Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-16
Minor Items.


are about to establish an American bank
ing house in London.
The cerebo spinal meningitis is quite
prevalent among Boston horses, and one
gentleman has lost 81, 500 mare by the
disease
The knights of the spade and the
rake, and the professors of the white
brush, find plenty of employment at
present
Since the I'd of March one-seventh
of the population of Dresden, n. Y.
Opposite Benson, w. have become
Good Templars.
"A new ferry boat, owned and COM
manded by Capt. Samuel Norton, has
been built and is now running between
Port Henry and the Vermont shore.
The swallow family have arrived
bringing the cheerful intelligence that
summer is near.
"A farmer in Hartford, n. Y, has
fed out stack of hay, this past winter,
put up twenty years ago and found it
well preserved.
Large quantities of potatoes are
eng shipped to Detroit. Early Rose
and Jersey Peachblows being As and 90
cents, other varieties 50 cents.
Farmers in Maine are now dispos-
ing of their stock of potatoes to the
starch factories at thirty cents per
bushel.
The trout embargo in Vermont is
removed and the disciples of Izaak Wal
ton are busy.
For the next five months the all
absorbing topic will be who is to be
President People will think or talk
of nothing else, and each one of our
political Solons seems to think the re-
suit rests with him and the way he de-
cides the result. And it is so, we pre-
sumo, all over the United States.
The Filkins confederates who es-
capped with him from Clinton Prison,
short time since, have all been recaptur-
ed
The Vassar College studentesses
consume two hundred pounds of beef,
mutton or lamb for dinner every day,
and seventy shad or one hundred and
twenty-five pounds of steak tor break
fast. Two hundred and seventy quarts
of milk and one hundred pounds of but
ter are also used up every twenty-four
hours, in the perpetuation and bodily re-
pair of these daughters of America.
Rev. Miles Grant, of Boston, will
occupy the pulpit of the Advent church
next Sabbath, May 10Th.
"A gifted young man has been show
ing how completely his heart is crushed
and his existence blighted, by prowling
around the dwelling of the cruel fair one
and throwing stones in at the windows.
This, as a means of relieving the pent up
feelings, may be an improvement on
suicide. but it does not display very
great wealth of resources.
The patent of Dexter Pierce of this
State for clothes pins has been extended
by the Commissioner of Patents.
The total capital of the railroads in
the State of Connecticut is Sal, $40, 100.
They pay interest ranging from to
per cent. They have S18, 861, $50. SO of
indebtedness. They run over $50 miles
in the State with 243 engines, 81 pas
senger cars, 4,041 merchandise cars and
employing 4,S68 men. They have car
ried $685. 19 passengers.
We are under obligations to Rev.
VIM. ]. Harris, rector of Trinity Church,
for copy of his sermon entitled THE
Church and the Bible" which has been
neatly printed in pamphlet form by
futile & Co.
+ Hon. A J. Crane has bought the in
terest of H. H Howe in the American
Hotel, Burlington, and will take posses
sion on the 18th. The hotel is to be en-
larged this season. Mr.. Harlow Fl.
Priest, the popular clerk is to remain.
Coal is now cheaper than it ha.
been within the last two years.
Some forty thousand tons of coal
will be wanted at ST. Adams this coming
year.
The farmers say that vegetation is
as far forward as is usual at this season,
in spite of the cold weather.
Bellows Falls is growing more ra-
pidly than any town in the State, ex-
cept Burlington, under the stimulus of
new manufacturing establishments.
The national debt comes down at
the rate of nearly half amillion for each
secular day.
The butter shipment at st. Adams
on Tuesday, was 1921 tubs.
"A paroxism of fear caused by the
sight of spider, led Danbury woman
to kick her husband down stairs.
The American Institute of Instruc-
ton will be held at Lewiston, Maine, on
the 18th of August.
We regret to learn of the death of
Hon. Pierpoint Isham, formerly a Judge
of the Supreme Court of Vt. He died
on Thursday at his residence in Pier
mont, n. Y, in his 10th year. His re-
mains will be inferred at Manchester,
Bread has gone up two cents loaf
in Troy.
Rutland is to have female physi-
clan.
The Vassar college girls mistook
bon fire on distant hill for a meteor,
the other night. They wait an hour
now after the moon has risen before
they dare to say it is above the hori-
zon.
-Newburgh boys who raise false