Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-02-02
Ticonderoga.

Ticonderoga.
The old pedsgogues used to teach rs
that zero of itself is of no value whatever
when standing alone that its only use is
to give value to the significant figures
by removing them to greater or less dis
lance from the unit column, either to the
right or to the left. So it is with us, We
are of no account, we stand alone in the
unit column and facing the public. In
going to and fro in the earth, we shall &C.
casionally "interview" persons we chance
to meet, whether they happen to stand on
the one side or on the other.
The firm of Rowell & Royce happens
to be on our right just now. They keep
large and well-selected stock of dry
goods, groceries, ready-msde clothing and
the like, and are seldom undersold. Mr..
Rowel is one of natures own nsblemen.
He is generous and charitable. A regular
attendant at church, he pays literally 70
the support of the Gospel, and never fails
to lend a helping hand to a friend in
need. Such men always have heats OF
friends and but few enemies. Mr.. Royce
is genial, good natured, kind hearted
chap as was ever raised in Vermont. he
is deservedly popular.
Our drug stores stand on the left.
Though they have lately been repaired,
and fitted up with the incest kind of
bottles and other modern Improvements,
yet we have such an implacable disgust
for everything in the shape of drugs, thst
we can only speak of them and those who
dispense them in terms of the deepest alb
horrence. Even the thought of a pill
will send qualm over our whole body.
Our physicians are altogether too
numerous for the good of the public. 1t
is often remarked that natural death is
seldom or never heard of in town.
-Messrs. Payne & Ryan keep an ex-
cellent ma rket, and grocery and pro-
vision store. During the summer months
they furnish large quantities of meat to
the Lake George Houses, which is suf-
ficient guarantee for their character as
butchers. They were both soldiers in the
late war. Mr.. Payne is suffering from
the effects of gunshot wound in the
body. Mr.. Ryan left his right arm on q
Southern battlefield.
Hon. @. II. Delano, our member of
Assembly, helped to do a pretty good
thing the other day, in taking the bill for
the repeal of the law in relation TO the
Lake Champlain Ferry from the Com
mittee on Railroads, and giving it to the
Committee on Commerce and Naviga-
ton. Mr.. Delano, as a farmer, is the
sworn enemy of all weeds. How does
he deal with the weeds" in the Assem-
bly,
Our poor sick neighbor, Whitehall,
still lies Jan 26tb) in very critical con-
dition. They have sent to Albany for
counsel, and the doctors, as usual, have
had lusty quarrel over the patient. We
fear before long somebody will be called
upon to write her epitaph.
There is to be a Musical 'Conven ton
here, commencing Tuesday, Feb. 7th, and
ending the following Friday evening.
Since it will be so near the time at which
certain fowls are said to mate, we are ex-
pecting quite q SQNaaok. ZERO.
WALLINGFoRD. - The prospect for
sleighing is good.
"A large number of the citizens of
Wallingford are troubled with coughs
and lung difficulties. and it is said that
DR.. Fox has twenty-five patients in the
village alone.
Rev. Aldace Walker, ID. d., was una
BILE to fill his pulpit last Sunday, on &C.
count of illness.
The Baptist Society seem to be quite
awake just now, as they surprised their
chorister, Mr.. II. R. Strong, and their or
ganist, Miss Mary Ballou. each with gift
of about twenty-five dollars, last week.
The Rev. DIR. Fletcher and family
received pleasant party of our towns
people at the Baptist parsonage, last even
ing. Every one seemed very much
pl eased with the entertainment, and upon
lea, wing left about $50 in cash, besides va
riouA of the needfuls Of life.
II. thursday morning, at 6 o'clock, the
mercur> stood at IL degrees below zero
The wea, her moderated somewhat before
noon. AND it commenced showing and
blowing SOC, after noon. It has been, by
all means, tn most clustering afternoon
of the season.