Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-23
Minor Items.

Rutland consumes ten thousand tons
of coal annually.
Rutland is to have a homeopathic
dispcnsary.
A new and splendid block, we learn,
is to be erected on Merchants Row, be-
tween the Bardwell House and Mr..
McCan's store. The temporary build
ings, known as the Bee Hive Block, -
are to be Immediately removed to make
room for the new building.
The first rail of the Lake Ontario
Shore railroad was laid in Oswego on
Wednesday last. This road points Rut-
landward.
Mr.. Lewis, a farmer in Pittsford, is
still feeding hay to fifty COWS.
Isaac Edgerton, of East Walling-
ford. a brother Of Dea. Philip Edgerton,
is seriously i'll of pneumonia, and no
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
We were shown. yesterday, box
of most beautiful flowers Of eighteen
different varieties which were sent to a
young lady in this village, by Mrs. vii
liam Raymond of Bridgewater. They
were grown in a hot house and are the
most beautiful collection of flowers prob
ably ever seen in Vermont in May, as
well as an elegant present TO an appreci-
ating friend.
George 0. Bacon. for many years
postal agent over the Rutland Railroad,
is a-a:2 at hi= ol2 Fs.t. having eXchang-
ed for six months with Perlcy r. Dover,
who is ro'v running between san Fran
cisco and Ogden.
-Ra'l,ad business on all roads run
ning fron Rutland is rapidly increasing.
-Leona11D. Howard. Of Burlington,
las received a patent for a rcin-holder
or carI.~5ss-
The maiarfols fe-c7, always a ter
ror. ard vi. --.e. reaso.. 30, TO visit
ors and sojourncrs in Rome during the
summeg las been unusually early md
fatal this year, a number Of Americans
having already died of the insidious dis
ease.
The Middletown mineral springs are
again becoming famous for the cures eff
fected 10y drinking their waters.
Oranges and lemons are cheap.
Nearly 24.O0O boxes arrived in Boston
on Saturday last from foreign ports.
Guides from the North Woods re-
port ice one foot thick on the lakes, and
snow two feet deep IN the woods, May
7th.
Low water in the Hudson is feared
by the lumber men.
There are 1927 canal boats at Water
ford, n. Y, awaiting the opening of
canal navigation.
Captain John J. Roberts of Ticon-
deroga, of the canal boat y. J. Rob
erts, was crushed to death at Fort Ed
ward, on Wednesday, while putting in
fender to prevent collision.
John w. Carpenter of Burlington has
cow which is admired by everybody
who sees her, weighing 1,217 pounds,
and milks from ten to fifteen quarts
daily.
Mrs. Cornelia Stetson, of Boston, has
been engaged to sing with Mrs. Oliver at
Grace Church, New York, on salary of
81, 200 per year.
"A mammoth century plant, 40 feet
in height and weighing three and half
tons, has been shipped from near jack
sonville, Florida, to parties in New
York. The plant is on the eve of bloom
ing the second time, and is consequently
nearly two hundred years old.
"A barn in Fairfax was struck by
lightning and destroyed by fire on Sat
urday last.
Men repairing the roads complain
that they find frost two feet in depth in
the gravel banks.
The body of Miss Nellie Jewett, of
Claremont, n. H., who mysteriously
disappeared three weeks ago last Thurs
day, was found in Sugar river, above
the lower dam belonging to the Monad-
noe mills company.