Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-16
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Rev. E. Fl. Griffin of Burlington gave
the usual Thursd4y evening lecture at
the chapel of the Congregational church
last evening.
Rev. Father Boylan has expended
$50 900 on the new ST. Peters Catholic
Church. and it is estimated that an ex
penditure of $4,000 more will be neces.
sary for its completion.
D D. Gorham, formerly of West
Rutland, principal of the High School at
Montpelier for the past eleven years has
been invited to take charge of the High
School in Northampton, Mass.
People are complaining of the two
dollar bill with large horizontal 2 en-
2raved upon it. Suspicion attaches to il
verywhere on account Of its having been
so well counterftited, and the only pro-
lection people have against coming to
trouble by it is to decline taking it under
any circumstances.
Gen. Russell Hickok, of Fort Edward,
n Y, formerly we'll known citizen OF
this county, celebrated his Golden We'd
ding, on Wednesday, Nov. LIST. He il
over 70 years of age. He was surrounded
by all his children and grand children, q
complete family, numbering, all told, 81
persons. In these fifty years of married
life, there has been but one death in the
whole family, and that was his eldest son
aged II years.
Some time since it was charged
N. Y. had been poisoned by her hu-band
and the woman so declared upon her
death bed. Smith was arrested and
thrown into prison, but Or. Porter, chem
list, of Albany, having Analysed the
stomach of the deceased, declares that no
poison was found in it.
1t is now morally certain that the
Rev J. T Goodrich. formerly of Canton,
N, Y, was burned up in the Chicago
fire.
"A countryman, walking along the
streets of town, found his progress
stopped by close b4rrioade Of timber.
what is this for p be said to person in
the street. "Oh, that's for to stop the
cholera" CAB, have often heard of the
board of health, but never saw one be-
fore"
Rev. J. P. Farrar, of East Walling-
ford, occupied the pulpit of the Baptist
church on Sunday, in exchange with Rev.
Mr.. Mills.
Green Mountain Lodge of Oddfel-
owe, at Burlington, have sent one hun
lred dollars to the Oddfsllows of Chi |
ago.
The Central Railroad shops at St.
Adams are 80 crowded with the manufac-
:ure Of cars as to compel the business CT
epsirs to be done out of doors.
The typhoid fever is prevailing in
,ur village to some extent. Several in
lividuals are seriously i'll with the dis
sse.
-Chicago Is very sorry, says the Post
f that city, that they could not keep their
ire until the arrival of the Russian Grand
Duke. They would take pride, however,
& showing him Mrs. Leary's cow and the
POST office cat. The same paper observes
hat hereafter no museum will be COM
lete without one of this cow and an
quail number of this cat.
Cough will be here on Tuesday
vening,,- November 81. Everybody will
g at the Opera Hall to see and hear him.
"Widows' Wood Society" is one of the
enevolent institutions of Portland, Me.
An applicant for the position of
omestic in Dsnbury, Conn, family was
sked if she understood how to use kero-
enc. Her reply exceeded the most san
uine expectations Use it, is it ?" she
xclsimed in tone of reproachful explain.