Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-01-07


wide reputation for truth and integrity.
His remains will be probably placed in q
vault and removed to this State at no dis
tant day.
PERsoN.L.-The Italian wife. of Lar
kin G. Meade, the sculptor, is lady with
large black eyes and fair complexion
She has very queenly manner, and is
much talIerItha her husband. She
is Just beginning to talk English. When
Mr.. Mead married her she could not
speak word of English, nor he a word OF
Italian All his friends in this country
were very much opposed to his marrying
an Italian woman, but he whispered that
If he did go it dumb he didn't go it blind,
as he lived in the same house with her for
three years.
GFrTYsBURG CEMETERY MONUMENT
The Board of Management of the Sol
dicrs' Natioaai Cemetery at Gettysburg,
have decided to consecrate the monu-
NEXT on the Isl Of July next. The ssrnc
sar. is to be Of naIotc, 90 feet high, and
,urmountcd by colossal Goddess of
Liberty, 10 feet g inches high. Il was
cat in Italy under the superintendent of
Randolph Rogers. and is on the ground
at Gettysburg. TIE shaft is OF white
granite, and is already emit and ready to
be shipped from the quarr.es at Westerly,
~ E,ur l,atTau rnpraoo-,+ pasraptiyely
War History peace" and Plenty"
These are in the hands of abe sculptor in
Italy, and are to be shipped early in the
spring These are to be placed around
the four pedestals on corners of the monu-
menf
The RHODE ISLAND TYING CASE. y
Rev John T. Hubbard, Of Westerly, Il. l.,
tried rr violating the canons of the Epis-
eopal church, has been acquitted. The
court consisted Pf Rev Messrs. Duane,
Wheeler and White The latter voted
Mr. Hubbard guilty on two of the
charges Messrs. nuane and Wheeler
voted him innooen5 on all. The grouud
Of the decision, as given by Mr. Duane for
the majority, IS that the canon which he,
Hubbard, was charged with violating,
when he invit4d Rev. Mr.. Dennison, a
Baptist clergyman, To his pulpit, does
not, in fact, forbid such an act of courtesy
and fraternity to clergymen outside of the
Episcopal church, but was intended to
prevent persons improperly claiming to be
Episcopal elergymen from officiating in
Episcopal churches.
A DILEMMA well known Mont
pelier boy, residing at present in Massa-
chusetts, recently had the following en-
barrassine experience, as related Dy one
who knows:
Having been to Vermont on visit,
he passed through Nashua on his return.
where he delivered up the check to his
trunk and had the same trunk. as he sup
posed, re-checked to -. Passenger
and baggage reached their destination at
our st. James on Saturday night. and on
Sunday our friend essaying to open his
trunk found himself ansuccessful-the
KEY wouldn't moEk additional keys were
procured, and the trunk lid at last flew
open, when presto cddage.. nlirabile dactn
our friead found his trunk well stocked
with ladies' apparel. II other words, his
trunk proved to be not his trunk, but that
of some fair one who was probably at the
me moment curiousiy inspecting the
contents of her new found trunk and
wondering who he could be. Our
friend, so we hear, was unable for various
reasons to attend divine service on the
following Sunday, but carefully and jeal-
ously watched the trunk. On Monday
suspense at both ends Of the line was
lieved. and the safe exchange of trunks
and their delivery to their rightfu( owners
was effected"
.Nordl-When travelling be sure and
see that it is your own trunk that You
check Montpelier Jo1nno'-