Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-05-07
MoRE CHANeEs.-George Dunklee has

and hereafter intends to carry 1t on in
connection with his Mattrass and Up
holstery trade in Cramton q Nichols
Block. What George and o. A. will do,
nobody knows, but rumor says they are
to do "big thing" somewhere.
CONFIRMATION. - Ri. Rev. Bishop
Hopkins administered the rite of confr-
nation to fifteen candidates at Trinity
Church last evening, The service was
conducted in the Bishops usual interesting
and impressive manner. An eloquent ser
mon was also preached by him on the &C.
casion.
Masonic The Regular ,Communca-
ton of Center Lodge No. "a, will be held
at their hall this Thursday evening, May
7, at seven o'clock.
SINGULAR AcCIDENT.-Josiah Giles,
an employee at Blake's factory, Westville,
New Haven, on Friday last, had mar
row escape from serious injury, He was
at work near shaft, when his hair was
caught around it and torn out by the roots,
IRON his forehead to the back part of his
head, leaving bare strip some five inches
in length oy three IN width.
JUNIOR EXHIBITION AT MIDDLEBUY.
The annual Junior Exhibition, says the
Middlebury Register, came off in the Col
lege Chapel on Tuesday evening of last
week. The weather was delightful, and,
as usual, the utmost capacity of the chap
ell was tested, and many were unable to
gain admittance. There were eight ora
tons, all of which were emphatically good,
and the exhibition as whole ranks among
the first of the kiad-in the opinion of
some it has never been eIt@el!ed by any
previous class, which is certainly "a FAINT
praise. Without being inyidious, We can
speak with special commentator of the
historical orations by Noble and Brainard.
The former, treating architecture as re-
vealing national character, was in a stvle
Of classical finish that we think we have
never seen equalled by any under gradu-
ate; the latter upon the relation of dem
ocracy to civilization, was equally COM
mendable for its vigor and originality Of
thought. The style of speaking was j..
every instance good, and was az ,,o e,,;
dence of the excellence Of tu;t;or the
young men are rccceivjng. The colloauy
by Scott was very neat affair indeed,
and rendered with. great perfection. 1t
evidently gave. unqualified satisfaction,
many prone dncing it the best thing of the
KIND Tor many years. Special thanks are
que Il the music of the occasion. A bet
ter. treat could hardly have been presented
than that given by ProfS. Moore and
Holmberg, on the piano and violin.
SNAKEs.-Mr. Orin Rood of Jericho
while ploughing on Saturday last, ran hi
plough into little knoll and turned GU
therefrom torty-ta0O snakes. They wer,
of the kind commonly known as copper
snakes" being of dark, reddish BROW
color, and varying from four to fourteen
inches in length. Their snakeships wer,
somewhat torpid on being thus rudely
awakened from their nap, and were speed
lily dispatched.
DRowNED.-A girl by the namo o
Lynch, about twelve or fourteen years old
was drowned on Monday by falling from
the wharf at Burlington while engaged il
picking up chips. The body was recov
cred and buried Tuesday.
SCARLET FEvER.-The Register say:
that scarlet fever has prevailed for severa
weeks in Middlebury and vicinity to al
alarming extent, and is now adding to 1t
victims almost daily. The disease has al
so been prevailing here to some extent.
The 18th VI. REGIMENT-We learI
from private letters. that the 18th Vernon
regiment moved from Wolf Run Shoals tx
Warrenton, Va, on Saturday last.
The WRONG PLACE. - Mr. Tyler 0
Middebury, committed suicide on the l5tl
inst, by hanging himself in bis orchard.
p We lind this item going the rounds c
the papers, but it has no foundation
There has no man IN Mlddlebury hung
himself within our recollection a., -o Il
not know that there is a. s1r. Tyler in tn
town.-Regjsteg. 80 - VI
MISSIONARY CONVENTIONS. - Their
! will be Missionary Convention IN Dorset
commanding IN Monday avans,o, Mo-