Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-11
Mn General.

We understand that Mr.. Bennet
Tiley, for many years connected with tn
Rutland & Burlington Railroad, ha
resigned his position on the RUTLAND
Division OF the Vermont Central Rail
road,
The Connecticut River during tn
recent heavy rains, rose seventeen fee
aud ten inches above low water mark.
-Ex.Governor Page and Superintend
emit Gyles Merrill, are busily engaged ii
appraising the property of the Rutland
railroad. John B. Winslow of Boston
and T J. Mulligan of Spring field, Superin
tendendent of the Connecticut River rail
road, are the appraisers.
The managing telegraph line of the
@ ntral railroad is being extended ovel
the Rutlsnd railroad with headquarter
at St, Adams.
Gum arabic mucilage is said to be al
effective cure for corns. It is to be liber
ally applied before going to bed. 1t ii
worth trial.
The Vermont Central management
now extends over six hundred miles OF
railway.
If the doctors have not yet any cases
of surgery from accidents caused by "slip
ups" on orange peel, it isn't because there
il no orange peel on the sidewalks to
make cause for such accidents.
Coy. J. B. Page, Jesse Burdett, J. Fl.
GouDding, Gyles Merrill, O. w. Moseley,
r. E. Cbamberlin, J. r. Faulkner, Fl. s.
Marcy and z. " K. Wilson, were at Burl-
Dgton on Tuesday.
Henry Ward Beecher says he would
rather hear an old cracked voice, feeble
with many gnpa, singing honestly with
tears the songs of Zion, than hear the finest
!, contstriae that ever enrsptured the most
nItivated congregation. Tastes differ.
A rumber of Rutland bloods left on
Tuesday evening for Buffalo, to attend
the yrze fight in that vicinity on Wednes-
day, b-tween Coburn and Mace. We
bopa they will come home with their
mugs all sound.
Trout fishing in our mountain brooks
is'ery poor, and many attribute 1T to the
excessive dry weather of last summer.
There is a chap in Schenectady who
urefully scrutinizes every nickle five
cent piece that passes through his hands,
to detect the counterfeits He does not
6nd time to attend to his customers, and
will soon have far less than now.
Rats, reaches and other vermin are
now got rid of by means of phosphoric
paste, which, being an ingredient of luci'
fer matches, is sure to play the mischief
with the creatures that eat it.
West Rochester, VT, is alArmingly
afflicted with black bears.
There are indications that the Adj
rondsc woods and lakes will have more
company this season than last. Sporting
parties have already gone in by way of
the Saranac Lakes. Among the number
Of these "early BIRDS is Colonel Colburn
Of Manchester, and James G. Dunn of
RutInd.
We learn that Mr.. Dewey's insanity
has assumed a wild, raving form.
A rapid writer will pen $500 words
in an hour A rapid speaker will utter
1000 words in the same time. The Lon
don Times newly invented steam press
will print 100000 words in a minute,
or 6oO,OO0,OOO in an hour.
Young America, less than ten years
\ old, yesterday expressed in our hearing
The whole duty of our government under
the constitution and the laws in the fol-
4 owing sharp and patriotic questionings ::
A 'Jimmjny what are these blasted Ku-
kluy about ~ "Why don't aoe just run
on' the old flag again, and 90 for 'em ?
4 IhI, ia the stuff to make Union soldiers
Of
4 The laundering "Co1rier" was dated
May 7rh, instead of the 9th, and in cor
T1cting it blunders again by saying ::
"Ihe outside of our paper is dated April
I'm instead Of Apra 9th. How is that
for hunder, Bro Cain That is worse
than tho laundering HERALD.
Ladies' who ara fond of cultivating
alw"rs in IN" house, will find great bene-
it, he plants by spreading coating of
moss over the earth in their flower pots
This keeps the water from evaporating
and the emperature more uniform. Tea
grounds are often used for the same pur-
pose Where a fl .wer pot sits in saucer
with hole in the bottom of the pot, put
little sand in the saucer, and cover it
with moss and you have a simple and ad-
"ir'hle arrangement.
The hotel porters have had their linn
n"in the depot clearly defined by mailing
down strip of iron, so that they are now
Obliged to "toe the mark" in plying their
yociferous vocation. This is an excellent
equation, and will save travellers from
10 little annoyance
There is something of a freshet on
'he Hudson from the recent rains. The
cocks at Troy are one or two feet I'M
der water.
DR.. James H. Bailey intends remov.
ing soon from Ticonderoga, N. Y, where
ne has been in practice several years, to
rutland. The doctor is SON of the late
non George W. Bailey of Middlesex.