Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-17

CAsTLEToN--In my last budget of
items for the HERALD I wrote, relative to
our common schools and village teachers.
At that writing l should have made
favorable mention of Miss Willard's prim-
ary or select school of little folks, as
taught in one of the rooms of the Norm al
Institute building. Miss w. possesses
rare ability, patience and perseverance,
needed for the successful training of this
class of pupils, as is clearly exhibited in
her well ordered school room.
The first public educational exercises
under the supervision of Mr.. and Mrs.
Williams and their associate teachers
occurred at Seminary Chapel last Tuesday
afternoon. Most of the pupils were young,
thought the, various departments of the
exercises were perfect as could be, and
were witnessed with marked interest by
large number of spectators. A promi-
nant feature in the proceedings was the
reading of paper entitled Stray
Leaves" composed of original, poetioal
and prose productions, contributed by
different students. The exercises were
with music interspersed, Prof. Wassemar
of Rutland is the instructor in this de-
partment, aud does it ably and salts
factorily. The assistant teachers are
Miss Phillips of this place, and Mr. Good
win of Connecticut. A splendid array of
paintings, the production of the class in
that branch of instruction, graced the
clean white walls of the newly finished
chapel.
In the last few evenings stirring re-
vival seems to have been preached at the
Congregational church by Rev. Mr.. Hill,
of the Presbyterian church, Whitehall,
N. Y, Rev. Mr.. Munson of Huntington,
Mass, and Rev. Mr. Hooker of Fairbaven.
This is Mr.. Hooker's native church, and
his pastoral labors are at all times will re-
ceived. Rev. Mr.. Bailey has delivered a
series of sermons recently at the Metho-
dist church that are we'll spoken of by
those that listen to them.
"A respectable social assembly of some
twenty couple of colored people came off
at the Bomoseen House a few evenings
since, commemorative of the emancipa-
tion proclamation of President Lincoln.
Most of the male portion of the party
were knights of the razor and shears,
therefore it was styled the "barber's ball"
Their conduct was in allirespects orderly.
They hailed from st. Albans, Burlington,
Rutland, Poultney, Salem, Whitehall,
Fairhaven and other places.
The arrivals at the Bomoseen last
week numbered 235. .........s.
Doctor Knowlson has just removed
successfully and skillfully six tumors, five
of them mall and one of them quite
large, from the breast of Mrs. Kelly, who
resides in the vicinity of Hydeville. She
is recovering under the medical treatment
of Doctor Knowlson. He had three or
four years. experience in the army during
the war and is skillful surgeon and
practitioner of medicine.
One night lately two teams came in
contact with each other between here and
the Corners. The result OF the collision
was the breaking of the leg of an old lady
by the name of Gates. H. T. Smith,
M. D., was called to render medical aid.
Mrs. Gates, son was driving one and Mr..
Horatio Barney the other team. a
Last Saturday towards night as Mr..
Stutely Beech was driving home at the
east part of the town, when approaching
the Railroad station his team became
frightened and ran upon the Railroad
track. Soon they became loosed from