Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-15

address of one Festus g. Rand, said to bi
from West Rutland. We have not the
pleasure of knowing Mr.. Rand, but thinL
efforts in Rutland are much needed in be-
hatf of temperance, and his labors might
be directed with good effect nearer home
At the recent temperance convention in
West Troy, one of the speakers, Mr.. Fes.
tus G.. Rand, had no hands or feet, they
ha7iIg leen anputated several years
SINCE. Mr.. r.. while in a state OF iritoxi.
cation, was returning home from drunken
spree On a cold night, and, falling upon
the ground, became helpless, and his hands
and feet were frozen so badly that ampu-
tation was necessary. He is quite an in
teligent man, and at the convention gave
an interesting and vivid account of his
severe and unfortunate experience. He
is resident, we believe, of West Rut-
land, VI.
MIDpLEBURY.-Prof Webber resumed
his duties at the college on Monday, April
9th.
DIR. Kitchell will preach a sermon on
Fast Day, in the Congregational church,
at II o'clock, Il. m.
Mrs. Dickinson, wife of U. S. Dick
inson, Esq, of Middlebury, died on Mon
day morning of consumption, at the age
of thirty-fve years. She has been great
sufferer, but has waited patiently, and has
al last entered into rest.
u. ID. Twitchell, of Middlebury,
shipped between the 18th of Feb and
25th of March, 1876 900 pounds of wool
$4,000 to Burlington mills j,,CC0 TO
Lawrence mills, purchased by himself in
fifteen towns in Addison and Rutland
counties. During the same time he also
shipped from Castleton to Burlington
mills, purchased by other parties, 10000.
1t took over 400 sacks TO contain the
wool, more than half of them filled by H.
Powell in about fifteen days, some days
filling seventy-fye sacks. Prices from 30
to Al, and whole cost over sos, 900
Burlington wool company employ about
600 hands and use 1000 pounds wool par
year.
BENNISGroN.--Alr John V. Hall has
bought-a lot opposite the Dewey home
stead and is about building fine home
Major Samuel Brown Gu: off the first
joint of the two middle fingers of his left
hand, in d straw-cutter, Monday
Truman Wood, former resident of
Bennington, who has not been heard of for
nearly fifteen years, has turned up all
right in California.
Mr.. Olin Scott has been offered S25
per day, to superintend the building of a
new powder manuracrory, ~ L. ~-~-ted
by Smith x Rand of Newburg.
Colonel Lampson, the famous Ben
nington marksman, has been quite i'll, but
is now better.
The Troy Press is responsible for the
following Bennington story:
We were told a very amusing story,
yesterday, and the best of the joke is its
truth Two men, last summer, were TAX
ing social drink in saloon in this vii
lage; let US call them a and b. B had
been drinking pretty hard for some time.
and a took the liberty to tell him that if
he did not desist he would have the delir-
ium tremens. Presently they went out,
and just as they reached the sidewalk
poor crazy old man, known as Cray
Moon came along with snake dangling
from his mouth-an amusement he in
dulged in as %ften as he found a small
snukv. ID was hurrriied, being stranger
in town, and exclaimed to A: "See that
man with snake III his mouth" u don't
see any snake" said B, with long face
The duce you don't said b, and APP
pealed TO several others who had followed
them out of the saloon. They all saw the
joke, and so could not see the snake.
why, there it is, said b, greatly excited,
"in his mouth, as plain as day" No,
they couldn't see any snake, and be-
came white with terror, and took the first
train for home, where he lay sick for sew
eral days. 1t was long time before he
drank any more liquor.
A. |. Carpenter, NJ. D., says that he
has been the resident and only physician
in Wheelock for six years, and that he has
lage since he lived there. The people OF
lhe village use TINS spring water quite
generally.
Mr.. Winter is enlarging his hotel,
and intends to "open' the first of June.
He can accommodate about one hundred
boarders, and we learn some of his rooms
are already engaged. This spring water
is conveyed by aqueduct to the hotel, and
is used exclusively there for drinking,
cooking and bathing purposes. The pro-
prietor will run coaches to the Lyndon
station, and if half we hear or read is true.
there will hereafter be no occasion for in
valids of this section to visit either Shell
don or Saratoga, healing pool has been
discovered in the Caledonia Mineral
Spring" at Wheelock Hollow.
A FAST Young MAN.-The Newport