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

The birds have returned.
The price of eggs is declining.
House cleaning is now in order.
Robins were seen on Thursday
morning.
Maple sugar sociables are stylish
now.
Coal is so scarce in Saratoga that
some families are reduced to burning old
shoes.
The milkmen of Fort Edward and
Glens Falls have adopted summer rates
six cents per quart. We shall be
pleased to announce that Rutland dealers
have done likewise.
Our thanks are due Rev. J. Fl.
Noble, D. D., of Schaghticoke, n. Y,
for a copy of his semi-centennial annis
versary OF the Presbytery of Troy.
We wish to put on record the fact
that the first thunder and lightning of
1872 for this section startled Rutlanders
on Tuesday evening, April 9th, at about
nan past elSut U CIoCh.
The New York Legislature have
made general elections legal holidays.
The Yonkers IN. W Gazette has
started rumor that the newsboys on
the Hudson River Railroad will next
week commence to sell blacksmith anvils,
samples of flour and glue to passengers.
The anvils, glue and -four will be hurled
into the passengers laps, all having time
to examine them closely before the boys
return to pick them up.
The Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton of Albany cleared S1,s22.3 80 off
their lecture and musical entertainments
during the season.
The old Baptist church, landmark
of Rutland, having been sold to ex-Gov,
Page, is fast being demolished, An in
cident in the history of the erection of
! this building is that the now eloquent
and popular preacher, Rev. E. L. Ma
COON, D. D., of Philadelphia, worked
upon it as a bricklayer.
The President has nominated Thos.
J. Tiffany to be postmaster at Benning-
/ ton.
George Francis Train, agreeable tc
his announcement, will return to Rut,
land and lecture in the Opera House, on
Saturday evening, April goth. George
is one of the famed characters of our
country-a man of real and eccentric
genius-and viii doubtless delivera very
entertaining lecture. His subject,
Around the World" which he viii
doubtless apply to all creation.
The Great Central Park Menagerie,
International Circus and Iroquois In
dians are coming.
1t is suggested that the telegraph
companies should place upon their tele
graph blanks for dispatches lithograpf
likeness of Professor Morse, and thu
keep him ever in remembrance by th'
people.
A Chicago speculator, pressed fol
stamps, offers to sell the bell worn by
Mrs. OLearys cow. This cow, 1t viii
be remembered, kicked over the kero'
lamp and flooded the insurance com
panies with sorrow. The COW kicke'
because the bell-strap scratched her neck
hence the value of the bell as relic.
MIR. Mark H. Wooster, of SaratOg
Springs, is the clerk of the steamer Van
derbilt running between Troy and Nov
York. He has many friends in this sec
ton who will be pleased to patroniz
the Vanderbilt under Mr.. Wooster
management of affairs. Years ago Nh
Wooster was clerk of the steamer Swa
r low that ran between New York an
: Troy.
-Phebe Campbell, at London, Or
tario. has been sentenced to be hanged
for the murder of her husband, the GOT
Of June next.
5 There is a snow drift on Mt. Pros
5 pect. in Holderness, New Hampshire
? which is eighty rods in length and tift
' feet deep.
5 A postmaster has been appointed
5 Williamstown, VT, for a probationar
2 period of six months, during which tim
< his conduct and capacity will be teste
e as required by the new civil service.
Somebody must read advertisement
\ man who advertised a tenement
t rent in the Springfield Republican ha
Il So applications for it. Another ma
= who advertised for clerk received L
less than so replies by mail.