Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-08

with him, and from cOvetous man by
not dealing with him, but we cannot Sc
cure ourselves from the envious.
According to the Summeryille F0Lcan,
Fayette county, Tenn, consumed 92OO,-
900 worth of whisky, alone, last year
equal to $50 worth of the beverage 1or
each man, woman and child in the
county.
Mr.. John Martin, who lives in Cannon
county, Tenn, is reported by the Wood
bury Press as being 119 years old. He
is Enthusiastically ''the oldest inhabitant'
in that State.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says
the parents of the manageable young
men of that city have agreed to enforce
as a rule that young ladies paying atten-
ton to their sons must not stay later
than 10 o'clock at night.
Portsmouth, n H., takes the premium
for long and faithful domestic service.
A maiden recently died there who was
q servant woman in one family for SO
years The average of such service now
is hardly 81 days.
Rev Sir Philip Perring, Bart, has
recently written a book on Churches
and their Creeds," which is published by
Longman. The author devotes a special
chapter to an argument against the dog
ma of Everlasting DamnatiOn."
At a ''leap-year party" in Chattan-
ooga, recently, the young ladies who
formed the committee of management
had posted up IN conspicuous parts OF
the hall such notices as the following ::
1--WE mean business, " ''NOne of your
poverty lodges" Waiting is tedious, "
etc.
Articles of silver offered as wedding
presents have been voted, not exactly
vulgar, but ''uncultivated and unre-
fined Instead Of these, works OF art,
statues and paintings, something about
which a sentiment can be entwlned, are
henceforth to be the things to prOtf"r to
the newly welded.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton mas the cour-
age to mention the fact that certain wO-
man suffragists once picked up an or
phan boy, bought him nice clothes, edu-
Gated him for the ministry, and when
they went to hear his first sermon were
struck with CONSERVATION to hear the
text Let the women keep silent in
the church.
A boy who was amusing himself on q
skating pond in Bridgeport, Thursday
by throwing ND a hat and firing a risto
at it, slipped down while he was dis
charging it, and the ball entered his lef
leg at the thigh, and passing down. lodg
ed in the limb below the knee. He j.
comfortable. but won't skate again very
soon.
At Mineral Point, Wis, last week. {
stranger called at the bank and request
ed to see a note held against him. Re.
cciving the slip, he remarked that he
could not read without his spectacles.
and walked toward the door, when il
was discovered that he was cnergetiCally
chewing up the note. The fragments
were forced from his mouth By vigor-
GUS choking.
4 lady school teacher in Omaha. hay-
inc an inOrdinate dread Of the smallpox
sent home a little girl because She said
her mother was sick and had marks on
her face. The next day the girl pre-
scented herself at the schOOl-h0use. with
her finger in her mouth and her little
bonnet swinging by the strings. and
said to the teacher Miss --. we've
got lcctlc baby at our house but
mother told me to tell you that it iuat
catclin' :" The teacher said that she
might take her seat.
Every reader Of newspapers in this
country and nearly every attendant upon
popular lectures and Protestant church
Is has heard at some time about POST
tiyism and Positiyists. Exactly what it
is and who they are, few know or few
care. When one learns that the Posi-
twist doctrine is contained in twelve
volumes, each as large as a Bible, his
heart sinks within him, and he inwardly
groans that he at least has no time to
master it even if his souls salvation de-
pended upon it.-Corrcspon3euee Gin
einnni C0nnleHeLaL