Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-01-30

~ lA7''l OF tlhNadNshlNtle naptlst thurh
la ilmy-horyh hA public Services On the
18th m-', SERMON By Roy y J., Poster.
ot Montpelier
Webster Han II Mortified, wa
Killed un The 10Th in singular way, He
was irlp,d by the hand-sled o. boy
sliding uu the road, and by falling upon =
stake ot thc sled, Mr. Hart was fatally
wounded \ strong warning against
sliding on the highways,
Tho town Of Northfeld has Just com.
pl,,ed beautiful and substantial tomb.
II i, built Of stone laid in eemen, and
mortar, with front of Roxbury marble
and i,rlm granite, surmounted by Yer
mont Italian marble cross II is i0Ii4
To-, inside, 10 i,et high, and arched and
secured 10y lolts and rods The outside
door !. mon Whole cost. little over
$1,000.
Ar the Linonian Senior Prize debate
At Yale College, Friday evening, January
18th, upon the question lis modern civil.
cation mainly due 10 Christianity" the
third prize Of $40, was awarded to Chit.
tcndcn County boy, Mr. Y. W. Miller Of
Wilh~ton.
An unknown man recently under.
took job OF painting for Jonathan Foss
Of Hardwick, and commenced work, whss
he Wa, taken suddenly i'll and died on the
sth inst lie left good team. paints.
and about fifty dollars, and refused to give
any information concerning himself or
family. His age was about IS years.
-. w Davis Of Island Pond, with
another officer both belonging to N. w.
Bingham's force seized at Portland, Ne,
On the 18th inst, thirty-three barrels and
one hogshead of whiskcy and Jamaica
rum. the whole valued at 5000. On the
10th, officers seized at Island Pond, thirty
eases of brandy and two cases Of whiskey.
Rev, DR., Hawley, Episcopal, of Con-
aecticut, has received call from the
Wardeus and Ncstry Of St. James ChuroS,
Arlington. to become its Rector. He il
4 native Of that town. He officisted there
last Sunday. but does not give the parish
much encouragement of becoming their
pastor.
AT West Derby, last Wednesday, the
,ase of f. H. Mooney for breach Of peace
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teacher, To which we briefly alluded last
week, came before Z. Lane, Esq, for trial
After due hearing Mooney was fined SEQ
md costs, and required TO furnish bail in
he sum Of 5000 to keep the peace for
sixty days. The bail was procured.
On Saturday, Thomas Mooney Of
West Derby, arrested for drunken
ness aud use of threatening and offensive
Inn -u5--7, " Is brought before Justice Lane
plead guilty and paid a fine of $500 and
costs He had bailed +. ID. Mooner in
his suits, and, from his language and
matters, he was thus arrested and fined,
| These and other circumstances have made
matters very unpleasant in the district,
but with two or three exceptions, tho
teacher. Geo p Keller, is fully sustained
by the inhabitants, and is keeping good
school, said to be, by the superintendent,
one of the very best conducted in the
town
Mr. Anthony jones' civil engineer,
formerly in the employ Of the Vermont
Central Railroad Co, has recently re-
turned TO st. Adams from Minnesota,
where he has beeh engaged in making
surveys for the Northern Pacific Railroad
He labored in connection with two par
ties under the direction of Gen Spauld-
ing, each starting from Lake Superior
Two parties have also been at work for
the same road from the Pacific coast Mr..
Jones brings with him the maps Of tho
surveys. westward, about $50 miles to the
Red River.
We find the following in the Ad.
vance, the new Congregations paper pub
lished at Chicago
Editor. find it impossible to suit all
tastes at the same time-as the following
letter show. 1t was received at our
counting room a day or two since, and
the printer follows copy" exactly, save
the Iibbitsian penmanship, which it i.
impossible to reproduce:
! do not want You TO Send your Paper
10 me No Longer if YOU do Shal not take
il out ot the Post oifse and j Shall Not
Pay for it. WM + Tibbits.
Witnes
VIM kccgc
This friend is vcrmonter, and ",
hate to breathe the horrible suspicion that
haunts us, that our brethren of the Chroa,
iclc have been endeavoring to ALLEVIATE his
from Us.
fIFrGPos1-oEFIcE CLERKS ARRESTED.
-lsobbing the mail is not confined to the
United States. Russia has just had
aste Of it, \ correspondent, writing
rom the Boston Saturday Evening Ga
.ctte, says.
We have intelligence from St Peters,
'urgh OF most surprising character.
{ seems the Postmaster-General has con-
family received since 1862 complaints Of
he loss Of registered letters, and despite
very measure he could adopt, the com
'laints continued, and no clue to the dis
ppearance of the letters could be obtained.
Vt last he discovered how the discovery
vas made we are not yet informed,) that
here existed in the post-office service .
ociety among the clerks for the regular
ally robbery of the mails. The society