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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-03-01
LANpoRoyE.

About six inches Of snow fell Sat.
urday night snd Sunday. The wind
made business lively with It, raking and
piIing il promiscuously without regard TO
convenience or comfort.
We have had some very mild wea-
Their this month, and some farmers
thought the time of sugar making was al
hand, but we think they viii have TO
wait few days longer before their wish
can be grsliied.
Mr.. EnIToR: Permit us through
your psper TO express our heart felt
thanks 10 our friends add heighbors who
50 kindly assisted ns during the sicknes
OF our little one, snd may they receive
their reverb 80 Justly due, q, the hand
Of Him who doelh oil things we'll
EDWARD w, BATEs.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-03-01

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BEGINNING 70 assist 10 making the neoes-
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oass who wosA 80 there under Fueh cir.
cumEtabnss.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-03-01

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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1877-03-01

An ajoaracd school meeting Is TO be
held this evening 70 adopt a plan for
new school house.
The New York herald., 1877-10-10
LITERARY CHIT CHAT.

From ciacnnati We are TO have the first American
book ON "Chlna Painting; Practical Mammal for the
Use of Amateurs In the Decoration OF Hard Porce-
lain prepar by Miss Mclaughlin practical painter
china.
The most elaborate history oi tho Vatican Couucli
s BY Professor Frodercn, and IS appearing at Bonn
in German, the frst volume embodyiug than 500
pageA
Balsac's posthumous novel, "Lcs Petits Bourgsos -
just In Paris, is not unworthy the fame OF the
great novelist
A volume Of etchngs from the works Of William
Blake, by William b. Scott is In tho pross OF Chato
Windus.
The second series OF Swinburnos poems and ballads
will shortly appear.
81. Levy. OF Paris, announces for speedy publication
'Dernieres Pages de George Sand"
Among the new arr publications for 1873 will be the
works Of J. NJ. w. Turner, r. A., with u biographical
sketch by James Danorne aud tho history OF ceramic
art Great Britain, By Llewsllyn Jswnt In two VOL
umes, with 2, 900 engravings
Mr.. Matthew Arnold has taken up the cudxeIs
against the spelling reform and he s now ono OF Her
Majessy's inspectors Of schoola
The New York herald., 1877-10-10
The Ohio Election.

A close State, fine day and light vote
sum up the Information from Ohio up to the
hour of going to press Between apathy on
one side and a workingmen's and prohibi-
tion ticket on the other the republicans, it is
thought, will have hard work to come out of
the contest with their slim majorities of last
year and the year before sticking to them.
There appears to have been no personal
magnetism in either Mr. Bishop or Mr..
West to concentrate attention on their race
for the Governorship hence there has been
much scratching, this always being the case
when there is IN absence Of that vigor in q
canvass which carries everything up or
down on the ticket The democratic gnins
reported are very vague help to speculation
upon the color of the Legislature elected.
sweeping democratic victory for the State
ticket would doubtless mean democratic
Legislature and democratic successor to
Stanley Matthews. In the present COM
plexion of affairs this prospective Senatorial
loss would not be such q stumbling block to
the President as the want of confidence in
him which q republican defeat on the entire
State ticket would imply He is doubtless
watching the returns from Ohio with more
interest than any one il. the Union, the can
didates scarcely excepted.
The New York herald., 1877-10-10

the session Of the Legislature, when in fact
he was in Albany in the discharge Of his
public duties, and only had to walk from the
Capitol to the State House, distance OF
few hundred yards. For each of these at
tendances Mr. Beach is said to have made
the State pay over one hundred and twenty
dollars. Our correspondent alleges that the
has been common with Lieutenant Governors
since the time of Hamilton Fish, probably
with one exception. We suppose he may
refer to Lieutenant Governor Selden, and,
if this is so Mr.. Selden will deserve
credit for disregarding very reprehensible
example and acting with simple justice to
the State. Certainly no example could JUS
tify public officer in forcing the State to
pay an unjust account, even If o loose law
seemed to warrant a charge for services that
had never been performed, or, what is the
same thing. for expenses which had never
been incurred. The longest line Of reputa-
BILE names could form no good excuse for the
collection of constructive mileage by Mr..
Beach or any other public officer.
1t is noteworthy that the payment Of such
unjustifable accounts appears to have been
discontinued in the first year of Mr.. Til
den's administration. It is not likely that
when once such practice has been checked
it can ever again be resumed, and none of
the outstanding bills for constructive mile
age stand chance of being settled. 1t
seems that both parties have been in
the habit Of demanding these perquisites,
so that very little political capital can be
made out of the matter by either; but it is
not the less reprehensible because it has
been an offence common to democrats and
republicans alike. An account for con-
structive mileage is just as unjust II col
lected by Mr.. Beach or Chief Justice
Church as if received by General Robinson
or any other republican.
The New York herald., 1877-10-10
The Edwin Adams Benefit.

It is q noteworthy fact that at the auction
sale Of seats ut the Academy of Music on
Monday afternoon the purchasers, with but
one or two exceptions, were members of the
dramatic profession. These testified their
earnestness in paying tribute to one of their
own number who is quietly but surely pass
ing off the earthly stage, not only by bid
ding extraordinary figures, in order to Sc
cure places, but by subsequently donating
these places to be bid for again. To say
nothing OF this gratifying exhibition Of
generosity and sympathy, beyond the re-
mark that it illustrates feeling that per-
neates the theatrical guild, it has been
subject of comment that 50 few among the
people at large were present to cooperate in
the good work. Perhaps their non-attend-
ance was due to the threatening condi-
ton OF the weather or to faulty an
nouncement; but whatever the cause,
the public STRANGELY failed to lend their
The New York herald., 1877-10-10

tect, 30 far as the public is aware Of
his relations, is even glanced at in
tho confession. We are constrained
to believe that Mr.. Fairchild acted
entirely from honorable public motives.
But we have no desire to foreclose that
question. 1t is a question which intelligent
members of the Bar Of the State are compe-
tent to decide now that they have the con-
fession before them. We shall te disap-
pointed if their judgment is not unanimous
that Mr.. Fairchild could not properly have
consented to the release of Tweed in exchange
for this confession. This great felon has no
claim on public sympathy. He is getting
no more than he deserves. If He were
treated as other thieves are treated who
have not stolen hundredth part as much
he would now be serving out long term in
the State Prison. It does not appear from
his confession that his testimony would
be Of any legal value in procuring the
punishment of his accomplices; and even
if they could be convicted on his testimony
we doubt whether their conviction would
be such terror to evildoers as the spec
tacle Of this old man, who was the ring
leader in all those astounding robberies,
bearing the brunt Of the punishment.
The New York herald., 1877-10-10
French Election Fig uring.

It would not be at all surprising if the
French Ministry should reduce the repub-
lican phalanx of three hundred and sixty
three by score or SO in next Sundays elec-
tions, but the claims their organs make
in advance of from one hundred and
seventeen to one hundred and sixty
republican seats are the merest political
.'bluff." The republicans, not to be outdone
at this game, lay claim to four hundred
seats This counting Of chickens before
they are Matched is n device not unfamiliar
in American politics, and is not new even
in France. The immense pressure brought
to bear by the government will not be with
out some effect in the rural districts, where
the priest and the prefect are still powerful;
but in the cities and even the smaller towns
the revulsion against repressive policy more
odious and barefaced than that of the En-
pire will be noteworthy. In the towns and
even in numbers of villages it has been
found impossible to break up the republi-
can machinery which Gambetta who has
studied our political campaigns to advan-
tage, put in motion long ago and which he
has taken good care to keep we'll oiled.
After six years of the Republic men are
no longer afraid to vote for republic
can candidates, although the priest
may still persuade the peasant that
it is for the good of the Church to vote for
the legitimist or Orleanist In the anxiety
of De Broglie to win at any cost the Bona
partlsts expect to fnd their account, and
the indications are that whatever may be
lost to the Republic will be q gain to the
party of Sedan.
Meanwhile Gambetta keeps attention GEN.
tired in the vigor of his movements. The
threatened prosecution has dwindled into o
charge Of illegal bill-posting. Truly, the
government in its shifts for oppression is
leaving nothing undone to make itself ridic-
ulous, and that, il France, is akin to being
contemp ptible.
The New York herald., 1877-10-10
Unmnsked Hypocrites.

We hear pretty often just now of an cpl
demic of swindling in unsuspected places,
which the cynical are inclined to call an
epidemic Of being found out. The pious
young forger Gilman heads the list Of the
recent victims Of the law Of honesty, and
from various cities of fair repute we learn Of
soiled saints and spotted Puritans. 1t is
curious to note the effect Of these disclos-
ures. To the good they bring keen regret
and deep disgust, but to the loose people
of the world they are a justification and
broad JOY, the fountain of world Of leers
and grins and the keynote of jeering
chorus that shouts in the slang of the day,
s'They all do it." The straight-out burg
lar, the confidence man." the pickpocket
deem black eye to decency Of life.
All the worms Of dishonesty wriggle the
livelier in their slime that q creature who
held up his head in the sunshine is now no
better or cleaner than themselves. go
tham's godly thief, "Philadelphia's fraudu-
con, !" "'Friscos holy fraud, are each sweet
morse,s for the lame ducks of the land.
Rolling them under his tongue the burglar
huns "Hold the Fort" while he picks o
lock; the confidence man" swindles hun
dred to the tune of NINETY and Nine;' the
pickpocket promises himself wallet to the
numbers of 'Sweet BY and By"
1t is rather disagreeable to acknowledge
these things, but they are worth taking
into account. What the professional cracks
man thinks of the moral law may be Of
little moment to US if he confines his opera
tions to our neighbours back windows, but
in giving oil honest folk stimulus to the
prompt detection of knavery that hides
under the guise of ostentatious virtue it is
well to know it. The ingrained knave for
gets the great lesson at the bottom Of the
story Of the soiled saint caught at his vii
lany--namely. that the forces making for
good in this world are to the forces OF avowed
evil what the ocean is to the driftwood of O
wreck; sooner or later it will be hurled
through the breakers to the shore. But with
the ordinary run Of mortals who do not re-
joice over infractions of honesty there is
always some satisfaction at the unmasking
Of a hypocrite. A stout thief like Tweed,
convicted OF gigantic frauds, did not awaken
half the scorn which followed the smiling
statesman whose white fingers were found
in the Credit Mobilier. ST. Thomas, we
think it was, who likened minister falling
from grace (they fell even in his time) to o
star falling from heaven. AS the drop is so
great it is wonderful that any risk them
selves near the edge. Yet lay or cleric,
when they do go over, humanity, good and
bad, is unanimous in sinking them out of
sight forever This is lesson from the
stories Of Gilman, Morton. Sibley ct al.
The New York herald., 1877-10-10

THE WEATHER. Yesterday the conditions as
regard to the distribution and relations of the
high and low pressurcs. The disturbance which
moved from the Ohio Valley toward the lakes
md Upper Canada did not apparently leave the
continent in u northeasterly direction, but
was lifted up along the gradient Of high
pressure Immediately in advance Of it and
passed eastwardly over New York and the
New England States, attended by q violent pre-
eiptation. The barometer mt New York CON
tinucd above the mean Of 30 inches through
out the movement Of the disturbance, but the rains
increased as the centre approached the area Of
hiyh pressure On the coast. There is another
relative depression, central in the Upper Misss-
sppi Valley, approaching the western lake re-
gion II is surrounded by high pressure from two
zones which are In contact. The pressure is re-
n,nrkably high TO the northward of this area,
and we probably shall note some interesting
changes in il before it passes beyond observa-
tim. The rain areas are now within this last
mentioned depression and on the New England
coast rcspcctively. A fog belt extended yester-
Inv directly from Minnesota to South Carolina.
There Is but slight variation in temperatures.
v,s ws.tber In New York aud its vicinity to-
aax win be slightly warmer and partly cloudy
ar fam. followed by increasing clondiness and
raisa
The New York herald., 1877-10-10
PERSONAL ELLIGENCE,

Ivan Ivanivitch 10 John johnson.
Biuessyed .OuidA" braids her hair
Blue James Williams expects to succeed Hayes.
Count Pho Resse, Of Italy, il at the New York Hotel
Wendell Philips will 90 lecturng in the West In
November
Liszt long, sensitive nngcrs and he loves to play
nocturnos.
Mr.. Marshall Jewell, Of Hartford, IL at the Fiah
Avenue Hotel
tho hard times.
Chicago bank presidents are studying up the ad-
vantages OF rapid transit
The Russian peasant the Virginia cx-slave attrib
ute all evil to tho 'evil.eye"
At 1re q ladder company can hook more crackers
and cheese than any other organization.
Some says that caulinowsr is IN educated cab.
bsas. Well, Stanley Matthews is . cauliaowcr
English military critics do not seem TO have any
doubt tho OF the Russiank
There Is \ man living At Yorkvile who never offers
to say his prayers except whom he II tight HIS wiie
says 80.
The Denver Tribune says that the recent nsht for
woman suffrage In Colorado brought every element
that was In its favor.
NJ. Outrey. French Minister at Washington, arrived
at tho Clarendon Hotel yesterday and will leave the
city to-day for Newport
The Dubuque (lowa) Times thinks that tho abolish.
ment Of the death penalty for urier haa contributed
to tho increase Of crime and Of lynching.
fiat country, says . critic, makes . melancholy,
anciiul ana supersltous people. Thus Buckle would
have under stood the Russans and Poles.
An EneiiAh writer says that Russians all their
commissioned oficos Of the army with men Of nigh
birth instead OF with humbty born aDrfty.
Mr.. DaIrympls the great Minnesota farmer, cult
vates 5000 acres Of land He raises nothing but
wheat His profits this year Will be 5000
II is promised that Senator Newton Booth, the
George william Curtis Of California, will make an
attack upon tho position Of Mr. Gorham the Secretary
Of the Senate go, 'r te.
Norrissown HeraId:--"A young man who has de.
posted all his valuablos the sign OF the three
balls medtatss writing book entitled THAT "uncls,
OF Mine.'"
Four.dfths Of the convicts In the California State
Prison are democrats and OF the other NTH are
Chinamen. This shows that democrats aud China
men are cosy 10 catch.
In the boxing matches the Russians each OF tho
advcrsaros stands up aud receives blows, the merit
being ascOr,ained by the number Of bruises man
may rocc,vc without asking for quarter. No skill
| but endurance.
Memphis Appeal :-s'3o far as the President sub
the public interest by abandoning radicalism
and accepting democratic doctrine, he will be en-.
couraged by democrats, who, In few weeks. will be
his only supporters"
Several democratic papers and notably the St
Louis Times, abuse Senator NcDonald oil Indiana for
Offering withhold Lis vote at the special session Of
Congress- What the Senator really said was, that II
his colleague senator Norton went to the District OF
Columbia and while there was. by reason Of physcal
weakness, unable 60 TO the Capitol he would pair
with him. The promise did Affect Senator NcDon-
AID further than that
The New York herald., 1877-10-10
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTE

The olympic Is drawing large audiences and presents
attractive variety business.
After the ed inst. Howos' London Circus will take
possession Of Gimore's Garden. 1t u said TO bo q
mammoth concern.
The original Swedish lady vocal quartet, which is TO
appear in connection with Theodore Thomas orchestra
arrived hcre in the City Of Brussels Saturday evening
Our French residents have a opportunity this
week to enjoy some Of the best Of acting BY French
artists at tho pretty theatre Tweniythird street.
The Phladelpnia theatres combine on Friday after
noon In giving performances for tho benefit Of Edwin
Adams 1t Is intiinated thas the Boston shoatres VIII
do the same.
Tho great colored anvil chorus OF 500 performers
n active practice Gmoro's Garden, aud the arstes
preparing make the benefit hight 10 the maestro
tho best
Mr. John Moors tho old actor, has accepted an en-.
gagcment as Stage manager at the Fth Avenue rho.
atre for the dramatic season which Is to follow the
porlor nancos OF tho Hess En2Iish oncra COMPANY
The New York herald., 1877-10-10
Comstruetivs Mileage.

Our Albany correspondent states that the
politicians opposed to the democratic party.
are engaged in hunting up the record OF Mr..
Allen G. Beach, while Lieutenant Governor
of the State, with the object of showing that
he charged the State for mileage from Water
town to Albany and back whenever he at
tended meeting of the Commissioners OF
the Canal Fund or OF the Land Office during
The New York herald., 1877-10-10

THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION now in session
promises to be, in many ways, memorable in the
history Of that branch of the Christian Church.
Some very important questions affecting its
growth and usefulness are discussed from day
to day, and the indications are that in the future
Il will become rs aggressive in its missionary
work as some Of the other denominations
The New York herald., 1877-10-10

endeavors to the success of an occasion from
which they are to derive the greatest pleas
ure. The entertainment on Friday promises
to be one of the most enjoyable that has
been presented to New York audience for
many years, and when it is remembered that
Edwin Adams. the recipient Of the benefit,
was once among the most fascinating and
popular of our actors, the representative OF
school that is rapidly disappearing, and
withal a genial, whole-souled gentleman in
private life, it seems that natural impulse
should draw together great throng to bid
him welcome back to his native land, even
though that welcome may be tempered by
the thought that his earthly course is nearly
run, and the prompter's bell will soon ring
up for him the curtain that opens on eternal
scenes.
The New York herald., 1877-10-10
stanl.y's Letters from Ny.ngws.

The two letters which we publish this
morning from Henry NJ. Stanley are written
on subjects of the. deepest interest to the
geographer and the humanitarian. They
treat respectively of slavery and OF
Livingstone's journey in the remote in
terror Of the African continent at the
time when fatigue and sickness and
prison the lonely traveller within very
small area of exploration. The horrors OF
the atrocious slave trade are depicted by nm
eye witness of the miseries of it's victims
aad the terrible depopulation of once smil-
ing and well cultivated districts. Few trav-
ellers have had the opportunity such as
Stanley enjoyed Of recording on the very
ground of exploration the strange sights
and incidents OF travel in region so
little known to the outside world. In
deed, this particular district of Nyangwe
may be said to have been visited by only
two xplorers-Livingstone and Stanley-for
Cameron made Lo excursions northward
when he found his journey down the Lua-
laba barred by the savages. One of these
witnesses is dead; the other now gives us
the opening chapters of the story which
will enlighten US as to o region of which
nothing was previously known. One can
share Stanley's gloom when, surrounded by
the natives, he learned the particulars Of
the last wanderings of the man he risked so
much to rescue, but who, with a heroic
stubbornness. refused to leave his work un-
finished and died in the effort to accomplish
it. We can readily understand how appro-
pirate, then, is Stanley's suggestion to name
the Lualaba after its discoverer. Every
object that he gazed on inspired Stanley
with sympathy tor the man who, knowing
that his days were numbered, ran race
with Death along the line Of discovery, which
So it is and ever will be. Some sow the seed
and others gather the harvest. 81
In his comments ON the slave trade, which
still fourishes in Central Africa like poi
sonqus plant that overgrows and destroys all
it touches, Stanley points to where and by
whom this iniquitous traffic is most actively
maintained. In the face of outraged civil
ization great Powers preserve friendly rela-
tions with the authors of this cruel and de-
yastating trade. IT the only result of STAN
ley's journeys was the exposure Of the slave
trade, which is connived at by great
European commercial nations, 1t would be
praiseworthy achievement worthy Of the
days Of chivalry But Stanley has accom-
plished more than this by opening to the
world territory so vast and varied in
character as to tempt enterprises that of
themselves annihilate the illegitimate trade
in human beings. If production attracts
commerce the poorest policy that the Arabs
could adopt toward the natives would be
to kill them off, as they now do. Labor
would be too profitable to warrant an indul-
gence in Wholesale massacre and one of the
first results of commerce would be the
preservation of human life. With commerce
civilization would come, and then freedom.
1t is not easy to place limit to the ndvan-
tages that must arise from Stanley's success
The New York herald., 1877-10-10

THE CRY ESTIMATES for the next fiscal year
are, in the opinion Of the democrats in the
Board Of Aldermen, all right. The unanimity
with which resolutions looking to an investiga-
tion of the different items were voted down ought
to satisfy the most exacting taxpayer that his
interests are most rigidly protected
The New York herald., 1877-10-10

The AMERICAN SOCIETY of the Red Cross, it
will be seen by the report elsewhere printed
although less than q month old, already num-
bers some Of our most influential citizens. 1t
win be an additional link between this country
and Russia and at the same time help the cause
Of humanity.
The New York herald., 1877-10-10

THERE Is ONE SENSIBLE PLANK in the plat
form of the workingmen of this State--namely
that which calls for the abolition of unnecessary
offices and the reduction Of cxorbitant salaries
They have the remedy in their own hands.
The New York herald., 1877-10-10

WALL STREET YEsrERDAY.--The stock market
was active, and after selling off in the forenoon
recovered later on and closed strong. Gold rose
from 1929 to 1925. Government bonds were
firm, States dull and railroads steady Money
on call was active Mt seven per cent
The New York herald., 1877-10-10

JEROME PARK COURSE was bright and beau
tiful with the fashion and beauty Of the metrop
oils yesterday, and the racing was in every
respect excellent. The steeplechase was one Of
the best ever witnessed on any course.