Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-02-06

On Thursday of week before last, a
Frenchmau named Peter La Vignc, in the
employ OF j Comings of East Swanton,
while eating breakfast, fell dead from his
chair.
The Caledonia Agricultural Society
appointed a committee to institute a Sc
ries of meetings within the county for
the consideration and discussion of agri-
cultural subjects
The Congregationaist Church at
West Charleston has just purchased and
paid for a parsonage, thus furnishing a
suitable and permanent residence for their
minister. We commend the example to
all churches that have not already taken
such action,
AT recent temperance meeting a
Temperance Union was formed in Will
mington. with NJ. h. Crosby, Esq, Presi-
dent Rev. X. Emerson, Vice President
George Rose, Secretary, and \. \. Butter
field, Treasurer.
A few days ago the ice on Lake
Champlain gave forth Il low continuous
hum for several hours, which was found
10 come from the running of small cracks
in all directions This humming was
audible several miles from the lake.
E Stebbins, Jr, of Vernon, writes to
the n f. Homestead, published at North
ampton, Mass, as follows: u have thor.
oughbred Jersey heifer, bred by Philip
: Wells, Esq. of Brattleboro, Vt, two year,
old last March She calved when two
years and two days old, and within seven
: weeks of her time to calvc the second time
we set her milk one week, and made five
: pounds and half of nice butter. Her
keeping was early cut river hay, and good,
bright corn fodder She calved the last
of December, and is now giving a fine
mess of very rich milk"
On Friday morning laSt-which wa,
very cold-scvcral persons in Brookheld
saw, just after SUNRISE beautiful rain
bow toward the southcastcrly horizon
The rainbow, however, was not a rainbow
at all, rs there was no rain, and no bow
but the colors Of the rainbow took tn,
shape of pillar or column. The SIX,
was clear and there was frost in the air
and the spectacle was certainly NJ uncom
mon rs it was brilliant.
An exchange says there is man il
Vermont very green mountain boy
e indeed-who has read the New Yorl
World assiduously year and half, an,
= admired '"almost every article on interna
affairs which during that time has ap
peared in the paper" After making thi
humiliating confession, the fellow has tn
impudence to find fault with the ignor
ance, imbeeility and selishness of his fel
low Democrats in Vermont. A man tina
has taken an eighteen months course c
r the New York World contentedly, shoul
l. be very tolerant respecting the menta
c and moral shortcomings Of his neigh
y bors.
A AT a fashionable wedding in Brattle
Il boro, recently, a cynical old gentlema
|, presented the bride with pair of aatiron,
{ washbo2rd, mop, broom and gridiror
: These cheap but useful articles indicat
n the peculiar duties OF good housewife
II and were probably designed to bring re
$ proaeh upon the extravagant presenta
tions of the mass of useless trash an,
tinsel which composes the bridal gifts Q
n the present day, and also to ridicule i"
: custom more honored in the breach thai
in the observance"
u Maj. Henry o. Brigham, Paymaste
I. s. Army, died at Detroit, Jan. %, o
!, apoplexy. Maj.-Gen Robinson issued al
It order requiring the department staff t,
I. wear mourning for thirty days, saying