Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-16

abasd " Scster but . few steps alone. !
broaeAt him 70 81. Psul In my arms, a
was ssnssally believed 10 bury him. After
. sssidsncs q seven years, with the aid Of
no Medicine but tho pure bracing stmos-
phsfs 81 heaven, he II now enjoying the
best Of health and spirits. A more gene
raj misrepresentation exists abroad in re-
gard to
"a THR WINTERS OF MINNESOTA
than Of any other feature Of the North.
west. We are supposed TO be frozen in
and away from "the rest Of mankind
sbont six months in the year. Let u,
look at the facts We have large asso-
citation composed Of our best citizens, who
enjoy, under the dictatorship Of the his.
torian, Dol. Girart Hewitt, a steamboa,
excursion and pleasure party on the Mis-
sissippi river, the hrst day Of each Decem.
Der. On the hurricane deck, in cool
but dry air, the party invariably enjoys
abe exhilirating pleasures of the Lancers
and other quadrilles. No one takes cold,
and no one feels a facilitating influence
from the exposure and exercise, for the
air is pure, dry and invigorating; while
in New England at the same season of the
year, the weather is almost invariably
cold, raw and highly injurious to the
lungs, from the continuous storms of snow,
rain, hail and permeating mist and sleet
I have. in fact, endured more real suffer.
ing in raw easterly wind in New Eng.
land, with the thermometer at twenty de-
grees above zero, than ever did in this
State when the mercury indicated q fri.
gidity of at least twenty-five degrees
more intense. Our Thermometers will in.
dictate zero q greater number of days
than in New England, but our winters
have not one-qusrter of the snow, one
tenth of the dampness, or one-twentieth
of the unbearsble severity As thousands
of people all over the country are anxious
to know
THE DISTANCES FROM SAINT PAUL,
to well-known prominent points, have
carefully prepared the following accurate
table. The distance to New Orleans is
2O40 miles; to New York 1404; Cairo 1000;
St. Louis 79l; Chicago 442; Prairie du
CHEN 255; La Crosse 1870; Red Wing 30;
Hastings %; St. Anthony 0; Minneapolis
10; Minre-ha-ha 8; White Bear Lake 10;
Bass Lake 6; Lake Como 3. The neces-
sary expense to reach st. Paul from the
east or south, may easily be estimated, by
remembering that the cost of ticket
from Chicago varies from fifteen to eigh-
teen dollars.
A pleasant feature of st. Paul, to stran-
gers, is
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE READING
ROOM,
receiving from all parts of the country
over two hundred and fifty papers every
week. These daily and weekly journals,
political, commercial, educational, religi-
Gus, musical, news, masonic, financial,
shipping, dramatic and agricultural-are
carefully filed and made welcome for
everybody to peruse; and SO well is this
feature appreciated. that the room has
become the general resort of all visitors;
while experienced travellers pronounce
it the most extensive newspaper reading
room in the United States! st. Paul thu.
extends hand of cordial welcome to all
while those who are far and long from
home ara nftAn aalighted more than words
can tell, to be greeted in the far north
of navigation on the Mississippi. Far
west by their own family paper. To all
the journals here received, arc forwarded
exclusively the leading statistics of the
City and State, and the most prominen,
incidents of the week and month. Az
many of our readers may wish to secure
better profit on their cash capital, than
is usually obtained from eastern invest
ments, they may wish to know something
of
LEGAL INTEREST IN MINNESOTA.
Paper made payable with interest.
without specifying the rates, draws seven
per cent; but any interest up to twelve
per cent. is made legal by contract on thu
face of the note; and am often letting
money for correspondents without charg
ing anything for my services) at twelve
per cent, secured by the best of real es'
tate, worth more than double the face OF
the mortgage. So sure and quick are thu
profits in real estate, and all kind of man
ufactures, can within three or four day.
at any time, negotiate loans of from $l0(
| to s. 900 ut the above rates-with the in
terest paid semi-annually and promptly.
OssIAN Z. DODGE,
Secretary ST. Paul Chamber of Commerce
A VALUABLE ENGINEER.--A praise
worthy act occurred on Wednesday nigh
on the Erie railway, when, by the vigi
lence of D. s. Kenyon, engineer of trair
2, an express loaded with 300 passengers
was saved from imminent dc struction
The circumstances are that freight traiI
coming east was crossing over to the west
ward bound track at Greycourt to keel
| clear of the express, and whilst in tina
act another freight train going west ca mi
up and collided. just then the New
York express was due, and without mo
ment to spare to send out danger signals
True to the table the train came thunder
| ing into Chester. The engineer saw tn
green lights on the switches, all right; bu
in a second after he discovered an oh
struction ahead. Whistling "dowr
breaks" he shut off steam. reversed, and
sanded the track. and brought the trair
to full stop. There were the freigh
cars toppled over in his road, and a mo
ment longer destruction would have been
inevitable. This vigilence and presence
of mind are worthy of record. The pas
sengers passed resolutions of thanks OIL
the spot, and Mr.. Kenyon received many
congratulations for saving them from q,
occurrence that might have been NOR
serious.