Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-03-01
JUVENILE PERFORMANCES.

dlenCe. After the formal close OF the |
concert on Friday evening, an Irish girl |
was called on for a song, and so much
delighted those present, that purse Of
ss,uAn or eight dollars was very readily
made up and presented to her
The pleasing incidents of the conven- !
ton, the harmony and good feeling per
vading the citizens and the large mum
Der gathered from abroad, will be long
remembered with gratiAed pride,
WAlFs FROM BRAEDoN.-Our delight
full and usually quiet Village was sud
denly thrown into quite fever Of excite
ment last Saturday afternoon about half
past five O'Clock, by the unexpected and
almost miraculously sudden rise Of the
river which passes through the town on
its way from the mountain glens' to the
blossom of the Otter The two pre-
Ceeding days were so warm that the
snow-what little there was-melted
rapidly covering the surface Of the
ground with water, somewhere from one
to six inches deep. The ground being
frozen the water was not absorbed, but
compelled to precipitate its entire body
into the brooks and rivers which, by the
help of Saturdays rain, were over
flowed,
THE drizzliug rain comes paltcring down,
| With Ceaseless nOisc-an OminOus sound
and during the whole day the river had
been steadily rising. For two hours or
more, large pieces Of floating ice, borne
on the surface of the troubled waters,
had, one after another, been precipi-
tated over the "upper dam" and madly
plunged into the foam below The noise
was quite deatening. At the mill-dam
was real miniature Niagara, over
whose abyss rose the inevitable mist.
Quite little crowd had collected to wit
ness the scene, when 10, all Of a sud-
den, as it were, up rose the river as tho
the Atlantic Ocean had broken loose and
was about to give us a repetition Of No
abs food. 1t was certainly the most
nautical scene We ever had here The
little basin just at the north end of
HOwe's scale shop, and lying immedi-
ately below the upper dam, was com.
pletely filled with water and fragments
of ice in fifteen minutes, and so great
was the water that it could not all eS-
cape fast enough under the masonry of
the First National Bank building and
through the river bridge but pressed
over the banking between the scale shop
and Forbes Drug Store, and sent a VOL
ume OF water a foot and a half deep
across the road, thus completely sur
rounding the Post-Office block. Scores,
if not hundreds, of people were now
witnessing the scene, all more or less
possessed with fears and conjectures as
to the probable results of such an IAN
gered god" 1t was long after dark
when the waters had almost as suddenly
fallen as they had risen, that the last one
was made to believe in the inprObabiIi-
ty as he had in the probability, that
many would be carried away be-
fore morning by the remorseless tide.
Sunday morning we found that the river
had shrunken almost to its usual dmen-
sions, and we had a hearty laugh when
we were told all our excitement and
fears were caused by the breaking away
OF the dam at the stone mill, formerly
owned by E. D. Selden, about mile
above the village. So much for the food
No lives lost, and very little damage
done, except the above mentioned dam
at the stone mill, which may possibly
cost the present firm a thousand dollars
Or more: in loss Of time and expense of
rebuilding.
Brandon Feb. q, 1865.