
Canaris, the gallant Greek Admiral
who fifty odd years ago, with forty-two
associates, took the sacrament and de-
voted himself to death in sailing two
fireships into the midst of the Turkish
fleet at Scio, succeeding in destroying
the Pasha's ship with many hundred
men, is alive at Athens, hearty OLD
salt of eighty-two.
The translation of the Bible by Julia
Smith, one of the Glastonbury Smith
sisters, is now finished and for sale. 1t
is the first translation of the Bible ever
| made by woman, and she acquired all
her knowledge of Hebrew, Greek and
Latin mainly by her own efforts at a
time when no college admitted women.
The heroic self sacrifice of George FL
lot is not fully 1ealizel when we learn
that she has thus far made only five
thousand dollars for the sale of Daniel
| Deronda," until we pause to consider
| her candid admission that she might
have made five times as much by per-
forming on the flying trapeze.
Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana, is
about fifty year old. He is of medium
height, is slender and erect, and wears a
closely buttoned coat. His head is
small, the forehead evenly rounded and
sloping backward with too great rapid
ity. His hair is gray and worn as II
much time had been employed on 1t
| with brush in front of mirror. His
moustache is gray, heavy, and with
| pointed waxed ends.
The ex- Empress Eugene is in no par
ticular danger of starvation. She has
real estate in Paris valued at 81, 065, 600,
on which there are mortgages to the ex-
tent of $24O, 900. Then in the provinces
scattered about she has estates worth at
least 81, 100000. Only one of these is
mo1tgaged. Besides all these the Bona
parte family possess large estates in
Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Corsica and
England. AS for the personal property
estimates vary. some of them reaching
nearly Si5 600, 600, and others falling az
low as SIS, 600, 600. The Emperor was
what the American Housewife calls "a
| good proVider.
Chief Justicel Moses, of South Caro-
| lima, is brother of Judge Moses who was
indicted last year, at the instigation of
| Gov. Chamberlain, and father OF ex-
Gov. Moses to whom Gov. Chamberlain
refused com mission as Judge, q few
months since. He is bitter personal
enemy of Coy. Chamberlain. He has
| wo associates, -one is black n an from
| Pennsylvania, said to be q good lawyer
and q G.m Republican, white The third
| faembtF of the court Is a carpet-tagger
! from New York, who has for some time
been regarded as q TOOL of Wade Hamp-
| ton and his associates. r.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
Tee Centennial state Buildings

Little or nothing now remains of any
of the State buildings except furniture,
and from some that, too, is gone. There
are twenty-one such buildings, and about
dozen of them are sold. In addition
to those already announced as having
teen "knocked down. are the follow
ing; The Iowa building, sold for 1915,
TO Mr.. Bower of New Jersey, who in
tends removing it to his farm about ten
miles from Camden; the Massachusetts
building, for 81 800, to a gentleman of
that State, who will re-erect it near Bos-
ton, and the Illinois building to Mr..
VIM. Strong, who will remove it to his
land on the Pennsylvania railroad, some
miles from this city. WorkmeR are dis
membering some of the purchased struc-
lures. a West Yirginian has offered
1000 for the building representing his
State. Although it cost Sc, 600 it is
thought his offer will be accepted.
Nothing definite, however, can be
known regarding the disposition of this
building, nor those of Pennsylvania,
Arkansas and one or two other States,
until their respective legislatures meet.
The Arkansas building, large tent-like
structure, cost So, 800, and gentleman
proposes to buy and remove it to Ocean
Grove for camp-meeting and Sunday
school purposes. Philadelphia 7i7ses.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
a Materiaitxed HoEe,

60. - aa G = ~
Take q sheet of stiff writing paper
and fold it into tube an inch II diam
:eter. Apply ii to the right eye and look
steadily through it, focusing the eye on
any convenient object keep the left
eye open. Now place the left hand,
held palm upward edgeways. against the
side of The paper tube, and about an
inch or two above fhe lower end. The
astonishing effect will be produced of q
hole, apparently of the size of the cross
section of the tube, made through the
left hand. This Is the hole In which
we propose to naterialize another and
smaller hole. AS we need q genuine
apertur e, and it would be inconvenient
to make one in the left hand, let sheet
of white paper be subtituted therefor
and similarly held Just at the part of
the paper whore the hole equaling in
diameter the orifiee of the tube appears,
make an opening inch in diameter.
Now stare intently into the tube; and
the second hole, defined by Indifference
of illumination, will be seen floating in
the first hole, and yet both will be traris.
parent. The illusion, for of course it is
one of those odd pranks our binQCuIar
vision plays upon US, is certainly one of.
the most curious ever devised. Besides,
here is the actual hole clearly visible.
aud yet theresis no solid body 60 be seen
todefine its edges. Its not mare spoil. of
light, because, it 3 page Of print be re.
garded, the lines withen the boundaries
of the little hole will not coincide at all
with those surrounding it, and extending
to the large apparent sppertpre. Each
eye obviously transmits an entirely diff
ferent impression to the brain, and that
organ, unable to disentangfe them, lands
US in the paipable absurdity of 8 mater
ialized hole. --.s .I-.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
Selected Miscellany.

To confde too much is to put your
lemons in another mans squeeZsr
Even in the hardest times cloc&s TN
ploy their regular number of hands
The virtue of prosperity is temper
ance; the virtue of adversely is forti-
tude.
SIeIn soals, like mean pictures, are
sometimes found il g0Od-lCokiug frames.
Dsatil hath this also that il opaneth
the gate to good fame and extiuguisheth
| envy.
Our evil genius, like the junior men,
Der of deliberatiVe body, always gives
its views first.
Prudence is a quality incompatible
with vice, and can never effectively be
enlisted in its cause. - Burke.
The art of living easily as to money is
to pitch your scale of living one degree
below your MEANS Henry Taylor.
'eThink wrong and welcome" said
Leasing shut think )" and that maxim
is the plain cornerstone Of greatness.
Uneasy and ambitious gentility is al
ways spurious. The garment which
one has long worn never sits uncomfort-
ably.
The public wishes itself to be mat
aged like q woman; one must say moth
| ing to it but what it likes to hear
| Goethe.
To answer bully with the courteous
ness of gentleman is like defending
yourself with foil against a two.
| handed sword. ~.
| True contentment depends not upon
| what we have a tub was large enough
1 for Diogenes, but world was too little
/ for Alexander - C0lton.
Prosperity shines on different persons
much In the same way that the sun
shines on different objects. Some il
hsrdens like mud, while others 1t s6ftens
| like wax. ,..39Et,. =. % 81
There are bad ez IMPLIES which are
/ worse than crimes and more States
have persisted from the violation oil
morality than from the violation of the
law.-HoatsSqwlsm. jt5y5.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
a DemocrtIc PROTEST..

The following protest has been served
on the Governor by the counsel for Al
dricb, the contesting elector:
To His Ercezzency, Horace FAIRBANKS,
GoUern0r Of Vermont:
The undersigned hereby protest against
your including the name of Henry N:
Sollace in the list of the names of the
electors of the State of Vermont for the
President and Vice-President OF the
Upited States, as required by section 1855
of the General Statutes of the United
States, for the following reasons: That
the ssid Henry N. Sollace on the TIA
day of November, 1876, was postmaster
under the laws of the United States, and
therefore is ineligible as an elector and
we regard any act, by any person, either
officially or otherwise, tending to give
him such appointment, as illegal aud
void and direct violation of the Consli
tuition of the United States.
Respectfully submitted,
AMOS ALDRICH,
GEORGE NJ. FISK.
Montpelier, November %, 1876.