Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-07-25
JAMAICA.

Oar village housewives lave been
g~oatlv annoyed for a few weeks by a
new specie of moth, called, by them. the
black moth 1t is larger than the com
mon moth and its color is made up of
two alternating rings of black and grey,
the black being much the wider and so
living it black appearance. 1t has
been and still is very destructive. Several
ladies have lost their dresses, carpets,
shawls aud bed clothes and other wooden
goods of every description. The loss in
dollars and cents can not be less than
$3.50. Lookout for them.
We are again gratified with the pres
encc of DR.. NJ. J. KnOwltOn, missionary
Of the Baptist Board of Foreign Mis-
si0ns to Ningpo, China. He is paying
his last visit to sister, Mrs. DR.. Joel
IIolton. before returning to his field of
labor. Wednesday evening he gave us
a very effective missionary address-it
was never our lot to hear a better one.
lie is to speak again, next Sabbath at 5
y. IN. Among the reasons assigned for
his returning to China was this, that he
could be more useful. In the course of
these remarks he stated that with the
blessing of God, in II years labor, he
had called out and trained Is preachers,
who also were now labOring in as many
different localities, amid population of
millions who knew nothing of the Cos
pei of Christ He had organized four
churches whose light was now radiating
in the surrounding darkness. His wife,
who also addressed the people on the
evening mentioned, had taught the first
native women that had ever learned to
read in that large city. She has four
bible women under her care, with whom
she frequently visits from house to house,
telling the cold, old story of the Cross
They have been in this country now two
years. In this time Mrs. KS. health has
greatly improved, thOughitis still far from
being sound. DR., KnOwltOn's ay.with
us has not been an idle one. He has de-
livered large number of missionary adj
dresses in all parts of the Union, and
prepared a number of valuable papers
for the press. The last of these is
volume of several hundred pages, re-
Gently issued by the Bible and Publica-
ton Society of Pennsylvania A re-
viewer says: There is an earnestness
of tone, and plainness of style, and great
hopefulness of spirit shown in this book
which makes it capable of doing a good
work among the pastors and churches in
the way Of informing and stimulating
them"
WEATHERSFIELD.
The barn and outbuildings on the
old Consul Jarvis homestead, at Wealth
ersfield Bow, were destroyed by fire
about noon Friday. Fully insured.
PROCToRsvILLE.
By the liberality of George L. Bal
com, Esq, proprietor of the ''Proctors-
vile Mills. and the accumulation of the
quarterly dues from the shareholders,
goodly number of new books have been
placed npon the shelves of the Proctors-
Vile Library Association. This associa-
ton, planned few years ago, and in
the beginning mainly fostered and en-
couraged by A. d. Hager, now of St.
Louis, and Melvin Wright, now Super
intendent of the Star Spring of Saratoga,
has done much good in the encourage
ment given to the youth of our village.
From the interest of the So, 900 fund,
given by the late Judge Fletcher to sus-
tain the Fletcher Library, an addition
has also been made to that branch of
reading material in both villages. These
books can be found at the residence of
Gen. George f. Davis, at Duttonsville,
AID at the post office here, kept by Ken
dali Taylor.