Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-07-29


the case in the very issue in which com
plant is made of the HERALD. Brother
Benedict, let us take the files of the Free
Press and HERALD, and look over ac-
counts on this score, and see how we
stand We admit that there are ridicu-
lous mistakes oftentimes III our journal,
but with our present force, they are una
vodable As to the Free Press grimaces.
and the nicknames they apply TO Us, we
have only to say we can stand them II
they can afford to make them.
MIRACULOUS EsCAPE.-We learn
from the Free Press that miraculous es-
cape occurred in Huntington last week.
Mr.. Sanford Ross, Of that place, while
engaged in moving, discovered a hand
rake standing in the grass front of his ma
chine, and lifting the cutter, reached
down to remove the rake, when be discov-
cred what appeared to be a human object
Just in front Of him. He carried the
blades over, and upon turning around,
saw his own son, youth of four years,
asleep in the grass who, but for the prov
idential occurrence of the rake being WISH
bic, must have met with "A horrible death
Loss or \ VALUABLE HoRsE.-Dr
d. W. Lamb, of Lawrence, Mass lost a
valuable horse yesterday morning. he
drove sorrel mare owned by him, from
Wallingford on Thursday morning. In
the afternoon she was taken TO the black
smith shop, to have some OF her shoes
fixed, and while there she>was taken lick,
and all the remedies that were known to
farmers and physicians were administered,
but proved of no avail. The cause Of her
death is mystery. The animal was a
valuable one, being capable Of making
great speed, and her owner had recently
refused an offer TO sell her for : 900.
BuRLIxGroS-The Unitarian Sabbath
School Of Burlington had an excursion 10
Will-boro, n Y, on Thursday.
The people Of Burlington are endclv-
oring to enforce the city ordinances re-
straiuiug cattle going at large in the
streets Similar steps should be taken in
the courts To enforce the village orliu-
ances If Rutland in this respect, many
complaints are being made Of the de,truc-
ton OF gardens arlI -a.Is % cattle rs.
mitted 10 90 At large in the night time
4 Class REUNION At UNIo% Col
LEGE.-Some three hundred of the alur n
ni'of Union College at Schenectady, y ew
York, met at the recent reunion, and Gov.
Hoffman of the class of 1916 presij ed.
The largest representation of the older
classes was that Of ~, eleven me mbers OF
the seyenty-nine who graduated appear
ing, many of whom hgd not before met
in the forty-fivc years The, eleven have
all won honorable and some distinguish
cd positions in the pulpit and at the bar,
the lis complying Rev Aianzo Critten-
den of Brooklyn, \. II Dana, William
Tracy, and Roy. Erenczer Seymour OF
New York Ir. Harris Of Albany. emf
nent iurist and * United Stat,s -cl.ator /:
DR.. W. l.. Ltuderdale of Gcuossr; Rev
D.. NJ n MeLaren ~ Caledorit: ID. IL
Marsh OF O.wrgo /; l.. 4 Moody ~ Chi
copec, Mass. Rev. Joseph Steele of Mid
dlabury, Vi, and Bradford H. wood OF
a bany, Tor five years our representative
at the cnnrt II DaumIrl, On this oc.a-
sion 4 II Dana OF New York made an
address. aud Rev DR.. McLarcn read a
poem ia memory II the h'.c President
Mott.
MoN1PDLIGH rue COZ respondent OF
t Fro Pre-, sly- New York has its
Lona br,urh and tunev Island. Boston
its Nnhant mi Hull. Philal, lphia its
Cape Nay, Burlington the Queen City OF
Vermont, its Mlllc t. AMI Shelburn
Bays, aud Moutpolic r. not to be outdone,
though an inland town, has its water-side
resorts also. where It's Inhabitants may re-
tire during the ummer months ~ they
find time, or II. AZ spirit moves" and en-
Joy HE IN tents and the open air. Echo
Lake, IN Peac' lam, and Lake Caspian, in
Greensboro, fer their rival attractions to
the followers of Isaac Walton The lat
ter seems this year to have pretty much
Withdrawn popular favor from the once
noted Poscham Pond, and almost monopo-
lizes the presence OF. pleasure seekers. AT
no time during the months Of July and
August Will one fail 10 find, or the
shores OF Lake Ca spiau, party from
Montpelier, fishing for trout or fighting
mosquitoes, perhaps trying TO do both.
Dartmouth CcntenniaI