Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-25
Personal,

Hon. @. W. Willard, Member of Con-
gress from this district, is spending a few
days at the Massasoit House, Springfield.
We find the names of the following
Vermonters among the Commencement
appointments of Williams College: w
N. Herrick of Clarendon, philosophical
grafton; Isaac Jennings, Jr., Bennington
f. E. Morgan, Burlington.
Senator Edmonds was appointed by
postmaster Cresswell, one of the committee
to open the bids for contracts for furnish
ing the post Office department with en-
We lopes.
The Republican candidate for railroad
commissioner of New Hampshire, D. W.
Buckminster, of Keene, is now reported
elected by about three hundred majority
over the Democratic candidate.
Gen. B. S. Roberts, in a recent ad-
dress before the commissioners on the
claims of southern loyalists, held that SOL
diers could not legally be quartered on fe-
male citizens in time of war without the
authority of Congress, and that the gov
eminent is responsible for all stores taken
from loyal citizens by United States
troops, and for dam gees done by them.
-Larkin G. Mead's monument to Lie
coin, to stand over the remains of the
martyr in Springfield, Ill, will be insug-
urated in August with imposing ceremo-
nies, in which the President and many
distinguished citizens will take part
Julius E. Perkins, who has spent two
or three years in Europe and has met
with marked success IS primo basso in
IuaIIan opera, WIN ro.u.,. ~ .l.:s o~.-t-y
in June and fill an engagement as one of
the teachers of the Normal Academy of
music at Leavenworth, Kansas.
The students of Wesleyan Univer-
sity have secured the Hon. George B.
Loring of Salem, to deliver the annual
grafton before the societies during COM
mencement week.
Hon. E. D. Pearce, of East Provi-
dence, has been appointed member of
the Board of State Charities, of Rhode
Island.
DIR. George B. Lpring, of Salem,
Mass, is mentioned as the probable sue
oessor of Minister Bancroft.
AT the semi-annual meeting of the
New England association of superintend-
ents of schools, at Boston, Friday, L. T.
Ward, of Northampton, formerly of
Westminster, read a paper on manners
in school," which was Endorsed by Mr..
Philbrick and others. The session was
one of much interest to educators.
Gen. Lonxstreet was leading OPP
orator in the New Orleans reception to
Horace Greeley, and Mayor Mckee has
rendered him the hospitality of the city
of G 4lveston but the whole South is dis
appointed because his pantaloons set
down over his boots, and hi bat does not
lie back of his head on an old white
overcoat.
The Burlington Free Press stys; 1t
will be seen by our Washington despatch
ca that Hon. William Harmon, instead of
having been removed from office, has been
made foil consul at st. Johns, instead
of consular agent. The change will be as
gratifying to Mr.. Harmon as to his friends,
as it gives his Office more dignity as well
as greater emolnments. Mr.. Lucas, of
Illinois, who the telegraph first announced
as being appointed consul to St, Johns, is
assigned to Singapore, E .st Indies, much
hotter point and neither so pleasant or
lucrative. The nomination of Mr.. Lucas
at his own request, has been withdrawn
by the President.
Rev. Jesse T. Peck, D. D.. has pur-
chased the st. Charles hotel, for the new
Methodist Theological Seminary at SYRIA
cuse, N. Y.
H. E. Stoughton, for the past eleven
years station agent at So. Royalton, has
left that post and gone on to the road to
oversee freight hands and look up lost
baggage. His successor is a Mr.. Frasier |
from Georgia.
Hon. John Gregory Smith of ST. AL
bans, has been elected Vice President of
the New England Sabbath School Associ.
alton.