Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-25
Minor Items.

will give a musical entertainment in
Rutland on the evening of May 9th.
A. H. Danforth has leased the
grounds of the Rutland County Agri-
cultural Society for the present season.
John Cain, Esq, is improving
slowly. .....
Mr.. D. H. McAlpin, the celebrated
tObacconist of New York, has contract
ed with the Oliver Marble Works of
Rutland, for marble monument TWEEN
ty-three feet high, costing $4,000, to be
placed in Greenwood Cemetery.
The store of John Cook, recently
erected on the burnt district on Center
street, has been completed and Mr.. Cook
will soon occupy it for business.
"A building for a carriage repository
has been erected during the past week,
on the burnt district, just east of Whit
combs livery stable.
Ground has been broken for the
erection of dwelling house on Wash
my bO4I otICCb, Jltol CCkoI VI GllC ICStNCIIOC
of Rev. Edward Mills.
In the bankruptcy of the Lelands
of the Union Hotel, Saratoga, the Rut-
land Marble Company We're creditors to
the amount of 81, 035.00 and A. r. Vail
of Fairhaven to the amount of $2,2G5,v
Qf,
divorce at thirty cents" is the
rather tempting advertisement in a
Brooklyn paper,
So many cattle have been sold and
killed in the eastern section of Maine
that now beef is transported from
Brighton, Mass, to Bangor.
The census of 1870 gives the number
of blind people in the United States as
being over twenty thousand. In France
the proportion is double this number,
-1he officers of the Grand Army of
the Republic have appointed Thursday,
May Both, as Decoration Day.
Rev. Mark Trafton opened his years
ministry of the Methodist church at the
Trinity, Boston, last Sunday, with the
remark If you expect me to be angelic
you had better dissolve, and l have a
mind to take vote and see whether or
not I shall preach here this afternoon"
Farmers complain that there is
scarcity of good farm hands, as nearly
all the native young men prefer mechan-
zeal labor to farming, which is also the
case with the best part of the foreign
help, making it difficult and expensive
to carry on farm.
The potato market is overstocked
and prices are declining
Deaths from spotted fever or cere-
bro spinal meningitis, are very preva-
lent. This disease is said to he caused
by atmospheric influence, the prevalence
of ozone in the air. 1t is not contagious.
A cruel Meriden Conn., lady,
keeps an Usage Orange plant in her par
lor, and has recently made two full
blown flowers and one-half opened bud
of white wax and placed them upon the
barren plant. All her callers admire
the Sweet smelling fraud, while sevc-
raj gentlemen have observed that the
half-blown bud has opened considerably
since they first called.
1t is estimated that the Delaware &
Hudson Canal Company will bring
100000 tons of coal to tide-water this
year.
Make railroad murders so expensive
that the company cannot afford to perpc-
tuate them; that is the way to abolish
these narrowing catastrophes.
S. c. F. Thorndiko, has been ap-
pointed assistant treasurer of the Rut-
land Division of the Vermont Central
and Vermont and Canada Railroads
with his office at Rutland.
Niagara Falls will be the fashion
able watering place this season.
Buffalo ministers are preaching on
''perniclous literature"
The number of deaths in New York /.
each week exceed the number of births. /
-Twenty-nine women in this country
are inventors, who have had patents is
sued to them.
Business men will do well to study
economy this year, for next year comes
the hard times.
-Jewelry is not to be worn this sea-
son so much as last.
Two weeks engagement is now the
fashion in New York, then comes the
wedding and business.
jay Gould only made SO, 240, 900 by
the late rise in Erie stock.
Fashion in New York has been Dol |
ly hardened into the ground.
"A tipsy fellow, installing a globe
lamp with letters ON it for the queen
of night" exclaimed: ''Ill be blessed if |
hain't stuck an advertisement
on the moon"
In New York city are twenty-one
men worth million dollars or over, and
lots more who want to be.
Horses and farm implements.
brought to this country from Europe by
come duty free
There were over ninety speeches in
the Massachusetts Legislature on We'd
nesday last,
Shares in country banks command
good prices. The First National of
Northampton, Mass, sold at auction,
The other day, at 1853; Chicopee Ma
tional at 161 Agawam at 143.
The Massachusetts Legislature, in
one day, passed bills which exempted
about one million of dollars worth of
Our thanks are due George S. Jack
ION, Secretary, for copy of the "Seven-
zenith Annual Report of the Boston
Commercial Exchange for 1872.