Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-03-21
Minor Items.

Company are to erect coal sheds in Rut-
land.
/ School examinations are enjoyed by
every one who is not participant in
them.
Many signs of progress are shown
in the northern borders of village civil
cation.
The ruins on Center street need but
ivy to make them interesting.
People begin to think that the
dreaded freshet will not come till July
the 4th.
Prophets who last fall predicted a
very cold winter with great amount of
snow, and being disappointed, are now
turning their attention to the spring
freshet. They say we are to be literally
drowned out by a great rush of waters
the frost being so deep that the melted
snow and ice will run into the streams
and cause a very heavy freshet.
During the first ten days in Febru-
airy, over 1850, 900 Of the tax was paid
into the State Treasurer's office. The
entire tax is 1904, 134.G8
Portland is growing over the pres
ence of five European steamships in the
harbor on Tuesday.
Some antiquated weather-wise in
diyidual predicts for 1872 large freshets.
He says for half a century large freshets
have occurred every ten years. In 1922,
80, AZ, so and go, the floods were very
disastrous; and he concludes that there
will be great floods of mighty waters in
1872.
Eighteen years ago Carl Schurz
stood as a visitor ON the floor of the
United States Senate chamber, and could
not comprehend what was said around
him.
The Philadelphia NORTH 1merjcan
boastingly says: I'm few years we
shall have a through railroad to Halifax,
avoiding New York and Boston, and
connecting us with Europe by steamers. J"
Such "a road must pass this way.
They don't consider it anything to
have 10000, 900 bushels of grain in store
at Chicago.
Over one thousand patents are grant
ed monthly by the Patent Office at the
present time
-Marbelized glass for fronts and
architectural decoration is the latest nov
city in building materials.
The Lachinc rapids, i'll Canada,
have been spanned by a bridge of ice
within the last ten days for the second
time in seventy years.
Fall wheat in Ontario county, New
York is looking bad
-Thiers MAS printers devil in 1925.
lie is still bothcring the editors.
MIR. l. f. Fobes. a well known car
penter, of Troy, n. Y, formerly Of
Middletown, was among the most ser
iously injured in the railroad accident,
on Friday week, near Springfield
We arc under obligations to Hon.
Justin s. Morrill, for a copy of the
Navy Register" for the year 1872.
The BiDghamton Leoder notices the
resignation of Rev. L. \. Lightpipc.
He will light his pipe by another ireside.
Gases of hydrophobia are occurring
in various places. If there are none
here it will not he because there are no
dogs.
DR., William H. Miller, formerly of
this county, has been elected supervisor
of the town of Kingsbury, n. \.
There is an average of ten persons
to every house in this village.
Strawberries have appeared in Bo*-
ton at so cents apiece.
Notice the annual school meeting
in another column.
The following notice was posted in
front Of the Grand Opera House. New
York, on Wednesday:
Pay no attention to orders from
Gould or any Of his hirelings
Underneath it some wag wrote;
If anybody hauls down this notice
shoot him on the spot.
JOHN a. DIX"
Henry II. Pierce. NJ. D., has gone
to Delaware. Iowa, where he will estab-
fish himself in the practice of his profcs-
sion. We wish him success.
George W billiard has just return
ed from New York with large assort-
ment Of goods George makes dress
goods & speciality, and sells them low.
The Kansas Magazine states that
they have in Kansas to-day, at least one
self assured hopefully waiting political
aspirant to every acre of improved land,
and that there are ten times that num-
bar Of political aspirants who have been
residents OF Kansas, and returned to the
various States from whence they came,
to hopefully wait for office
Col Goulding is occurring on China
and the Chinese, at Providence, Rhode
Island.
Rutland Railroad scrip sold in Bos-
ton ON Saturday at 70.
Hon. William Parsons delivers the
next lecture in the Young Mems Chris
tian Association course. on Wednesday
evening March 25th.
General Fitzpatrick lectures at the
Opera Hall, March Goth.
Among those present and making
the largest contribution to the recent |
surprise gift to Rev. DR.. r. D. Hitch
cock, Of New York, was Levi NJ. Bates,
q brother of \. c. Bates of this town
The Ladies Temperance Association
Of Rutland have presented copies of
DIR. Jcwctt's work, entitled Forty |
years Fight with the Drink Demon" to |
the libraries of the county Jail, the Rut-
land High School, the Young Mems
{ 'hriStiau Association and +ha SUNDAY |