Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-01
Northern New York.

Farmers have almost deserted the SYRIA
cuse market.
Troy workmen have unearth'd three
skeletons.
There i. quite aipsy encampment =
Hud-or.
L. Roy i. J cl ,red to be plet- I
summer resort.
Bears are more plenty IN The IN uut',ns
| of Msmakating than deer at pr sent.
Work has been resumed on the shore
abutment of the new Albany brigde.
Hudson river shad are running down.
They can be bought now for So and $40
per hundred. ..a.
The cornerstone of a new Catholic
church at Olmsteadville, Essex county,
was laid on Thursday.
A Seneca county farmer sold Sl13
worth of wine last year, the product of
single Oprto vine, and has twenty five
gallons of it left. ....r-
The Elmira Gazette published the fol
lowing personal among its advertise
ments: Sam, don't come tonight Faith
er is home, and has brought new dog
SALLIE G.
The Hudson Register advertises lost arti-
Giles, and then when they are found adver-
tise for the ownerto come and carry them
away. 1t played this game on brillian-
tine overskirt in Thursdays issue. The
editor wanted the articles taken off the
premises, as his wife was expected home
on Friday.
The Washington County Post says that
crisis in the affairs of the Cambridge
| Washington CO. Academy has been
reached, and that unless immediate fiuan-
cial assistance is given, the institution
will suspend.
The converting furnaces at the steel
works, Troy, have been compelled to shut
down for want of anthracite coal.
A man named Flanagan made it lively
for the Albany police on Saturday night
with several brickbats.
The prisoners at the Albany peniten-
tiary are putting up new fence about
the prison grounds.
Three Thousand glasses of the famous
OTTAWA beer" were SOLD at one stand in
Syracuse, On Saturday.
Ten cents worth Of arsenic was too
much, and Mr.. Cronk, of West Point,
failed to commit suicide, on Friday.
The masons of Medina have struck for
half dollar per day advance of wages,
and work has ceased. They now receive
$3.50 per day.
Macarthur, of the Troy Budget, caused
the arrest of Street Superintendent Cav
anaugh, Saturday, for threatening to fog
him, and the official was required to give
bonds to keep the peace.
A Rochester clerk amused himself the
other day by scratching his name with a
diamond ring across the face of a $500
mirror. He is now looking for situa.
ton.
One of the physicians of Binghampton,
DR.. Burr, for the consideration of Rullof =
head, consented to have the philologist's
body buried in his lot. The coffin was
deposited in the presence of some twenty
five persons on Friday night.
An earthquake seems to have agitated
people in Syracuse about half past one on
Sunday morning. People living in differ
ent parts of the city speak of being walked
up about that hour by the sensations ex-
perienced. Some thought burglars were
making their way into their dwellings.
About year ago some half dozen
couples of boys and girls belonging to the
most respectable families of Elmira, end
ed frolic by being married, probably for
fun, agreeing to keep II secret aud re-
turning home to theic ! i nj. .\""It
these days the secret is being clsc0v.red,
and the children are finding out that mar
rage and its consf qnences are no joke.
The villages of Wayne county have,
many of them, suffered lately from fires,
which were evidently the work of incen-
diaries. Such fires occurred at Palmyra
and Williamson. Friday night fire &C.
Cured at Marion. and note was found
to the following effect Look out Will
hanson. Marion and Palmyra, will be
burned !" 1t is time the people of that
section woke up.
A deserted wife in Pennsylvania, who
has advertised her Grant husband, says /:
HE Is tall man, about fifty years old,
has considerable money and high fore
head, long faced and lantern awed nun,
bad man with fist like giant, and
has often beat me, and 1 want him to end
his days in the penitentiary, where he be-
longs and be wears grey coat, with D
very large mouth, one blue eye and one
blind blue ,yr. and hideous looking
man, and want him brought slap up in
the law with blu- p4uts."