Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-10
Personal.
Castleton, Aug. lst, 1871.

Thomas Dickinson, President of thu
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
and l. V. Baker of Troy were at Platts
burXh last week.
On Wednesday of last week, Briga
der General Irwin Mcdowell, U. s. 4
commanding department of the east, ar
rived at Plattsburgh Barracks on q tour
of inspection. On the following day Gen
W. T. Sherman, General of the q. s. A.
arrived in town and visited the Post
where he remained until Friday, the
guest of the Post commander, General
Arnold. Ga Friday Col. n. W. Brown
Assistant Paymastor General of the Army
made his appearance with a supply OF
funds for the troops.
Senator Hamlin OF Maine proposes
making a trip to California.
Some of the Western papers contain
a statement that Rev. L. A. Dnnn OF
Fairfax has accepted the financial agency
of westarn university. The statement
is without foundation, but it is true that
he has been rendered the presidency OF
the Iowa Central University, Baptist
college at Pella, and he has gone West
for the purpose of determining whether
or not to accept.
Capt. Stephen F. Brown, a rising
young lawyer in Chicago, who gave one
of his arms to our common Uncle while
serving in the 18th Vermont, is soiourn-
ing few days at bis fathers in swsnton.
Brown is the man who went into the bat.
tie of Gettysburg while Lieutenant of
the 18th VermonD under arrest and de-
prived of his sword for having helped
himself and several privates to some water,
against orders, few days previous while
on the march. He carried a Ratchet in
the battle until he captured the sword of
rebel officer, aud it is needless to add
that by this act he also won his own.
Harriet Hosmer is expected in Lon
don from Munich.
Mayor Halls wife aud family have
sailed for Europe.
Prof S, F. B. Morse is spending the
summer at Locust Grove, his country
seat, near Poughkeepsie.
The rumor is again in circulation
that Miss Kellogg is about to marry q
wealthy New Yorker.
Hon. Justin S. Morrill, is spending a
few days at Washington.
-Solon Robinson, agricultural editor
Of the N 7. Tribune, is spending the
summer months at Barton.
Hon Luke P. Poland is at the Amer
lean House, Saratoga.
Rev. VIM. W. Atwater, of Burling-
ton, addressed the Good Samaritan Socie-
ty at Winooski Falls, on Sunday afternoon
last.
First Lieut.. c. P. Miller of Vermont,
Fourth Artillery. has been ordered to re-
port to the Chief Signal Officer of the
Army for duty.
Hon. f. J. Phelps has returned from
Utah, the suit in reference to the Emma
mine, which called him thither, having
been disposed of by leaving the points at
issue to the decision of a referee. Hon.
B. R. Curtis of Boston, as referee.
The studios of our American artists
are closed. George N. earns is making a
brief campaign through Northern Yer
mont @. B. Russ is at St Adams, while
J uli4n Scott makes Burlington bis head
quarters. Ernest and Arthur Parton,
Wyant and William Hart are at Keene
Flats. n. 7.
Charles s. Spencer, the noted crimi-
nal lawyer of New York, has been at
He is an earnest disciple of
6 Isaak Walton" and has just finished
,uccessful angling expedition through the
White Mountains. On Monday of last
week, with single fly he enticed one
hundred and ninety two beautiful trout
rom the Saco river, five miles from the
IRA wford House.
Prof L. A. Wait of Cornell University,
) on visit to his father at Highgate.
Hon. H. Carpenter, of Mortified, |
vas sixty years old the other day. Near
Y all OF the mortal tenements of his Car |
3entry stood about him in the forms of |
ops and daughters to the fourth genera
ion on the OCCASION "a fine exhibition of |
ur Green Mountain architecture.
-Jesse Cooper, Esq, of Wysndott,
Kansas, formerly of Irasburg, is on a visit
o his native State. He has been in
Kansas eleven years.
Major Edward D. Redington, former
Y OF st. Johnsbury, has resigned bis posi-
ion az paymaster of the Kansas Pacif.
, Railroad, and will go into the lumber
usiness at Lawrence, Kansas. -a;tt
Hon. st, John B. L. Skinner, of
d. c., is at Plattsburgh
pending a few days with his friends.
Hon. G. W. Palmer and family of
'lattsburgb, arrived from Europe on
Wednesday of last week, where they have
ssided for the past FIVE years. ,
Judge Mclean of Fond du Lac, Wis.
now making his annual visit at Reese.
lille, Plattsburgh and vicinity.
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