Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26

Also tnree barrels OF eggs anu o5o
pounds of cheese.
At North Ferrisburgh on Monday last,
81 packages of butter were shipped,
weighing $500 pounds.
WALLNGEoRD.-Our village has now
put on it's rich and gorgeous summer at
tire. Persons who have never visited
Wallingford had better come now, while
the foliage of our numerous shade trees
is fresh. We know not village in New
England, of its size, that has SO many
shade trees as Wallingford. This dense
shade gives the place the appearance of
having been built in the woods. 1t also
gives cool and salubrious air, making
the hot days of summer not only endura-
BILE, but most of them delightful. There
are two elms in the south part of the vii
lage that we have lately measured, and
we have desire to give their size. The
finest one stands opposite the residence of
Mrs. W. J. Waldo, the building long used
as hotel. 1t measures eighteen feet in
circumference, two feet above the ground
It's lofty top towers high above all sur
rounding objects, and its wide-spreading
completely over the hotel landing and ex-
tending a number of rods to the westward
over a neighboring yard. The other stands
about ten rods to the south, on the same
side of the road, in front of the residence
of E. w. Kent, Esq, and measures twelve
feet in circumference, at the same distance
from the ground, and like the other,
gracefully extends its spreading arms
over both sides of the street. These two
grand old elms have stood sentinel at that
section of the village for over one hun
dred years, and their hale appearance
gives promise of centuries to come. They
have often been the targets of the bolts of
Heaven, the north one having been struck
by lightning several times within the
memory of the present inhabitants. Yet
neither the thunderbolts, the fierce storms,
the extremes of heat or cold have in any
way affected their sturdy growth. Bolts
Of lightning that have stricken men sense
less in the neighboring dwellings, have
scarcely withered leave on these old
monarchs. The security they give from
lightning, the grateful shade, their ele-
CANT yet gigantic forms, the homes they
furnish to the feathered songsters that
annually flock to their secure domain
render these trees objects of veneration to
our people.
An apple tree is located in the gar
den of Alfred Hull, Esq, that was set out
by Lieut.. Ives, one of the first settlers of
the town, and a soldier of the Revolution,
one hundred years ago. 1t has rarely
ever failed to bear its annual crop Of ex-
cellent fruit. It measures ten feet in cir.
conference, and looks like tree in its
most vigorous life.
"A cruel SANDER has been circulating
in our community for the last few days,
relative to the parentage of the little wait
adopted few days since by one of our
citizens Some more curious than wise,
and aspiring to be smart, have put the
| reports in circulation while others,
| equally curious, determined not to be
outdone, tell, with knowing winks, what
| they think. So the story has increased
as it was rolled along by the busy tongue
of SANDER, doing its Shiny work upon the
good fame of another. There is no found
alton whatever for the report, and it only
| furnishes az Illustration of the careless
| way busy tongues are wont to deal with
| the fame of another.
Mrs. John Bradley, the widow of the
station agent at South Wallingford, died
quite suddenly last week. Since her
death her physician, DR.. E. o. Whipple,
has pronounced her disease to have been
spotted fever" and it is rumored that
her sister is now i'll with it.