Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-06-06
Minor Items.

The procession OF JOhn - brlen ) /
four shows, consolidated will occupy |
the attention of every one in Rutland ON
Saturday.
Independence ball at Todds Hotel, |
Cuttingsville, Thursday evening, July |
4th, 1872. Music by Rutland Quadrille
Band.
The Brandon Graded School closes
its spring session Friday, June 18th, with
rhetorical exercises at the Town Hall at
l and Z p. m.
The books distributed by the adj
vance party of John O'Brien's four
shows. consolidated, contain a minute
description of the capture of the huge
Rhinoceros they are exhibiting. After
perusing it, see the originator Saturday,
June 8th.
The Atlantic and Pacific telegraph
win be built into Rutland within the
next sixty days.
The first strawberry festival will be
announced soon.
The persons who steal the flowers
and tear up the shrubs in West Street
Cemetery are suspected and will be
brought to punishment if they don't
stop it. These dissertations should re-
ceive the just condemnation Of the peo-
pie Of the community.
"A large band of gipsies are on their
way thither The band travel with ten
covered wagons, begging and trading as
they GO.
Boating on the Otter Greek is at its
hight now.
An excursion to the Hoosic Tunnel
is projected.
The Trustees should rigidly enforce
the village ordinance in reference to
COWS running at large.
Might boats have commenced rgn-
sljng on Lake Champlain.
A new Post Of the Grand Army Oh
she Republic has been instituted at
Sandy Hill, n. \,
The farmers of Coos county, New
Hampshire, have planted third more
land than usual to potatoes this spring,
to meet the increased demand for starch:
-Pittsfeld, Mass, is already arrang-
ing for the celebration of the 4th OF July
The reduction of the public debt the
past month was "a, 226, 000.78.
-Anti-onion eating societies are the
latest organizations.
The latest achievements of the buzz
saw is the amputation of mans nose,
Nine steamers left New York for
Europe on Saturday, all with full pas
senger lists.
james Gordon Benefits body has
been embalmed, and will not be convey
to its resting place in Greenwood I'LL
g rival Of his family from Europe
'''0 . Ners who have been holding
~. - over winter are now bring
.''oi, 'o''''o ~aY1let at reduced prices.
Bennington WI; onv - buiId the
Saratoga Railroad Con-. V
Waloomsac railroad
One firm has RATED tel Fast
logs down the Battenkill River
Greenwich.
In the southeast part Of the town
Argyle, Washington county, n. y, the
place is still pointed out where rest the
remains of John Allen and eight mem
bers of his family who were brutally
mastered by troops under the command
of the fiendish LeLoup ninety-tive years
ago.
Col. Mason S. Colburn, of Man
chester, has recently returned from ms
customary spring fishing excursion 10
the Adirondack region. He captured
during his pleasant sojourn twenty
two pound trout.
The DAYS of this week are about as
l5ng as they will be during the year.
The rainfall for May was 81 inches
against 4-28 last year. The amount that
fell on Decoration day was 4Oth OF an
inch, and the greatest fall at one time
was 80th-on the 10Th.
Confirmation will be administered
by the Bishop of Burlington in st.
Budgets Church, West Rutland, next
Sunday, June 9th.
Americans in Paris are already max
ing preparations for the celebration OF
July 4th in that city.
Fare to the Philadelphia convention
and return by the Providence and New
York steamship line is $40.
The Brooks House, the new ant
spacious hotel at Brattleboro, has jus
been completed. 1t cost Sl25,ooo