Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-18
Minor Items.

In the report of the meeting of SUI
perintendents of Common Schools, the
word geology" in the 1st resolution,
should read geography.
"A Chatham village billiard player
answers to the name of Jerkowski. He
does not understand the English-ing
of ball very well, bnt is awful on
draw"
Buffalo is planting numerous shade
trees in its thoroughfares. Rutland
should do likewise.
"A lady out west has obtained pa
tent for a fan, to be attached to sew
ing machine and operated by the same
power.
We call attention to the elaborate
and interesting letter of onr cOrrespOn-
pendent, g Observer, on the slate inter
ests Of Western Vermont.
A heavy freight train arrived at
midnight over the Saratoga Railroad,
drawn by two engines.
As a wife was holding her husbands
aching head in her hands one morning,
she asked: "Are man and wife one"
- suppose So" said the husband.
Then" reioined the wife, came
home drunk last night, and ought to be
ashamed of myself"
E. V. Bissell, of Richville, has been
elected Vice-President for Vermont, of
the New England Poultry Club.
The Vermont Central Railroad COM
pany has purchased the propellers
Bolivar" and "Tilly," each of 600
tons capacity, and will start a new line
between New London and New York,
for their heavy freight over the New
London Northern Railroad,
An association is needed to keep the
water out Of the milk.
Seven circuses and menageries are
pointed toward Rutland.
C. F. Bailey & Co.'S popular circus
ar, menagerie is announced to be here
in NAV.
In q little farming community in
the north part of Norwich. thirteen
funerals have occurred since last Au-
gust.
The St. JohnSbury Times appears in
y ouarto form with a new head and bor-
der pages. This Journal, under the edi-
torsbip of Mr.. F. Dalton, is found to be
a live and successful paper,
Globe village, Mass, is going to
have library An association Is to be
formed that viii receive the Hamilton
Wooden Companys Library, consisting
of 1909 volumes, and other donations.
A Troy clergyman last Sabbath,
preached against the idle, every d"y
prattle of fashion and conceit in the
home, which even children learned from
the older ones. A sensible minister that
a man Of the times.
Dogs have been quiet for q few
davs-but they will make more noise
when the assessors have passed by their
owners.
A lady Of Boston seeing among the
religious notices that certain clergyman
would preach cd. W. said at once she
would go and hear him, perceiving, as
she did, that the subject of the discourse
wa8 Dolly Vardens."
Common artichokes cooked in the
same manner are equally as good, if not
better, than satisfy or vegetable oysters.
-O5wego says that -four has gone up
Tiff cents on a barrel; and when Os
wprC discourses on the -four question it
1tters ouch worthy of attention.
They, have Strawberry festivals in
New Orleans.
A boy IN Palmyra, N. Y, playing
with a ball of worsted thread attached
to his mothers crochet-work, acciden-
tallv swallowed Il, and had to be held |
by several women while every yard of |
it was unwound in his stomach, by reel |
ing the end projecting from his mouth. !
Backing old horses into the river
and watching them until they drown,
are the latest phases of "retined amuse-
nent" in some places.
"A young man recently drank some
agl,G ammonia in the dark supposing it |
to be medicine. He discovered his mis-
take, and so did everybody else in the
house about the same time.
The great monetary stringency has
engrossed the attention of fnanciers,
capitalists and merchant alike during
the past week.
George Francis Train lectures at the
Rutland Opera House on Saturday even
ing next, subject; "Around the World.
Arrests are being made in most of
the cities and large towns of persons
who are selling juvenile veal in the mar
ket.
EXAMINATION POSTPONED j For the
accommodation of the respondents coun-
sci, the hearing in State VS.. Adams, fix
ed for the 18th inst, as heretofore an
nounced, has been postponed to May I'd,
at O'clock a. m,