Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-17
Minor Items.
Leap year dances will soon be

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of date
Emma, daughter of Horace 1.
White, former editor of the HERALD,
was married to Albert ". Bingham, in
Washington, on Wednesday last.
-Raspberries and blackberries are in
vogue yet in some sections.
The Glastonbury railroad is now
running to coal kiln's in Woodford.
Typhoid fever is the prevailing dis
ease of the season.
/ "A Providence clergyman, assisted
by 81 women, prayed for the space of
one hour the other day, in saloon, that
the proprietor might be induced to close
his establishment.
The Sacramento Daily Bee an
nounces its dislike of personality, and
intention to use none during the presi-
Dental canvass, in an article which
closes as follows: We leave that kind
of campaigning to the Sacramento I'm
ion and such other journals as have not
the manners or the ability to do better.
We are under obligations to Mr.. II.
c. Potter of Middlebury, for Treasury
Department statement Of the Public
Debt of the United States; also tables
of the reduction of the public debt
Bellows Falls fired a salute over
Tuesdays victories.
Mr.. George F. White has recently
removed the remains of his father and a
brother from the village cemetery, in
Wilmington, to Evergreen cemetery, at
Centre Rutland.
james Cullen, who was charged
with larceny of $500 from Michael Gull
len, of Rutland, waived an examination
in Boston Court ON Thursday, and was
held in $4,000 to appear at the next
term for trial.
The bonnets of this season are moth
ing if not picturesque. Many of them
look as if they must have been modelled
after some of those quaint, idealized
/. head-coverings which painters delight to
depict as ornamenting the heads of their
subjects, and, when pretty young girls
put them on, the effect is all they could
wish, but older danes would better be
satisfied with more quiet styles.
Thursday afternoon might be desig-
mated as portion of the dark day of
1872 Gaslight was necessary in several
manufacturing establishments in order
to continue work.
The Lake George steamers will make
their last trip to day.
Hon. Roscoe Conkling will speak on
political affairs at Fort Edward, n. Y,
on Wednesday evening, Oct. 10th.
The horse distemper has broken out
in several towns in this county
A farmer who refused to sell his
hay last spring at 1928 per ton takes SIS
and it will require several thousand dol
lars to make him happy again.
The rowen crop in the Otter Creek
valley is one of the heaviest ever known,
but owing to the wet weather it will be
gathered in poor condition.
The potatoe crop is of inferior quail
ity there being general complaint of
soggyness.
"A strong effort is to be made to
procure a State Police law at present
session of the Legislature.
The only articles shown from Yer
mont at the present industrial eXposi-
ton at Cincinnati were the scales of the
Howe scale company of Brandon, and
the Mortified Stone Pipe company eX-
hibiting their slate stone pipes and
coolers.
We hear of several thefts of fruits
from gardens and orchards in this vicin-
ity. The law is plain cnough-lct it be
executed.
Lake Champlain is higher this fall
than it has been for several years.
The butter shipments at St. Adams
on Tuesday were 1916 tubs. Cheese
205 boxes.
Dolly Vardens look blue. Guess
they've heard something?
The stallion Joe Brown, owned in
Glen's Falls, won the $4,000 purse for
2:30 horses at Fleetwood, Monday. He
trotted in $50, 233 and 1881.
Something dropped, on Tuesday,
Whose toes was it that got smashed?
THE dearest spot to me on earth
is" Pittsburg. II. G.
Go West, Mr.. Greeley. GoWest.
MIR. r. c. Thrall of West Rutland,
sent us some heads of rye and oats of
the second crop this season. The oats
are in the milk and will mature. The
rye is out of the blow and the heads are
of the usual length. This is something
new for this vicinity.
The success and prosperity of
the Troy Daily Times is almost
unparalleled in journalism outside
or the great cities. The pressure upon
its columns of advertising patronage
compels an enlargement, and Monday
next the Times will be published on an
extended sheet. The Times deserves its
success; and under the editorship of
Henry L. Lamb, it is one of the best
newspapers in the land.
SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTE. Sun
day school institute will be held at Ben
nington, October 30th and 31st, under
charge of Rev. Henry Clark Trumbull,
of Hartford, Conn.
DEATH OF VALUABLE HoRsE.-The
well known horse Rutland Morgan"
oupad hv Gaarra IT Cola of Chester