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Year: 1877

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE MEM


BERs oFTHE LEGIsLArURE.-The note
worthy event Of the day is the visit ol
the members of the General Assembly to
this city and the inspection of the public
schools, in accordance with an. invitation
Of the Board of Public Education. II will
be gratifying to our citizens generally to
know that our law makers have been
with us for a day enjoying themselves
and accepting of our hospitality. To
say that the gentlemen composing the
State Senate and House of Representa-
tiyes have been pleased and gratified at
the excellent condition and splendid dis
cipline they have witnessed in our public
schools is only to reiterate what we have
heard many of them repeatedly remark
during the morning. And this wonld be
the conclusion, We know, that any gen.
tleman would arrive at who had witness
ed what they did. We may here inciden-
tally say that many of our citizens who
have children in the schools know very
little about their excellence; and theress
fore they do not appreciate their great
advantages as highly as they should
Most of the gentlemen who compose the
General Assembly coming from the rural
districts, where it is difficult to combine
enough of capital to keep up good schools
all the year round, know how to appreci-
ate the advantages which are secured in
our city, at light cost to the children.


We hope that the visit made us this
day will not be lost; that it will result in
good to all who are interested in it, and
believe that it will be the means of cast
ing good seed upon the waters that will,
after many days, bring forth an hundred
fold in good fruits, elsewhere as we'll as
IN our immediate midst.


We are glad to have influential gen.
temen from all parts of our State with
us, and gratified to know that they feel
proud of our little city upon the hills.


We regret that several influential SEN
ators were not present. Mr.. Speaker
Moore, not being very well, and Messrs.
Ray and Fiddeman having engagements
to detain them away.
Year: 1877

There isa strong feeling against the
Inauguration of fraudulent President.
No matter by whom his election NAV be
certified, there is large body OF people
who will not believe that fraud ought to
oe eonntenanced in President making.
OF this class were the men who held q
meeting in Washington last night to pro-
lest against his fraudulency.
Year: 1877

New YORK, Feb. 4, 1877.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


AT the Academy OF Music for some timo past It ha
been matter OF surprise that fow persons In tho
audience have appeared in full dress. In London.
Paris and in all OF tho principal cities Of Europe
audience at the opera obliged In tho parts OF
tho house full Dress and 1t ought to bc tho
same IN New York II IS respectfully suggested there
fore, to all who arc ntcrcstcd in our making good ap
pcarancc that IN tho boxes and orchestra the
should be In full Dress ut least IN the boxes As
the other parts of tho house II docs not matter so
much. Hoping that you will IN your very valuable
paper advocate this desirable reform, which Will give
US all 30 much pleasure, nm respectfully yours,


A STOCKHOI.DER
Year: 1877

The New York World gives prominent
place to a letter just received in this
country from a German statesman of the
highest position il reference to the feel
ing in Germany concerning the eastern
question. After referring to the un-
reasonable excitement caused in France
by the recent speech of Won Moltke, the
writer saws: As a matter of fact, in
this present question, it is Russia which
most preoccupies US. We understand
perfectly vel that Russia is our next
and most formidable enemy, and we also
understand perfectly well how to disarm
and paralyze her. The present emperor
of Russia Is a sentimental simpleton,
without selcpoise and without moral
courage. lie has been driven into this
war with Turkey by the pressure of Rus
sian feeling. We in Gerrany have per
mitled him to engage in it, but we are
not such children as to permit him TO
emerge from it either with honor or with
accretions of strength. If he is terrified
bv the attitude of England and Austria
into making peace, he viii probably end
very suddenly-pethaps by suicide, per-
haps in the usual way in which Russian
public opinion vindicates itself against
incompetent emperors. If he persists in
making war, he will be humiliated and
Russia with him, by certain defeat, as
nothing can be more clear than that it is
in our interest to allow Austria, at the
critical moment, to tall upon his armies
and obliterate all recollections of the
Austro Russian alliance of 1880.
Peace or defeat equally will mean the
accession to the Russian throne, Under a
cloud Of popular discomfort and under a
crushing weight of financial burdens, of
a prince who is known to be our special
enemy, the ollrowtch. This Is cqui


valeut to q complete nullifcation of Rus
sia, for a generation to come, in the affairs
OF Europe; and what can ever hold out
any hope to France of the recovery of
Lorraine and Alsace except an alliance
with Russia ?"
Year: 1877

A boy borrowed a tool from a carpen-
ter, promising to return it at night. Re-
fore evening he was sent away on an
errand, and did not return until late
Before going he was told that his brother
should see that the article was returned.
After he had come home be inquired and
found that the tool had not been sent to
its owner He was much distre: -ed to
think his promise had not been kept,
but was persuaded to go to sleep aud
rise early and carry it home the next
morning. BY daylight he was up, and
nowhere wa the tool to be found. After
long fruitless search he set off for his
neighbor's in great distress to acknOwl-
edge his fault. But how great was his
surprise to find the tool on his neigh
boris doorstone. And then it appeared,
from the prints of his little bare feet in
the mud, that the lad had got up in his
sleep aud carried the tool home. and
gone to bed again without knowing it.
OF course boy who was prompt in his
sleep was prompt when awake. Re
spected while he lived, he had the con-
fidence OF his neighbors, and was placed
in many offices of trust and profit. If
all grswn persons felt as this boy did
there would be good many tracks of
bare feet found some of these bright
mornings, and what piles of books and
tools would be found at their owners
doors
Year: 1877

The enterprise OF q recent emplOye OF
tie New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad cannot be too much praised.
While taking trunk out of baggage
car from Boston in the Springfield depot
some time ago, he was thrown down and
hurt. He suffered terribly and crawled
around On crutches until the Boston and
Albany and the New Haven roads united
and gave him $4,000, when he was in
simultaneously and completely cured.
Shortly afterward man on the Boston
and Albany road was killed, and the
company gave the widow $4,000 The
former cripple who had scored $4,000 al
ready, soon married her and thus counted
$4,000. He recovered his health 50 COM
pletely that lie was able to work again
on the railroad, but finally, not being
hurt again within reasonable time, he
retired to farm, which he had bought
with part of the proceeds of his former
calamities, and where he is living in
peace and quietness and under the con-
solations OF the reflection that virtue is
its own reward.
Year: 1877

Lieut.. Gen Sheridan proposes to send
an expedition TO the scene Of General


Clusters fight with Sitting Bull, for the


purpose of removing the remains OF the
gallant band who were massacred upon
that occasion, and giving them burial
with proper military hOnors at such point
as may be designated by the war depart
ment. Gen. Crittenden, whose son fell
in the fight, objects to the renewal, and
has written a letter asking that the
remains of the heroic band be permitted
to rest where they are now inferred, that
they may signalize, for all time, the spot
where they SO nObly fell. Gen. Crittenden
in his letter says: There can be no
filter resting place for the true soldier
than the spot which his blood has
hallowed. 1t would be vandalism to dig
up and scatter widely the bones of these
men who have been buried, as they died,
shoulder to shoulder They all perished
together, fighting without hope, aud the
comradeship thus cemented should never
be sundered." At the last session OF
congress authority was granted for de
erection of two additional military posts
in the Yellowstone valley, leaving the
location discretionary with Lieut.. Gen.
1t is understood hehas selected
the scene of the Custer massacre, on the
Little Big Horn river, as a site for one
of these two forts, to be called Fort
Custer, and it is probable the spot where
Clusters troops fell and are buried vii be
as a cemetery.
Year: 1877

You can't always tell. We have
known sweet-faced young man, who
spoke such beautiful melodious words of
moral benevolence at the boarding house
table as brought tears to the eyes of the
tender hearted laudIsdy. Suddenly be
departed with a months board unsettled,
and all the souvenir he left in his valise,
secondhand pocket Testament and a
pair of faded paper collars P,tck.
Year: 1877

IHE best possible thing for man to
do when he feels too weak to carry any
thing through, is to go to bed and sleep
as long as he can. Ibis is the only re-
cuperation Of brain power, the only
actual recuperation of brain force; be-
cause during sleep the brain is in a state
of rest, in condition to receive and
appropriate particles of nutriment from
the blood, which take the place of those
which have been consumed by previous
labor, since the very act of thinking
burns up solid particles, as every turn
OF the wheel or screw of the steamer is
the result of consumption by fire of the
fued In the furnace. The supply of con-
sumed brain substance can only be had
from the nutritiye particles in the blood.
which are obtained from the food eaten
previously; and the brain is so consti.
tuted that it can best receive and
appropriate TO itself the=e nutritive mar.
tlctes during state of rest, of quiet and
stiffness of sleep. Mere stimulants sup-
ply nothing in themselves they guad
tue brain and force il TO a greater con-
sumption of its substance until it is so |
exhausted that there is not power enough |
lett to receive supply.-ReyqM ofI
HsaHb.
Year: 1877

have a right to pursue them till they under
stand them thoroughly; that it is the de-
sign of our laws to give every child good
Engish education at the public expense
But further than that, if 1t incurs an
extra expense, let those who dance pay the
fiddler.


do not make any charge against the
school which l cannot sustain. | have
never claimed that it was sectarian. That
was an image of your correspondents own
creation, and the bravery that he displayed
in attacking 1t must cast the exploits OF
Don Quixote into the shade.


But, Gays your correspondent, speaking
of Latin, at has given character to the
school and drawn into the treasury some
thing over 5000, which, but for 1t, we
should not have received"


There is another school in this county
that has received fTom tuitious over SOU
per anuuRl, and its cost to the district is
only fifty per cent. Efficiency In every de-
partment, competency and thoroughnets
in every branch of study have given
character to that school, and ] think that
is the character that pays best.


But, in fact, success or failure in other
places is nothing to us. The question fol
us to answer is in regard to our own school
and is simply this shall the people be
taxed to give the children of the few 4
classical education!


believe the people will known theil
rights, and knowing, dare maintain them.
believe they will dare express their owr
opinions, and if any one should become
restless and whining, and imagine himself
the object of vile abuse, perhaps he nigh
fad quiet in the arms of wet nurse, Will
like ancestral extremity.
SETH THOMPSON.


Fairhaven, April Ia, 1877.
Year: 1877

Sleeping car passengers rights arc rarely
adjudicated in the courts as the sleeping
car managers are usually most careful of
the comfort and safety Of their patrons. A
recent decision as TO the responsibility of
sleeping car companies, made by the Des
Moincs circuit court in Iowa, is, therefore,
of interest. The case turned upon the re-
sponsibility for the travellers effects, and
the court instructed the jury that the COM
pany should be held for the safe keeping
of the travellers personal effects whilst he
was asleep. In judging of the value of
these effects, however, they were to be linn
tied to the amount reasonable and prudent
for passenger to take with him Will ct
travelling.
Year: 1877

Editor Of Rutldnd Globe The follow
ing communication intended to publish in
the Rutland Herald, as a reply to an arti-
Gle from Fairhaven published in the
Herald of April 9th. But as the Herald re-
fuses to publish it, l am obliged to give it
to a larger and more intelligent class of
readers, through the medium Of THE
GLOBE.


If 1 have by mistake stepped on the
wrong mans toes, it is not my fault that
they were covered with corns. If the coat
did not fit, why was it so readily ? assumed
The plea of g not guilty was quite often
made, but we claim verdict according to
the law, and to the testimony.


Facts are stubborn things, and where
facts are known TO an entire community,
accusations Of falsehood, malice and
wickedness are, as the Arabs say Of curses,
like young chickens, always come home to
roost.


Tba! GEEK Office as an employment l
shall not take the trouble to deny. The
lued ilhell 10 bO iluiSuOuo thoI ~ hues
cause smile to pass over the grave
features of its author. Why if one
should hold the office OF town treasurer 1t
might be necessary to have the public
funds stolen and the town bear the loss
in order to make 1t pay.


But personalities aside, the school is
what interests the tax payers of this dis
trict. Eighty per cent is tax which bears
very heavily upon many laboring men, and
takes bread from the mouth OF more than
one hungry child. If we can obtain bet
ter school at less expense, It is our right 80
to do. do not wish TO reflect unJuslly on
the corps of teachers, neither do wish 10
tax the poor man for the sole benefit OF
somebody else. 1t may not be the teac hers
fault that the school is inefficient in the
common branches. Perhaps the teachers
Iun the school according to orders. But
that il is inefficient will require something
more than the assertions of the trustees to
disproye.


The man who catches the large string
of fish will be considered the fisherman,
and il we should "spend a few hours" In
seeing his unsuccessful competitor fish and
read newspaper puffs In favor OF his skill
and science, ii would not change our
opinion.


SO the school that furnishes to the world
the best, the most thorough and accom-
plshed scholars, will be considered the
most efficient school. FAY nothing OF
classical studies, as | presume the instruc-
tion given in them Is thorough and efficient.
But in the common branches we have not
as good scholars now as VIC had when the
school was maintained at tax of forty
per cent


Some from other towns who have
attended this school have left and gone
almost rs far TO common district
school, because they could there OBJ
tain a better English education. And
several have expressed desire this epring
to have select OF an evening school that
they might have more thorough instruc-
tion IN the common branches. Now we
claim that In these studies all are, or should
be, equally interested that In the district
school, whether graded or ungraded, they
Year: 1877

It is reported by fashion journal that wearer can with difficulty crook the elbow. Wouldn't 1t be good idea, in some Cases, to have coat sleeves made in the same way {

 Moonlight is cheaper than kerosene light. but you can't take It into a parlOr and Set it on a center table aud turn it down so 1t will never be brought to any practical use. unless 1t may be to show the pathway to a hen hOuse.-FMltO1 ziNssa.
Year: 1877

~ We are informed by postmasters the fol- lowing named subscribers have left the places where they have been regularly receiving THE NEWS, and aR they did not notify us of their change of poet-office and are in arrears to the amounts placed parallel with their names, we pub fish their only address known to and if any of .ur readers know of the whereabouts of any o' them they will do us . favor by informing us.- Is 1t exactly HONEST treatment. to receive a news

 paper till several dollars due. and then leave

 he postmaster to inform us the paper ie not re- wheres The following have done this: Does
Year: 1877

Inthe efrstyear of life,self is the larg-
est thing. There is no wisdom like
ones own wisdom, no laws like the
hearts own wish. The will-power Of
young man seems to grow more rap
idly than the reflective faculty, and
hence to find youth who has the will
Of a giant, and the reflection of a mere
child is one Of the most frequent dis
coveries Of him who walks among his
fellow-men.


Cheaters must get some credit be-
fore they can cozen and all falsehOOd,
if not founded in some truth, would
not be fixed in any belief.


All deception in the course of life is
indeed nothing else than lie reduced
to practice, and falsehood passing from
words into things.


There is nothing evil in life for him
who rightly comprehends that death is
no evil; to know how to die delivers
us from all subjection and constraint.


We die every day; every moment
depriyes US Of portion Of our life and
advances us a step toward the grave;
our whole life is'a long and painful ILL
ness.


When we take people as they are,
we make them worse when we treat
them as if they were what they should
be, we improve them as far as they can
be improved.


Piety must be habitual, not by fits.
1t cannot be put on when Sunday
comes, and discorded when it is over.
That would be the basest kind of hy-
pOcrisy.
Year: 1877

Millions blindness, says DIR. Hall, was
the result of overwork and dyspepsia.


One of the most eminent American
divines having, for some time, been COM
PEELED to forego the pleasure of reading,
has spent thousands of dollars in value,
and lost years of time, in consequence of
getting up several hours before day and
studying by artificial light. His eyes
never got we'll.


Multitudes of men and women have
made their eyes weak for life by the too
free use of the eyesight, reading small
print and doing fine sewing. In view of
these things, it is well to observe the fol-
lowing rules in the use of the eyes:


Avoid all sudden changes between
light and darkness.


Never begin to read or write or sew
for several minutes after coming from
darkness to a bright light.


Never read by twilight, or moonlight,
or on very cloudy day.


Never read or sew directly in front of
the light or window or door.


1t is best to have the light fall from
above obliquely over the left shoulder.


Never sleep so that on the first waking
the eyes shall open on the light of a
window.


Do not use the eyesight by light SO
scant that it requires an effort to dis
criminate.


Too much light creates a glare, and
pains and confuses the sight. The mo,
ment you are sensible of an effort to dis
tinguish, that moment cease and take a
walk or ride.


AS the sky is blue and the earth green
it would seem that the ceiling should be
a blush tinge, and the carpet green, and
the walls of some yellow tint.


The moment you are prompted to rub
the eyes, that moment cease using them
Year: 1877

Mr.. Frank NJ. Fleming, of Minneapolis,
who left here last spring to assist in
building one of the new military posts
on the Yellowstone River, returned
home a. few days since bringing some
very interesting particulars in regard to
the work of construction and the result
of his observations at the scene of the
Custer massacre on the Rosebud.


The post upon which Mr.. Fleming was
employed during the summer is located
at the mouth of the Little Big Horn,
which is only eighteen miles distant from
the spot where Custer and his gallant
comrades met their terrible fate. Upon
their first arrival at the site of the new
fort the civilian mechanics had occasion
to complain of the meagre allowance of
provisions issued from the commissary
department merely for the purpose of
swelling profits in some direction. This
fraud and dereliction was finally brought
to the attention of the commanding
officer, Col. Buell., and after one or two
unsuccessful efforts on his part, the citi-
zens gained their point and obtained the
right and full ration which the govern
ment and the commandant intended
they should have. Since then Mr.. Flem-
ing states that the mechanics from Min
| neapolis and st. Paul have been well sup
piled and are now working contentedly.
The Big Horn post is rapidly approach
| ing completion, is of sufficient capacity
to accommodate formidable force and
strong enough to resist any attack which
Sitting Bull, Joseph, or any other savage
warrior may make upon it. The second
post is about one hundred miles distant
from the Custer battle ground. Shortly
before Mr.. Fleming's departure home he
visited the scene of the Custer massacre,
and his description of it is painfully in
teresting. He says that from the sad
traces found, Custer must have struck
the center of the Indian camp, leaving
the right of it, which was in timbered
and circular ravine, to swing against his
right flank and rear, and shoot down
officers and men as fast as they retreated
to the highlands, were their dead and
mutilated bodies were subsequently
found. He is disposed to believe that
the command was butchered and an
initiated in this way, without intiicting
any serious damage upon the Indians, as
the whites must have been almost COM
pletely at their mercy.


The bones of the dead horses are still
lying loose upon the desolate hills.
Owing to the necessarily hurried burial
of the soldiers, the bodies were but i'm
perfectly covered with earth, and since
the funeral rites were performed the
coyotes have removed the thin covering
and torn the limbs from the bodies,
leaving the feshless bones exposed on
ground.


Mr.. Fleming says the field is strewed
with feet, legs, hands, and arms, which
had been wrenched from the shallow
graves by the coyotes, the nationality OF
their owners being shown by an oc.
casional shred of the army blue. Feet
still covered by the cavalry boot and
with the flesh gnawed clean from the
exposed parts are found thickly strewn
over the sanguinary field sickened
mementoes of that last and fatal charge
on the Rosebud.