Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-07-25
MIDDLRBURY, July %.
Personal.

Rufus Mead, Esq, United States
Consul at CorintO, Nicaragua, formerly
editor of the Middlebury Register, is
visiting his friends in Addison county.
DR. A. Y, Marshall, OF West Corn
wall, is about to retirb from the medical
profession for the purpose of devoting
himself to the ministry in the Methodist
church.
MIR. G. F. Rice, formerly of Bird
port, is one of the most prominent
and successful business men at Jackson,
Michigan.
Rev. VI. Stuart Phelps, son of Prof.
Phelps Ut Andover Theological Semin-
airy, preached two able discourscs at the
Congregational church in ST. Adams on
Sunday last. He soon leaves for Europe
to further pursue his theological studies.
Eli Burnham Smith, Esq, of De-
troit, who was killed on the New York
Central Railroad, was a son of the late
Rev E. B. Smith, D. D., former pastor
of the Baptist church in Poultney, and
President of the New Hampton Theo-
logical Seminary.
H. l. Proctor, the well-known or
ganist, for some time a resident Of Bur
lington, is now Professor of Music in
the State College for the Blind at Vim
cent Town.
"A. j. Sanborn, a NJ, of Middle
bury, has accepted the position of Prin-
cipal of the Powers Instisute at Ber-
nardstown, Mass, and enters upon his
duties August 8th.
-Estey & Co., of Brattleboro, have
given $4,000 towards a seminary for the
education of colored women at Raleigh,
North Carolina.
jacob W. Watson, for many years
an express messenger between Concord,
N. H, and St. Adams, died at Concord
on Sunday.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENT on
1t seems that we were mistaken in an
nouncing, Saturday morning, that the
Democratic County Convention would
he held at seven o'clock in the evening
of August 18th. The hour of meeting is
one o'clock in the afternoon of that day.
We were led into the error, innocently,
by the call as published in the C0urrier.
While we would not Intentionally take
notice of, or refer to, typographical
error, knowing how liable they are to
occur in our and all other newspapers,
there was anything wrong in the call as
printed. We supposed the time was
selected for its appropriateness. The
edge of the evening and the shortest
possible time, in our apprehension, was
the selected time for swallowing bitter
pill or nauseating dose. But we will let
an Auburn Democrat tell their situation
and, after reading it, will any one be
at the error He had been a
life long Democrat and upon being
asked if he could go for Greeley, re-
piled that the situation reminded him of
an incident that occurred in the mines
A party of miners took up claim and
elected one of their party cook, who
was to serve in that capacity until some
one found fault with his cooking. In
that event the Pathfinder was to take
his place and do his cooking himself
George B was the first to fill the
position, and everything went on smooth
~ for week or two, when George be-
came tired and resolved to have some
one find fault if possible. So one morn
ing he mixed the dough for breakfast,
putting in equal parts of flour and salt
All sat down to breakfast, and Bill j
was the first to break biscuit. He
tasted it, smelled it and tasted it again,
and said: ssHelll I'll be id if this
amt the safest biscuit ever got hold
of-but," said he, suddenly remember
ing the contract, cit is good" Now,
the Democrats are in the same fix.
Greeley is the safest pill they ever got
hold of, but, then, he is good.
SALE OF MARBLE QUARRY.-H. G.
Clark of this town and ]. G. Temple of
Mass, have sold their one
half interest in the New American Mar
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