Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-02
Personal

N. \. Gleason has been appointed
superintendent OF schools in Montpelier
in place of Mrs. Geo. W. Reed, who
declined to serve. -.
R. w. Stearns of Randolph, is to
supply pulpit in Rhode Island until
September, when he is to be connected
with the Craig Biblical Institute in New
York.
At recent banquet of the New
England Society of Lake City, Minneso-
ia, H. d. Stocker, Esq, formerly of
Windsor County, responded to the SEN
timent-''Vermont, the Green Mountain
State. May her sons and daughters,
scattered oyer the prairies of the West.
ever keep her memory green and fresh
as the spruce and hemlock of her ever
lasting hills" and DR.. E. Z. Spaulding,
a native of Middletown, responded to
the sentiment, "Our Old New England
homes"
Hon. Isaac F. Redfield is rapidly
recovering spirits, strength and health,
at Akin, South Carolina, whittier he
went some weeks since
Oliver NJ. Whipple, a native of
Weathersfeld, Windsor county. who re-
moved to Lowell, Mass, in 1918, died
on Friday night last, aged 70 years. He
has been helpless for fifteen months,
from paralysis. He. leaves a widow, a
son and two daughters.
Mr.. J. C. Powers, for two years the
teacher of music in the Essex Classical
Institute, has been engaged to take
charge of the Female College at Wash
ington, Penn.
Hon. Rufus Hamilton, a former
State Senator and Judge of the Frank
lin County Court, died at Montgomery
on the oath, at the age of 70.
President Clark of Amherst Agri-
cultural College, has been elected Presi-
dent of Purdue University, at Lafay-
cite, Indiana. This university has the
whole Agricultural College land grant
of that State, amounting to three hun
dred and ninety thousand acres, ample
endowments and an accumulated inter
est of fifty thousand dollars on its bonds,
which could be Immediately applied for
the purchase of apparatus, etc. Alto
gether it is a splendid opportunity for an
energetic man like Col Clark. But
New England cannot afford to spare
such a man.
Henry Ward Beechcr will be fifty
nine years old on the 25th of June, 1872,
instead of So, as lately reported in near
ly all the papers so says his sister, Mrs.
Stowe, in her book - "Men of our
Times"
Major Poore telegraphs to the Bos-
ton J0urnaI that Hon. George p. Marsh
will probably remain undisturbed as the
United States Minister to Italy, as the
Italian Government has not complained
of the tone of one of his confidential
cypher dispatches. which was indiscretc-
Iy published at Washington.
William II. Seward is at his home
i'll Auburn. His lower limbs are be
coming paralyzed, as his arms have been
for some time past. His intellect, how
ever, is uncloudcd. and he is in excel
lent spirits.
DR.. Henry \. Clarke of Milford,
who recently died at South Hadley, was
one Of an entire Sabbath school class
Of South Hadley. that went to the war
in 1868 OF the class, Nathaniel Ingra-
ham. Thomas White and Charles 5.
Moody, are alive, while William Ingra-
ham, Josiah Moody and DR.. Clarke are
dead
DR. =. b. Bartholomew Of Spring
field, Mass, delivers heoration O., Dec
Grafton Day at Woonsockct Rho'r Is
land.
Chester Minis, who for ten aucces-
sivc years, has been first selectman of
Keene, n H., died on Friday, after a
severe and protracted illness. He was
man in whom the people had entire con
fidencc and his loss is regarded as pub
lie calamity He was an uncle of Mrs.
Edwin F. Young of this town.