The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-13
A Glimpse ut Vermont.
ISLAND House, BELLOWS FALLS
VERMONT, July 20, 1853.


VERMONT, July 20, 1853.
4 Good Rattlesnaks StOry-What they hare in
oe.e u; :I.n.-A Rossser eta Fat Grt' &c.
Speaking OF mathematics, fine Spec. S
Killed. mile from this place, the day before yester
day. This ratlesnake measured four and half feet
h length, and, he had thirteen rattles, he must
have been sixteen years old This Is the only one
that has been seen IN the vicinity for several years
He showed considerable fight, and to escape from his
pursuers swan across the Connecticut rver but the
ktes had marked him for victim, and escape was
impossible. This is the only event that has taken
place in this village since last winter when small
boy fell into the river and got his clothes damp In
cities there is something going constantly TO take
mp ones time and attenton-fres, riots, rows, acct
dents, and the like but up here IN the country, an
item of news does not find its way once month.
There is one thing, however, that one can find
here that is not to be had in New York-that is,
fresh air. This commodity grows, up here, Wild we
get it in its purity and at first hands; but when it
gets down to the great metropolis it has to be
bIeathed by about six hundred thousand people, and
you get it about as pure as the milk you drink.
I was in Boston last week and could not
hut notice how clean the streets were com
pared with New York. ! was in all parts
Of the city, and saw no garbage or decayed fruit,
getaDleS, IN Tie streets, ana not One-Dau The
nth that stares you in The face in New York. Why
is it that the buildings in Boston all look old? There
Il not in the whole city yelling house or store but
has old, s.aid, dull, Furitancal look. The mate
rial is either granite brick, and II the latter the
color is dull and heavy, and the buildings all look
though they had been washed in salt and water, and
not wiped Dry All the country people that visit
Boston inquire first for the State House and then for
Bunker Hill Monument; in New York, the curiosities
are the Crystal Palace, Hippodrome and Barnum's
Museum. Speaking Of curiosities, there is fat girl
few miles from here who rather takes the lead Of
She is twenty years old, and weighs four hundred
weighed one hundred and forty; at ten, two hundred
and thifty.nine; and when she Is thirty, she will
wegh--the Lord only knows how much Her
features quite good and she is as intelligent
most girls Of her limited advantages for education
Most OF her time is spent In sewing and knitting
rapid locomotion being rather inconvenient. when
/ saw her, she vas knitting mi.tens for gentlemen;
and she told me she had sent half dozen pair5 of
han isome ones to the Worlds Fair in homes of get
ting premium.
The crops In Vermont were never better than they
this season. Hay, corn and oats are particular
ly coed, and the prospects. generally are quite Hat
terng. OF fruit there VIII be none, comparatively.
The canker worm has destroyed everything in this
region, and the orchards look as II they had been
swept over by fire. The loss viii be felt severely
pecuniariIy as well as otherwise. There being no
apples, of cour-e the good housewives will have to
go without their usual supply Of apple SARGE and
"psncakes and cider viii have TO be eaten minus
the cider RUBgNs.